New novel, TERRY DACTYL, out now from Coffee House in US & Cipher in UK!⚡🌷Also: TOUCHING THE ART, THE FREEZER DOOR, BETWEEN CERTAIN DEATH AND A POSSIBLE FUTURE + working on ACT UP BEYOND NEW YORK ++ https://www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/
Here's a good documentary on the situation in Western Sahara, by the way...
Western Sahara: A Rare Look Inside Africa’s Last Colony as U.S. Recognizes Moroccan OccupationThe United States has become the first nation in the world to recognize Morocco’s annexation of Western Sahara. The Trump administration announced the major policy shift on December 10 — International...www.democracynow.org"Subsidized occupation cinema," indeed! Yes, every Hollywood movie is corrupt, but going out of your way to film The Odyssey in occupied Western Sahara, this is the actual controversy💥
Odyssey to Africa’s last colonyBacked by Moroccan state subsidies, Christopher Nolan’s decision to film The Odyssey in occupied Western Sahara is the latest and highest-profile chapter in a five-decade campaign to normalize colonia...africasacountry.comNurturing is for everyone, this story made my day 💖
Marieke dBFor #YourChoice, my post is a recent unusual encounter between an adult male Northern cardinal and a juvenile summer tanager. It seems the cardinal felt a need to respond to an open begging beak and then suddenly realized this was not a juvie of his own species! #BirdOfTheDay #naturephotography
“This renewed incarnation of ACT UP [Chicago] focuses on three advocacy and protest tentpoles: attacks on HIV/AIDS funding, the domestic trans genocide and the ongoing and unmitigated COVID pandemic.” We do so love to see it 🫡
ACT UP, Groundbreaking Group That Fights AIDS, Returns To ChicagoThe group that uses direct action to advocate for LGBTQ+ people and causes is reforming after a 30-year hiatus, with a focus on protecting trans people and more.blockclubchicago.org
the long trauma of covid will be with us so long as people live in denial of the fact that covid is not over
The Fig EconomyOne of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.
Raise your hand if you are a lit mag editor or reader who is very worried about the AI stuff the new Submittable CEO plans to try to force on us? That email introducing him yesterday is haunting me. We don't need or want AI anywhere near our submissions process.
What is this atrocity? Abolition now!💥
shawnnew: officials are building a $7 million “trauma-informed” visitation center at the cook county jail, part of at least $400 million in projects planned at the jail over the next decade. it’s supposed to make for a more “humane” experience—but it’ll do little to address the dismal conditions at ccj.
what do your poems contain? what do they not contain? what can their stomachs digest? where must they swim? how do they cry?
I'd like to introduce you to Christians United for Israel (CUFI), the largest pro-Israel organization in the United States, yet somehow one that gets *completely ignored* when talking about the Israel lobby.
“We ask the public to treat this film as they would a movie made in occupied Ukraine with Putin’s permits, or in the illegal settlements in Palestine with Netanyahu’s blessing.” —María Carrión, executive director of The Western Sahara International Film Festival
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò"Covering an area the size of Britain, Western Sahara is designated as a “non-self-governing territory” by the United Nations and remains on its official list of territories still awaiting decolonization." Eoghan Gilmartin for @africaisacountry1.bsky.social africasacountry.com/2026/07/odys...
«In order [for a Klan member] to wear a clean sheet to a Ku Klux Klan [rally], a Black woman had to wash it» she said. Rest in Tenderness 🍂
Edwin HeathcoteVery sorry to hear about Betye Saar who has died four days short of her 100th birthday. Amazing artist. Saw this recently. The ironing board is printed with the famous Brookes slave ship plan, the sheet monogrammed KKK. A whole history of labour right there.
"It's not complicated, it's genocide" Sticker spotted in Penrith, NSW