A photo of teenage Claudette Colvin in glasses and a sweater.
Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:
Guys, I have a special & unusual request today. My cousin Sean is a union bus driver here in Los Angeles who was just FIRED in retaliation for saying he would not let masked ICE agents onto his bus to abduct riders. The fight is on to get his job back, you can help: actionnetwork.org/letters/send...
Exercising my religious liberty in the US by starting a church: Church of Language. As a queer writer, will this help shore up my first amendment rights?
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Oh by the way, don’t forget you can ask your library to order nearly any book you want to read but don’t want to buy. And as authors we love libraries buying our books & readers being able to access them through libraries.
#onemillionrising
At watch party in Omaha with at least 40 people I don’t yet know. Because: Build community! #onemillionrising
Horsemouth Wallace, literally one of the greatest drummers ever to live, is giving lessons and says you can hit him up through his IG. just fyi. www.instagram.com/p/DKIdIyCMoGx/
Kids - please read Dune instead!
Sending 💜
Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.
Red bunny with information about no buy Friday
Blank notebook with pen and excerpt from story
Instead of buying stuff tomorrow, you can read my weird and winning story about workplace solidarity. Thank you Fugue Journal for publishing and Lucy Ives for selecting…
Remember: if you can’t reach reps in DC, or even leave a voicemail, you can still call their local state office. The app “5 calls” has great scripts.
PASS THE WORD 👊
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Hypernormalization, like an episode of cops…
And writers: now is the time to write like the world is on fire and you’re trying to get everything down while you still can
Definitions of slugs as hermaphrodites, who can self-fertilize or transfer sperm to each other.
Slugs: kindred outlaws
