Neema Avashia

Talking about Empathy with Beth Macy - Pittsburgh Review of Books I’ve known about Beth Macy for a very long time. A number of her books take place in the geography of my childhood. She is friends with some of my dearest

Ren, you might like this! pghrev.com/talking-abou...

So glad I got to chat with Beth Macy about PAPER GIRL for @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social. Talking to Beth is like talking to a neighbor back home. <3

Talking about Empathy with Beth Macy - Pittsburgh Review of Books I’ve known about Beth Macy for a very long time. A number of her books take place in the geography of my childhood. She is friends with some of my dearest

"What has happened to home? What has happened to us? And where do we go from here?"

Neema Avashia interviews Beth Macy on her latest release, “Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in Fractured America.” @avashianeema.bsky.social @bethmacy.bsky.social pghrev.com/talking-abou...

I just interviewed Beth last month! I feel like there are some ways in which our books talk to one another... And I deeply appreciated how she talked about the changes in the last 4 decades that make it so much harder for young working class people in rural areas to thrive now.

Bangles By Neema Avashia

"Baby writhes on the changing table, furious at this momentary loss of bodily control, until she catches sight of the bangles glimmering on my wrists..."

@avashianeema.bsky.social, on the artifacts that tether us to our culture: past, present, future.

Solstice MFA Reading Series, 131 Woodland Road, Auburndale, MA 02466, and livestreamed on Zoom July 14, 2025, 7:30 p.m. Eastern featuring Neema Avashia, Elizabeth Gonzalez James, and Mckendy Fils-Aime

Join us for our reading featuring guest faculty members @avashianeema.bsky.social‬ and @egjames.bsky.social‬ and 3rd annual Spotlight Poet @@mrmack88.bsky.social‬ on July 14 at 7:30pm ET at Lasell University in Auburndale, MA.

Livestream available: lasell.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#SolsticeMFARes

I love hearing this. Thanks for reading Another Appalachia and for sharing your thinking about it! <3

Another Appalachia — Rachel Rosolina Identity, especially Appalachian identity, has been on my mind a lot lately. I work at Appalshop , an Eastern Kentucky arts organization that serves concentric circles of community—local Letcher Cou...

Finished such a good book this morning. Thanks for your artistry, @avashianeema.bsky.social.

Here are my thoughts. rachelrosolina.com/blog/another...

Thanks for reading and sharing!

Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place

🌈📚 Keeping it Queer ✊

📖 Another Appalachia - Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place

by @avashianeema.bsky.social

Bookshop Affiliate Link:
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Library: search.worldcat.org

#queerbooks #lgbtqia #booksky #memoir #biography

<3 Thanks, y'all!

A little light to look toward in the midst of so much darkness. We're excited to have Neema Avashia at Furman next month. The reading is open to the public. @avashianeema.bsky.social #WritingCommunity #Appalachia

A Way of Living: On Direct Action and Survival Work in the Face of American Fascism The morning after Trump was elected for the first time, Quaker elders, radical Black youth, anarchists, parents and toddlers circled around my woodstove to continue planning our solidarity action a…

"Scale down. Talk with friends. Not over digital platforms, but face to face. What will big issues look like in practical terms where you live? How can you find out? What can you do about it?" Read this wisdom from Madeline ffitch over at @literaryhub.bsky.social. lithub.com/a-way-of-liv...

Tofu shawarma + tomato browned butter + sumac onions + romaine + labne + pickled cuke on a Wednesday night. Because it's that kind of January.

Arresting kids at school because they’re undocumented turns out to be wildly unpopular apnews.com/article/immi...

Just zoomed into a Rural Anthropology class at Dartmouth College. TA was from Huntington, WV. One student's dad was from WV. Whole bunch of other students from rural spaces who got all the leave/stay complexity. So many fantastic questions. I think rural anthro folks might be my people. <3

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For the first time in 12 years, I will be teaching high school students (co-teaching an early college course called Introduction to Urban Education with @avashianeema.bsky.social for @bostonschools.boston.gov students at the Ruth Batson Academy) and I am so excited! courses.umb.edu/course_catal...

Can't wait to hold generative space for folks over at the Makery. 2nd Saturdays, January-June. 90 minutes for words and warmth and community. Come join us!

hindman.org/events/gener...

This. This. This.

Quick: tweet about women and math and quilting. :)

The Moth (en-US) | Radio Hour | Turning the Page --- This episode is available on your local radio station, PRX and below via The Moth Player. It will be published on Spotify, Apple and iHeart on 11/27/24 ---In this hour stories of acceptance, movin...

You can hear me on your public radio station this week, or on The Moth podcast next week, thinking about grief rituals for losses that go unacknowledged in the world at large. themoth.org/radio-hour/t...

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And if you’re hoping to be one of those things, let us know so we can follow you, too!

Finished @avashianeema.bsky.social’s Another Appalachia today. So many thoughts and feels as a Guju woman who grew up in suburbs of ATL. But the biggest one is that this is a must read. #FridayReads

Thanks for reading!!!

The Education Wars

Unfortunately, the national election results mean that www.educationwarsbook.com is more relevant than ever. Friendly reminder that @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social and I will drop in on your book club if you register on our site.

I’m looking for new place to teach, to host my zoom classes, and college classroom visits in 2025! Please share!

People (and cars) definitely get attacked. I tell the turkeys about my Appalachian hunter friends, and that seems to do the trick in terms of keeping them away!