Judith Hannan
@judithhannan.bsky.social
Writer/Teacher. Author of MOTHERHOOD EXAGGERATED and THE WRITE PRESCRIPTION. Writer-in-Residence at The Gold Foundation for Humanism in Medicine. On board of the Children's Museum of Manhattan and CavanKerry. Dog and ocean lover. Www.judithhannanwrites.com
Very proud to have this story up @literarymama.bsky.social. Editor Elizabeth Conway was wonderful to work with and made the story to much stronger. literarymama.com/articles/dep...
A Ruptured Beatitude
Joanna closes her eyes to the soothing alto tones of the midwife. “Place your hands on your belly. Imagine your fingertips sending light and love to your baby. Inhale. Exhale. See yourself easing into...
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September 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Very proud to have this story up @literarymama.bsky.social. Editor Elizabeth Conway was wonderful to work with and made the story to much stronger. literarymama.com/articles/dep...
The NY Times has devoted a full page to the profile of a militant who is feeling hopeless that his violent actions didnt uproot Israel (His words.) Why? Are we supposed to feel sorry for him? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/w...
The Palestinian Who Led a Militia, a Theater and a Jailbreak
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August 14, 2025 at 12:54 AM
The NY Times has devoted a full page to the profile of a militant who is feeling hopeless that his violent actions didnt uproot Israel (His words.) Why? Are we supposed to feel sorry for him? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/w...
With poetry and the fine stitching of words, Yasmina Khadra (pen name of Mohammed Moulessehoul) portrays the reality of life under the Taliban. Using just a few characters, he gives us an intimate look at lost hope and devastation. #theswallowsofkabul
July 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
With poetry and the fine stitching of words, Yasmina Khadra (pen name of Mohammed Moulessehoul) portrays the reality of life under the Taliban. Using just a few characters, he gives us an intimate look at lost hope and devastation. #theswallowsofkabul
Out of respect for those who may be triggered we are asked not to use words like master bedroom, tone deaf, crazy, exotic, spooky, etc. but when Jews are triggered by globalize the intifada all we hear is that it doesn't mean what we think it means. But it means exactly that. #jewsky #wordsmatter
June 20, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Out of respect for those who may be triggered we are asked not to use words like master bedroom, tone deaf, crazy, exotic, spooky, etc. but when Jews are triggered by globalize the intifada all we hear is that it doesn't mean what we think it means. But it means exactly that. #jewsky #wordsmatter
Not surprising that I haven't seen a single non-Jew posting about this. How will this murder help to Free Palestine?
Two Israeli embassy staffers were shot at close range and killed Wednesday night outside the Capital Jewish Museum, where they had just attended an American Jewish Committee event for young Jewish professionals and diplomats.
2 killed in Capital Jewish Museum shooting by suspect who shouted 'Free Palestine,' police say
A shooting at the Capital Jewish Museum in D.C. has killed two Israeli Embassy staff members, according to multiple reports.
forward.com
May 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Not surprising that I haven't seen a single non-Jew posting about this. How will this murder help to Free Palestine?
Thank you @netflix.com for #thequilters and for @restorativejustice.bsky.social for this amazing program. Thank you for bringing humanity into conversations about incarceration.
May 19, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Thank you @netflix.com for #thequilters and for @restorativejustice.bsky.social for this amazing program. Thank you for bringing humanity into conversations about incarceration.
Congratulations to @cavankerrypress.bsky.social author @nadiaalexis.bsky.social on the pub of BEYOND THE WATERSHED and this interview in @therumpus.net
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Poetry, Healing, and the Spirit of Survival: A Conversation with Nadia Alexis - The Rumpus
My understanding of survival has evolved. I am interested in the idea that we go through a journey of creating ourselves as humans.
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March 31, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Congratulations to @cavankerrypress.bsky.social author @nadiaalexis.bsky.social on the pub of BEYOND THE WATERSHED and this interview in @therumpus.net
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I'm so used to seeing posts that compare writing to other life endeavours that this was a refreshing change. It's not like kayaking, apparently. @judithhannan.bsky.social @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/k... #writingtips #authorlife #writingcommunity #skywriters
Kayaking Isn’t Like Writing
By Judith Hannan I had to work to get my kayak into the water the other day. The air had warmed enough, I thought, to melt the ice. But a sheet remained where I launch my boat. Beyond, I saw calm w…
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March 13, 2025 at 8:23 AM
I'm so used to seeing posts that compare writing to other life endeavours that this was a refreshing change. It's not like kayaking, apparently. @judithhannan.bsky.social @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/k... #writingtips #authorlife #writingcommunity #skywriters
So honored to be featured in today's Brevity Blog. Thank you @dintywmoore.bsky.social
"I’m not afraid of what creatures I might find down below [in my writing]. The problem is not knowing how to bring them to the surface without mangling them." ~ Judith Hannan / @judithhannan.bsky.social
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Kayaking Isn’t Like Writing
By Judith Hannan I had to work to get my kayak into the water the other day. The air had warmed enough, I thought, to melt the ice. But a sheet remained where I launch my boat. Beyond, I saw calm w…
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March 12, 2025 at 12:33 PM
So honored to be featured in today's Brevity Blog. Thank you @dintywmoore.bsky.social
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I guess there wasn't any need for the @icrc.org to work in/delineate such "occupied" territories when Jordan and Egypt were the occupiers. (Screenshot, surprisingly enough, from a recent NYT article.) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/w...
February 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I guess there wasn't any need for the @icrc.org to work in/delineate such "occupied" territories when Jordan and Egypt were the occupiers. (Screenshot, surprisingly enough, from a recent NYT article.) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/w...
Don't fool yourself. Migrants aren't being deported. They're being held in internment camps, many without any criminal record whatsoever. The resurrection of internment camps should give us all chills.
February 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Don't fool yourself. Migrants aren't being deported. They're being held in internment camps, many without any criminal record whatsoever. The resurrection of internment camps should give us all chills.
Gov. Kathy Hochul has the authority to remove Mayor Adams who is betraying the people he was elected to represent in the name of kissing up to Trump. She needs to hear from us to urge her to do the right thing.
February 14, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Gov. Kathy Hochul has the authority to remove Mayor Adams who is betraying the people he was elected to represent in the name of kissing up to Trump. She needs to hear from us to urge her to do the right thing.
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A quick resistance task:
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"
February 11, 2025 at 9:53 PM
A quick resistance task:
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"
It was a special day when we found this series of decorative plates created by David Lynch. It's too hard to see but each one has a caption and together they tell a story. A moody one of course. May his memory be a blessing. #davidlynch
January 16, 2025 at 9:49 PM
It was a special day when we found this series of decorative plates created by David Lynch. It's too hard to see but each one has a caption and together they tell a story. A moody one of course. May his memory be a blessing. #davidlynch
My first read of 2025. @legroff.bsky.social has set the bar high. A propulsive read that forced me to slow down to savor the beautiful sentences. As one girl seeks to survive we confront the difference between conquering the land and living within its rules.
January 2, 2025 at 8:03 PM
My first read of 2025. @legroff.bsky.social has set the bar high. A propulsive read that forced me to slow down to savor the beautiful sentences. As one girl seeks to survive we confront the difference between conquering the land and living within its rules.
Last book of 2024. A fitting examination of time, belonging, leaving and returning, cycles, and asking questions about what is so important about human beings anyway.
December 31, 2024 at 9:28 PM
Last book of 2024. A fitting examination of time, belonging, leaving and returning, cycles, and asking questions about what is so important about human beings anyway.
I went to the bookstore and said I would read whatever the bookseller recommended without reading the blurb. This was a brilliant choice. I Amy try this strategy more often.
December 29, 2024 at 1:46 PM
I went to the bookstore and said I would read whatever the bookseller recommended without reading the blurb. This was a brilliant choice. I Amy try this strategy more often.
I'm a cliche. Watched Love Actually on Christmas, after lighting the candles for the first night of Chanukah. I'll take love and light wherever I can get. Happy holidays, winter, solstice --whatever today means to you--to everyone.
December 26, 2024 at 2:56 AM
I'm a cliche. Watched Love Actually on Christmas, after lighting the candles for the first night of Chanukah. I'll take love and light wherever I can get. Happy holidays, winter, solstice --whatever today means to you--to everyone.
So nice to have a dog that loves books as much as I do.
December 21, 2024 at 6:53 PM
So nice to have a dog that loves books as much as I do.
In her essay in @pw.org on decolonizing the novel, Namrata Poddar says: "The Holocaust was the culmination of a white history of colonial and genocidal violence perpetrated against people of color across the planet." No. The victims were 6 mil Jews and their ancestors whom you have just gaslit.
December 20, 2024 at 10:10 PM
In her essay in @pw.org on decolonizing the novel, Namrata Poddar says: "The Holocaust was the culmination of a white history of colonial and genocidal violence perpetrated against people of color across the planet." No. The victims were 6 mil Jews and their ancestors whom you have just gaslit.
Cutting edge pediatric cancer research saved my daughter's life. What will cutting $190 million from the budget save? It's too small a number to even make an impact on the deficit. Once again, children being asked to sacrifice themselves for a sick Republican agenda. www.newsweek.com/pediatric-ca...
Funding for pediatric cancer research removed from spending bill
The bill's new version does not include funding for several programs that was in the original bill proposed by the House speaker.
www.newsweek.com
December 20, 2024 at 6:14 PM
Cutting edge pediatric cancer research saved my daughter's life. What will cutting $190 million from the budget save? It's too small a number to even make an impact on the deficit. Once again, children being asked to sacrifice themselves for a sick Republican agenda. www.newsweek.com/pediatric-ca...
Thank you @erikadreifus.bsky.social and @howardlovy.bsky.social
I'm nonfiction editor at the Jewish-friendly Judith Magazine. You're going to want to read this powerful "Open Letter to the Editor of The New York Times Book Review" by my friend and colleague @erikadreifus.bsky.social. judithmagazine.substack.com/p/an-open-le...
An Open Letter to the Editor of The New York Times Book Review
Israeli poets have provided us with "raw portraits of war," too, writes author Erika Dreifus. Why are their stories less newsworthy than those of Palestinians?
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December 3, 2024 at 12:11 PM
Thank you @erikadreifus.bsky.social and @howardlovy.bsky.social
Now you see him, now you don't.
November 30, 2024 at 5:49 PM
Now you see him, now you don't.
Thanksgiving at my house: 9 kids under 4, 7 moody teens and pre-tweens, 7 dogs, lots of happy adults, age 30 to 78, missing our elders and counting our blessings. #gratitude #thanks #family
November 28, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Thanksgiving at my house: 9 kids under 4, 7 moody teens and pre-tweens, 7 dogs, lots of happy adults, age 30 to 78, missing our elders and counting our blessings. #gratitude #thanks #family