Here goes one of my five posts for the year, and the only one asking for money. If you 1) are not a fan of human trafficking and 2) would like to support an organization helping survivors, please donate to Safe Harbor’s Walk To End It! give.safeharborshelter.com/kzarfas

If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?

The Pulitzer Center’s Fighting Words Poetry Contest invites students to write poems in relation articles they have published. One of the finalists wrote on the article by @simonesun.bsky.social and I, and the poem is truly touching! 🥺🏳️‍⚧️

Total eclipse