Caroline Fairey Meese
@chfaireymeese.bsky.social
she/her | associate editor at W. W. Norton in composition & literature | daily editor at Southern Review of Books | debut chapbook LOWERCOUNTRY (https://bit.ly/4lsWA6s) out now! | born, raised, educated in South Carolina | making a home in Queens
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Fantastic essay on the limited permissible scope of disability writing and publishing's inexhaustible hunger for narratives that end in "triumphal recovery or inspirational death"
Fantastic essay on the limited permissible scope of disability writing and publishing's inexhaustible hunger for narratives that end in "triumphal recovery or inspirational death"
Nature is Not Going to Cure You: On Raynor Winn’s Fabricated Memoir
Like many writers, I have been following the unfolding revelations about Raynor Winn and The Salt Path with great interest, and a degree of self-interest. I am a memoirist and nature writer, and I …
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August 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Fantastic essay on the limited permissible scope of disability writing and publishing's inexhaustible hunger for narratives that end in "triumphal recovery or inspirational death"
Fantastic essay on the limited permissible scope of disability writing and publishing's inexhaustible hunger for narratives that end in "triumphal recovery or inspirational death"
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breaking my don’t @ electeds online to remind @schumer.senate.gov
TRANS KIDS ARE AMERICANS
WHO JUST LOST HEALTHCARE ACCESS
& 275,000 TRANS PEOPLE’S HEALTHCARE ACCESS IS ON THE LINE IN THE BUDGET
WE ARE NOT A DISTRACTION FROM OTHER ISSUES, WE ARE AMERICAN PEOPLE BEING HARMED RIGHT NOW
YOU DICK
TRANS KIDS ARE AMERICANS
WHO JUST LOST HEALTHCARE ACCESS
& 275,000 TRANS PEOPLE’S HEALTHCARE ACCESS IS ON THE LINE IN THE BUDGET
WE ARE NOT A DISTRACTION FROM OTHER ISSUES, WE ARE AMERICAN PEOPLE BEING HARMED RIGHT NOW
YOU DICK
June 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
breaking my don’t @ electeds online to remind @schumer.senate.gov
TRANS KIDS ARE AMERICANS
WHO JUST LOST HEALTHCARE ACCESS
& 275,000 TRANS PEOPLE’S HEALTHCARE ACCESS IS ON THE LINE IN THE BUDGET
WE ARE NOT A DISTRACTION FROM OTHER ISSUES, WE ARE AMERICAN PEOPLE BEING HARMED RIGHT NOW
YOU DICK
TRANS KIDS ARE AMERICANS
WHO JUST LOST HEALTHCARE ACCESS
& 275,000 TRANS PEOPLE’S HEALTHCARE ACCESS IS ON THE LINE IN THE BUDGET
WE ARE NOT A DISTRACTION FROM OTHER ISSUES, WE ARE AMERICAN PEOPLE BEING HARMED RIGHT NOW
YOU DICK
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The Sameer Project says that they will keep going to honor Mosab's life, even through this devastating loss. Please support their work:
chuffed.org/project/help...
chuffed.org/project/help...
North Gaza: Food, Water, Diapers + Milk, Medical Aid
Translating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza facing severe hardships. Our mission is to provide essential ai...
chuffed.org
June 16, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The Sameer Project says that they will keep going to honor Mosab's life, even through this devastating loss. Please support their work:
chuffed.org/project/help...
chuffed.org/project/help...
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Pulitzer prize for this Jay L. Clenendin image of LAPD stormtroopers in front of Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Questions)"
June 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Pulitzer prize for this Jay L. Clenendin image of LAPD stormtroopers in front of Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Questions)"
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What happens when the visual language of peace is hijacked to launder state violence?
Totoro, Tanks & the Theft of Wonder: Ghibli Aesthetics in the Age of AI
When nostalgia becomes a weapon, truth blurs. As AI-generated Ghibli-style imagery floods the political arena, we must ask: What happens when the visual language of peace is hijacked to launder state ...
www.aroko.world
May 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
What happens when the visual language of peace is hijacked to launder state violence?
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Heaven Looks Like Us: An Evening of Palestinian Poetry 🇵🇸
Join @intifadabatata.bsky.social, @noorhindi.bsky.social, and contributors to the new Palestinian poetry anthology Heaven Looks Like Us for a virtual reading in commemoration of Nakba Day.
RSVP to join: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Join @intifadabatata.bsky.social, @noorhindi.bsky.social, and contributors to the new Palestinian poetry anthology Heaven Looks Like Us for a virtual reading in commemoration of Nakba Day.
RSVP to join: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
May 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Heaven Looks Like Us: An Evening of Palestinian Poetry 🇵🇸
Join @intifadabatata.bsky.social, @noorhindi.bsky.social, and contributors to the new Palestinian poetry anthology Heaven Looks Like Us for a virtual reading in commemoration of Nakba Day.
RSVP to join: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Join @intifadabatata.bsky.social, @noorhindi.bsky.social, and contributors to the new Palestinian poetry anthology Heaven Looks Like Us for a virtual reading in commemoration of Nakba Day.
RSVP to join: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
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"Grief is not a checkpoint. It travels with you. It gets there first. It sits beside you and does not speak." @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social on being trans in exile from the US. lithub.com/after-the-ro...
After the Rooster Crows: Dispatch from a Poet in Exile
There is no other way to say this: I write you now from exile, having (if you are reading this) fled political persecution in my home country, the United (for now) States of America. I say this pla…
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May 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"Grief is not a checkpoint. It travels with you. It gets there first. It sits beside you and does not speak." @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social on being trans in exile from the US. lithub.com/after-the-ro...
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“Badar never imagined that a country with a Scholars at Risk program would one day pose a risk to scholars.” Nader Hashemi reflects for @newlinesmag.bsky.social on his recent visit to meet with his colleague Badar Khan Suri in an ICE facility in Texas.
Teaching Gandhi in a Texas Detention Center
A visit to the ICE facility housing the Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri, whose case parallels those of Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk
newlinesmag.com
April 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
“Badar never imagined that a country with a Scholars at Risk program would one day pose a risk to scholars.” Nader Hashemi reflects for @newlinesmag.bsky.social on his recent visit to meet with his colleague Badar Khan Suri in an ICE facility in Texas.
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difficult to overstate how bad it would be for this effort to succeed
NEW: GOP lawmakers are preparing reconciliation bill with $90-175 BILLION in new funding for immigration enforcement.
ICE's entire annual budget is ~$9 billion.
Inside the Trump administration's plan for the real mass deportation campaign: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com
ICE's entire annual budget is ~$9 billion.
Inside the Trump administration's plan for the real mass deportation campaign: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com
Trump’s Mass-Deportation Campaign Hasn’t Really Started Yet
The Trump administration’s campaign to remove millions of people from the United States could soon be supercharged by Congress.
www.theatlantic.com
April 16, 2025 at 11:44 PM
difficult to overstate how bad it would be for this effort to succeed
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for @teenvogue.com, Columbia journalism student Anvee Bhutani spoke to people who have known the disappeared Mahmoud Khalil at different points in his life — aid workers, friends, fellow activists — who describe a deeply committed, compassionate organizer who saw education as a way to serve others.
Who Was Mahmoud Khalil Before ICE Took Him Away?
We spoke to the former Columbia grad student’s friends and former coworkers.
www.teenvogue.com
March 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
for @teenvogue.com, Columbia journalism student Anvee Bhutani spoke to people who have known the disappeared Mahmoud Khalil at different points in his life — aid workers, friends, fellow activists — who describe a deeply committed, compassionate organizer who saw education as a way to serve others.
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Stand up for transgender people now or stand for nothing at all: lindseyadler.substack.com/p/the-urgenc...
The Urgency of Transgender Advocacy
There is a cabal of creepy little freaks roaming the hallways of our political system right now with the single-minded goal of eradicating transgender, intersex, and non-binary people from the fabric ...
lindseyadler.substack.com
February 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Stand up for transgender people now or stand for nothing at all: lindseyadler.substack.com/p/the-urgenc...
Thanks to Chila Woychik and the Eastern Iowa Review for accepting “If while flying over the ocean”—drafted a decade ago, revised, and now the final poem of my forthcoming chapbook 🌴
The draft couldn’t be final until I read Mary Karr
The draft couldn’t be final until I read Mary Karr
February 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Thanks to Chila Woychik and the Eastern Iowa Review for accepting “If while flying over the ocean”—drafted a decade ago, revised, and now the final poem of my forthcoming chapbook 🌴
The draft couldn’t be final until I read Mary Karr
The draft couldn’t be final until I read Mary Karr
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The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other
February 14, 2025 at 3:29 AM
The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other
also the chapter I read today in Everybody by Olivia Laing
cannot WAIT to read Ravishing!!
cannot WAIT to read Ravishing!!
sharing memes that remind me of
RAVISHING💄💉✨ part one
(reminder that if this intrigues you, you can:
1. preorder the book @ eshani-surya.com before it comes out 11.11.25
2. add the book on goodreads/storygraph
3. share this!)
RAVISHING💄💉✨ part one
(reminder that if this intrigues you, you can:
1. preorder the book @ eshani-surya.com before it comes out 11.11.25
2. add the book on goodreads/storygraph
3. share this!)
February 14, 2025 at 1:48 AM
also the chapter I read today in Everybody by Olivia Laing
cannot WAIT to read Ravishing!!
cannot WAIT to read Ravishing!!
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Shira Erlichman lectured about fictive poems at @tinhouse.bsky.social. I got curious about one of the books mentioned and now it's been living rent free in my brain since Saturday...
February 13, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Shira Erlichman lectured about fictive poems at @tinhouse.bsky.social. I got curious about one of the books mentioned and now it's been living rent free in my brain since Saturday...