I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.

“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

Mutual aid is not just a disaster response, it’s a way of caring for one another, building stronger communities, and preparing for whatever life may throw at us next. It’s a labor of love—and a way of life.

I put together a reading list (and words of advice) for LitHub: lithub.com/we-only-have...

A shame that this book about art in the face of cataclysm and the contradictions of capitalism isn’t relevant to today…

@benadavis.bsky.social

They banned tick tock? The empty mechanical time that flattens the lived experience of the durée into a quantitative measure?

“We have been endowed with a weak messianic power to which the past has a claim.” -Walter Benjamin

We decide what the past will have meant, and we carry its banners.

Most people with resources would rather teach the poor to be resilient in their poverty rather than change our social and political systems in ways that would eliminate their poverty.

Read and enjoyed 12 books in 2024 that I would highly recommend.

#booksky #booksof2024

Excited to hear Rachel Kushner read an excerpt from Creation Lake

#inprinthouston #alleytheatre #houston #booktok

Literally me when they don’t take cards at the beer tent.

Starting Long Division today.

Picked it up at Kiese Laymon’s conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates for #inprint #houston last week.

Christmas list just dropped.

This is supposed to be fiction, right?

Absolutely chilling. I can’t stop reading.

#booksky #prophetsong #lit

“TRUMP W…ait. Where are you going?”

That would take self-awareness.