Erik Gleibermann
@erikgleibermann.bsky.social
Culture critic, social justice educator, (up)hill San Francisco
runner, contributing editor World Literature Today, in NY Times, Wash Post, Atlantic, Guardian, Slate, Oprah Daily https://erikgleibermann.com/
runner, contributing editor World Literature Today, in NY Times, Wash Post, Atlantic, Guardian, Slate, Oprah Daily https://erikgleibermann.com/
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
November 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
We must use the Portland frog as a model for resistance. Each city must deploy its own protest animal mascot.
October 21, 2025 at 5:01 AM
We must use the Portland frog as a model for resistance. Each city must deploy its own protest animal mascot.
Re-envision the American Revolution
October 13, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Re-envision the American Revolution
My essay, To Resist a Dictatorship of the Absurd, An American Turns to Václav Havel, appears now in World Literature Today.
worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/essay/r...
worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/essay/r...
To Resist a Dictatorship of the Absurd, an American Turns to Václav Havel, by Erik Gleibermann
Following the 2024 US presidential election, WLT editorial board member Erik Gleibermann turned to the writing of playwright and former president of Czechoslovakia Václav Havel, eventually continuing ...
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August 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
My essay, To Resist a Dictatorship of the Absurd, An American Turns to Václav Havel, appears now in World Literature Today.
worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/essay/r...
worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/essay/r...
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Bats have a bad reputation. Myths, folk tales and negative media coverage mean people often link them to vampires or blame them for disease outbreaks. But bat populations around the world are in decline, and without them, ecosystems lose key benefits like pest control, pollination and seed dispersal
Mexico’s bat man on saving the ‘most unfairly treated animals on Earth’ | CNN
Bats are often linked to vampires or blamed for disease outbreaks. Here’s why they don’t deserve such a bad reputation.
www.cnn.com
August 25, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Bats have a bad reputation. Myths, folk tales and negative media coverage mean people often link them to vampires or blame them for disease outbreaks. But bat populations around the world are in decline, and without them, ecosystems lose key benefits like pest control, pollination and seed dispersal
A model for us as writers
August 19, 2025 at 9:54 PM
A model for us as writers
An essay on my Holocaust surviving grandfather’s relationship to Harlem, to me and to Billie Holiday now appears in North American Review's Open Space section. @northamerreview.bsky.social y.social northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...
Song in Harlem’s Promised Land | North American Review
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May 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
An essay on my Holocaust surviving grandfather’s relationship to Harlem, to me and to Billie Holiday now appears in North American Review's Open Space section. @northamerreview.bsky.social y.social northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...
Columbia University endowment: $14.8 billion.
Loss from stock market last week: + or - $1.4 billion.
Cost to replace federal funding to maintain independence, integrity and constitutional rights:
$400 million.
Loss from stock market last week: + or - $1.4 billion.
Cost to replace federal funding to maintain independence, integrity and constitutional rights:
$400 million.
April 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Columbia University endowment: $14.8 billion.
Loss from stock market last week: + or - $1.4 billion.
Cost to replace federal funding to maintain independence, integrity and constitutional rights:
$400 million.
Loss from stock market last week: + or - $1.4 billion.
Cost to replace federal funding to maintain independence, integrity and constitutional rights:
$400 million.
I grew up in a Detroit suburb virtually on the Canadian border, but didn't feel kinship across the Ambassador Bridge until now.
March 23, 2025 at 4:55 AM
I grew up in a Detroit suburb virtually on the Canadian border, but didn't feel kinship across the Ambassador Bridge until now.
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Whether you're a student, a teacher, a parent, or a product of public schools, join us. (Bring a desk😀)
We will defend our schools, our futures, and our democracy.
www.mobilize.us/sunrisemovem...
We will defend our schools, our futures, and our democracy.
www.mobilize.us/sunrisemovem...
Study In to Defend Our Schools · Sunrise Movement
Trump is issuing an executive order to abolish the Department of Education. **This is cruel and illegal** – a direct attack on public schools, students, and our communities.
On Friday March 21st, we'...
www.mobilize.us
March 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Whether you're a student, a teacher, a parent, or a product of public schools, join us. (Bring a desk😀)
We will defend our schools, our futures, and our democracy.
www.mobilize.us/sunrisemovem...
We will defend our schools, our futures, and our democracy.
www.mobilize.us/sunrisemovem...
From 2023 to 2024 Colombia University's endowment increased by $1.2 billion. (Harvard's by 2.5) Colombia's cancelled federal contracts total $400K. Isn't this a moment to step in and finance your mission? What is a privileged endowment for?
March 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
From 2023 to 2024 Colombia University's endowment increased by $1.2 billion. (Harvard's by 2.5) Colombia's cancelled federal contracts total $400K. Isn't this a moment to step in and finance your mission? What is a privileged endowment for?
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These attacks on protest and freedoms cannot be fought in isolation or in movement silos. We need broad, brave coalition.
Climate, Palestine, labor, migrant, trans and reproductive rights; academic freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of association ... Together we are mighty. Divided we fall.
Climate, Palestine, labor, migrant, trans and reproductive rights; academic freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of association ... Together we are mighty. Divided we fall.
Fossil fuel companies should be forced to pay the public trillions in damages for the costs of their planetary arson. Instead they are trying to shut down one of the most important and storied environmental groups in the world. It's shameless - and it's not over. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions over Dakota pipeline protests, says jury
Non-profit said in statement lawsuits like this aimed at ‘destroying the right to peaceful protest’
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 9:21 PM
These attacks on protest and freedoms cannot be fought in isolation or in movement silos. We need broad, brave coalition.
Climate, Palestine, labor, migrant, trans and reproductive rights; academic freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of association ... Together we are mighty. Divided we fall.
Climate, Palestine, labor, migrant, trans and reproductive rights; academic freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of association ... Together we are mighty. Divided we fall.
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“My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner.” www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
Letter from a Palestinian Political Prisoner in Louisiana March 18, 2025
www.documentcloud.org
March 19, 2025 at 1:27 AM
“My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner.” www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
Columbia University journalism faculty issue statement in defense of free speech. journalism.columbia.edu/news/cjs-fac...
A Statement from Columbia Journalism School Faculty Defending Press Freedom | Columbia Journalism School
journalism.columbia.edu
March 17, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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*Jon Ossoff* just announced he's voting no. You think that happened out of nowhere? CALL YOUR SENATORS. 👇
Schumer (202) 224-6542 no vm
Hassan (202) 224-3324
Peters (202) 224-6221
Durbin (202)224-2152 no vm
Schatz (202) 224-3934
King (202) 224-5344
Shaheen (202) 224-2841 vm full
Fetterman (202) 224-4254
Cortez Masto (202) 224-3542
Gillibrand (202) 224-4451
Hassan (202) 224-3324
Peters (202) 224-6221
Durbin (202)224-2152 no vm
Schatz (202) 224-3934
King (202) 224-5344
Shaheen (202) 224-2841 vm full
Fetterman (202) 224-4254
Cortez Masto (202) 224-3542
Gillibrand (202) 224-4451
March 14, 2025 at 2:27 AM
*Jon Ossoff* just announced he's voting no. You think that happened out of nowhere? CALL YOUR SENATORS. 👇
Amazing and grounding insights from this group. Refreshing after reading daily through the filters of mainstream media.
This video was just what i needed right now.
Listened while driving to town in the snow. Returned with renewed clarity and motivation.
@astra.bsky.social @keeanga.bsky.social @chenjerai.bsky.social and @naomiaklein.bsky.social thank you for this.
www.youtube.com/live/iyLiNN_...
#uspoli #cdnpoli
Listened while driving to town in the snow. Returned with renewed clarity and motivation.
@astra.bsky.social @keeanga.bsky.social @chenjerai.bsky.social and @naomiaklein.bsky.social thank you for this.
www.youtube.com/live/iyLiNN_...
#uspoli #cdnpoli
The Corporate Coup in Global Context: An Emergency Town Hall
YouTube video by Haymarket Books
www.youtube.com
February 21, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Amazing and grounding insights from this group. Refreshing after reading daily through the filters of mainstream media.
Their mass direct action (more confrontational than street protest) is a model for this critical moment.
On this day in 1956, local officials issued arrest warrants for civil rights activists for leading an "illegal boycott" to protest racial segregation on city buses. 89 would later be indicted.
Feb. 20, 1956 | Civil Rights Activists Arrested for Organizing Montgomery Bus Boycott
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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February 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Their mass direct action (more confrontational than street protest) is a model for this critical moment.
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SCOOP: Cats that became infected with bird flu might have spread the virus to humans in the same household and vice versa, according to data that briefly appeared online in a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention but then abruptly vanished.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
CDC Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Transmission Between Cats and People (Gift Article)
The data, which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households. Scientists called on the agency to release the full report.
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
SCOOP: Cats that became infected with bird flu might have spread the virus to humans in the same household and vice versa, according to data that briefly appeared online in a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention but then abruptly vanished.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
I have two mini-reviews in Oprah Daily for Black History Month, one on Imani Perry’s Black in Blues, and the other on Lee Hawkins’ I Am Nobody’s Slave. www.oprahdaily.com/entertainmen...
5 New Books That Reimagine Black History
Novels and memoirs that make us see our past with new eyes, and our futures with renewed hope
www.oprahdaily.com
February 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I have two mini-reviews in Oprah Daily for Black History Month, one on Imani Perry’s Black in Blues, and the other on Lee Hawkins’ I Am Nobody’s Slave. www.oprahdaily.com/entertainmen...
"Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts."
It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too.
Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more.
Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.
Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more.
Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.
January 31, 2025 at 11:27 PM
"Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts."