@etherealsnailfish.bsky.social
Poet, writer, mental health professional, fan of democracy and the biosphere.
February 4, 2026 at 11:21 PM
January 31, 2026 at 7:00 PM
December 8, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Creeping authoritarianism, creative cereal eating, and hot takes on Wuthering Heights. katherinemaurer.substack.com/p/the-incred...
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Creeping authoritarianism, creative cereal eating, and hot takes on Wuthering Heights. katherinemaurer.substack.com/p/the-incred...
Some thoughts on thoughts that help me connect the dots. And stay partly sane in the process...most days.
katherinemaurer.substack.com/p/signal-and...
katherinemaurer.substack.com/p/signal-and...
November 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Some thoughts on thoughts that help me connect the dots. And stay partly sane in the process...most days.
katherinemaurer.substack.com/p/signal-and...
katherinemaurer.substack.com/p/signal-and...
See you Saturday!! Champaign-Urbana info here!!
October 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
See you Saturday!! Champaign-Urbana info here!!
New post. On emotions, resilience, and resistance, with a dash of climate psychology and trauma therapy. Shares and subscriptions appreciated! open.substack.com/pub/katherin...
September 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
New post. On emotions, resilience, and resistance, with a dash of climate psychology and trauma therapy. Shares and subscriptions appreciated! open.substack.com/pub/katherin...
What conversations support resistance and resilience, and which grind us down?
open.substack.com/pub/katherin...
open.substack.com/pub/katherin...
September 1, 2025 at 10:41 PM
What conversations support resistance and resilience, and which grind us down?
open.substack.com/pub/katherin...
open.substack.com/pub/katherin...
What makes it hard to join in the fight against authoritarianism, and what are the antidotes? There's a lot more that could be said, but here are a few antidotes to start with, for ourselves and others. #OneMillionRising, #Democracy, #Authoritarianism
open.substack.com/pub/katherin...
open.substack.com/pub/katherin...
August 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
What makes it hard to join in the fight against authoritarianism, and what are the antidotes? There's a lot more that could be said, but here are a few antidotes to start with, for ourselves and others. #OneMillionRising, #Democracy, #Authoritarianism
open.substack.com/pub/katherin...
open.substack.com/pub/katherin...
August 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
It's easy to feel exhausted by the barrage of unconstitutional actions, shocking moral failings, and attacks on vulnerable people coming out of this Republican administration. But when you put them in the context of the authoritarian playbook, the story becomes more clear. 1/
August 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
It's easy to feel exhausted by the barrage of unconstitutional actions, shocking moral failings, and attacks on vulnerable people coming out of this Republican administration. But when you put them in the context of the authoritarian playbook, the story becomes more clear. 1/
What if we began to expect and accept the feeling that what we’re doing is not enough? What if this is a natural part of the experience of fighting for a better world?
katherinemaurer.substack.com/p/nothing-wi...
katherinemaurer.substack.com/p/nothing-wi...
July 21, 2025 at 9:22 PM
What if we began to expect and accept the feeling that what we’re doing is not enough? What if this is a natural part of the experience of fighting for a better world?
katherinemaurer.substack.com/p/nothing-wi...
katherinemaurer.substack.com/p/nothing-wi...
Tattoos are not a crime. Being gay is not a crime. Seeking asylum is not a crime. Why is Andry in a mega-prison in El Salvador? #DisappearedInAmerica #AbductedByTrump
June 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Tattoos are not a crime. Being gay is not a crime. Seeking asylum is not a crime. Why is Andry in a mega-prison in El Salvador? #DisappearedInAmerica #AbductedByTrump
Heidy Sánchez was ripped from her baby’s arms and deported. No criminal record. Just a mother, wife, and aspiring nurse. Now she’s alone in Cuba, while her infant daughter cries for her in Florida. #DisappearedInAmerica #AbductedByTrump
June 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Heidy Sánchez was ripped from her baby’s arms and deported. No criminal record. Just a mother, wife, and aspiring nurse. Now she’s alone in Cuba, while her infant daughter cries for her in Florida. #DisappearedInAmerica #AbductedByTrump
June 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Next Saturday, Champaign-Urbana people! NOTE: NOT at Meadowbrook Park.
June 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Next Saturday, Champaign-Urbana people! NOTE: NOT at Meadowbrook Park.
Just wanted to get this one out there. So many people right now are doing the hard, slow, messy work of defending democracy and fighting fascism. I wrote this thinking about the sometimes invisible, but far-reaching impacts of our willingness to keep showing up. open.substack.com/pub/katherin...
May 31, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Just wanted to get this one out there. So many people right now are doing the hard, slow, messy work of defending democracy and fighting fascism. I wrote this thinking about the sometimes invisible, but far-reaching impacts of our willingness to keep showing up. open.substack.com/pub/katherin...
May 31, 2025 at 5:21 PM
A reminder that all forms of stigma exist to divide us, and we can't have that right now. Although after today other forms of fascism are more on my mind, I made this sign for tomorrow as I'd planned.
May 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM
A reminder that all forms of stigma exist to divide us, and we can't have that right now. Although after today other forms of fascism are more on my mind, I made this sign for tomorrow as I'd planned.
Champaign-Urbana people!!
May 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Champaign-Urbana people!!
This particular absurdity prompted a chorus of "Get up, stand up! Stand up for your mice!" as my partner was on the way to the #standupforscience rally, so that's how it's going around here... 😵
March 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This particular absurdity prompted a chorus of "Get up, stand up! Stand up for your mice!" as my partner was on the way to the #standupforscience rally, so that's how it's going around here... 😵
Front porch activism on a WFH day. Little sleet and freezing rain can't stop us.
#MinuteOfUS #USpoli #Trump
choosedemocracy.us/minute-of-us/
#MinuteOfUS #USpoli #Trump
choosedemocracy.us/minute-of-us/
February 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Front porch activism on a WFH day. Little sleet and freezing rain can't stop us.
#MinuteOfUS #USpoli #Trump
choosedemocracy.us/minute-of-us/
#MinuteOfUS #USpoli #Trump
choosedemocracy.us/minute-of-us/