Heather Ringo (she/her)
@feralheather.bsky.social
Mediocre writer. Excellent underseller. 19th century British & California literature & landscape: fire stewardship, invasive species, carceral ecologies, state parks, eugenics, Romanticism. Also writes creatively: CNF, fiction, & poetry.
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So do all those journalists and professors get their jobs back too or is it just the millionaire comedian whose cancellation ate into Disney's profits?
September 23, 2025 at 7:33 PM
So do all those journalists and professors get their jobs back too or is it just the millionaire comedian whose cancellation ate into Disney's profits?
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Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
September 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
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“They did not die from COVID , they had preexisting conditions.”
“They did not die from starvation, they had other health problems.”
This is what eugenics sounds like.
“They did not die from starvation, they had other health problems.”
This is what eugenics sounds like.
August 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
“They did not die from COVID , they had preexisting conditions.”
“They did not die from starvation, they had other health problems.”
This is what eugenics sounds like.
“They did not die from starvation, they had other health problems.”
This is what eugenics sounds like.
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The @aaup.org report on AI is so hugely important. Among other key takeaways is the fact that most AI programs have been introduced by administrative fiat and by circumventing meaningful faculty, student, & staff consultation.
shorturl.at/InI5Q
shorturl.at/InI5Q
July 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The @aaup.org report on AI is so hugely important. Among other key takeaways is the fact that most AI programs have been introduced by administrative fiat and by circumventing meaningful faculty, student, & staff consultation.
shorturl.at/InI5Q
shorturl.at/InI5Q
Thanks to a generous donation from the Common Humanity Collective, if you need an N95 respirator 😷 in the Napa/Solano region, I am your plug.
Also, if anyone is interested in joining our mask bloc and/or helping me hand them out and/or volunteering during fire evacuations, hit me up!
#YallMasking
Also, if anyone is interested in joining our mask bloc and/or helping me hand them out and/or volunteering during fire evacuations, hit me up!
#YallMasking
July 31, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Thanks to a generous donation from the Common Humanity Collective, if you need an N95 respirator 😷 in the Napa/Solano region, I am your plug.
Also, if anyone is interested in joining our mask bloc and/or helping me hand them out and/or volunteering during fire evacuations, hit me up!
#YallMasking
Also, if anyone is interested in joining our mask bloc and/or helping me hand them out and/or volunteering during fire evacuations, hit me up!
#YallMasking
By popular demand I’m migrating my viral creative nonfiction threads from Twitter to Substack. Here’s the poignant flash story grieving my dad: “Running”
substack.com/@feralheathe...
#CreativeNonfiction #CNF #Flash
substack.com/@feralheathe...
#CreativeNonfiction #CNF #Flash
Running
in memory of my dad, Ian Allan Stewart
substack.com
June 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
By popular demand I’m migrating my viral creative nonfiction threads from Twitter to Substack. Here’s the poignant flash story grieving my dad: “Running”
substack.com/@feralheathe...
#CreativeNonfiction #CNF #Flash
substack.com/@feralheathe...
#CreativeNonfiction #CNF #Flash
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Today is International ME/CFS Awareness Day. I got my diagnosis last year after attributing my fatigue + other symptoms to my vasculitis for years, when it was ME/CFS too. Now, I'm on meds that means I don't have to work from bed.
May 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Today is International ME/CFS Awareness Day. I got my diagnosis last year after attributing my fatigue + other symptoms to my vasculitis for years, when it was ME/CFS too. Now, I'm on meds that means I don't have to work from bed.
Sometimes writing is self-evisceration. Prometheus but his own fingers as eagle.
Other times I open my mouth & ghosts flood in, then words spill out.
Other times I open my mouth & ghosts flood in, then words spill out.
May 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Sometimes writing is self-evisceration. Prometheus but his own fingers as eagle.
Other times I open my mouth & ghosts flood in, then words spill out.
Other times I open my mouth & ghosts flood in, then words spill out.
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I’m Emile Suotonye DeWeaver.
Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future (May 13, 2025 @thenewpress) is my forthcoming essay collection.
Pre-order it: www.reframeconsults.com/ghostinthecr...
Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future (May 13, 2025 @thenewpress) is my forthcoming essay collection.
Pre-order it: www.reframeconsults.com/ghostinthecr...
Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine | re:frame consulting
Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future
a book by writer Emile Suotonye DeWeaver
Published by The New Press
www.reframeconsults.com
March 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I’m Emile Suotonye DeWeaver.
Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future (May 13, 2025 @thenewpress) is my forthcoming essay collection.
Pre-order it: www.reframeconsults.com/ghostinthecr...
Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future (May 13, 2025 @thenewpress) is my forthcoming essay collection.
Pre-order it: www.reframeconsults.com/ghostinthecr...
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LA county just sent out its 3rd incorrect yet county-wide evacuation warning alert.
God forbid new fires emerge in other areas, their repeated mistakes run the risk of people in those areas disregarding this warnings as yet another accident.
God forbid new fires emerge in other areas, their repeated mistakes run the risk of people in those areas disregarding this warnings as yet another accident.
January 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
LA county just sent out its 3rd incorrect yet county-wide evacuation warning alert.
God forbid new fires emerge in other areas, their repeated mistakes run the risk of people in those areas disregarding this warnings as yet another accident.
God forbid new fires emerge in other areas, their repeated mistakes run the risk of people in those areas disregarding this warnings as yet another accident.
is somebody gonna match my freak?
[eat an entire container of Costco peanut butter pretzels in one sitting]
[eat an entire container of Costco peanut butter pretzels in one sitting]
December 31, 2024 at 12:49 AM
is somebody gonna match my freak?
[eat an entire container of Costco peanut butter pretzels in one sitting]
[eat an entire container of Costco peanut butter pretzels in one sitting]
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This is what I keep telling students: you think AI is producing "good writing" and that it "thinks" because you have not actually learned what good writing and what critical thinking is, and if you want to survive in this hellscape, you have to learn these without AI.
The drum we need to keep beating: if students don't learn how to do things better than AI does, AI will take their jobs. The only way to learn that is *without using AI in the learning process*.
December 19, 2024 at 3:56 PM
This is what I keep telling students: you think AI is producing "good writing" and that it "thinks" because you have not actually learned what good writing and what critical thinking is, and if you want to survive in this hellscape, you have to learn these without AI.
Drove Marin backroads yesterday listening to my dead dad’s favorite music. Hard to imagine for those who haven’t lost, but sometimes one can feel a presence in the passenger’s seat: a coalescence of memory as real as the smell of yerba buena & bay laurel & salty air in redwood fog.
November 29, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Drove Marin backroads yesterday listening to my dead dad’s favorite music. Hard to imagine for those who haven’t lost, but sometimes one can feel a presence in the passenger’s seat: a coalescence of memory as real as the smell of yerba buena & bay laurel & salty air in redwood fog.
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Writing is part of surviving this! Your own and everyone else’s!
November 11, 2024 at 4:57 PM
Writing is part of surviving this! Your own and everyone else’s!
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I wrote for @sfdirewolf.bsky.social about why we founded @theflytrapmedia.bsky.social, and why it's important to get disability in your feminist media from day one!
I’m Co-Founding a Feminist Media Collective: Here’s Why Disability Will Be All Over It from the Start
I’m Co-Founding a Feminist Media Collective: Here’s Why Disability Will Be All Over It from the Start s.e. smith Fifteen years ago, in October 2009, a mostly feminist group of comrade…
disabilityvisibilityproject.com
November 11, 2024 at 4:41 AM
I wrote for @sfdirewolf.bsky.social about why we founded @theflytrapmedia.bsky.social, and why it's important to get disability in your feminist media from day one!
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my sadly somewhat timely book has a cover now, which i think is very beautiful 🌿
Action without Hope
A study of how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine the category of action. What does it feel like to live helplessly in a world that ...
press.uchicago.edu
November 8, 2024 at 6:42 PM
my sadly somewhat timely book has a cover now, which i think is very beautiful 🌿
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The inaugural issue of @theflytrapmedia.bsky.social goes out in ONE WEEK but you only have until THURSDAY to get Kickstarter-exclusive subscription pricing.
I also want to say this: Feminist media is not 'women's media' or 'ladyblogging' because feminism is not limited to women!!
I also want to say this: Feminist media is not 'women's media' or 'ladyblogging' because feminism is not limited to women!!
The Flytrap: Bringing Back the Feminist Blog
Worker-Owned, Reader-Supported Intersectional Feminist Journalism to Unfuck Your Algorithm
www.kickstarter.com
October 29, 2024 at 2:47 PM
The inaugural issue of @theflytrapmedia.bsky.social goes out in ONE WEEK but you only have until THURSDAY to get Kickstarter-exclusive subscription pricing.
I also want to say this: Feminist media is not 'women's media' or 'ladyblogging' because feminism is not limited to women!!
I also want to say this: Feminist media is not 'women's media' or 'ladyblogging' because feminism is not limited to women!!
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‘I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, and full of love.’
Stellar @sfdirewolf.bsky.social piece on life, death, and disability.
Stellar @sfdirewolf.bsky.social piece on life, death, and disability.
Living With Muscular Dystrophy Makes Death My Shadow Partner
time.com
March 28, 2024 at 6:21 AM
‘I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, and full of love.’
Stellar @sfdirewolf.bsky.social piece on life, death, and disability.
Stellar @sfdirewolf.bsky.social piece on life, death, and disability.
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Given everything that went down with the Hugos, I thought I'd spend sometime uplifting voices. Who are some Chinese and Chinese diaspora SFF/H writers, from novels down to short fic, you recommend?
February 16, 2024 at 4:09 PM
Given everything that went down with the Hugos, I thought I'd spend sometime uplifting voices. Who are some Chinese and Chinese diaspora SFF/H writers, from novels down to short fic, you recommend?
While everyone else is watching grown men give each other TBIs, I wrote 9 more pages of my dissertation: right now developing the portion about how the Wordsworthian sublime influenced California’s Redwoods State & National Parks land acquisition priorities & management regimes.
February 12, 2024 at 12:49 AM
While everyone else is watching grown men give each other TBIs, I wrote 9 more pages of my dissertation: right now developing the portion about how the Wordsworthian sublime influenced California’s Redwoods State & National Parks land acquisition priorities & management regimes.
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OK, folks, new book alert. I'm fun at parties, so I've written a book on death. Do come and hear me talk about 19th-c. deathbeds, funerals and other fun stuff, like Queen Victoria, Rider Haggard and Peter Pan (weirdly, yes, all three together).
February 6, 2024 at 3:30 PM
OK, folks, new book alert. I'm fun at parties, so I've written a book on death. Do come and hear me talk about 19th-c. deathbeds, funerals and other fun stuff, like Queen Victoria, Rider Haggard and Peter Pan (weirdly, yes, all three together).
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Tenure-Track Position: Assistant Professor of British 19C/Victorian Literature & Culture at Acadia University (2/19/24): bit.ly/48KtxVn
January 4, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Tenure-Track Position: Assistant Professor of British 19C/Victorian Literature & Culture at Acadia University (2/19/24): bit.ly/48KtxVn
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My dear friend Shelby Johnson has a book coming out: "The Rich Earth Between Us: The Intimate Grounds of Race and Sexuality in the Atlantic World, 1770–1840" looks at Black and Indigenous writers' literary productions as modes of resistance to settler colonialism.
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
February 2, 2024 at 5:19 PM
My dear friend Shelby Johnson has a book coming out: "The Rich Earth Between Us: The Intimate Grounds of Race and Sexuality in the Atlantic World, 1770–1840" looks at Black and Indigenous writers' literary productions as modes of resistance to settler colonialism.
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
1. California wildfire policies 1850-today
2. Muirburn/falaisg in Scotland & its literary representations
3. Labor organizing, disability, & eugenics
4. Edible invasive species in Northern California
5. Why the troubled teen industry is evil
2. Muirburn/falaisg in Scotland & its literary representations
3. Labor organizing, disability, & eugenics
4. Edible invasive species in Northern California
5. Why the troubled teen industry is evil
What are 5 topics you can talk about unprepared for 5 minutes?
(I'm sorry this veers into punditry but I can do like 50 mins on the spot for each of these)
1. Lute music
2. Wonder and awe
3. Spinoza
4. Chinese philosophy
5. Short SFF
(I'm sorry this veers into punditry but I can do like 50 mins on the spot for each of these)
1. Lute music
2. Wonder and awe
3. Spinoza
4. Chinese philosophy
5. Short SFF
What are 5 topics you can talk about unprepared for 5 minutes?
1. Fantasy Fiction
2. Science Fiction
3 Photographic Theory
4. ISO 9001 and 14001 Standards (this is for your insomnia)
5. My Travels (5 minutes? How many hours you got?)
1. Fantasy Fiction
2. Science Fiction
3 Photographic Theory
4. ISO 9001 and 14001 Standards (this is for your insomnia)
5. My Travels (5 minutes? How many hours you got?)
February 1, 2024 at 3:41 AM
1. California wildfire policies 1850-today
2. Muirburn/falaisg in Scotland & its literary representations
3. Labor organizing, disability, & eugenics
4. Edible invasive species in Northern California
5. Why the troubled teen industry is evil
2. Muirburn/falaisg in Scotland & its literary representations
3. Labor organizing, disability, & eugenics
4. Edible invasive species in Northern California
5. Why the troubled teen industry is evil