Grace Rubenstein
@gracenotes9.bsky.social
Journalist, editor, podcast coach. Cofounder seedpodmedia.com. Social/bio science translator. Reports on health science & immigration. Spanish speaker & dancing fool.
I had the honor of speaking with Jane Goodall and writing this essay for her in her voice. I can't think of a person I admire more or whose moral clarity, kindness, and unwavering humanity we need more. Let us carry it forward. (2/2)
October 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I had the honor of speaking with Jane Goodall and writing this essay for her in her voice. I can't think of a person I admire more or whose moral clarity, kindness, and unwavering humanity we need more. Let us carry it forward. (2/2)
I haven't but will check that out!
August 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I haven't but will check that out!
Go ahead and eat your blueberries. And ask yourself, at the same time, how you will resist making your own small mistakes.
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cc @americantheatre.org
May 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Go ahead and eat your blueberries. And ask yourself, at the same time, how you will resist making your own small mistakes.
cc @americantheatre.org
cc @americantheatre.org
The 60-year-old American Conservatory Theater observed, "At its best, the NEA affirms that access to the arts is not a luxury, but a national value—essential to civic dialogue, education, and a vibrant democracy."
May 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The 60-year-old American Conservatory Theater observed, "At its best, the NEA affirms that access to the arts is not a luxury, but a national value—essential to civic dialogue, education, and a vibrant democracy."
These are the age-old tools of autocrats, from Stalin to Franco to Hitler to Mao. He who controls what we see and hear, and who can speak, controls what we believe. And ultimately what we do.
May 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
These are the age-old tools of autocrats, from Stalin to Franco to Hitler to Mao. He who controls what we see and hear, and who can speak, controls what we believe. And ultimately what we do.
The cutting of national arts funding is not a Holocaust. But it is — along with the terrorizing of dissenters, the purging of government, and the vilifying and scapegoating of immigrants and anyone different — a step towards the annihilation of diverse thought.
May 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The cutting of national arts funding is not a Holocaust. But it is — along with the terrorizing of dissenters, the purging of government, and the vilifying and scapegoating of immigrants and anyone different — a step towards the annihilation of diverse thought.
A message from the play that won't leave me is that great national mistakes are made of many, many small mistakes, made by each of us.
May 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
A message from the play that won't leave me is that great national mistakes are made of many, many small mistakes, made by each of us.
When the heinous job is broken into so many separate, small parts that every participant feels shielded from responsibility for the outcome. When the context allows and encourages them to narrow their frame of vision, to see only what's comfortable and crop out the horror.
May 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
When the heinous job is broken into so many separate, small parts that every participant feels shielded from responsibility for the outcome. When the context allows and encourages them to narrow their frame of vision, to see only what's comfortable and crop out the horror.
The play presented an array of possible answers to those questions, all of which are true at the same time. People participate in atrocities when the messages around them, from family, friends, and leaders, assert that they are part of a bigger mission, something important enough to sacrifice for.
May 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The play presented an array of possible answers to those questions, all of which are true at the same time. People participate in atrocities when the messages around them, from family, friends, and leaders, assert that they are part of a bigger mission, something important enough to sacrifice for.
The greatest power of the play was the question it forced us all to contend with: how can ordinary, decent people do horrific things? And how might we ourselves be vulnerable to doing the same?
May 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The greatest power of the play was the question it forced us all to contend with: how can ordinary, decent people do horrific things? And how might we ourselves be vulnerable to doing the same?