Jill Damatac
@jilldamatac.bsky.social
Author, DIRTY KITCHEN: a memoir of 22 years undocumented in America (out now, One Signal/Atria/Simon & Schuster). Ex-undocumented Fil Am Brit 🇵🇭🇺🇸🇬🇧
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Jill Damatac
@jilldamatac.bsky.social
· Aug 12
An Undocumented Life, With Recipes
www.nytimes.com
MONTHS since I've been on Bluesky. Thanks, anxiety! What have I been up to?
1) My #undocumented Filipino American food memoir, DIRTY KITCHEN, published in May with @atriabooks.bsky.social + my editor @abastagli.bsky.social . Here's the New York Times Book Review: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/b...
1) My #undocumented Filipino American food memoir, DIRTY KITCHEN, published in May with @atriabooks.bsky.social + my editor @abastagli.bsky.social . Here's the New York Times Book Review: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/b...
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Crazy excited about this and feel incredibly honored to be representing Jill. Her novel pages blew me away!
NOT TO BE ALL LINKEDIN ON THIS APP, but so excited to share that I’ve signed with UTA Publishing today, repped by @peter23.bsky.social! My novel is in progress and it’s an honor to be working on it with Peter, whose vision for the story as a novel and possibly beyond aligns so well with mine 🌊
December 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Crazy excited about this and feel incredibly honored to be representing Jill. Her novel pages blew me away!
NOT TO BE ALL LINKEDIN ON THIS APP, but so excited to share that I’ve signed with UTA Publishing today, repped by @peter23.bsky.social! My novel is in progress and it’s an honor to be working on it with Peter, whose vision for the story as a novel and possibly beyond aligns so well with mine 🌊
December 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
NOT TO BE ALL LINKEDIN ON THIS APP, but so excited to share that I’ve signed with UTA Publishing today, repped by @peter23.bsky.social! My novel is in progress and it’s an honor to be working on it with Peter, whose vision for the story as a novel and possibly beyond aligns so well with mine 🌊
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Oh to be a goose shitting everywhere honking at anything that comes near me
December 3, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Oh to be a goose shitting everywhere honking at anything that comes near me
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A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
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The book I’m writing is titled HOME OUT THERE. It’s about black queer people leaving home to find home. I weave my own experiences with biographical chapters about three black queer poet ancestors: Langston Hughes, Pauli Murray and Audre Lorde.
Okay what is this b👀k?
October 23, 2025 at 10:55 PM
The book I’m writing is titled HOME OUT THERE. It’s about black queer people leaving home to find home. I weave my own experiences with biographical chapters about three black queer poet ancestors: Langston Hughes, Pauli Murray and Audre Lorde.
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this is just gutter racism
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
this is just gutter racism
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An essay for World AIDS Day and the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks's valiant act of resistance, an essay on quilts and solidarity, on stitching the fragments together.
Solidarity Stitches Us Together: Today, World AIDS Day, Is Also the 70th Anniversary of Rosa Park's Historic Protest
I saw two radically different versions of what a quilt could be yesterday and yet they spoke to the same issues. I caught the show Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
An essay for World AIDS Day and the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks's valiant act of resistance, an essay on quilts and solidarity, on stitching the fragments together.
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“…if you need to talk to your trying-to-be-down auntie about how a land acknowledgement at dinner isn’t enough, please do let her know she can simply text FREESAM to 53-555 and make a tax-deductible donation to actually change the material conditions of Natives.”
Also here: givebutter.com/c/9qW07O
Also here: givebutter.com/c/9qW07O
“Our ‘Thanksgiving meal’ is usually to the tune of gas station roller hotdogs and chips, supplemented with caffeine and cigarettes,” writes Lydia Grijalva, who heads to Alcatraz Island every year to greet the sunrise with Native comrades and elders. www.coyotemedia.org/thanksgiving...
Every Thanksgiving We Drive to Alcatraz. Except This Year
My Thanksgiving tradition includes Alcatraz Island, chain-smoking elders, and gas station hotdogs.
www.coyotemedia.org
November 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
“…if you need to talk to your trying-to-be-down auntie about how a land acknowledgement at dinner isn’t enough, please do let her know she can simply text FREESAM to 53-555 and make a tax-deductible donation to actually change the material conditions of Natives.”
Also here: givebutter.com/c/9qW07O
Also here: givebutter.com/c/9qW07O
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“Policy Violence”: ICE Raids & Shredding of Social Safety Net Are Linked, Says Bishop William Barber
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/26/bishop_william_barber
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/26/bishop_william_barber
Bishop William Barber: ICE Raids & Shredding of Safety Net Are Linked
Protests have erupted in North Carolina after federal agents arrested 370 people in immigration raids. On Monday, Bishop William Barber and other religious leaders gathered in Charlotte to demand an e...
www.democracynow.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
“Policy Violence”: ICE Raids & Shredding of Social Safety Net Are Linked, Says Bishop William Barber
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/26/bishop_william_barber
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/26/bishop_william_barber
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For at least a year, I've been returning to the question, how would you know when it's time to leave the US? For this piece, I asked trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer Americans who, with their families and partners, have recently fled the country, about how they made this decision and how they left.
When Is It Time to Flee?
Trans people and their families are facing hard questions and choices as threats to their safety and rights proliferate.
newrepublic.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
For at least a year, I've been returning to the question, how would you know when it's time to leave the US? For this piece, I asked trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer Americans who, with their families and partners, have recently fled the country, about how they made this decision and how they left.
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‘Inventions used by women – like cradles and bras – are rarely seen as technologies, and when women invent things men have tended to get the credit.’
Tess Little on how the ‘rape kit’ changed the prosecution of sexual assault.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tess Little on how the ‘rape kit’ changed the prosecution of sexual assault.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tess Little · Nutshell Crime Scenes: The Rape Kit
The rape kit is a cardboard box containing ordinary items anyone might own: envelopes, combs, swabs, nail clippers....
www.lrb.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
‘Inventions used by women – like cradles and bras – are rarely seen as technologies, and when women invent things men have tended to get the credit.’
Tess Little on how the ‘rape kit’ changed the prosecution of sexual assault.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tess Little on how the ‘rape kit’ changed the prosecution of sexual assault.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Scrolling through IG after a night of writing only for my 34As and I to catch strays
November 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Scrolling through IG after a night of writing only for my 34As and I to catch strays
Writing the novel. Put on some of Nat King Cole's dreamiest stuff ("Stardust", anyone? The tonal shifts alone, pound right here, Hoagy Carmichael) to get me in the mood for a character falling in love. Sipping Writer's Tears whiskey and delusionally falling in love with a parasocial crush instead
a woman is sitting at a table reading a newspaper and says " i speak italian "
ALT: a woman is sitting at a table reading a newspaper and says " i speak italian "
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Writing the novel. Put on some of Nat King Cole's dreamiest stuff ("Stardust", anyone? The tonal shifts alone, pound right here, Hoagy Carmichael) to get me in the mood for a character falling in love. Sipping Writer's Tears whiskey and delusionally falling in love with a parasocial crush instead
MY PRIME MINISTER
We need solutions, not scapegoats.
Stop attacking asylum seekers and tax the rich instead!
Stop attacking asylum seekers and tax the rich instead!
November 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
MY PRIME MINISTER
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if the telegraph can’t find a new buyer maybe it should just be towed out into the north sea and sunk
November 22, 2025 at 9:31 AM
if the telegraph can’t find a new buyer maybe it should just be towed out into the north sea and sunk
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Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵
November 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵
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THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
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This was a year ago:
October 30, 2025 at 12:09 AM
This was a year ago:
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It's not just what Andrew Cuomo is saying—it's who's funding him.
The single largest donor to a pro-Cuomo SuperPAC is Airbnb cofounder/board member Joe Gebbia, who promotes vile and racist messages about immigrants.
The single largest donor to a pro-Cuomo SuperPAC is Airbnb cofounder/board member Joe Gebbia, who promotes vile and racist messages about immigrants.
October 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
It's not just what Andrew Cuomo is saying—it's who's funding him.
The single largest donor to a pro-Cuomo SuperPAC is Airbnb cofounder/board member Joe Gebbia, who promotes vile and racist messages about immigrants.
The single largest donor to a pro-Cuomo SuperPAC is Airbnb cofounder/board member Joe Gebbia, who promotes vile and racist messages about immigrants.
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Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.
October 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.
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My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."
We Have to Move
"There are living, breathing people all around you who need your sense of decency to be made material. Don’t give up on them, or on you."
organizingmythoughts.org
October 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."
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Context for non-Chicagoans: The median list price for homes in Lincoln Park is $758,133 according to Zillow. It's also 80% white.
When they go after places with that much privilege, know that no one is safe. And the vulnerable are even more so.
When they go after places with that much privilege, know that no one is safe. And the vulnerable are even more so.
Federal immigration agents tear-gas Lakeview, raid Lincoln Park as feds focus on city’s affluent North Side
Lincoln Park Ald. Timmy Knudsen, 43rd, said masked immigration agents hit “every corner of the ward” he represents, one of the city’s wealthiest communities.
www.chicagotribune.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Context for non-Chicagoans: The median list price for homes in Lincoln Park is $758,133 according to Zillow. It's also 80% white.
When they go after places with that much privilege, know that no one is safe. And the vulnerable are even more so.
When they go after places with that much privilege, know that no one is safe. And the vulnerable are even more so.
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This is very funny: "Researchers struggle to come up with ways to make unsupervised AIs pro-human without hobbling their other capabilities – the ones governments and private investors back them for."
Like, if we made AI models prioritise being nice to humans they'd stop doing profitable stuff.
Like, if we made AI models prioritise being nice to humans they'd stop doing profitable stuff.
James Meek · Computers that want things
For all the fluency and synthetic friendliness of public-facing AI chatbots like ChatGPT, it seems important to remember...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 11:13 PM
This is very funny: "Researchers struggle to come up with ways to make unsupervised AIs pro-human without hobbling their other capabilities – the ones governments and private investors back them for."
Like, if we made AI models prioritise being nice to humans they'd stop doing profitable stuff.
Like, if we made AI models prioritise being nice to humans they'd stop doing profitable stuff.
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October 23, 2025 at 8:55 AM