Julie Phillips
@julie-phillips.com
"Opinion is the beginning of ignorance."
—Lao Tzu, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin
—Lao Tzu, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Netherlands had elections today and they want people to vote, so I got to cast my ballot in a windmill.
October 29, 2025 at 10:22 PM
The Netherlands had elections today and they want people to vote, so I got to cast my ballot in a windmill.
October 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Good energy at No Tyrants in Amsterdam. We had chickens and frogs (this one was passing out gummy frogs to the crowd). And we had WA governor Jay Inslee, who took a break from a climate conference to stand with us.
Success today, wherever you are! #NoKings
Success today, wherever you are! #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Good energy at No Tyrants in Amsterdam. We had chickens and frogs (this one was passing out gummy frogs to the crowd). And we had WA governor Jay Inslee, who took a break from a climate conference to stand with us.
Success today, wherever you are! #NoKings
Success today, wherever you are! #NoKings
Thank you to curator Sarah Shin & the designers of "Word for World: The Maps of @ursulakleguin.com" for letting me stop by while they were installing the show. The original maps weren't up yet but the fabric ones are beautiful. It opens Oct 10 in London.
October 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Thank you to curator Sarah Shin & the designers of "Word for World: The Maps of @ursulakleguin.com" for letting me stop by while they were installing the show. The original maps weren't up yet but the fabric ones are beautiful. It opens Oct 10 in London.
Ooh, I wish I'd seen that. This is from a section in the book on how, starting in the 1910s and '20s, contraception enabled the careers of mother-writers and mother-artists.
September 12, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Ooh, I wish I'd seen that. This is from a section in the book on how, starting in the 1910s and '20s, contraception enabled the careers of mother-writers and mother-artists.
"The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is—it's to imagine what is possible." --bell hooks, outside Theater Bellevue, Amsterdam
August 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM
"The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is—it's to imagine what is possible." --bell hooks, outside Theater Bellevue, Amsterdam
Here's me on Positive Obsession, Susana M. Morris's illuminating new bio of Octavia E. Butler.
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August 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Here's me on Positive Obsession, Susana M. Morris's illuminating new bio of Octavia E. Butler.
4columns.org/columns-4/cr...
4columns.org/columns-4/cr...
I just discovered a very guy-ish comedy YouTube thing in which the guest offered the host a ten-book reading list. When he introduced mine, host guy made a face like something died in the fridge. Guest guy said, "Well, I liked it."
You can't please everybody.
You can't please everybody.
August 12, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I just discovered a very guy-ish comedy YouTube thing in which the guest offered the host a ten-book reading list. When he introduced mine, host guy made a face like something died in the fridge. Guest guy said, "Well, I liked it."
You can't please everybody.
You can't please everybody.
Paging through Huss's National Eagle was a great education for me in what Ursula Le Guin was up against when she demonstrated for nuclear disarmament in 1962.
July 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Paging through Huss's National Eagle was a great education for me in what Ursula Le Guin was up against when she demonstrated for nuclear disarmament in 1962.
While I was on Åland for @archipelacon.org I got to see this boulder in a Mariehamn city park. It was carried from here to the Netherlands by glaciers 200,000 years ago, then returned to its place of origin in 2020 by an artist who claimed he had talked to it and that it was missing its home.
July 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
While I was on Åland for @archipelacon.org I got to see this boulder in a Mariehamn city park. It was carried from here to the Netherlands by glaciers 200,000 years ago, then returned to its place of origin in 2020 by an artist who claimed he had talked to it and that it was missing its home.
Le Guin in the news, h/t my mom
#ursulakleguin
#ursulakleguin
June 29, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Le Guin in the news, h/t my mom
#ursulakleguin
#ursulakleguin
Not #nokings in this constitutional monarchy, but definitely #notyrants today outside the US Consulate in Amsterdam.
My friends at @cleanclothes.bsky.social came out in support of garment workers subject to ICE raids in L.A.
@demsabroadnl.bsky.social
@demsabroad.bsky.social
My friends at @cleanclothes.bsky.social came out in support of garment workers subject to ICE raids in L.A.
@demsabroadnl.bsky.social
@demsabroad.bsky.social
June 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Not #nokings in this constitutional monarchy, but definitely #notyrants today outside the US Consulate in Amsterdam.
My friends at @cleanclothes.bsky.social came out in support of garment workers subject to ICE raids in L.A.
@demsabroadnl.bsky.social
@demsabroad.bsky.social
My friends at @cleanclothes.bsky.social came out in support of garment workers subject to ICE raids in L.A.
@demsabroadnl.bsky.social
@demsabroad.bsky.social
From a friend in Portland, OR.
Quote by @ursulakleguin.com; image design by Roger Peet @toosphexy.bsky.social
Quote by @ursulakleguin.com; image design by Roger Peet @toosphexy.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
From a friend in Portland, OR.
Quote by @ursulakleguin.com; image design by Roger Peet @toosphexy.bsky.social
Quote by @ursulakleguin.com; image design by Roger Peet @toosphexy.bsky.social
Happy mother's day! My daughter brought me these this morning and made us waffles.
Consider donating to a bail fund today, so more mothers and children can be together.
www.nationalbailout.org
Consider donating to a bail fund today, so more mothers and children can be together.
www.nationalbailout.org
May 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Happy mother's day! My daughter brought me these this morning and made us waffles.
Consider donating to a bail fund today, so more mothers and children can be together.
www.nationalbailout.org
Consider donating to a bail fund today, so more mothers and children can be together.
www.nationalbailout.org
If you're at #AWP you can find me on this virtual panel on writing & mothering, talking with the brilliant Angela Garbes (Essential Labor), Amanda Montei (Touched Out), Jazmina Barrera (Linea Nigra), and genius organizer Diana Xin. I learned so much.
awpwriter.org/AWP/Magazine... (reg. required)
awpwriter.org/AWP/Magazine... (reg. required)
March 26, 2025 at 3:14 AM
If you're at #AWP you can find me on this virtual panel on writing & mothering, talking with the brilliant Angela Garbes (Essential Labor), Amanda Montei (Touched Out), Jazmina Barrera (Linea Nigra), and genius organizer Diana Xin. I learned so much.
awpwriter.org/AWP/Magazine... (reg. required)
awpwriter.org/AWP/Magazine... (reg. required)
My friend Ania just sent me this photo of "And Say That My Glory Is in My Friends," the collected letters of Stanislaw Lem and @ursulakleguin.com, sadly available only in Polish for now.
February 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
My friend Ania just sent me this photo of "And Say That My Glory Is in My Friends," the collected letters of Stanislaw Lem and @ursulakleguin.com, sadly available only in Polish for now.
Tim Walz in Amsterdam tonight, talking about what governors can do right now
@demsabroad.bsky.social
@demsabroad.bsky.social
February 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Tim Walz in Amsterdam tonight, talking about what governors can do right now
@demsabroad.bsky.social
@demsabroad.bsky.social
How not to lose your ten-speed in the giant bike garage under Amsterdam Central Station? Our family's strategy is to park in the lane number of your birthday. It was fun to do it the other day on my way to an actual birthday drink.
January 23, 2025 at 10:08 AM
How not to lose your ten-speed in the giant bike garage under Amsterdam Central Station? Our family's strategy is to park in the lane number of your birthday. It was fun to do it the other day on my way to an actual birthday drink.
Charles A. Le Guin 1927 – 2025
Ursula dedicated The Left Hand of Darkness to Charles, "without whom it would not exist," and I'm sure that's true. Her writing and her activism owed much to his wisdom, generosity, and political good sense. He was loving and beloved, and he will be missed.
Ursula dedicated The Left Hand of Darkness to Charles, "without whom it would not exist," and I'm sure that's true. Her writing and her activism owed much to his wisdom, generosity, and political good sense. He was loving and beloved, and he will be missed.
January 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Charles A. Le Guin 1927 – 2025
Ursula dedicated The Left Hand of Darkness to Charles, "without whom it would not exist," and I'm sure that's true. Her writing and her activism owed much to his wisdom, generosity, and political good sense. He was loving and beloved, and he will be missed.
Ursula dedicated The Left Hand of Darkness to Charles, "without whom it would not exist," and I'm sure that's true. Her writing and her activism owed much to his wisdom, generosity, and political good sense. He was loving and beloved, and he will be missed.
Chapter 37 of the Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tzu, English version by @ursulakleguin.com
She left us seven years ago today.
She left us seven years ago today.
January 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Chapter 37 of the Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tzu, English version by @ursulakleguin.com
She left us seven years ago today.
She left us seven years ago today.
I was away when it came to Amsterdam! So I haven't seen it, but last year in New York I went to one of Toshi's amazing birthday shows and managed to get some merch.
January 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I was away when it came to Amsterdam! So I haven't seen it, but last year in New York I went to one of Toshi's amazing birthday shows and managed to get some merch.
It was just the second anniversary of a death in my family. Today's my last day in my fifties. And 30 years ago today I started a new life in Amsterdam.
I asked the Tarot about memory and drew the Empress, representing creative potential, delight & desire. She seems to be about looking forward...
I asked the Tarot about memory and drew the Empress, representing creative potential, delight & desire. She seems to be about looking forward...
January 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
It was just the second anniversary of a death in my family. Today's my last day in my fifties. And 30 years ago today I started a new life in Amsterdam.
I asked the Tarot about memory and drew the Empress, representing creative potential, delight & desire. She seems to be about looking forward...
I asked the Tarot about memory and drew the Empress, representing creative potential, delight & desire. She seems to be about looking forward...
I don't often teach, but here's a thing I'll be doing next month with my fellow biographer Mayukh Sen and the magazine OffAssignment.com
January 13, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I don't often teach, but here's a thing I'll be doing next month with my fellow biographer Mayukh Sen and the magazine OffAssignment.com
Sticker in Amsterdam, expressing feelings about the upcoming German elections
January 12, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Sticker in Amsterdam, expressing feelings about the upcoming German elections