Leanna James Blackwell
@ljblackwell.bsky.social
Writer, editor, playwright, MFA faculty. Co-founding editor of litmag Multiplicity, producing member of Northampton Playwrights Lab. Half Californian, half New Englander, aspiring resident of Dingle, Ireland! Forthcoming novel, The Sinners of Santa Ava.
To all who celebrate this historic day
June 19, 2025 at 12:38 PM
To all who celebrate this historic day
Can’t say I ever paid much attention to Flag Day (despite the efforts of my primary school) - but this one is different. Boston PRIDE and No Kings March: I’ll be there with my fam!
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NO KINGS - Boston Pride · No Kings
June 14th has been called as the next 50501 and Indivisible National Day of Action. This is Trump’s birthday and it is also the date of Boston Pride.
[Mass 50501](http://mass50501.com) invites other...
www.mobilize.us
May 7, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Can’t say I ever paid much attention to Flag Day (despite the efforts of my primary school) - but this one is different. Boston PRIDE and No Kings March: I’ll be there with my fam!
www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
A very good day
April 5, 2025 at 9:25 PM
A very good day
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Listen. I believe ardently in criticizing our leaders for their failures and inaction but if you refuse to acknowledge their efforts when they do make them and if you refuse to recognize a step in the right direction, you don’t really want change. You just want to complain.
Right. The most salient point is that he could have done this over the CR, but now he's just using the energy of the filibuster without its power.
April 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Listen. I believe ardently in criticizing our leaders for their failures and inaction but if you refuse to acknowledge their efforts when they do make them and if you refuse to recognize a step in the right direction, you don’t really want change. You just want to complain.
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CHAPTER 28
Y’all. I truly cannot recommend this book enough. The one W I L D chapter about Sheryl Sandberg is alone worth every ding dang penny.
Some notes on Careless People (all the free copies have been taken) audacity.substack.com/p/notes-on-c...
March 18, 2025 at 12:25 AM
CHAPTER 28
Friday is just the beginning, friends.
February 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Friday is just the beginning, friends.
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Look at this leader. Lift her up.
Colorado's Rep Brittany Pettersen (D) flew cross-country with her one-month-old to vote against the GOP budget tonight. Dems ended up one vote short. Pettersen was part of an unsuccessful bipartisan push to allow new mothers to vote remotely. #copolitics
February 26, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Look at this leader. Lift her up.
Know Your Rights (Remastered) by The Clash on Apple Music
Song · 1982 · Duration 3:40
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February 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
“Goodness is viral…”
Maybe corny but it was helpful for me to hear Henry Rollins saying "this is not time to be dismayed, this is punk rock time, this is what Joe Strummer trained you for... You can be thunderous in your own life, to the eight people around you. That rubs off... Goodness is viral"
February 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
“Goodness is viral…”
Good advice
End your WP subscription if you haven't already done so;
February 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Good advice
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It's so important to do what @tupelopress.bsky.social is doing here. At Literary Mama, we're not going to compromise on these values, either. As Tupelo Press puts it (in alt text as well), "compliance with the new regulations would be immoral."
This is how you do it. Thank you, @tupelopress.bsky.social!!!
February 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
It's so important to do what @tupelopress.bsky.social is doing here. At Literary Mama, we're not going to compromise on these values, either. As Tupelo Press puts it (in alt text as well), "compliance with the new regulations would be immoral."
I just subscribed to 5 Calls Newsletter and downloaded the app, which provides templates to use when calling our representatives about the issues we care about. It’s really helpful when wondering where to begin amid the onslaught coming at us every day. Time to get calling…!
buttondown.com/5calls
buttondown.com/5calls
5 Calls Newsletter
The 5 Calls Newsletter breaks down what your representatives are voting on and what you can do to influence them. From your friends at 5 Calls
buttondown.com
February 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I just subscribed to 5 Calls Newsletter and downloaded the app, which provides templates to use when calling our representatives about the issues we care about. It’s really helpful when wondering where to begin amid the onslaught coming at us every day. Time to get calling…!
buttondown.com/5calls
buttondown.com/5calls
Good to know, Split Lip!
Do you write stories between 1000 and 3000 words? We've been receiving fewer submissions in our Fiction category lately, so it's a good time to hit us up. We're open for free subs until the end of November & for Tip Jar subs until Dec 15. Thank you! https://buff.ly/32k496o
November 21, 2024 at 9:23 PM
Good to know, Split Lip!
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After last night’s National Book Awards, not to mention the last few weeks, I revisited this 2018 piece by @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social about making and consuming books and art during difficult, world-on-fire times.
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The World’s on Fire. Can We Still Talk About Books? - Electric Literature
The role of literature in a year when every week brought a new atrocity
electricliterature.com
November 21, 2024 at 4:38 PM
After last night’s National Book Awards, not to mention the last few weeks, I revisited this 2018 piece by @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social about making and consuming books and art during difficult, world-on-fire times.
electricliterature.com/the-worlds-o...
electricliterature.com/the-worlds-o...
Yet again, Sari Botton’s Oldster Magazine blows me away with another gorgeous essay. Starina Catchatoorian’s piece about being a musician, a teacher, and a midlife woman without children pierced my heart: open.substack.com/pub/oldster/...
January 15, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Yet again, Sari Botton’s Oldster Magazine blows me away with another gorgeous essay. Starina Catchatoorian’s piece about being a musician, a teacher, and a midlife woman without children pierced my heart: open.substack.com/pub/oldster/...
Happy New Year! Wishing everyone a year of peace, good books, warm friendships, creative discoveries, and all the moments of joy you can stand ✨
January 1, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Happy New Year! Wishing everyone a year of peace, good books, warm friendships, creative discoveries, and all the moments of joy you can stand ✨
Thank you, @rokwon.bsky.social!
hello! I've compiled a list of 2024 books I'm anticipating from women of color & here it is, a bonanza of novels, essay collections, memoirs, & more
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75 Books By Women of Color to Read in 2024 - Electric Literature
We couldn’t be more excited for these highly anticipated books to hit shelves in the coming year
electricliterature.com
December 28, 2023 at 7:24 PM
Thank you, @rokwon.bsky.social!
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24 hours starts now. please don’t cross our picket line.
a note to Washington Post readers: On Dec. 7, we ask you to respect our walkout by not crossing the picket line: For 24 hours, please do not engage with any Post content. That includes our print + online news stories, podcasts, videos, games and recipes.
A letter to our readers
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December 7, 2023 at 5:00 AM
24 hours starts now. please don’t cross our picket line.
Solnit is always brilliant and she nails it here.
Billionaires “are behemoths, and they mostly use their outsize power in ugly ways – both in how much they consume and how much they influence the world’s climate response” - brilliant piece here by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Billionaires are out of touch and much too powerful. The planet is in trouble | Rebecca Solnit
The 1% aren’t just the biggest climate wreckers, they also greatly influence how the world responds to the crisis, says Guardian US columnist Rebecca Solnit
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November 21, 2023 at 5:45 PM
Solnit is always brilliant and she nails it here.
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"With the alcohol gone from my life, the rageful feelings sprang up. Over time, though, the urge to suppress my anger has weakened. I’ve finally reached the age where I know that I can’t “good” my way into being loved." - Melissa Chadburn in Oldster Magazine.
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The Aswang and Me
Menopause, hormone treatment, and sobriety put Melissa Chadburn in touch with her righteous rage—and helped her identify with a mythic creature from her Filipino heritage.
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October 23, 2023 at 11:49 AM
"With the alcohol gone from my life, the rageful feelings sprang up. Over time, though, the urge to suppress my anger has weakened. I’ve finally reached the age where I know that I can’t “good” my way into being loved." - Melissa Chadburn in Oldster Magazine.
oldster.substack.com/p/the-aswang...
oldster.substack.com/p/the-aswang...
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In case folx in here are on the Instagram, I'm doing an IG Live with author Kim Johnson on 8/30 at 6pm ET! My handle is jbakernyc on the Gram. We'll be talking #criminaljustice, #writing for Young Readers, and #publishing in these wacky times.
August 28, 2023 at 3:10 PM
In case folx in here are on the Instagram, I'm doing an IG Live with author Kim Johnson on 8/30 at 6pm ET! My handle is jbakernyc on the Gram. We'll be talking #criminaljustice, #writing for Young Readers, and #publishing in these wacky times.
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Hello all--would love your help in advertising a t-t position in Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at my institution, which is looking for a scholar working on gender in the global South. JUST authorized & an early deadline: 15 Sept!
https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12619
https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12619
Assistant Professor in the Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
The Committee on Degrees in Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University seeks to appoint a tenure-track assistant professor in Women, Gender, and Sexuality whose research focuses on gender in t...
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August 9, 2023 at 10:14 PM
Hello all--would love your help in advertising a t-t position in Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at my institution, which is looking for a scholar working on gender in the global South. JUST authorized & an early deadline: 15 Sept!
https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12619
https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12619