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Meg Pillow
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Writer | Dr. | Project Manager for Roxane Gay | Co-editor The Audacity | 🌈😷| Rep’d by Alyssa Jennette | Free Palestine 🇵🇸
So about Sarah Kendzior’s suspension. I really would like for you to consider who in this moment has credibility, and who you should actually believe. Is it the folks banning Palestinians and trans ppl, or the scholar on authoritarianism?

As I said before, I’m with Sarah.
November 12, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Did Ross Douthat make me decide in my middle age that the opinions of cishet white men are useless and irrelevant?
November 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
7 days. 29,796 words cut. 29,293 new words written. 175 pages revised. 19 miles hiked in the West Virginia wilderness. And a thousand thanks to @ellenweeren.bsky.social
for the most restful and productive residency of my life.

Brief thread:
November 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I’m so very sorry. Josie was such a beauty, and I can tell she was beloved. Reminds me a little of my sweet Lucy, who passed in February 2022. She was so special to me. Sending you care and support.
October 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Treating myself to sushi and the opera tonight. Yes, it’s grocery store sushi that cost $15, and the opera is this $6 copy of Carmen. I’ve never been to the opera live, but with this, I have a front-row seat at the Met any time I want. Pretty good for a single mom.
October 24, 2025 at 1:16 AM
My mentor’s mentor died this week. I didn’t know Gurney Norman well, but I admired his beautiful writing and his tremendous generosity, which helped my mentor Frank X Walker become a writer, just as his mentorship did me. It is an honor to be one small part of their lineage of craft and mentorship.
October 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Yes, in fact, we are!
October 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
So for everyone who has said that comparisons between HIV and COVID-19 are inflammatory and irresponsible, I’m sharing this new article in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine that does just that and finds some clear parallels:

www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...
October 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
October 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
On October 17, one of my favorite people in the world is selling some of his incredible collection of vinyl, posters, and prints to benefit former Black Panther and political prisoner Dhoruba bin Wahad. If you’re interested, follow kingofthedancefloor on IG!
October 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Watching the financial gurus finally catch up to what us neurodivergents with solid pattern recognition skills have known since the beginning is really wild.

Better put down those chatbots and pick up some shovels because we’re about to get hit with a mountain of shit

www.ft.com/content/6cc8...
October 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I read this with more than a little glee. It’s so nice to see the tide turning and ppl calling this garbage tech exactly what it is
September 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Something we are going to have to deal with at some point is that our country’s entire landscape - politically, legally, technologically, culturally - is the product of white men getting their feelings hurt.

www.wired.com/story/silico...
September 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I disagree with this strongly but I don’t want to shame OP.

This mindset is what built the hyperindividualism that’s killing us.

We’re here to discover and learn, to make art, to help and love one another, to find meaning. Joy is an essential part of that but it’s not the reason for our lives.
September 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Mood
September 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
There is literally no better example of survivorship bias than this argument right here
September 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
There are over 4 million kids under 18 in my home state of Florida. If your response to this is “they’re getting what they’ve voted for” or “fuck them,” then I have some news for you about the kind of person you are
September 4, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Sir, objectively, this is a wild thing to say lol
August 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Just gonna drop this little nugget here, in case anyone is still clinging to the absurd idea that leftists are at fault for the outcome of the 2024 election.

www.thenation.com/article/poli...
August 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Just got this utterly gorgeous copy of @taylorbyas.bsky.social’s new book in the mail. Everyone should buy this. Happy Pub Day, my friend ❤️

Link in the thread!
August 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Oh look @jysexton.bsky.social it’s another case study
August 26, 2025 at 4:56 PM
More firmly convinced than ever after reading this that Trump and the others in power are a private equity firm and the U.S. is Toys R Us
August 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Thinking already is a luxury good. We’re already here.
August 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Finally listening to @swordsjew.bsky.social’s newest as I drive back from summer camp drop off, and it reminds me why I immediately distance myself from ppl who call other ppl “demons.”

Read this excellent book so you can underarms the full scope of the demented batshittery we’re up against
July 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Imagine having so much money that you could solve childhood poverty or pay off everyone’s medical debt or fund a cure for cancer and you choose this instead
July 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM