Oona Patrick
LightNews LightNews
banner
oonapatrick.bsky.social
Oona Patrick
@oonapatrick.bsky.social
2.2K followers 970 following 120 posts
Writer of essays and memoir #cnf. I get mad about books a lot. Reskeeting cheese news and good birds. Summers: Disquiet Int'l, Lisbon 🇵🇹. she/her https://linktr.ee/oonapatrick
Posts Replies Media Videos
oonapatrick.bsky.social
From Barry Petchesky: "Yesterday I learned that Minnesotans call doing donuts in a car 'whipping shitties'"
November 21, 2025 at 3:34 AM
oonapatrick.bsky.social
Thinking about António de Oliveira Salazar "ruling in privacy" after cerebral hemorrhage and coma...
An aged António de Oliveira Salazar (fascist dictator of Portugal) and a group of students three months after being discharged from the hospital in 1969 "Salazar lived for a further 23 months. After he emerged from over one month of coma and unexpectedly recovered lucidity, his intimates did not tell him he had been removed from power, instead allowing him to 'rule' in privacy until his death on 27 July 1970."
September 2, 2025 at 1:34 AM
oonapatrick.bsky.social
Remembering Portugal's great anti-fascist writer today with a talk by her biographer in Lisbon. I was fortunate to meet her once; what a force this woman was.
Photo of the cover of A Desobediente [The Disobedient], the biography of Maria Teresa Horta by Patrícia Reis, 7th edition. Close up photo of Maria Teresa.
June 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
oonapatrick.bsky.social
Sometimes disquiet can be very funny. Luísa Costa Gomes reading a hilarious story involving a salmon-colored room with Bruna Dantas Lobato at Disquiet Lisbon #Portugal. #Disquiet25
Writers and translators Luísa Costa Gomes and Bruna Dantas Lobato on stage in Lisbon laughing during a particularly dry moment in Gomes's short story.
June 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
oonapatrick.bsky.social
Protest in support of the Three Marias in New York, July 1973. This is less than a year before the downfall of the Portuguese dictatorship. Photo via photohistorylx on Insta.
Two women holding a sign reading "Do not travel to a country that jails women for writing about our lives. Free the Three Marias. Release NEW PORTUGUESE LETTERS. First international Feminist Protest Action. ♀️" July 1973, New York City. Less than a year before the downfall of the Portuguese dictatorship.
February 14, 2025 at 3:04 AM
oonapatrick.bsky.social
Obituary justice for Portugal's great anti-fascista, Maria Teresa Horta! With several quotes from an interview I did with her in Lisbon, translated by Dean Ellis. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/w...
Cover of Novas Cartas Portuguesas (New Portuguese Letters) by the Three Marias of Portugal, featuring a 1970s photo of the revolutionary, anti-fascista authors, Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta, and Maria Velho da Costa. They are looking dangerous in their huge sunglasses. 2024 Portuguese edition from Todavia.
February 13, 2025 at 11:13 PM
oonapatrick.bsky.social
Don't have much good to say these days, but here are some recent day job beauties I'm proud of working on. #kidlit
Three picture books for children: Summer Is Here by Renée Watson, I Got the Spooky Spirit by Connie Schofield-Morrison, and Go, Wilma, Go: Wilma Rudolph, from Athlete to Activist by Amira Rose Davis and Michael G. Long.
November 15, 2024 at 12:53 AM
oonapatrick.bsky.social
Ninth-century notebook putting a bird on it
The Scribe A hedge of trees surrounds me a blackbird sings sweetly Above my well-ruled book The birds sing far and wide In a green cloak of leafy branches The cuckoo sings her lovely chant Protect me, Lord, on Judgement Day! Happily I write beneath the trees (written in Priscian's Latin Grammar by an Irish monk at St Gallen, Switzerland, mid 9th century)
December 21, 2023 at 6:33 PM
oonapatrick.bsky.social
A mobile one: www.capecodhealth.org/medical-serv...
October 13, 2023 at 2:46 AM