Magika
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Palestine Will Live Forever
Palestine will live forever! 5 books for the ongoing struggle
Over two long, horrific years, the US-backed Israeli government has committed a genocide in Gaza. In response, people around the world have spoken up and taken action in solidarity with the peopl...
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October 21, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Palestine Will Live Forever
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Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
October 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
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We're kicking off your weekend with some Cuban SFF recommendations! How many of these authors have you read?
October 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
We're kicking off your weekend with some Cuban SFF recommendations! How many of these authors have you read?
I'm at a work conference in DC and had some time yesterday to check out a few indie bookstores. I picked up Potomac Fever: Reflections on the Nation's River by Charlotte Taylor Fryar at Lost City Books.
October 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I'm at a work conference in DC and had some time yesterday to check out a few indie bookstores. I picked up Potomac Fever: Reflections on the Nation's River by Charlotte Taylor Fryar at Lost City Books.
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🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
September 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
Currently reading The Coin by Yasmin Zaher
September 11, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Currently reading The Coin by Yasmin Zaher
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It’s honestly so disrespectful and irresponsible that the national media has mostly ignored the DC33 city worker strike in Philly so far. It’s a huge story with massive implications for the 6th biggest city in the country.
Hell, I’ll write about it for ya! Email me! www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...
Hell, I’ll write about it for ya! Email me! www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...
Philly is in its first municipal strike in the social media age. Does that affect how events are unfolding?
So far, the national press has largely ignored Philadelphia's first strike by city workers since 1986.
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July 7, 2025 at 9:37 AM
It’s honestly so disrespectful and irresponsible that the national media has mostly ignored the DC33 city worker strike in Philly so far. It’s a huge story with massive implications for the 6th biggest city in the country.
Hell, I’ll write about it for ya! Email me! www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...
Hell, I’ll write about it for ya! Email me! www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...
2025 Book #7: The Fatal Flying Affair (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #7) by T.E. Kinsey
Rating: 4.25
This has been my go-to cozy mystery series since 2018. It follows the adventures of Lady Hardcastle and her maid Florence Armstrong in their not-so-sleepy English village.
Rating: 4.25
This has been my go-to cozy mystery series since 2018. It follows the adventures of Lady Hardcastle and her maid Florence Armstrong in their not-so-sleepy English village.
June 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
2025 Book #7: The Fatal Flying Affair (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #7) by T.E. Kinsey
Rating: 4.25
This has been my go-to cozy mystery series since 2018. It follows the adventures of Lady Hardcastle and her maid Florence Armstrong in their not-so-sleepy English village.
Rating: 4.25
This has been my go-to cozy mystery series since 2018. It follows the adventures of Lady Hardcastle and her maid Florence Armstrong in their not-so-sleepy English village.
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I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost
I worry that not enough of a big deal is being made about how long-term the devastation of these budget cuts to our scientific and health agencies will be, beyond the absolute ruin they will cause in the acute period.
June 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost
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April 3 is officially We Need Diverse Books Day!!
The nonprofit org We Need Diverse Books works to promote books which reflect our world–and on their 10th anniversary, they're sharing resources on how to do the same. Check out their recommendations!
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The nonprofit org We Need Diverse Books works to promote books which reflect our world–and on their 10th anniversary, they're sharing resources on how to do the same. Check out their recommendations!
reactormag.com/celebrate-in...
This April, Celebrate the Inaugural “We Need Diverse Books Day” - Reactor
The non-profit We Need Diverse Books (WNDB) is turning ten this year, and to celebrate the occasion—as well as highlight the importance of reading books that reflect our beautifully diverse world—the ...
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March 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
April 3 is officially We Need Diverse Books Day!!
The nonprofit org We Need Diverse Books works to promote books which reflect our world–and on their 10th anniversary, they're sharing resources on how to do the same. Check out their recommendations!
reactormag.com/celebrate-in...
The nonprofit org We Need Diverse Books works to promote books which reflect our world–and on their 10th anniversary, they're sharing resources on how to do the same. Check out their recommendations!
reactormag.com/celebrate-in...
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Less pink clothing, pink hats, and flip sign energy and more agitating with walking stick energy.
March 5, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Less pink clothing, pink hats, and flip sign energy and more agitating with walking stick energy.
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For World Book Day, we've put together this bundle of books for kids and educators on learning and liberation for £35
World Book Day!
To celebrate World Book Day 2025, we're offering 50% off these four fantastic titles* for young people, educators, parents and all those dedicated to the struggle for a liberatory future!
Our World...
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March 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
For World Book Day, we've put together this bundle of books for kids and educators on learning and liberation for £35
Don't go. Instead, go be with your constituents.
If you were in Congress, what would you do for the State of the Union? What do you think Dems should do?
March 1, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Don't go. Instead, go be with your constituents.
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Just a quick reminder/request to treat today as a BIG CHAIN-STORE blackout. Your favorite, locally-owned & run comic shop, cafe, bookshop, or record store (my own fav)? They’re on our side. And one day of no business can really sting. Keep ‘em busy.
February 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Just a quick reminder/request to treat today as a BIG CHAIN-STORE blackout. Your favorite, locally-owned & run comic shop, cafe, bookshop, or record store (my own fav)? They’re on our side. And one day of no business can really sting. Keep ‘em busy.
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The 28th is one day.
You can make it many.
This can be a practice.
You can make it many.
This can be a practice.
February 27, 2025 at 1:53 AM
The 28th is one day.
You can make it many.
This can be a practice.
You can make it many.
This can be a practice.
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Thank you for loving libraries, for supporting libraries, for being library people, Audre Lorde & Toni Morrison 💜 Happy Birthday! This will always be your day ✨ 📖
February 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Thank you for loving libraries, for supporting libraries, for being library people, Audre Lorde & Toni Morrison 💜 Happy Birthday! This will always be your day ✨ 📖
2025 Book #6: Shut Up, This Is Serious by Carolina Ixta
Rating: 4.5/5
A tender coming-of-age novel that explores intergenerational grief, trauma, and resiliency through the lives of several high school-age youth in Oakland.
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Rating: 4.5/5
A tender coming-of-age novel that explores intergenerational grief, trauma, and resiliency through the lives of several high school-age youth in Oakland.
#magikabookreview
February 18, 2025 at 11:34 PM
2025 Book #6: Shut Up, This Is Serious by Carolina Ixta
Rating: 4.5/5
A tender coming-of-age novel that explores intergenerational grief, trauma, and resiliency through the lives of several high school-age youth in Oakland.
#magikabookreview
Rating: 4.5/5
A tender coming-of-age novel that explores intergenerational grief, trauma, and resiliency through the lives of several high school-age youth in Oakland.
#magikabookreview
2025 Book #5: Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel
Rating: 4.25/5
A retelling of the Sanskrit epic Ramayana from the perspective of its most vilified character, Queen Kaikeyi, who exiles her stepson Rama so her own son can assume the throne.
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Rating: 4.25/5
A retelling of the Sanskrit epic Ramayana from the perspective of its most vilified character, Queen Kaikeyi, who exiles her stepson Rama so her own son can assume the throne.
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February 14, 2025 at 10:11 PM
2025 Book #5: Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel
Rating: 4.25/5
A retelling of the Sanskrit epic Ramayana from the perspective of its most vilified character, Queen Kaikeyi, who exiles her stepson Rama so her own son can assume the throne.
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Rating: 4.25/5
A retelling of the Sanskrit epic Ramayana from the perspective of its most vilified character, Queen Kaikeyi, who exiles her stepson Rama so her own son can assume the throne.
#magikabookreview
2025 Book #4: What You Don't Know Will Make a Whole New World by Dorothy Lazard
Rating: 5/5
I really enjoyed reading this poignant coming-of-age memoir that showed what it was like growing up in the Bay Area as a young Black woman in the 60s and 70s.
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Rating: 5/5
I really enjoyed reading this poignant coming-of-age memoir that showed what it was like growing up in the Bay Area as a young Black woman in the 60s and 70s.
#magikabookreview
February 12, 2025 at 9:48 PM
2025 Book #4: What You Don't Know Will Make a Whole New World by Dorothy Lazard
Rating: 5/5
I really enjoyed reading this poignant coming-of-age memoir that showed what it was like growing up in the Bay Area as a young Black woman in the 60s and 70s.
#magikabookreview
Rating: 5/5
I really enjoyed reading this poignant coming-of-age memoir that showed what it was like growing up in the Bay Area as a young Black woman in the 60s and 70s.
#magikabookreview
Been thinking about civic engagement as a new parent. I came across the substack essay "The Childfree Are Ungovernable." In it, the author asserts that having kids is often "the end of radical sentiment and, in many ways, freedom itself." E.g., you can't risk your safety, you can't switch jobs, etc.
February 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Been thinking about civic engagement as a new parent. I came across the substack essay "The Childfree Are Ungovernable." In it, the author asserts that having kids is often "the end of radical sentiment and, in many ways, freedom itself." E.g., you can't risk your safety, you can't switch jobs, etc.
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It is very easy to call your representatives’ offices. They have to log your calls and the call numbers are meaningful. You don’t even have to try to convince anyone; just call and tell them your concerns. They are there to represent you. Let them know what that means. www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
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Use USAGov’s Contact Your Elected Officials tool to get contact information for your members of Congress, the president, and state and local officials.
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January 28, 2025 at 2:16 PM
It is very easy to call your representatives’ offices. They have to log your calls and the call numbers are meaningful. You don’t even have to try to convince anyone; just call and tell them your concerns. They are there to represent you. Let them know what that means. www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
Just requested that the Oakland Library purchase this book!
I just received notice that my local library approved @simkern.bsky.social's "Genocide Bad: Notes on Palestine, Jewish History, and Collective Liberation" for purchase.
I implore others to do the same! Reference material regarding the ongoing genocide is essential for our libraries to carry. 🆓🇵🇸
I implore others to do the same! Reference material regarding the ongoing genocide is essential for our libraries to carry. 🆓🇵🇸
January 24, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Just requested that the Oakland Library purchase this book!
2025 DNF Book #1: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The premise was interesting but it was too tedious/exhausting to read...
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The premise was interesting but it was too tedious/exhausting to read...
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January 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
2025 DNF Book #1: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The premise was interesting but it was too tedious/exhausting to read...
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The premise was interesting but it was too tedious/exhausting to read...
#magikabookreview
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In the world we are building, you belong here, and ICE does not.
Expose ICE. Tell on them everywhere you witness and encounter ICE.
We look out for each other.
TELL ON ICE.
Expose ICE. Tell on them everywhere you witness and encounter ICE.
We look out for each other.
TELL ON ICE.
January 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
In the world we are building, you belong here, and ICE does not.
Expose ICE. Tell on them everywhere you witness and encounter ICE.
We look out for each other.
TELL ON ICE.
Expose ICE. Tell on them everywhere you witness and encounter ICE.
We look out for each other.
TELL ON ICE.