Ruth LeFaive
@ruthlefaive.bsky.social
Writer. Reader & Treasurer for Split Lip Magazine. Bookkeeper. she/her
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Fun fact: If you go to surj.org/category/pas... you can watch their past webinars like the one linked in my earlier post.
September 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Fun fact: If you go to surj.org/category/pas... you can watch their past webinars like the one linked in my earlier post.
I'm attending Swing Left's event, “Canvass for Prop 50 in West LA / Culver City / Mid City!” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/swingleft/ev...
Canvass for Prop 50 in West LA / Culver City / Mid City! · Swing Left
Come knock on doors in West LA / Culver / Mid City with us and help stop the Trump / MAGA agenda (exact location to be disclosed at least 7 days before the event).
Trump is trying to rig the midterm...
www.mobilize.us
September 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I'm attending Swing Left's event, “Canvass for Prop 50 in West LA / Culver City / Mid City!” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/swingleft/ev...
I'm attending Showing Up for Racial Justice's event, “Solidarity & Rapid Response: a 2-part training on showing up for immigrant communities” - sign up now www.mobilize.us/surj/event/8...
Solidarity & Rapid Response: a 2-part training on showing up for immigrant communities · Showing Up for Racial Justice
Across the country, immigrant communities are under attack and authoritarian forces are gaining ground. But there’s a growing movement of people ready to take action with clarity, courage, and discipl...
www.mobilize.us
July 30, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I'm attending Showing Up for Racial Justice's event, “Solidarity & Rapid Response: a 2-part training on showing up for immigrant communities” - sign up now www.mobilize.us/surj/event/8...
I'm attending Showing Up for Racial Justice's event, ““Calling in, not out: a skill for white people to organize our own” with Loretta Ross” - sign up now www.mobilize.us/surj/event/8...
“Calling in, not out: a skill for white people to organize our own” with Loretta Ross · Showing Up for Racial Justice
“Calling in” versus “calling out” isn’t just a one-on-one practice, it’s a strategic orientation to help us defeat authoritarianism and build the world we need. As millions of people across the countr...
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June 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I'm attending Showing Up for Racial Justice's event, ““Calling in, not out: a skill for white people to organize our own” with Loretta Ross” - sign up now www.mobilize.us/surj/event/8...
Don't be jealous, but I never watched Grey's Anatomy or any version of The L Word. Which means I've now got 422 hours of TV to look forward to. That's 17.5 days or just over a month of hermitizing, if I sleep.
a woman in a lab coat is holding a trophy and says up top !
ALT: a woman in a lab coat is holding a trophy and says up top !
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June 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Don't be jealous, but I never watched Grey's Anatomy or any version of The L Word. Which means I've now got 422 hours of TV to look forward to. That's 17.5 days or just over a month of hermitizing, if I sleep.
Just now seeing this. I'm so grateful! Thank you! And I'm super honored being in company with the marvelous & lovely @livesinpages.bsky.social.
Additionally, our editor often assigns these stories in her college creative writing classes, from @splitlipthemag.bsky.social:
Dress Yourself by @livesinpages.bsky.social: splitlipthemag.com/flash/0318/c...
Clean Girls by @ruthlefaive.bsky.social: splitlipthemag.com/flash/1117/r...
Dress Yourself by @livesinpages.bsky.social: splitlipthemag.com/flash/0318/c...
Clean Girls by @ruthlefaive.bsky.social: splitlipthemag.com/flash/1117/r...
Dress Yourself — Split Lip Magazine
Watch out for shirts with horizontal stripes, Abuelita says, because you’re too fat and it looks bad. Best to choose shirts with more slimming patterns. Vertical lines. Solid blacks, nothing lighter t...
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June 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Just now seeing this. I'm so grateful! Thank you! And I'm super honored being in company with the marvelous & lovely @livesinpages.bsky.social.
I feel so nourished by this essay. Gorgeous, @maureenlangloss.bsky.social.
Ten years ago I wrote a rambling piece about things I found moving that spring. It features a tiny moment with Pope Francis. Feels relevant again today. Thank you for reading. The photo is my mom, my kid, my cousin Joe, & me awaiting the arrival of the Pope www.maureenlangloss.com/meditations-...
April 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I feel so nourished by this essay. Gorgeous, @maureenlangloss.bsky.social.
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⚠️The time of this protest has changed to 11 am⚠️ Meet you there peeps!
April 16, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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NEW: It's time to #FundLibraries.
As we fight for the long-term future of federal funding for libraries in Congress & in the courts, it's critical that our elected officials CONTINUE to provide annual funding.
Take action, tell your House Rep to fund libraries in FY26: bit.ly/FundLibraries26House
As we fight for the long-term future of federal funding for libraries in Congress & in the courts, it's critical that our elected officials CONTINUE to provide annual funding.
Take action, tell your House Rep to fund libraries in FY26: bit.ly/FundLibraries26House
April 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
NEW: It's time to #FundLibraries.
As we fight for the long-term future of federal funding for libraries in Congress & in the courts, it's critical that our elected officials CONTINUE to provide annual funding.
Take action, tell your House Rep to fund libraries in FY26: bit.ly/FundLibraries26House
As we fight for the long-term future of federal funding for libraries in Congress & in the courts, it's critical that our elected officials CONTINUE to provide annual funding.
Take action, tell your House Rep to fund libraries in FY26: bit.ly/FundLibraries26House
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Stop the cuts! Hands off Culver City this Saturday April 19th.
#HandsOff #March #Protest
#Resist #protesta #HandsOff2025
#Indivisible #LosAngeles #California #CulverCity #CityHall
#HandsOff #March #Protest
#Resist #protesta #HandsOff2025
#Indivisible #LosAngeles #California #CulverCity #CityHall
I am going to the Culver City event as of now. www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
Hands Off! Our Democracy, Stop the Cuts Rally in Culver City · Indivisible
Join your friends and neighbors at Culver City City Hall to demand that this administration keep their hands off our democracy, free speech, due process, etc and stop the stop the cuts to Medicaid, So...
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April 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Stop the cuts! Hands off Culver City this Saturday April 19th.
#HandsOff #March #Protest
#Resist #protesta #HandsOff2025
#Indivisible #LosAngeles #California #CulverCity #CityHall
#HandsOff #March #Protest
#Resist #protesta #HandsOff2025
#Indivisible #LosAngeles #California #CulverCity #CityHall
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Hands Off Protest Boston!
April 5, 2025 Boston Common
April 5, 2025 Boston Common
April 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Hands Off Protest Boston!
April 5, 2025 Boston Common
April 5, 2025 Boston Common
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legit this system is AMAZING, different author friends of mine who've struggled for years to maintain a daily writing routine now text each other all excited to report once they've finished "The Haylie" for the day
Feels like a good time to soft launch MY method for writing, which is: 125 words a day, every day, no excuses, but also no pressure to produce more than that. I have a demanding day job and not a lot of time but I've added >20,000 words to my novel in 2025 using this method.
Less than a year after a full-throated embrace of AI, NaNoWriMo is shutting down :
April 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
legit this system is AMAZING, different author friends of mine who've struggled for years to maintain a daily writing routine now text each other all excited to report once they've finished "The Haylie" for the day
I wish Mom had lived to see this heartening act of love by @corybooker.com. I haven't cried much since she died—she's out of pain, after all. But the thought of her missing this brings tears. Imagining how she would be inspired by Sen. Booker's dedication makes me ache with missing her. #resist
April 1, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I wish Mom had lived to see this heartening act of love by @corybooker.com. I haven't cried much since she died—she's out of pain, after all. But the thought of her missing this brings tears. Imagining how she would be inspired by Sen. Booker's dedication makes me ache with missing her. #resist
"We the people are powerful. We are strong!" - Senator Cory Booker 11:29 a.m. PT, 20 hours in
April 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
"We the people are powerful. We are strong!" - Senator Cory Booker 11:29 a.m. PT, 20 hours in
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#HandsOff #March #Protest
#GoodTrouble #CoryBooker #Resist #April5th #protesta #inmigracion #redada #marcha #marche
#GoodTrouble #CoryBooker #Resist #April5th #protesta #inmigracion #redada #marcha #marche
18 hours and 45 minutes in, and Cory Booker is still going strong! 🔥
April 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt.
Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.
Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.
February 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt.
Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.
Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.
@benloory.bsky.social thanks for boosting that question!
February 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
@benloory.bsky.social thanks for boosting that question!
Friends, Any recommendations for U.S. newspapers whose subscription fees don't support fascism? Enjoying sources like The Guardian, but want a domestic perspective, too. Would like to support actual journalism.
February 5, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Friends, Any recommendations for U.S. newspapers whose subscription fees don't support fascism? Enjoying sources like The Guardian, but want a domestic perspective, too. Would like to support actual journalism.
For the first time since 2013, I'm off Duotrope. Doing all I can to pay off this veterinarian debt. There's a support group for this, right?
February 5, 2025 at 7:32 PM
For the first time since 2013, I'm off Duotrope. Doing all I can to pay off this veterinarian debt. There's a support group for this, right?
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A perfect story for this sad Saturday in the US.
New on our mainpage: “Upon Falling Through a Skylight in an Abandoned Building in the Mission District in San Francisco in the Early Nineties (Roughly)," by Andrew Roe: wigleaf.com
w i g l e a f : (very) short fiction
An online journal of very short fictions -- under 1000 words.
wigleaf.com
February 1, 2025 at 7:12 PM
A perfect story for this sad Saturday in the US.
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No one's blaming Democrats for causing this crisis, but yes, many of them are failing to meet this moment.
One Democratic senator could bring the chamber to a halt. House Dems can go to fed agencies being gutted by Musk with cameras in tow. Governors can push back. State AGs can bring lawsuits.
One Democratic senator could bring the chamber to a halt. House Dems can go to fed agencies being gutted by Musk with cameras in tow. Governors can push back. State AGs can bring lawsuits.
February 1, 2025 at 11:04 PM
No one's blaming Democrats for causing this crisis, but yes, many of them are failing to meet this moment.
One Democratic senator could bring the chamber to a halt. House Dems can go to fed agencies being gutted by Musk with cameras in tow. Governors can push back. State AGs can bring lawsuits.
One Democratic senator could bring the chamber to a halt. House Dems can go to fed agencies being gutted by Musk with cameras in tow. Governors can push back. State AGs can bring lawsuits.
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On May 10, 1933, Nazis burned the library of The Institute for Sexual Science.
The Institute was founded by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld. Its community clinic pioneered healthcare for queer, trans, & intersex people.
The Institute was targeted & attacked as part of a Nazi government censorship program.
The Institute was founded by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld. Its community clinic pioneered healthcare for queer, trans, & intersex people.
The Institute was targeted & attacked as part of a Nazi government censorship program.
February 2, 2025 at 12:10 AM
On May 10, 1933, Nazis burned the library of The Institute for Sexual Science.
The Institute was founded by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld. Its community clinic pioneered healthcare for queer, trans, & intersex people.
The Institute was targeted & attacked as part of a Nazi government censorship program.
The Institute was founded by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld. Its community clinic pioneered healthcare for queer, trans, & intersex people.
The Institute was targeted & attacked as part of a Nazi government censorship program.
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It feels worth emphasizing that these websites being taken down aren’t some federal worker’s hobby, or an agency’s side project.
They exist as matters of policy, some directly mandated in law, some through government contracts.
Taking them down is fundamentally illegitimate and autocratic.
They exist as matters of policy, some directly mandated in law, some through government contracts.
Taking them down is fundamentally illegitimate and autocratic.
January 31, 2025 at 9:39 PM
It feels worth emphasizing that these websites being taken down aren’t some federal worker’s hobby, or an agency’s side project.
They exist as matters of policy, some directly mandated in law, some through government contracts.
Taking them down is fundamentally illegitimate and autocratic.
They exist as matters of policy, some directly mandated in law, some through government contracts.
Taking them down is fundamentally illegitimate and autocratic.