Shaay Gallagher-Starr
@shaaygs.bsky.social
Progressive leftist
🏳️⚧️&🏳️🌈 positive
Supporting the wellbeing of humans and non-humans the best I can.
Substack: https://shaay.substack.com?r=1swi68&utm_medium=ios
🏳️⚧️&🏳️🌈 positive
Supporting the wellbeing of humans and non-humans the best I can.
Substack: https://shaay.substack.com?r=1swi68&utm_medium=ios
📚💙 # currently reading Snake-Eater, by T. Kingfisher
“Maybe all kitchens were the same, when you got down to it, little fragments of some ur-kitchen, where the first grandmothers had cooked on flat rocks and turned mammoth bones into soup.”
“Maybe all kitchens were the same, when you got down to it, little fragments of some ur-kitchen, where the first grandmothers had cooked on flat rocks and turned mammoth bones into soup.”
November 15, 2025 at 3:25 AM
📚💙 # currently reading Snake-Eater, by T. Kingfisher
“Maybe all kitchens were the same, when you got down to it, little fragments of some ur-kitchen, where the first grandmothers had cooked on flat rocks and turned mammoth bones into soup.”
“Maybe all kitchens were the same, when you got down to it, little fragments of some ur-kitchen, where the first grandmothers had cooked on flat rocks and turned mammoth bones into soup.”
@tkingfisher.com 1/4 into Snake-Eater and loving it. Already feel torn between devouring it, and needing it to last longer 📚💙 Thank you!
November 15, 2025 at 3:20 AM
@tkingfisher.com 1/4 into Snake-Eater and loving it. Already feel torn between devouring it, and needing it to last longer 📚💙 Thank you!
Reposted by Shaay Gallagher-Starr
If you know this, then you know me. 😂❤️
June 7, 2025 at 5:49 AM
If you know this, then you know me. 😂❤️
@levarburton.bsky.social Mr. Burton, I just saw a conversation between you and Laurence Fishburne, about why you keep Kunta Kinte’s chains on your wall. Your story made a deep impact and shifted my perspective. Thank you for your fierce honesty, your anger, and your willingness to connect & teach
June 19, 2025 at 3:11 AM
@levarburton.bsky.social Mr. Burton, I just saw a conversation between you and Laurence Fishburne, about why you keep Kunta Kinte’s chains on your wall. Your story made a deep impact and shifted my perspective. Thank you for your fierce honesty, your anger, and your willingness to connect & teach
💙📚 Booksky, let’s start a #ReadThisNotThat thread for authors who have turned out to be disappointing human beings - however y’all define that. For me, JKR & Gaiman are on that list. Recommendations follow:
March 27, 2025 at 2:18 AM
💙📚 Booksky, let’s start a #ReadThisNotThat thread for authors who have turned out to be disappointing human beings - however y’all define that. For me, JKR & Gaiman are on that list. Recommendations follow:
@sgj.bsky.social reading The Buffalo Hunter Hunters has hollowed me out. I wonder if writing it has done the same to you.
The news provides the epilogue: the cruelty & brutality that birthed the US is ending it, too. There is no real answer to Good Stab’s question.
The news provides the epilogue: the cruelty & brutality that birthed the US is ending it, too. There is no real answer to Good Stab’s question.
March 22, 2025 at 11:26 PM
@sgj.bsky.social reading The Buffalo Hunter Hunters has hollowed me out. I wonder if writing it has done the same to you.
The news provides the epilogue: the cruelty & brutality that birthed the US is ending it, too. There is no real answer to Good Stab’s question.
The news provides the epilogue: the cruelty & brutality that birthed the US is ending it, too. There is no real answer to Good Stab’s question.
@stephenking.bsky.social thank you! Just finished listening to you read Bag of Bones. 21 hours of storytelling was an invaluable mental health boost. Loved the ways in which things were never quite what they seemed at 1st glimpse, or at the 2nd. Racism as a type of original sin was compelling, too.
February 6, 2025 at 10:28 AM
@stephenking.bsky.social thank you! Just finished listening to you read Bag of Bones. 21 hours of storytelling was an invaluable mental health boost. Loved the ways in which things were never quite what they seemed at 1st glimpse, or at the 2nd. Racism as a type of original sin was compelling, too.
@tkingfisher.com I both love and envy you for this image, in this story. It’s perfect, and I’m glad I got to read it. I 👀 what you did there.
December 29, 2024 at 1:07 AM
@tkingfisher.com I both love and envy you for this image, in this story. It’s perfect, and I’m glad I got to read it. I 👀 what you did there.
Idc who you are. If you have a pulse and a sense of humor, go read this
www.tumblr.com/gallusrostro...
www.tumblr.com/gallusrostro...
The Turkey Story
So it’s 2001, and my family drives from fucking California and like three blizzards to get to Ohio for thanksgiving, becuase my grandparents are moving into a nursing home and it’s their last holiday…
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December 14, 2024 at 8:58 PM
Idc who you are. If you have a pulse and a sense of humor, go read this
www.tumblr.com/gallusrostro...
www.tumblr.com/gallusrostro...
💙📚Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 17/20 #booksky #books #bookchallenge
December 14, 2024 at 8:49 PM
💙📚Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 17/20 #booksky #books #bookchallenge
💙📚Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 16/20 #booksky #books #bookchallenge
December 14, 2024 at 8:49 PM
💙📚Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 16/20 #booksky #books #bookchallenge
💙📚Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 15/20
#booksky #books #bookchallenge
#booksky #books #bookchallenge
December 14, 2024 at 8:48 PM
💙📚Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 15/20
#booksky #books #bookchallenge
#booksky #books #bookchallenge
💙📚Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 14/20
#booksky #books #bookchallenge
@tkingfisher.com
#booksky #books #bookchallenge
@tkingfisher.com
December 14, 2024 at 8:46 PM
💙📚Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 14/20
#booksky #books #bookchallenge
@tkingfisher.com
#booksky #books #bookchallenge
@tkingfisher.com
#WitchSky
Christianity - the unkind, commercialized, death cult type - can feel relentless this time of year.
When it gets too much, I hum this to stay calm and grounded: www.womenofthewater.org/wow-blog/sav...
Gratitude to Wyndreth Berginsdottir 💙
Christianity - the unkind, commercialized, death cult type - can feel relentless this time of year.
When it gets too much, I hum this to stay calm and grounded: www.womenofthewater.org/wow-blog/sav...
Gratitude to Wyndreth Berginsdottir 💙
Wyndreth Berginsdottir’s Savage Daughter — Women of the Water
Some of us here at Women of the Water have been singing this song around our kitchen tables and in circles of women online for the past year. It’s become a bit of an anthem at times swelling our heart...
www.womenofthewater.org
December 14, 2024 at 8:18 PM
#WitchSky
Christianity - the unkind, commercialized, death cult type - can feel relentless this time of year.
When it gets too much, I hum this to stay calm and grounded: www.womenofthewater.org/wow-blog/sav...
Gratitude to Wyndreth Berginsdottir 💙
Christianity - the unkind, commercialized, death cult type - can feel relentless this time of year.
When it gets too much, I hum this to stay calm and grounded: www.womenofthewater.org/wow-blog/sav...
Gratitude to Wyndreth Berginsdottir 💙
#weekendplans
Get out in the National Forest, ostensibly to find a tree and greens for Solstice. Mostly to get our family out into the forest 🌲
Gather fallen Usnea for medicine
Store food for the apocalypse
Love on my people
Read banned books 📚 💙
Wrap gifts 🎁
What are you up to?
Get out in the National Forest, ostensibly to find a tree and greens for Solstice. Mostly to get our family out into the forest 🌲
Gather fallen Usnea for medicine
Store food for the apocalypse
Love on my people
Read banned books 📚 💙
Wrap gifts 🎁
What are you up to?
December 14, 2024 at 8:08 PM
#weekendplans
Get out in the National Forest, ostensibly to find a tree and greens for Solstice. Mostly to get our family out into the forest 🌲
Gather fallen Usnea for medicine
Store food for the apocalypse
Love on my people
Read banned books 📚 💙
Wrap gifts 🎁
What are you up to?
Get out in the National Forest, ostensibly to find a tree and greens for Solstice. Mostly to get our family out into the forest 🌲
Gather fallen Usnea for medicine
Store food for the apocalypse
Love on my people
Read banned books 📚 💙
Wrap gifts 🎁
What are you up to?
Reposted by Shaay Gallagher-Starr
Our readers had a ton of questions on immigration detention: where it takes place, who benefits, who makes profits, how can one push back?
So we turned to a great historian to answer your questions, and I learned *a ton* from her—from Reagan's role, to all the $$ sheriffs make, and so on:
So we turned to a great historian to answer your questions, and I learned *a ton* from her—from Reagan's role, to all the $$ sheriffs make, and so on:
The Past and Present of Immigration Detention: Your Questions Answered
A historian of migrant detention responds to questions from <em>Bolts</em> readers on the vast network of local lockups that jail immigrants, and how it
boltsmag.org
December 14, 2024 at 7:13 PM
Our readers had a ton of questions on immigration detention: where it takes place, who benefits, who makes profits, how can one push back?
So we turned to a great historian to answer your questions, and I learned *a ton* from her—from Reagan's role, to all the $$ sheriffs make, and so on:
So we turned to a great historian to answer your questions, and I learned *a ton* from her—from Reagan's role, to all the $$ sheriffs make, and so on:
Reposted by Shaay Gallagher-Starr
Today, on Shirley Jackson’s birthday, let’s all marvel at one of the greatest opening paragraphs ever written (from THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE)
December 14, 2024 at 12:55 PM
Today, on Shirley Jackson’s birthday, let’s all marvel at one of the greatest opening paragraphs ever written (from THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE)
Reposted by Shaay Gallagher-Starr
Octavia E. Butler signed this copy of Parable of the Sower for my late mother, Patricia Stephens Due.
The power of these Black women inspired me to write an essay after Tr*mp's inauguration in 2017. I've reposted a slightly revised version I hope will bring you hope today.
tinyurl.com/mwazxrb4
The power of these Black women inspired me to write an essay after Tr*mp's inauguration in 2017. I've reposted a slightly revised version I hope will bring you hope today.
tinyurl.com/mwazxrb4
Surviving President Tr*mp: Lessons from the 1960s and Octavia E. Butler
I originally wrote this essay to coincide with the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, 2017. It deeply grieves me to publish it…
tinyurl.com
November 8, 2024 at 6:17 PM
Octavia E. Butler signed this copy of Parable of the Sower for my late mother, Patricia Stephens Due.
The power of these Black women inspired me to write an essay after Tr*mp's inauguration in 2017. I've reposted a slightly revised version I hope will bring you hope today.
tinyurl.com/mwazxrb4
The power of these Black women inspired me to write an essay after Tr*mp's inauguration in 2017. I've reposted a slightly revised version I hope will bring you hope today.
tinyurl.com/mwazxrb4
@tananarivedue.bsky.social I read “The Rider” last week in Jordan Peele’s “Out There Screaming” and I’m still thinking about it. Maybe because the whole US is pondering vengeance right now, it stays close with me. Sometimes it’s the short stories that hit hard. That one did. Thank you for it.
December 13, 2024 at 6:20 AM
@tananarivedue.bsky.social I read “The Rider” last week in Jordan Peele’s “Out There Screaming” and I’m still thinking about it. Maybe because the whole US is pondering vengeance right now, it stays close with me. Sometimes it’s the short stories that hit hard. That one did. Thank you for it.
This is disgraceful
WOW.
One of the people who got their sentenced commuted by Biden was one of the Kids-for-Cash judges who accepted kickbacks in exchange for sentencing over 2,500 kids to a for-profit prison.
Some of the kids ended up taking their own lives.
These sentences had a devastating impact on them.
One of the people who got their sentenced commuted by Biden was one of the Kids-for-Cash judges who accepted kickbacks in exchange for sentencing over 2,500 kids to a for-profit prison.
Some of the kids ended up taking their own lives.
These sentences had a devastating impact on them.
Biden commutes sentence for Kids-for-Cash judge
Former Luzerne County Judge Michael T. Conahan, who gained notoriety for wrongfully imprisoning juveniles in the Kids-for-Cash scandal, is one of nearly 1,500 inmates whose sentences President Joe …
bit.ly
December 13, 2024 at 6:06 AM
This is disgraceful
I’m going to be talking with the #Safeway / #Albertsons corporation tomorrow about the injury their cart caused when it locked up in front of me as I tried to leave the store.
Has anyone else been injured by this new “anti-theft” device?
Carts lock if they aren’t next to the tills when paying
Has anyone else been injured by this new “anti-theft” device?
Carts lock if they aren’t next to the tills when paying
December 13, 2024 at 4:33 AM
I’m going to be talking with the #Safeway / #Albertsons corporation tomorrow about the injury their cart caused when it locked up in front of me as I tried to leave the store.
Has anyone else been injured by this new “anti-theft” device?
Carts lock if they aren’t next to the tills when paying
Has anyone else been injured by this new “anti-theft” device?
Carts lock if they aren’t next to the tills when paying
Me: when the cart locked up, it hurt me. It worsened my existing pain.
Safeway manager: if we don’t use cart-locking anti-theft technology we might have to *close*
Me: your profits are NOT MY PROBLEM; find a solution that doesn’t injure me
Manager: everybody’s doing it!
It wasn’t the day 🤬
Safeway manager: if we don’t use cart-locking anti-theft technology we might have to *close*
Me: your profits are NOT MY PROBLEM; find a solution that doesn’t injure me
Manager: everybody’s doing it!
It wasn’t the day 🤬
December 12, 2024 at 6:07 PM
Me: when the cart locked up, it hurt me. It worsened my existing pain.
Safeway manager: if we don’t use cart-locking anti-theft technology we might have to *close*
Me: your profits are NOT MY PROBLEM; find a solution that doesn’t injure me
Manager: everybody’s doing it!
It wasn’t the day 🤬
Safeway manager: if we don’t use cart-locking anti-theft technology we might have to *close*
Me: your profits are NOT MY PROBLEM; find a solution that doesn’t injure me
Manager: everybody’s doing it!
It wasn’t the day 🤬
Reposted by Shaay Gallagher-Starr
Of the things I e read or listened to since the election, nothing had given me a better reset on my mindset than this interview. I shared it with a co-worker today who later texted she now sees a path. Listen. Find the path.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Inoculate Yourself From Fear: A Conversation with Global Affairs Expert Andrea Chalupa
Podcast Episode · The PoliticsGirl Podcast · 12/03/2024 · 57m
podcasts.apple.com
December 11, 2024 at 1:07 AM
Of the things I e read or listened to since the election, nothing had given me a better reset on my mindset than this interview. I shared it with a co-worker today who later texted she now sees a path. Listen. Find the path.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...