❤️ you are so kind! we are trying to find alternative pathways forward to help fund this work, but also hoping IMLS and NEH will be able to survive this inflection point.

And congratulations on your retirement!!

It is incredibly disheartening. But we are so grateful for the injunction that reinstated all the terminated grants which allowed us to finish these outputs. We would have published them regardless, but I’m glad we got to wrap the project as intended and compensate our team as planned.

Thanks for spreading the good news for us Mary Grace ❤️

lol that’s so true. And so sad. 😭 never thought I’d see this level of corruption here

Thanks so much Kim. ❤️ I know so many of us feel the same way. Doesn’t make it easy, but at least we have a shared reality, gratitude and solidarity, and that’s something.

The only way out is through and at least we have each other. And it’s not pithy to find strength in the realization that we are truly are in this together.

And we DO have power - and immaterial things that cannot be taken away.

Everyday, I’m exchanging messages with colleagues around the country and am utterly chilled to my core about what I’m hearing.The budget cuts, the job losses, the censorship, the disruption/erasure of community based collaborations and initiatives -is staggering/overwhelming and hard to comprehend.

I’m pretty sure they’re cancelling everything, but it still really sucks!

I knew it was coming and inevitable, but it just hits different when you read that your work is not “serving the interest of the United States.”

We’re still going! We have an upcoming institute in Seattle and are hoping the funding situation pans out in the future for more training events. 🤞

Hi Mary Grace, nice to see you here!

Yikes. 😳 you would think they would update their website to announce that? Is someone else doing it instead now?

I think some of it concerns perceived safety issues and not walkability. Which is also stupid and disheartening. (And takes the real fun out of Halloween!)