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April 19, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Image description: in a yard primarily featuring dark, untilled earth and small rocks stands a cluster of three purple crocuses, a welcome and exciting harbinger of spring. Behind them is a cluster of short green shoots: more crocuses to come!
March 15, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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The image is divided into two halves. In the top half, a black cat looks up and the following text is underneath their head: “how do we get through this?” In the bottom half, a light-skinned and blond-haired figure is hugging the cat and the following text is below: “together.”
January 29, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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To support a friend and share some tools I’ve been using to stay centered and connected to my own agency, I’m offering a workshop series next week!
December 30, 2024 at 12:59 AM
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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

Day 20 (finally!): Writing in Color: Fourteen Writers on the Lessons We’ve Learned

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A digitally illustrated book cover. In the center is the title, Writing in Color: Fourteen Writers on the Lessons We’ve Learned. Below is the following text: Edited by Nafizah Azad and Melody Simpson Julie C. Dao. Chloe Gong. Joan He. Kosoko Jackson. Adiba Jaigirdar. Darcie Little Badger. Yamile Saied Méndez. Axie Oh. Laura Pohl. Cindy Pon. Karuna Riazi. Gail D. Villanueva. Julian Winters. Kay Zhang.
December 23, 2024 at 11:11 PM
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Thank the galaxy for free theatrical shenanigans and the people who support us theater makers 🎭🖤🙌🏾

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December 1, 2024 at 6:53 PM
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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

Day 18: Writing Down the Bones

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A book cover. The title, “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within” is set at the top, while author’s name, Natalie Goldberg, appears at the bottom, above the following text: “Expanded edition with a new preface and afterword by the author.” In the middle is an image of a moon with a face on it and stars reflected in a pool of ink spilled from an ink pot. Nearby is a fountain pen.
December 1, 2024 at 2:33 AM
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“Don’t be afraid of anger.
Love people with all your heart.
Love the earth with every fibre of your being.”

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On a slip of paper torn from a magazine are the words, “Don’t be afraid of your anger. Love people with all your heart. Love the earth with every fibre of your being.” The slip of paper lays on a glossy colorful strip of thick paper torn from the cover of a magazine. These strips and other cut up pieces of paper all lay on a plastic cutting mat. Nearby is a pair of scissors, an open glue stick, and the glue stick’s lid.
November 30, 2024 at 3:45 AM
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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

Day 17: Maharani’s Misery

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A book cover. In the center is the title, subtitle, and author name: “Maharani’s Misery: Narratives of a Passage from India to the Caribbean.” Verene A. Shepherd Above and below the title are the same black and white prints of a painting called “The Allenshaw”, a sailing ship that journeyed from Calcutta to colonial Guyana in 1885.
November 29, 2024 at 7:39 PM
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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

Day 16: Black Earth Wisdom

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A book cover. The title and subtitle are in white text at the bottom of the image: “Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists.” The author’s name is shown in bold orange text at the top of the cover and reads “Leah Penniman.” Additional text is in white text below the author’s name: “Co-founder of Soul Fire Farm” “Author of Farming While Black” The background depicts a moon cut into two halves, a top set against blue background and a bottom set against a red bottom. The profile of a Black person is set against the moon, their neck bared, their chin pointing toward the top of the cover, their eyes closed, their head hanging toward the bottom of the moon. The bottom of the moon, where the person’s long hair hangs, depicts hair becoming roots and strands that permeate the bottom of the cover and reach toward the title at the bottom.
November 28, 2024 at 5:10 PM
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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

Day 15: Work Won’t Love You Back

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A picture of a hardcover book cover. On a cream background in bold red text is the title: Work Won’t Love You Back. The subtitle is in black text in a yellow circle: How Devotion to our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone. The author’s name rests in black text below the word “Love.” The text, “‘A tremendous contribution.’ Naomi Klein” is nestled in black text next to the word “Won’t”
November 27, 2024 at 8:41 PM
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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

Day 14: Decolonizing Therapy

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A book cover. The background image depicts two tree trunks planted just inches apart and twisted together. Underneath, the roots of the two trees have grown into a heart-shaped clump. The title, “Decolonizing therapy” appears in white text over the twisted trees. The subtitle, “Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice” is written in white text just under the surface. The author’s name, Jennifer Mullan, PsyD, appears at the bottom of the cover near the top of the heart of roots.
November 26, 2024 at 3:12 PM
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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

Day 13: Black Against Empire

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A book cover. The title, “Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party” is set against an orange and black rendering of a resolute figure in profile wearing a Black Panther beret. The authors, Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin, Jr. are listed below the title. Below their names is the text, “With a new preface.”
November 25, 2024 at 2:32 PM
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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

Day 12: Set Boundaries, Find Peace

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A book cover. Against a white background, four hand-painted blocks of color create boundaries at the top and bottom of the cover in yellow, orange, green, and blue. In the middle of the blocks is the title of the book, “Set Boundaries, Find Peace: a guide to reclaiming yourself.” The author’s name is below: Nedra Glover Tawab The book is marked as a New York Times Bestseller in the upper right corner.
November 24, 2024 at 5:19 PM
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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

Day 11: No More Police

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A book cover. Four abolitionists of color joyously protest under a magenta and vermillion sky and a blazing sun. The title of the book, “No More Police: A Case for Abolition” is written in bold text in the sky.
November 24, 2024 at 3:32 AM
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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

Day 10: Rebellious Mourning

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A book cover. On a neon pink background, on which a face peering at the reader is stenciled in orange, the title, Rebellious Mourning, is hand-written in urgent, black text along the length of the cover. Down the middle in white block text are the words, “The collective work of grief / edited by Cindy Milstein”
November 22, 2024 at 3:37 PM
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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

Day 9: Orientalism

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A book cover. At the center is a picture of “The Snake Charmer”, a painting by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme produced around 1879. From its Wikipedia page, “The Snake Charmer” “depicts a naked boy standing on a small carpet in the center of a room with blue-tiled walls, facing away from the viewer, holding a python which coils around his waist and over his shoulder, while an older man sits to his right playing a fipple flute. The performance is watched by a motley group of armed men from a variety of Islamic tribes, with different clothes and weapons.” Above the painting is the following text: “Intellectual history on a high order…and very exciting.” —The New York Times Edward W. Said Orientalism Overlaid on the image of the painting is the following text: 25th Anniversary Edition With a new preface by the author
November 21, 2024 at 11:05 AM
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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

Day 8: Rehearsals for Living

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A book cover. On a black background is the following text in multicolored letters: Robyn Maynard Rehearsals for Living Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
November 20, 2024 at 7:59 AM
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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

Day 7: Let This Radicalize You

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A book cover. At the bottom in blue silhouette are figures with raised arms and linked hands. On an orange and yellow background are the words “Let This Radicalize You”. In white text are the names of the authors, Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba. At the bottom in white text is the subtitle: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care. Above in smaller blue text is a quote from Naomi Klein, “This is a prophetic work.”
November 19, 2024 at 5:32 AM
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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

Day 6: Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety

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A book cover. The background is red. In bold, black text is the title: Healing Justice Lineages. Each word commands its own line. In yellow text above and between the lines is the following text: “Cara Page and Erica Woodland. Dreaming at the crossroads of liberation, collective care, and safety. Forward by Aurora Levins Morales.”
November 19, 2024 at 5:26 AM
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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

Day 5: Medicine Stories: History, Culture, and the Politics of Integrity, first edition

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A book cover. The background is forest green. In the center where it fades to white is the title in purple text: Medicine Stories: History, Culture, and the Politics of Integrity The author is named below: Aurora Levins Morales The cover is bordered by a scaffolded tapestry of flowering vines and tropical plants.
November 16, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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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

Day 4: Braiding Sweetgrass

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A book cover. On a cream background laying across the cover is a braid of dried sweetgrass. Above the braid is the text: “A hymn of love to the world.” —Elizabeth Gilbert and the book title in all caps Braiding Sweetgrass Below the braid is the text: Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants Toward the bottom of the image is the author’s name, Robin Wall Kimmerer
November 15, 2024 at 8:12 PM
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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

Day 3: The Trauma of Caste

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November 14, 2024 at 3:58 PM
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Day 2: On Tyranny

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On a cream background flanked by a border of 5 thin, red lines are the words in black text, all caps: On Tyranny, Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, Timothy Snyder
November 13, 2024 at 6:17 PM
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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

Day 1: Where the Red Fern Grows

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A photo of the front cover of a paperback copy of Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls. A young person in denim overalls holds a lantern in one hand, an axe in the other. They tentatively step over a fallen tree trunk as their two dog companions scan the dark forest for danger or raccoons. Flanking the boy and his dogs are two ferns.
November 13, 2024 at 2:22 AM