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Chelsia Rice

@chelsia.bsky.social
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Indie bookstore owner, part-time essayist, epistolarian, roller skater (quads), big hugger, over-sharer and community builder getting in good trouble and living a theology of love.

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Kristen Arnett @kristenarnett.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
can’t spell failure without ai
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Town Hall Seattle @townhallseattle.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
5/11 at 7:30 PM | Longtime climate and human rights activist and author @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social explores how our actions can shape the future and the possibilities of embracing uncertainty. 🎟 Get tickets: buff.ly/baqzSLv
Red/orange promotional graphic for event featuring Rebecca Solnit on May 11, presented by Town Hall Seattle. A headshot of Rebecca is included with the book cover of "No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain."
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Write op-eds, blogs, slogans, manifestos. Get out, march, organize. Join movements. Think harder about the content of your work, but also the form. Aesthetics can be revolutionary at the best, provocative at the least. 2/2
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Destabilization of reality in the US is about to reach surreal heights. Protect your mind. Monitor stress levels. Do not doomscroll--it does not help. Be selective about when and how long you expose your brain to this. Do what you can when you can.
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Chelsia Rice @chelsia.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
More and more customers are coming to the store in search of banned books to buy up and fortify their personal libraries in case censorship has further reach. I’m surprised and not surprised considering ongoing news and the prospect of Project 2025. But also, here’s this from the AABB.
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Susan Orlean @susanorlean.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
The speed with which companies are abandoning DEI is a clue about how shallow their commitment to it ever was.
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Chelsia Rice @chelsia.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
This is my first Saturday off since October.
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Chelsia Rice @chelsia.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
A “read a fucking book” sticker made a customer so uncomfortable today she had to pick it up with two fingers and tell me. “This is a family store!” She groaned. Yes, ma’am. It’s sure is - I waved my hands around at the throngs of holiday shoppers - my family. Families that choose my store.
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Chelsia Rice @chelsia.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Yall. There’s a reason we try to redirect you to shop small. Amazon isn’t doing your community any good.
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Chelsia Rice @chelsia.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Excited for Sottile’s new book!
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Donald Trump has a cabinet of billionaires worth a combined $340 billion. “BuT ThuH DeMoCrAtS aRE thE pARtY oF tHuH eLiTeS.” 🙄
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Kathleen McLaughlin @kemc.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Hey if you want to understand how inequality is baked into US healthcare and an entire American underclass keeps global companies in profits, my book is right here bookshop.org/p/books/bloo...
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Blood Money: The Story of Life, Death, and Profit Inside America's Blood Industry a book by Kathleen McLaughlin
A "haunting" (Anne Helen Petersen, author of Can't Even) and deeply personal investigation of an underground for-profit medical industry and the American underclass it drains for blood and profit. Jou...
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Chelsia Rice @chelsia.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
My cancer treatment was denied because I first sought care for a bladder infection. The dance of alpeals I had to undertake (while undergoing chemo) to try to keep receiving care was harder than chemo or surgery. While I won’t celebrate a certain death, I understand the rage. Fix the fucking system.
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Chelsia Rice @chelsia.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I’ve heard good things. I’m here to witness them as well as haunt my favorite authors, find writing inspiration, advocate for small bookstores and access to healthcare, maybe bitch a little about the general state of the world but mostly I’d like to laugh and experience beauty more. Bring it.
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