Reposted by Chris J. RiceL.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Media sensationalizes cases like Lindsay Clancy’s, but the size and intensity of the spotlight cast over moms who kill their kids is misleading. The full essay: lataco.com/lindsay-clan... By @lesbrains.bsky.social 05114
Reposted by Chris J. RiceGarth Greenwell @garthgreenwell.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I shared a few more thoughts on workshop—including my best variation on the traditional format, & why I still think, whatever the adjustments we make, it’s a bad model of aesthetic education. Link (no paywall) here: garthgreenwell.substack.com/p/a-few-more... 292
Reposted by Chris J. Ricevanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 29/07/2026they're not buying the books to fill their own data supply they're buying them so you can't use them 0386
Reposted by Chris J. RiceSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 20/07/2026…. poets.org/poem/septemb...poets.orgSeptember 1, 1939I sit in one of the dives 1213
Reposted by Chris J. RiceSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 20/07/2026I wrote a new article: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-house-...sarahkendzior.substack.comThe House That Wasn't ThereOn saying goodbye. 1018947
Reposted by Chris J. RiceL.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 17/07/2026“My condemnation of FIFA isn’t an indictment of soccer—it’s an indictment of the wealthy men who set the professional standards of the game, the smug puppet masters who treat FIFA like their frat house.” The full story: lataco.com/fifa-world-c... By @lesbrains.bsky.social 215250
Chris J. Rice @chrisjrice.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Preorder this poet’s all encompassing work. In the late 70’s I sat on the floor of an Oklahoma City bookstore to read The Country Between Us. As relevant today as it was way back when. 000
Reposted by Chris J. RiceRuth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 08/07/2026@lulacorg.bsky.social has organized a GoFundMe to support the Salgado Araujo family "On the morning of July 7, 2026, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was taken from the people who loved him most. He was 52 yrs old. He was a husband, a father of three sons, a small business owner, and the heart of his family"gofundme.comDonate to In Loving Memory of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52 Years Old, organized by LULAC Institute, Inc.On the morning of July 7, 2026, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was ta… LULAC Institute, Inc. needs your support for In Loving Memory of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52 Years Old 07445
Chris J. Rice @chrisjrice.bsky.social · 07/07/2026open.substack.com/pub/chrisjri...open.substack.comMy McGuffinA journey in three parts 000
Reposted by Chris J. RiceSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 25/06/2026New article! On the technofascist economy and how Monopoly explains it all. "Dirty Bill" Monopoly, anyway. Read on to learn the unwritten rules: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-dirty-...sarahkendzior.substack.comThe Dirty BillMaking a clean break with the technofascist economy. 918788
Reposted by Chris J. RiceKen Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 25/06/2026An American just got sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for moving “Antifa” zines and there’s about 1000x as much media coverage of Trump’s reflecting pool 👍 302333699
Chris J. Rice @chrisjrice.bsky.social · 16/06/2026lithub.com/grief-rage-a...lithub.comGrief, Rage, and Restraint: Zinzi Clemmons on Telling Her Own StoryBeing invited to interview a writer that one admires is so rewarding, and I’m thrilled that I got the chance to speak with Zinzi Clemmons about her new book Freedom: Essays. We need Clemmons’s voic… 000
Chris J. Rice @chrisjrice.bsky.social · 16/06/2026lithub.com/grief-rage-a...lithub.comGrief, Rage, and Restraint: Zinzi Clemmons on Telling Her Own StoryBeing invited to interview a writer that one admires is so rewarding, and I’m thrilled that I got the chance to speak with Zinzi Clemmons about her new book Freedom: Essays. We need Clemmons’s voic… 000
Chris J. Rice @chrisjrice.bsky.social · 12/06/2026David Hockney. I met him at CalArts. We talked about Picasso. He scribbled on a napkin I gave him to illustrate his point and was careful to get it back as we parted ways. 000
Reposted by Chris J. RiceWendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 04/06/2026“I Don’t Want to Stop Smoking” by Marjane Satrapi, RIP 🚬 🕯️https://archive.nytimes.com/satrapi.blogs.nytimes.com/2005/11/21/i-dont-want-to-stop-smoking/archive.nytimes.comI Don't Want to Stop Smoking 042
Reposted by Chris J. RiceSeven Stories Press @sevenstories.bsky.social · 04/06/2026“I am the person I am not because of the nice things I did, but because of the mistakes I made, the slaps I got… So do not be scared to rebel if someone oppresses you. I am a rebellious woman and I am proud!”–Marjane Satrapi, 1969-2026 04716
Reposted by Chris J. RiceWendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 02/06/2026Dear Queers, If you send me a screen shot of your local library request form for one of my books, with a screenshot of the request confirmed/received, DM me and I’ll send you one of my three books, your choice (first three people who DM only). Thanks! 🌸 277
Chris J. Rice @chrisjrice.bsky.social · 02/06/2026I can’t get this idea out of my head as I walk forgotten streets, recycle decades of my own work, read and scroll online: the three traits of an exhausted society according to Nietzsche: sentimentality, artificiality and brutality. 010
Reposted by Chris J. RiceRapswell @rapswell.bsky.social · 28/05/2026I wish more people understood the nature of our current dilemma and that the conversation around the situation we’re facing was framed in the context that @sarahkendzior.bsky.social outlines here 312452
Chris J. Rice @chrisjrice.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Great Uncle Frank Sixkiller with his friends Jack and Rabbit Bunch. Another kind of Memorial Day story 000
Reposted by Chris J. RiceKaren Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 20/05/2026On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org 4525271122
Reposted by Chris J. RiceRoxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Every day of Trump 2.0 I think “it can’t get more outrageous than this,” and I am wrong. This slush fund thing is so fucking rancid and unacceptable and I hate the feeling and reality that no politician is going to stop it, or call in Batman or something. This is not a country. 512646480
Chris J. Rice @chrisjrice.bsky.social · 19/05/2026The ominous overuse of the adverb quietly. It truly creeps me out. 000
Chris J. Rice @chrisjrice.bsky.social · 25/04/2026This place which isn’t even a location in the world is draining me of my will to live so why am I here. That’s the question. 000
Chris J. Rice @chrisjrice.bsky.social · 23/04/2026If you’re in San Diego give this event some time. Art is more than pretty pictures. 010
Reposted by Chris J. RiceWendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 18/04/2026Probably my favorite photo of my late mother 🖤 newsletter.mommyselcamino.com/archive/pass...newsletter.mommyselcamino.compassing byDolores aka Lola aka Dee This is probably my favorite photo of my mother. I can only guess what the backstory is. Her facial expression in the photo is very... 081
Reposted by Chris J. RiceSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 18/04/2026I’ve finished the finale and I’m still aghast at the woman insisting on having a “wild birth.” WHAT #ThePitt 242654
Reposted by Chris J. RiceRoxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 14/04/2026One of the worst things the current era has done is to make progressive people act like two wrongs make a right when a Democrat politician is caught in a scandal. “But Trump gets away with it” is not the flex you think it is. 2973077
Reposted by Chris J. RiceMattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Grief as a state of mind, an opening, a sinkhole, a flailing, a window into history, a caress, a crash, a sudden shift in the air, a deepening of emotion, a block, a refusal, a gap, a brokenness, a sense of place, an overwhelm, a friendship, a devotion, a screen, a scream 17425
Reposted by Chris J. RiceEmogene Cataldo @emogene.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Helen DeWitt, boundary queen. 0122
Chris J. Rice @chrisjrice.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Any writer who wants to create texts using Edward Tufte's information design deserves a no strings attached gift to get it done. 000
Reposted by Chris J. RiceWee$naw @juliamahaka.bsky.social · 05/04/2026I wanna see IG & meta crash & burn in my lifetime 052
Reposted by Chris J. RiceMyriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social · 31/03/2026I wrote this as a call to care and a call to arms. 💚 lataco.com/survivor-sup...lataco.comYou’re Not Too Strong, Smart, or Pretty to Be Raped: A Survivor’s No-BS Guide to Ending Gender-Based Violence ~ L.A. TACO"We must acknowledge that [society] works by promoting perpetual war against girls, women, and femmes," writer and survivor Myriam Gurba says. "Your job is to decide which side of the war you’re on an... 02414
Chris J. Rice @chrisjrice.bsky.social · 03/04/2026April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. I encourage you to become more aware of the children in your community who need your awareness, your help, and your support. 000
Chris J. Rice @chrisjrice.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Despite the stew of lies and cruelty we are currently swimming in I continue to believe in the power of art to transform investigate and inform the spirit. An old recipe for hope in a sick world. 000
Chris J. Rice @chrisjrice.bsky.social · 24/03/2026open.substack.com/pub/chrisjri...open.substack.comFully ListeningTo the dispossessed. The silenced voice. The ghost of family. 010
Reposted by Chris J. RiceJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Jesus god almighty you’d think people would get tired of spending ten years saying the fascists can’t do this or do that and then watching them do exactly what they claimed they couldn’t. 625652
Reposted by Chris J. RiceMyriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Sending love to survivors of abuse perpetrated by Cesar Chavez. Patriarchy has no place in our movements 05513
Reposted by Chris J. RiceNeil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 17/03/2026This is beautiful and as an Irishman it nearly made me cry. That the Mayor of New York understands more about the history, soul and experience of Ireland and the Irish than anyone I’ve ever met from England tells us everything we need to know about the history of these islands. Thank you, Zohran 1113241
