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Ellen Hokanson

@ellenhokanson.bsky.social
5.6K followers 3.8K following 6.6K posts

She/her. Writing a #HistoricalNovel about cross-cultural friendship and misunderstanding in 1824 London. Alt text: A white woman on a seashore. A 1950s photo of a mom reading a book (unseen) to 4, 2, and 6-year-old kids.

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Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 1h
@schumer.senate.gov please speak out about the invasion of Rep. Omar’s home. Seizing her computer, phone, etc. shortly before an election looks like a threat to other candidates who oppose this authoritarian executive: What misdemeanors might anyone’s parents have commited 30 years ago?
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Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 1h
It’s excellent. Pointing out his, hers, and ours helped my students remember its. I add a possessive s to names like Agnes and Charles because I say those final esses. Your thoughts on that?
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 2h
National Down Syndrome Society Condemns GOP Candidate’s Mockery of Down Syndrome Advocacy group says Brandon Herrera’s remarks are “deeply offensive and unacceptable.” meidasnews.com/news/nationa...
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National Down Syndrome Society Condemns GOP Candidate’s Mockery of Down Syndrome
Advocacy group says Brandon Herrera’s remarks are “deeply offensive and unacceptable.”
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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Under RFK Jr, the US is exporting our dangerous antivax movement by launching an unethical clinical trial in W Africa. The US gov't is putting money towards this dangerous, utterly uncalled for experiment -- while cutting life-saving aid elsewhere. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 6h
The judge already has the unredacted document.
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Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 18h
Done. Whole household of ballots are in.
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Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 18h
Cool‼️
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Sarah Karlin-Smith @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social · 23h
There's a quote in this story that calls this a victory for "medical freedom." But to me a system that disincentivizes the study of whether medicines work or not & what their side effects are before they are sold is not not freedom.
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Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 23h
Depressing but worthwhile. Thanks.
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Zeb Larson @zeblarson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
This is a depressing read. As everything becomes a potential scam, you learn to trust or believe in nothing because you don't want to be taken for a ride.
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The Lucrative World of Literary Scams — The Dial
Why writers are the perfect target.
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
SO excited when this program launched 🥳 Year 1 results were super encouraging. HAIL-like in magnitude 😍 And then... UT Austin leadership cancelled the program, ordering the fantastic UT research team to disband 😦 Despite formidable barriers, the team ensured the science got published 👏🏼💪🏽
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Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
That’s the JK Rowling version of hate
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Whatever the truth of the Musk/Trump theatricals over Starlink, we should pause to think about the fact that key defence systems are controlled by a psychopathic megalomaniac and a white-supremacist egomaniac.
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Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
It’s mind boggling. The UK population should be outraged.
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Katie Spoon @kspoon.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
We found that the most gendered experience wasn’t work-life balance, the focus of most retention efforts. It was feeling devalued, in formal evaluations, but particularly in everyday interactions. Unlike every other topic, the gender gap in devaluation was larger among more senior faculty.
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Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
You already quit. Keep reminding yourself that you’re already past the hardest part.
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Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
🤞‼️
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Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The horrible irony is that a kid with a Greek name would not have been counted as white by a lot of white Americans fifty years ago. White supremacy is an evil lie.
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Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
AAAARRRRGH‼️
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Marta Jewson @martajewson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Leaders of Lower 9th Ward’s last public school brace for a ‘reckoning’ as district considers closure www.nola.com/news/educati...
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Leaders of Lower 9th Ward’s last public school brace for a ‘reckoning’ as district considers closure
Leaders of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward are committed to keeping the school open after district officials warned the F-rated school could be closed due to...
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Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Indigenous-made artwork
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Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Always make it in an iron skillet, never made it with corn. Definitely interested.
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Martin Johnson @martinpjohnsonbass.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
There’s been some weird political photos in my time but this is so creepy.
Trump in the helicopter booster seat with Natalie and the Press secretary
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Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
It’s a daily tsunami
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Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
They knew what he did the first time and they were okay with him doing it again or worse.
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 14/10/2026
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Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I’m freshly blocked by the same “people”
A set of “listifications” notifications of Bluesky accounts that have recently blocked me—the same ones mentioned in other posts.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
“Union carpenters constructed the crosses w/sturdy bases designed to withstand wind. Painters applied multiple coats to protect them against Chicago's harsh winter … and union volunteers also are helping transport … Many of those involved were themselves immigrants or children of immigrants …”
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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
There are so many ironies/hypocrisies in all of this, but one of them is that we are being asked to value AI-powered literary criticism over African literary critics' assessments of African authors. AI use: illegitimate if Africans use it, legitimate when used to assess African humanity
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 14/10/2026
Since thou wert king—as who is king but thou?⁠— The commonwealth hath daily run to wrack
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Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I’m sympathetic
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Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
😱
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
What chills me more is that the Atlantic article's author not only scanned Kundieza's work, but also scanned 25 years' worth of Caine Prize awardees to check whether they were human. A prize for African writers. It feels like the literary equivalent of doing a non-consensual genital check.
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Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Colorado politics
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Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Colorado politics
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Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Any chance they can stop relying on Starlink?
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This. 100%. If you absolutely need to doom spiral right this second: log off. You’re fully entitled to feel how you feel, but skeeting “We’re so fucked” thrice daily like a Gregorian chant helps nothing and no one, including yourself. And decent odds those strangers you’re arguing with are bots.
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Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
@saraschon.bsky.social gave an extremely helpful two day intensive at this weekend’s outstanding @scbwirockymtn.bsky.social 50th anniversary Letters and Lines conference. She demonstrated an impressive ability to analyze the strengths of a query or first page on the spot and we learned a lot.
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Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The fiscal conservatives are not that, Part 1,999,999
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Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
A poem for Indigenous Peoples Day.
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Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
He calls himself a parody account. Total bs.
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Author Myron J. Clifton @deardean22.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Happy Indigenous Peoples Day Vote for @debhaalandnm.bsky.social for governor of New Mexico to be long overdue first indigenous governor.
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Do Not Rank Tiffany Koyama Lane @pdxpolyscijunkie.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Performative tolerance, in an era of performative intolerance, actually matters. Whether the folks performing mean it is secondary!
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Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Who?
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O. ⟭⟬ᴱ ᴬᴿᴱ ᴮ⟬⟭ᶜᴷ ⊙⊝⊜ @odette3.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Vote Democrats back in because Bears Ears went back under Biden to the tribe and then Trump is pulling it back.
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Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Every single one that I attended was excellent. Huge props to the organizers.
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Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
And incredible panels including Andrea Wang, Kaz Windness, Jolene Gutierrez and other bright lights of kidlit made the weekend memorable.
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Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I’m fresh from the SCBWI @scbwirockymtn.bsky.social Rocky Mountain region’s Letters and Lines conference and just like other years, I feel it catapulting me forward as a writer. Presentations by Kate DiCamillo (!), Grace Lin (!), Nancy Bo Flood, Katheryn Lumsden, Nate Pieplow, Sara Megibow, et al
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