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You have so many stories to tell. Your life is rich. Please put them into the world.

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Declaring we want to live a different life, unbound by the constraints of a “job” is just the beginning. There’s also the work of being able to sustain these beautiful new lives

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This is the beginning of a revolution. But there’s a big question: how do we build a world that supports this creative revolution? How do we eat and keep roofs over our head? How do we get healthcare? How do we (if we choose to) raise children who will thrive?.

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In the material and virtual worlds, I see so many pockets of creativity popping up. I see communities forming around art. I see people declaring “I don’t want a job.” Not because they are “lazy”, but because we want a healthy life that does not extract our souls, but rather nourishes them.

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I am not a singer. I don’t sing in the shower or while doing chores. (I write in my head.) I have no idea where this song or this singing came from. But it changed my day. It gave me hope and faith that we will persist and improve things. These are small blessings

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Jennifer Riggan @jenri.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Small blessings. I was off this morning. The well-founded anxieties were really getting me down. I dreaded the day. Without intending to, or even being aware of it, or really knowing the lyrics, I started singing “a few of my favorite things” from the sound of music..

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Thrilled to see my short story, “Bill Gates Wants to Take You to America” published in the recent issue of The Rappahanock Review along with an author interview. rappahannockreview.com/issue-13-1/c...

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Jennifer Riggan – Rappahannock Review

Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

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The latest Open Access volume of Migration and Society has been published!: bit.ly/4mbOY7L Featuring research by: @malayfiroz.bsky.social @jenri.bsky.social @ernabodstrom.bsky.social @jesperbjarnesen.bsky.social @djamilak.bsky.social @suzan-ilcan.bsky.social and more!

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Jennifer Riggan @jenri.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

This. Exactly. The legal battles are being fought. But it won’t be enough.

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Jennifer Riggan @jenri.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

If we act like everything is normal, we go into denial, evade, get complacent, and don’t do the hard work that is needed to survive, protect and resist. 3/3

Jennifer Riggan @jenri.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

This is the paradox we’re living in. This is the paradox we need to adjust to, psychologically and socially. don’t have some normal, we become exhausted, panicked, or catatonic, and carry our festering wounds around with us. 2/3

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Jennifer Riggan @jenri.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

It’s important to have normal times where you watch tv, hang with friends and family, make dinner, walk the dog, take out the trash, talk about the weather and watch the big game. It is also important not to lose sight of the fact that nothing is normal and we’re in the middle of a coup. 1/3

Jennifer Riggan @jenri.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

A reminder that it is not your responsible as a citizen to obsess over the news or emotionally collapse from imagining the suffering. It IS your responsibility make yourself as strong as you can (whatever that looks like for you) and to DO whatever you are capable of to resist and protect.

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave reps of DOGE full access to the federal payment system late on Friday, handing Elon Musk and the team he is leading a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

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Elon Musk’s team has gotten access to the Treasury Department’s payments system.

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Jennifer Riggan @jenri.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

This is going to be a fight on many fronts. But there will be moments when we all need to drop everything, cancel plans, take risks, and come together. (3/3)

Jennifer Riggan @jenri.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

We ALSO need to focus on the big picture, recognize that democracy is being dismantled, checks and balances are removed daily, and there may not be a 2028 election. SO take all the advice. ALSO read about how democracies are destroyed, join organizing groups, and prepare yourself to disrupt. (2/3)

Jennifer Riggan @jenri.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

There’s a lot of great advice going around about pacing ourselves, and focusing on a few issues rather than taking it all in, and working locally in your own communities. This is good advice now as it was in 2016. BUT this is also different than the last time. (1/3)

Jennifer Riggan @jenri.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I wish there was an easy way to make a starter pack of everyone I knew from other social media who has moved over here….

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Jennifer Riggan @jenri.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

When an authoritarian regime consolidates power, it is deeply unsettling. The fabric of reality is shaken. It makes it hard to remain standing. That’s what you may be experiencing right now.

Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

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Pay. Attention. To. This AND CALL YOUR REPS.

A screenshot of a Politico Pro Breaking News Alert headline. The headline reads, "Trump administration orders sweeping freeze of all federal aid." The subhead explains that the freeze, ordered by President Trump's budget office, suspends all federal financial assistance, potentially halting payments to states and U.S. households relying on aid such as SNAP food assistance. A memo cited claims that Social Security and Medicare will not be affected. The memo includes a statement criticizing the use of federal resources for "Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies," calling it a misuse of taxpayer dollars. Three people verified the memo's authenticity.

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Jennifer Riggan @jenri.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

For all of you starting a new semester today, may you approach it with ease, curiosity, and compassion for yourself and everyone involved. Sidle up to it, like you would a wild animal you don’t want to startle.

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Jennifer Riggan @jenri.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I’ve come to love teaching this way. Just started last semester. But I’ve also been struck by how much students struggle with it. The trauma—around writing in particular and education in general—that they bring into the classroom is astounding.

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Jennifer Riggan @jenri.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Wait, you don’t have to peel them in a garlic press? You might have just changed my life. (Says the foodie who is also lazy/ short on time.)

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What makes a “yes” first sentence?

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I’d love advice about how to make Bluesky more conversational.

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

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Preparing for the next four years. Here is a practical guide for coping with and getting through Trump 2.0.

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Surviving the Next Four Years

A practical guide for coping with and getting through Trump 2.0

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I have three reading goals this year: 1) more work by African authors. 2) more work that isn’t on any list. 3) read as many of the books on my shelf that I haven’t read as I can. I also have plans for some re-reads. What are your 2025 reading plans?

Stop scrolling right now. Go pick up a book. Read a random sentence from a random page. How did it change your life just now? Please share.

Jennifer Riggan @jenri.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I had a dream that I was trying to find my room at some sort of outdoor conference. People kept trying get me off course, and I had to hide many times. When I finally arrived, my “room” was a cocoon shaped closet with no space to move. What is this telling me? What are your dreams telling you?

Jennifer Riggan @jenri.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

After a winter break during which I did very little and barely left the house, I’m feeling,oddly, both well rested and tired.

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 05/01/2025

Borders are scars in the otherwise breathtakingly beautiful landscape.

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Jennifer Riggan @jenri.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Where is this? Just curious.

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Jennifer Riggan @jenri.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I’m going to start viewing myself through the lens of my residual self image rather than the lens I imagine the world views me through. I imagine myself still in my early 40s: energetic, fit, youthful, at the height of my intellectual powers. Where does your residual self image take you?

Jennifer Riggan @jenri.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

If there was ever a time for radical authenticity, it’s now.

Jennifer Riggan @jenri.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I’m setting intentions, not resolutions, for 2025. Intention 4: Explore the oneness of being strategic, pragmatic, AND creative.

Jennifer Riggan @jenri.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

I’m setting intentions, not resolutions, for 2025. Intention 3: More moments. Fewer minutes.

Jennifer Riggan @jenri.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

I’m setting intentions, not resolutions, for 2025. Intention 2: instead of worrying about “what if?” imagine what could be.

Jennifer Riggan @jenri.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

I’m setting intentions, not resolutions for 2025. Intention 1: Same passion. Same empathy. More imperturbability.

Jennifer Riggan @jenri.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

I started the new year writing a short story. It seemed to fall from the sky into my notebook. It’s a horror/ comedy about social conformity. This is not a genre I’ve ever written. I think 2025 is going to be weird.

Jennifer Riggan @jenri.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

When I was younger I tried many of the “classics” and found them alienating, sometimes pedantic, too focused on a single (often male) protagonist, and always culminating in a war or battle. Just not tropes I vibe with. But the genre is currently exploding with new ways to imagine!!!

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Jennifer Riggan @jenri.bsky.social · 16/12/2024