Reposted by Mandy Len CatronJulianne Harvey @julianneharvey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I had the privilege of being in @mandylen.bsky.social’s CNF class and I wanted to stand up and cheer while reading her beautiful thoughts on leaning into our humanity as writers. 122
Reposted by Mandy Len CatronRyan Elizabeth @sevenintheocean.bsky.social · 18/08/2026This, by @mandylen.bsky.social has been sitting as an open tab on my browser since June. I'm trying to kick my own butt to write more, this was a lovely reminder. :) "The best thing any writer can do right now is lean as hard as you can into the humanity in your work." thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...thetyee.caWhy I Write | The TyeeThe act of writing, and sharing it with others, protects us from the dehumanizing effects of AI. 111
Reposted by Mandy Len CatronSheelagh Caygill 🇨🇦 @sheelaghcaygill.bsky.social · 16/07/2026'The act of writing, and sharing it with others, protects us from the dehumanizing effects of AI' - Mandy Len Catron tells us why she writes in The Tyee Weekender: @mandylen.bsky.social #creativewriting thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...thetyee.caWhy I Write | The TyeeThe act of writing, and sharing it with others, protects us from the dehumanizing effects of AI. 021
Reposted by Mandy Len CatronHey Neighbour Collective @heyneighbourcollective.ca · 03/02/2026We were touched by this reflection shared by @mandylen.bsky.social on the idea of a “friend raft,” a kind of lifeline crafted by her and her friends to help keep one another afloat amidst the chaos that life so often brings. mandylencatron.substack.com/p/the-friend...mandylencatron.substack.comThe friend raftEating food together while children run wild in someone’s small apartment turned out to be my go-to survival strategy of 2025. 021
Mandy Len Catron @mandylen.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Thanks to the great folks @thetyee.ca for republishing my latest newsletter on writing and connection in the era of AI: 010
Reposted by Mandy Len CatronWIRED @wired.com · 08/01/2026Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US. If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.wired.comHow to Protest Safely in the Age of SurveillanceLaw enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest. 5338472228
Reposted by Mandy Len CatronDavid S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 05/11/2025[Narrator: they lost 13 seats] 6779111349
Reposted by Mandy Len Catronzach silberberg @zachsilberberg.bsky.social · 05/11/2025this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028 216184464760
Reposted by Mandy Len CatronKate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 14/07/2025oh no, not something that would have upset the famously cheerful Brontës 5451
Mandy Len Catron @mandylen.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Vancouverites! There are a few spots left for the Climate Wayfinding program I'm facilitating at Trout Lake Community Centre. Please join us! www.creativepublics.ca/climate-wayf...creativepublics.caClimate Wayfinding — Creative Publics 021
Reposted by Mandy Len CatronMichelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 11/04/2025just added another 25 crowd-sourced locations to this passion project of mine, mapping change tables in Vancouver! if you have friends with babies or toddlers, please pass it on: vancouverchangetables.comvancouverchangetables.comVancouver Change Tables Map 34418
Reposted by Mandy Len CatronJohn Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Apparently we're going to surveillance our way to learning. Anyone who doubts that AI is inextricably bound up with intensive monitoring of student behaviors need only look at how those who genuinely believe this technology is a help are positioning it. 54816
Reposted by Mandy Len CatronCeleste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Hey! If you like what Cory Booker is doing right now, call your senators and ask them to do the same (now and in the future). Find their info at ☎️ reps.fyi! 251187222
Mandy Len Catron @mandylen.bsky.social · 10/03/2025I learned so much from this & especially loved the interview with @biblioracle.bsky.social. The university would like us to police AI usage. But this reiterates what a waste of time and energy that is. 120
Reposted by Mandy Len CatronHey Neighbour Collective @heyneighbourcollective.ca · 05/03/2025We were very grateful to be included in Mandy's @thenarwhal.ca article alongside our colleagues at Building Resilient Neighbourhoods, where she wrote about the importance of knowing our neighbours, particularly so we can help each other out in times of disaster. thenarwhal.ca/vancouver-so...thenarwhal.caStronger social connections could help Vancouver weather climate disasters | The NarwhalSocial infrastructure is far more critical — and arguably more durable — than physical infrastructure in an era of heat domes, wildfires and flooding 041
Reposted by Mandy Len CatronHey Neighbour Collective @heyneighbourcollective.ca · 05/03/2025We love this article from @mandylen.bsky.social so much - as well as her resource spreadsheet! Small, joyful things to hold onto, for those moments when we may be feeling "occasionally bereft or despairing about The State of Things." (Which we recognize may be *more* than occasionally right now.) 💙 111
Reposted by Mandy Len CatronLeslie Pietrzyk @lesliepwriter.bsky.social · 19/02/2025This is the official journal of the Converse low-res MFA program. I'm the editor and our team of enthusiastic and smart readers would love to consider your fiction/poetry/CNF/flash. Deadline: 3/10/25 131
Reposted by Mandy Len CatronWendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Need some good news today? Authors Against Book Bans fought one conservative school district in FL and won! lithub.com/authors-agai...lithub.comHow Authors Against Book Bans helped defeat attempted library censorship in Florida.If you’ve been following the right wing’s obsessive book-banning over the last few years, you’ve probably heard of Authors Against Book Bans, a coalition of writers, illustrators, and other book pe… 10589209
Mandy Len Catron @mandylen.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Vancouverites, I made a thing! Please contribute--and share! open.substack.com/pub/mandylen...open.substack.comThe loneliness of climate change, part two: the less lonely spreadsheet edition!I made a thing! Please contribute--and share! 153
Mandy Len Catron @mandylen.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Spending this Family Day weekend working on my new project: How to give your three-year-old eye drops in 112 easy steps. 000
Reposted by Mandy Len CatronThe Tyee @thetyee.ca · 07/02/2025Dear Elon, we’re out. The Tyee will no longer be posting to X (formerly Twitter) and we’ve removed the X sharing buttons from our stories. Here’s why.thetyee.caNo Thanks, Musk. We’ll Direct Our Readers Elsewhere | The TyeeThe Tyee is no longer posting on X. Here’s why. 313569648
Reposted by Mandy Len CatronMatt @mikalatos.com · 07/02/2025My mom called me from a thrift shop once and told me that a book I'd signed to a co-worker was there. I asked her to buy it, and then I snuck it back into his house at the company Christmas party and never mentioned it again. 22115899
Reposted by Mandy Len CatronSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 09/01/2025“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”fortune.comAI doesn’t just require tons of electric power. It also guzzles enormous sums of water.It also guzzles enormous sums of water. 11739452469
Reposted by Mandy Len Catronbrian david gilbert @briamgilbert.bsky.social · 09/01/2025waaaaay too many people in the middle imo 280236296990
Reposted by Mandy Len CatronThe Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 02/12/2024In lonely cities, stronger neighbourhood connections are essential for preparing for climate change disasters, writes @mandylen.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/vancouver-so...thenarwhal.caStronger social connections could help Vancouver weather climate disasters | The NarwhalSocial infrastructure is far more critical — and arguably more durable — than physical infrastructure in an era of heat domes, wildfires and flooding 23612
Reposted by Mandy Len Catronmichellehoar.bsky.social @michellehoar.bsky.social · 04/12/2024I loved hanging out with @mandylen.bsky.social recently for one of the interviews that fueled her beautiful, thoughtful piece. Thanks for being interested in @heyneighbourcollective.ca's work Mandy and for your beautiful writing about #socialresilience, #socialconnection etc. 053
Mandy Len Catron @mandylen.bsky.social · 22/01/2024www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... The Guardian asked me to write about new studies showing high interest in non-monogamy. What does it all mean? One answer is that the nuclear family is just not enough.theguardian.comNon-monogamous relationships seem to be on the rise. Is that surprising? | Mandy Len CatronWe want our partners to help clean, cook, parent, and remind us to go to the gym. It’s a lot to ask of one person – what if there were more than one? 020
Reposted by Mandy Len CatronMacDowell @macdowell1907.bsky.social · 02/01/2024At MacDowell, there are no residency fees, and to defray expenses that accrue during an artist’s stay, we provide need-based stipends to cover rent, utilities, childcare, and lost income from taking time off from employment, as well as grants to travel to and from the residency. 04022
Reposted by Mandy Len CatronSplit Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 02/01/2024FREE SUBMISSIONS are open again! We absolutely LOVE: ⚡️ voice-driven writing 📺 all things pop culture 🧠 the kind of honesty that gets you right in the kidneys 😉 following our guidelines 💰paying our contributors Check out the deets here: buff.ly/32k496o 0178
Mandy Len Catron @mandylen.bsky.social · 08/12/2023Not me here in my office tearing up over students' takeaways from our Intro CNF course! 110
Mandy Len Catron @mandylen.bsky.social · 08/12/2023I used to feel this way until a colleague accidentally swapped computers with someone in the airport security line and, when he got to Sweden, he discovered his laptop was in China. I'm now very pro sticker. 010
Reposted by Mandy Len CatronNicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 05/12/2023❤️electricliterature.comElectric Lit’s Best Nonfiction of 2023 - Electric LiteratureNicole Chung, Claire Dederer, Lamya H, Maggie Smith, and Samantha Irby are among the year’s most loved books of nonfiction 1195
Reposted by Mandy Len CatronTash 🍉 @tashmahal.bsky.social · 23/10/2023"Or did you mean to ask 'Why are you sad so often?' Ask the moon. Ask what it has witnessed." -Linda Pastan, Why Are Your Poems so Dark? 0177
Mandy Len Catron @mandylen.bsky.social · 23/10/2023Just signed up for a podcast that prefers I connect via ethernet for my interview. Have I...missed something? Is it 2009? 110
Mandy Len Catron @mandylen.bsky.social · 23/10/2023Truly time to abandon this stupid test. Here in Canada we don't use it and everyone gets by just fine. There are still broken parts of admission systems, but it's a start. 010
Reposted by Mandy Len CatronLina Srivastava @linasrivastava.bsky.social · 05/10/2023The border wall kills. It kills people, wildlife, habitats, and communities. There is no justification for this. This is a terrible decision by the Biden administration. 321068
Reposted by Mandy Len CatronG. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 09/10/2023In the hands of the biggest media corporations, the term 'diversity' has become a poison pill. A way to silo and minimize the contributions of the historically marginalized. There are *real* books and 'diverse' books, which you can safely ignore. At conferences, real panels and 'diverse' panels. Etc 8596239
Reposted by Mandy Len CatronDonnell Wyche @donnell.bsky.social · 09/10/2023Scholastic asks, "Do you want to opt out of 'diverse' books at your school's next book fair?" Your participation in white supremacy has never been easier, just uncheck the 'diverse' books box– poof, no problems. 🙄themarysue.comScholastic Under Fire for Allowing Schools to Opt Out of ‘Diverse Books’ for Book FairsScholastic has been accused of bending to right-wing pressure, making having diverse books optional for school book fairs. 9323741197
Reposted by Mandy Len CatronThe Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social · 04/10/2023We at CR support our colleagues at Gettysburg Review—a magazine whose value to American letters, and the student interns who work at the journal, is beyond doubt. You, too, can show your support by writing Provost Bookwala and President Iuliano at Gettysburg College. 04115
Reposted by Mandy Len CatronAmy @lolennui.bsky.social · 04/10/2023So we're just gonna ~discover that money relieves poverty every two weeks for the rest of my goddamn life huh 9692211
Reposted by Mandy Len CatronNicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 04/10/2023waiting to see if they do the right thing and fix/restore the links before I blast them on the site formerly known as Twitter, but I've been informed that all the Catapult magazine links redirect to the books page. Writers will have lost links to their essays, short fiction, poems. 23666
Mandy Len Catron @mandylen.bsky.social · 04/10/2023An interesting thing about having my twins in daycare is that sometimes only one of them is sick and stays home. And I get a glimpse of what it would be like to have one kid. And, you guys! I love them both. But. It feels like sending my fractured attention on vacation. 🏝️ 100
Reposted by Mandy Len CatronScott Santens @scottsantens.com · 03/10/2023Preliminary results from the Denver Basic Income Project that's providing cash to hundreds of unhoused people for one year using the first 6 months of data: • NO ONE receiving $1,000/mo still sleeping outside • Full-time employment increased • Fewer visits to the ER • Fewer nights spent in jail 3030231141
Reposted by Mandy Len CatronMark Doyle @markdoyle.bsky.social · 04/10/2023Gettysburg College has decided to shut down its prestigious literary magazine, Gettysburg Review, without consultation with the people who run it. 20150105
Reposted by Mandy Len CatronSplit Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 04/10/2023Our colleagues at Gettysburg Review have received some devastating news. It’s alarming for the literary community as a whole, & the SLM fam encourages everyone to voice their thoughts to the university that defunded them. All our voices matter! More info in this pic (thx @bullcitypress.bsky.social!) 47038
Mandy Len Catron @mandylen.bsky.social · 04/10/2023Audiobook readers: I'm looking for a spooky October listen. Got any favorites?? (light horror is okay and heavy horror is...too heavy) 000
Reposted by Mandy Len CatronEmily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 27/09/2023I’d say this banned-books story horrifies me because I’m queer, but honestly I don’t think I’d be less horrified if I were straight. It’s the kind of insanity that should worry anyone who cares about a) living in a free society or b) other people. popular.info/p/florida-sc...popular.infoFlorida school district orders librarians to purge all books with LGBTQ charactersLibrarians in public schools in Charlotte County, Florida, were instructed by the school district superintendent to remove all books with LGBTQ characters or themes from school and classroom libraries... 1121674632