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Shuchi Saraswat

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writer︱senior editor of AGNI @agnimagazine.bsky.social linktr.ee/shuchisaraswat

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Aidan Rooney @aidanrooney.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
In a time of fiefdom and hubris and fill-in-your-blank, it is good to read AGNI.
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Laila Lalami @lailalalami.com · 09/03/2025
If a legal permanent resident can have his green card revoked for exercising his first amendment rights, there’s nothing to stop them from going after citizens, too.
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AGNI @agnimagazine.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
"Gaza—We Are Not All One" by Najlaa Attallah (trans. from the Arabic by Andrew Leber) is our latest Dispatch from Palestine. Read it here 👇
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Dispatches from Palestine
In its fifty years AGNI has worked to “bring our readers into the living moment, not as tourists, but as engaged participants.” As we expressed in Against Silence: A Collective Statement toward…
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I'm with Kelly here: deeply interested in leftism as a political project but have no interest whatsoever in leftism as a subculture. the stakes of leaving this behind are hopefully clearer by the day
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Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Let us speak of this & help @robertmacfarland.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @tempestwilliams.bsky.social @billmckibben.bsky.social @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social @elizkolbert.bsky.social Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They’re Trying to Publish It Anyway. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/c...
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Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They’re Trying to Publish It Anyway.
The first full draft of the assessment, on the state of America’s land, water and wildlife, was weeks from completion. The project leader called the study “too important to die.”
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
We’re alarmed and outraged that two of our key partners, Mahmoud and Ahmed Muna, have been arrested in Jerusalem for the crime of selling books.
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Dr Sarah Irving @drtermagant.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
The Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem has been raided by Israeli security forces. Mahmoud and Ahmad Mina have been taken to custody. Anyone who’s visited Palestine knows how serious this is for freedom of speech and cultural organising in Palestine and Israel.
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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Guys, WIRED has been scooping every other publication and has been bravely covering this assault on our government, our Constitution, and on the rule of law. They are worth your attention and support.
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Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Well this was satisfying.
For in the end, the reactionary liberal is a ruthless defender of all that exists.
Paul's 2021 book, 100 Things We Lost to the Internet, is a cabinet of banalities wherein the usual liberal virtues (civility, patience) sit glassily alongside a predictable middle-class nostalgia for things like scouring the Bloomingdale's shoe department for the right dress pump or taking in a Broadway show without hearing the low buzz of a text message. "There was nothing to do but let go of whatever might be happening outside the theater and lose yourself in what was happening onstage," Paul writes wistfully. "You simply couldn't be reached." It is a great dream of the reactionary liberal not to be reached. Paul will freely admit, for instance, that it is immoral for Israel to kill tens of thousands of civilians. Yet it is no less immoral for student protesters to erect an ugly encampment in the middle of the quad and hurl slogans at the police. This is because political action is an unacceptable snag in the continuity of bourgeois experience. One gets the sense that polities has gone off, like a cell phone, in the darkened theater of Pamela Paul's mind. It is worse than wrong: It is rude.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Bondi's Justice Department looks poised to prosecute blue state doctors who mail abortion pills into red states, probably under the Comstock Act. She's also very likely to restrict access to medication abortion WITHIN blue states by declaring that *all* mailing of abortion pills is unlawful.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024. You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right? Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year. You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.
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Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3 Billion in Income
This brings Tesla’s average tax rate over the past three years to 0.4 percent.
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Shuchi Saraswat @saraswat-s.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Thanks to the Museum of Fine Arts for asking me to write this essay, response to Rana Begum’s site-specific installation. www.mfa.org/article/2025...
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Begin Again
I wake up out of a terrible dream and into a dark early morning.
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
100%.
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DeeSoul 🙂‍↕️ @deesoulpoetry.com · 17/01/2025
Grateful to have this poem featured on @poetrydaily.bsky.social ! Originally published in @agnimagazine.bsky.social
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AGNI @agnimagazine.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
My land is renowned for the anemone; its bright red heralds the spring. In a realm of bright blossoms and rebirth, the sun ravels its golden chains across the sea, playing mischievous games with the waves. ~"Anemones" by Haya Abu Nasser is our latest Dispatch from Palestine
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Dispatches from Palestine
In its fifty years AGNI has worked to “bring our readers into the living moment, not as tourists, but as engaged participants.” As we expressed in Against Silence: A Collective Statement toward…
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AGNI @agnimagazine.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
👀 ICYMI 👀 Our online Submission Manager closes from December 15th through January 15th. Looking for a reason to submit? This is it! Send us your work by TOMORROW at 11:59 p.m. Hawaiian Time. buff.ly/3BiRUyd
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Maaza Mengiste @maazamengiste.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
1/? In 2015, a Syrian military photographer, code named Caesar, escaped the country with tens of thousands of photos he'd smuggled from a notoriously sadistic prison... www.theguardian.com/world/2015/o...
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‘They were torturing to kill’: inside Syria’s death machine | Garance le Caisne
The long read: Caesar, the Syrian military photographer who smuggled shocking evidence of torture out of Assad’s dungeons, tells his story for the first time
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AGNI @agnimagazine.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Congratulations to AGNI contributor Sofi Stambo, winner of the 2024 @literaryhub.bsky.social Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing for her collection of short stories, A Bunch of Savages, to be published in spring 2026. buff.ly/4fzeZeV
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Announcing the winner of the 2024 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing.
Literary Hub is pleased to announce the winner of the 2024 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, an annual award given to a first-time, first-generation immigrant author that includes a $…
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AGNI @agnimagazine.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
⚠️ AGNI's submission period closes in one week! ⚠️ We look for writing that catches experience before the crusts of habit form—poetry and prose that resist ideas about what a certain kind of writing “should do.” Learn more here👇
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We look for writing that catches experience before the crusts of habit form—poetry and prose that resist ideas about what a certain kind of writing “should do.” We seek out writers who tell their…
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
To our new followers: we've been organizing for Palestinian families in Gaza since July of this year. We are closing in on 2,000 workshop participants (since we started keeping track). Can you help us achieve our goal this long weekend of 100 new sign-ups? We have 12 workshops and 1 trans. consult ⬇️
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Jennifer Kwon Dobbs 허수진 @jkwondobbs.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
This powerhouse poem by DeeSoul Carson will blast off your Monday (any day, really!): agnionline.bu.edu/poetry/good-...
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 28/11/2024
Do you know what Project Esther is? It’s a plan to crush Palestine solidarity, smear activists as terrorists, and revive McCarthyism—wrapped in the guise of fighting antisemitism. mondoweiss.net/2024/11/insi...
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Inside Project Esther, the right wing action plan to take down the Palestine movement
The Heritage Foundation’s “Project Esther” claims to combat antisemitism but in fact, aims to destroy the Palestine solidarity movement as a first step in a crusade against all domestic dissent in the...
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juliet nebolon @julietneb.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Follow and check out workshops by @workshops4gaza.bsky.social , sign up to do a workshop, or visit their online bookstore in partnership w/ @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social !
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Abdelrahman ElGendy @elgendy95.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Today marks day 60 of Laila Soueif's hunger strike and day 20 of our consecutive one-day hunger strikes in solidarity with her. Today I start a 24-hour hunger strike in solidarity with Laila, a 68-year-old Math professor and one of the revolutionary icons of Egypt’s left. 🧵
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Amazon workers in 20 countries are going on strike on Black Friday. Don’t cross the picket line.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Framing matters. It’s not a “refugee crisis”, it’s a humanitarian crisis. Refugees don’t create the problem, inhumanity does.
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mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Hello everyone. This is mosab abu toha. I had this account months ago and i will start posting here soon. Please spread the word.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This era is strange because it is both socially/culturally regressive, yet technologically accelerationist. Backward + forward at the same time. With human erasure being the goal. I think those interested in cultural preservation, archival work— resisting erasure will be *especially* important.
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Erika Meitner @rika99.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Each cabinet pick is a new fresh hell so here’s a poem from @agnimagazine.bsky.social 100 (!) about birds’ nests made from detritus, extreme weather, + swimming at summer camp. Remember ‘buddy check’? Let’s re-implement buddy check for the next few years maybe for, like, everything? #ecopoetry
Picture of a poem called “that has been entrusted to us” about bird nests built from detritus, extreme weather, summer camp, wildfire smoke, the hot ocean, swimming at summer camp, and buddy checkThe black and white cover of the 100th issue of AGNI
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AGNI @agnimagazine.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
AGNI has landed & we see blue skies ahead! 💙🌤️ We invite our contributors to comment & share the issue(s) of the magazine where our skyline can find your work!👇
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AGNI @agnimagazine.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The brown hen is blown toward the chopping block and the red-handled ax. The sea is rubbed bare in spots, the sky El Greco blue between the forking clouds. ~from "Vendaval" by Jennifer Barber AGNI 47 & 56
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The brown hen is blown toward the chopping block and the red-handled ax. The sea is rubbed bare in spots, the sky El Greco blue between the forking clouds. The only gods are seasonal: the holding…
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. stay locked in.
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Spencer Ruchti @spencerruchti.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Since the Cercador Prize isn’t here yet, I’ll do the honors… The committee awards the 2024 prize to Thomas Bunstead for his translation of ‘The Book of All Loves’ by Agustín Fernández Mallo, published by Fitzcarraldo Editions.
An image of a blue book on a yellow background. The book is titles The Book of All Loves by Agustin Fernandez Mallo, translated by Thomas Bunstead. An image of Thomas BunsteadAn image of Agustin Fernandez MalloThe title page of The Book of All Loves
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Rachel Mennies @rmennies.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
everyone say hi to @agnimagazine.bsky.social !! add us to all yr lit mag lists !!
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Jennifer Kwon Dobbs 허수진 @jkwondobbs.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
AGNI Magazine is on Blue Sky! I love these lines from Paisley Rekdal's poem, "My Brother": "I want a brother to walk with me now through these woods, to stare with me into Death’s eyes, those glassy, winking flames." Read the full poem here: agnionline.bu.edu/poetry/my-br...
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My Brother | AGNI Online
Where is my brother? I am stunned, starving, staring into the mirror in the hopes of seeing a face other than mine gaze back. Where is my brother? Wasn’t I promised, once, never to be left alone, my p...
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Shuchi Saraswat @saraswat-s.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
@agnimagazine.bsky.social is now here! give ‘em (us) a follow! 🔥
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Jehad Abusalim @jehadabusalim.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Download your free copy of the anthology "Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire," which I had the honor of co-editing in 2022. Light in Gaza explores the critical role of Gaza in Palestinian identity, history, and the struggle for liberation. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1861-l...
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Light in Gaza
Light in Gaza gathers a collective Palestinian vision of what a future Gaza could be.
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Daniel Delgado #CeasefireNow @ddelgadovive.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
"For the first time in U.S. history, there will be a vote in Congress to block weapons to Israel." Contact your Senators ASAP to ask them to support Senator Sanders's resolution to block a $20 billion weapons shipments to Israel. www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/ema...
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Email your Senators: No more weapons to Israel. - JVP
Email your Senators now and tell them to support Senator Sanders' bill to end weapons shipments to Israel and to support a full arms embargo on the Israeli government.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
This is happening now in Beirut. X, as horrific as it got, is a loudspeaker for the silenced. I am still there because of it. We must get intentional about circulating the horrors in Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan if we intend to make this the just alternative.
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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Now boycott Tesla.
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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Media-making is a key facet of effective movements--AND we're entering an even more dangerous time for media-makers. We (Lara Witt & I) wrote about some ways to prepare, from ramping up media literacy, to uplifting movement history & creativity, to relationship-building. truthout.org/articles/her...
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Here Are Five Media-Related Actions We Can All Take Before Inauguration Day
Movement media is a vital tool in challenging fascism. Let’s work together to get in gear.
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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances. —Robert Hass #fromthearchive poems.com/poem/meditat...
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"Meditation at Lagunitas" by Robert Hass
from "Praise" published by Ecco
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Muting the cynical forecasters because what is it good for but getting you to stop doing something you need to do? Why tell me no one is going to do anything about X or Y? Unless you want me to stop. Because you also want to stop. Which I don’t want.
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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Nasser Rabah (one of the winners of our Flash Fiction prize + the author of the beautiful poem "Amjad" + a funny sweet person), has a book forthcoming from City Lights. You can pre-order the book directly from the publisher at a 30% discount: citylights.com/general-poet...
The cover of Nasser's new book Gaza: The Poem Said Its Piece
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