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T Kira Māhealani Madden @tkiramadden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

funny you should pop up here because I taught your piece 5:45 this week along with Saeed’s work! Unit on time 💙

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T Kira Māhealani Madden @tkiramadden.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I *always* teach from How We Fight For Our Lives (and share your anecdote about writing Prelude for Patricia Smith!)

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T Kira Māhealani Madden @tkiramadden.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

and I just taught your work this week 💜

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Erin Dorney @erindorney.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

If you're around Central/Western NY we'd love to see you next month at the inaugural BEACH READ featuring @dannycaine.com + @tkiramadden.bsky.social + Angelique Stevens! 🏖️☀️🏄‍♀️ www.fearnolit.com

Event flyer for Beach Read, a lit reading at Hamlin Beach State Part on Friday, August 21, featuring Danny Caine, T Kira Madden, and Angelique Stevens. The flyer shows a vintage illustration of a person about to jump into water.

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ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Ready for ZYZZYVA Movie Night with @ingridrojasc.bsky.social? We are too! We’re back at Roxie Theater for a classic Hitchcock thriller + conversation with @tkiramadden.bsky.social 🎟️🎟️🎟️: l1nq.com/ajdj8xp

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T Kira Māhealani Madden @tkiramadden.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Me on group texts // in voice notes to all my besties

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ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Movie night is back! We’re thrilled to return with Litquake for ZYZZYVA Movie Night with @ingridrojasc.bsky.social The first installment: @tkiramadden.bsky.social joins us to watch and discuss Alfred Hitchock’s Strangers on a Train. Tickets: tinyurl.com/4psr6py4

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T Kira Māhealani Madden @tkiramadden.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Revolutionary Road is one of the greatest horror novels ever written (also, one of the greatest novels). Will always f with Yates & not enough people do.

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T Kira Māhealani Madden @tkiramadden.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I read this without my glasses (and don’t know the reference anyway) but I was like, me, Mara! I’d love to go to a Tamagotchi island!

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T Kira Māhealani Madden @tkiramadden.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

totally. also just made me misty eyed about art, the point of it, the underground piece especially—with no map or fanfare—making things w the hope of eliciting spontaneous wonder. and also, just to make the work!

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T Kira Māhealani Madden @tkiramadden.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I think about that Secret Mall Apartment doc a lot

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T Kira Māhealani Madden @tkiramadden.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Thank you for reading, Karen! That’s incredibly kind, and I’m grateful ❤️

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T Kira Māhealani Madden @tkiramadden.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

2018 first book me: always check your intentions while writing; write from a place of warmth, compassion, tectonic empathy 2026: my entire third book is an exercise in spite

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T Kira Māhealani Madden @tkiramadden.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

hah! It was Fade, which actually felt way too long for two very spotlight-shy people, so we forced people to come dance with us after about 9.3 seconds

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T Kira Māhealani Madden @tkiramadden.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I love to be so gay I can proudly brag that our wedding intro/outro song was Tracy Chapman (and Mazzy Star for first dance)

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Jan Stinchcomb @janstinchcomb.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

"What they don't tell you is this: to live without fear is lonesome." T Kira Māhealani Madden, Whidbey #SundaySentence

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Samantha Paige Rosen @samanthapaigerosen.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Profiled T Kira Madden for ELLE! Read not only for WHIDBEY BTS, but also for a true example of what committing to this writing life can look like—and how freaking fun it can be amidst all the hard work. www.elle.com/culture/book...

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T Kira Madden Is Not the Dark Person You Might Expect

The Whidbey author’s process prioritizes play, even as she crafts deep, difficult stories.

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Poets & Writers @pw.org · 18/02/2026

“I hope reading it feels like staring at the sun,” T Kira Māhealani Madden (@tkiramadden.bsky.social) says about her new novel, Whidbey, published by Mariner Books in March. “I want it to feel unbearable at times because I think that is truer to how life is…” Read more: at.pw.org/CrimeAndCompassion

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Jaime Lee Kucinskas @jlkucinskas.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

So thrilled @tkiramadden.bsky.social's new book is coming out! We are lucky to have her. Hamilton folks can go see her book talk next Thursday! www.harpercollins.com/products/whi...

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Whidbey

A Most Anticipated Book by People • Vogue • Esquire • Harper’s Bazaar • USA Today • Seattle Times • Bookpage •Chicago Review of Books • Crimereads • Goodrea...

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Ronnica Fatt @ronnicareads.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

761/700 💙📚🖋️📚 📖: Whidbey by T Kira Madden Genre: Contemporary, Literary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: A very difficult, yet necessary read. I appreciate the highlighting of white women speaking over women of color, even while both face other harm. Thank you Mariner books for the review copy. #booksky

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T Kira Māhealani Madden @tkiramadden.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

❤️❤️ thank you for reading, Alex! I’ve held yours close, too

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T Kira Māhealani Madden @tkiramadden.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

imagine being stuck in space w katy perry

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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

every book is like, what if the CLIMATE could HAVE SEX

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T Kira Māhealani Madden @tkiramadden.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

hold up in law, also yes. Though I’ve seen it done, particularly with land rights cases (someone mentioned Māori too). To be clear, I agree w your points, only wanted to share that for us it isn’t a bracket of the peoples timeline

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T Kira Māhealani Madden @tkiramadden.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

some of us define indigeneity not by our people pre-contact, but by naming the land herself our ancestor. In Hawaiian you wouldn’t introduce yourself without naming the mountain, stream, plant that raised or sustained your life, and that naming is also a vow to protect. Spiritual, yes; difficult to

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 19/03/2025

reposting with alt text and full text of Mahmoud Khalil's letter is available here, from @ccrjustice.org ccrjustice.org/sites/defaul...

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Letter from a Palestinian Political Prisoner in Louisiana
Dictated over the phone from ICE Detention
March 18, 2025
My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in
Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices
underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law.
Who has the right to have rights? It is certainly not the humans crowded into the cells here. It isn’t the
Senegalese man I met who has been deprived of his liberty for a year, his legal situation in limbo and his
family an ocean away. It isn’t the 21-year-old detainee I met, who stepped foot in this country at age nine,
only to be deported without so much as a hearing.
Justice escapes the contours of this nation’s immigration facilities.

On March 8, I was taken by DHS agents who refused to provide a warrant, and accosted my wife and me
as we returned from dinner. By now, the footage of that night has been made public. Before I knew what
was happening, agents handcuffed and forced me into an unmarked car. At that moment, my only concern
was for Noor’s safety. I had no idea if she would be taken too, since the agents had threatened to arrest her
for not leaving my side. DHS would not tell me anything for hours — I did not know the cause of my
arrest or if I was facing immediate deportation. At 26 Federal Plaza, I slept on the cold floor. In the early
morning hours, agents transported me to another facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey. There, I slept on the
ground and was refused a blanket despite my request.
My arrest was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a free
Palestine and an end to the genocide in Gaza, which resumed in full force Monday night. With January’s
ceasefire now broken, parents in Gaza are once again cradling too-small shrouds, and families are forced
to weigh starvation and displacement against bombs. It is our moral imperative to persist in the struggle
for their complete freedom

I was born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria to a family which has been displaced from their land
since the 1948 Nakba. I spent my youth in proximity to yet distant from my homeland. But being
Palestinian is an experience that transcends borders. I see in my circumstances similarities to Israel’s use
of administrative detention — imprisonment without trial or charge — to strip Palestinians of their rights.
I think of our friend Omar Khatib, who was incarcerated without charge or trial by Israel as he returned
home from travel. I think of Gaza hospital director and pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who was
taken captive by the Israeli military on December 27 and remains in an Israeli torture camp today. For
Palestinians, imprisonment without due process is commonplace.
I have always believed that my duty is not only to liberate myself from the oppressor, but also to liberate
my oppressors from their hatred and fear. My unjust detention is indicative of the anti-Palestinian racism
that both the Biden and Trump administrations have demonstrated over the past 16 months as the U.S. has
continued to supply Israel with weapons to kill Palestinians and prevented international intervention. For
decades, anti-Palestinian racism has driven efforts to expand U.S. laws and practices that are used to
violently repress Palestinians, Arab Americans, and other communities. That is precisely why I am being
targeted.

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T Kira Māhealani Madden @tkiramadden.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

yeah, I saw the initial email and lost my shit. thanks for clarifying before the follow up came through...

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Kristen Arnett @kristenarnett.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

book drops 3/18 and i have a fucking fantastic tour planned - will announce soon - but there is still time to get a preorder that’s signed and personalized by me from the good folks at the lynx thelynxbooks.com/item/ZoOPMvN...

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Stop Me If You've Heard This One

A Novel

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T Kira Māhealani Madden @tkiramadden.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Do I have friends (friends of friends?) in Indianapolis? I’ll be reading at Butler tomorrow, free and open to the public 💗 www.butler.edu/arts-science...

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Visiting Writers Series | Butler University

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T Kira Māhealani Madden @tkiramadden.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

everything else aside, the *looks* of Milkshake 👩🏻‍🍳🤌🏽

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T Kira Māhealani Madden @tkiramadden.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

My wife doesn’t know what happens in Part II of Wicked. Just sang a little “For Good” as a teaser and she stared, mouth open, then burst out crying.

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T Kira Māhealani Madden @tkiramadden.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

hau’oli makahiki hou 💗 grateful to be home

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Timothy F @tim0theos.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

This is correct. This is a land acknowledgment that I don’t hate. It acknowledges the facts and gives a chance to learn more and is doing something, anything, about it.

bekka leigh design operates on the unceded traditional territories of the Dunne-za, Saulteaux, Tse’khene, and nehiyaw nations, in Treaty 8 territory, and offers reparation rates on services to Indigenous clients. A link at the end says: Read why.

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T Kira Māhealani Madden @tkiramadden.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

in the spirit of xmas I have been reborn after the worst food poisoning in history

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T Kira Māhealani Madden @tkiramadden.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

thank you for sharing this with me. I cherish any HL story!

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T Kira Māhealani Madden @tkiramadden.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Day 14. Some will only talk about Brokeback Mountain (a miracle of a story) but every story in here is gothic, surreal, otherworldly, sometimes campy. I’ve read this book a million times. Listening to it on audio while driving through Wyoming while in love, top experience

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T Kira Māhealani Madden @tkiramadden.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Day 13. Not a day goes by where I don’t think about Heather Lewis. I wish she were still alive and still writing books. Her characters suffer so tremendously but they’re still alive, full of agency, sensuality, wanting. Fewer ppl have had greater impact on me, though I never met HL

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T Kira Māhealani Madden @tkiramadden.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

finally watched The Substance. It is Death Becomes Her meets Severance, no?

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T Kira Māhealani Madden @tkiramadden.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

can’t speak for MB, but I encounter “impossibly blue eyes” almost daily in what I read

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T Kira Māhealani Madden @tkiramadden.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

it’s a great book, and Bell is not at all prescriptive but super generous in sharing what’s worked for him and some others via interviews and excerpts. One can take or leave any tool 🌷

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