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Trace DePass @tracedepass.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I had the honor of sitting with June Jordan's teaching artist diaries, wrote this reflection, was given the privilege to select nearly a chapbook's worth of her archive with Teachers & Writers Collaborative that hadn't been published before today! Enjoy! teachersandwritersmagazine.org/dearest-june/
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Dearest June - Teachers & Writers Magazine
Reflections on the early teaching diaries of June Jordan.
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Trace DePass @tracedepass.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
"There are some books that don’t simply speak—they breathe. Trace DePass’s BOOTless is one of them. From the opening page, the collection feels like a body learning itself again—trembling, contracting, releasing—moving toward a truth that’s been waiting beneath the skin." --Dr. Darius Phelps
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“How Can the Holy Be Its Own?: An Interview with Trace DePass on BOOTless, Lineage, and the Shape of Breath” —Curated by Darius Phelps"
There are some books that don’t simply speak—they breathe. Trace DePass’s BOOTless is one of them. From the opening page, the collection feels like a body learning itself again—trembling, contracting,...
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Trace DePass @tracedepass.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I had the honor of sitting with June Jordan's teaching artist diaries, wrote this reflection, was given the privilege to select nearly a chapbook's worth of her archive with Teachers & Writers Collaborative that hadn't been published before today! Enjoy! teachersandwritersmagazine.org/dearest-june/
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Dearest June - Teachers & Writers Magazine
Reflections on the early teaching diaries of June Jordan.
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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: BOOTless (by @tracedepass.bsky.social, @diodeeditions.bsky.social) & God-Damned Eden (by James Daniels, @bullcitypress.com). See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #BlackHistoryMonth #bookish #booklovers #BooksWorthReading #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booksta
Book cover for God-Damned Eden by James Daniels (Bull City Press): Selma is a community that, despite its pain, holds a depth of spirit that deserves love and care, a place where redemption is sought through the resilience of its people. God-Damned Eden speaks to the tension within a place that is both deeply flawed and deeply loved. Like the fallen earth in scripture, Selma is marked by human shortcomings and struggles, yet it remains beloved, resilient, and layered with beauty. This Eden-like quality isn’t pristine; it’s a paradise that bears scars—a place both blessed and “damned” by the realities of history and hardship. Yet, within those imperfections lies the work of restoration, an ongoing call to see and honor the beauty that persists. https://bullcitypress.com/product/god-damned-eden-by-james-daniels-inch-65/Book cover for BOOTless by Trace DePass (Diode Editions): BOOTless: an archaic word also meaning ineffectual, is a black poet’s psychedelic meditation on gentrification, climate change, & post-pandemic grief, pointing its arrow back at its country that has stacked colonization on genocide & monopolized colonization & genocide. The book laughs at an oppressor’s self-elected right to canonize its theft & winning rhetoric under the guise of calling it history. This book may indict Whiteness, if not English itself, as using language built on oppression (a Deleuzian desire-machine sewn together by other languages) in order to create indefinite law on stolen land with indefinite marginalization for the people on it. https://www.diodeeditions.com/product-page/bootless
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Trace DePass @tracedepass.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
"There are some books that don’t simply speak—they breathe. Trace DePass’s BOOTless is one of them. From the opening page, the collection feels like a body learning itself again—trembling, contracting, releasing—moving toward a truth that’s been waiting beneath the skin." --Dr. Darius Phelps
tupeloquarterly.com
“How Can the Holy Be Its Own?: An Interview with Trace DePass on BOOTless, Lineage, and the Shape of Breath” —Curated by Darius Phelps"
There are some books that don’t simply speak—they breathe. Trace DePass’s BOOTless is one of them. From the opening page, the collection feels like a body learning itself again—trembling, contracting,...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Labor activist Chris Smalls has been released from an Israeli prison, a spokesperson for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition said
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Activist Chris Smalls released from Israeli custody
The labor activist was reportedly singled out and beaten by Israeli forces while trying to reach Gaza with supplies.
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Patricia Smith @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
September 30!
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Today is the 111th birthday of Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre
A photo of Viola Ford Fletcher with her hands clasped
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Trace DePass @tracedepass.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Memorial Day Monday, May 26th at 4pm, I'll be hosting + reading at the Guggenheim alongside Imani Waweru & Ehima Ora for Rashid Johnson's Guggenheim Exhibit: A Poem for Deep Thinkers.
4pm Sharp on Memorial Day "An afternoon of poems @Guggenheim" 

Including black & white photos of Imani Waweru, Ehime Ora, & Trace DePass (with pink highlights in their photos)
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Arts organizations across the country saw their NEA grants pulled with little explanation, while a proposed federal budget sought to eliminate the arts funding agency altogether. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
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National Endowment for the Arts rescinds grants, dazing publishers and theaters
Arts organizations across the country saw their grants pulled with little explanation, while a proposed federal budget sought to eliminate the arts funding agency altogether.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Trump Proposes Elimination of NEA and NEH www.americantheatre.org/2025/05/02/t...
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Trump Proposes Elimination of NEA and NEH
The administration’s 2026 budget comes at a time when the future of NEA staff and grant programs remains in doubt.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Rite-Aid files for bankruptcy protection for the second time in two years.
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Khadjiah J @iamkdjiah.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
My piece is featured in Okay Donkey's March newsletter. "The Emmy Goes to the Seagull Flying off with a Hot Wing in front of the Chicken Spot?" Is honestly one of my favorite pieces. Catch me performing this and more pieces this summer near your picnic benches. okaydonkeymag.com/2023/01/27/t...
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NPR @npr.org · 05/05/2025
You and millions of other people rely on the NPR Network for trustworthy journalism. NPR’s editorial integrity and independence are non-negotiable. It’s a promise we make to you – a promise we will fight to keep. Now, we need your support. Donate today: n.pr/3EYClNR
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Jeanann Verlee @jeaverlee.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
That’s terror you’re feeling.
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Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Please watch, share, do what she suggests… it is indeed v v urgent
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NPR @npr.org · 26/04/2025
Civil rights groups, labor organizations and politicians praised Alexis Herman as a "trailblazer" who fought for the rights of women, Black people and American workers over the course of decades.
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Alexis Herman, the first Black secretary of labor in U.S. history, dies at age 77
Civil rights groups, labor organizations and politicians praised Alexis Herman as a "trailblazer" who fought for the rights of women, Black people and American workers over the course of decades.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 26/04/2025
Tony Koji Wallin-Sato’s poetry asks what it means to be free and reckons with the legacy of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.
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‘We All Talk to Spirits When We Are Identified as Numbers’
Tony Koji Wallin-Sato’s poetry asks what it means to be free and reckons with the legacy of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
James Harrison, whose blood contained a rare antibody that helped him save more than 2 million babies through decades of blood donations, has died
nbcnews.com
Prolific blood donor who saved 2.4 million babies dies at 88
James Harrison of Australia, whose blood had a rare antibody, donated 1,173 times over six decades, potentially saving millions of lives. He said he hoped someone would break his record.
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Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Today is the publication day for Essex Hemphill's *Love Is a Dangerous Word: Selected Poems," out from @NewDirections, which Robert Reid-Pharr & I coedited! Essex Hemphill's work speaks both to its time & compellingly to our current moment. Please order a copy! www.ndbooks.com/author/essex...
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 20/01/2025
In his inauguration speech Trump announced his fascist anti-immigrant raids and mass deportation attempts. We are not helpless. Here are 7 action items you can start to take now to help protect our immigrant neighbors: www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-mas...
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Trump's Mass Anti-Immigrant Raids to Begin
Here are action items to protect your immigrant neighbors, answers to common FAQs, and insights to debunk anti-immigrant propaganda
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Nic Nichols (He/They) @maruneboy.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Hi, I'm Nic, and I'm happy to share that I'm now cancer-free.  But I recently learned that I'm ineligible for disability pay at my job. Donations will reimburse expenses and pending medical bills while on leave.  I'm grateful for any support. 
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Khadjiah J @iamkdjiah.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
My friend for over a decade recently beat cancer after I cannot express it enough *MONTHS* of self advocacy against medical professionals who refused to conduct the tests to find the cancer in the first place. Consider donating/sharing their recovery gofund.me/794a2b24
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Donate to Join Nic's Journey: From Cancer to Recovery, organized by Nicholas Nichols
Hello Folks,  My name is Nic Nichols (He/They), and I'm happy to shar… Nicholas Nichols needs your support for Join Nic's Journey: From Cancer to Recovery
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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Under fascism, no one is safe. Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc. Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations. Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse. The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
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Louisiana coerced unhoused people into an unheated warehouse – and paid $17.5m for it
Dozens of New Orleanians were bused to a site with insufficient heating and blankets days before the city is to host the Super Bowl
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
We need to pay attention to this now before it’s too late.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 28/01/2025
@ocasio-cortez.house.gov
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
If you’re a federal employee, you should know this is a lie. Congress hasn’t appropriated these monies and so it’s literally not there to be spent. Also, federal agencies are limited by law to a max $25K payout in the case of restructuring.
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 28/01/2025
NEW: The U.S. just stopped giving out HIV medications to 20 million people around the world — even though clinics still have meds on the shelves. My latest for @npr.org: www.npr.org/sections/goa...
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Trump's 'stop-work' order for PEPFAR cuts off anti-HIV drugs for patients
As a result of the new administration's actions, health centers funded by PEPFAR, the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, are closing their doors and no longer dispersing medication.
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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
International Planned Parenthood, Amnesty International & other global organizations advocating for or providing family planning services are warning this will lead to millions of preventable maternal deaths, unsafe abortions and other—again, preventable—crises in poorer countries:
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Of the nearly 1200 arrests that ICE made on Sunday, half of them "appear to be non-violent offenders or people who have not committed any other criminal offense than crossing the border." www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...
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ICE makes close to 1,200 arrests in one day
Nearly half of those detained don’t have criminal records, according to a senior Trump administration official.
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Khadjiah J @iamkdjiah.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Im a multi-disciplinarian I talk about my food writing, media critique and my comedic pieces, but poet Djiah is my favorite. Here is a piece that was published on @havehashad.com back in 2023. It's a square poem and a sestina in one piece. Readable 3 ways horizontal, vertical & dates with sestina.
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The Emmy Belongs to February by Khadjiah Johnson
after Nkosi Nkululeko F E B R U A R Y 1 On 2 Monday 3 I 4 Daydream 5 Through 6 Next 7 Saturday— 8 Sunda...
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NotQuietMode_M.D. @notquietmodemd.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Tom Morello was right. And now, we are living in the bonafide Rage Against the Machine era. It is time to organize. Our government is not failing us, it is actively trying to destroy us. #ResistForRealThisTIme
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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Trump, Kavanaugh, Hegseth. A whole government of men who rape, attempt rape, & abuse women. What a depraved time we are living through.
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NPR @npr.org · 24/01/2025
The full implications of designating the cartels as terrorist organizations will depend, in large part, to how the administration follows through.
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Trump wants to label drug cartels terrorist organizations. Here's what that means in practice
The full implications of designating the cartels as terrorist organizations will depend, in large part, to how the administration follows through.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Hi! Quick note: The Onion accidentally posted a stock photo from a vendor with an AI generated image in it. We pulled the post down once we found that out. Our commitment to not using AI is very real. It's in the union contract to disclose it if we ever do. World is a slop minefield and we're sorry.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Poet Countee Cullen was Langston Hughes’s frenemy during the Harlem Renaissance. Countee’s lover was Harold Jackman, known as “The Most Handsome Man in Harlem”. When Countee got married to WEB Dubois’s daughter, he went on a honeymoon to Europe with Harold instead… and Countee’s dad. 👀
Two photographs of Harold, an incredibly handsome black man with wavy gray hair. He’s wearing a suit with a red tie and posing with a newspaper. He’s hot as FUCK.
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Trace DePass @tracedepass.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I wonder if white people ever feel like they only got Noam Chomsky left (morally), the way that Black people feel like we only got Stevie Wonder left (musically).
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Here’s the list of the 78 Biden-era executive orders that have been reversed by Trump.
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Initial Rescissions Of Harmful Executive Orders And Actions – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration throws out policies limiting arrests of migrants at sensitive locations like schools and churches.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Barry Michael Cooper, the famed writer and producer who wrote “New Jack City,” “Above The Rim” and “Sugar Hill,” has died at 66
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Barry Michael Cooper, 'New Jack City' Writer, Dead at 66
Writer and producer Barry Michael Cooper has died in Baltimore, Maryland ... TMZ has learned.
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Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Trump on Gaza.Not to be believed.How he might rebuild it.But of course not for “those people”.Anyway “most of them are dead,you know”—“most of them are dead”.The President.How many ways can I thank u Michigan Trump voters & the 19% of u who didn’t vote bc of Gaza. www.instagram.com/reel/DFGSZ8t...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/01/2025
i think the executive orders directing agencies to end energy efficiency regulations and open up more land to drilling and mining is so indicative of the character of the american right — in its view everything, whether people or our larger environment, is something to be exploited and dominated
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Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
He is so evil. Can we use that word? Is there another? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘So much of this seems vengeful’: alarm as Trump recommits to death penalty
President says he’ll help states execute people but experts skeptical of bold pledge to expand capital punishment
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
At 100 years old, legendary saxophonist and Sun Ra leader Marshall Allen is releasing his debut solo album
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Legendary saxophonist Marshall Allen announces debut solo album at age 100
Marshall Allen, the legendary saxophonist, composer, and Sun Ra Arkestra member, is set to share his debut solo album, New Dawn, on February 14th.
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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 04/01/2025
T.S. Eliot died on this day in 1965. This photo of his mustard, from the Faber staff fridge in Russell Square, was taken not long afterwards
some mustard which seems to have belonged to t.s. eliot
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
A federal appeals court has struck down the FCC’s net neutrality rules that prevented internet service providers from throttling or blocking content or charging more to deliver it
usatoday.com
Federal appeals court strikes down net neutrality. What this means for you.
The FCC's net neutrality rules prevented internet service providers from throttling or blocking some content or charging more to deliver it.
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