In the summer of 2020, I started an Instagram project sharing articles, essays, and other writings that I found useful or interesting. Sharing links on Twitter and Facebook is already easy; I just wanted to find a way to use what little IG platform I had/have to do something other than just promote myself (not that there’s anything wrong with that). I wanted to share some of the most powerful writing on the pandemic, abolition, anti-authoritarianism, the climate crisis, and other issues that define this moment. Here’s the list so far. Order note: most recent link at the top.

Volume Four: August 2023 – July 2024

• Crimes Against Language: The moral truth of Israel’s war against Gaza is not difficult to grasp (Sarah Aziza)
• ‘What is the threshold of Palestinian deaths before a cultural boycott is respected?’ (Rafeef Ziadah interviewed by Ellie O’Byrne)
  • Also: Rafeef Ziadah’s poem, “We Teach Life, Sir”
• The Outrage Over the World Central Kitchen Strike Shows the Strength of the Palestine Movement (Y.L. Al-Sheikh)
• On Recognizing #NationalPoetryMonth During a Genocide (Bonus Reading)
• Hammer & Hope Spring 2024 Issue (Palestine Will Be Free)
• Palestine and the Power of Language (Elena Dudum)
• What We Owe Nex Benedict (Gillian Branstetter)
• How Poetry Became a Tool of Resistance for Palestinians (Armani Syed)
• Justifying the Unjustifiable: Why Japanese Americans Must Stand with Palestine (Maggie Tokuda-Hall)
• What a Palestinian-American Wants You To Know About Dehumanization (Hala Alyan)
• Palestinian Poets on the Role of Literature in Fighting Genocide (roundtable discussion with Summer Farah, Samah Fadil, Priscilla Wathington, and Rasha Abdulhadi)
• Prisons, Prose & Protest Newsletter from Mariame Kaba (#10)
• This Is America’s War On Palestinians As Much As Israel’s (Hammer & Hope)
• Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (MI-12)’s speech on the House floor (11/8/23)
• A Palestinian Meditation in a Time of Annihilation (Fady Joudah)
• A Dangerous Conflation: An open letter from Jewish writers
• No Human Being Can Exist (Saree Makdisi)
• The Palestine Double Standard (Hala Alyan)
• “This Is Your Money”: Palestinian Father Pleads with Americans to Stop Funding Israeli Assault on Gaza (interview with Fadi Abu Shammalah)
• A bundle of links related to this week’s Gaza news:
  • Multiple pieces at 972 Magazine from voices on-the-ground in Gaza
  • Guardian panel discussion on How should the US respond to the Israel-Palestine crisis?
  • Jewish Voice for Peace’s statement: The Root of Violence Is Oppression
  • What Preceded the Killings in Israel and Gaza Was Not “Peace” — It Was Apartheid by Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes
  • Mizna’s Free Palestine issue (which includes powerful poems and creative writing, but also a transcript of Dr. Marc Lamont Hill’s 2018 speech at the UN General Assembly)
  • JVP’s running list of articles and statements that “poke holes in the mainstream media’s march to war.”
  • A local connection: Anti-Zionist Jews Hold Solidarity Shiva for Palestinian and Israeli Lives Lost
  • US Campaign for Palestinian Rights’s calls-to-action
• Long covid has derailed my life. Make no mistake: It could yours, too. (Madeline Miller)
• Activist Responds to RICO Charges Intensifying Criminalization of Stop Cop City (Micah Herskind interviewed by Kelly Hayes)
• “We’re Living the Climate Emergency”: Native Hawaiian Kaniela Ing on Fires, Colonialism & Banyan Tree
• Fifty Years of Hip-Hop in a World That Could Not Exist Without It (Tressie McMillan Cottom)

Volume Three: August 2022 – July 2023

• Of What Future Are These The Wild, Early Days? (Resources for Emerging Movement-Builders)
• ‘If you win the popular imagination, you change the game’: why we need new stories on climate (Rebecca Solnit)
• ‘Get off our backs and let us live’: Miss Major is still fighting for trans rights after 50 years of resistance (Sam Levin interviews Miss Major)
• Out of My Hands: A musician in prison pines for his bass (David Annarelli)
• How to Stop Neo-Nazis From Crashing Pride Month (Melissa Gira Grant)
• What Time is it on the Clock of the Police Abolition Movement? (Ricardo Levins Morales)
• Male Supremacy is at the Core of the Hard Right’s Agenda (Cassie Miller, SPLC)
• How to Learn a Language (UyenThi Tran Myhre)
• Reproductive Justice: a University of Minnesota Women’s Center Zine Collaboration
• Let This Conversation With Mariame Kaba Radicalize You (Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba)
• The Shared Anti-Trans and Anti-Abortion Playbook (Irin Carmon)
• Balancing Act: Asian American Organizations Respond to Community Crises and Build Collective Power (Building Movement Project & Asian Americans Advancing Justice Asian Law Caucus)
• What is gender-affirming health care? ‘Trans refuge’ bill would help kids get it (Nicole Ki and Sam Stroozas)
• Info via the East Phillips Urban Farm on the planned Roof Depot demolition:
  • A useful intro to the issue via twitter thread
  • Minneapolis City Council vote on Roof Depot demolition harms communities of color (Maxime Groen)
• The Meaning of African American Studies (Robin D. G. Kelley, in conversation with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor)
• What would have saved Tyre Nichols’ life? (Derecka Purnell)
• ‘It perpetuates fear’: Monterey Park shooting compounds trauma in Asian American communities (Sam Levin)
• Be Sweet, Stay Gold (UyenThi Tran Myhre)
• End of 2022 Double Feature:
  • All Organizing is Science Fiction (adrienne maree brown)
  • MPD150’s Sunsetting Links and Resources
• Abled-Bodied Leftists Cannot Abandon Disabled Solidarity to ‘Move On’ From COVID (Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha)
• Beyond the Hate Frame: When Systemic Violence Masquerades as Hate and Extremism (A PRA Roundtable)
• Amid Wave of Right-Wing Terror, Trans Communities Are Keeping Each Other Safe (Meghan Krausch)
• “We Can Do Something Different”: Andrea Ritchie and Mariame Kaba on Their New Book “No More Police” (Kaitlyn Greenidge)
• Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric roils Wisconsin, providing political fuel for the right (PBS Wisconsin)
• Why climate despair is a luxury (Rebecca Solnit)
• ‘We Have Broken the Wall of Fear’ Iranian protesters on what brings them back to the streets four weeks in. (Alex Shams)
• After Floyd (Austin McCoy)
• The Country That Could Not Mourn (Sarah Jaffe)
• Let Puerto Rico Be Free (Jaquira Díaz)
• Ron DeSantis Flew Immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard, Echoing a Racist Stunt From Exactly 60 Years Ago (Kate Storey)
• “The Human Psyche Was Not Built for This:” How Republicans in Montana hijacked public health and brought a hospital to the brink (Marilyn W. Thompson and Jenny Deam)
• As Attacks on Queer and Trans People Accelerate, We Need Solidarity Now (Melissa Gira Grant in conversation with Kelly Hayes)
• Organizing for Reproductive Justice: Joseph R. Fitzgerald interviews Barbara Smith
• “We Need to Take Away Children:” The secret history of the U.S. government’s family-separation policy (Caitlin Dickerson)
• Why the Right Doesn’t Want Kids to Talk About Gender (Samantha Riedel)

Volume Two: August 2021 – July 2022

• Mike Davis is still a damn good storyteller (Sam Dean)
• Sex ed was in trouble before Roe v. Wade’s reversal. Now the curriculum matters even more. (Nadra Nittle)
• Justice in America Ep. 20: Mariame Kaba and Prison Abolition
• Ruth Wilson Gilmore Talks Abolition Geography and Liberation
• Pick Your Fighter: The Next Major Reproductive Freedom Movement Has Begun
• This Fight Isn’t Over. Not Even Close (NNAF statement on the Supreme Court overturning Roe)
• 40 years after Vincent Chin’s death, activists work to keep legacy from fading (Frances Kai-Hwa Wang)
• A Pizzagate in Every City (Melissa Gira Grant)
• The Courts Won’t Free Us — Only We Can (Chase Strangio)
• The bleak spectacle of the Amber Heard-Johnny Depp trial (Michael Hobbes)
• All These Brave Men: We can’t be protected by the same masculinity that kills us (Jessica Valenti)
• Hope Is Not a Given. We Must Cultivate It Together. (Tanuja Jagernauth interviewed by Kelly Hayes)
• Why do white supremacists want to kill Black people? What are the roots of this violence and how do we fight it? (Derecka Purnell)
• Reflecting on Mariama Kaba’s reflections on the quote ‘Hope is a Discipline’
• The Limits of Privilege The new abortion regime is going to affect everyone. (Rebecca Traister)
• The Real Fight for Abortion Rights Is Not in the Courts or Congress (Melissa Gira Grant)
• ‘It is painful to have your child rejected’: the parents group fighting new anti-trans laws (Katelyn Burns)
• “Multiple Things Can Be True”: Understanding the Roots of Anti-Asian Violence (Jason Wu interviewed by Panthea Lee)
• The Final Pandemic Betrayal (Ed Yong)
• Ruth Wilson Gilmore on Abolition, the Climate Crisis and What Must Be Done (Movement Memos w/ Kelly Hayes)
• What to Do When the World Is Ending (Yotam Marom)
• IPCC: We can tackle climate change if big oil gets out of the way (Amy Westervelt)
• Here’s How We Beat Amazon (interview with Angelika Maldonado)
• The Fight For Trans Liberation Is Everyone’s Fight (Raquel Willis interviewed on What a Day)
  • Bonus: Join me in donating to the Protect & Defend Trans Youth Fundraiser!
• (Release Day special: I used ONE entry in this series to highlight my own writing): Poem for the First Day of the Poetry Unit in Language Arts Class
• The Butterfly Lab for Immigrant Narrative Strategy: A Future for All of Us
• Disabled and d/Deaf Poets Anthology, Curated by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
• COMIC: How To Intervene When Someone Is Harassed Or Attacked (Ruth Tam interviews Gabriela Mejia; comic by Connie Hanzhang Jin)
• How the Atlanta Spa Shootings—the Victims, the Survivors—Tell a Story of America (May Jeong)
• “Next-Level Horrific:” A Lambda Legal Attorney Explains Texas’ Anti-Trans Directive (Wren Sanders interviews Currey Cook)
• Strike! Minneapolis educators declare walkout to begin Tuesday. (Becky Z. Dernbach)
• Masculinity As Radical Selfishness: On the Maskless Men of the Pandemic (Rebecca Solnit)
• Trans Youth Are Facing Right-Wing Attacks and a Solidarity Shortage (Kelly Hayes in conversation with Chase Strangio)
• ‘Nowhere is safe’: Asian women reflect on brutal New York City killings (Sakshi Venkatraman)
• Educational Gag Orders Target Speech About LGBTQ+ Identities with New Prohibitions and Punishments (PEN America)
• Activists Are Building a Counterculture of Care in Apocalyptic Times (Kelly Hayes in conversation with Shane Burley)
• Grief Over Time: Sybrina Fulton, who lost her son Trayvon Martin ten years ago this month, found her painful place in American history (Derecka Purnell)
• Washing for the New Year (Kao Kalia Yang)
• Book bans in schools are catching fire. Black authors say uproar isn’t about students (Tat Bellamy-Walker)
• Grief Belongs in Social Movements. Can We Embrace It? (Malkia Devich-Cyril)
• You Are Not Entitled To Our Deaths: COVID, Abled Supremacy & Interdependence (Mia Mingus)
• “My father didn’t just happen upon death…” quote (Bernice A. King)
• Eugenics with a Smile (Talia Lavin)
• Montgomery Bus Boycott: What Happened and When Was It? (Jacqui Germain)
• bell hooks will forever be a foundational force in Black feminist thought (Barbara Ransby)
• 800,000 Deaths (Clint Smith)
• What Will We Do With Our Rage in 2022? (Kelly Hayes)
• Abortion decriminalization is part of the larger struggle against policing and criminalization (Interrupting Criminalization)
• Demanding Justice for the Living (Nia T. Evans interviewing Derecka Purnell)
• Should I have kids? Move? Recycle? Your climate questions answered (Kendra Pierre Louis and Ayana Elizabeth Johnson interviewed on NPR)
• Climate Hunger Strike Shows a Dangerous Generational Divide (Molly Taft)
• A post with some links and resources for people doing Minneapolis election 2021 research
• Bodycam shows Minneapolis officers ‘hunting’ civilians during Floyd protests (Deena Winter)
• The Darwin Variant, and/or Love of the Fittest (adrienne maree brown)
• On Abolition (UyenThi Tran Myhre)
• The Life Abortion Gave Me (Jessica Valenti)
• An Excerpt From “All We Can Save” (ed. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson)
• The Whitewashing of the Afghan War (Emran Feroz)

Volume One: August 2020 – July 2021

• How the Pandemic Defeated America (Ed Yong)
• We Should Still Defund the Police (Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor)
• The Abolition Movement (Josie Duffy Rice)
• Ur-Fascism (Umberto Eco)
• On Witness and Respair: A Personal Tragedy Followed by Pandemic (Jesmyn Ward)
• “Enough Is Enough” Report and Toolkit (MPD150)
• An ICE Nurse Revealed That A Georgia Detention Center Is Performing Mass Hysterectomies (Izzie Ramirez)
• Saturday Afternoon Thoughts on the Apocalypse (Kelly Hayes)
• The Life Breonna Taylor Lived, In The Words Of Her Mother (Tamika Palmer via Ta-Nehisi Coates)
• Bystander Intervention Guide (Southern Poverty Law Center)
• Aching for Abolition (Camonghne Felix)
• Between the Waves (Ricardo Levins Morales)
• The Tenants Who Evicted Their Landlord (Matthew Desmond)
• How COVID-19 Has Impacted the Search for Separated Families (Michelle Wiley & Adriana Morga)
• Earth’s New Gilded Era (Vann R. Newkirk II)
• Mass Protest Is Coming and the Cops Are on Trump’s Side (Kelly Hayes)
• So You’re Thinking About Becoming an Abolitionist (Mariame Kaba)
• ‘No One Is Listening to Us’ (Ed Yong)
• The Pandemic Safety Rule That Really Matters (Rachel Gutman)
• Defund the Police and Refund the Communities (Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor)
• Not Just Another Pipeline (Louise Erdrich)
• The Actions of the (Well-Funded) Capitol Police Show Why We Need to Defund the Police (D.A. Bullock)
• The problem is white supremacy (Barbara Smith)
• The women who brought down Burger Records (Jessica Gelt)
• post nationalism in the age of cooptation and other dumpster fires (adrienne maree brown)
• Chronic Illness and COVID-19: Understanding the Financial and Physical Costs (Jacqui Germain)
• Responding as a Bystander (Hollaback)
• “What Are We Going to Do About It?” Mariame Kaba Talks Abolition in Action (Jindu Obiofuma & James Kilgore interviewing Mariame Kaba)
• Working Two Jobs, and Barely Surviving (Bridget Read)
• Wisconsin’s anti-transgender sports bills strike at a fragile moment in LGBTQ politics (Emily Mills)
• Bystander intervention trainings to stop anti-Asian violence from Hollaback and AAJC + AAJC-Atlanta’s statement
• ‘People can’t turn their backs anymore’: Asian American women often feel invisible. After Atlanta spa killings, they’re making their pain public (Becky Z. Dernbach)
• Attacks on Asian Women Are Fueled by Criminalization, War and Economic Injustice (Rachel Kuo & Salonee Bhaman)
• Visibility Alone Will Not Keep Transgender Youth Safe (Chase Strangio and Raquel Willis)
• To End Mass Incarceration, We Need to Bust the Myths That Prop It Up (Victoria Law interviewed by James Kilgore)
• MPD150’s Resources Page
• Abolition Is a Collective Vision: An Interview With Mariame Kaba (Elias Rodriques)
• A World Where George Floyd And Ma’Khia Bryant Would Still Be Here Is A World Without Police (Mariame Kaba and Andrea J. Ritchie)
• The invention of whiteness: the long history of a dangerous idea (Robert P Baird)
• “Ethnic Cleansing”: Amid Protests of Palestinian Evictions in Jerusalem, Israel Raids Al-Aqsa Mosque (Mohammed El-Kurd, interviewed on Democracy Now)
• My Child Asks, ‘Can Israel Destroy Our Building if the Power Is Out?’ (Refaat Alareer)
• Why are Palestinians protesting? Because we want to live (Mariam Barghouti)
• The discovery of a mass gravesite at a former residential school in Kamloops is just the tip of the iceberg (Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond)
• My Palestinian Poem that “The New Yorker” Wouldn’t Publish (Fady Joudah)
• Ny Nourn: the woman convicted of murder and pardoned – who now fights for other battered women (Anna Moore)
• Climate Change Is Destroying My Country. The Nations Causing It Must Help. (Bernard Ferguson)
• Biden’s Silence on Minnesota Oil Pipeline Frustrates Advocates (Cody Nelson)
• A silence louder than words (Taylor Moore)
• The Climate Crisis Is a Call to Action. These 5 Steps Helped Me Figure Out How to Be of Use (Dr. Katharine Wilkinson)
• How the Pandemic Now Ends (Ed. Yong)

You can find my own writing on some of these topics and more here.