Avian (aka Julianne Warren)
@coyotetrail.bsky.social
Writer and teacher (MFA/PhD) “Alaska” Is Not a Blank Space: Unsettling Aldo Leopold’s Odyssey (Cambridge, 2025) I’m out running at 4:30 am, regardless Website: https://juliannewarren-avian.studio/ 📍Fairbanks (in New York, NYU Fall 2026)
So grateful for this residency at Graylag Nature Preserve. A great workshop yesterday, with a conversation about boundaries and the problem of “property” in a writer’s story. This morning, after my run, spontaneous kayaking at dawn, magical, including a pair of muskrats. At Goose Pond.
Grateful to Graylag Nature Preserve for this opportunity. I still struggle w/imposter syndrome when outward facing. I know one core thing, I will keep creating & collaborating. & w/thanks to Tia Tidwell for consent to take some of her amazing ideas into this workshop+Erin Edenshaw, the “detangler”!
Anne Carson! “What are we doing here, and why are our hearts invisible?”- Anne Carson, The Anthropology of Water
Nobel Prize@nobelprize.org · last wk.WATCH LIVE: Join us for the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature announcement. Hear the breaking news first – see the live coverage from 13:00 CEST. Where are you watching from? #NobelPrize youtube.com/live/PAY9Lr_...
Two of the precious few personal books I could bring with me from Fairbanks to New York. And, I see now, the only author whose works I brought >1 of: *Short Talks* and *Autobiography of Red*. Congrats to #AnneCarson & #Nobel for choosing her!!!
In France teachers are out on the streets standing with their students, amplifying their protests & protecting them from police violence.
observing my white christian nationalist kin: their bodyminds seem literally imploding all together at once, manifesting serious (and some mysterious) illnesses, addictions, self-harming impulses. is this a coincidence? is anyone else noticing something like this?
“In September, a series of military orders demanded the removal of vegetation and uprooting of trees across hundreds of dunams, just weeks before the olive harvest began….” #FreeFreePalestine
Middle East Eye (Unofficial)@middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 2w ago‘They want to displace us’: Israel launches new demolition of West Bank olive groves - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/they-want-displace-us-israeli-army-new-demolition-west-bank-olive-groves
By Lenna Jawdat lennajawdat.wordpress.com/book/ “70,000 is a visceral and inventive poetry collection inspired by the removal of approximately 70,000 books from Palestinian homes and private libraries before and during the events of 1948.”
The New Arab@thenewarab.bsky.social · 2w agoAs Israel destroys Gaza's libraries and institutions, Palestinians are rescuing books from the rubble to preserve knowledge, literature and cultural memory:
ScALE. The Alchemy Lecture. Date: Thursday, Oct. 29 Time: 5 - 8 p.m.; Reception: 5 - 6 p.m. Venue: Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre, CIBC Lobby Registration now open. In person: dashboard.eventcombo.com/ms/ev/80054/... Online: dashboard.eventcombo.com/ms/ev/80196/... JOIN US!
Fiction by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, in English for the first time: The police lieutenant appeared to be writing down exactly what Gleb was telling him, but relying upon completely different words. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
“Narrow Escape,” by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Fiction by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, in English for the first time: The police lieutenant appeared to be writing down exactly what Gleb was telling him, but relying upon completely different words.
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(1/3) In this article, published in Jerusalem Quarterly, postdoctoral fellow at New York University, Elizabeth Bentley, presents a rhetorical historiography of the last Palestinian crocodile, tracing its circulation across colonial zoological literatures between 1870 and 1935.
A former student from 2023 and from a decade earlier sent me a pic of themselves together, supporting one another, out in the world. I cherish these women, and seeing this. 🙏🏻💖
Alaska teens oppose 20,000 acre industrial park proposal, writes five teens with Alaska Youth for Environmental Action in a commentary for @alaskabeacon.com alaskabeacon.com/2026/09/11/a...
Alaska teens oppose 20,000 acre industrial park proposal | Alaska Beacon
Alaska Youth for Environmental Action teens from Anchorage are concerned at a proposed state land transfer to AIDEA because the proposed industrial park, which may include a data center, could be vast...
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The Muhheakantuck at dawn this morning, 9/11. Dear Country, “Stories perpetuate values of the culture from which they spring.”-Ernestine Hayes (2019) What stories are being told/are we, as cultural communities, telling today? In heart-break, remembrance, and love, Xx
AK to NY. Always the mixed feelings of homesickness and homecoming, either direction. 💖💖
“Mis-belonging”, procedural exclusion within the climate-resilient city.acts as a driver of maladaptation. By relying on technocratic planning, overlooking the housing/economic precarities these groups face adaptation policies risk reproducing their vulnerability www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Intersectional perceptions of climate justice: young women and gender-diverse perspectives and experiences of procedural justice in Aotearoa New Zealand
Extreme weather events in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (Aotearoa New Zealand) have exposed the urgent need for inclusive climate adaptation. However, the specific experiences of young women and gender-...
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Someone asked for links so here you go. Essay #1: www.newyorker.com/magazine/197...
The Power Broker: How Robert Moses Transformed New York
From 1974: Robert A. Caro on how an idealistic urban planner discovered that decisions about the city’s future would not be based on democracy. They would be based on power.
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The @ametsoc.org “State of the Climate” report for 2025 is out. From the Arctic Chapter: "The Arctic had its second-warmest year in the 126-year record. Surface air temperatures…are increasing at roughly three times the global average rate.” ametsoc.net/sotc2025/05T... #Arctic #Climate
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I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
Papa “would stand at the beach, look out at the ocean, the current, the clouds and the color and movement of it all, and let Sila decide our days, our week ahead.”
Alaska Beacon@alaskabeacon.com · 2mo agoCommentary - In Inupiaq, when the weather talks, you listen, writes Laureli Ivanoff for @highcountrynews.org via @alaskabeacon.com alaskabeacon.com/2026/08/06/i...
and on the other side of the bridge, the salmon are coming home and jumping out of the water across the bay all the small splashes you see in the distance are jumping salmon
