If you know me, you know I joke that I want to be @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social when I grow up. So when she popped up on one of my favourite podcasts, I had to listen and illustrate some lessons from the episode. @truthout.org @mskellymhayes.bsky.social truthout.org/audio/hope-i...

When the world’s on fire, I always look to @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social’s words. The Beginning Comes After the End is a timely (and necessary) addition to the Solnit canon. @haymarketbooks.org

After years of living, stressing and surviving, the blog’s back with a new series, Things I’ve Learnt from Books I’ve Read and Loved (TILBIRL). Part 1 features @luciaoc.bsky.social’s amazing and powerful books. fieldnotesfromafeministresearcher.wordpress.com/2026/03/07/t...

Things I’ve Learnt from Books I’ve Read and Loved (TILBIRL) 1: Lucia Osborne-Crowley

Things I’ve Learnt from Books I’ve Read and Loved or TILBIRL (catchy, isn’t it?) is an attempt to spotlight writers whose work inspires me to keep going. Part 1 features Lucia Osb…

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Such a great book! I read an ARC last month. Highly recommend!

Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · last yr.

Classes start next week and then I go on book tour the following week. Yep, I’m gonna be teaching and touring at the same time so… First of all, pre-order THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT immediately. Second, come see me and @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social on tour. This anthology is EXCELLENT.

As Mariame Kaba says, “Hope is a discipline.” Given the state of the world, don’t you wish practicing hope right now was as easy as writing it out on a worksheet? Despite and inspite of the difficulty, we must imagine and strive towards a better world. @interruptcrim.bsky.social @procreate.com

Love is not a feeling. It is a act that requires commitment, tenderness, active listening and acts of care and support.

Over the past month, I read an advanced copy of Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis, a collection edited by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social. Truly a care package for the soul! I highly recommend it. Thank you to @akpress.org for the ARC!

Breaking my nibling-imposed break to say that my Fletcher experience has greatly benefited from @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social’s mentorship and support, literally from day 1 as my MALD academic advisor to now serving on my PhD committee. Finishing up at Fletcher will be strange without you around!

Tom Dannenbaum@tomdannenbaum.bsky.social · last yr.

Today is my final day on the faculty of the @fletcherschool.bsky.social. I have spent 8 years mystified at how fortunate I have been to work with such extraordinary colleagues and inspiring students. I am filled with gratitude for the privilege. This is a special place. I will miss it. 🙏

I seriously think the Social Internet is 21st century cigarettes. Complete with secondary smoke causing a lot of harm in nonusers.

I swear the horrors aren’t even daily, they’re hourly. And simultaneously so we don’t see all that is happening.

Hi hi! Since there’s an #ISA2026 deadline extension, @sindujaraja.bsky.social and I are wondering if anyone would be interested in joining a roundtable on academia as/and activism? The conversation is as necessary as ever with global trends of growing fascism and repression. @isanet.bsky.social

We thought we knew tired when we wrote this. Exhausted with @jennifercnash.bsky.social @differences.bsky.social doi.org/10.1215/1040...

On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism

This essay is a critical response to the emergence of “care” as the antidote to the multiple crises that plague the present. The call for care— intramural care, radical care, mutual aid, etc.—has prol...

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Another Storm, by Lee Krasner, 1963, 📸 by Adam Davy

“I wanted to write by the rules of night, by association and intuition” not “the rules of daylight—narratives organized by chronology, analysis, argument, data drawn from research” @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social on my forever favourite, The Field Guide to Getting Lost @literaryhub.bsky.social

20 Years of Getting Lost: Rebecca Solnit on the Creative Process of Finding Yourself

One of the great joyful mysteries of writing comes when work whose creation arose from the writer’s innermost desires somehow meets those of its readers. I let this book loose in the world with no …

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I know I'm woke -- proudly so -- but I'm tired of hearing @arsenalwfc.bsky.social's players being referred to as "girls" or "gals" or "ladies." They are women playing the sport at the very highest level and deserve more respect. #Arsenal #COYG

What an important piece! Some further thoughts because a big part of my PhD dissertation research at @fletcherschool.bsky.social is on how activists sustain themselves while sustaining social movements. I interviewed feminist activists working on ending SGBV in India. 1/6

Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · last yr.

Grateful to everyone who shared their thoughts with me for this piece about the difference between how people imagined they would show up for a moment like this one, and how we're actually showing up—and how we can begin to close the gap between aspiration and action.

Read this a week ago and haven’t stopped thinking about it: “I am asking them, as I am continually asking myself, to imagine a heart that feels a connection to the hearts of others, even others you do not know. I would like to think that this is what nudges me forward, more than…hope.”

Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · last yr.

This is one of the most profound essays I’ve read in years. You don’t need me to tell you that Hanif Abdurraqib is one of the finest writers of our time, but this essay in particular is a hard-won offering. Please read it and share with people you love.

The world’s a lot right now so here’s a little reminder to stay soft and remain tender. I read @monaeltahawy.bsky.social’s substack piece with this quote in February but I keep returning to it. @procreate.com

I keep seeing variants of “what an exciting time for political scientists.” We are not excited. An epidemiologist isn’t excited when, after warning for years about an impending epidemic, the epidemic strikes. No one thinks the thing that’s been keeping them up at night is thrilling to watch unfold.

…and despite it all, there are still cherry blossoms. #noticing

Joy Harjo:

“Tender is the fight... And there is power in such tenderness.”

Mona Eltahawy@monaeltahawy.bsky.social · 2y ago

For Poetry Month. Perhaps the greatest poet of revolutionary love is June Jordan, who loved the world & her lovers, women & men, fiercely & w/a tenderness that fuses the personal & political w/ the delicacy of an embroiderer stitching together a broken heart www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-tend...

🧵⬇️Check out the great papers in our new special issue of Geopolitics (29, 5: 2024): Making Space for Peace in Contexts of ‘Non-war’ Violence: Challenging War-Peace Binaries Through Feminist, Spatio-Temporal, & Decolonial Approaches doi.org/10.1080/1465...

Making Space for Peace in Contexts of ‘Non-war’ Violence: Challenging War-Peace Binaries Through Feminist, Spatio-Temporal, and Decolonial Approaches

Peace is often represented as a matter of time, as a political state that happens after war. This special issue contests this linear and binary view by giving an account of being and thinking betwe...

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Living in this world is a lot right now. Here’s a little attempt to remind myself to remain soft, gentle and tender amidst all the violence and uncertainty. It’s also a hope that one day we’ll live in a world with only the gentle. #digitalart #illustration @procreate.com

If you’re at @isanet.bsky.social, come say hi!

Happy to share my piece for International Politics' book forum on @drljshepherd.bsky.social's The Self and Other Stories. I urge us to move towards an International Relations that is more relational, personal, caring and yes, messy! Read here: rdcu.be/d8jsk #feminist #internationalrelations

Do not relinquish your hope. Hope sustains. Hope heals. Hope encourages. Hope restores. Hope renews. Hope reinvigorates. Don’t let them take your hope. Hope is how we made it. Hope is how we will make it.