I am almost never on here, but some of you were my pals elsewhere on the internet before Bluesky, and perhaps you remember our little dog Daphne. I am sad to share that Daphne died last night. Already I have cried and cried and I know that I will cry more. She was a very good girl.

I was appalled by how bad I thought the 1991 Cape Fear was—Juliette Lewis was terrific, but otherwise… gah. Wooden performance by Jessica Lange, Robert De Niro chewing the scenery so hard he was probably pulling splinters out of his teeth for years afterward, and Nick Nolte being… there.

Asked about written guidelines for when to ban coaches, one former member who sat on the board for nearly 25 years said the group “just decided on our feelings.”

This National Youth Sports Organization Is Failing to Protect Kids From Sexual Abuse

More than a decade after the Amateur Athletic Union promised to implement “historic child protection measures,” it still hasn’t done so, leaving hundreds of thousands of kids at risk. Some AAU athlete...

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Does anyone know someone who might be able to help me—my Lyft account has been frozen for months now, I spoke to Support and they allegedly bumped it up, and then they said it had to go even higher up the chain, & now it’s been weeks & weeks. No one can tell me why my account was frozen.

Interested in writing memoir or personal essays? Interested in my teaching? I’m closing The Unexpected Shape Writing Academy and am now selling the entire curriculum and 12 brilliant guest lectures for the $ of a little more than one class. Sale closes June 15: www.esmewang.com/last-chance

Mother Tongue also has an extremely cool cover in the UK (which I feel ok bragging about since I have no hand in it at all 😆), featuring kind words from the great @esmewang.com. It's out 11 June there and is available for preorder now. geni.us/MotherTongue

“I think I’ve developed a pretty healthy awareness of how small I am.” —Andrew Garfield, interviewed by @esmewang.com www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...

An Interview with Andrew Garfield - Believer Magazine

I first became interested in Andrew Garfield and his work not from his starring role in the two big-budget Amazing Spider-Man films (2012, 2014), nor from his famous laptop-smashing scene in David Fin...

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"...living with limitations means developing a different relationship with completion. Where others might see abandoned projects as evidence of failure, I see them as proof of making an effort despite all evidence to the contrary." www.reasonsforliving.co/p/the-museum... 👏 @esmewang.com is brilliant

The Museum of Almost

on the beauty of unfinished things

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"[Writer's block is] the internal critic gone haywire, the imposter syndrome that whispers you're not good enough, smart enough, or talented enough to tell this story." www.reasonsforliving.co/p/when-the-t... (@esmewang.com with some brilliant wisdom on writing, as ever)

When the Thread Breaks

Navigating the Difference Between Writer's Block and Brain Fog

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I’ve found @esmewang.com’s free guides helpful and generative. This class could help get your memoir started!

Esmé Weijun Wang@esmewang.com · last yr.

I’m teaching a new (& free!) class called Shape Your Story: How to Create a Full-Length Memoir with Confidence next week—It’s esp good for people who’ve written short pieces, such as blogs or Substack posts, & want to write memoir. Live class, but recording available: esmewang.com/shape-your-story

A really interesting (& brutal) piece about the commodification of Black identity in the art market in 2020-2022, & the opportunists who inflated art prices, only to devalue the same Black artists later

Vulture@vulture.com · last yr.

Rachel Corbett reports on how the Black portraiture boom went bust. The racial reckoning of 2020 sent prices soaring. Now, no one’s buying.

I’m teaching a new (& free!) class called Shape Your Story: How to Create a Full-Length Memoir with Confidence next week—It’s esp good for people who’ve written short pieces, such as blogs or Substack posts, & want to write memoir. Live class, but recording available: esmewang.com/shape-your-story

Esmé Weijun Wang | Memoir Writing & Personal Nonfiction

Explore Esmé Weijun Wang’s memoir writing courses, The Collected Schizophrenias, The Border of Paradise, personal essays, and living well with chronic illness.

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eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same

A dorky question (and tailored-made, I think, for @bcdreyer.social): I often want to put a comma after an independent clause even if the clause that comes after it is a dependent one—because I hear it in my head as having a pause. What’s the rule there? What’s best practice w/literary fiction?

SO much good stuff out now and coming up, give our SLR NOW playlist on BNDCMPR a spin and bookmark it for frequent updates! https://bndcmpr.co/012f6f44

Pupdate for people who’ve missed Daphne on their screens.

all right everybody, here we go links, trackers, webinars, templates, and all the free support you need if you just got that nightmare NEA email on Friday please share far and wide, you do NOT have to be in Oregon to use these resources

Emergency Alert: Six action steps if your NEA grant was just canceled • Oregon ArtsWatch

Arts organizations can learn how to still appeal the cancellations, including free resources and support on what steps to take.

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If you see this, post the most recent photo of yourself from your camera roll. No cheating!

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾@blackamazon.bsky.social · last yr.

If you see this,post the most recent photo of yourself from your camera roll. no cheating!

I keep thinking I’m getting close to being done with the newest novel, & then I am delayed by things like cancer and depression and whatnot but IT WILL COME EVENTUALLY, I PROMISE

A quadriplegic man named Normand Meunier died via MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) after being neglected for 4 days in ER. He was denied a specialized mattress, wasn’t turned & ended up with terrible bed sores. His partner says she was threatened with removal from the ER for advocating for him 🧵

'It was horror,' says wife of quadriplegic man who sought assisted death after ER bedsore | CBC News

A public inquiry into the death of a quadriplegic man is underway in Quebec — over a year after he sought medical assistance in dying following a hospital stay that left him with a severe and painful ...

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this made me laugh in the most delighted way…

ever since i read her excellent book, the collected schizophrenias, i've looked up to esme weijun wang as an amazing #mentalhealth role model. here she is via bbc ideas talking about her diagnosis & how to break the stigma youtu.be/vYrkcZTFllk?...

Schizophrenia: Breaking the mental health stigma | BBC Ideas

YouTube video by BBC Ideas

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I don’t promote all of my Reasons for Living posts here—but most of the posts are free, and if you can’t afford a paid subscription, just DM me and I’ll comp you one, no questions asked ❤️

Forrest Wolfe@forrestwolfelit.bsky.social · last yr.

A very nice article by Esme Weijun Wang, the author of The Collective Schizophrenias. The Courage to Question Your Doctor www.reasonsforliving.co/p/the-courag...

for people who are interested in writing personal nonfiction/memoir and would like to start small: I made a free 28-paged workbook called Memoir in Miniature for you! grab it here: www.esmewang.com/memoir-in-mi...

“but #waiting is also labor. It takes up #MentalSpace, demanding attention like a low-grade fever: not acute enough to be all-consuming, but persistent enough to unsettle and discomfit.”: buff.ly/LQLxTqF by @esmewang.com #MentalHealth #MentalHealthMatters #patience

On Waiting

the strange, unbearable art of living in the in-between

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@janecasey.bsky.social Back when we were both on The Bird Site, I could at least send you a DM—but alas, searching the internet top to bottom is not helping me find a direct mode of contact. Perhaps I can ask my agent to get in touch with your agent?????

getting a call for a Chotiner interview: *one pill is poison and the other is a Smartie*

C and I are thinking of getting me a wheelchair for situations like museums, touring gardens, rallies/marches, etc. Does anyone have a rec for a reliable, decent wheelchair for someone who wouldn’t be using it all the time?