Rachel Edelman
@rachelsedelman.bsky.social
poet & teacher. author of DEAR MEMPHIS (River River Books, 2024). living in seattle. learning yiddish. rachelsedelman.com.
I really do get the "America needs to burn more shit down" arguments but I also feel like they tend to forget like the George Floyd protests everywhere and Stop Cop City and even like the Bronx last week. We could do more but people love to act like an American has never set a fire.
מײַנע ערשטערע פּובליקאַציע אויפֿ ייִדיש איז געװען פּובליקירט! מ'קען לייענען װעגן בית־עולמים און חרובֿ־מאַכן אַזוי אין "דער ספּעקטער": www.derspekter.org/enough-with-...
Enough With The Past, Let Me Deal With the Dead
A reckoning with Jewish belonging and alienation, from Poland to Tennessee.
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Hey WA State! Ballots are about to arrive if they haven’t already so: please vote NO on both I-001 and 1-638. The wording is deliberately deceptive to try to make you think that voting yes protects kids; neither of these bills do that and in fact go out of their way to hurt them
מײַנע ערשטערע פּובליקאַציע אויפֿ ייִדיש איז געװען פּובליקירט! מ'קען לייענען װעגן בית־עולמים און חרובֿ־מאַכן אַזוי אין "דער ספּעקטער": www.derspekter.org/enough-with-...
Enough With The Past, Let Me Deal With the Dead
A reckoning with Jewish belonging and alienation, from Poland to Tennessee.
derspekter.org
Also these 5 from @hanvanderhart.bsky.social & @amorak.bsky.social @riverriverbooks.bsky.social ! Elaine Kim's Antibody @esylviapoet.bsky.social Scythe @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social The Visible Field @rachelsedelman.bsky.social Dear Memphis Martha Zweig Snails of the Apocalypse
morning micro-joys: the new stop sign at 19th and cherry. sustained silent reading.
i’ve transitioned my 9th grade ELA classes entirely to working on paper, and for a Friday treat, i’m planning dictionary races.
it's possible that the only silver lining of this era are the student journalists
Guess who's got their first Yiddish publication forthcoming ✨
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
for a layered, deeply resonant accompaniment to the days of awe, may i suggest my khveyrim maia and shelby’s audio project Ways of Awe? here’s the kol nidre episode, perfect for your now: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
Kol Nidre
Podcast Episode · Ways of Awe · S1 E2 · 40m
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Yo. This is the union calling for a boycott. Here in America people like to say "Well I was already boycotting Starbucks!" No you were not. You were just choosing not to buy their stuff. That is not a boycott. A boycott is an organized, collective activity. "I" don't boycott: we do.
Starbucks Workers United@sbworkersunited.org · last mo.We have power in numbers, and we'll continue to fight for a better Starbucks. Support us by BOYCOTTING STARBUCKS until the company finalizes fair union contracts with workers! boycottstarbucks.net
Seattle has a heated pool on Puget Sound that closes in mid-September, make it make sense.
I love this Yiddish postcard celebrating Rosh Hashanah, I love the delicate subtlety of the family tablecloth that has been embroidered to read "Oh God, oh almighty God! Forgive our sins, forgive! Also please don't erase anyone in this house from the book of life!!"
It’s true that I’m pushing the agenda of empowering students with the notion that their minds are worth their time
1 day until we begin a strike or start school.
Rachel Edelman@rachelsedelman.bsky.social · 2mo agoseattle public schools wants to make unconscionable changes to special education. seattle education association is pushing back. yesterday, sps left the bargaining table. read more about how said changes would affect children here and educators, and email school board members, here: spsforkids.org
seattle public schools wants to make unconscionable changes to special education. seattle education association is pushing back. yesterday, sps left the bargaining table. read more about how said changes would affect children here and educators, and email school board members, here: spsforkids.org
No one wants a strike. Here's how you can help.
SPS added a special education redesign into contract negotiations that would affect 170 jobs. Two emails.
spsforkids.org
seattle public schools wants to make unconscionable changes to special education. seattle education association is pushing back. yesterday, sps left the bargaining table. read more about how said changes would affect children here and educators, and email school board members, here: spsforkids.org
No one wants a strike. Here's how you can help.
SPS added a special education redesign into contract negotiations that would affect 170 jobs. Two emails.
spsforkids.org
Seattle, your public schools need you. SPS is pressuring union SEA educators to accept terrible contract takebacks: increased SPED caseloads, reduced planning time, and abysmally low pay for paraeducators and SAEOPS (school secretaries, registrars--the people who make it work!). We need your help!
Local media is going wall-to-wall w/meaningless tabloid shit about the mayor while she quietly builds a solid legislative record. So by the time the know-nothing suburbanoids eventually say "what has she even done??" it's gonna a solid list of meat-&-potatoes progressive accomplishments
this is my favorite part of teaching. fighting the forces that would take it from me is (among the reasons) why i am a union rep.
Seattle, your public schools need you. SPS is pressuring union SEA educators to accept terrible contract takebacks: increased SPED caseloads, reduced planning time, and abysmally low pay for paraeducators and SAEOPS (school secretaries, registrars--the people who make it work!). We need your help!
I was bred for slaughter, like the other animals. To suffer exactly at the center, where there are no clues except pleasure. - Linda Gregg, “Whole and Without Blessing”
איך האָב אָנגעהויבן צו באַצעטלען מײַן יורונגן אויפֿ .ייִדיש—אַזוי איז קולטור
so my awp panel of poets writing with and translating from heritage languages was rejected again. where should i propose it instead? we have poets working with armenian, dakota, hebrew, vietnamese, and yiddish.
Another interpretation, beyond preferences for a small-town "lifestyle," is that when cities don't allow growth (often because of faux-environmental concerns about individual trees on private lawns), growth pushes to the fringes where it impacts actual forests. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
While Seattle slows, the region’s fastest growth is on the fringes
Remote work is pulling growth away from the city and driving an exurban boom in fringe communities many Seattleites couldn't find on a map, writes FYI Guy.
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