S Bear Bergman
@sbearbergman.bsky.social
Writer, storyteller, publisher, advice guy, crankypants. Always looking for people to talk to and things to eat. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Today I learned that Notre Dame Cathedral has held one wedding since the 2019 fire, and it was for the guy who spent 3+ years leading the carpenters fixing the roof, using 800-year-old methods down to cutting the new timbers with an ax, so now I have agreed with the pope twice in a year? Wild times.
Nerdily, I think think this is because Mamdani’s team conducted strength-based research - they also asked people what they’d LOVE to see happen, not just what was aggravating. Then a team went and figured out which ones of them could be accomplished within the current budget and: win after win.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3w agoThis summer, we kept the lights on all night, every night, at five soccer fields across New York City. This was the scene at Calvert Vaux Park in Gravesend, Brooklyn Tuesday night.
My new little hobby is that every time I see someone on social media complaining about their library being closed Sunday or having to buy 14 glue sticks I remind them that this happens when the city/town cuts the school or library budget, again, so they can give more money to police for equipment.
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I think people are getting meaner because life is getting harder and there’s nowhere to put it.
Here preorder @snarkbat.bsky.social and fuck JD Vance also subscribe to Maris' newsletter below because it's on the nonprofit platform Ghost, like mine (also: subscribe to mine) and not on the nazi-enrichers over at Substack
Dear Blind Lady by Elsa Sjunneson: 9781632176363 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
"Dear Prudence" meets Reddit's Am I the Assh*le? but for the disability community: finally, all the questions you've always wanted to ask about living a disabled life, but shouldn't have (or have aske...
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Maris Kreizman@maris.bsky.social · 2mo agoI am here for all of the hate of JD Vance’s new book, but also thinking about all of the books that won’t get more coverage because his took up all of the oxygen.
Okay, dads, let’s be better than our fathers again tomorrow. (Even if you had a great dad. Every father wants his kids to do better than he did; that’s the dream, right? And if you didn’t, do it for your kids.)
So tired of all this “When’s veterans month? When’s mental health month?” THEY ALL EXIST. We just do a better job with ours, and that’s on queer audacity and craft supplies.
I watch this video of Lin Manuel Miranda at the Obama White House (when they had poetry, not cage fighting ::sigh::) on hard days so I can enjoy everyone’s rising excitement and delight as they all see the very fresh damp beginning of something great. youtu.be/WNFf7nMIGnE?...
Lin-Manuel Miranda Performs at the White House Poetry Jam: (8 of 8)
YouTube video by The Obama White House
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I need the internet to know that this morning someone corrected me *incorrectly* and since it doesn’t affect anything I have chosen to let it go; please clap for my maturity, however fleeting it may prove to be.
If I had some funding to come to people’s homes and tell queer stories for an hour to whoever they invited, would you invite me? If so, where do you live? (I would not stay over; I’d appear and tell stories and maybe eat and then go.) What would you want to know to decide if you could host this?
Every day until this book is done, if I get 1k words written, I get to post a snippet to sustain the dopamine. Today’s: “I have leaned into the alchemy of just plain storytelling: the frank magic of hosteling my feelings into words on the page and sending them out to seek their fortunes where,”
As state terror amps up, here's a list of actions you can take now-- a lot of resources and a list of upcoming virtual trainings on a number of topics:
actions to take as ICE intensifies
ways to support MN and your own community
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Your Thursday reminder that when you meet a baby you DON’T actually have to guess their gender. Just say “And who is this tiny perfect person?” Guaranteed no one will ever, ever object.
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Today I read a review of my new show that described it as, among other very nice compliments: “…if Spalding Gray were alive, and happy.” I’ll take that any day. gender-defiant.ghost.io/the-first-je...
The First Jew in Canada: A Trans Tale
Three lines from this hilarious, tender solo play beamed out to me as the mom of a trans teen
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Boston friends, check out Bear's show! I was lucky enough to see it last year, and it was such a great evening of storytelling!
S Bear Bergman@sbearbergman.bsky.social · 9mo agoBoston! Come see the show @broadwayworld.com called “skillful, deeply affecting, funny and sad and sweet and difficult and true,” and @intermissionmag.bsky.social says is “a solo show with a sense of heart and honesty that'll leave your cheeks wet and your chest warm.” TICKETS! bpt.me/6732394
this is an amazing storytelling experience, i was just talking it up the other day.
S Bear Bergman@sbearbergman.bsky.social · 9mo agoBoston! Come see the show @broadwayworld.com called “skillful, deeply affecting, funny and sad and sweet and difficult and true,” and @intermissionmag.bsky.social says is “a solo show with a sense of heart and honesty that'll leave your cheeks wet and your chest warm.” TICKETS! bpt.me/6732394
Boston! Come see the show @broadwayworld.com called “skillful, deeply affecting, funny and sad and sweet and difficult and true,” and @intermissionmag.bsky.social says is “a solo show with a sense of heart and honesty that'll leave your cheeks wet and your chest warm.” TICKETS! bpt.me/6732394
I am having a hot bath because I’m fighting a cold. While soaking, I finished the water in my glass, and then had the thought that I wished I could stay in but I really needed a drink of water. So I would obviously need to get out. Of the bathtub. To get water. (The cold may be winning.)
When my children sass me, I just remember that as a child who could not keep my nose out of a book, I got many scoldings about watching what I was doing. Once my mother was particularly aggravated and I said yes, she should go complain to the other mothers about her child that won’t stop READING.
Some years ago, a Jamaican friend introduced me to the phrase “no broughtupsy” and while I don’t use it (feels appropriative; I am a middle aged white Jew from New York) I do find that I think it a whole lot these days.
Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 10mo agoI had a post reach the Discover feed today and was once again reminded of how many people on this site are not house trained.
I recommend you share a few potato chips with a dog if you have the opportunity. A big cozy ding-dong is ideal for this, but really any dog.
Francis, teaching his graduate seminar in coziness. Enrolment opens soon for his summer intensive, rolling on your back in a cool bed of clover.
I’m a transgender Jewish writer and storyteller; imagine how I feel.
Matthew Cortland (they)@matthewcort.land · 10mo agoTurns out it was pretty stupid of me to go to “law school” and pass the “bar” and practice “law”
Once again I beg you to consider my proposal that a rotating committee of librarians and stage managers be put in charge of the US.
Can we not just accept that we need all the different kinds of brains to do all the different kind of human things? Because I am FOR SURE not keeping a 17-volume-and-counting detailed record of my decades of effort in restoring heirloom apple varieties, but I’m very glad someone is. ::crunch::
Little wins but Troy Kostur looking hot (without additional context) in the Bottega Veneta ad wrapper for the Sunday NYT about the poetry of gesture qualifies I think.
