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Will Craven

@wkcraven.bsky.social

writing novels playing the hits of the bay area every monday on BFF.fm: https://bff.fm/shows/i-luv-mondays Climate/Renewables, for hire. ~Oakland, from North Carolina~

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Gregory Hom@theoretical-mutant.bsky.social · 3w ago

It's a bit aways, and I'll give a reminder, but @triofrancos.bsky.social will be speaking at SF Public Library in late August, there will be booksales More details at on.sfpl.org/trio @oaklandreviewofbooks.org something for the calendar for West Bay #climate #capitalism #bayarea #libraries

Author: Thea Riofrancos, Extraction

In Extraction by Professor Thea Riofrancos, she asks "Will green capitalism save us from the climate crisis?" Renewable energy and "clean tech" are certainly growing sites of capitalist investment, wi...

on.sfpl.org

Will Craven@wkcraven.bsky.social · 3w ago

Pls send me your two lines recommendations! I can endorse the Japanese story collection from their Calico series, Unusual Fragments, featuring a number of undersung 20th Century queer writers. Also Elvira Navarro: A Working Woman haunted me, and I've heard good things about the new one.

Two Lines Press@twolinespress.com · 3w ago

High temps, low prices: it’s the CAT Days of Summer Sale! From now until July 20th all our books are 30% off (40% off for members). 😎 www.twolinespress.com/books

Slumberland Records@slumberlandrecords.com · 4w ago

Just announced -- awesome SF Bay Popfest pre-show on August 14th at Little Hill Lounge in El Cerrito! Lunchbox, Mr Baby, and Whitney's Playland all playing live, plus ace sets from Oakland Weekender + Popfest DJs. 7pm, see you there!

A promotional image featuring a geometric design with various colored blocks. Text includes event details for "Lunchbox," "Mr. Baby," and "Whitney's Playland." The event is scheduled for August 14 at 7 PM at Little Hill Lounge in El Cerrito CA
Reo Eveleth@reveleth.com · last mo.

Hey Bay Area folks, just a reminder that I curate the @coyotemedia.org calendar and am always looking for interesting stuff. What are you all up to this week? Do you know of cool things going on? Send them my way! calendar@coyotemedia.org <3

Center for the Art of Translation (CAT)@catranslation.org · last mo.

✍️ 3rd-12th grade educators: join our August Poetry Inside Out Teacher Workshop to learn how to bring poetry in translation into your classrooms. The workshop takes places over 3 90-minute Zoom sessions and will be held on August 4, 5, and 6 from 3:30-5 pm PST/6:30-8 pm EST. Join us!

Poetry Inside Out Teacher Workshop: August 2026

These three 90-minute sessions (August 4, 5, 6) will give you tools and techniques that you can use right away to bring Poetry Inside Out into your practice!

events.humanitix.com

Megan Greenwell@greenwell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It’s always a gift when a vulnerable person lets a reporter into the toughest parts of their lives. Sitting in on this meeting with a woman suffering so many indignities was one of the most rewarding experiences of my career.

As soon as they sit down, Alejo can tell that potential ejection from Medi-Cal isn't Flores' most urgent issue. She needs mental health treatment, and soon. She can stop crying only for a couple of minutes at a time. Her daughter, who lives thousands of miles away, is seriously ill with kidney disease. Her husband died last year, leaving her bereft and with a new level of financial instability. Flores, who grew up in El Salvador, is a legal US resident with temporary protected status -which shields her from deportation because of instability in her home country-but that designation expires in September, and the Trump administration is working to end TPS for citizens of several other countries. "My heart and my soul are tired, very tired," she says in Spanish, before unspooling an extended, enigmatic analogy about how God causes roses to bloom. Alejo listens carefully, occasionally offering a tissue or murmuring consolations. She doesn't interrupt or try to fast-forward to practical steps, even when Flores' train of thought becomes difficult to follow. For now she's focused on earning trust.
Megan Greenwell@greenwell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New feature from your pal Megan! I embedded with a community health worker in Fresno, California to tell the story of why CHWs are so valuable to the health care system — and why they're under threat. I'm real proud of this one, would be thrilled if you read it. (gift link!)

The Broken Backbone of America’s Healthcare System

Community health workers fill the gaps in places without enough doctors and nurses. Trump’s budget cuts are costing them their jobs, putting untold clients at risk.

bloomberg.com

Center for the Art of Translation (CAT)@catranslation.org · 2mo ago

🔖 June 17: Join our lunchtime book club at the Mechanics’ Institute in SF or online via Zoom at 12 pm PST/3 pm EST. This month’s pick is SLIPPING by Mohamed Kheir translated from Arabic by Robin Moger published by @twolinespress.com and a finalist for the National Book Award. RSVP here.

Contemporary Translated Works Book Group: Slipping - CAT Center

This book group meets hybrid and monthly, on site at Mechanics’ Institute and online via Zoom, to read and discuss contemporary works originally written in

catranslation.org

isaac@sevier.io · 2mo ago

The most "new" thing happening in mainstream grid policy discourse is about giving AI companies major stakes in the financing and ownership of grid transmission assets. That doesn't just miss the forest for the trees, it describes a different forest altogether.

Ryan Boyd@ryanboyd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our employer, the University of Southern California, is asking Donald Trump to overturn the results of our democratic union election before the count is even finished.

Ryan Boyd@ryanboyd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Tonight, hours before our election count begins, USC's admin formally ran to the Trump federal NLRB asking them to overturn democracy. This shit is wildly cynical and has huge implications for academic workers nationally and I am begging my journalist followers to get in touch

Will Craven@wkcraven.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Excellent reporting by Bady and the Oakland Review, demonstrating just how much effort it takes to cut through the bluntest balderdash from today's political campaigns.

Megan Steffen@meganas.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Obsessed with this article by @zunguzungu.bsky.social in @oaklandreviewofbooks.org on the Bay Area’s current tax revolt: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/tax-revolt-m... I don’t want to spoil it, but I do think it’s important to really hammer on the point in this last line and internalize it.

Tax revolts are about this feeling, about the relief of knowing answers that finally solve the question. But if there’s one thing I want you to come away with from this, if you’ve read this far, it’s that this feeling has a cost, one you pay for when you let yourself be gratified by people who only know only one or two things, and know it over and over and over again. You get to feel smart, and know better than your enemies who are trying to fool you and cheat you; you get to blame the weak for the injuries inflicted on you by the strong. But what you won’t get are the things you might say you want, things like clean streets or thriving businesses or affordable rents or good schools; you won’t get a balanced budget, or even a lower tax bill, because the one thing you will get—more highly paid cops—will be the one thing that your city will never stop borrowing from everywhere to afford.
June Martin@theworldsgreatestwriter.com · 2mo ago

People of the Bay Area! I’m hosting a new reading series called Text Change, in which five trans writers are invited to read work on any topic other than transition! The first show is at The Stud on June 14th at 6:30! (flyer designed by @cara.city)

TEXT CHANGE THE STUD / June 14/6:30pm Annalee Newitz Grayson Thompson Isaac Fellman Xóchitl Manuel Márquez Violet Spurlock Five trans writers on anything but transition
Sequential Scholars@sequentialscholars.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Scott McCloud’s book “Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art” was originally published in 1993. An immediate critical and commercial success, it went on to become the most widely cited book about comics. Among comics scholars, McCloud's opus is both beloved and widely debated. 1/10

The original cover of Scott McCloud’s book Understanding Comics.