Emily Raboteau
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LESSONS FOR SURVIVAL from @HenryHolt | Professor @CUNY | Born at 332 ppm | #ProtectTransKids
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Here's an excerpt from LESSONS FOR SURVIVAL about my home place in
@TheAtlantic
thanks to editor
@JenishaWatts
. I gave this my all. Mosholu, I see you. You have washed clean my eyes.
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“I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else.’”
-Toni Morrison
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I was invited to speak at Bard and they offered to pay for childcare on top of my honorarium and travel. That has never happened to me before in the twelve years I’ve been a parent/writer making campus visits.
That’s some good feminism,
@BardCollege
.
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I keep this picture of bell hooks pinned above my desk
@CityCollegeNY
for inspiration and courage.
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My dad, Albert Raboteau, is starting hospice care. Until he crosses over I will catalogue what, in his lifetime, he loved:
Bill Traylor
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What are your favorite essays about grief and mourning? Looking for good material to teach in my nonfiction workshop. Diverse voices and links appreciated. Thank you!
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"I’m losing the ability to communicate the magnitude,” an Arctic researcher said in June when ice levels were at their lowest point in the satellite record for that period. "I’m running out of adjectives to describe the scope of change we’re seeing."
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My favorite thing about tonight’s National Book Award Ceremony apart from that powerful joint statement for ceasefire was that all the winners thanked their mothers for bringing them to the library when they were kids.
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What are your favorite short stories that are accessible online? (I’m designing my advanced fiction workshop with zero textbook costs.) Diversity a must.
Go!
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Can we all pause to appreciate that
@lsjamison
has written yet another knockout landmark essay from a fever state in quarantine while suffering COVID-19, single parenting a toddler, and going through a painful divorce.
Hats off to a great writer.
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“Everyone is dying, everything is dying, and the earth is dying also. I don’t know where I get the courage to keep on living in the midst of these ruins. Let us love each other to the end."
-George Sand (in a letter to Gustave Flaubert)
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Rest in peace
Albert Jordy Raboteau, II.
Sept. 4, 1943 - Sept. 18, 2021.
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Icons. Attempts to render the human face of God.
God in Black faces.
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“Today’s air quality in NYC was the worst in more than 14 years. The concentration of fine particulate matter was 7 times the WHO’s healthy limit. The air in NYC was so bad it was hard to make out the buildings in Midtown Manhattan from across the Hudson just 2 miles away.
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Mabel Sincere Raboteau. His mama. She brought him and my aunties to Michigan to escape Jim Crow after a white man killed her husband, their daddy, my grandfather, in Mississippi. She went gray young, didn’t suffer fools, and raised my dad to overcome.
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“less than one in five black workers and roughly one in six Hispanic workers are able to work from home...Our entire discussion around this virus is stained with economic elitism.”
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The new Center for Public Theology and Public Policy will work at the intersection of theology and advocacy. William J. Barber II joins Yale’s faculty as founding director.
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My husband,
@victorlavalle
, is writing an amazing comic book about ecological breakdown The hero is a Black girl. Get ready.
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Why are the City College protesters being charged with felonies that could land them up to nine years in jail—while Columbia students are facing much lighter sentences?
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“The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power."
-Toni Morrison
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“It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.”
― Frederick Douglass
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I’m proud of this kid from Queens whose TV show premiered today, and grateful to our neighbors for coming over to watch it with us.
#TheChangeling
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“The rich will move to the temperate, less-ruined places; the poor will be made refugees and the influx of refugees will prompt bloodshed at the borders of the privileged world.”
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At the end of my suffering
there was a door.
RIP Louise Glück
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Thank you, Sinéad O’Connor, for teaching me at a tender age how to be as close as possible to my truest self, and for modeling how to externalize rage.
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I’m happy to reveal the cover of my next book, Lessons for Survival, dropping 3/12/24.
A meditation on being in these dark times.
Pre-order from your favorite bookstore and read about the design
@lithub
:
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I thought it was gunfire here in the Heights til I understood folks were popping off fireworks for Jharrel Jerome’s Emmy win.
Dominican-American actor
@JharrelJerome
just became the first Afro-Latino to win an acting award at the
#Emmys
🇩🇴
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I will never forget Ms. Tayari Jones advising me on the art of negotiations:
“You’re a unicorn! Make them throw some glitter on your horn.”
Celebrating her Guggenheim win and glitter horn tonight. Much respect.
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Today, Black people are nearly four times more likely to die from exposure to pollution than White people.
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Pecans. Especially when cooked in pralines or pecan pie.
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Friends, you have 2 weeks left to read or re-read Octavia Butler's prescient PARABLE OF THE SOWER before our
@XrRebelNYC
#ClimateReads
event on 9/22 via
@BPL_Presents
, hosted by the amazing
@likaluca
! Register here:
BPL Presents and
@XrRebelNYC
invite you to join a community of readers and writers across the nation in the
#ClimateReads
series. We're kicking off this month with Octavia Butler’s "Parable of the Sower." Join our Zoom discussion on 9/22!
Register:
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Your body is the architecture of your every ancestor. Stop looking for flaws and bow down.
-Jaiya John
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The rain that flooded the subways today was caused by some of the most intense downpours in NYC history. Central Park recorded 1.56" in an hour, only the 8th time since hourly recordkeeping began in ‘43 that we’ve had over 1.5” of rain in that short a time.
#climatechange
#Elsa
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Here's a braided essay I wrote for
@Orion_Magazine
about grief on both personal and planetary levels. Special thanks to
@CityCollegeNY
climate scientist colleague,
@mtzortziou
with whom I traveled to the Arctic in collaborative spirit.
GUTBUCKET
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Here’s
@sarahmbroom
the day after winning the National Book Award for the magnificentThe Yellow House, on the steps of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, heading into the memorial for Toni Morrison. Community, continuity, abundance.
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If Americans could seek testing and care without worrying about co-pays or surprise bills, and if everyone who showed symptoms had paid sick leave, the United States could more easily slow the spread of COVID-19.
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You have 4 weeks left to read
@nkjemisin
’s THE FIFTH SEASON in time for the
#ClimateReads
book discussion led by
@blackpotmojo
on 11/17
@BPL_Presents
via
@XrRebelNYC
w/ panelists
@mmildenberger
and Gerry Canovan. Register here:
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At last night’s New Year’s Eve Party, Nim said that when he used to visit family in Israel, he could see the Dead Sea from the side of road, but on his most recent trip, it was a lengthy walk to reach the water, which is evaporating.
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His life work: the study of Black religion.
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Coffee with chicory. It reminded him of his home place.
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I would like everyone to stop for a sec and appreciate my new oven.
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Jacob Lawrence. Especially the epic Migration Series depicting The Great Migration along the pathway of which his mother carried him and his sisters north in search of freedom.
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After lunching today with a biologist, physicist, and architect, all working on sustainability, I realize I’m only interested in teaching creative writing any longer as part of critical systems thinking, not as a silo discipline.
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The teachings of Trappist monk, mystic, theologian, and social activist, Thomas Merton, who said: “Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time.”
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“The virus exists on top of the underlying vulnerabilities, and those exist without major outcry. That’s what troubles me: the way we accept in this country the death of 700 people a day from the effects of poverty, without the virus.”-Rev. Barber
?
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These days I’m asked a lot, “Do you have hope?” “What gives you hope?” “Is there hope?”
I am more interested in talking about the animating force of anger.
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The people affected first and worst by the climate crisis are often the least likely to have their stories told. With your help, Tipping Point aims to change that.
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A wondrous thing to have (beautiful) actors re-enacting the love story bw me and
@victorlavalle
.
Their love is the stuff of fairytales.
The Changeling premieres September 8 on Apple TV+
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Dorothy Day's radical faith.
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An editor recently solicited me for a short story for an anthology, offering to pay me one fifth what they offered to pay my writer-husband for the same amount of work.
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“After several years in development, the television adaptation of Victor LaValle’s The Changeling is moving along at Apple TV+.”
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Hey!
@Flatironbooks
ALSO recently published this beautiful novel by
@acruzwriter
, which I highly recommend as a window into the rich interior life of an immigrant hero who goes through some tough shit but also has joy.
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My new book of essays (and street photography),
LESSONS FOR SURVIVAL, drops in March! It's about parenting in this here era of polycrises--trying to raise children to thrive without coming undone.
Pre-orders are open now:
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We finally hung the pastel painting by Aaron Douglass that I inherited from my dad. (It hung above the piano in my childhood home.) It’s been sitting on the floor for the past two years gathering dust. It feels good to give this artwork proper pride of place!
#newyearresolutions
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Butler extrapolated her vision of a near-future dystopia from the news, forecasting what collapse might result if the forces of late-stage capitalism, climate change, mass incarceration, big pharma, gun violence, and the tech industry continued unhampered.
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Get ready for the divestment domino effect in higher Ed to come.
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What do we do in a Godless universe and how do we make it fashion?
Grace Jones, 70, at New York Fashion Week.
She knows.
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You have 1 week left to read
@nkjemisin
’s THE FIFTH SEASON in time for the
#ClimateReads
book discussion led by
@blackpotmojo
on 11/17
@BPL_Presents
via
@XrRebelNYC
w/ panelists
@mmildenberger
and
@gerrycanavan
. Register here:
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Tamir Rice would have been 18 today. Look at this beautiful child.
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Wildfires and climate crisis cited as possible causes for the deaths of thousands of migrating species heading south for the winter
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It is worth recalling here that our word “ecology” comes from the Greek oikos, meaning “household,” “dwelling.” Ecology is literally “the study of home.”
from
Geography as Generosity: An Afternoon with Barry Lopez by
@RobGMacfarlane
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Sometimes being married to another writer looks like this.
@victorlavalle
has a story in the book on the left and I have an essay in the one on the right.
#BestAmerican2020
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@EileenMyles
As a black woman/mother in America, I worry about plenty, and am recently waking up to the interconnections between climate change and human rights, civil rights, women’s rights, worker’s rights issues, as well as my own right to global concerns.
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Thin places: where the distance between heaven and earth collapses and we’re able to glimpse the divine.
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The ungovernable power of the ring shout.
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I had the privilege of reviewing Camille Dungy's SOIL and Elizabeth Rush's THE QUICKENING for
@nybooks
, thinking through the role of 'the mother' in environmental writing.
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I’m so proud to be included in this book with so many amazing women writing creatively on science, out this week, edited by
@edyong209
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The Bronx is a vast, vibrant megalopolis, which also happens to be NYC’s greenest borough, home to the largest urban zoological garden in America, a park system nearly 10X the size of Central Park — and the city’s last remaining patch of old growth forest.
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“I have heard from innumerable Guatemalans that the most fundamental driver of emigration is desperation — and, to an extent that most Americans don’t appreciate, this desperation often reflects drought and severe weather linked to climate change.”
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Thank you,
@nyfacurrent
.
This 2020 Nonfiction Literature Fellowship will help pay for childcare so that I can finish my next book on time.
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Let’s do this here.
“Italy’s education minister said that its public schools would soon require students in every grade to study climate change and sustainability. It could put Italy at the forefront of environmental education.”
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“I wanted to write a poem about how the extreme heat of the ocean is breaking my heart, but the whales beat me to it.”
@alexispauline
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Check out
#TheFerranteProject
: The Freedom of Anonymity. Anonymous work by a collective of 16 female writers of color interested in anti-fame, via
@asterixjournal
and
@CAAPoetics
. (Jacket design of print issue designed by the late, great Adalis Martinez.)
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“Happy New Year from Stone Town, Zanzibar,” said Centime, “a place of ghosts, if any exists.” Rereading the canon of Black Studies she realized that when taking field notes, the main question should be this:
“How do you live with displacement?”
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One of the most effective ways to combat climate change is to talk about it, with regularity and urgency. This is my New Year’s resolution. Where are you feeling the effects of climate change in your habitat?
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“And man, is this ever a beautiful portrait of fatherhood, as only a deeply devoted parent can paint it. LaValle has clearly brought his authentic self to this.”
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