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"In Tait’s case, no part of his public persona allows him to name harmful elements of the theology he was raised with. Theology wielded to inculcate hatred or disgust rather than grace is one of the most destructive forces I know." @WatsonFore christiancentury.org/feature…
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As a student of History and observer of people, a lot of you seem to only view violence in the physical form. That way of thinking is dangerous. It allows you to forget poverty is violence. That denying you healthcare is violence. That polluting your water and air is violence.
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Believing that children in Gaza deserve food to eat is not the same as being pro-Hamas/pro-terror.
Condemning the murder of Israeli embassy staff does not mean you hate all Palestinians.
This polarized, either/or, black and white thinking is going to be the end of us.
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“make her say my name to the whole class, / before everything got subtracted / in a minute“
— Naomi Shihab Nye
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I can’t stress enough how much AI is ruining the internet. Pinterest is un-usable, Google image searches are overrun with misleading slop. It’s estimated that there are now more bots on the web than there are people. We have seen a wonderful thing destroyed in our lifetimes.
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THE PROPAGANDIST by Cécile Desprairies is "poetic and immersive, evoking a lost era while refusing to romanticize it." @WatsonFore in @fullstopmag. Translated by @NatashaLehrer
full-stop.net/2025/01/08/rev…
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but now I want a Russian novel,
a 50-page description of you sleeping,
another 75 of what you think staring out
a window.
- Dean Young, “Changing Genres”
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"I do not know where my household trash goes. I have never thought to ask. But Jaydra Johnson probably knows . . . Johnson has thought a lot about trash."
@WatsonFore reviews LOW: NOTES ON ART AND TRASH by Jaydra Johnson (@fonograf_ed): full-stop.net/2024/11/15/rev…
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They blew up Ramia today. This beautiful, tiny village full of life that centers my ethnography of life-as-resistance through endless seasons of war in South Lebanon. On the left is a photo I took of Ramia and its marj in 2008 during my days of fieldwork there after the last war-
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Shadow Silvers’ essay, Sidewalk Crack is Free, is featured in @saribotton‘s #memoirmonday roundup! We’re so proud!
Check it out here:
sneakerwave.substack.com/p/s…
#litmag #nonfiction #cnf #memoir #originalwriting #originalvoices
McKenzie Watson-Fore retweeted
nothing demonstrates just how little regard the state has for its citizens like hurricane season. every year the policy is basically “evacuate if you have the money or die!” no preventative measures, no improved infrastructure, just everyone fending for themselves
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Cards against humanity’s website explaining why they’re suing Elon is pretty fucking good
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From Ted Chiang's recent New Yorker essay about AI. I totally agree with this:
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"I find a kinship in this anthology . . . so many of the writers are in the . . . process of rejecting old, white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal scripts about their lives."
@WatsonFore reviews THE WEIRD SISTER COLLECTIVE (@FeministPress): full-stop.net/2024/07/22/rev….
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"You could make ten different Lifetime original movies about my life."
—@margosteines on her new memoir, BRUTALITIES: A LOVE STORY, in conversation w/ @WatsonFore for this week's Full Stop interview: full-stop.net/2024/06/25/int….
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they arrested more students peacefully protesting against genocide than they did the mob on January 6th who attacked the capital. That should tell you everything
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Rather than a land acknowledgment, something I've found to work better is a "land history" segment to begin a teach-in or workshop, where you talk about land/building/house/neighborhood you're in, in all its complexity and how it connects to your topic that day. Eg:

































