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hi friend,

Thank you for the grace as I experimented with teaching a new workshop format this week. We return to our regularly scheduled programming next week.

In the meantime, here's what I'm attending to these days:

• I always love Jessica Dore's weekly meditations on mourning -- I'm intrigued by her Philosophies of Grief Reading Group, starting next month. Today's newsletter (on newsletters -- meta) resonated especially, as I reconsider this space and how I want it to feel -- like the bulletin board in my local wifi-less coffee shop, like the physical pamphlets and zines circulated in the '90s, like a quilted patchwork of study and exploration.
• My dear friend Cody Cook-Parrott hosts a seasonal coworking space that remains one of my favorite places on the internet. Flexible Office holds tea brewing, essay writing, tax filing, laundry folding, email replying, and general getting shit done. Next season returns tomorrow.
• Beloved collaborator, midwife, and bioethicist Stephanie Tillman writes this week about the physicians named in the Epstein files, contextualizing one more step in a long history of gendered, racialized, and sexualized medical violence.
• Zena Sharman's new book Staying Power comes out in just a few weeks -- essays on queer kinship, femme erotics, and leatherdyke lineages -- or, as she put it, "officially entering my horny grief memoir era."
• Immigrant stories and stories of migration feel particularly important, these days. I'm re-reading this line of Kening Zhu's newsletter: "but the politics of belonging is always deeply personal."
• I revisited adrienne maree brown's brilliant We Will Not Cancel Us while prepping for yesterday's workshop. Over on instagram, they're hosting looking for love classifieds with an instruction I offer you, too:
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  "Be good to each other."

with care,

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