Jen likes playing w/ plants, making things from junk, & playing RPGs. She/ her. Photo: Raccoon_getting_in_trouble - Steve from washington,DC. Wikimedia Commons
The Harvard Law Review refused to run this piece about genocide in Gaza. The piece was nearing publication when the journal decided against publishing it. You can read the article here:
bit.ly/47ENL1W
“I am my parent’s retirement plan.”
I want to put words to a part of the housing crisis I see playing out:
Many of our parents grandparents weren’t able to get jobs w/ traditional retirement plans (due to discrimination) and as such, rely on their children for housing/care.
never forget: on this date in 1955 Doc Brown was standing on his toilet, hanging a clock, when he slipped, fell, hit his head on the edge of a sink, and had a vision of the flux capacitor.
never forget: plumbing is at the center of the time travel universe.
never forget.
there is a reason I told her that we cannot claim to value life over everything. Over nearly every command in the Torah. Over every teaching in the oral tradition. And say that genocide is okay.
I am a Jew. Life matters over everything. No. Of COURSE I do not stand with Israel.
Halloween: a day when we get it right
Strangers come to us
beautiful, ugly, odd or scary
and we accept them all without question.
Compliment them, treat them kindly
and give them good things.
Why don’t we live like that?
- Steve Garnaas-Holmes
It's the same story every Halloween: You're a devoted henchman who summons a trio of witch sisters back from the dead only for them to turn to stone once the sun comes up.
Every year, your evil ambitions dashed by plucky teens & poor time management.
This year, you have a plan-
At last week’s start
we all heard
that movie theater crowds
were definitive proof
that the pandemic was over
yes, we all heard that,
but as this week starts
with warnings
that the plague has returned
it is unfortunately clear
that the plague was not listening.
"Art belongs in the park! Not the cops!"
Artists gathered in Washington Square Park on Sunday evening to protest the NYPD’s increasing harassment of vendors in the park.