📰BIG NEWS📰 We’ve added a 3rd option for supporting our Strike Fund: direct donations! Now, in addition to buying or selling books through our Powell’s Books Partner Link, where 7.5% goes to the Strike Fund, you can donate directly with a card or PayPal! ilwulocal5.com/support

Support Powell's Books workers on strike today! 🖤💫🥁📚🎉 ILWU Local 5

One of the most crucial articles you could read about #autism research: How ridding research of ableist framings of what autism is leads to greater scientific accuracy, not less. Please spread this link. frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Tomorrow, Portland! Celebrate Alissa Hattman's debut novel, SIFT, at @powells. 🌿✨🎉🌲

TONIGHT (9/11) @ 7pm — Family wounds, humanity’s failures, how to care for one another at the end, and how to make a new beginning. Alissa Hattman presents SIFT. In conversation with Leni Zumas. powells.com/book/sift-9781…

You all! Thank you to our volunteers, everyone who stood with us, Javier Zamora, Undocupoets, and the The Pulitzer Prizes board for expanding their requirements. Thinking of all migrant writers who will get to reap the justice of this! 🌞✨❤️

This fellowship is for an early-career writer of fiction with no published book yet or MFA. Honoring author & former One Story Managing Editor Adina Talve-Goodman, our hope is to give a writer outside of the fold a significant boost in their career. No fee, no rec letters. Apply!

The fight for marriage equality isn't over according to disability advocates. Disabled people who rely on programs like SSI face steep penalties if they choose to tie the knot. I wrote about it 19thnews. 19thnews.org/2023/09/disabi…

Image from the DC event for Disabled Marriage Equality! "We are gathered together to create radical change," Steve Way says we are forced to play by a different set of rules and that ends right now. #LoveTax #EndTheLoveTax #DisabledMarriageEquality

I’m so pumped up to see my community and their ingenious demonstration drawing attention to the #LoveTax no one should have to face the decision of choosing between the rights of marriage or their survival. End the policies that keep us in poverty. #EqualityNow

Don't forget!: send us your preorder receipt of #TheFeministKilljoyHandbook by @saranahmed and we'll send you a FREE hat! tinyurl.com/feministkilljo… Enter by Oct 2!

Disabled people are more than 25% of the population. Stop with the disability awareness slogans. We need ableism awareness.

For more read this by Leah on how the Gavin Newsom administration wants to disappear unhoused and disabled people from the streets and rebuild asylums disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/10/15/ret… #CripTheVote Margot Kushel MD National Homelessness Law Center Housing California UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative Disability Rights California Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund

BERLIN! Come read Adania Shibli’s MINOR DETAIL OUT LOUD in Arabic, German, and English TOMORROW at 2pm.

I should post this everyday. There should be book club readings: Leni Zumas Things Fall Apart for Women (Again): Leni Zumas's Red Clocks radicalscholarship.com/2019/08/15/thi…

Yes, this year is a leap year so we get an extra day and yes, on that day, magical February 29th at 7 pm I'll be reading from TOUCHING THE ART Powell's Books City of Books in Portland, in conversation w/Leni Zumas, join us!! Don't forget to wear a mask, let's take care of one another💞

Tonight, Portland! 🌿😍🌙✨☔️

My latest Book Riot post is live! I list 8 "What If" books that explore thought-provoking questions. With books by Naomi Alderman, Ted Chiang, Kelly Barnhill, Tara Campbell, Disgruntled Haradrim, Alaya Dawn Johnson, M(all the vowels)h, and Leni Zumas. bookriot.com/what-if-books/