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Comics + journalism. Web producer . More work: & Obsessive zine-maker & author of an illustrated oral history of GITMO 🏳️‍🌈🌯🔥

Portland, OR
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Joined March 2009
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    21 Sep 2020

    My goal with writing Guantanamo Voices was to change the narrative around the prison, to challenge the lies that Americans have been sold. If you're a teacher looking for ways to explore this history, DM me and I'll send you a discount code for this book.

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    24 hours ago

    Athletics are being used to uphold dominant and oppressive power structures – but they should be for everyone.

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    Mar 4

    Myanmar's military has killed at least 54 protesters at peaceful rallies against the coup, in what the UN calls a "vicious crackdown." The UN says: - Over 1,700 people arrested - At least 29 journalists arrested - Police doing door-to-door searches, disappearing activists

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  4. Mar 4

    Today’s zine is about the seven stages of moving.

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  5. Mar 3

    I am enthralled by snail art, a medium I did not know existed.

    Meet Velveeta, a 3-year-old snail with a fondness for cucumbers and carrots, and inching — er, millimetering? — around miniature living rooms at midnight. (Snails are nocturnal.) 🐌🥒 My story:
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  6. Mar 3

    Important news and also an amazing photo

    For more context on the wave of anti-trans bills and where they are coming from, we dug into this new coalition that writes bills for lawmakers. Up at w/
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    Mar 3

    One way that sexual harassment gets perpetuated is that a woman’s willingness to tolerate it gets cast as a personal virtue—like toughness, practicality, perseverance, or here, “thick skin.” In contrast, those who object to sexual harassment are cast as oversensitive or weak.

    “I think they play hardball up in Albany, there’s no question about it. And you have to have a thick skin to work up there,” Jacobs said. “There’s this misconception that producing good government results is going to be nice, or sweet, or easy — it’s not.”
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    Mar 3

    From 's "Guantánamo Diary"— Slahi's memoir about the horrors he endured at . Mohamedou joins us on March 11:

    From @MohamedouOuld's "Guantánamo Diary"— Slahi's memoir about the horrors he endured at #Guantánamo.
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  9. Mar 2

    I finally got to hang up this great print in my studio - “National Bird” by Anuj Shrestha on the right (and that’s on the left).

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  10. Mar 2

    Replying to snail mail on a sunny day is my favorite thing.

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    Mar 2

    I have been working with for a few months now and it’s been one of the most rewarding projects that I’ve had the opportunity to be a part of. Here is a portrait I made of host Al Letson and thank you so much to my amazing AD

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    Mar 2

    Seasons of the Northwest (fixed) Winter Fake Spring Second Winter Rainbows Googling Whether Snow & Ice Kills Daffodils Real Spring Mud Gray Summer Blue Summer Hot AF and I’m Tired of Camping Now Smoke Fake Fall One Week Summer Spiders Fall

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    Mar 2

    It's been quite a year.

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    Mar 2

    On the latest episode of , we teamed up with to tell Dr. Marin-Nevarez's story and understand what it's like working in one of the hardest hit areas of California.

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  15. Mar 2

    Oregon writers and artists: The next issue of magazine is on the theme of "climate" - they're taking pitches for feature right now. Pitch away!! Get paid for your writing!

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  16. Mar 1

    I just don’t want any company to ever tell me I’m part of their family.

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  17. Mar 1

    let's keep pandemic-era pedestrian street, please! Great comic by and .

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  18. Feb 28

    Pedestrian sticker discourse in NW Portland.

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  19. Feb 28

    I want to write a poem about the bittersweet desperate cleaning frenzy experienced when moving out of an apartment and call it “Ikea dresser with one broken drawer.”

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  20. Feb 28

    No one is talking about how judge Graham from Top Chef and judge Ross from Drag Race are actually the same person.

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  21. Feb 26

    Be born really rich!

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