Drawer, illustrator, educator, maker of images & things. Illustrator of Were I Not Girl The Inspiring & True Story of Dr. James Barry. More active on Instagram.
Brooklyn, NY
Joined April 2012
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This video is incredible.
Everyone should RETWEET it so the whole *world* sees it.
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It’s here! It’s here! The redesigned fall 2024 issue of the Quarterly is now available. Click here to read more about our design process: quarterly.mills.edu/redesign….
And click here for the ISSUU version, which best reflects the print experience: issuu.com/millsquarterly/doc…
Lauren Simkin Berke retweeted
“I lift it right off the nails, intact, exposing the slurred grain of the wood beneath it, and break it into pieces and stuff them into the garbage can.”
Read “Falconer,” new fiction from Corinna Vallianatos in our latest issue: vqronline.org/fiction-2024/f…
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“Pause that moment between the trip and the impact. Stretch it over the eighteen months between my sister’s passing and now. It is that fright, constant and prolonged.” Read “Well-Made Flesh,” new fiction by @Koye from our latest issue: vqronline.org/fiction-2024/f…
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New story out in @VQR summer fiction issue! It’s a story on how awry things can go when we try to force fill the vacuums in our lives. Have a ganders…
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“Had he died and gone to Heaven? Instead of celestial, this place looked more like something Soviet, pre-Perestroika.” Read “The Informant,” new fiction by @SenorLansburgh: vqronline.org/fiction-2024/f…
Lauren Simkin Berke retweeted
“I lift it right off the nails, intact, exposing the slurred grain of the wood beneath it, and break it into pieces and stuff them into the garbage can.” Read “Falconer,” new fiction from Corinna Vallianatos in our latest issue: vqronline.org/fiction-2024/f…
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Our 2024 fiction issue is online now, featuring stories from Anna Badkhen, @ErviceNikki, Bret Anthony Johnston, Susan Minot, @Koye, Derek Palacio, and more, plus poetry by @MJArlett, @MEspadaPoet, and @PhilipMetres, and a portfolio by Adam Ekberg: vqronline.org/fiction-2024
Lauren Simkin Berke retweeted
Technically, I have to write something. But I really have nothing profound to *add*. Presidents are above the law. This is what Republicans want. Republicans control the courts, so they won.
When I started talking about court expansion back in 2016... this is why.
Lauren Simkin Berke retweeted
Wife: You didn't pre-write this?
Me: Nah.
Wife. Why?
Me: Hope?
Wife: That was dumb.
Me: Very.
Lauren Simkin Berke retweeted
To be clear, the *biggest judicial power grab since 1803* is the "more important" story than the limited victory handed to white domestic terrorists.
It's gonna be hard to get people to understand why but, if you're in the press, you have to at least try.
Lauren Simkin Berke retweeted
How are normal Americans on TikTok doing a better job of taking Trump to task than actual reporters
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We have an attorney opening at the ACLU national LGBTQ and HIV Project. Come work with me! Feel free to share this within your personal networks as well. aclu.org/careers/apply?job=7…
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This might be the greatest news moment of all time. The guilty counter! Hahahahahahahaha
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"To survive on Earth, we might have to pay more attention to living here, rather than seeking to expand and escape." Read "Sitting in the Silence" by @BoyceUpholt in our latest issue: vqronline.org/essays-article…
Lauren Simkin Berke retweeted
Great essay on BI Fellow Jonathon Keats’s work as artist-in-residence @SETIInstitute, including the Library of the Great Silence, which he exhibited last year at the BI office at the Bradbury Building in Los Angeles. @BoyceUpholt @VQR
vqronline.org/essays-article…
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In the mountains of Northern California, @BoyceUpholt attends an art exhibition for aliens: vqronline.org/essays-article…