Hi everyone. I'm going to share a new #introduction.
I'm a #nonbinary (they/them) movement journalist in my 40s, currently based in Central #Texas. From 2022 until today's layoffs, I was Digital Editor at the @TexasObserver. I've been a writer, journalist and editor since at least 2011, when I got my start on the primordial political blog Firedoglake. My involvement with the Occupy Wall Street movement helped make me a journo and I've always worn my bias on my sleeve.
In October, I traveled to #MeowWolf Grapevine, a unique sprawling and psychedelic art installation which begins in a mutated suburban home ... all hidden away in a massive shopping mall. This also was part of the @TexasObserver magazine ... and is one of my favorite ever assignments. https://www.texasobserver.org/meow-wolf-grapevine-brrrmuda/ (8/?)
A Dallas-area school district voted Wednesday in favor of a policy stating that people must use the bathroom and locker room that “corresponds to their gender assigned at birth."
A huge crowd marched through the streets of Dallas, Texas to show their support for the people of Palestine, calling on the US government to stop support Israel.
Can anyone near Dallas take a very sweet white husky? Her owner abandoned her, and her rescuer has four other dogs to take care of. He's also looked into rescues, and the no-kill ones are all full. Please forward! #DogsOfMastodon#Dallas#WhiteHusky#Adoptable
Featured story: One moment, I’m standing in a drab hallway in the #Grapevine Mills shopping mall, listening to the sound of blankness. ... Then, I step through a heavy office door into another world.
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“Here we are in downtown Fort Worth, a place I had visited so many times ... and never did I learn about this man and what happened here. We have no idea about the ghosts that are walking the streets of Tarrant County.”
A reporter attended the "Forbidden Courses" at the "University of Austin" which currently meets on a weird #Dallas-area office complex owned by Harlan Crow, with faculty like Bari Weiss. It's every bit as pathetic and dangerous as you imagine.
An American Education: Notes from UATX – The New Inquiry https://thenewinquiry.com/an-american-education-notes-from-uatx/
France to name Dallas publisher a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters 🇫🇷 📚
Will Evans started Deep Vellum Press in Dallas 11 years ago — and has been a tireless advocate for books in translation, North Texas authors, North Texas bookstores and the local literary scene in general.
Happy Guilted Into Buy Flowers-And-Chocolate Day, And Maybe Stand In An Endless Line For A Horribly Crowded Brunch Day for those that celebrate!
(hint: if you truly want to celebrate your mother, do what we always did for my mom, and do the buffet the week BEFORE or the week AFTER, when the buffet is better and you don't have crowds; I also used to go to the chocolate/flower stores the DAY AFTER and had gotten flowers for 90% off and chocolates for 50-75% off... 😉
@ai6yr Steak dinner comin’ up next weekend. As for this morning, we have a brand-new “not just good, but legit freaking great” #bagel shop that just opened around the corner from us in far north Dallas. Yeah, you read that right — New York bagels in #Dallas (n.b.: it ain’t the water, it’s the recipe & the technique). We bought Mom an everything bagel, and an olive cream cheese schmear which we haven’t been able to find locally here in a decade. Happy wife, happy life! 🥰