Comments on: Post-Election Links Round-Up

By: Jenny @ Reading the End

Jenny @ Reading the End — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 15:05:00 +0000

In reply to Kristen M.. I hate all those things too, Kristen. And I hate that we're already pretending things are normal while the President-Elect sets up a corrupt and hateful administration. If we don't fight now when the hell will we? I don't want to say that I expected more from our politicians and our media (the last year has taught me to expect nothing from them), but I am at least incredibly disappointed in them.

By: Jenny @ Reading the End

Jenny @ Reading the End — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 15:04:00 +0000

In reply to jen mullen.

Yeah, exactly. I can’t imagine what my generation’s kids are going to say about our failure to fight climate change — we’re poisoning the world for them. 🙁

By: Jenny @ Reading the End

Jenny @ Reading the End — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 15:03:00 +0000

In reply to Stefanie@SoManyBooks. Oh, thanks! I'll check that out -- I follow Melville House Press on Twitter, I believe, but not their blog.

By: Jenny @ Reading the End

Jenny @ Reading the End — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 15:02:00 +0000

In reply to Read Diverse Books. Yeah, I was so impressed with people who were able to put words to what they were feeling right away. I spent most of the day after the election in a weird haze where my brain wouldn't put coherent thoughts together. I hope the country can pull together and fight this, but I don't know if they can/will. :/

By: Jenny @ Reading the End

Jenny @ Reading the End — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 15:01:00 +0000

In reply to Akilah. Any time! I know there were others that flew by me in the post-election haze, but these were some of the ones that I remember thinking were really good.

By: Kristen M.

Kristen M. — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 07:49:00 +0000

I apparently can’t even deal with reading all of these yet. Just started with Jemisin’s and she’s brilliant and she’s so right and I hate that this is our reality. I hate that we didn’t knock down the little flareups enough to put out this horrible fire before it got to this point. I hate that so many people are jumping right on board with the worst people in the world to destroy every bit of progress we’ve made over the past 50ish years. This is crap.

By: Read Diverse Books

Read Diverse Books — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 04:55:00 +0000

I read several responses from writers and they expressed exactly what I was feeling so thoughtfully and with the fiery conviction I needed to see from people I admire. I liked N.K. Jemisin’s blog posts and the round-up reactions several from authors several websites did post-election. I know that they will create amazing art inspired by this. I’m ready for it.

By: Akilah

Akilah — Sun, 20 Nov 2016 01:06:00 +0000

Thank you for posting these. I had seen most of them but accidentally closed the tabs, so having them all in one place is handy. Toni Morrison, man. Wow.

By: jen mullen

jen mullen — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 16:44:00 +0000

I stayed up late last night completely engrossed with The Fifth Season by Jemisin…thinking how scary to have too much power in too few hands, especially the hands of those who believe themselves superior, and how our world is having a parallel situation. Doesn’t help that the earth is causing chaos and destruction in the novel and some people, despite evidence, still don’t believe in climate change.

By: Stefanie@SoManyBooks

Stefanie@SoManyBooks — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 16:24:00 +0000

Thanks for all those links! I know what I’ll be sneaking looks at today at work 🙂

If you don’t read the Melville House Press blog Moby Lives, I highly recommend it. They are ripping into Trump and the media like nobody’s business.

Also, I just added the phone numbers of the white house comments line, my senators and my congressional rep (Keith Ellison is awesome!) to my phone contacts list and plan to use them a lot. And I sent Elizabeth Warren an email to thank her for having the courage to stand up and speak out like she does. Not going to keep quiet!