I have loved my father and I have feared him, and I have lain awake in the dark late at night worrying what it means to have half his genome inside me, but I have never understood him #SundaySentence #amreading #genealogy
06:50 AM - Jul 23, 2023
This week, the cluster munitions promised to #Ukraine by the US arrived. The weapons may be effective but the cost--to civilians and to the moral reasons for fighting--are too high #clustermunitions #Civilians #humanrights #lawsofwar https://robinkirk.substack...
06:28 AM - Jul 14, 2023
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Thrilled that Righting Wrongs has such excellent company at Chicago Review Press #humanrights #childrensrights #WomensRights #refugees #EnvironmentalJustice #DisabilityRights #yabooks #kidlit #vcfawyca #VCFA https://bookshop.org/p/boo...
02:05 AM - Jul 14, 2023
03:23 AM - Jul 12, 2023
Writer question: have you used a book-mapping site that you can recommend? Or are Postits still "the way"? #amwriting #WritingCommunity #writing
04:11 AM - Jul 10, 2023
If you want to understand the human condition, pay close attention to infants: the stakes are simultaneously at their highest, because you could die at any moment, and at their lowest, because someone bigger is satisfying every need #SundaySentence
04:33 AM - Jul 09, 2023
Summer reading special! Award-winning #YA epic #fantasy e-books on sale in July. Battle dogs, a girl hero, and two empires against a single Hive Queen #fantasy #kidlit #yafantasybooks #fantasymaps #yafantasyauthor #YAfantasy #yabooks https://www.amazon.com/Bon...
07:31 AM - Jul 01, 2023
Thrilled that Righting Wrongs won the silver for #YA nonfiction from #refugees #WomensRights #DisabilityRights #IndigenousPeoples #lawsofwar #LGBTQIA #childrensrights #torture #kidlit https://www.forewordreview...
04:40 AM - Jun 27, 2023
A desperate rescue of five passengers on the #OceanGate ; the desperate rescue of thousands of #refugees hoping to save their lives. During #RefugeeWeek23 the contrast of how we react couldn't be more stark #humanrights https://robinkirk.substack...
01:00 PM - Jun 21, 2023
Family history is a hazardous thing, footpaths through a darkening wood. It's a shout in the night and a dash though dim trees, in thin slippers and an old flannel robe, with only a flashlight beam to guide you #SundaySentence #Nazi #memory
09:11 AM - Jun 18, 2023
Where do #archaeology & #humanrights intersect? A new book explores BJ581, the grave of a #viking warrior who turns out to be female, challenging notions of #gender binaries https://robinkirk.substack...
02:59 PM - Jun 15, 2023
It's always blissful to have a new reader, especially one as enthusiastic as this one! #fantasy #kidlit #YA #yafantasybooks #fantasymaps #yafantasyauthor #YAfantasy #yabooks
07:54 AM - Jun 14, 2023
Many's the man who's lost much because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing #SundaySentence #ireland #amreading #novella
12:17 PM - May 21, 2023
Delighted to meet Muhammad Atif from STEP-Pakistan and talk about Judith Heumann's legacy of activism for #DisabilityRights #humanrights
07:07 PM - May 17, 2023
Imagine it's 1878 on the island of Björkö, in Sweden's vast Lake Mälaren #1linewed #sweden #archaeology #Birka #BJ581 #kidlit #Nonfiction #history #gender #viking #femalewarrior #Warrior
04:53 PM - May 17, 2023
Read, share & call these reps, who campaigned on defending #WomensRights . Gov. Roy Cooper will rightly veto this horrible proposal. Urge them to uphold it and protect #healthcare #humanrights #WomensRightsAreHumanRights #Abortion #northcarolina http://www.oldnorthstatepo...
07:24 AM - May 09, 2023
May 8 is the birthday of Henri Dunant, founder of ICRC. He helped start a movement to establish international humanitarian law. The ICRC does vital work around the globe. Subscribe to my Google calendar of important #humanrights dates #icrc https://calendar.google.co...
08:04 AM - May 08, 2023
Descending in the elevator, I am very aware of all the sad I am not feeling, how lonely & lost I don't care that I am & how trivial it is that I am utterly cut off from the civilization that gave rise to me & anyone who might now or care who..Tevitch is #SundaySentence
10:09 AM - May 07, 2023
The #northcarolina legislators who promised to defend women's right to health care, including #Abortion . CALL: "Please vote to sustain Governor Cooper's veto. Women should be the ones to choose." PLEASE SHARE #ncpol #ncpolitics #DurhamNC #humanrights #WomensRights #AbortionISHealthcare
08:25 AM - May 05, 2023
My latest newsletter with an interview with writer Sarah Darer Littman about her excellent book, Some Kind of Hate. The #proudboys conviction underscores how #Extremists recruit, including teens #humanrights #racism #antisemitism https://robinkirk.substack...
07:27 PM - May 04, 2023
In prison, the persistence of his consciousness has seemed a particularly severe aspect of his punishment, meted out not by the court but by his soul #SundaySentence #amreading
09:31 AM - Apr 30, 2023
They say that children born in wartime are likely to have problems throughout their lives; to struggle both with the uncertainties of the world and with their own emotions and to search in vain for happiness #1linewed #ScifiBooks #amreading https://www.goodreads.com/...
07:25 AM - Apr 26, 2023
Ageism is the only self-correcting prejudice #SundaySentence #books #amreading https://www.goodreads.com/...
07:54 AM - Apr 23, 2023
09:08 AM - Apr 22, 2023
LOVING how The Mother's Wheel (featuring my favorite ape, Desper) is featured in this gorgeous collection. Just started "Good Bones." Animals are the BEST #fantasy #kidlit #YA #yafantasybooks #yafantasyauthor #YAfantasy #yabooks #amreading #books #vcfawcya #animals #greatapes https://booksbonesbuffy
12:41 PM - Apr 11, 2023
Celebrating the legacy of Benjamin Ferencz, a #humanrights hero. He single-handedly led the prosecution of the Einsatzgruppen, exposing the cold-blooded murder of more than a million people during WWII ChiReviewPress #Nuremberg #Ferencz #kidlit #ICC https://robinkirk.substack...
05:04 AM - Apr 18, 2023
It takes a monster to kill children. But to watch monsters kill children again and again and do nothing isn't just insanity—it's inhumanity.
Amanda Gorman #SundaySentence
Amanda Gorman #SundaySentence
11:17 AM - Apr 09, 2023
Retired men are to go to the devil--into the final dark, let the waters close over their heads--unless they have curious gifts #SundaySentence #ireland #dalkey
08:38 AM - Apr 16, 2023
LOVING how The Mother's Wheel (featuring my favorite ape, Desper) is featured in this gorgeous collection. Just started "Good Bones." Animals are the BEST #fantasy #kidlit #YA #yafantasybooks #yafantasyauthor #YAfantasy #yabooks #amreading #books #vcfawcya #animals #greatapes https://booksbonesbuffy
12:41 PM - Apr 11, 2023
