Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her)

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Writes words, mostly for or about music. Musicologist/music theorist; runs the Silent Film Sound & Music Archive; librettist, lyricist, poet, playwright. Creative writing instructor. Actually autistic. Disabled. kendraprestonleonard.hcommons.org

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Science looks beautiful in purple and blue. Original watercolor paintings inspired by microbiology, neuroscience and genetics artologica.etsy.com 🧪🐡🧠🦠

I love this story.

In a future divided America, a lone bookstore straddles the border between two new nations. But it's getting harder to avoid choosing a side. My story "The Bookstore at the End of America" just got a beautiful audio adaptation from Cast of Wonders: www.castofwonders.org/2024/07/cast...

Cast of Wonders 593: The Bookstore at the End of America | Cast of Wonderswww.castofwonders.org A bookshop on a hill. Two front doors, two walkways lined with blank slates and grass, two identical signs welcoming customers to the First and Last Page, and a great blue building in the middle…

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Parks are good, yeah.

Today is Décadi the 20th of Messidor in the year 232. Messidor is the month of harvest. Today we celebrate parks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/parks

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Your professional association has stuff. Like resources for teaching with AI. www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...

Resources for Teaching with AIwww.mla.org This list collects resources shared during the MLA professional development webinar Teaching with AI.Webinar Recording<div style="padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;"><iframe...

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'Cellulose nitrate was used to make dice from the late 1860s until the mid twentieth century, and remains stable for decades. Nitric acid is released in a process called outgassing. The dice cleave, crumble, and then implode.' Deception, Fate & Rotten Luck by Ricky Jay and Rosamond Purcell

I love this book!

For the remainder of #PrideMonth, my latest collection of stories is on sale! I consider all my stories queer, whether through subtext or overtly, as they are written by a most queer individual (in every sense of that word). $.99 gets you 18 stories & 19 illustrations! books2read.com/ABrokenThing

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"My students and I had an opportunity with the assigned textbook to do the hard work of analyzing authority and breaking down the power structures which can be perpetuated by the academy. This is a first step in making knowledge actionable."

Textbook Orientalismcontingentmagazine.org In the classroom, all knowledge is actionable.

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Remember when some of y'all got real mad at me for doing some back-of-the-napkin math about how much water "AI" likely uses, in light of the fact that they refuse to release their actual numbers? Anyway.

Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

Generative AI is a climate disasterdisconnect.blog Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share

Unfortunately typical

So: in the 21st Century, a playwright with physical disabilities was sidelined from the premiere *of his own play* by a well-funded international festival because they *hadn’t considered his access needs*. Disgraceful! #Epidaurus #theatre #access #disability #Greece

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Honestly, as a disabled homebound person, these "can't do activism", "not really having any impact" takes are so ableist and so insulting.

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#WorldFireflyDay: Dan Zdilla (Lancaster, PA, USA) #Fireflies, 2022 National Geographic Magazines & glue on panel, 18x18 in. www.danzdilla.com

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The book creators, educators, and librarians from The Author Village are currently scheduling both in-person and virtual programs and experiences for the 2024-25 and 2025-26 school years. theauthorvillage.com

Home - The Author Villagetheauthorvillage.com The Author Village is a community of forward-thinking and award-winning children’s book authors and illustrators available for school visits, library visits, festivals, conferences, panels, workshops,...

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all the culture you liked from decades past was made possible by cheap rent and artists' pay keeping up with what things cost

It's because we all have day jobs, advances are pennies, publishers don't market, one underperforming book tanks your career, and we're expected to be well-tuned brand machines on social media websites designed to suck our souls dry.

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Oh, this is good. This is very good.

Why is the pundit class so desparate to push Biden out of the race? | Rebecca Solnitwww.theguardian.com Yes, Biden had a bad debate – but so did Trump. The media is once again repeating the mistakes of 2016

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1/n Since we are talking about project 2025, here are some things a Trump administration plans to do with higher education policy, in no particular order

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All book creators are invited to join us.

Are you a fellow #kidlit #yalit author? Do you want to help #fightbookbans? Join me and 1,700+ other authors at Authors Against Book Bans -- there's strength and support in joining together as a community! Learn more and sign-up: www.authorsagainstbookbans.com

Authors Against Book Banswww.authorsagainstbookbans.com Our Mission Statement We are Authors Against Book Bans. We stand united against the deeply unconstitutional movement to limit the freedom to read. We unequivocally support the availability of diverse ...

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Nothing is stopping every single Democratic elected official and apparatchik from taking the airwaves every single day to articulately and decisively repeat a set of cogent talking points about Trump (ie 45). Nothing. Dem PACs could be slamming him with ads now. Stop whining and do that.

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Well holy shit. It's a fucking start

We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins... www.mediamatters.org/project-2025

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#Metoo ruined lives: the women’s. For the summer issue of Bookforum, I wrote about Christine Blasey Ford’s memoir “One Way Back,” the aftermath of disclosure, and what it means to be a public survivor when storytelling has proven futile. www.bookforum.com/culture/disp...

Disposable Heroeswww.bookforum.com Christine Blasey Ford’s memoir captures the hazards of “coming forward” – Moira Donegan

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New story day! "This Mentor Lives" is about a wizard working himself to death raising chosen ones--but his kids are worried for him. It's time for an intervention. You can read it free at @havenspec.bsky.social right here: www.havenspec.com/this-mentor-...

This Mentor Lives by J.R. Dawson & John Wiswell, Haven Spec Magazinewww.havenspec.com a magazine of science fiction and fantasy

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I don't know who needs this right now but arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/...

This science fiction novel is a perfect antidote to U.S. election seasonarstechnica.com Malka Older's Infomocracy is a realistic picture of a future global democracy.

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I am not kidding when I say that Romancing the Vote has out-organized and done more to materially improve conditions in the southeastern US than any explicitly leftist org. Romancelandia ain't here to fuck around.

Bree says: we also have some very high value items where another will be offered to the runner-ups if they match the highest bid. Last year we pulled in $20k on that alone. This year we're MUCH more organized about it. 💗

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like a lot of people have *issues* when their favorite actor/author/musician/whatever is outed and i think we need to understand that the pushback isn't just "awww man i like the thing they make," it's rape culture

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And you will never know how many as long as you cape for abusers

you are friends with WAY MORE sexual assault victims than you are authors

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you are friends with WAY MORE sexual assault victims than you are authors

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Come on, y'all. For America. For Ted. Let's do this.

Ted Cruz gets bad news in Texas Senate racewww.newsweek.com A Manhattan Institute survey of 600 likely voters in Texas showed Cruz's lead over Democrat Colin Allred is just 3 points.

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Remember: Texas is not a red state. Texas is a massively voter-suppressed state, with a lot of people working very hard and very thanklessly to fix that.

Come on, y'all. For America. For Ted. Let's do this.

Ted Cruz gets bad news in Texas Senate racewww.newsweek.com A Manhattan Institute survey of 600 likely voters in Texas showed Cruz's lead over Democrat Colin Allred is just 3 points.

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Today in good news! "Massachusetts Cultural Council, the state's arts agency, has teamed up with health care provider Art Pharmacy, to offer art-based social prescribing, after a three-year pilot garnered positive feedback." www.wbur.org/news/2024/07...

Mass. starts country's first arts prescription program for physical and behavioral healthwww.wbur.org The state's arts agency has teamed up with health care provider Art Pharmacy to offer art-based social prescribing. The program represents the nation's "first statewide arts prescription solution," an...

Giles has a pretty nice music cabinet with integrated record player. Also, Giles with a flaming baseball bat is always a good moment. #Buffy #rewatch

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I'm wondering if the New York Times is too old an institution to be reliable any more. 🤔

The New York Times Crisis of Confidence: badly shaken in the wake of bad editorial decisions, many are calling for the paper to resign.