Tornado

When award-winning author Mary Anne Mohanraj learned she had breast cancer, she immediately began recording the details in her blog. Tornado is her honest, day-by-day account of diagnosis, chemo, surgery, radiation, and reconstruction, over a three-year period.

One out of eight women gets breast cancer. You know someone who has it, or work with someone, or may have been diagnosed yourself. This is a book for all of us, but especially for anyone facing a breast cancer diagnosis for yourself, or for someone you love.

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The system is not entirely broken; at least not yet.

Yesterday was a rough day politically, folks. I almost wish I’d just been offline all day, because I got pretty stressed, which isn’t good for health, and tracking everything that was happening was difficult and not really productive. I should try to stick to a short summary once / day, I think — I read Heather Cox Richardson’s daily summaries, and if I can find a complementary ‘this is the priority task for today’ targeted

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Someone needs to build us a spreadsheet

Is there any website tracking what the Trump administration tries to do + which of those are still going vs. walked back? I.e.: x date, ordered that public schools stopping teaching about the Tuskegee airmen; x date, Trump administration walked back order I’d like to be able to see at a glance which things are still threats, and which have been handled. If it also included ‘likely to be fail’ (due to unconstitutionality, etc.) that

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Like hanging out with her professors

Season 3 of the podcast launched last week, and Benjamin Rosenbaum and I are back to recording — I just couldn’t record much in the fall, with the Shops going, but my weekends are more open at the moment, so I’m hoping to record close to weekly for the next few months, finish up season 3. We got a nice fan letter about the podcast, from someone who said that she liked listening to it

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Statement from the school

Statement from the school where I serve on the board. Dear OPRF High School Students, Staff, and Families, In light of recent immigration policy updates, I want to assure you that Oak Park and River Forest High School remains committed to upholding our policies that ensure no student or family is discriminated against, harassed, or bullied because of their race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, or immigration status. It’s critical that we do all we can

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The earrings that starting off this resin wackiness

Getting ready for teaching, realized I’m wearing the earrings that starting off this resin wackiness. I bought a pair on Etsy, and when they came, I thought — “Hm, I wonder if I can learn to do that.” And so, my life took an unexpected turn… Locals, I’m waiting to hear from Sprout whether I’m approved to teach a UV resin workshop there in February — if they say yes, details soon. You can learn

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The story of

Mary Anne Mohanraj

Mary Anne Mohanraj is author of A Feast of Serendib, Bodies in Motion, The Stars Change, and twelve other titles. Other recent publications include stories for George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards series, Perennial: A Garden Romance (Tincture), stories at Clarkesworld, Asimov’s, and Lightspeed, and an essay in Roxane Gay’s Unruly Bodies.

 

Mohanraj founded Hugo-nominated and World Fantasy Award-winning speculative literature magazine Strange Horizons, and serves as Executive Director of both DesiLit (desilit.org) and the Speculative Literature Foundation (speclit.org).  She is Clinical Associate Professor of fiction and literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  www.maryannemohanraj.com

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Vegan Serendib 99%
Jump Space 95%
Cancer Log 50%