Eritrean American writer from Miami. Books, housing, immigration, climate. Probably thinking about sound. Cofounder of @coyotemedia.org and talkscratch.com 📚 In Open Country forthcoming from Little, Brown.
Oakland, CA | she/her
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Rahawa Haile
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One detail from this release that I'm especially thrilled to see is that TM is bringing on staffers from the soon-closing Trinity University Press. TUP is a terrific publisher with such a rich backlist of Texas books who deserved so much better from their university. Very smart, classy move from TM.
New from me:
"Lesbians and queer women arguably built North American cafe culture, and Northern California alone spawned many queer coffee icons…. But cafe work falls into public life, and public life for non-hegemonic U.S. populations is increasingly under siege, often right under our noses.”
Apparently this interview spawned a bunch of book discourse yesterday but was never linked to. There are nearly 5,000 words of context here as to why an author might decide to not write a second book right now. I really hope folks read it. www.talkscratch.com/colette-shad...
Apparently this interview spawned a bunch of book discourse yesterday but was never linked to. There are nearly 5,000 words of context here as to why an author might decide to not write a second book right now. I really hope folks read it. www.talkscratch.com/colette-shad...
This week's Scratch is all about poetry (we haven't forgotten you, poets!). Read @latriagraham.bsky.social on ekphrastic writing, the freelance grind, and trying to make space for play when one's relationship to their work has been transactional for too long.
Well, fuck.
(I went long on the history of this terminal but one tl;dr is that we're in a cold civil war on fossil fuels and Oakland is a point of resistance with some truly heroic local defenders.)
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/unpaid-debts/
Honestly, this interview hit my fellow @talkscratch.bsky.social co-founders *hard*. I'm proud of the work (and of what we are building). www.talkscratch.com
As AI bros, private equity, and Decent espresso machines dominate the narrative, the gays hold the line.
The whole point of Scratch is to acknowledge where people are as writers at this moment in time, how we got here, and the costs to the culture (and our own lives!) as a result. That "or not" part of Scratch's tagline about "how writers are surviving" isn't a joke —we plan to be explicit.
My long interview with @coletteshade.bsky.social is up at Scratch this week, in which we discuss writing vs. writing careers, making ends meet under capitalism, and long-term planning from within short-sighted industries. It is an extremely candid conversation about art and money and aging.
Cydney Hayes
Latria takes an ekphrastic poetry class and tries to get weird with her art
In the midst of a battle against a dying industry, a Kentucky judge said Oakland owes hundreds of millions of dollars to a bankrupt corporation that exists only on paper. What do cities owe to whom as...
My long interview with @coletteshade.bsky.social is up at Scratch this week, in which we discuss writing vs. writing careers, making ends meet under capitalism, and long-term planning from within short-sighted industries. It is an extremely candid conversation about art and money and aging.
My long interview with @coletteshade.bsky.social is up at Scratch this week, in which we discuss writing vs. writing careers, making ends meet under capitalism, and long-term planning from within short-sighted industries. It is an extremely candid conversation about art and money and aging.
“In order to have a society — frankly, a democracy — we have to have these areas that are protected from the market.”
At least nine bars in the Castro are collecting their customers' personal data with ID and facial scanners from Patronscan, a Canadian tech company that's been the subject of several privacy disputes since 2020.
Rahawa Haile
“In order to have a society — frankly, a democracy — we have to have these areas that are protected from the market.”
www.talkscratch.com
“In order to have a society — frankly, a democracy — we have to have these areas that are protected from the market.”
My long interview with @coletteshade.bsky.social is up at Scratch this week, in which we discuss writing vs. writing careers, making ends meet under capitalism, and long-term planning from within short-sighted industries. It is an extremely candid conversation about art and money and aging.
www.talkscratch.com
Rahawa Haile
Rahawa Haile
A handful of neighborhood bars have installed facial recognition devices that collect and share customers’ names, addresses, genders, and indiscretions with each other
Texas Monthly and Penguin Random House have joined forces to relaunch Texas Monthly Press as the book-publishing imprint of the celebrated, award-winning media company that has defined Texas for millions of readers for 53 years. https://www.texasmonthly.com/press-room/texas-monthly-press-launch/
“In order to have a society — frankly, a democracy — we have to have these areas that are protected from the market.”
