Hey @vrbo, I tried to move my nephew and his friends. into a place he rented through you on Saturday and was met by a landlord who started out hostile and got much, much worse. Maybe it was because, as he says, he had never agreed to have four adults in the apartment? Or:

Two things I didn’t know until I was yesterday years old:
1) Memorial Day was started by African Americans honoring fallen Union solders
2) The Statue of Liberty was gifted to America to celebrate freed slaves, not immigrants.
Erasure is real, you all. But that part we knew. Tons of reading on Memorial Day (and it’s as contentious as you’d expect) but this piece by Yale history professor David Blight is great: nytimes.com/2011/05/30/opi…

I had so many WOC writers come up to me in tears after this panel and I know there are so many more out there who cannot possibly afford or take time away for a conference like this, so I just want to recap a few things...

https://twitter.com/mhbertino/status/1111346524506587136

1) when we talk about race in publishing, we talk about today, and yesterday is always used to contextualize how much better it is today.

The perils of being in the Auntie sandwich generation. And now I am really feeling my Aunties, so you might as well, too. Here is Will Not Tell Your Parents Auntie, showing up just in time to save you public humiliation while offering enough private shame to last your entire 20s.