Alysia Abbott
@AlysiaAbbott
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Wrote FAIRYLAND, now a movie! Work @NPR, @NYTimes @solsticelitmag. | Nonfiction Writing Instructor @MassArt & @EmersonCollege | 🏳️🌈 she/her
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Joined February 2012
We must donate to the ACLU and nonprofits who can take Trump's laws to the court. It may be more challenging but we can't give up. ACLU stopped the Muslim Ban in 2017, halted the transgender military ban, filed 57 lawsuits against Trump. We can't give up. We must act.
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Fascism aside, I’m have panic attacks at the possibility that I might have to see his nasty face every day in the news again. How have people forgotten that? How do people not have ptsd from that?
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The best revenge would be making Puerto Rico a state already.
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Are wooden sky-scrapers the way of the future? A well written and researched investigation by talented @_mattking.
In the works for over a year, my new feature article for @belt_magazine is finally live! It's a look at America's first wave of "mass timber" skyscrapers, and the ways this novel technology can help clean up the environment while growing our cities. https://t.co/JDkPcEMwHG
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We try to highlight better books to learn about Appalachia than Hillbilly Elegy, so each day until the election we’re going to share a different one you should read instead. Day 1: Another Appalachia by @AvashiaNeema
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A spot has opened up in my online @FAWCCapeCod class next week. (Someone has to drop out for a personal reason.) Please feel free to share!
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Sending solidarity to all my Appalachia anothers today. Honored to have these words up at @guardian. Please give them a read.
theguardian.com
Hillbilly Elegy perpetuates a stereotyped representation of Appalachia, one in which people like me don’t exist
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"People had been sold a narrative about Appalachia and its people that did not resonate for me, and did not reflect the people and place I love." -- @AvashiaNeema Contrary to popular belief, JD Vance isn't the only person with ideas on Appalachia. https://t.co/BkZPnpAmCD
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People have lots of opinions about Appalachia and the people who live there, writes Neema Avashia. Her goal was to write a book that made it impossible to see the region in a reductive way.
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Jour de fête pour @AlysiaAbbott ! @OlivierMony a lu Fairyland pour @LaTribune “Un père et sa fille dans le San Francisco des luttes LGBT, du disco au sida. Une histoire d’amour. Poignant.” @BourgoisEditeur #Satellites (Traduction de Nicolas Richard.🤴)
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My former @GrubWriters student @zimmerman082, has published a beautiful memoir, US, AFTER. You can read an excerpt @washingtonpost below. We're launching the book with a reading and conversation @PorterSqBooks. TONIGHT! #happypubday
https://t.co/2aAdmgf4wJ
washingtonpost.com
The state trooper had delivered the news of Seth’s death. Soon, I was laser-focused on solving a single problem: How to tell the girls.
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Merci! J'ai laissé mon cœur à San Francisco ET à Paris.
@AmelieDor @BourgoisEditeur @AlysiaAbbott merci de nous partager vos beaux souvenirs. L’amour entre un père et sa fille.
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There are a few spots left in my @FAWCCapeCod class, The Call is Coming From Inside the House: 7/22-7/26. It's online!
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Next Monday, join @zimmerman082 in conversation with @AlysiaAbbott - author of FAIRYLAND - as they discuss Rachel's upcoming memoir US, AFTER at @PorterSqBooks at 7pm EST! Make sure to RSVP, and preorder a signed copy, here! https://t.co/ioXfqSSLF8
@IPGbooknews @SusanSchulman
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Save the date! On July 1st at 7pm EST, @zimmerman082 will be celebrating the release of her memoir US, AFTER with @AlysiaAbbott, author of FAIRYLAND, at @PorterSqBooks! https://t.co/cla2Z50qet Preorder US, AFTER here: https://t.co/0ileSm2wga
@IPGbooknews @SusanSchulman
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108 students arrested at Emerson College last night. My god. I had just walked through the alley at 9pm worried for my students because it was so cold. #emersoncollege
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Happy birthday to my favorite #FilthElder, #JohnWaters . Some years ago I interviewed him for at First Parish Church for @HarvardBooks . Highlight of my life! Thank you @WGBH for capturing the video.
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