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poet 📖 disabled/chronic pain/mental health gal 💊 lesbian 🏳️‍🌈 Jewish ✡️ Writer/Editor at @UNCF 🎓 Freelance at @ECmagdotcom 📝

Washington, DC
Joined July 2010
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Marlena Chertock (she/her)
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While women have experienced increased compensation in #CleanEnergy & sustainability sectors, overall salary growth has slowed & market uncertainty is encouraging some to leave the industry, according to report from @WRISEnergy. My latest for @ECmagdotcom: https://t.co/FSmpd8Vra8
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Marlena Chertock (she/her)
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A #SolarFarm built on the former site of a landfill in Brooklyn, Ohio, is expanding. Meanwhile, nearby Cleveland is facing setbacks with its Harvard Road Landfill solar project. My latest for @ECmagdotcom https://t.co/TrKWwihyMg #RenewableEnergy #LandfillSolar #SolarPower
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Hen Mazzig
2 months
BREAKING: Another victim of the Sydney Chanukah party attack has been identified as Holocaust survivor Alex Kleytman. Alex died saving his wife of five decades, Larissa. The elderly couple was celebrating with friends and family when the massacre began. That is who the
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Hen Mazzig
2 months
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE BONDI BEACH MASSACRE IN SYDNEY: - Around 2,000 people were celebrating the first night of Chanukah at a family event organized by Chabad in Bondi Beach. - Two shooters opened fire, firing approximately 60 rounds over about 10 minutes before police
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Jake Tapper 🦅
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In 1931 in Kiel, Germany, Rachel Posner, the wife of a rabbi, took this picture. On the back of the photograph she wrote: “‘Death to Judah,’ so the flag says. ‘Judah lives forever,’ so the light answers.” The light will continue to answer the darkness. Happy Hanukkah.
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Marlena Chertock (she/her)
2 months
The @artsclubdc 2026 Pride Poet-in-Residence poets will be hosting free writing workshops starting in January through #PrideMonth in June. My workshop on March 24 will center queer homage. Come write with us! https://t.co/KmBjwcAJ7F #QueerHomage #AfterPoems
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Marlena Chertock (she/her)
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My cohort includes: Gregory Adams, Xochi Quetzali Cartland, Angelique Palmer, & Nico Penaranda. I’m excited to be in community with these poets, read their work, attend their workshops, & soak in the queer literary goodness https://t.co/KmBjwcAJ7F #PoetryWritingWorkshop
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Marlena Chertock (she/her)
2 months
Sharing some exciting news: I’m honored to have been selected for the 2026 Pride Poet-in-Residence program at @artsclubdc! Huge thanks to @fan_belt, who spearheads this program. Learn more about the upcoming #WritingWorkshops: https://t.co/2MuAPezOsM #PoetryWorkshop #QueerPoets
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Smithsonian’s NMAAHC
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The Smithsonian is in the process of reopening our museums, research centers, and the National Zoo. For the latest updates and opening information, please visit https://t.co/MbImHGOP3Y and check back regularly as information may change.
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Marlena Chertock (she/her)
3 months
Crowds of young professionals have been lining up to get advice — and hugs — from other people’s bubbes. One recurring sentiment: I wish my own bubbe was still around to ask about this. 💔 https://t.co/V4AXqvbnng via ⁦@washingtonpost
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Why crowds of young professionals have been lining up to get advice — and hugs — from other people’s bubbes.
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Marlena Chertock (she/her)
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I reached a milestone in freelance writing this year — 100 articles written for @ECmagdotcom! 💡📝⚡
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Marlena Chertock (she/her)
5 months
The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery, including an infamous photo of an enslaved man’s scars, at multiple national parks via ⁦@washingtonpost
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The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology.”
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Ezra Klein
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In the last few years we've seen: - The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer - The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC - The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi - Multiple assassination attempts against Trump - The assassination
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Marlena Chertock (she/her)
5 months
#Suicide is a workplace risk that must be discussed. It doesn’t go away when we ignore it, and mental health issues can fester and worsen if not treated. Read more: https://t.co/wjT16lYntS via @ECmagdotcom #SuicidePrevention #MentalHealth #WorldSuicidePreventionDay #WSPD
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Suicide is a workplace risk that must be discussed. It doesn’t go away when we ignore it, and mental health issues can fester and worsen if not treated.
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Marlena Chertock (she/her)
6 months
Gooey, fresh out of the oven "Puberty cookies". And the #SealeyChallenge. Read more: https://t.co/UHMPgZ2Rjf #newsletter #poetry #SummerCamp #JewishSummerCamp #Substack
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Marlena Chertock (she/her)
6 months
A train derails & releases at least 1,000 gallons of hazardous chemicals in the U.S. about once every 2 months. Many communities along the rail lines aren’t prepared to keep people safe when it happens https://t.co/sxVssQjrZ0 via @CNSmd @HowardCenterUMD
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Off the rails
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Marlena Chertock (she/her)
7 months
.@SpelmanCollege shapes future women changemakers like Logan Smith, a rising junior. Smith has an important goal: making healthcare more accessible & equitable for all. Read my latest story for @UNCF: https://t.co/eQRwhVU6m7 #HBCUs #HBCU #scholarships #STEMscholarship
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Marlena Chertock (she/her)
7 months
Sunday’s event will feature readings from 16 contributors, yours truly included, & is hosted by the incredible @andrewgurza6, an author, actor, & disability awareness activist who focuses on the intersections of disability & sexuality
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Marlena Chertock (she/her)
7 months
The anthology shines a light on a much-marginalized part of the LGBTQ+ community & focuses on all aspects of the erotic & sensual bodily experience for queer disabled people https://t.co/CTIRjTEa9D #disability #dislit #criplit #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #queerdisabled #disabledqueers
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Marlena Chertock (she/her)
7 months
The online book launch of "eff-able: a spicy anthology of queer crip poetry" is this Sunday at 2-3:30 p.m. EST / 7-8:30 p.m. BST. Registration is free! There will be live captions & slides of work being read https://t.co/ij0iu83geW #effable #poetry #booklaunch @fourteenpoems
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An eff-ing good (online) book launch. Hosted by award-winning Disability Awareness Consultant, activist, podcast host, author and actor Andrew Gurza, expect a night of queer crip spiciness as the...
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