Author of Tender Points and Gravitas (aka Poèmes deep), cohost of the Light Jacket Reading Series, also amyberko on bsky
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ALT A copy of Gravitas by Amy Berkowitz signed “Heather! So nice to meet you + write with you! ❤️ Amy”
ALT Figure from our COVID scenario planning paper, originally for a PCORI grant to study the pandemic impact on food service workers. Caption: In 2020, we defined the worst-case pandemic scenario as “stuck in a nightmare” in an eventually funded grant and publication. Society is using denial to pretend we are in a best-case scenario, when we approach the worst-case scenario that would be allowed to persist. This denial creates a dangerous world for people with cancer, other immunocompromising conditions, and anyone avoiding Long COVID.
ALT My letter of support has now been signed by JUDITH BUTLER, ROBIN D.G. KELLEY, JEANNE THEOHARIS, NAOMI KLEIN, CHANDRA TALPADE MOHANTY, KEEANGA-YAMAHTTA TAYLOR, DEERHOOF, KIESE LAYMON, VICTOR RAY, LEWIS WALLACE, LORGIA GARCÍA PEÑA, TEJ NAGARAJA, A.J. BAUER, DAN BERGER, RUHA BENJAMIN, MOHAMED ABDOU, LISA HAJJAR, LALEH KHALILI, LISA DUGGAN, JUANA MARÍA RODRÍGUEZ, SARAH SCHULMAN, AVGI SAKETOPOULO, STEPHANIE SMALLWOOD, ANN PELLIGRINI, RUTH WILSON GILMORE, TAYLOR LORENZ, BARBARA RANSBY, RANDA JARRAR, MOUSTAFA BAYOUMI, ANDREW ROSS, GAYATRI GOPINATH, ED YONG, CHANDA PRESCOD-WEINSTEIN and 2,000+ scholars, journalists and health workers
ALT 1: My copy of Sick magazine on the table, on top of a colorful floral dishcloth, next to a tea kettle with roosters painted on it and a trivet shaped like a pomegranate. The cover features a figure lying on a couch above the reflection of a figure lying on a couch, colors inverted.
ALT The poem, "My Wild Queer Sex Fantasy," which is too long to paste into alt text. Feel free to dm and I'll paste it in a message!
ALT I have four friends with long covid who are too sick to leave the house. One moved back in with his mom. One quit their job because they couldn’t think anymore. One stopped making art. One doesn’t have the energy to chew or swallow. And I don’t know them through chronic illness activism or anything, they’re people I met at school or at residencies. What I mean is they were perfectly healthy before. What I mean is this is happening to people.
ALT on a pink background, red text reads: SICK ISSUE 6 contributors Vida Adamczewski, A/Bel Andrade, Amy Berkowitz, Khairani Barokka, Jax Bulstrode, Sarah Courville, Jen Deerinwater, Amy Dickinson, Mizy Judah Clifton, Alton Melvar M Dapanas, Dead Gowns, Hanecdote, Sergey Isakov, Theo LeGro, Elias Lowe, Cathleen Luo, Jameisha Prescod, Olivia Spring, Leigh Sugar, Oriele Steiner, Emerson Whitney, Hanna Norberg-Williams, Chantal Wnuk, Caroline Wolff, Emma Yearwood
ALT Three photos showing hands twisting paper into a möbius strip beneath the heading “what does writing teach us about writing?” In the corner it says “an all-day workshop at Winslow House, Sunday June 30.”