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Karawynn Long

The Lesson from Minneapolis

Jan 28, 2026

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13 min read

The Lesson from Minneapolis

This is how we win our country

How to Survive a Protest

Oct 9, 2025

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12 min read

How to Survive a Protest

Preparing for military violence against citizen resistance

Strategic Resistance: Mass Demonstration

Jul 13, 2025

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12 min read

Strategic Resistance: Mass Demonstration

Why organized nationwide rallies are an excellent use of your time and energy right now

The War on Empathy

Apr 7, 2025

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7 min read

The War on Empathy

Resisting bully billionaires with guerrilla kindness

How to Survive 2025

Mar 11, 2025

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20 min read

How to Survive 2025

We are all preppers now

Gender X

Oct 17, 2024

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19 min read

Gender X

A middle-aged reappraisal of the whole damned idea

“Weird” Might Save America

Aug 5, 2024

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20 min read

“Weird” Might Save America

A wordsmith’s take on why, and how you too can help

Preparing for the Next Market Crash

Jun 2, 2024

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9 min read

Preparing for the Next Market Crash

Like a hell-broth boil and bubble

If We Could Talk to the Animals

Nov 8, 2023

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41 min read

If We Could Talk to the Animals

“Can we keep him?” “No.” “But it’s a TALKING DOG!”

The Dog Days of Summer

Sep 12, 2023

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20 min read

The Dog Days of Summer

An old dog, a new puppy, paralysis and growth

The Coming Enshittification of Public Libraries

Jul 26, 2023

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22 min read

The Coming Enshittification of Public Libraries

Global investment vampires have positioned themselves to suck our libraries dry

Language Is a Poor Heuristic for Intelligence

Jun 26, 2023

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25 min read

Language Is a Poor Heuristic for Intelligence

With the emergence of LLM “AI”, everyone will have to learn what many disabled people have always understood

Ideas in Conversation with Each Other

Jun 12, 2023

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11 min read

Ideas in Conversation with Each Other

The long and the short of fiction writing

Breasts of Burden

May 16, 2023

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15 min read

Breasts of Burden

Don’t get excited, there’s no titillation here

Learning to Uncurl

Mar 19, 2023

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15 min read

Learning to Uncurl

Can I reclaim any part of my youngest, happiest self?

A Necessary Grace

Feb 21, 2023

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17 min read

A Necessary Grace

Learning to manage anger in the aftermath of abuse

Memory Is a Double-Edged Sword

Jan 27, 2023

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14 min read

Memory Is a Double-Edged Sword

Losing it still felt like cutting out my heart

Elon and Me

Jan 13, 2023

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28 min read

Elon and Me

Identifying the autism-to-asshole pipeline

Big Talk

Jan 6, 2023

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9 min read

Big Talk

In which linguistics teaches me something surprising about people

Everything Old Is New Again

Jan 1, 2023

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8 min read

Everything Old Is New Again

Including this newsletter, and me

Nine Lives

personal essays, this time with a quarter-century more wisdom

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