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To make sure it’s accessible even if my pinned tweet is not for any reason, here is Everything I Wish I Could Pin on Twitter. It has links to more information and to help Palestinians, Sudanese, and Congolese suffering genocide; questions that I’m pondering or actively researching; and ways to show appreciation (shops and paylinks) if my work has informed, inspired, or entertained you.
What is 4 for Now?
4 for Now is a series of nonfiction blog post about social issues and corrections on common historial retellings, each under four minutes (well, most of them). They’re meant to give you the information you need to do better, sooner, while the kids are napping, when you’re in line at lunch, or wherever you have five minutes (or less). Read more about 4 for Now.
Latest Blog Posts
- BDS Targets and Alternatives
Featured Image: By Kristen Otenti. Created in Affinity Designer. What is BDS? The short answer is BDS = Boycott, Divest, Sanctions. It’s a way to force Israel to stop its apartheid against Palestine…. Read more BDS Targets and Alternatives - 2024 Reading Challenge Book List
Image by Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels. This is my 4th year participating in the Calm Scribe Reading Challenge. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s a list of 26 types of books, and participants get… Read more 2024 Reading Challenge Book List - It Got Away From Me at the End: 2023 Reading Challenge
Featured image by Philipp Aleev on Pexels.com. I participated in The Calm Scribe’s Reading Challenge for 2023. Today I’m looking back to see how I did. The Goal Since I hit the mark of reading 26 books… Read more It Got Away From Me at the End: 2023 Reading Challenge - 2023 Reading Challenge Book List
Image by Karolina Grabowska on Pexels. Welcome to my 3rd year of participating in the Calm Scribe Reading Challenge. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s a list of 26 types of books, and participants… Read more 2023 Reading Challenge Book List - Getting It Done (Kinda): 2022 Reading Challenge
Featured image by Sincerely Media from Unsplash. Edited in Affinity Designer. I participated in The Calm Scribe’s Reading Challenge for 2022. Today I’m looking back to see how I did. From the List I read 16 of my… Read more Getting It Done (Kinda): 2022 Reading Challenge
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About Kristen
Hi, I’m Kristen (she/her) and I’ve been complicit in a white supremacist system for over 40 years. I was always the quiet kid, afraid of questioning authority and getting into trouble. Little did I know, that’s exactly what white supremacy wants of us all.
I had an eye-opening moment in 2009, when finally I learned who Emmett Till was (no thanks to my public school education), that sparked a burst of self-education. Falling back on my conditioning, however, I said little more than some despairing comments about how horrible things “were back then” before going on with my life.
As I resumed my education in 2020, I started learning more than I realized I wanted to know about U.S. politics and capitalism and how they depend upon racism and other forms of oppression. To maintain the status quo, those in power enforce the public’s ignorance. I realized (at long last!) that fighting this ignorance is too important to keep quiet about.
I’m good at synthesizing information and I love sharing what I learn with others, so when I’m not working on novels or short stories, I’ll be posting short #4forNow articles about a variety of topics.
A descendant of colonizers, I occupy land stolen from the Nanrantsouak, N’dakina (Abenaki), and Wabanaki (Dawnland Confederacy) nations.