Human Writes Now

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Sharing stories from the margins, truth from between the lines 🔆 I promote underrepresented stories/creators 🔆 The antidote to the official narrative 🔆 Mixed-race storyteller/editor 🔆 Yonsei 四世 Daburu ダブル Rejisuto レジスト Nidoto nai yoni 二度とないように

Photo of L.A. at 6:29 a.m. before sunrise, with orange and red clouds near the horizon, mountains in silhouette, and city lights in the foreground including City Hall at lower right
A screenshot from the website diversebooks.org with copy that reads “Internship Grants. We're helping diverse undergraduate and graduate students launch their careers in publishing - an industry that needs their perspectives and voices.” It is accompanied by a photo of someone smiling as they look at two open books held in their hands.
A colorful sunset and moonrise over coastal Los Angeles and the Pacific Ocean.
The sun appears briefly as a yellow and orange orb in between a bank of low clouds and a layer of fog or haze that blankets the horizon. City buildings in the foreground, including LA City Hall, appear in shades of beige, white and gray, blending in with the low clouds and fog or haze.
A quote by Ria-Washington, President of the National Lawyers Guild, says "The state will move the goalposts and make whatever necessary adjustments they need to so they will criminalize protests." It’s captured from an Instagram post by jewishvoiceforpeace, which says, “In this piece, Tom Perkins for Mondoweiss, uses data from over 100 attorneys and legal observers to dive into how the US government's repression of protest over the last five years has escalated, with pro-Palestine protesters facing harsher punishments than Black Lives Matter protesters, who in turn faced harsher punishments than prior protest movements.”
Ribbons of orange clouds extend across a sky that changes from turquoise near the horizon to blue, during sunrise this morning over Los Angeles including the Pacific Ocean and Catalina Island in the distance and, in the foreground, palm trees and buildings in westside communities.
Red high clouds against a dark blue sky form a trail toward an orange horizon above mountains in silhouette as Los Angeles city lights shine in the foreground before sunrise this morning.
An invitation to join Human Writes Now and the growing community at UpScrolled, a new social media app that promotes free expression, authenticity and visibility without the censorship of unfair algorithms or shadowbanning that are stifling speech and information sharing at popular apps controlled by special interests.
amandascgorman On January 7th, 2026, ICE agents murdered Renee Nicole Good by shooting her in the head through her car window. She was a poet and writer, a wife, and a mother of three. Like many, I am horrified by the ongoing violence that ICE wages upon our community. Across our country, we are witnessing discrimination and brutality on an unconscionable scale. We remember and mourn not only Renee, but all those ICE has killed, including Silverio Villegas Gonzalez and Keith Porter, who were also shot by ICE. We also remember the 32 individuals who died in ICE custody last year, with 2025 marking the deadliest year in ICE's history in over two decades. I encourage you to donate to my fundraiser for @ACLUMN who are currently engaged in legal action against ICE. Other ways to offer support include donating to organizations such as: Unidos MN @UnidosMN Monarca Rapid Response Line at monarcamn.org Immigrant Law Center MN @immigrantlawcentermn
Quote: “Language is stripped of adjectives, stripped even of grammar, until it beats like a heart forced to run, never fully exhaling, always ready to sprint again. Over time, that compressed rhythm moves from our devices into our bodies. We begin to speak, even face-to-face, in short bursts, as if the conversation itself might be cut at any second. But the compression of speech is not only the result of technical limits or fear of the next strike. It comes from the overwhelming scale of reality, from the knowledge that no sentence can carry what people have seen and heard.”
This video shows alternating images of a Banksy mural on the wall of the Royal Courts of Justice before and after authorities tried to remove it. The mural depicts a judge using their gavel to assault a fallen protester. The video is accompanied by the words “Protest is a language that can’t be censored,” and the song “Crisis Fest” by Sunflower Bean.”
This is fine meme superimposed on a screenshot of the Watch Duty app that shows dozens of wildfires throughout the Western U.S. today.
Courtesy ABC News: In this photo released by The Russian Academy of Sciences' Vulcanology Institute, The Klyuchevskoy volcano, one of the highest active volcanoes in the world, erupts in northern Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian Far Eat, on Monday, Aug. 4, 2025, sending ash six kilometres into the sky. Yuri Demyanchuk, The Russian Academy of Sciences' Vulcanology Institute via AP
God rays above the mountains north of downtown Los Angeles herald a new day
Painting called “What is the taste of Freedom” (2022) by Palestinian artist Malak Mattar depicts a Palestinian woman in motion and wearing traditional clothing.
Family from the camp, oil on canvas, 2014. Depicts a Palestinian woman sheltering her family including sons and daughters, dressed in traditional clothes and standing in a desert setting.
The sun rises over Los Angeles from behind mountains and clouds, as seen from a downtown high-rise.
Time-lapse photography of the sunrise over the mountains and city of Los Angeles, with City Hall in the foreground, to the right of center
Yellow moon rises above the Los Angeles skyline between two palm trees as the sun sets
An owl (possibly Great Horned Owl) perched on a rooftop above Los Angeles city lights last night.
Portrait of a mother and daughter. Artist comment: Details and a smile. (The daughter might be the artist, or a friend of the artist, to judge by comments.)
Screenshot of Screen Daily article on the debut of Watermelon+ streaming service from Watermelon Pictures.
Director Farah Nabulsi and Watermelon Pictures’ Alana Hadid pose for a photo after the LA premiere of The Teacher.
A screenshot from Ghostly Encounters: The Legacy of the 2011 Tsunami in Japan, showing a taxi parked on the waterfront at daybreak with coastline and clouds on the horizon and the subtitle quote “As long as you’re living, pain is inevitable.”
Small, dried plant pressed against a yellow-green background (of algae?) covering a rock, surrounded by rocks and pebbles of various sizes along the shore at low tide.
Kimono design of cranes, flowers and landscape on a black background
Mood board reflecting diverse allies and strangers on a perilous collision course of past, present, hidden agendas and open conflict set in the post-Civil War Old West.
Photo of the sunrise over clouds/fog, taken from a top floor of a downtown Los Angeles high-rise office building.
Naoe in front of cherry blossom trees atop her Sekiryu Beast mount, a preorder bonus for Assassin’s Creed Shadows
Red and orange clouds on the horizon during sunrise above a mountain range in silhouette, with Los Angeles city lights and LA City Hall in the foreground as a river of headlights snakes toward downtown during rush hour.
Photo of American Airlines plane on the tarmac with passengers evacuated onto a wing while an engine burns and smokes underneath them; the word “American” appears prominently on the fuselage.
Photo titled Red Dragon at Rest shows a close-up of a red dragonfly perched on the end of a branch amid a backdrop of tall trees.
A halo surrounds the sun as it sets over the Pacific
Screenshot of anime character saying “I can already tell this is gonna suck.”
The Operative. Chiwetel Ejiofor in Serenity.
Sunbeams light clouds above LA in the late afternoon
Peace symbol appears in the clouds
Smoke from the Hughes Fire billows behind the Hollywood sign and Griffith Observatory.
Hummingbird perched atop Bird of Paradise plants in bloom
A red sun lights the evening sky behind smoke from the Palisades Fire
Colorful sunset over Los Angeles, with a crescent moon above and ocean/Catalina island below left