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Aleenah Ansari is a journalist and writer. I write about representation in media, PNW travel, & entrepreneurship 🌈 | lifting as I climb | words for @ThisIsInsider, @SeattleTimes, @ByrdieBeauty, & more!

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Book Cover for: How to Not Always Be Working: A Toolkit for Creativity and Radical Self-Care, Cody Cook-Parrott

How to Not Always Be Working: A Toolkit for Creativity and Radical Self-Care

Cody Cook-Parrott
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“It’s about loving your work so much that you can step away from it (it needs space sometimes too).” — How to Not Always Be Working: A Toolkit for Creativity and Radical Self-Care by Marlee Grace https://t.co/Y8q0ti9aOb

Paperback, 2018

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Interior Chinatown: A Novel (National Book Award Winner), Charles Yu

Interior Chinatown: A Novel (National Book Award Winner)

Charles Yu
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I had the incredible honor of chatting with @charles_yu about his book "Interior Chinatown" and what it means to be Asian American, especially amid rising of hate crimes and attacks on Asian victims amid COVID-19. https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/charles-yu-on-identity-representation-and-what-it-means-to-be-asian-american/ for @seattletimes

Paperback, 2020

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too, Ijeoma Oluo

Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too

Ijeoma Oluo
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Whether a reader is new to movement and abolitionist work or deeply committed to it, the book has something for everyone. There are ways to use one’s specific skills and interests to contribute to these movements.

Hardcover, 2024

$26.99$13.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Ways of Being, Sati Mookherjee

Ways of Being

Sati Mookherjee
Aleenah Ansari (she/her)Aleenah Ansari (she/her)

Who are we when grieving? While experiencing loss, it seems easier to run away from sadness. But to heal, perhaps we need to sit with grief side by side.  Bellingham-based poet & lyricist Sati Mookherjee & I talked about this and more in this Q&A ⬇️ https://t.co/j4x5YTAawy

Paperback, 2023

$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book