Erica Watson

#Fairbanks, the reading at the Noel Wien Library that was canceled in February due to snowpocalypse is rescheduled for Oct. 21! Come if you can! I think there will be snacks?

I loled.

Lula Goes HARD

Heyyyyy, this is where I lived as a baby, been waiting for this account to show it. I too remember it mostly as blurred meaningless lights

“You totally didn’t look like you’d just driven 10 hours to get here,” they say, then send you this 🫠 (Thank you, Fairbanks Library Foundation, it was fun, in a kinda type 2 way but that wasn’t your fault)

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

OK, I've just pushed a big update to this article about the DOJ lawsuit, including the fact that Trump says he ordered it filed: alaskabeacon.com/2026/10/23/t... #akleg #alaska

“There is a reason, after all, that some people wish to colonize the moon, and others dance before it as before an ancient friend.” — James Baldwin, No Name in the Street

Alaska Book Week reading from Alaska Center for the Book! #BlueskyPoets #AlaskaSky #Alaska

I accidentally made a small Denali out of ice. I should probably call it a day.

I had vague notions of bumbling around doing art (& also searching for extraterrestrial life til I realized that wd exceed my math abilities) & storing my belongings at an older man’s house but for the most part I did not dream of labor, only geographies, so I guess by some measure I’ve succeeded 😂🫠

Sharing this specifically to direct folks to @ziibiing.com in the replies. Read what she has to say, and I hope The Onion listens.

F’in humans amiright

This series hits and misses, but I'm falling in love with this story and gonna talk about it in Whitehorse next week: "I look at this world and it’s beautiful, even when it’s on fire." @grist.org grist.org/climate-fict...

Last time we were here my dog harassed a duck. Today we were alone.

Last night in Lochiel, Arizona, heavily armed Border Patrol agents fired tear gas and pepper balls at protesters trying to stop a double border wall from cutting through the San Rafael Valley. Melissa del Bosque reports on what witnesses say happened next. Read full story🔗🦂:

“A mental pentathlete.” That’s how Joyelle McSweeney describes the genre-defying Canadian writer Anne Carson—the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, the subject of several BR essays, and a contributor to the magazine herself:

THIS 😡 is what happened to peaceful students who followed all rules, but had piercings and dyed hair, who tried to hear JD Vance’s speech in Fairbanks on Monday. What have we become? Getting rousted while not raising a ruckus www.newsminer.com/opinion/comm...

Another piece of inspired reflection and will give you food for thought. Highly recommended.

Wrote an email about email, which is actually something I’ve wanted to do for a while. www.ericarobinwatson.com/campaigns/vi...

Wrote an email about email, which is actually something I’ve wanted to do for a while. www.ericarobinwatson.com/campaigns/vi...

Morning fog hung around almost all day. Fog is my favorite

“I think what they’re really concerned about is that left politics *will* resonate — and you’ll have progressives and democratic socialists in office demanding that the Democratic Party leadership actually do something.”

sort of annoyed that it's KUAC pledge drive week & there's no live reporting of the V*nce FAI appearance so my only insights are from a very high friend in a plane waiting to take off

After much trying not to be the one to have to do it, i have been appointed to my district's GVEA nominating committee. I do not actually know how the sun gets in the wires, but I am for it.

"Two authors have sued the city of Los Angeles over the Los Angeles public library’s (LAPL) cancellation of a Read Palestine Week event where the writers were scheduled to discuss their books featuring Palestinian stories." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Korean officials confirm no deal exists to invest in Alaska natural gas pipeline, writes @alaska.bsky.social for the @alaskabeacon.com alaskabeacon.com/2026/10/01/k...

Oh no, it seems I have been added to a starter pack 🫠 Some housekeeping: I am not a Democrat! Tr*mp is a symptom, america is the disease! It is ok to hold progressives accountable! Misogyny & white supremacy are bipartisan values and this is a problem that should be addressed! Hope that helps.

For the THIRD YEAR in a Row, Native honorees are among the MacArthur Fellows. Congrats to poet Layli Long Soldier (Oglala Lakota) and historian Elizabeth Ellis (Peoria), two of this year's MacArthur Fellows! redpopnews.com/layli-long-s...

Tried to choose the bear but the NPS closed the park road to biking due to bear activity so I was stuck in cell range with all this news about MEN. Goddam federal overreach.

Nothing has made me feel as old and tired as the visceral gulf between the perceived momentum of #metoo and the collective exhaustion of right now

wishing i'd thought in time to say to the UMV employee who made a tired-ass & potentially triggering weight loss joke abt filling out the driver's license renewal form "how DARE you say that during fat bear week?!" instead of just quiet grumble ignoring it

First snow wiggles of the season! Had to climb into a windstorm to find it (tbh I thought we’d meet the snow lower and the wind later but he made the most of this little patch)

My book, Ghosts of Distant Trees, includes a short essay about getting an abortion in a Fbx clinic, & eating goldfish crackers in the recovery room, over 10 yrs ago. Yesterday I went to the same clinic for the 1st time since for routine care* & felt cozy seeing them in the waiting room snacks