100 Days of Creative Resistance

100 Days of Creative Resistance delivers a free email of encouragement, opposition, and commiseration — a reminder of why we write and create — from 100 iconoclastic contemporary voices on each of the first 100 days of the 47th president’s regime. The program begins January 20th, 2025, Inauguration Day. As the emails post, they are archived here.

Enroll here to sign up to receive the emails as they’re released, and also learn about community zooms and other 100 Days related events. To read a short message from the project curator, Co-Lab co-director Brian Gresko, click here.

Featuring Messages From

R. O. Kwon on Listening to Your Body, January 20th

Melissa Febos on Choosing Love, January 21st

Denne Michele Norris on the Community that Comes with Work, January 22nd

Edgar Gomez on Imagining a Future Where Things Turn Out Okay, January 23rd

Lilly Dancyger on Bountifulness, January 24th

Nadia Owusu on Art as an Instrument for Political Change, January 25th

Lisa Ko on Creating a Time Capsule, January 26th

Temim Fruchter on Cultivating Radical Imagination, January 27th

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya against the Myth of the Solitary Writer, January 28th

Hannah Lillith Asadi on Beauty, January 29th

Crystal Hana Kim on Grounding, January 30th

Laura van den Berg on Putting the Skills You Have to Use, January 31st

Luis Jaramillo on Writing to Claim Our Freedom, February 1st

Abeer Hoque on Growing Through Failure, February 2nd

Meredith Talusan on Political Mindfulness, February 3rd

Alexandra Watson on the Bridge from Hope to Faith, February 4th

Nina Sharma on Remembering History, February 5th

Maris Kreizman on the Freedom of Creation, February 6th

Joseph Earl Thomas Agonizes over the Sentence and the Line, February 7th

Danielle Lazarin on the Miracle of Art’s Survival, February 8th

Marie Myung-Ok Lee on Seeing Things in a Gentler Light, February 9th

A Spell from Jeanne Thornton for Thriving Under Attack, February 10th

Megan Giddings on Being There for People, February 11th

Cleyvis Natera on Small Tyrants, February 12th

Richard Mirabella on Being A Great Weirdo, February 13th

Jiordan Castle on Valentine’s Day, February 14th

Robert Jones Jr. on Despair, Purpose, Art, and Love, February 15th

Annie Liontas Cannot Do This Alone, February 16th

Essie Chambers on Fighting Numbness and Nurturing Sparks, February 17th

Sari Botton on Why We Need Your Personal Writing, Even Though It Might Not Immediately & Permanently Change the World, February 18th

Idra Novey on the Relief of Simile, February 19th

Larissa Pham on Listening to the Body, and the Rhododendrons, February 20th

Athena Dixon on Beauty and Balance, February 21st

Jenny Xie on Defamiliarizing What You Love, February 22nd

Sabrina Imbler on Finding Your Cows, February 23rd

Shayne Terry Has Thirteen Questions, February 24th

Naima Coster Shares a Moment of Grace, February 25th

Quincy Scott Jones on Everyday Resistance, February 26th

Julia Philips on Doing What You Know Is Right, February 27th

Chin-Sun Lee on Joy as the Antidote to Oppression, February 28th

Mona Eltahawy in A Time for Giants, March 1st

Sara Lippmann on Holding Each Other’s Stories, March 2nd

Alejandro Varela Invites You to Dinner, March 3rd

Neelanjana Banerjee on Snapping Out of Numbness, March 4th

Daphne Palasi Andreades on the Necessity of Cultivating Joy, March 5th

Ryan D. Matthews in Favor of Not Doing Enough, March 6th

Emily Raboteau on Not Beating Yourself Up If You’re Not Writing, March 7th

Isle McElroy on Patience and Attention, March 8th

Jimin Han Looks Forward to Coming Home, March 9th

Jennifer Baker Asks What If, March 10th

Karen Russell on Murmurations, March 11th

Faithfully, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, March 12th

Kat Chow on Fighting Obfuscation with a Simple Question, March 13th

Alejandro Puyana on Finding Gratitude, March 14th

Sara Novic Asks: Can Art Save the World?, March 15th

Natasha Oladokun on how Writing Is Not Enough, March 16th

Torrey Peters Is Talking to You, March 17th

Amy Shearn on Recording Your Life, March 18th

Ingrid Rojas Contreras on Finding What Matters Most, March 19th

Paul Lisicky’s Art Begins with a No, March 20th

Karissa Chen Wants to Meltdown, March 21st

Gabrielle Bellot on Cherishing Lightness in a Time of Heavydark, March 22nd

Kelly Thompson, One Sentence at a Time, March 23rd

James Yeh on Optimistic Practices, March 24th

Nicole Haroutunian on Cultivating Sustained Attention, March 25th

Mary-Kim Arnold: Grief Is a Skill We Need, March 26th

Hannah Bae on Speaking to The Dead, March 27th

Lucas Mann on Hanging Out, March 28th

Anna Qu on Counteracting Fear with Clay, March 29th

Sejal Shah on Dancing Against Despair, March 30th

Nicole Chung on Taking It Day by Day, March 31st

James Hannaham on How to Stay Sane, April 1st

A.E. Osworth on Escape, April 2nd

Christopher Gonzalez Still Believes That Good Can Happen, April 3rd

Anjali Khosla, Seed by Seed, April 4th

Meghan Flaherty on Uncertainty, April 5th

Soraya Palmer on Remembering Our Futures, April 6th

Carvell Wallace: All of Life Works If…, April 7th

Caitlin Kunkel on Joking About the Impossible, April 8th

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E. J. Koh

Chelsea Bieker

Denny

Christina Rivera

Sarah Chihaya

Stephanie Feldman

Irvin Weathersby Jr.

Deesha Philyaw

Hannah Beresford

Yiming Ma

Carmen Maria Machado

Joseph Osmundson

Mira Jacob

Alexander Chee

Sarah Thankam Mathews

Kristen Arnett

Celeste Ng

Bryan Washington

Melissa Rivero

T Kira Madden