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NinaIllingworth May 3, 2019January 29, 2021 alcohol, bad writing, blog, Depression, don't call the cops, Fiction, Hunter S Thompson, long absence, Nina Illingworth, none of this is real, personal, profanity is praxis, Site Updates, strong language

A Letter to the Editor’s Desk (From Facebook)

A Facebook Journal update about one of my extended absences in 2019, written in the style of Hunter S. Thompson for no reason at all.

Blog Fascism Personal Site Updates War

NinaIllingworth November 27, 2017January 2, 2021 activism, Alt Right, American fascism, Amerikan Musik, Black Lives Matter, BLM, blog, boiling frog, Bush, Cheney, consequences, corporate media, Democrats, Donald Trump, Europe, Evil, fascism, foreign policy, Giant Russia Theory, GOP, government lies, Imperialism, informal writing, Iran, Iraq, Iraq War, Iraq war propaganda, KSA, letter to my readers, liberals, lies that sold the Iraq War, mainstream media, Middle East, millions of dead, neoliberalism, Observations from Outside the Death Star, OODS, patriotism, Pentagon, personal, Pokemon Go, Propaganda, Putin, racial violence, Racism, Republican, Russia, Russiagate, Saudi Arabia, Site Updates, Social Justice, swine emperor Trump, Syria, the rise of American fascism, The West, Trump is a Nazi, United States, US, US adventurism, USA, war, war in Iran, war in Syria, war with Russia, warmonger, white nationalism, white supremacists

A Brief Note Explaining My Absence During the Late Fall of 2017 to my Readers & Patrons

How I got run down fighting fascism & imperialism at the same time; and why I’m back to fight again

Censorship Personal Site Updates Social Media

NinaIllingworth September 9, 2017January 1, 2021 Adam Parkhomenko, blog, censorship, Comments, Comments Section is now open, Correct the Record, David Brock, Daylin Leach, Democratic Party trolls, Democrats, diversification, dog pile, Essays, Facebook, friends, Google, groundswell of support, guidelines, harassment, liberal troll packs, liberals, Mastodon, mistakes, new Facebook Feature, new Twitter account, Nina Illingworth, ninaillingworth dot com, not quitting, Opinion, Orwellian, Patreon, personal, professional trolls, readers, Site Updates, social media, suspended, targeted abuse, the show must go on, took the bait, Twitter

The Show Must Go On: Social Media Updates, a Saga Resolved & Shu in Exile

After a hectic two days of appeals, trying to figure out Twitter’s byzantine rules enforcement system and spreading out my social media presence I’m back to announce that I won’t be quitting but I’m at the mercy of kind readers who subscribe to & share my articles.

Censorship Personal Site Updates Social Media

NinaIllingworth September 7, 2017January 1, 2021 censorship, Depression, Facebook, fighting a losing battle, frustrated, Google, Mastodon, Nina Illingworth, ninaillingworth dot com, not getting any help, Orwellian, Patreon, personal, Politics, rich tech libertarians, Site Updates, social media, suspended, thinking of quitting, too cool for school, Twitter, want to quit, wrongthink

More Twitter Censorship Drama & Why It Might Mean the End of My Writing “Career”

A short and angry blog post about Twitter censorship and the Blue Checkmark hierarchy.

Blog Opinion Personal Site Updates

NinaIllingworth June 2, 2017December 31, 2020 Alt Right, American fascism, apology, appeal to authority, blog, copsucking, creeping fascism, death, disaster, ethnonationalism, fascism, fascists, forced vacation, freaking out, letters, letters to my readers, liberals, mainstream liberals, my grandfather, Nazi, Nazi Germany, Op-Ed, Opinion, patriotism, personal, plague, Politics, Portland, Portland stabbings, Racism, reactionary right GOP, right wing civil war, RWNJ, sea change, Site Updates, slide into fascism, tragedy, Twitter, USA, why liberals lose, workaholic, World War II, writer's block, writing

A Brief Update Regarding My Recent Absence

A personal blog about why social media and the everyday grind of running my own website are driving me ballistic.

Blog Personal Site Updates Social Media

NinaIllingworth May 25, 2017January 1, 2021 about me, analyst, blog, blogging, brief thoughts, citizen journalist, conspiracy theory, Contact Page, critic, DC movies, Deep Dives, Democrats, Facebook, fundraising, GOP, Humor, Hunter S Thompson, independent journalism, Info Meme of the Week, Jokes, nazis in the White House, new McCarthyism, Nina Illingworth, Patreon, PayPal, personal, Q and A, reader questions, Republican, Russiagate, Site Updates, social media, Spread the Word, subscribers, subscriptions, swearing, Tip Jar, Trump, Twitter, Website, writer, Zack Snyder, Zack Snyder must die for the harvest

Radio Free Nina: A Long Overdue Q & A

Trapped without internet or a phone line for the night, Nina finally gets around to answering some common reader questions about ninaillingworth.com.

Personal Site Updates

NinaIllingworth December 9, 2016 a sad day, brief absence, Ginger, nina, personal, Queen of the Wet Noses, Site Updates

A brief and very personal note

Announcing a brief absence due to a death in my family…

Fiction Personal

NinaIllingworth April 21, 2016December 30, 2020 Alienation, Change, Entropy, Fiction, Free Verse, Loss, Metaphor, Nature, Nina Illingworth, Numb, personal, Poetry, Seasons, The Wind is a Liar, Wind

The Wind is a Liar

A free verse poem about loss, change and alienation by Nina Illingworth written in January, 2016

Fiction Personal

NinaIllingworth April 20, 2016December 30, 2020 Anxiety, Depression, Fiction, Louie Louie, Nina Illingworth, personal, Rebirth, Renewal, Short Fiction, Starting Over, Stories, The Reconstruction of Walter Emanuel

The Reconstruction of Walter Emanuel

Editor’s note: this is one of the first short stories I wrote after more than a decade away from writing fiction and was originally carried on my blog sportsballchic.com in the summer of 2015. My intention, was to portray a man struggling to overcome his own depression and anxiety problems after a long period of disconnection/isolation in the most humane, realistic way possible. All too often, stories about mental health begin and end with tired, melodramatic tropes that fail to recognize that an alienating sense of “otherness” may in fact be a completely rational response to an unfeeling, unloving and at times completely absurd world around us. But for time and pressure, we are all Walter Emanuel and it is my sincerest hope that I’ve told his story with the dignity, compassion and hopefulness it deserves. – NI

Fiction Personal

NinaIllingworth April 15, 2016December 30, 2020 Ambition, Bagley Road, Betrayal, Cops, corruption, Crime, Detroit, DPD, Fiction, Heat Check, Narcotics, Nina Illingworth, personal, Police, Short Fiction, Stories, Trust

Heat Check

Editor’s note: this is another piece I wrote in the late summer of 2015 for my blog at sportsballchic.com. My orginal idea was to tell a story about the peculiar way large, faceless institutions tend to promote the most selfish and dishonest people ahead of their more sociable, and in most cases far more deserving co-workers. This naturally drew me towards police work and my hometown of Detroit Michigan were we spend an afternoon on the job with Cal Newsome – a man who can’t seem to stop falling upward.

Fiction Personal

NinaIllingworth April 13, 2016November 5, 2022 Chromsomes, Father, Fiction, Free Verse, If I Were Born a Girl..., JA5, personal, Poetry, trans woman, transgender, Transgendered, womanhood

If I Were Born a Girl…

A poem about growing up transgendered by Nina Illingworth