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June 2025 Updates

Hello! I hope you are well! My updates for June are below:

  • I worked more on the ren sisters short story and I should be almost done with the first draft soon!
  • I also worked more on The Dragon Queen’s Prisoners’ sequel. I’m still in the Nala chapter but it’s progressing forward.

Thank you for reading my updates! Please feel welcome to share any collaborative or sibling-related projects you are working on in the comments. This month, I encourage you to donate to the Sameer Project, a Palestinian initiative working to provide medical aid, supplies, and food in Gaza. Also, please check out ‘Āina Momona, a community organization working toward environmental health, social justice, and Hawaiian sovereignty. Thirdly, Hope Relief and Rehabilitation is a Sudanese organization supporting people with disabilities, particularly in the Nuba Mountains, where famine has been declared. For more resources and organizations to support, please look here.

May 2025 Updates

Well, hello a bit later than usual this month! I hope you are all well. I have written my updates for this month below.

  • I wrote a bit more of The Dragon Queen’s Prisoners sequel. It’s a chapter from Nala’s perspective, and diving more into her emotions has been interesting.
  • I also wrote more of the ren sisters short story, and it’s been a journey diving into their complicated relationship.

That’s all for this month and I would love to hear about what stories you have been working on or sibling-related stories you recommend reading below! This month, if you live in the US, I encourage you to contact your congresspeople to urge action regarding the ongoing forced famine in Gaza here and to advocate against cutting SNAP here. Please also review Saroyah’s Twitter list here for updated information regarding the continuing humanitarian crisis in Sudan. For more resources and organizations to support, please look here.

April 2025 Updates

Hello! I hope you are doing alright. My updates for the month are below.

  • I wrote more of the ren sisters story and did a little more work on The Dragon Queen’s Prisoners sequel. I also now have a Neocities site and Wix blog that you can find on my Carrd.
  • On a sweet note, a friend got me into Bluey, and the sibling dynamic between Bluey and Bingo has seriously been reminding me so much of my sister and me when we were little.

As always, thank you for checking out my updates! Please share your writing updates and any sibling-related stories you’ve been reading/watching in the comments! This month, I encourage you to support the Basandja Coalition, which lifts the voices of Indigenous and local communities in the Congo Basin, and FiveforFive, a collective fund for trans women in the UK. Also, please check out AILA’s immigration advocacy resources. For more resources and organizations to support, please look here.

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