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bebravebird.bsky.social
25 they/them Teacher, Musician, Writer WNY/AR
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When the venue has a floor that's angled so I can see the stage <3

Photo went locally viral of an elementary teacher in the district restraining a student with special needs, which as you'd imagine has led to some of the worst takes imaginable online but this is one of the ones that stood out

i'm looking for a job. my resume is i can do anything and everyone likes me

So glad there's representation for the olean woodchucks and the cemetery by the sledding hill/golf course

I'm so smart and everyone thinks I'm cool btw

don’t know who needs to hear this but empathy doesn’t require eagerness. you don’t have to be excited about helping other people, you do it because it’s right and because the alternatives are worse

If I'm falling for propaganda why does it comport so neatly with what I already believe, you IDIOT

The fact that there's not a single video essay about Holst's Second Suite in F is a travesty

Inclement weather walk!

Explaining to my coworkers as the only Gen Z teacher that they really don't want to know what "jakeing it" means, but that they should chastise students for saying it

Giving the mice a break today. They’re sitting on the couch eating popcorn watching TV while I skitter in the walls

Here are some drawings they did on their last assignment :)

Some people have to stop themselves from texting exes when they're drunk, I have to stop myself from texting every single one of my friends a million times in a row about how much I love them

Trying so hard to make my students love The Metamorphosis and not just think it's depressing

All Hell- Los Campesinos! Good Luck Everybody- AJJ Payola- Desaparecidos And for some reason, You'd Prefer An Astronaut- Hum

Just had a thought and opened a Snapchat message to see my friend had texted me that exact thought word for word?????????

don’t get overwhelmed! pick 2-3 things and focus your energy there. for example, I am: - crying in my morning coffee - making a list of people I would like to catapult out to sea - staring out the window

I think I’m gonna begin some freak thing like referring to my body as “this vessel” until someone asks me what’s going on

Been feeling so much less solidarity this time around w/ the trump admin. Lots of my friends either aren't paying attention or are choosing not to stay informed. I wish I had the luxury of not having my day-to-day life be impacted but teaching is so tied to politics there isn't a choice for me

I haven't taken full advantage of teaching in a school that lets us be openly political in the name of professionalism, but since it's my last semester here anyway I think I'm just gonna say fuck it and teach some leftist poetry. If anyone has suggestions send em my way

How can one singular semester be both agonizingly long and over all too quickly

An Independent Great Lakes in Our Time

Me: Oh no that trolley is going to run us over! Guy tied up on the track next to me who somehow thinks he's actually the guy holding the lever: Lol cry more 😂

Just sealed some idiot within my crystal

Saw a pair of cormorants as well !

60° today I'm going to go find some geese to look at !

Need someone to teleport me out of Arkansas immediately

they should only be allowed to release news like twice a day at most

My hope is for us to all live long enough to be around to see a generation of trans youth who won't believe our stories about how bad things were back in the day.

As a nonbinary teacher of many trans students, I would choose to lose my teaching license if it came down to it. Not sure how I'll be able to stay the positive/steady/comforting adult presence they'll need me to be in the coming years when I feel so hopeless, but I'll figure it out

In a snowstorm I watch the bills lose in the playoffs in the common room the first night I checked in another ready of a lost youth I thought it was our year I guess I always do I'm a stranger in my skin btw if anyone was wondering

everybody who’s ever done a tomahawk chop should be sent to a reeducation camp

Men are always very impressed when I talk about how often I travel alone. Feels weirdly like they're surprised I'm not more scared of them. Got called brave today for spending the weekend in a city 4 hours north

Fucked up that you can't just decide one time to do the healthy thing and then be good forever. You have to keep choosing over and over

I need post notifs on this app so I know immediately when my friends say things!!

I know the therapy worked bc I'm writing again, AND I'm writing an actual story not poems about my trauma