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Fiction is fun, you can just make up a person and gossip about them. Nobody stops you.

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I don’t know how to put this exactly but it’s very important to reject a sexist culture’s criteria for a good woman’s life.

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It is easier to treat impulsivity and moodiness than it is to treat emptiness, hopelessness, or lack of identity. That's not to say the former shouldn't be addressed, but it's alarming how many models of health are models of compliance even when an external locus of control is part of the problem.

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book launches are fun and i recommend them to everyone. if you write a math textbook you can have a book launch. you can read it like a slam poem.

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Call for Work: Autistic Protest Poetry This call for work seeks poetry by autistic writers that is socially-engaged, politically-charged, and geared toward raising our voices together against oppression and erasure. Deadline: July 1st More details: medium.com/anomalyblog/...

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Not knowing I had a sensory processing disorder was surreal because until I was 31 I just assumed most people inexplicably liked a lot of objectively unpleasant things.

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Controversial opinion: I think math and poetry have a lot of similarities. Creating representations of concepts, bringing these concepts into relation, experimenting with how they interact to form patterns and unexpected connections. I've had great conversations with mathematicians.

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Here is my book review of Jane Shi's recent debut poetry collection! prismmagazine.ca/2025/04/11/w...

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It’s National Pet Day today apparently so here’s a poem about one of my cat’s poems. It’s called ‘On ‘;..p’[[[[[[[[[[[[[;’;////////////////////////3,’

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just finished attending a conference on OCD and it felt incredible to be in a (virtual) room with other people who understood the experience. OCD is often so alienating, and i felt understood in this space in a way i hadn't realized i'd been long seeking. such a kind, wise, and insightful group.

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Gaining 50 pounds of muscle and calling myself a "Dire Woman"

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My target audience is emotionally labile agnostic mystics raised by bad websites. And all allies to our misunderstood demographic.

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7ish years ago I made plans to write a poem about a particular painting, went back to it now and realized my brain/personality has changed so much that I now viscerally dislike the painting. Which is actually a more interesting poem concept.

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i love writing so much. it's easy to get caught up in publishing/status/competition pressures, but i you move away from that, there really is something so special and necessary about making things + sharing them + having a relationship to my thoughts that isn't grounded in anxiety and avoidance

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I struggle to relate when people approach literature primarily as a form of escapism, because growing up gay and neurodivergent literature was the only place I could see my life/thoughts/feelings as "real" and mattering

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There are times when you must speak, not because you are going to change the opposing side, but because if you do not speak, they have changed you.

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how many poems have been written because the writer just wanted someone to believe them? what poems would be written if we didn't have to ask?

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Alison Benis White, from "Walk on the Cliff at Pourville"

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just a reminder that we shouldn’t be disappearing ANY people to El Salvadoran prison camps, whether they have been convicted or even accused of crimes or not

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22/2/25 - nocturn

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The double meaning of “DEI” makes it easy to claim theyre removing references to abstract ideological-sounding thing -“diversity equity and inclusion” - & media will repeat this uncritically when they’re actually removing references to anything that suggests anyone other than white men are important

submitted 42 days ago • 13 comments

"The Lake," Natalie Eilbert. Ooooof.

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My favourite genres are: 1 - cheerful first stanza, massive pullback, sadness 2 - birds, and therefore the soul 3 - mountains, and therefore god / no god 4 - plants, plus soon I will die 5 - I love you, but not enough to be nice in the couplet

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love it when souls get leaky and poems happen

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love how much of my poetic process involves reading wikipedia pages for things like "death" and "blueberry"