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I so badly wish people could see beyond singular performances of diplomacy (smooth or antagonistic) and instead reckon with longer histories of imperial solidarity

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I would like to think my pain tolerance has increased from suffering so much chronic pain but I was humbled by a terrible headache all day 🫠

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I am also gonna stop posting on substack. The platform is monstrous in its ownership/partnerships/investments but also, to be petty, the worst writing regularly appears on there and it just drives me off the page for weeks at a time

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editing ::: fluffing the pillows on an old draft

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keep those micro subs coming! you’ve got one week left—SUBS CLOSE MARCH 3RD 🖤🩶🤍 @identitytheory.bsky.social www.identitytheory.com/about/micro-...

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I love the model of Slow Orbit, and how tenderly it is curated by @justinaoba.bsky.social 💙 It felt both really challenging and generous to write into the space around this poem: “Trauma is rarely ever one thing—it touches communities, spreads like a cloud of contaminant in water.”

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Wow, this resonates. I grew up in VA, including time in Fairfax & undergrad at W&M, & w/ a dad often deployed as well. I was so depressed at W&M especially, like a sponge soaking up all the ghostly trauma of the place. This brings the smell of those old buildings & the dark, swampy woods right back

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“Starless, what’s inside the heart and also / the land […]” Let me read you a sonnet from Larks tonight…

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Now in Slow Orbit: a David Lynch sonnet by @hanvanderhart.bsky.social "As much as I love the fields, the cedars, the creek I grew up beside, the land is death-haunted in Virginia, and that violence is overwhelmingly colonial." syzygyworkshop.org/virginia-see...

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Clear-eyed & empty-headed

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a david lynch sonnet from a wonderful poet in slow orbit tonight 🚬🌃

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we still haven't reached our goal of 50 followers donating $21 to support Sameer Project's diaper distribution in the South as we read reports that 3 newborn babies have died to severe cold in Gaza. Sameer's work is not 'aid' - it is providing resources to people who are surviving genocide. join in!

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Sadly people cannot parse this thought bc the conversation has moved from a matter of public health to individual consumer choice and parental sovereignty

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The real story of Cassandra wasn't that she had magic powers it was that the bad guys test their strategies on those with the least power first and then execute them on a broad scale. www.salon.com/2025/02/24/w...

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This guy lied and moved on without comment. Guess that is what the algorithm demands

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if you/yours believe this to be true, go ahead and block me. I am not in community with cowards and navel-gazers. oh and free palestine 🍉

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look at this great workshop! you should sign up! the 1 egg is optional! the support for Palestine is not.

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watch out for each other out there!

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One of our ANMLY comrades told me they can't continue reading because they lost their housing. If the work at ANMLY has ever meant anything to you, or if the work that I have ever done in any capacity has ever meant anything to you, please consider helping them stay safe. gofund.me/0e09177d

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Where are the people on this app who can make critiques without bending over backwards for US empire? I hope that every overseas military base is overrun by moss and lichen, dust and silence

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I must assume that when he finally croaks he will be remembered as a graceful yet embattled statesman fighting for democrary amidst the chaos. Jimmy Carter level sainthood

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stars and moon reflected in a lake or other body of water sounds cheesy but it truly actually is one of the most stunning and most important things to witness in this life on this earth

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need another unknown poet to announce my death, thx

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Maybe everything losing funding will ultimately be a good thing, because then arts and literature won’t be so beholden to investors, and therefore so deeply married to its neoliberal centrist outcomes and aesthetics. Just say the fucking thing. Stop being so honored and humbled and obedient

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Two absolute ghouls

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so, so proud of this issue of @beestung.bsky.social (a literary magazine by & for nonbinary writers) I edited w/ @sarahclark.bsky.social ! it's packed to the brim w/ stellar poetry, art, & fiction 🤗 beestungmag.com

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it! is!! here!!! with so so much warmth and gratitude to the incredible kb brookins for guest editing this issue!!!!

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White Americans will get so rowdy about monarchy but they love settler colonialism. 🤷🏽‍♀️

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Numerous scholars who should know better are taking advantage of EdTech’s imposition of Gen AI to make that cash and get big ass grants for problematic shit, and it’s gross.

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My name is Exodus Oktavia Brownlow. I’m a writer, sewist and the editor-in-chief of The Loveliest Review. 🌹 We are currently open for a fellowship centering upon themes of JUSTICE, with the award being $1,000 and digital publication. Apply Here: www.theloveliestreview.com/the-lovelies...

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This is how i read poems

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