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I wrote a post about how 2024 Made Me a Better Mother… This hits so close to home. open.substack.com/pub/chasingo...

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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

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My letter in today's Guardian. Just asking, like. But I think we know the answer.

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"I don't think I'm allowed to kill something because I am frightened." —Nikki Giovanni 💔 #poem #poems #poetry

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My black and white 5 yo cat will yell as though he is a neglected child, competing with his 2yo human sister as to who can hit the high note of my sanity first I proceed to dole out the required affections, my babies are momentarily satisfied. I pick up the good boy, to be met by this attitude. 😮‍💨😧😵‍💫

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Lying down with my legs against the wall and calling it “Yoga”

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intermittently fasting when i am asleep and unable to eat

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I like handwritten letters. I like pouring my feelings onto paper, into words a little slanted, a little smudged from when my hand shook as I wrote them down, a polygraph of my heart. If flowers can be pressed, so can feelings — into paragraphs, into ‘—yours truly,’ into a name.

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This jelly bean enjoys silk sheets, he’s a bit bougie like that 🤴 #cats #sleepingcats #jellybean

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NOW: We're outside the Global Banking Summit protesting against Barclays enabling of Israel's genocide. We must #BoycottBarclays until it divests from companies arming Israel's atrocities against Palestinians. Join the campaign: palestinecampaign.org/boycott-barc...

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Literally...

submitted 101 days ago • 87 comments

Life tip: If you tell someone you need to talk to them, for the love of God give some indication of what you need to talk about, or at least that it's not bad news.

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Great overview of #ReadPalestineWeek, which began today, the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People (though ofc in practice every day is this)

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Today starting at 10 am EST – #ReadPalestineWeek 24-hr global reading "beginning with Palestinian poets in Palestine and following the sun" www.youtube.com/live/RxJNpyX...

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I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter’s dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh Had sought their household fires.

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This needs to be said, loud, and often.

submitted 106 days ago • 2248 comments

I wanna be really clear: This kind of shit will cause me to never, ever, EVER buy a book by a new author again, and be very careful even with established authors. Real books by real authors are ham. This crap is not even Spam™. It's store brand processed meat product with artificial ham flavoring.

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

A timely reminder that all proceeds from my short story 'The Meat Just Falls From the Bone' go to Medical Aid for Palestinians (www.map.org.uk) US: www.amazon.com/dp/B0CX3GG51R UK: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CX3GG51R Shares greatly appreciated! #HorrorWritersChat #HorrorWriting #Horror #Gaza

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I heard you like mushrooms #FabulousFungi

submitted 107 days ago • 46 comments

#writers - what’s your favourite part of being published? I’m getting close to finishing my first draft and I am actually quite excited now 🥲

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submitted 107 days ago • 620 comments

More Trumpian attacks on our health system.

submitted 108 days ago • 685 comments

Also: If you don't have money to buy my (or anyone's) books, and you live in the anglosphere, before you pirate them, try to get them from your local library instead. They have it or can get it, they pay for the books, and in many places writers get paid for their books being lent. Everyone wins!

submitted 108 days ago • 543 comments

Thinking about my book nonstop is the same as writing it, right? #WriterSky

submitted 109 days ago • 410 comments

Remember in the movie “Aliens” when no one listened to the woman and then everyone died? That’s what the vibe feels like right now.

submitted 110 days ago • 1283 comments

PSC Statement: The UK government must act on ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant and #StopArmingIsrael. Read here: palestinecampaign.org/icc-arrest-w...

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A lil tip for the folks with shoe polish on their lips today :)

submitted 111 days ago • 243 comments

It doesn’t matter how many times I watch original Mulan, the opening, Mulan taking her elderly/disabled Fathers place… I just turn into a pile of tears, it hits me right in the feels every time… Maybe it’s being the child of an Immigrant but the cultural expectations on her make my heart hurt 💔

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I don’t talk about this much, but when I got pregnant, it was and continues to be the happiest I have ever felt. Truly elated because my fertility was always a “?” I accepted it wouldn’t happen for me. What I didn’t expect was to become Disabled by it. 1/

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"Boycotts are effective, and ending complicity is a profound ethical obligation that Palestinians have asked us to fulfill." Leanne Betasamosake Simpson & Robyn Maynard on the "largest cultural boycott from writers since the South African anti-apartheid movement" breachmedia.ca/why-we-boyco...

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"Survival isn’t about being strong; it’s about clinging to whatever pieces of yourself haven’t been shattered yet. When I write, I’m not writing from strength. I’m writing to remember—to remember what used to be and to keep hold of what’s left, even if it’s just the whispers of those who are gone."

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I travel around the UK and take photos. These are some of my favourites from the last couple of days. #photography

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Your 'bonus moment of doom' for today: "...the Australian Institute of Marine Science said one area around Cooktown and Lizard Island had lost more than a third of its live hard coral – the biggest annual drop in 39 years of monitoring." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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artists 🎨 stop apologizing for not posting, for taking breaks, for being slow, for drawing the same character, for posting only sketches, for gushing over OCs, for being a beginner, for raising your prices, for trying a new medium— start doing whatever you heckin want

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London 11/20: Jehad Abusalim, Tamim Barghouti, Budour Hassan, Saree Makdisi, Max Porter, Jacqueline Rose, Wadie Said, Avi Shlaim & Ahdaf Soueif on the legacy of Said's Question of Palestine Presented by @palfest.bsky.social x @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/edw...

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