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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly taught us lots. But somewhere on the list is “Sequins are for daytime.”

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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

oh yeah well annie escaped the orphanage in a laundry bin AND she brought her dumb dog

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Margot Atwell @margotatwell.bsky.social · 18/07/2023

I’m so excited for people to read this incredible book, HEAD ABOVE WATER by Shahd Alahammari. I'm thrilled that this was my first acquisition at @FeministPress. It's an honest, vulnerable exploration of disability, community & moving through worlds that weren’t designed for Shahd.

A book with a black cover and a person's face surrounded by orange dots, reading Shahd Alshammari / Head Above Water: Reflections on Illness is held up by a white woman's hand beneath a pink sign reading The Feminist Press.

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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

If You Got Your First Period Around the Time the Berlin Wall Fell Give or Take Five Years This One’s for You 🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹 Anhedonia, acne Flaming hives and nosebleeds Angry knitting, quiet quitting Existential dread 1/?

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Elmo in Hellfire

Alt: Elmo in Hellfire, hands raised, resigned

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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

You knew the Samsung washers and dryers play Schubert’s “Die Forelle,” 🐟 but did you know that the icemaker on the Samsung refrigerator model RS265TDRS plays the first :01 of Rilo Kiley’s “Does He Love You?”

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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

paging @letaseletzky.com vis a vis the clownishness of evil

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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

It has been a themed fashion week over here, celebrating selected albums by Elvis Costello for no reason other than he’s my favorite of all time ever and also I like clothes. Welcome to the working week.

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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

In a given week, I dress like every single character on The Four Seasons. That said, the “maybe stop buying necklaces at the museum gift shop” line was a poison dart straight to my soul

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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

ugh no one told me it was an *epistolary* novel

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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Me: Cruise ships sound terrible. Like the worst part of a vacation—the crowded hotel—and nowhere to escape to Cruise people: But wait! You’re forgetting there are expeditions! Like to landfills!

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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Oh man it was only a matter of time. The long-suffering ElDeSt DaUgHtErS are demanding to celebrate Mothers Day irrespective of whether or not they have children

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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

As a childless cat lady, I have zero interest in horning in on y’all’s Mothers Day. In exchange, can someone spread the word that clerks, etc., shouldn’t wish every woman-appearing human over 18 a Happy Mothers Day?

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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

My problem with the novel of the moment isn’t that all the characters are smug, cynical, and soulless. It is that the very stance of the novel itself is all those things. It excavates nothing, on a account of a sneering allergy to conviction and a deep skepticism of the possibility of sincerity.

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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

It’s time to dust off and apply the knowledge of “r-naught” you learned during COVID Season 1.

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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

It’s because that’s where your gums are. Hope that helps

an Instagram ad for a dental product says “Nobody talks about the real reason gum disease happens in your mouth.”

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Travis Chi Wing Lau (劉志頴) @travisclau.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

It's an honor to be part of the editorial board for this disability-centered series of poetry -- so happy to be helping publish new crip work. Thank you to @stevekuusisto.bsky.social for inviting me into this initiative. www.ninemile.org/propel

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Propel Disability Poetry Book Series

The Propel Series honors the best in disability poetry with publication and awards.

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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 05/04/2026

My book on Americans’ centuries-long struggle to remember, forget, and manipulate George Washington’s history with slavery comes out Tuesday. It makes clear that today’s controversies *about* our history are deeply shaped *by* our history in ways we rarely recognize. bookshop.org/p/books/thy-...

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Thy Will Be Done: George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory

George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory

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Department of English at Arizona State University @asuenglish.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

In a recent TED Talk, ASU English Professor Mitchell Jackson traced an arc from Bill Russell to Lebron James and beyond, exploring how 🏀 players use fashion on and off the court to challenge the limits placed upon them. Watch: ow.ly/EiCm50YyXIG #ASUHumanities

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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Listen. Only about 20% of mothers have three or more children so even if all of those mothers have only daughters (very unlikely), that’s not enough to account for how many people are moaning about being eldest daughters.

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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Did a book event today and afterward a guy in the audience came up and said, “My name is Timothy. We had a French class together in 1998. I made you a mix tape and you called me a snob.” I said, “What was on the mix tape?” He said, “Kurt Weill. You said you were really more into RATT.”

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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Nancy Mace looks like someone said “Hey Chat Show me Jo Polniaczek but make her MAGA”

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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Terrible #Pitt takes that the dullest person you know will be advancing at the water cooler, part 1: Suffering a crisis of confidence, Mohan will walk off the job, quit being a doctor, and sign up to be an ICE agent and then, finally, her family will quit trying to speak with her

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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Generative A.I. and prediction markets are soul-corroding and civilization-corroding and we’re all being hyper-exposed to both so that a few terrible people can get rich while everyone else gets poor and miserable

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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I figured it out: The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives “look,” if you can call it that, is equal parts pajama party, hunting party, and Grand Old Party.

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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

If you haven’t read Justice Jackson’s memoir, Lovely One, I highly recommend it.

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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

As good a time as any to point out that her name was Carolyn Bessette, as distinguished from Bissett (as in Josie) and Bassett (as in Angela)

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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

But can’t March 31 just become Dolores Huerta Day??

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 18/03/2026

Every single thing named after Cesar Chavez should be renamed for Dolores Huerta

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Civil Rights icon, @doloreshuerta, made a brave move today, revealing a secret she had been holding for 60 years for the sake of the Farm Workers movement. You can read her letter here: medium.com/@dolores_hue...

Civil Rights Icon, Dolores Huerta, Concealed Two
Children After Cesar Chavez Raped Her

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"

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March 18, 2026

Today, civil rights leader Dolores Huerta issued the following statement:

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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Happy Monday to everyone except the X-ray tech at @bannerhealth.bsky.social who asked if I had a touch of the rheumatoid arthritis and when I said yes, since I was 12, said “Oh your poor parents!”

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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 16/03/2026

"When a teacher resists jumping on the AI-in-education bandwagon, they are not being timid...By focusing not on their students’ ability to use generative AI but on their students’ ability to be generative & thus thrive in a world that can sustain them, they are absolutely thinking about the future."

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Resisting AI Mania in Schools

A former English teacher takes on many of the arguments of AI promoters.

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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Hematoma, but make it fashion (inspired by my recent black eye)

A white woman is shown in five different outfits, each inspired by a bruise in various stages of healing. The colors in the outfits start out in shades of plum, black, and red and gradually move through pinks, yellow/greens, and beige.

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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

aaaaaaand i just thought of my answer for the icbreaker. for a meeting that happened on monday

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

It wasn't "cancel culture" when women and people of color got used up, silenced, and dismissed before their careers even began. It only became "cancel culture" when powerful abusers started having established careers momentarily inconvenienced by revelations of what they'd done.

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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Trump has shingles. And SHINGLES DOESN’T CARE

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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Say what you will but Ryan Murphy sure has his finger on some kind of pulse. Gen Z loves neutral clothing like nobody’s business, so of course they’re eating up his love letter to CBK. At least he is showing them how good hard pants, actual shoes, and well-fitting shirts with buttons can look.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 02/03/2026

Frida Kahlo is a famous disabled artist. Her art explores her disability. When she had the accident that disabled her, she painted from her bed in her casts. Many artists in history have been disabled. Many are now. You will not find them fighting to have AI take their creative process from them.

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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

y’all can have your pixies and bixies and cunty little bobs. i’ll have the ursula k le guin

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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I have a lot of experience with illness. Plenty of surgery (more than a dozen with another slated for next month). But injury? Getting hurt out of the blue? I’ve never had a cast or non surgical stitches. That is, until I TRIPPED ON MY CAT YESTERDAY. My first black eye! My first unforeseen sutures!

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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Is “birthday blindness” a thing? I can love love love a person (and show it) but hell if I know when their birthday is. It feels very important to some people. I also don’t care about my own birthday. Is this residue from my upbringing (birthdays: everyone’s got em. no one deserves a fuss) or what.

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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I am far away in sunny Arizona but from here it kinda looks like some people don’t know what to do with a young, capable, affable mayor who not only fulfills the responsibilities of his office but…. kinda really enjoys it?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/02/2026

Elizabeth Warren: "This one is to me not even open or arguable. How would the US government keep money that the Supreme Court said it did not legally collect from American businesses, that it did not legally take away from American families that ultimately paid this?"

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Thinking back to when I went to this event at ASU. As a student, I got the tickets for free. My doctoral cohort went together. I thought, how wonderful to hear from such luminaries. What a privilege! Chomsky, Krauss, they are both Epstein dirtbags.

A ticket and program from a 2015 event sponsored by the Origins Project at Arizona State. The event featured Noam Chomsky and Lawrence Krauss in dialogue about “science, mind, and politics.”

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Listen to this 13 year old who went to her city's council meeting. She had some things she needed to get off her chest

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