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Emily Mohn-Slate @mohnslate.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

New interview up with author and environmental writer Christina Rivera (@crivera.bsky.social) on opening and shutting her "subconscious door," holding suffering and grief, and the sparkle of beginner's mind 🌊 SO MANY GEMS IN HERE! 💎💎 emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/befriendin...

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"befriending my subconscious"

essayist, author, and environmental writer Christina Rivera on opening and shutting her "subconscious door," holding suffering and grief, and the sparkle of beginner's mind 🌊

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AWP @awpwriter.org · 30/09/2025

@crivera.bsky.social, author of MY OCEANS: ESSAYS OF WATER, WHALES, AND WOMEN, will judge the 2026 AWP Intro Journals Project in creative nonfiction! Read more and nominate student work, open to AWP member program directors October 1–November 30, 2025!

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AWP Intro Journals Project Judges

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christina rivera @crivera.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Some excerpts from a lovely conversation about the tensions between caretaking and creativity hosted by the wonderful Nancy O Reddy for her Good Creatures series! Follow the link to read it all: open.substack.com/pub/nancyred...

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Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Happy Earth Day! To celebrate, we hope everyone will dive into My Oceans: Essays of Water, Whales, and Women by @crivera.bsky.social. Use code WHALE on our website for 30% off April 22-23 and then explore this timely and wondrous descent into the deep waters of interconnection in which we swim.

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Brian Gresko @briangresko.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

On day 84 of 100 Days of Creative Resistance, @crivera.bsky.social: This Is Not The End of the Story… mailchi.mp/fb57ba40bba1... @writingco-lab.bsky.social

100 Days of Creative Resistance graphic featuring a quote from Christina Rivera which reads “Let’s reject shame. Grip joy where we find it. Let’s survive and fight, love and die—like it’s the fucking beginning.”

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christina rivera @crivera.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

#handsoff biggest crowd I’ve ever seen in my little town!!!

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Boulder Bookstore @boulderbookstore.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

In a swell of sea-linked essays, "My Oceans" by @crivera.bsky.social explores the kinship between marine animals, humans, and Earth’s blue womb. Join us next week when Christina will be here to celebrate her beautiful new book along with @bkloren.bsky.social! Tix: RiveraBBS.eventbrite.com

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Longreads @longreads.com · 19/03/2025

In @crivera.bsky.social's new essay collection, she writes about new words, discovering her own way of thinking, and seeing the world as a web of flowing relationships. Her book, MY OCEANS, is available now, via @nupress.bsky.social. Read our excerpt ⬇️ longreads.com/2025/03/13/l...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 17/03/2025

"I love this notion: that in vast seas and the absence of cues, the space between whales became the point of focus." @crivera.bsky.social on the flowing relationships between things and the missing language we need amid a time of change. (@nupress.bsky.social)

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Quieseeds - Longreads

What if the key to understanding ourselves lies in the spaces between things—between words, between waves, between worlds?

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christina rivera @crivera.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

They say people don’t buy a book until they’ve seen its cover at least nine times. So here are nine photos of MY OCEANS being read by hot men. Because ALL men who read feminist books are HOT.🔥 Pub day tomorrow. Get it in any place books are sold. Preferably your fav local bookstore. 😍

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christina rivera @crivera.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Such a delight working with Cheri and a dream pub @longreads.com !

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Cheri Lucas Rowlands @cherilucasrowlands.com · 13/03/2025

I considered a few excerpts from @crivera.bsky.social's new book, "My Oceans." I was so drawn to this one, in which she writes about whales, the missing language we need in a time of change, and the spaces in between things.

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christina rivera @crivera.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

My last published book excerpt before I crawl back into the hole where I make up words and deeper-dive the atmorelational!

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christina rivera @crivera.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Hugging this from Febos today (as the pages of my debut are likely being bound; does publishing a book ever not feel like an act of narcissism?): “To place our flawed selves in the context of this magnificent, broken world is the opposite of narcissism…”

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christina rivera @crivera.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

@elemntor.bsky.social Hi! Now that you have a bluesky account, can you pretty, pretty please add a bluesky icon to the Elementor recommended icon library?

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christina rivera @crivera.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

TODAY is the 55th anniversary of Corky the Killer Whale’s captivity. The Cut just published a #FreeCorky excerpt from my book, MY OCEANS, & I hope you'll honor it with your eyes and open heart? And consider re-sharing to build momentum for Corky's release? www.thecut.com/article/cork...

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Screaming for Freedom

Corky the Orca’s cries from captivity have shattered glass. I know the feeling.

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christina rivera @crivera.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

My debut book, MY OCEANS, is finally here! Will you please consider pre-ordering MY OCEANS and supporting a writer trying to make a career out of anti-establishment art? (It's not easy out here!) 🩵 All your fav bookseller pre-order links at www.christinarivera.com

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christina rivera @crivera.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

#AWP25 will take place March 26 through 29 in Los Angeles, California. *doing a little happy dance for my book launch month on the Pacific Coast!!!*

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christina rivera @crivera.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

I dream in languages when I'm studying them. Similarly, I "dream in book" depending on the project that feels most entitled to nagging me. And here we are: The essay collection has finally shut TF up. And the novel is back at my 2am doorstep! Tis the new season of "gnawing" (see threaded definition)

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christina rivera @crivera.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

who else thanked their dogs in their acknowledgments?

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christina rivera @crivera.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

You ever return to a workshopped essay remembering the feedback as positive and expecting the work to be minimal, and then feel slapped across the face with the reality that people were nice because the middles of those compliment sandwiches required your deepest thinking/work yet?

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christina rivera @crivera.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

The birds at my empty feeder are not just side eyeing me out of anatomy, right?

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christina rivera @crivera.bsky.social · 16/08/2023

omg. Despite the new marketing term, only has the the classroom “parent” EVER been a mom. Until today! A dad volunteered! Everyone clap! Except don’t! Cause moms never got clapping. So I’m just gonna sit here, lips zipped, in passive approval.

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christina rivera @crivera.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

Why does summer homework feel like a parenting assessment?

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christina rivera @crivera.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

when I put a raw veggie within arm reach of a child hard in thought (drawing, homework, reading) and they grab it and put it in their mouth and I die of success happiness

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christina rivera @crivera.bsky.social · 31/07/2023

Anyone want me to pitch them a piece on reconsidering parenthood if you’re an introvert? Bc I have feelings. And I have words.

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christina rivera @crivera.bsky.social · 31/07/2023

Leaving a massage therapist and was like, “thanks for saving me from impending injury. My husband owes you too for saving him from impending injury by me.” #fucksummer

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christina rivera @crivera.bsky.social · 22/07/2023

Wait. Midlife crisis can still just jump into the 2am anxiety ring with climate crisis?

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christina rivera @crivera.bsky.social · 13/07/2023

Pushing this news out of the nest to see if it can fly in the new #bluesky? My debut book of linked essays, MY OCEANS, is forthcoming March of 2025! Ps. This book would not have been possible without legal & safe access to abortion. (Is that, like, a safe thing to shout into these new skies?)

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