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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 04/07/2025

in my opinion you should not take a single paycheck from the new york times

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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

This article made me ill. It's clear that the Israeli army is massacring Palestinians daily, but to read it in the soldiers' own words...they're just "following orders." "It's a killing field," one soldier said. "Our form of communication is gunfire." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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queer & trans bookstore @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

tomorrow is indie bookstore day! come see us for: 🥳10% off ALL SIGNED BOOKS 🥳10% off select staff picks (a whole table full of em!!) 🥳15% off ALL ROOM MERCH 🥳IBD EXCLUSIVE MERCH 🥳A GOLDEN LIBRO.FM TIX -- whoever finds it gets TWELVE FREE AUDIOBOOKS AND MOOOREEEEEEEEEE <3

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felix lecocq @felixlecocq.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

love thinking alongside my students about the narrator’s “proximity” to a character… proximal to what? their articulated thoughts? their unarticulated feelings? their heart? their skin? how close is the “close third person” really?!

white board drawing of a misshapen body labeled “FEELINGS” within a larger body shape labeled “THOUGHTS” within a square labeled “ENVIRONMENT” within a cube labeled “HISTORY?”

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Patrycja @patrycjasara.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

to be read by & in conversation with David Naimon is a dream. what a generous mind, and what a gift for literature this show is! i’ve long loved Between the Covers; grateful to join this archive of moving conversations 🌀

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The foreign aid cuts left partially-excavated, exposed pits of dioxin, a poison, left by the American military. Now, rainy season is coming & hundreds of thousands of people live right around the base. Worse, less than 1,500 ft away is a major river that flows into Ho Chi Minh City, pop. 9 million.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/03/2025

That left exposed enormous pits of soil contaminated with deadly chemicals. Now, after losing several weeks of work, the contractors are scrambling — at their own expense — to secure the Bien Hoa air base before the rainy season starts.

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Trump Halted an Agent Orange Cleanup. That Puts Hundreds of Thousands at Risk for Poisoning.

Diplomats in Vietnam warned Washington that halting USAID’s efforts to clean up the massive deposit of postwar pesticides would be a catastrophe for public health and relations with a key strategic pa...

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 04/03/2025

The final vote: 51-45, with 4 people absent. CLOTURE FAILS, A CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS BAN WILL NOT HAPPEN. Democrats hold firm, not a single dem voted for cloture. MAJOR victory for everyone who called in today and this week in support of trans people.

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october "pre-order The Struggle Is Always Worth It now!" krausch @octoberk.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

you cannot ever be free unless you are willing to act free.

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felix lecocq @felixlecocq.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

feeling a hankering for an essay collection that will change my life. any recent releases i should look into? some things i love: hybrid or surprising forms, heartbreak essays, grief essays, medical memoir, essays about whales, birds, trees, etc.

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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

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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Donate to Urgent Aid for Unhoused ANMLY Member, organized by Sarah Clark

Since December, one of our comrades at ANMLY has been unhoused. They were able to fin… Sarah Clark needs your support for Urgent Aid for Unhoused ANMLY Member

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Poets & Writers @pw.org · 21/02/2025

#ClipOfTheDay: In this episode of Tightwires with host Hiba Tahir, poet Patrycja Humienik talks about navigating grad school and writing, identity, and her debut collection, We Contain Landscapes (@tinhouse.bsky.social). at.pw.org/Humienik

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Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Wrote about the NEA and The Kennedy Center and how these moves might be bad for trans art, but they certainly won't be the end aftermath.site/kennedy-cent...

It’s strange to be so angry and sad about the loss of horizons I never thought it was possible to sail toward, but while the Trump administration might own the institutions, they can’t ultimately do away with trans art in any meaningful sense. At my core, I’m not afraid of them; Trump and his cohort don’t matter to me in a way that really matters, despite how very bad and dangerous and even unlivable they are eager to make my life. My confidence comes from a lot of places–my politics, my faith–but also from trans art, from the work we’ve made with and for each other for decades upon decades, which didn’t depend on them for its existence and doesn’t now. I’m sad about the losses we’ll see in the next four years and maybe beyond; I mourn the art we won’t get because of this. But that art found its way before, and will still, and will again. We never needed them, and we still don’t need them, and they’ve never been able to stop us.

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felix lecocq @felixlecocq.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

i get that the cruelty is the point but damn i wish something else was the point

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NPR @npr.org · 11/02/2025

The NEA will no longer fund arts programs that promote DEI or "gender ideology." The federal agency has cancelled grants that have funded programs for underserved communities for more than 20 years.

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'Chilling effect': Arts organizations react to end of DEI initiatives from fed agency

The NEA will no longer fund arts programs that promote DEI or "gender ideology." The federal agency has cancelled grants that have funded programs for underserved communities for more than 20 years.

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felix lecocq @felixlecocq.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

one of the benefits of masking everywhere is that my skin has been soooo bad this week & no one has been able to tell 🥰

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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The Urban Indian Health Institute (UIHI), which tracks health data for tribes and urban Indian communities, demanded the CDC immediately restore crucial health data to its website, saying the deletions endanger Native health & violate treaty rights. nativenewsonline.net/health/cdc-d...

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CDC Data Removal Threatens Native Health, Violates Treaties, UIHI Says

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has stripped crucial health data from its website that tribal nations rely on to protect their citizens’ health, prompting immediate pushback from Nati...

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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I have a poem-zine in the seventh wave community anthology "on endings" 🌞 theseventhwave.org/publication/...

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the angels are falling - Seventh Wave

"My recklessness can fit on one hand: the divine is reserved for the thumb."

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 04/02/2025

Of course you don't know how to write it. That's why you have to write it

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felix lecocq @felixlecocq.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

today my students and i read poems by @ivertownandcountry.bsky.social, patricia smith & kaveh akbar, talking abt imagery + how our favorite images engage multiple of our senses!

picture of a classroom whiteboard with text that reads “Intro to Creative Writing: Image” and various quotations from poems, such as “cool then in the broken earth,” “sip new breath from a mason jar,” “rip bitter greens,” “my lover pushes all their weight on me,” “a hawk lets me stroke her midflight,” “this cold is an orchid,” and “the clouds are all orchids. They are raining orchids.”

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

"People love to say, What even is a sun sign? And I say, well you know the sun? And they say yes But I don’t think they actually know" —juj e lepe

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One Poem by juj e lepe – beestung

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

one of key functions of immigration raids & crackdowns is not to actually deport all migrants/refugees but to deepen conditions of social precarity & labor deportability. to make migrants more vulnerable to exploitation from bosses & landlords & banks, and to create scapegoats for austerity policies

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felix lecocq @felixlecocq.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

"Your job [as filmmaker] is not just to translate but to transcend."

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

once again thinking about this passage from David Lynch's book Catching the Big Fish

excerpt reads: "I hear stories about directors who scream at actors, or they trick them somehow to get a performance. And there are some people who try to run the whole business on fear. But I think this is such a joke -- it's pathetic and stupid at the same time.
When people are in fear, they don't want to go to work. So many people today have that feeling. Then the fear starts turning into hate, and they begin to hate going to work. Then the hate can turn into anger and people can become angry at their boss and their work.
If I ran my set with fear, I would get 1 percent, not 100 percent, of what I get. And there would be no fun in going down the road together. And it *should* be fun. In work and in life, we're all supposed to get along. We're supposed to have so much fun, like puppy dogs with our tails wagging. It's supposed to be great living; it's supposed to be fantastic."

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

A girl I knew in college saw David Lynch speak at an event. When it ended, she found a way to get to the front to tell him how much his films and shows meant to her. His response was “Thank you. And remember, the universe is in your basement.”

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Patrycja @patrycjasara.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

"How American" from We Contain Landscapes (Tin House, 2025) in @sixthfinch.bsky.social’s latest gorgeous issue 🖤

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mari 🦇🎱 @meaningruiner.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

i received a poetry prize for my tagalog / english poem that questions chronic pain alongside chronic crisis. US out now! liberation for the philippines! lunchticket.org/magkano/

Rotating header image for the Lunch Ticket website and their Issue 26, themed Resistance & Liberation. A green-tinted photo of out-of-focus protesters serves as its background, with police wearing riot gear lined up under a yellow caution street sign marked by a black exclamation point. Just above, it reads, "Magkano? by mari britt, Winner of the Gabo Prize for Literature in Translation & Multilingual Texts."

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felix lecocq @felixlecocq.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

what ever happened to elevator music? has anyone been in a music-playing elevator in the past 10 years? does this phrase exist only as a derogatory metaphor now???

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felix lecocq @felixlecocq.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

organizing my syllabus for Intro to Creative Writing Fiction + Poetry next semester & hoping to teach more works in translation &/or writers based outside of the U.S. any recommendations for individual poems or short stories i should consider?

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I say again - there are few things in American society that will radicalize you more, or faster, than being suddenly disabled in your 20s with a condition that no doctor wants to treat or touch or interact with, and leaves you in pain every second of every day. It is a cooker beyond belief.

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Ally Ang @theoceanisgay.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

I had the pleasure of interviewing Summer Farah about her chapbook “I could die today and live again” (@gameoverbooks.bsky.social) for Electric Lit! We talked about Zelda, empire, obsession, prose poems, and Tumblr electricliterature.com/summer-farah...

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Summer Farah Finds Poetic Inspiration from "The Legend of Zelda" - Electric Literature

Her chapbook "I could die today and live again" explores the regenerative cycles of death and rebirth within video games

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felix lecocq @felixlecocq.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

strangers love to ask me questions but they do not love to hear my answers!!! today a stranger asked me why i had an affinity for heart-themed accessories & my response had them staring at me like 😟

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Liz Whitmere @lizwhitmere.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

this is great. thanks for writing it, @felixlecocq.bsky.social

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felix lecocq @felixlecocq.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

two fun facts about me are that 1) i wrote this poem 2) i was once again stoned at a grindr hookup when i got the news that kissinger died. gay sex kills!!! >:)

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Patrycja @patrycjasara.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

35. aging is a funny, gorgeous, achy little miracle. 🌀 here’s a poem from We Contain Landscapes, forthcoming with @tinhouse.bsky.social in March

Beloved,

you gather me. I am not petals, though I have eaten wildflowers on greens in that glow particular to the other planet, as Mitosz described it, that is California, where I walked through salt and fog and found Mary enshrined in chalk on a gash of rock and watched the waves devour themselves til my phone died, so that I was forced to rely on the generosity of strangers, and I did take a photo later of said plate, marveling while sending it to you from the aloneness I'd traveled there to make something out of. Please send a photo of your face. Is it not my purpose to see where, exactly, laughter has rivered around the eyes I adore? There was a donkey in Petaluma with a soft, steady gaze. I will not turn away from the ache of this world. I'm trying to feel my feet. Let's cry enough to submerge, up to our ankles at least. Don't keep your grief from me.

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felix lecocq @felixlecocq.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

it’s cool that so many ppl liked my poem (apparently it’s gone viral on twitter + reddit) but it’s also incredibly stressful to have a lot of people talking about a silly poem i wrote in one stoned sitting 😭😭

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felix lecocq @felixlecocq.bsky.social · 14/11/2024