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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

in preparation for bottom surgery next week i shall now stop looking at social media of all sorts :) but not before posting a selfie

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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

and in a maybe more interesting but less meme-y dream, a 'fig convention' had set up shop in my front yard, tables and baskets stocked with esoteric varieties, many of which, it turned out, were growing right here from the two fig trees in the yard

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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

dreamt that jil sander was an acolyte of madame blavatsky

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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

friend in a prestigious humanities doctoral program just told me the chair of their committee has advised/implored them to use chat gpt to finish their dissertation. so bleak

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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

day four of a smoke detector in some adjacent building beeping its low battery warning every 60 seconds that i can hear very clearly from within my bedroom with windows closed :)

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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

hair's not quite not enough and need thinner brows but im trying

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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

yes sad especially in that this seems to have been the brief window in which 'trans' was vested with some degree of institutional legitimacy in the US. sort of hard for me in the present to imagine it could have gone otherwise (than de-legitimization broadly) but nonetheless one wishes

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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

the excerpt is from Hayward and Weinstein's introduction to the TSQ issue on 'Tranimalities' lol if you are interested in reading

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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

yes i agree! the claim that trans theory could serve as a critique of the norms of liberal humanism is a bit hard to swallow today imo but the spirit of the claim is worth holding onto it or at least is admirable

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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

remember 2010s trans studies when everyone was writing like this. not that i love it but that kind of heady optimism about 'trans*' as a concept feels so far away now

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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

have been saying for years that strawberry milk is about to be huge again....

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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

maybe finally i will read the elena ferrante novels? which i was turned away from when everyone was reading them bc a mentor figure at the time hated them and said i should just read flaubert instead

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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

ambiently seeking recommendations for lengthy but also somewhat breezy novel or series of novels fitting for recovery from bottom surgery next month

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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

at least the whole thing is archived but still awful

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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

just discovered that Berlant's blog, supervalentthought.com, which went down after they passed in 2021, is now hosting seemingly AI-generated philosophy slop, really really sad :(

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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

feeling like my hair looks cute today after several weeks of not really feeling like that so i guess my daily routine from now on has to be swim in ocean with dear lesbian friend twenty five years my senior then shower but not wash hair and then sauna and not shower after that

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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

the novel! by charles henri ford and parker tyler. i.e., not lesbians but it's in the mix. barnes and ford were friends

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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

must read the young and evil if you haven't

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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

selfie i took for purposes of flirtation in june

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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

concrete poem i made for a large format artists book in 2021

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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

history's greatest egg, miss jean genet

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steph @fkareynolds.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

'Cartoons were once exponents of the fantasy as opposed to rationalism. They ensured that justice was done to the creatures and objects thy electrified, by giving the maimed specimens a second life. All they do today is to confirm the victory of technological reason over truth.'

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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

does anyone have an opinion about which english translation of faust i should read? partly inclined to read a 19th c translation but could do modern if there were a reason to

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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

stray cat occasionally comes into my room

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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

maybe you are thinking of christopher delaurenti's "favorite improvisations" which "collects surreptitiously recorded improvisations by symphony musicians before and between orchestra concerts" delaurenti.net/favorite/

delaurenti.net

favorite | Christopher DeLaurenti

Christopher DeLaurenti -

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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

i'm a very REASONABLE person

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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

dreamt that trans girls were calling each other dames instead of dolls

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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

oh amazing ty! i suppose i should have this as a link to a google doc or something rather than a screenshot of a note

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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

dreamt i was making a tart. strawberries incorporated into the dough, and cooked chard with a drop or two of orange oil on top.

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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

do u have any plans to screen in the bay area

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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

plus milkweed flower is a top tier scent, a bit like lilac

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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

dreamt of a new way people were signing off emails: IMYL (I miss your love)

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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

(don't live there anymore but grew up in idaho so have a vested interest, curious to hear what else you turn up)

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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

more in the present, there's the Indigenous Idaho Alliance www.indigenousidalliance.org

indigenousidalliance.org

Indigenous Idaho Alliance

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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

there were several big earth first actions/encampments in central and northern idaho in the 90s and early 2000s

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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

misread translation as transition. no less true lol

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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

cat girls will outlast u

text from a 1952 paper by Margaret Mahler: "GEORGE was just under seven when admitted to our Children's Service with fulminant symptoms of delusions and hallucinations. He had developed fairly normally to the age of three. when a sister was born. He began to have night terrors. At about the same time he began to have what his mother aptly described as "talking tantrums." He would pace the room. talking angrily to himself about something which seemed entirely irrelevant to his environment. He would mumble: "I'm a pussy cat. I'm a pussy cat. Elaine is big. I'm a pussy cat." Shortly after the baby came, he wanted to wear her clothes. and often wanted to wear his mother's. He insisted that he wanted to be a girl, preferred female animals and asked his mother perseverative questions as to why he should not be a girl. At about the same time he began to be afraid of the holes in a fence which he passed. or wherever he encountered any. His father frequently used this fear as a threat. often telling him he would put him in a hole. He tried to get reassurance from his father by asking frequently: "Do you love me?"
George became a very good but asocial student. He often spoke of his sister. and again and again of his pet kitten in school. "I have a cat at home. It's a girl cat. I like my cat. I'm a girl cat."

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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

finally... a philosophy of molecular worldings and flows of collective potentia for the RESISTANCE

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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Jonathan Sterne talks a bit about the history of the CD format in MP3: The Meaning of a Format - less in terms of aesthetics maybe but relevant perhaps

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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Dreamt that I was explaining dialectics to my brother with the example of needing to pee but not being able to

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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

incredible line from a student's essay

To be loved is to be changed. Covered in saliva, tears, and dry spots,

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willa @gerridae.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

i have two poems in the new issue of Grotto: grottojournal.net/Willa-Smart

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