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Shirley Chan is writing a memoir @irleywrites.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

update to no one in particular: I did it!! I practiced a tiny bit of zen by blocking the mansplainer and deleting his annoying comments!! realized that the thing that would be most annoying to someone like that is zero engagement 😌 and protected my peace!

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Shirley Chan is writing a memoir @irleywrites.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

oh great, a class A mansplainer jumped on my comment in a random LinkedIn thread 🙅🏻‍♀️ how do I say fuckoff in corporate speak?

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Shirley Chan is writing a memoir @irleywrites.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

you don’t need chatGPT i will hallucinate and talk a lot if you ask me questions

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Shirley Chan is writing a memoir @irleywrites.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

ohhh that makes sense, hence why the patriarchy is so threatened

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Shirley Chan is writing a memoir @irleywrites.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

ahahahaaaaa omg so exorcisms are really just good boundary-setting and communication? 😂

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Shirley Chan is writing a memoir @irleywrites.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

why do White House press briefings feel like being bullied in high school 😩

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Shirley Chan is writing a memoir @irleywrites.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

umm nerds and poets ARE the resistance! 🙌🏼

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Shirley Chan is writing a memoir @irleywrites.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

asking my parents if they’re luxury goods cuz they were made in China

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Shirley Chan is writing a memoir @irleywrites.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

LinkedIn is my new Twitter and Facebook, I can’t explain it

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Shirley Chan is writing a memoir @irleywrites.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

i took a ukulele nap this weekend to your video 😁

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Allison Field Bell @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

BOTH of my chapbooks are now available to order! They even feature my photography as their covers 🖤 Thanks so much to CutBank Books and @finishinglinepress.bsky.social for believing in these projects! www.allisonfieldbell.com/books

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Shirley Chan is writing a memoir @irleywrites.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Today on LinkedIn, I described the tech industry as a bunch of coked up hamsters running faster and faster on the same giant hamster wheel in order to ship more AI features, and that was my act of resistance for the day. 🐹🎡🐹

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Shirley Chan is writing a memoir @irleywrites.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

not even resetting since they shifted even more wealth to greedy soulless mf’ers

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Shirley Chan is writing a memoir @irleywrites.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I found a cool YouTube channel, Steve Shives, who posts character monologues from the perspective of support staff in the Star Trek universe… you might find those interesting!

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Shirley Chan is writing a memoir @irleywrites.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

New: training AI to take vacations on our behalf 🥲

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Shirley Chan is writing a memoir @irleywrites.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

US political: SAVE Act (voter suppression) just got passed by House of Reps —> action: call your senators to vote NO (bill number S.128) I’m trying to think of something global and positive to share too… will be back!

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Shirley Chan is writing a memoir @irleywrites.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Okayyy back on Bluesky to gently shift off other social media! What. What’s happening?

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Shirley Chan is writing a memoir @irleywrites.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

perhaps naively, i think not giving credit is a symptom of imposter syndrome this sort of thing eats away at you… if you think you have to have all the answers or figure it all out alone, simply not true the act of researching and quoting other writers is an act of community

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Shirley Chan is writing a memoir @irleywrites.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

i’m reading a piece that (among many other amazing things) demonstrates the power of a simple credit: 1. explains a concept with words of an expert 2. shows research by writer it’s not the main thing about this essay, but it stood out ❤️ sonorareview.com/2022/06/26/i...

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Shirley Chan is writing a memoir @irleywrites.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

excited to see submissions coming in for The ASP Bulletin!! we are open until Dec 25 so burn those holiday calories by umm, typing furiously on your keyboard and high fiving yourself for sharing your work 🥰 @alansquirepub theaspbulletin.com/submissions/

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Shirley Chan is writing a memoir @irleywrites.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

great writers steal into your chest incubate burst out when the transformation is complete in the host body

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Shirley Chan is writing a memoir @irleywrites.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

just thinking about the mundane parts of the multiverse… like oh, this email was meant for me in a different reality, weird *deletes

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Shirley Chan is writing a memoir @irleywrites.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

BEYOND excited to share this news with all the talented writers i know and invite you to submit work!! our new reading period is opening soon!

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Shirley Chan is writing a memoir @irleywrites.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

one of the hardest parts of writing is saying no to plans that are more proveable 🥲 i think it hurts people’s feelings, but also i want to create art that evolves me in the process, and that takes cocoon time

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Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

For the night crowd: @irleywrites.bsky.social is a gifted memoirist and I'm lucky she wanted to contribute to the first issue of @major7mag.bsky.social. Don't miss her take on Coldplay's "Yellow"

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Major 7th Magazine @major7mag.bsky.social · 22/10/2023

Major 7th Magazine is a literary mixtape founded to collect the scraps of consciousness you connect to your favourite songs. We work in flash — fiction, CNF, poetry, essay, comics, and more — and today we go live. Now Playing: Volume 1 www.major7mag.com/post/literar...

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Thank you for giving a fuck enough to read this.

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Shirley Chan is writing a memoir @irleywrites.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Yes! This!! There’s so much social pressure to react immediately… it’s a dangerous habit because often the most extreme, flattened views are the quickest to speak & easiest to parrot.

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Shirley Chan is writing a memoir @irleywrites.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

what is the German word for the very specific form of imposter syndrome that kicks in after a piece is accepted & you wait for the journal to write again to say oops wrong writer jkjk 🥺 anyhoodle expect mysterious updates until I finally believe it 💗

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Roi Fainéant Press SUBS ARE OPEN, BAYBEE! @rfpress.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Closing out your Tuesday with our ol' elusive pal, CNF. This little snippet is from "Release Me" by Shirley Chan @irleywrites.bsky.social and it'll grab hold of you for sure. Go see for yourself. It's live now! www.roifaineantpress.com/post/release...