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Kaitlin Shetler @kaitlinshetler.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

we may go quiet for a minute be bound by fear or law or cages or marriage or church or government censored and silenced exiled and imprisoned cowed and shaken but always still never not human #poemsfortheresistance #poetry #poetrycommunity #america #trump

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Kaitlin Shetler @kaitlinshetler.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

#poemsfortheresistance my third grader went to sleep last night holding her stuffed rabbit and talking about minecraft she tells me funny things about school her friends play a game under a tree she calls it “queen of the world”

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Kaitlin Shetler @kaitlinshetler.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

#poemsfortheresistance this is a soft apocalypse a gentle genocide the slow boiling of values and decency a southern politic at church potlucks and neighborhood lynchings

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Kaitlin Shetler @kaitlinshetler.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

#poemsfortheresistance when they take your voice use your feet to make trouble and when they take your feet use your hands to make waves and when the hands go use your eyes to burn warnings and when your eyes fail use your heart to beat change

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Kaitlin Shetler @kaitlinshetler.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

It went on and on and on, until one day, when one of his subjects walked through the woods, they came upon the old witch’s house, abandoned and forgotten, just waiting to be found. Something stirred, long buried and bound, and that’s where our story really begins.

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Kaitlin Shetler @kaitlinshetler.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

#poemsfortheresistance a woman once died from toxic empathy the coroner said her heart gave out after it was crushed by the weight of all the needs she carried on her back “toxic empathy,” the coroner said, “killed this woman.” “beware,” the king said, “because it might be catching.”

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Kaitlin Shetler @kaitlinshetler.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Happy Valentine’s Day (2025 Edition) (Part 2)!

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Kaitlin Shetler @kaitlinshetler.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Happy Valentine’s Day (2025 Edition)!

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Kaitlin Shetler @kaitlinshetler.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

#poemsfortheresistance despots have it so easy in america they can just point and the christians attack ready-made soldiers already armored for the lord

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Kaitlin Shetler @kaitlinshetler.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

#poemsfortheresistance violent criminals deserve violent deaths say the violent men who write the laws it’s jesus’s will to cut the wheat from the chaff say the men selling the wheat profiting off the labor of the migrants they force to cut

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Kaitlin Shetler @kaitlinshetler.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

#poemsfortheresistance it’s called resistance for a reason but exercise has never been my forte and i’m afraid when the going gets tough i hide under weighted blankets and doom scrolling

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Kaitlin Shetler @kaitlinshetler.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

#poemsfortheresistance the price of eggs is important to families struggling to put food on their tables to farmers, maybe but not to billionaires not ever to billionaires

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Kaitlin Shetler @kaitlinshetler.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

#poemsfortheresistance someone said consent was like tea which is great metaphor for kids but not for men

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Kaitlin Shetler @kaitlinshetler.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

#poemsfortheresistance handle an oligarch the same way you’d handle a god defer defend devote tell him he’s in charge

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Kaitlin Shetler @kaitlinshetler.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

#poemsfortheresistance i don’t think freedom dies quickly i don’t think it is assassinated in secret places

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Kaitlin Shetler @kaitlinshetler.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I don’t disagree that the TikTok ban is a big deal, but there’s only one site I would burn this country down for.

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Kaitlin Shetler @kaitlinshetler.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I feel like there’s probably a book out there about this.

picture of tiktok pop up that says it’s not available right now

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Kaitlin Shetler @kaitlinshetler.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

just rivers and a soil that says “take what you need” if it doesn’t work you can try again next spring #poemsfortheresistance

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Kaitlin Shetler @kaitlinshetler.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

because the real scandal of the birth of god lies in the cracked nipples of a 14 year old and not in the sermons of ministers who say women are too delicate to lead #poemsfortheresistance

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Kaitlin Shetler @kaitlinshetler.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

i can’t sit here and answer for my defects or defection we’d be here forever and neither would be moved (i’ve got plans anyway myself has just shown up and she’s got some new things to tell me) #poemsfortheresistance

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Kaitlin Shetler @kaitlinshetler.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Share this quick guide with the next person who reaches out to you with a “curiosity” about your deconstruction or deconversion. You don’t owe anyone your comfort, time, or story—especially if they only want it to use it as a way to soothe their own End Times anxiety. 1/3

“i just saw a person i haven’t talked with in over six or more months post something that made me uncomfortable because i don’t really have meaningful relationships with people who don’t share my religious beliefs. should i send them a message expressing my discomfort?” a guide for the concerned christian

Image of a woman in front of a computer concerned. Text says “sometimes talking to people who no longer believe in God can be frightening. especially when they used to share the same set of beliefs as you.”

Image of woman by computer with hands up in confusion. Text says: “You might be thinking: Why did they change their mind? What happened to them? *If it could happen to them, it could happen to me, and I don’t have a worldview that allows for that drastic of a change without everything else blowing up in my face.”

Image of man in front of computer holding his chin in confusion. Text says: “It might make you feel things: angry, scared, confused, sad, nervous, guilty, indignant, judgmental.”

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Kaitlin Shetler @kaitlinshetler.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I want to bottle up this comment and study it.

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Kaitlin Shetler @kaitlinshetler.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

keep her from books and school from secular friends and witchy women lock her up and don’t let her out until election day take a girl and don’t give her back and just hope that no one else will come looking for her #poemsfortheresistance

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