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jojo Lazar @poetesss.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Friend since Deviant Art teen days!

jojo Lazar @poetesss.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

@lizdegregorio.bsky.social has written another stunning lyric essay/review for @anmlymag.bsky.social! "...a collection that traverses the rocky terrain of growing up trans and nonbinary, as well as the messy, beautiful flowers that can grow out of that ground." medium.com/anomalyblog/...

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Poetic Conversations: J Brooke’s “I Can Tell You the Version That Will Make You Take My Side”

Poet J Brooke knows they can write the version that will make readers take their side, but they choose the naked truth every time.

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jojo Lazar @poetesss.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Lynley Shimat Lys has written a dazzling lyric essay/review of Monique Wittig's The Lesbian Body for @anmlymag.bsky.social - "How is it possible to write at all when your access to other worlds comes fragmented in remnants of Sappho?" medium.com/anomalyblog/...

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Poetic Conversations: Ungendering The Canon ~ The Lesbian Body by Monique Wittig

Ungendering the Canon

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Addie Tsai (any/all) 🏳️‍🌈 @addieisunwieldy.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Today is pub day for my third book and debut monograph! This baby has had quite the journey, and I'm so thrilled to see where it lands in the world. Link below for the info - please buy it if you have the means, ask your libraries to stock it if you don't, and ask me to things! a.co/d/5FmYwYw

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Straight White Men Can’t Dance: American Masculinity in Film and Popular Culture: Tsai, Addie: 9781350443563: Amazon.com: Books

Straight White Men Can’t Dance: American Masculinity in Film and Popular Culture [Tsai, Addie] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Straight White Men Can’t Dance: American Masculinity...

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ccwalum.bsky.social @ccwalum.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Check out our interview with Stage & Screen alum Mckensi Scy Pascall on the power of creativity, finding inspiration, and how the stipend she received from CCW gave her the confidence she needed to believe in her story and keep writing: cambridgecommonwriters.org/being-gentle...

An interview quote from Mckensi Scy Pascall (featured on the right), Writing for Stage and Screen, June 2024 alum, which reads: "The stories you have to tell will always matter to someone and that first person should be you, so keep saying what your soul is saying needs to be said."

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Today, Trump is dismantling much of the Department of Education. He has ordered wrestling executive-turned-Education Secretary Linda McMahon to shut most of her department. But there’s a much larger story here. robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-att...

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Trump's attack on the American mind

Behind his closure of the Education Department and his assault on higher education, science, libraries, and museums lie the oligarchs of the techno-state.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, museums, and the arts – to prevent us from learning. It's Fascism 101.

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

From @nancyland.bsky.social's book, Inconsolable Objects. #poem #poetry #books #writing

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

From Dorianne Laux's book, Smoke. Published by @boa-editions.bsky.social. Get it here: bit.ly/lauxsmoke

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

It’s my book! On international women’s day! Because I’m an international woman!

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

“For those of us who live at the shoreline / standing upon the constant edges of decision / crucial and alone / for those of us who cannot indulge / the passing dreams of choice / who love in doorways coming and going / in the hours between dawns…” — Audre Lorde

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A Litany for Survival

For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon the constant edges of decision crucial and alone for those of us who cannot indulge the passing dreams of choice who love in doorways coming and...

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

All this business I am reading about social security is nonsense. My mom died on 2/18. My dad got a letter yesterday informing him her benefits were ending and he had to repay the February payment because they don’t give a payment in the month someone dies. They know where every dollar is.

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jojo Lazar @poetesss.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Death and The Poetess's 6th #RPMChallenge album is out! A dirge wave, sleep talk-down EP for an anxious epoch of history. Our single is "Dancing Shoes" (playing below) & peep "The Duck And The Kangaroo" via Edward Lear's poem. Trippy/restful journeys! deathandthepoetess.bandcamp.com/album/lucid-...

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Brian Gresko @briangresko.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Day 46 of 100 Days of Creative Resistance: @rydmatthews.bsky.social in Favor of Not Doing Enough mailchi.mp/6067b06631a3... @writingco-lab.bsky.social

100 Days of Creative Resistance graphic featuring a quote from Ryan D. Matthews which reads “But what is a hero? Simply someone who takes action. Not necessarily in a moment of crisis, but whenever they’re able.”

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Yenni Desroches @yennidesroches.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

If you need an alternative for fabric, here's some local places: Worcester: www.sweejesfabricsandsewing.com Auburn: www.appletreefabricsonline.com www.facebook.com/profile.php/... Wales: www.meetinghousefabric.com For beadng/jewelry stuff: Uxbridge: www.shopchevere.net

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Home | Appletree Fabrics | 850 Southbridge St Auburn, MA 01501

Appletree Fabrics offers a wide variety of fabrics, notions, kits, patterns, and precuts. We also offer classes for experiences and beginner sewers!

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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

NEW: Public health teams are being gutted by Trump's purge of federal employees, imperiling crucial, lifesaving work. "We are hollowing out our government in a way that is going to hurt people and is going to get people killed." w/ @deldeib.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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They Worked to Prevent Death. The Trump Administration Fired Them.

Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left behin...

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Born 2-22-25, #EdwardGorey would’ve been 100 today. “Working quite perversely to please himself,” he created “a whole little world” (Edmund Wilson). Happy centennial, Edward; you were born to be posthumous. May you always “make everyone as uneasy as possible.” (www.markdery.com/books/born-t...)

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Michael LaBorn @michaellaborn.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

You know the drill! Go follow Black folk! 😍

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MaskTogetherAmerica @togetherwemask.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

CDC said that it now classified the #flu season as high severity for all age-groups for the first time since the 2017-18 season. Over the past 2 weeks, flu deaths have outpaced fatalities from #COVID and now make up 2.6% of all deaths for the most recent week, compared to 1.5% for COVID.

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US flu reaches high severity status as deaths outpace COVID

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Laura Tempest Zakroff @ltzwitch.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I especially encourage folks to focus on fortifying and protecting those who are most vulnerable + resistance leaders - as well as drawing more folks to summon their own power and stand up for the good of the community.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing

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jojo Lazar @poetesss.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Currently listening to audiobooks of Murakami's "Blind Willow, Woman Sleeping," Gillian Flynn's "Dark Places," and Dan Jones's "The Wars Of The Roses." Also reading Donna Tartt's "The Little Friend," and R.F. Kuang's "Babel." Yeah, I'm a buffet style reader. #books

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jojo Lazar @poetesss.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

What is with Gilmore Girls' relentless fat-phobia? Luke is giving Rory a family heirloom at her 21st bday and just has to make a few cracks, while doing it at his own sister's expense?! And is that why they kept making Melissa M's character pregnant, to overcompensate/explain? (Nostalgia tv fail.)

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Chandra Free @spookychan.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Chatting with friends for a podcast, can you imagine??? 😻 Me and @yercabbage.bsky.social chat with my sweet friend @doc-hammer.bsky.social and darling @jacksonpublick.bsky.social all things #VentureBros! find the podcast on most platforms ✌🏻✌🏻 *Apple’s transcript out of the gate gets my name wrong

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Something Venture This Way Comes: A Conversation with Doc Hammer & Jackson Publick

Podcast Episode · Guild of Calamitous Podcasts: An Unofficial Venture Bros. Podcast · 02/07/2025 · 1h 16m

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

The idea that there should be a public debate about the appropriate medical care for a minuscule population of children remains one of the most absurd lies that these liberal transphobes, NYT edit board included, tell themselves. No there shouldn’t! It’s not an appropriate matter for public debate!

It should be recognized that society is still grappling with the cultural and policy implications of the rapidly shifting understanding of gender. There are some issues - such as participation in sports and appropriate medical care for minors - that remain fiercely debated, even by those who broadly support trans rights. There should be room for those conversations. But what shouldn't be debated is whether the government should target a group of Americans to be stripped of their freedom and dignity to move through the world as they choose. This is a campaign in which cruelty and humiliation seem to be the fundamental point.

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Will Burrows 🖖🥖🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Holy shit, I love this so much! Incidentally these shirts are freshly restocked at www.willburrows.art/shop

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 08/02/2025

Okay, confess, who has left the time machine unguarded this time?

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Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

TONIGHT! FREE! ON YOUR COMPUTER IN YOUR HOUSE! WHILE YOU SIT THERE IN YOUR JAMMIES!

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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

"Let’s be pothos, planted together with deep roots in night-dark soil, cozy in our terracotta..." —Kit Steitz :: “For Our Six Year Anniversary”

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Kit Steitz :: “For Our Six Year Anniversary” – ALOCASIA

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Laura Minor, poets<poems 😘 she/her 🤘💪 #writer #poetry @lauralminor.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

🎼I wanna guess the color of your underwear🎼

Jane Kenyon

The Shirt

The shirt touches his neck and smooths over his back.
It slides down his sides.
It even goes down below his belt— down into his pants.
Lucky shirt.

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Kit but Ox if yer derby @kitikins.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Resharing because Pam's words feel lost in the digital age, but they are so worthy of a digital legacy. She was worthy of a digital legacy. She touched so many writers, so many poets, so many humans. Fuck cancer forever and always.

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danalevinpoet @danalevinpoet.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I will talk to you from the body. I will talk to you from the lyric heart. Can’t forget those, though the shocks and worries will come fast and furious. If you are afraid today, one way to activate the vagus nerve and bring calm into the body is to sing or chant. No prescription required.

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