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Rebecca Salazar Leon

@rsalazar.bsky.social
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haunted swamp femme, PhD // author of sulphurtongue (2021) & antibody (2025) // (she/they) 🇨🇴🤎🇵🇸

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Ian LeTourneau @ianletourneau.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Look at the trophy I won this weekend! The NB Book Award for best poetry book in 2025! Thanks @gaspereaupress.bsky.social for being awesome publishers, thanks to judge @hollay.bsky.social, & to all my family & friends! What an honour to be shortlisted with friends @rsalazar.bsky.social & Nick Thran!
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Access Copyright @accesscopyright.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Congratulations to this year's winners: Hajer Mirwali, Karen Solie & @rsalazar.bsky.social. @talonbooks.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Conservatives *want* the vagary inherent in the law because it makes them, and their police, the arbiter of morality. They don't like the idea of justice being blind. "Of course we won't go after Shakespeare!" they say honestly, and they're correct. They'll decide what drag is "appropriate."
Williams says that the bill wouldn't apply to "appropriate drag," and said that it's written in a way that obscenity could be determined by individual law enforcement.
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Here's the thing: If legislators didn't intend for HB 249 to be used against women wearing leggings and low-rise jeans, if they didn't mean for it to be used against trans people existing... THEY COULD FIX THE LANGUAGE. They drafted it that way for a reason. It's naive to think they won't use it.
The peak of fear mongering. The author claims Ohio HB 249 will jail women for going braless in a T-shirt.
HB 249 is about shielding kids from adult performances & imagery —not policing whether women wear bras, bikinis, or T-shirts.
Twisting it into "women could be jailed for going braless" isn't just wrong
—it's a deliberate misrepresentation.
It's common sense to shield kids' innocence from adult performances & imaginary.
Nothing but perversion - twisting a bill that aims to protect the innocence of children into something it's not. Do better.
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Media needs to stop with "critics say" and just quote the actual language of the bill. HB 249 creates a new category of "seminudity" which can be used to arrest women who aren't nude, but are wearing clothing — leggings, t-shirts without bras — that religious groups feel is too provocative.
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Critics of new bill say Ohio women would be banned from sports bras, bikinis in public
'The peak of fear mongering.'
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Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
They didn’t just double tap. They hunted her like an animal. First they sent her death threats. They struck her, then followed her to where she tried to take shelter & struck her there. They struck the rescue workers who came for her & only after hours, after she died, did they allow retrieval
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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
"The rich want war, the youth want a future" Seen in Stuttgart, Germany
"The rich want war, the youth want a future"
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Sarkis Zaroukian @sarkisz.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
According to sources inside the IDF they measure success in Lebanon by the number of buildings destroyed per day. This has nothing to do with Hezbollah, their primary objective is to target civilians. It's a Lebanese Nakba.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
To enter with heart and mind into the world of the imagination may be to head deliberately and directly toward, or back toward, engagement with the real world.
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Samantha Puc 🍉 @theverbalthing.com · 13/04/2026
In my latest for @publisherswkly.bsky.social, I interviewed 10 LGBTQ+ authors about their upcoming nonfiction or historical fiction books about queer and trans community building and safety in the face of oppression and violence.
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Building Queer Community
New books share stories of LGBTQ+ solidarity, its challenges, and its essential rewards.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I hope one of the things we will take away from this moment is that if we want survivors to be able to come forward immediately, then we need to be willing to protect them no matter how much we like, respect, or fear their perpetrator.
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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
In a conversation between June Jordan and Angela Y. Davis, published in 1990, Jordan said she was concerned about how much despair there is cuz people often take it out on themselves. She said she wanted a return to rage, where it’s taken out on the system.
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Anarchy Goose @anarchygoose.northsky.social · 28/02/2026
 “The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” 

- James Baldwin
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Jamie Tennant @jtennant.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
This week on GET LIT we talk to Aisha Sasha John & Rebecca Salazar about poetry. Specifically, their latest collections, which came out in March. The reading pile is truly staggering. 1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu.ca or pods or: tinyurl.com/mr6aebzc @rsalazar.bsky.social
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Rob Taylor @roblucastaylor.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Anastassia Matheson interviews @rsalazar.bsky.social about their McClelland & Stewart poetry collection, "antibody," for the Miramichi Reader:
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A Conversation with Rebecca Salazar
Have you ever read a book that feels like looking into a mirror—one that reflects the parts of yourself you’ve buried while offering the comfort of a quiet, steady it’s not your fault?
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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
🚨Must read/listen: “After COVID infection, the immune dysfunction usually…lasts a few months, & then it does begin to recover. But…people are often catching COVID more than once a year. And that would keep you in a permanent state of immune dysfunction…because you just keep adding infections…”
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 20/02/2026
New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF
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A fake ICE tip line reveals neighbors reporting neighbors
A Nashville comedian’s deportation hotline, set up as a joke, has gone viral among viewers who say it shows the “banality of evil personified” in the U.S. immigration crackdown.
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
This @drewharwell.com story about a man who set up a fake ICE tip line, and the sheer range of people who called in, is gutting www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Then last January, he had an idea for a new bit: He’d set up a fake tip line that people could use to report anyone they thought was an undocumented immigrant. It was darker than his other stunts, but it felt topical, the kind of challenge he wanted to try. At the very least, he thought, he might get a few calls he could talk about at his next show.
Instead, his website has received nearly 100 submissions from across the country: people reporting their neighbors, ex-lovers, Uber drivers, strangers they saw at the grocery store. One tip came from a teacher reporting the parents of a kindergarten student at her school.
“I mean, they seem like nice people or whatever,” the woman told Palmer on the call. “But if they’re taking up resources from our county, I’m not into illegal people being here.”
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Julia Lurie @julialurie.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
New: Immigrants in MN are being released from detention without their IDs, work permits, social security cards, and other key documents that prove their status to begin with www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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ICE took their papers—and won’t give them back
Immigrants are being released from detention without documents proving their status.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I wrote about the US funneling pregnant children in immigrant detention to a Texas facility where their rights can be more effectively restricted. I hear echoes of disappeared parents and kidnapped children in Argentina decades ago. In each case, the intent is to inflict deep generational trauma.
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Mothers and the disappeared
Pregnant child detainees are sent to Texas, as harm crosses generations.
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Kim Fahner @kimfahner.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Happy to have my review of Rebecca Salazar’s antibody up at periodicities this month! Such a great collection of work! Thanks to @periodicities.bsky.social and @robmclennan.bsky.social @rsalazar.bsky.social
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 08/08/2025
Federal immigration authorities detained a woman seeking medical care at the National Institutes of Health’s flagship research hospital after the patient presented a non-real ID while passing security.
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Patient seeking care at NIH hospital detained by ICE
NIH officials called immigration authorities after the patient presented a non-real ID while passing security at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Anti vaxx rhetoric is dangerous. Not only does it promote the spread of contagious and preventable disease, but it radicalizes people. The disinformation campaigns prey on people’s fears. The Emory gunman appears to have been targeting the CDC because he believed the COVID vaccine hurt him:
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Live updates: Shooter appeared to target CDC headquarters in shooting that left police officer dead, sources say | CNN
A police officer was killed during an active shooter incident on the campus of Emory University in Atlanta, according to a law enforcement official. The shooter is also dead, according to authorities....
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Dusty Lucite @dustylucite.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
It’s like nobody remembers the corpses spilling out of refrigerated morgue trucks for 18 months before the vaccine existed. Your health issues are not from the vaccine, they’re from the damn virus you keep catching because nobody masks and we collectively refuse to clean the air in shared spaces!
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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Gaza has reached catastrophic levels of famine, according to aid and human rights organizations, which raises the stakes of each fundraising campaign and even each post on Bluesky. The impact of donating to individual campaigns can be immediate www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
New: Israel is starving Palestinians, forcing them to beg for donations on sites like Bluesky. Their accounts keep getting flagged as spam. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Social media accounts of Palestinians desperate for funds are being flagged as spam
People in Gaza use Bluesky to crowdfund for milk and diapers – repeated deletion of their profiles has spawned a guerrilla verification squad
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 09/05/2025
This Rümeysa Öztürk hearing is radicalizing. I've been a court reporter for many years, and I've never covered anything like this: A student deeply committed to her studies, imprisoned solely over writing an op-ed, being made to testify under oath for her own freedom. Dark, dark stuff.
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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
holy shit Rümeysa Öztürk has been released! may all others kidnapped alongside her be released also and may their prison burn and may the social order that built these prisons come to ash with it
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Two headlines in the New York Times today.
Two NYT headlines stating the WH wants to promote more childbearing and the EPA is ending testing for chemicals that hurt children.
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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Trump is pushing for mask bans. @governor.ny.gov is trying to do his bidding by hiding one in the New York budget. Say #NoNYmaskBan
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 22/04/2025
Mahmoud Khalil's attorneys to ICE: "Mr. Khalil's wife has just gone into labor this morning in New York City, eight days earlier than expected. A two week furlough in this civil detention matter would be both reasonable and humane ..." ICE's reply: DENIED storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Dear Ms. Harper,
We write as counsel for Mahmoud Khalil (A-number:
| Facility: Jena) to request that Mr. Khalil be
released on furlough immediately for a period of two weeks. Mr. Khalil's wife has just gone into labor this morning in New York City, eight days earlier than expected. A two week furlough in this civil detention matter would be both reasonable and humane so that both parents can be present for the birth of their first child. Undersigned counsel and Mr. Khalil would be open to any combination of conditions that would allow furlough from ICE's perspective, including a GPS ankle monitor and/or scheduled check-ins.
We would be grateful for a prompt reply in light of this urgent development.
Thank you in advance,

Mr. Kassem,
Thank you for your email. After consideration of the submitted information and a review of your client's case, your request for furlough is denied.
Mellissa B. Harper
Field Office Director
New Orleans Field Office
Enforcement and Removal Operations Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/04/2025
fighting tears
a screenshot of the first several paragraphs of the quote-skeeted article, with the following paragraphs highlighted in yellow:

“If I die, I want a loud death,” Hassouna wrote on social media. “I don’t want to be just breaking news, or a number in a group, I want a death that the world will hear, an impact that will remain through time, and a timeless image that cannot be buried by time or place.”

On Wednesday, just days before her wedding, 25-year-old Hassouna was killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit her home in northern Gaza. Ten members of her family, including her pregnant sister, were also killed.

The Israeli military said it had been a targeted strike on a Hamas member involved in attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians.
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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Fuck the UK Supreme Court, fuck transphobes, and fuck J.K. Rowling in particular. Trans lives matter. Trans women are women. Buy trans books, and support trans people and trans rights now and always.
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We Are Higher Ed @wearehighered.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Thanks to your reports, we have created a tracker of college campus Visa revocations. Please continue to let us know if you hear of these (names of colleges and number of revocations). www.wearehighered.org/campus-abduc...
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Campus Abductions — We Are Higher Ed
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QUEERFM Van 101.9FM @queerfmvan.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
TODAY on @queerfmvan 🎙️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ we have a jam packed @queerfmvan April 1st 8am PST • 11am EST • 4pm GMT 🏳️‍🌈🎙️Join Hosts Barb @megamouthmedia.bsky.social Snelgrove / #DJDeniseFraser + guests Author @rsalazar.bsky.social and band #chromeharvest + #LGBTQIA tunes n talk! Streams www.citr.ca #lgbtqiathreads
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QUEERFM Van 101.9FM @queerfmvan.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
April 1st @queerfmvan Hosts Barb @megamouthmedia.bsky.social Snelgrove & #DJDeniseFraser welcome Author/Poet REBBECA SALAZAR @rsalazar.bsky.social to chat about their new book of poetry “antibody”. Visit our Insta 4 details & guest bio! Streams at www.citr.ca 8am PST • 11am EST • 4pm GMT #queerbooks
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Rebecca Salazar Leon @rsalazar.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
antibody was officially published this week alongside excellent books by @toluini.bsky.social Aisha Sasha John & Chris Bailey. i am honoured to be in such company, and can't wait to hear them read at the M&S launch in Tkaronto next week.
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Ologies with Alie Ward @ologies.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Finally: LONG COVID. Post-Viral Epidemiology is up. -symptoms -why it happens -who believes in it -why it sucks so bad -what you can do Dr. Wes Ely is THE guy when it comes to Long Covid. Spread this around to anyone it might help -- which is everyone. www.alieward.com/ologies/post...
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Post-Viral Epidemiology (LONG COVID) Part 1 with Dr. Wes Ely — alie ward
What is Long Covid? Is it real? What does it feel like? Do you have it? And how do you cure it? With fatigue and brain fog, you don’t want to spend hours scrolling through conflicting opinions. So we’...
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Rebecca Salazar Leon @rsalazar.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
tomorrow ✨️ feat. the first review of antibody by @selenamercuri.bsky.social in @theseaboardreview.ca , with many thanks for such a thoughtful read 💜
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The Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 24/03/2025
The latest issue of The Seaboard Review is out! Poetry, Fiction, Horror, and Hot Takes! www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-seaboa...
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Rebecca Salazar Leon @rsalazar.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
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