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C. Meaks Meaker

@cmeaksmeaker.bsky.social

they/them Playwright, essayist, screenwriter, horror researcher, adjunct prof, and enby dyke. NYC. Lambda Fellow '24. https://linktr.ee/cmeaksmeaker

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Attended a queer bird walk slash queer history tour of a park this morning and was apparently hit on and did not notice. I'm southern. I talk to someone if they talk to me. Unless someone says "wanna bone," I will not know it's anything other than talking to make everyone less uncomfortable

25.10.2025 20:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm in the part of October where I'm working six jobs for two weeks because capitalism

25.10.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Look, if you put dinosaurs in your content, I will engage with it. This is a threat

08.07.2025 13:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Williamstown Theater is also a mostly male season. WTF?

30.06.2025 02:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Playwrights Horizons is putting out a male season of theater next year, so that's exciting and new.

I'm just saying, my show That'swhatshesaid exploring this exact problem in theater isn't even a decade old.

25.06.2025 03:16 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

With the prevalence of skinny tok, I feel more empowered than ever to finish this queer ya werewolf book with a fat main character.

24.06.2025 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A screenshot of Instagram flagging an old post of mine for removal about my students trying to understand Reza Abdoh's Law of Remains

A screenshot of Instagram flagging an old post of mine for removal about my students trying to understand Reza Abdoh's Law of Remains

Literally can't make sense of why this post was flagged by Instagram. It's from three years ago. My best, and most uncharitable, read is that Abdoh is Iranian, so now this post is bad?

22.06.2025 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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VOTER: β€œBut people will die!” (if you kick them of Medicaid)

ERNST: β€œWell, we all are going to die.”

30.05.2025 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 6966    πŸ” 2418    πŸ’¬ 1284    πŸ“Œ 454

First run in over a year in the books. Take that sciatica

26.05.2025 12:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm in that phase of singledom where I'm wondering if I'll ever have a meaningful kiss again... According to every romcom, this is when the truly meaningful banging, I mean kissing, begins

26.05.2025 02:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"There’s still a desire for scars, stitches, burns β€” that mark that lovers leave β€” a concrete arc from our beginning to an end."

Excerpt from C. β€œMeaks” Meaker’s β€œPalliative.” It appears in the Spring 2025 print edition.

Order a copy today!

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#writingcommunity

15.05.2025 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
C. "Meaks" Meaker Reads "Pallliative"
YouTube video by West Trade Review C. "Meaks" Meaker Reads "Pallliative"

Listen to me read my essay "palliative" for @westtradereview.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?v=rz-e...

20.05.2025 21:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Want to feel way too much and like you're holding your breath because someone is just too hot? Icarus by K. Ancrum. Literal goosebumps on every page and absolutely gorgeous prose

16.05.2025 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Counting Crows has been stuck in my head for three days. Just living my best life thinking about Marjorie dreaming of horses

15.05.2025 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Men’s rights activists on Twitter took a screenshot of this and are now screaming that I am a witch.

14.05.2025 22:06 β€” πŸ‘ 278    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 2

My bit of defiance for the day was creating an AP Language Review based around the NEA Five and funding the arts... Hope I don't get fired

12.05.2025 22:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Foul is Fair Hannah Capin's Foul is Fair is a bloody, thrilling revenge fantasy for the girls who have had enough. Perfect for fans of Karen M. McManus and A Good Girl's...

Current obsession: Foul is Fair by Hannah Capin us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

09.05.2025 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump family's net worth has increased by $2.9 billion thanks to crypto investments, new report says As the Trump family's crypto ventures increase their wealth, the president's administration pauses a dozen federal crypto probes.

Let’s be clear about what’s happening here: The President is using the power of his office to enrich himself and his family, offering β€œmeme coins” and other shady crypto ventures to rake in billions in exchange for political favors.

But kids shouldn’t have more than five pencils? Seriously?

06.05.2025 22:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1322    πŸ” 411    πŸ’¬ 84    πŸ“Œ 30

Today is a four-job day! We're making that mediocre money and hoping like hell for an opportunity to sleep our way to the middle!

22.04.2025 14:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Or you could read β€˜My Soul to Keep’ by Tananarive Due, or β€˜The Pale Lady’ by Alexandre Dumas, or β€˜Fledgling’ by Octavia Butler.

Did George pay y’all for this? Or are you being goofy on your own?

20.04.2025 13:20 β€” πŸ‘ 239    πŸ” 110    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

OR you could read these Black vampire novels:

The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez
Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma
This Ravenous Fate by Hayley Dennings
House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson.

Just a thought.
#booksky #blackbooksky
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20.04.2025 15:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1065    πŸ” 425    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 3

My music taste refuses to update from high school so I spent the morning to singing along to Ben Folds Five's album Whatever & Ever Amen. Still banging.

19.04.2025 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am now working four jobs. That's too many jobs. It's getting in the way of doing things. But it's also how I afford novelties like eating and paying rent. I would really appreciate a patron if anyone's loaded

18.04.2025 14:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Joyous and fat, Meaks is delighted they are allowed at a vape shop in St. Petersburg, gleefully pointing at a window sign that says "we allow homosexuals"

Joyous and fat, Meaks is delighted they are allowed at a vape shop in St. Petersburg, gleefully pointing at a window sign that says "we allow homosexuals"

I felt so seen

14.04.2025 12:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We went on a boat! We saw so many dolphins and sting rays and manatees and I've never felt more like a child

12.04.2025 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In gator country during a pink moon watching some dolphins and making fairy rings with a five year old. You can't say we don't have fun

12.04.2025 00:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

All the plays he's written so far are great, but I'm a big fan of the this one. Nbd, but I was kinda Eric Marlin's best man and we conjure the dead on the reg

11.04.2025 00:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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About 90% of Migrants Deported to El Salvador Had No US Criminal Record Trump administration officials have described the men deported to El Salvador prisons last month as β€œthe worst of the worst,” suggesting they were gang members involved in murder, rape and kidnapping.

90 percent. They sent innocent people to a gulag so Trump could look like a tough guy. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

09.04.2025 14:39 β€” πŸ‘ 8573    πŸ” 3800    πŸ’¬ 221    πŸ“Œ 276

I'm officially outing myself: I'm writing a queer YA novel that you're really gonna wanna read. I was made to craft the right level of absurdity, horror, rage, and unstoppable crushing imaginations put to deviant uses. Cheerleaders are involved. #gocornfields

08.04.2025 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I said I was only going to buy 5 books at awp this year. I ended up buying 16. Considering I live very much hand to mouth, this was not the wisest decision. But I'm still very happy about it today

31.03.2025 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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