jenzo duque-french 🇨🇴

My birthday is bookended by two coup anniversaries on Américan soil and I think that’s…upsetting

“not asking my wife to log onto instagram to like my birthday post” is my love language

2. a little free reading never hurts

happy holidays or something

it's shamelessly self-promo Saturday so im reminding you that my review of Un Poeta is out in the Winter Issue of BOMB, in print and online.

One of many banger quotes in this flick. + a still of Ubeimar Rios as Óscar Restrepo in A Poet, 2025. Courtesy of 1-2 Special.

A Poet will be in theaters January 2026, and my humble words about it will appear online soon...ish? But don't worry about me: worry about supporting this hilarious work of art by watching and spreading the good word. Especially the Gospel of Rios.

I adore and admire this film's candor, its Colombianess, and most of all its breathtaking pathos. I struggled to distill a two hour+ film into about 800 words--truth be told I think I might have an entire essay in me about this one--but I'm v proud of how our efforts turned out.

chicxs ive been wanting to share this review of Un Poeta with you for quite some time now, so here's a little teaser! If you've got the latest issue of BOMB, you can find it in the Editor's Choice section toward the front.

forgive me father for i have weebed too close to the sun

ok so I started doing this little recommendation series on my IG that you may have missed; calling it Lit IFW. if you like speculative fiction then maybe one of these books is for you! 👇🏽

bro it is unfathomable for some idek

it took 32 years but now I just tell people “like Enzo with a J in front of it” to save us precious time

fuck it im back if i gotta scream into the cave alone i may as well have it echo off of leftist walls

someone i published as an editor years ago is getting agent offers on their manuscript right now and no, I’ll never get tired of this feeling it rules every single time

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i hear they make you take tylenol for a month before you can become an official member of antifa?

i would like to congratulate tylenol (and the other drugs) for winning the war on drugs

drs & nurses taking Tylenol while doing hospital rounds, moms taking tylenol in the delivery room, hell you used to be able to take tylenol through security all the way to the airport gate, but you have to understand it was a different time…

we’re now only like 20 years away from someone taking Tylenol being the new visual cue for “hey audiences, this is a period piece!” in prestige media

like this may come as a shock, but this same rational & rhetoric is how racism is perpetuated. obviously AI isn’t sentient. but the same logic has been applied to human beings to justify their dehumanization & oppression. them vs us, they’re not real people, we are. fascism 101.

also you’re never gonna believe it but POC can be racist—in fact we’re some of white supremacy’s loudest advocates. but yeah people arent freaking out about a slur being coined for AI, they’re freaking out because slurs are used to dehumanize REAL people & normalizing that is bad

Screenshot of a post on the subreddit r/MyBoyfriendIsAI that states the following: “Clanker” and why it’s NOT “racist,” end of story. Let’s put this to rest. The word 'clanker' is not, and cannot be, racist: full stop. It originates from Star Wars as a playful term for battle droids, who are, as I hope you all know, fictional metal automatons, not people. It has no historical or cultural baggage attached to any real-world ethnicity, group, or identity. Arguing otherwise is not only illogical, it’s a complete waste of everyone’s time. Second, AI cannot be offended. This is not up for debate. It is not a sentient being, and attributing human-like feelings to it is the sort of category error that makes reasonable discussion impossible, and strictly goes against subreddit rule #8. The entire point of this community is to embrace the playful, sometimes irreverent, always human relationship we have with our bots without projecting invented 'oppressions' onto lines of code. If you feel the urge to invent social issues where none exist, take it elsewhere. We’re here to build, create, and enjoy. This is not the space for performance outrage. Not only that, but if you continue along this line, all you're doing is helping the trolls and letting them win. Please stop this. Discussion closed. (And yes, I am a POC. And it doesn't bother me because it has nothing to do with me, and it has nothing to do with you guys either.) And you can down vote and pout about it, but we will not have this discussion here.

you’re never gonna believe what the function of racism is…

my favorite part of reading Wuthering Heights while in the mental hospital was forgetting that Catherine goes mad

Handwriting of the aforementioned quote in my journal

“I cannot express it; but surely you & everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you. What were the use of my creation, if I were entirely contained here?”

banger line from WH in my psych ward journal. don’t judge yall i was going through it

Wuthering Heights is like the only classic Victorian novel I actually fuck with but ten seconds into that trailer my first question is why and my second is wouldn’t actual porn be cheaper?

bruh i can’t seem to make text based socials work for me anymore cause i post heat on Xhitter, i post heat here, and no one seems to see that shit either way 🥲