Stephanie Kaylor

“sex workers are smart sex workers are kind sex workers are talented sex workers aren’t all mentally ill” starting my own dumb whore brigade to fight for our rights too

I live here

who are some younger sex worker poets writing (at least a little bit) in relation to their labor? Every now and then I come across zoomers I haven’t heard of with publishers I haven’t heard of and I want to do pay more attention to what they’re building

You and me both, there may be something in the air!

Hudson Valley next week!

Omg I didn’t know this—signing up when I’m back at my laptop !

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“Young activist” is a crazy was to say Nazi

They can't even tell it like it is and this is the party that is supposed to protect us?!!! The party we're supposed to vote for and support?!

"It is difficult to know what to make of this relentless positivity. Making money is obviously important and can be liberating, but it's hard not to feel sceptical about how empowering the work really is, and doubtful of the wisdom of embarking on it as a career."

Throughout the article she speaks to creator after creator who tell her that while the work is hard, they like it and it offers them opportunities and revenue that other work doesn't.

Her conclusion? This career is a bad idea.

giving myself a screen time limit on google docs so I stop wasting hours obsessing over line breaks

Obviously there are so many exceptions to every rule, but the fact that they’re so refreshingly rare to come across in the works of writers my age—

smolbeanery really has destroyed a generation of writers

Natalie Diaz: Seeing is Feeling in Mary Oliver’s Poetry What does it mean, say the words, that the earth is beautiful? And what shall I do about it? What is the gift that I should bring to the world? What is the life that I should live? These are the qu…

Natalie Diaz on Mary Oliver. Lots of beauty in the way Diaz looks at place and personhood in these poems. lithub.com/natalie-diaz...

it’s giving

After years of (legitimate/health) delays, I received initial proofs with comments from my poetry publisher for the first 2 books of The Daybooks (which is 4 books long). Exciting!!! Maybe they will come out soon. I’ve kind of refocused my energy to other projects so I don’t get impatient.

This is a really fantastic piece!

Thank you!

“According to O'Donnell, patrol members approach a woman and politely identify themselves.
‘The usual pattern is, if she's a prostitute, she gets very angry very quickly,’ he said. ‘She'll either yell at us or walk away.’”

From a 1984 article on sex workers resistance to a citizens patrol group

See you tonight!

green and yellow cover of University Keywords, ed by Andy Hines

Table of contents for University Keywords University: An Introduction, Andy Hines Academic Freedom, Jennifer Ruth and Ellen Schrecker Adjunct, Heather Steffen Admissions, Scott Gelber Alternative Institutions, Andy Hines and Eli Meyerhoff Athletics, Wayne L. Black Board of Trustees, Asheesh Siddique Kapur Budget, Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra Campus, Davarian Baldwin Classroom, Richard Simpson Critical University Studies, Rana M. Jaleel, Isaac Kamola, and Heather Steffen Debt, Eleni Schirmer and Jason Wozniak Degree, Christopher Newfield Discipline, Vineeta Singh Diversity, p.s. kehal EdTech, Annie McClanahan and Louise McCune Endowment, Dennis M. Hogan Entrepreneurship, Jesse Goldstein

Table of contents for university keywords Fiction, Jeffrey J. Williams Legislation, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer Noncitizen Student, Abigail Boggs Police, Yalile Suriel and Grace Watkins Ranking, Jelena Brankovic and Stefan Wilbers Revenue, Dan Nemser and Brian Whitener Risk Management, Mattie Armstrong-Price Sustainability, Kai Bosworth, Jesse Goldstein, Andy Hines, and Eli Meyerhoff Title IX, Rana M. Jaleel Union, Zach Schwartz-Weinstein Appendix: Questions to Consider for Composing a Keywords Entry Contributor Bios Acknowledgments Index

It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.

I also wrote autotheory about one of my specialties, sex workers being bitchy online, burning bridges with managers via Twitter, social media whore friends amidst isolation &&

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Never shared on here but last winter I had a short story come out about a sex worker trying to get pregnant so she could abort client-fetuses and you can order the zine it’s in all proceeds going to abortion funds www.abobozine.com/product-page...

A book called the dad rock that made me a woman by Niko Stratis, on a desk surrounded by a computer, an iPad and a coffee mug amongst other desk things

hell of a time to be promoting a book about being trans, the damage done to the body/spirit in the decades spent fighting it, and how you can’t fight city hall (Big Transgender) but here we are. utpress.utexas.edu/978147733148...

Hey Philly area writers, if you've ever wanted to work with me on cnf/essay/memoir but you haven't had the chance because I mostly teach within the academy, HERE'S YOUR CHANCE. I'm teaching for Blue Stoop this fall! Six weeks, in-person, starting 10/16. Spots are legit filling fast!

Real

The rain is letting up here in BK…plenty of time to get over to 629 Nostrand Ave for a craft sale benefitting the people of Gaza. Got to say hi to @edidin.bsky.social @gregpak.net and the amazing @prisonculture.bsky.social Bought some neat stuff, pictures to follow.

Ok so in case yall missed the memo like I did. David Lehman, series editor of Best American Poetry is a Zionist ass. Literally feel embarrassed that I wound up in this situation. I was literally the only person of color in a room of 50+ people. It was terrifying.
#poetry #bestamericanpoetry

Chimera BY VIEVEE FRANCIS “She's not ‘maternal,’ she's dangerous.”—Jamaal May I have no charms. Admittedly. No gold comb can move through This mane. My skin is not translucent. Mine is a tail to fear. I know. And though a mother may destroy, She too sees fit to create beauty That would eventually grow into forms I would swallow if I gave in To my hungers. But, up from my wounds— From this goat's body— Up from my wood-smoke lungs, from The milk of me, comes a song, a melody To open yours, then lick them clean.

“I have no charms. Admittedly.” A poem by Vievee Francis.

my sunglasses and I are unstoppable