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queer poet. diasporically mexican. texas born. southern made. grad student. read me: https://substack.com/@elgallosalvaje
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“If your culture is an oral culture it can’t be a lecture. Otherwise, nobody’s gonna remember the stories.”
23.11.2025 18:01 — 👍 15 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1i want to add that my pov and politics has been greatly influenced by intergenerational friendships, from elder organizers in labor or guerilla movements to youth with no attachments to the traditional ways of doing things
23.11.2025 18:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0As I get further into my 40s, one of the things I'm proudest of is my worldview didn't change in the way the adults around me during my 90s childhood were certain it would change.
Not just "you will get conservative when you're older" but also "you will agree with how we disrespect kids..."
i am of the generation where my mother made all my appointments bc i hated calling a doctor
21.11.2025 18:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0love completing a task i put off for nine months that took ten minutes to take care of
21.11.2025 18:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0www.gofundme.com/f/alice-wong...
here’s where to send funds to continue Alice’s legacy <3
there is nothing like being loved by a poet
20.11.2025 04:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0workshops for gaza Writing and Resistance: A Conversation with Robert Jones Jr. and Kiese Laymon, moderated by Deesha Philyaw. December 14, 2025 6pm eastern virtual on zoom
We're hosting "Writing and Resistance" a workshop and conversation with KIESE LAYMON, ROBERT JONES, JR. and DEESHA PHILYAW on Dec. 14! All proceeds will go to the Sameer Project. Join us!
Register:
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abolition is difficult because it's presence and sometimes we don't know how to presence
08.11.2025 20:26 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0“Hurricane Melissa could be one of the most intense & devastating hurricanes on record for Jamaica, & it’s rapidly becoming a textbook example of how climate change is making hurricanes more dangerous,” —Katharine Hayhoe, professor of climate science. www.commondreams.org/news/jamaica...
27.10.2025 15:00 — 👍 121 🔁 68 💬 5 📌 6Let’s get to 10k. 385 dollars to go.
12.10.2025 00:59 — 👍 32 🔁 30 💬 2 📌 0No bullshit poetics today yall. One link, six families, STILL supporting their survival in life-and-death conditions. The need is self-evident, our responsibility is self-evident—don’t wait for the right words or degrading photos or western filter (like me) to act.
8 hours left ⚠️ Extended: 824/1379
We are calling on ppl to boycott colonial conferences and institutions that normalize settler colonialism in Palestine and beyond, and to donate their resources instead. open.substack.com/pub/workshop...
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WHAT A SHOT FROM A'JA WILSON
09.10.2025 02:32 — 👍 315 🔁 95 💬 5 📌 18Help Abo Jameel and family please
29.09.2025 15:44 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0can i talk to the folks that scheduled this rapture? can we move it to today because i am not trying to go to class tonight
22.09.2025 18:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0honestly, i wondered the same.
22.09.2025 18:02 — 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0“For the unaware, nothing was amiss.”–– Cedric Robinson
12.09.2025 03:17 — 👍 30 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0what am i doing why am i on pinterest
12.09.2025 02:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0especially wild to have hypocritical discussions about "political violence" today
9/11 for mourning political violence against Allende, Biko, Balbir Sodhi, Gustafsen Lake, Attica, Sabra & Shatilla, Somalia
Today for the 4.5 million who died after 9/11 in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Pakistan.
These people will offer your life up in a second! You better wake up to who these politicians are, like yesterday.
11.09.2025 03:10 — 👍 90 🔁 23 💬 0 📌 0Actual murderers saying they're opposed to violence. War criminals posting condolences.
11.09.2025 03:09 — 👍 161 🔁 62 💬 1 📌 0No politicians or parties carrying out a genocide can condemn violence.
11.09.2025 03:06 — 👍 398 🔁 134 💬 4 📌 2List in Progress: Palestinian Literature Forthcoming Fall 2025 or 2026
Although we generally focus on literature in translation, this encompasses literature written by Palestinians in any language (and a few additional titles at the end). Please let us know if you have books to add. Note that by…
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
We know a better world is possible. Despite the dominant ideologies seeking to make the world uninhabitable for humans through rapacious capitalism, colonialism, necropolitics, exploitation, extraction and extermination. This will not be our tombstone. Love and justice will prevail.
06.09.2025 06:38 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0this eclipse aint even here yet and it’s already wildin
06.09.2025 00:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0