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Poetic Conversations: Ungendering The Canon ~ The Lesbian Body by Monique Wittig Ungendering the Canon

Lynley Shimat Lys has written a dazzling lyric essay/review of Monique Wittig's The Lesbian Body for @anmlymag.bsky.social - "How is it possible to write at all when your access to other worlds comes fragmented in remnants of Sappho?"
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Today is pub day for my third book and debut monograph! This baby has had quite the journey, and I'm so thrilled to see where it lands in the world. Link below for the info - please buy it if you have the means, ask your libraries to stock it if you don't, and ask me to things!

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An interview quote from Mckensi Scy Pascall (featured on the right), Writing for Stage and Screen, June 2024 alum, which reads: "The stories you have to tell will always matter to someone and that first person should be you, so keep saying what your soul is saying needs to be said."

Check out our interview with Stage & Screen alum Mckensi Scy Pascall on the power of creativity, finding inspiration, and how the stipend she received from CCW gave her the confidence she needed to believe in her story and keep writing:

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Trump's attack on the American mind Behind his closure of the Education Department and his assault on higher education, science, libraries, and museums lie the oligarchs of the techno-state.

Today, Trump is dismantling much of the Department of Education. He has ordered wrestling executive-turned-Education Secretary Linda McMahon to shut most of her department.

But there’s a much larger story here. robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-att...

Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy.

Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media.

That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, museums, and the arts – to prevent us from learning.

It's Fascism 101.

the idea that poor people or people with cognitive disabilities or physical limitations should get a high quality education. that’s it.

for these people the answer is no. and i will tell you why, it is because they are eugenicists.

for the one millionth time, the dept of education just monitors access to education. civil rights, title ix, disabilities, making sure everybody gets a fair opportunity.

this is not about curriculum. states design those standards. this is an attack on the idea of fairness in education.

From @nancyland.bsky.social's book, Inconsolable Objects.

#poem #poetry #books #writing

From Dorianne Laux's book, Smoke.

Published by @boa-editions.bsky.social. Get it here: bit.ly/lauxsmoke

It’s my book! On international women’s day! Because I’m an international woman!

“For those of us who live at the shoreline / standing upon the constant edges of decision / crucial and alone / for those of us who cannot indulge / the passing dreams of choice / who love in doorways coming and going / in the hours between dawns…” — Audre Lorde

All this business I am reading about social security is nonsense. My mom died on 2/18. My dad got a letter yesterday informing him her benefits were ending and he had to repay the February payment because they don’t give a payment in the month someone dies. They know where every dollar is.

Death and The Poetess's 6th #RPMChallenge album is out! A dirge wave, sleep talk-down EP for an anxious epoch of history. Our single is "Dancing Shoes" (playing below) & peep "The Duck And The Kangaroo" via Edward Lear's poem. Trippy/restful journeys! deathandthepoetess.bandcamp.com/album/lucid-...

100 Days of Creative Resistance graphic featuring a quote from Ryan D. Matthews which reads “But what is a hero? Simply someone who takes action. Not necessarily in a moment of crisis, but whenever they’re able.”

Day 46 of 100 Days of Creative Resistance: @rydmatthews.bsky.social in Favor of Not Doing Enough

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Poetic Conversations: What is within reach of language? On Jennifer Chang’s “An Authentic Life” A few winters ago, my first break of grad school, I read a book every day. I stopped keeping a list of books I wanted to read. Instead, I…

@vikamujumdar.bsky.social has contributed a wonderful lyric essay on Jennifer Chang's latest #poetry collection, "An Authentic Life." (@coppercanyonpress.bsky.social 2024) Now live on @anmlymag.bsky.social Poetic Conversations column:
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Without the Poet, There Is Only War “The victims of History are permanently exiled from home, within and without. The practitioners or memory are also: we live as foreigners, as translators.”

New at PB, @VikaMujumdar.bsky.social explores poet Don Mee Choi’s KOR-US trilogy of poetry books, which examine selfhood, coming-of-age, and, later, her compulsion to catalogue.

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Twin Peaks Turns 30: Charting The Black Lodge's Influence on Cosmic Horror Decades later, we're still lost in the red curtains.

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They Worked to Prevent Death. The Trump Administration Fired Them. Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left behin...

NEW: Public health teams are being gutted by Trump's purge of federal employees, imperiling crucial, lifesaving work.

"We are hollowing out our government in a way that is going to hurt people and is going to get people killed."

w/ @deldeib.bsky.social:

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Born 2-22-25, #EdwardGorey would’ve been 100 today. “Working quite perversely to please himself,” he created “a whole little world” (Edmund Wilson). Happy centennial, Edward; you were born to be posthumous. May you always “make everyone as uneasy as possible.” (www.markdery.com/books/born-t...)

Thousands protest Elon Musk’s DOGE in NYC on Presidents’ Day More than 10,000 protesters gathered in New York City on Presidents’ Day to speak out against the current Trump administration and the actions in particular of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).  It was one of several protests that…

Thousands protest Elon Musk’s DOGE in NYC on Presidents’ Day

Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social) The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org

It’s the stories from park rangers that are really hurting me today. You are the librarians of the natural world; human gateways to new worlds and new modes of being. Down with the oligarchy!! @altnps.bsky.social #altNps

You know the drill! Go follow Black folk! 😍

US flu reaches high severity status as deaths outpace COVID

CDC said that it now classified the #flu season as high severity for all age-groups for the first time since the 2017-18 season.

Over the past 2 weeks, flu deaths have outpaced fatalities from #COVID and now make up 2.6% of all deaths for the most recent week, compared to 1.5% for COVID.

It was a rhetorical ask. As a Xennial I remember the sizism of the era well. I'm just remarking on how it peppers otherwise sensitive dialogue fr the vantage of decades later. Sadly the reboot too has yet more remarks. It's a fantasy show ultimately, what w the leads constantly binge eating.

I especially encourage folks to focus on fortifying and protecting those who are most vulnerable + resistance leaders - as well as drawing more folks to summon their own power and stand up for the good of the community.

The Medusa Sigil & Full Moon Working "There is a lot to say. There is a hell of a lot more to do." - The goal of the Medusa sigil is to protect, empower, and prepare you for the necessary work. "There is a lot to say. There is a hell of ...

Witches, looking for a full moon working? It's a good time to pull out the Medusa Sigil and modify this working as needed.

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