Matti B.

Send us: collages; watercolors; sculptures; yarn dyed with menstrual blood; portraits of people who don't and have never existed. When they invent Smell-o-Vision for magazines we will make a submission category for that, but for now the eyes will have to do. sotospeak.submittable.com/submit

Cover image for Patchwork: A Sewist's Diary by Maddie Ballard alongside a quote from the author reading "Sewing touches the environment, body positivity, identity, the Internet." Below is the title of the article: Stitching Memory and Heritage in Patchwork: An Interview with Maddie Ballard

Maddie Ballard's debut memoir, Patchwork: A Sewist's Diary, published by @tinhouse.bsky.social was released today!
So to Speak editor Matti Ben-Lev interviewed Maddie about the influence of feminism and culture on her work. Read the full interview on our blog: sotospeakjournal.org/blog

Send us your truth & your lies. Submit to our print issue, tell yr friends: sotospeak.submittable.com/submit

Fuck what if I’m every single bullet point

Graphic acknowledging Hispanic Heritage Month featuring four Lammys winners or finalists: "Call Me Cassandra: A Novel" by Marcial Gala, "The Prince of Los Cocuyos" by Richard Blanco, "Jawbone" by Mónica Ojeda, and "Her Body and Other Parties" by Carmen Maria Machado.

September 15 to October 15 is Hispanic Heritage Month. ✨ Celebrate with one of these Lammys winners or finalists by Hispanic authors.

Omg I didn’t participate but give me a guest call anyways??? I have banger ideas and Paris Review is ignoring me (the audacity)

ya sex is nice but have you ever made a particularly pertinent comment during book club and everyone starts snapping in approval

Five Times I’ve Seen My Father Cry by Matti Ben-Lev When my sister was born. I was seven. That swollen creature, face plum and puffy. I’ve never seen my father’s eyes shiver quite like that, not even when Mom left, ten years later. After their divorce,…

one of my fave things about theme calls is when they inspire and turn into work that I'd maybe never expected but that totally knocks me out. today's story from Matti Ben-Lev is such a perfect example of that.

"When I got my second DUI..."

https://www.havehashad.com/ylr2s

Omg yes show me the way 🤣

Love this!!!

Quiz: Are You the Worst Fucking Parent? Give yourself one point for each that applies: You work full-time. You stay home to raise the kids. You didn’t give the kids enough freedom to ...

You spent $5600 on a newborn photography session depicting your baby dressed as a pot roast.

You don’t have enough newborn photos of your child around the house, and as soon as they’re of age they’ll seek validation from strangers on Instagram.

In Defense of Our College’s Mascot, Sir Racist Von Genocide Dear Fellow Alumni, I write to you to address the recent controversy over our college’s long-standing mascot, Sir Racist Von Genocide. Clad in his ...

"If we replace Sir Racist Von Genocide, where do we draw the line? Will we raze our hallowed halls? Will we change our street names? Will we forbid the a cappella group from singing 'Let’s All Point and Laugh at the Nearest Marginalized Ethnic Group'?"

LATE TO WORK by Benjamin Drevlow This morning I’m hauling ass across the intersection across from the Krispy Kreme opposite the Kum & Go so I don’t get steamrolled by one of the yokels in their jacked-up pickups when some old lady in...

we have a micro by Benjamin Drevlow @thedrevlow.bsky.social !

i'm starting to believe that what most ppl want most out of life is to be rescused from it...this 178 word story embodies that feeling for me. check it out

xraylitmag.com/late-to-work...

BIG STEVE HID WATER BOTTLES OF PISS BENEATH HIS BED by Matti Ben-Lev He was used to being homeless. He was used to sleeping in his car in Philly parking lots. Once, he picked up a Tinder date, drove her 3 hours from Baltimore to Philly, rode around looking for his ex-g...

For fans of crinkly water bottles, urine, and flash essays—new piece out with @xraylitmag.bsky.social 😁

xraylitmag.com/big-steve-hi...

There is no God, start a literary magazine

TrioHousePress (@triohousepress) ISO a Reprint: what to do if your book goes out of print and you’re looking for a new publisher, from our executive editor @Kris Bigalk’s Substack, Letters From the Editor.

ISO a Reprint: what to do if your book goes out of print and you’re looking for a new publisher, from our executive editor @krisbigalk.bsky.social’s Substack, Letters From the Editor!

open.substack.com/pub/krisbiga...

Young refuseniks burn their IOF draft papers in the middle of Tel Aviv

They refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces, and are willing to go to military jail for their position. The new generation of refuseniks is supported by the older, many of them spent months in jail already

Woke up to some frickin' awesome news 😀

Text appears against a background of large white and red flowers surrounded by green foliage: And when they’re moved from the table, are they held? Was she ever held? Hanna Karras Aftercare

@hihannakarras.bsky.social makes her publication debut with an achingly gentle poem about miscarriage and aftercare - read it at www.corporeallitmag.com/volume-xix/hannakarras

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Memo from the DHS: Deploy Megatron Before the LA Protesters Start Thinking They Have Rights “The Pentagon significantly escalated the federal response to the immigration enforcement protests in Los Angeles on Monday, mobilizing a battalion...

"Frankly, the LAPD is too woke to shoot tear gas at children anymore, SWAT teams are hesitant to deploy tanks over yoga studios, and even some ICE agents hesitate before knocking down doors. It’s a slippery slope!"

Unión del Barrio is reporting that ICE raided a church in Downey, CA, pulling a rifle on the pastor today.

Memo from the DHS: Deploy Megatron Before the LA Protesters Start Thinking They Have Rights “The Pentagon significantly escalated the federal response to the immigration enforcement protests in Los Angeles on Monday, mobilizing a battalion...

New piece out in @mcsweeneys.net 😀

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/mem...

"My house is all legs & shoulders."
Wake up all your senses with these two gorgeously immersive poems from @satorigood.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/sator...

#poetry #PrideMonth

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

DHS really played themselves by posting possibly the hardest photos on the planet to go with this tweet

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Beth Ann Fennelly fs

A colorful abstract illustration featuring various geometric shapes and patterns, predominantly in shades of blue, pink, and orange, with a playful and dynamic composition.

new micro from Joe Kapitan!!!

https://www.havehashad.com/f1yxw

Encourage my fellow fiction writers on here to read Kazuo Ishiguro’s (excellent) Nobel Prize acceptance speech. This paragraph, in particular, has been very helpful to me over the past several years, even though—as Kazuo says—the concept seems, on its surface, quite simple.