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David Gate

@davidgate.bsky.social

Poet. Writer. YNWA. A Rebellion of Care πŸ¦‰ davidgatepoet.com Asheville, NC

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Thank you for coming

02.10.2025 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Spent my evening listening to @davidgate.bsky.social sharing poems and stories on his book tour. Art and joy are so necessary these days.

01.10.2025 00:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Theyβ€˜re making me side with Jimmy Kimmel and Tucker Carlson on the same day?!?!

18.09.2025 02:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think one of the better, more subtle tributes to Robert Redford's life is the string of utterly iconic female co-stars who've come forward to eulogize him; each of them take-no-shit types like Fonda and Streisand, and every one of them without a single bad thing to say. A model for male behavior

17.09.2025 13:55 β€” πŸ‘ 7870    πŸ” 1340    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 45
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Thank you, @davidgate.bsky.social for sharing your words and your wisdom with us! (Posted by permission)

#OdeToIndieBookstores #IndieBookstores #IndependentBookstores #DavidGate #Poetry

11.09.2025 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Unfortunately the supply chain has been wild since it has been selling out everywhere. Which is nice but annoying!!!

05.09.2025 23:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Rebellion of Care - Poems & Essays β€” DAVID GATE - POET A Rebellion of Care - a collection of poems and essays. A moving manifesto in poems and essays, inviting readers to embrace their humanity and live fully alive in our age of social change, hyper-...

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02.09.2025 19:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The NYT thinks my book is Hopelessly Positive. They’re right. Free Palestine.

02.09.2025 19:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
THEY/THEM
(dedicated to Nex Benedict)

If God created night & day
& dawn, of course
& dusk
& the tangerine rosepink sunset
&the deep amethyst twilight
&the infant bright of morning

then to perceive the world in binary
isto forgo knowledge of the divine.

THEY/THEM (dedicated to Nex Benedict) If God created night & day & dawn, of course & dusk & the tangerine rosepink sunset &the deep amethyst twilight &the infant bright of morning then to perceive the world in binary isto forgo knowledge of the divine.

This is absolutely beautiful...
✍🏻 Cred: @davidgate.bsky.social

21.07.2025 19:13 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
NEVER STOP SPAMMING THE TIMELINE
Never stop spamming the timeline
with all the things that you love
if you live in a beautiful place
show me
if you are in love
show me
if you ate something delicious
I wanna see
though I may skip through
the 207th baby pic
by God, still post them
your art, your music,
your kitchen designs
the books you have read
your poems that don't rhyme
fill this life with all you love 
and share the joy with me

NEVER STOP SPAMMING THE TIMELINE Never stop spamming the timeline with all the things that you love if you live in a beautiful place show me if you are in love show me if you ate something delicious I wanna see though I may skip through the 207th baby pic by God, still post them your art, your music, your kitchen designs the books you have read your poems that don't rhyme fill this life with all you love and share the joy with me

On second thought…

(From A Rebellion of Care by David Gate)

30.07.2025 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

A friend gave this collection to me recently and I am loving it !

11.08.2025 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Highly recommend @davidgate.bsky.social

12.08.2025 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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@davidgate.bsky.social πŸ˜‚ this delightful moment as I page through A Rebellion of Care during morning meditation

12.08.2025 17:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
A Rebellion of Care I just reviewed A Rebellion of Care by David Gate

A Rebellion of Care, poems & prose by @davidgate.bsky.social
#netgalley
www.netgalley.com/book/595835/...

20.06.2025 17:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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David Gate | Substack

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17.05.2025 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How ANDOR Helps Teach Us How To Form A Rebellion

17.05.2025 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is more than a poem, it’s a call to conscience, courage, and community. In dark times, words like these remind us that resistance rooted in hope and unity is a force no fascism can withstand.

16.05.2025 00:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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In the spirit of Mother’s Day, here’s a clip of BjΓΆrk two-piecing a reporter who was stalking her and her baby.

11.05.2025 13:43 β€” πŸ‘ 11383    πŸ” 2474    πŸ’¬ 218    πŸ“Œ 321
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Happy Independent Bookstore Day! πŸ“•

Go support your indie!

AN ODE TO INDIE BOOKSTORES:

26.04.2025 14:34 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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... I believe in what rises after loss, the morning after sorrow, in the old rhythms that outlast our forgetting. The world is full of resurrections. It is enough, sometimes, to plant and to wait, trusting that life will come again in its own time." - @davidgate.bsky.social

21.04.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"I still believe in Resurrection - not only in the grave's undoing, but in the green return of spring, in the earth's insistence on life. I see it in the turning soil, the seeds that split in darkness, the trees that bloom though no one asks them to ...

21.04.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I see Christians are complaining about the hoodoo in Sinners.

To quote, @solomonmissouri.bsky.social if Christians don’t like it… it’s a hit! See it twice!

22.04.2025 01:12 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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@davidgate.bsky.social - thank you for this πŸ™πŸΌ

20.04.2025 20:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I would watch the shit out of a β€˜Choctaw Vampire Hunters’ TV series

20.04.2025 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Rebellion of Care | David Gate | Substack Your favorite Instagram poet brings a weekly newsletter, insight into creative resistance, curated poems and a weekly (life altering) playlist. Click to read A Rebellion of Care, by David Gate, a Subs...

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19.04.2025 20:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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American. Concentration. Camps.

19.04.2025 20:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Was actually wrong, I'm just two days away form having a full year's worth of stats.

It's going to come in at just under 1,100 articles about trans people in the Guardian, Times, Mail and Telegraph over that time, almost all attacks.

That's an ave of 3 a day every single day from just those papers

13.04.2025 10:53 β€” πŸ‘ 529    πŸ” 133    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 32

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