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"befriending my subconscious" essayist, author, and environmental writer Christina Rivera on opening and shutting her "subconscious door," holding suffering and grief, and the sparkle of beginner's mind 🌊

New interview up with author and environmental writer Christina Rivera (@crivera.bsky.social) on opening and shutting her "subconscious door," holding suffering and grief, and the sparkle of beginner's mind 🌊 SO MANY GEMS IN HERE! 💎💎
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AWP Intro Journals Project Judges

@crivera.bsky.social, author of MY OCEANS: ESSAYS OF WATER, WHALES, AND WOMEN, will judge the 2026 AWP Intro Journals Project in creative nonfiction! Read more and nominate student work, open to AWP member program directors October 1–November 30, 2025!

Some excerpts from a lovely conversation about the tensions between caretaking and creativity hosted by the wonderful Nancy O Reddy for her Good Creatures series!

Follow the link to read it all: open.substack.com/pub/nancyred...

Happy Earth Day! To celebrate, we hope everyone will dive into My Oceans: Essays of Water, Whales, and Women by @crivera.bsky.social.

Use code WHALE on our website for 30% off April 22-23 and then explore this timely and wondrous descent into the deep waters of interconnection in which we swim.

100 Days of Creative Resistance graphic featuring a quote from Christina Rivera which reads “Let’s reject shame. Grip joy where we find it. Let’s survive and fight, love and die—like it’s the fucking beginning.”

On day 84 of 100 Days of Creative Resistance, @crivera.bsky.social: This Is Not The End of the Story…

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#handsoff biggest crowd I’ve ever seen in my little town!!!

In a swell of sea-linked essays, "My Oceans" by @crivera.bsky.social explores the kinship between marine animals, humans, and Earth’s blue womb. Join us next week when Christina will be here to celebrate her beautiful new book along with @bkloren.bsky.social! Tix: RiveraBBS.eventbrite.com

In @crivera.bsky.social's new essay collection, she writes about new words, discovering her own way of thinking, and seeing the world as a web of flowing relationships.

Her book, MY OCEANS, is available now, via @nupress.bsky.social. Read our excerpt ⬇️

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Quieseeds - Longreads What if the key to understanding ourselves lies in the spaces between things—between words, between waves, between worlds?

"I love this notion: that in vast seas and the absence of cues, the space between whales became the point of focus."

@crivera.bsky.social on the flowing relationships between things and the missing language we need amid a time of change.

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They say people don’t buy a book until they’ve seen its cover at least nine times. So here are nine photos of MY OCEANS being read by hot men.

Because ALL men who read feminist books are HOT.🔥

Pub day tomorrow. Get it in any place books are sold. Preferably your fav local bookstore. 😍

Such a delight working with Cheri and a dream pub @longreads.com !

I considered a few excerpts from @crivera.bsky.social's new book, "My Oceans." I was so drawn to this one, in which she writes about whales, the missing language we need in a time of change, and the spaces in between things.

My last published book excerpt before I crawl back into the hole where I make up words and deeper-dive the atmorelational!

Talk about timely! *haha-cry*

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Hugging this from Febos today (as the pages of my debut are likely being bound; does publishing a book ever not feel like an act of narcissism?): “To place our flawed selves in the context of this magnificent, broken world is the opposite of narcissism…”

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Debuting March 15th! christinarivera.com and here’s an excerpt just published at The Cut: www.thecut.com/article/cork...

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Hi! Now that you have a bluesky account, can you pretty, pretty please add a bluesky icon to the Elementor recommended icon library?

Thank you for resonating with me on these themes 🩵

Humbled. Thank you @jennabeet.bsky.social

Screaming for Freedom Corky the Orca’s cries from captivity have shattered glass. I know the feeling.

TODAY is the 55th anniversary of Corky the Killer Whale’s captivity. The Cut just published a #FreeCorky excerpt from my book, MY OCEANS, & I hope you'll honor it with your eyes and open heart? And consider re-sharing to build momentum for Corky's release?

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Oh big hug of thank you Alexis!

Thank you Anthony!

Thank you Julian!

🩵 Sarah!

My debut book, MY OCEANS, is finally here! Will you please consider pre-ordering MY OCEANS and supporting a writer trying to make a career out of anti-establishment art? (It's not easy out here!) 🩵 All your fav bookseller pre-order links at www.christinarivera.com

#AWP25 will take place March 26 through 29 in Los Angeles, California.

*doing a little happy dance for my book launch month on the Pacific Coast!!!*

"Nagging: repetitive behaviour in the form of pestering, hectoring, harassing, or otherwise continuously urging an individual to complete previously discussed requests or act on advice. Derived from the Scandinavian nagga, which means "to gnaw."

I dream in languages when I'm studying them. Similarly, I "dream in book" depending on the project that feels most entitled to nagging me. And here we are: The essay collection has finally shut TF up. And the novel is back at my 2am doorstep! Tis the new season of "gnawing" (see threaded definition)

who else thanked their dogs in their acknowledgments?