Rebecca Freedman

Central Square needs pop-up nightclubs for Halloween.

I found a compromise of standing just inside the foyer looking out the glass door for trick-or-treaters.

If the trick-or-treating does not pick up by 7 I am going back inside. 🥶

I am on my apartment house's front steps, I don't want to bother my roommate with the doorbell ringing and I am not sure it's visible enough otherwise.

It is also 53° F and windy here.

Giving Halloween candy to trick-or-treaters tonight while dressed as a witch. So far I have seen one owl, her mother made the costume. 🦉

this is insane.

www.kivitv.com/canyon-count...

Matcha and Birds: A Collection of Japanese-Language Poetry From a Westerner [Physical Chapbook] Inside this poetry chapbook: 12 haikus, 9 senryūs, 5 tankas, 1 somonka, 1 dodoitsu, and a gogyōka ode to blue jays. The poems of Matcha and Birds cover a breadth of topics from birds and nature to an ...

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A photo of the chapbook, Matcha and Birds (抹茶と鳥方), written and translated by Rebecca Freedman.

A photo of pages 18 and 19 of the chapbook, showing a senryu and a haiku, in Japanese with English translation.

Also, want to mention that if you want to buy a physical copy of my chapbook, I have less than 10 copies less, and I am not planning a second print-run.

Also will probably give some alternate English translations to demonstrate how even when I am translating something I wrote myself, there is some creativity in translating it into a poetic form.

Think I'm going to give a translation thread for one of my favorite tankas I have written this weekend, step-by-step explaining the grammar and vocabulary, and then placing it in the context of my life in the Boston-area.

if snakes looked like furbies we would have known this long ago

I've read that one. Doesn't a post-Empire dead-ender create a superweapon, and someone laments that it's no Death Star, to which they remark that by being so overwhelmingly powerful, the Death Star planted the seeds of the Empire's demise?

12 Chilling Books by Transfemmes to Read This Halloween (CW #16) Tales of Nazi censorship, haunted houses, and mushroom cults to keep you up at night.

As the dread day approaches and the spirits begin to stir, now is the perfect time to hunker down with a horror novel! 😈🗡️

This Halloween, TFR shares twelve chilling tales from transfemme authors to match the mood 🖤

A handcrafted rec list with a scariness rating for each book.

#halloween #horror

I made a typo in the first post that implied that this is the only copy of the zine in existence. There are actually 8 copies, spread among some people I know and some people I met at the 2024 Zine Fest.

www.watertownlib.org/615/Zine-Fest

The back of the zine that was shown in the previous photo, which has a scan of a handwritten message printed on it: 読んでくりてありがとう リベッカ Thanks for reading —Rebecca

In my defense, my Japanese handwriting is much better a year later.

A photo of a copy of the zine edition of Matcha and Birds/抹茶と鳥方, inside a plastic ziplock bag with Watertown Free Public Library's cataloging cardboard sheet.

Found out today that the Watertown Free Public Library has cataloged and made available the copy of the zine edition of my chapbook that I made as a 2024 Watertown Zine Fest special. You can find it in their zine collection on the second floor.

I'm Jewish and didn't understand the reason for this before, but seeing it laid-out seems obviously correct to me.

Good thread

“If you live in a 15 minute city but your barista can’t afford to live there too, you don’t live in a 15 minute city, you live in a theme park.“

My real question is how much trouble will I be if I send this to the people pushing AI at my university? I like to think just putting it in the local paper might be enough, but I’d also like them to stop.

If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples

An understated reason figures like Newsom are so dangerous is because what really advances the most violently reactionary parts of the American state aren't just the openly far-right rulers, it's their successors entrenching what they did. Newsom types aren't an end to fascism but its completion. 🧵

The fact that some prominent Democrats defend a Maine Senate primary candidate’s Nazi tattoo while he isn’t even leading in polls, but not defend a NYC mayor primary winner from false smears even as he’s leading general election polls says a lot.

That doesn’t seem driven by voter preference.

Inspired by something a friend told me:

差し向かいそのコヨーテと庭にいる

Sashimukai
Sono koyōte to
Niwa ni iru

Face to face
With the coyote
In the yard

#川柳　#詩　#コヨーテ #senryu #poetry #coyote

二時なのに朝食ティーの擬似ラテを作っています
奇癖の女性

Ni-ji na no ni chōshoku tii no giji rate o tsukutte imasu
Kiheki no josei

Even though it is 2 o’clock
Making a
Breakfast tea
Pseudo-latte
A woman of strange habits

#短歌　#詩 #tanka #poetry

Instead of posting ive been writing a novel. I recommend doing that

Gilded Rage – Jacob Silverman Silverman explains the ways the US’s richest people have moved to the political right

For @fullstopmag.bsky.social i wrote about silicon valley’s far-right turn and its ties to the White House, a tricky topic that @jacobsilverman.com covers in depth in his new book www.full-stop.net/2025/10/22/r...

Chappell Roan Just Launched a Fund for Trans Youth and It's Already Raised So Much Money The lesbian pop icon has been consistently vocal on political issues.

Its really cool that more young artists are coming out and saying "it does not cost me much to do this, so it is the least I can do" when redirecting ticket sales and donations to trans youth charities around the country doing real, important work: