Central Square needs pop-up nightclubs for Halloween.
01.11.2025 04:23 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@rebeccafreedman.bsky.social
Author living in the Boston-area. Pronouns: she/her ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ Poetry chapbook Matcha and Birds available now. https://rebfree.itch.io https://rebeccafreedman.gumroad.com
Central Square needs pop-up nightclubs for Halloween.
01.11.2025 04:23 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I found a compromise of standing just inside the foyer looking out the glass door for trick-or-treaters.
31.10.2025 23:10 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0If the trick-or-treating does not pick up by 7 I am going back inside. ๐ฅถ
31.10.2025 22:47 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I 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.
31.10.2025 22:47 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0It is also 53ยฐ F and windy here.
31.10.2025 22:44 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Giving Halloween candy to trick-or-treaters tonight while dressed as a witch. So far I have seen one owl, her mother made the costume. ๐ฆ
31.10.2025 22:44 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0this is insane.
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A photo of the chapbook, Matcha and Birds (ๆน่ถใจ้ณฅๆน), 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.
31.10.2025 15:01 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Also 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.
31.10.2025 14:54 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Think 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.
31.10.2025 14:54 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0if snakes looked like furbies we would have known this long ago
31.10.2025 01:08 โ ๐ 202 ๐ 27 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 0I'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?
30.10.2025 23:46 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0As the dread day approaches and the spirits begin to stir, now is the perfect time to hunker down with a horror novel! ๐๐ก๏ธ
This Halloween, TFR shares twelve chilling tales from transfemme authors to match the mood ๐ค
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.
26.10.2025 23:24 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The back of the zine that was shown in the previous photo, which has a scan of a handwritten message printed on it: ่ชญใใงใใใฆใใใใจใ ใชใใใซ Thanks for reading โRebecca
In my defense, my Japanese handwriting is much better a year later.
26.10.2025 23:18 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0A photo of a copy of the zine edition of Matcha and Birds/ๆน่ถใจ้ณฅๆน, 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.
26.10.2025 23:18 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I'm Jewish and didn't understand the reason for this before, but seeing it laid-out seems obviously correct to me.
26.10.2025 20:41 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Good thread
26.10.2025 12:56 โ ๐ 74 ๐ 33 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0โIf you live in a 15 minute city but your barista canโt afford to live there too, you donโt live in a 15 minute city, you live in a theme park.โ
26.10.2025 06:59 โ ๐ 1949 ๐ 487 ๐ฌ 17 ๐ 11My 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 Iโd also like them to stop.
26.10.2025 11:36 โ ๐ 130 ๐ 21 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 1If 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
26.10.2025 15:37 โ ๐ 4653 ๐ 3453 ๐ฌ 84 ๐ 88An 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. ๐งต
26.10.2025 14:58 โ ๐ 790 ๐ 269 ๐ฌ 11 ๐ 28The fact that some prominent Democrats defend a Maine Senate primary candidateโs Nazi tattoo while he isnโt even leading in polls, but not defend a NYC mayor primary winner from false smears even as heโs leading general election polls says a lot.
That doesnโt seem driven by voter preference.
Inspired by something a friend told me:
ๅทฎใๅใใใใฎใณใจใผใใจๅบญใซใใ
Sashimukai
Sono koyลte to
Niwa ni iru
Face to face
With the coyote
In the yard
#ๅทๆณใ#่ฉฉใ#ใณใจใผใ #senryu #poetry #coyote
ไบๆใชใฎใซๆ้ฃใใฃใผใฎๆฌไผผใฉใใไฝใฃใฆใใพใ
ๅฅ็ใฎๅฅณๆง
Ni-ji na no ni chลshoku tii no giji rate o tsukutte imasu
Kiheki no josei
Even though it is 2 oโclock
Making a
Breakfast tea
Pseudo-latte
A woman of strange habits
#็ญๆญใ#่ฉฉ #tanka #poetry
Instead of posting ive been writing a novel. I recommend doing that
22.10.2025 00:32 โ ๐ 18 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0For @fullstopmag.bsky.social i wrote about silicon valleyโs 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...
22.10.2025 13:20 โ ๐ 25 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 2Its 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:
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