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Emily Paige Ballou

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AEA stage manager, Old Millennial, stationery junkie, hiking, X-Files. Co-editor, "Sincerely, Your Autistic Child" from Beacon Press. chavisory.wordpress.com

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Yes, even if you're in a red state.
Yes, even if you think they don't care.

28.02.2026 23:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Reflect β€” rhizomag By Emily Paige Ballou

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Hi, friends! I've got a new poem out in the Emerging Writers section of Rhizomag's new issue this week!

27.02.2026 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I cherish a suspicion that it was the fact that the Royals and the Cubs won in consecutive years.

26.02.2026 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey @schumer.senate.gov This is the behavior we wanted from you when Mahmoud Khalil was kidnapped off the Columbia campus.

26.02.2026 21:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

26.02.2026 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 12856    πŸ” 4766    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 109

Ooh, what kind?

24.02.2026 17:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A slightly weird one, but "Familiaris" by David Wroblewski.

23.02.2026 23:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I have really complicated feelings about exhortations to tell girls they’re smart instead of beautiful, and also why I’m not a Ravenclaw {Moving image depicts Dr. Christina Yang from the show Grey’s Anatomy, gesturing dramatically and proclaiming β€œOh, screw beautiful, I’m brilliant! Β You wanna appease me, complimen…

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I was just asked by a commenter on a 12-year-old blog post whether I even know who Cristina Yang is, and I'm so curious as to how old this person thinks I am.

23.02.2026 19:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Pretty sure I watched a clip of him just last night talking about the necessity of separation of church and state?

You can be unabashedly religious and believe in the separation of church and state. Don't know if you missed the memo.

23.02.2026 03:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Talarico is a seminarian; do we really expect him to not talk about it?

I think we've needed someone unafraid to talk about their faith to go to bat about the religious right's hypocrisy and misappropriation of Christianity for years.

22.02.2026 23:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Well it can't be that he's been replaced by an imposter AGAIN."

Because honest to god, what would the chances of that be?

22.02.2026 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

She's already dealt with someone who looked like her partner not being her partner.

Especially in combination with the fact that from her POV, nothing strange even happened, at whatever point she starts to entertain that Mulder isn't acting like Mulder, some part of her would have to be going...

22.02.2026 23:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

...you have to remember how many times before she has seen someone who looked like Mulder not be Mulder (or someone else she loved).

This has already happened in "Lazarus," in "Colony," in "Small Potatoes," in "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas," just off the top of my head...

22.02.2026 23:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I am once again catching up from way behind here, but... I'm on the side of Scully not being too slow to believe that Mulder wasn't Mulder, but my reasoning is a little different from Annie's...

I think to understand the pace of Scully's understanding of the body swap...

22.02.2026 23:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

✨ magic ✨

20.02.2026 02:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

😳

Today I learned...

18.02.2026 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Love to see this happening in another place. Keep up the pressure, folks!

17.02.2026 02:17 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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15.02.2026 01:11 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hamnet, Field of Dreams, the Princess Bride, Fight Club.

14.02.2026 23:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Hope, and grief, and Mamdani’s victory I finally got around to listening to this conversation between Heather Cox Richardson and Zohran Mamdani, which I’d had bookmarked since before Christmas (when he was still Mayor-elect Mamdan…

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A short blog post on Mamdani's victory and his recent conversation with Heather Cox Richardson.

14.02.2026 19:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sometimes it feels like I'm the only person in a room who feels any sense of obligation to hold it together.

14.02.2026 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

He thinks white foodways are being erased?
His access to the "white church" is being compromised?

12.02.2026 23:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I remember back when it was Millennials eating meat.

11.02.2026 03:19 β€” πŸ‘ 148    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hatred Some time ago now, a handful of other friends and bloggers and I founded We Are Like Your Child, a group blog in which we wrote realistically and non-tragically about our challenges as autistic and…

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Having seen an uptick in "I love my child but I hate his autism" rhetoric lately...

10.02.2026 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sensory sensitivities – autchat View past chats on this topic: Aug 25, 2015, Nov 1, 2015, and Jan 20, 2019. You may also be interested in our related chat on sensory over- and under-sensitivities. Q1: What sorts of ways have you fou...

#AutChat for #ActuallyAutistic and similar is on BlueSky in 1 hour, 1pm Pacific / 4pm Eastern / 21:00 UTC / 9pm GMT. Topic: sensory sensitivities.

If you want to read the questions ahead of time:
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08.02.2026 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Ted Cruz whining about VA gerrymandering

Ted Cruz whining about VA gerrymandering

The GOP is entering the β€œfinding out” phase of gerrymandering. By the same metric, Dems got almost 40% of the vote in Utah and currently hold zero congressional seats due to gerrymandering

07.02.2026 23:06 β€” πŸ‘ 6457    πŸ” 1069    πŸ’¬ 187    πŸ“Œ 41

I cannot over-emphasize how important it will be for people to make a plan to vote early in-person this year.

06.02.2026 19:10 β€” πŸ‘ 6707    πŸ” 1935    πŸ’¬ 292    πŸ“Œ 106

LETS GO !!!

05.02.2026 23:45 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No, I want ICE defunded and disbanded.

And then I want every single one of them to face the justice system for their crimes.

04.02.2026 00:05 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Brutal column in the Kansas City Star about a local real estate company trying to avoid public scrutiny for selling ICE a property for a massive prison camp:

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