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Thank you!! 🥰🥹

Goal for today: actually write the query letter. This is literally the worst part about writing. 🫠🥴 #literaryagent #writersofbluesky #booksky #writerswrite

Only two words today: TREY REED. #treyreed #blm

Women’s Equality Day: Celebrate the Victories. Confront the Backlash. Women’s Equality Day: Celebrate the Victories for Women and the Right to Vote. Confront the Backlash—like to the Equal Rights Amendment.

“…without congressional recognition of the ERA, gender equality remains absent from the Constitution.” #era #roeyourvote #womenvote #bluewave #feminist #Intersectional

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Some workers would be excluded from student loan forgiveness program for 'illegal' activity The Trump administration has proposed changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program that could exclude teachers, social workers and nurses if their employers engage in activities deemed illeg...

“Opponents fear the new policy would turn the loan forgiveness benefit into a tool of political retribution.” #clowns #retribution #publicpolicy #oligarchy
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Helloooo

Going from Trump 1.0 to Trump 2.0 is like going from a campy horror movie that’s so dumb that it’s kinda funny to a gory horror movie that gets banned from theaters for traumatizing the audience

Perhaps the best opening to an essay: “You won’t ever know the worst that happened to Nicole Brown Simpson in her marriage, because she is dead and cannot tell you. And if she were alive, remember, you wouldn’t believe her.” -Andrea Dworkin, “In Memory of Nicole Brown Simpson” (1994) #dvawareness

Make 2025 count for feminism: What you can do right now | UN Women – Headquarters Gender inequality is the greatest challenge of our times. Gender equality is the greatest opportunity. The 30th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action is an unmissable chance to remind global ...

“Let history remember 2025 as the year the world refused to give up on women’s rights.” #Intersectional #feminism #genderpaygap
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Books That Didn’t Age Well In this post, we look at books that didn't age well. We give examples and options on how to respond.

Books that didn’t age well is such a great (and timely) topic. To read or not to read?
#booksky #woke #racism #sexism
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It’s the “Taboo Novel” for me. 🤭😇

Always perplexed when I see a “Trump-Pence” bumper sticker 🤔

Only an insecure ignoramus who thrives on invoking fear would attempt to do something so foolish in their presidency. And here we are.

Good morning 🔥💰

A whole oxymoron.

Tori Amos' muses always brought mystical spark to her music, but now they've become realists How the realities of aging as a performer became a "battle worth fighting" and brought Amos back to her childhood.

A great article about @toriamos.bsky.social, the practicality of her muses, and “post-menopausal pop.” #yessaid #ewf #toriamos #feminist #Indiepop #rainn

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Thank god/dess indeed! ✌🏻🫶🏻

“But her eeeemaaails…” 🤡
#bluewave #handsoff2025

Toni Morrison
Jeffrey Eugenides
Sandra Cisneros
Thomas Merton
Edith Wharton

I miss the olden days when we cared about codes of ethics and anti-nepotism. Feels like so long ago.

Ooh, I don’t hate that strategy! 😁😁😇

I did see that and am curious… I do wonder if it’s legit. Seems a shame to *not* release his journals et al since so much time has passed, but that’s also the part that makes me skeptical. Did you see anything about why now?

Oops—I think I forgot to include it. Here it is!

I love this! 🙌🏻 I’m interested in the Kim Gordon and Viv ones. I pulled some books that my husband and/or I have read and recommend, based on what you’ve got—and don’t sleep on the Chuck Klosterman one. (Also, he says the seminal Led Zep book is ‘Hammer of the Gods’ by Stephen Davis.)

Well, now, with that review, I’m going to need you to recommend more of your choice musician memoirs. 😇 They’re one of my favorite genres to read…!

Ahh—thank you! Just ordered the de Sola book and Mark Lanegan’s memoir from bookshop dot org. (I read on a Reddit thread that there’s a lot about Staley in that too, which makes sense—and I don’t hate learning more about Lanegan as well.) I’m with you in hoping Cantrell writes a book too! 🙌🏻

I realize I’m speaking into the ether at this point, but I have to say that it is quite shameful there isn’t a legit authorized biography of Layne Staley. 🤔🧐 #laynestaley #musicsky #aliceinchains #rockbio #grunge #seattle #maninthebox

I’m so tempted to ask to be part of that group…!

The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from DOGE?

This speaks to every level of my data and record nerdery. #datasky #doge #archivist

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Oof. This was a perfect read for those interested in the writing/publishing industry and don’t mind a bit of woo. 🔥 #thetower #majorarcana #booksky