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Oh holler, I want one. I think you mentioned this book in a podcast interview with Danika Stegeman 💖

Love the idea of a companion craft piece!!!

Mine landed in my mailbox today and can’t wait to dig in!

I ordered a holiday bundle from Hayden’s Ferry Review and it did NOT disappoint @haydensferryreview.bsky.social

-Rage Against the Machine
-Cypress Hill
-Passion Pit
-and although it may be weird to say now, Kanye West (circa 2013-2015)

i love you more than the law will let me In "i love you more than the law will let me," poet and journalist Jacqui Germain extols the barricade, the torched precinct, and the looted storefront as the highest expressions of revolutionary…

In “i love you more than the law will let me,” poet and journalist Jacqui Germain extols the barricade, the torched precinct, and the looted storefront as the highest expressions of revolutionary tenderness.

The phone call between Sonny and Leon is so disarmingly beautiful that the context of what I know to be true about this story, and the legacy of Dog Day Afternoon within my community, momentarily fades away. Pacino has two performances in the 70s that are as strong as performances can be, and this is one of them. The other is Michael Corleone in the first two Godfather films. That performance is an internal one, with evil festering in his blossoming inhumanity, flickering out in a handful of wonderfully expressive moments of what he has chosen to become (his murder of Sterling Hayden’s character in The Godfather & Fredo’s final scene in The Godfather Part Two). Dog Day Afternoon is almost a composite opposite of what he accomplished as Michael. Everything is leaking out of him, and when they put the camera on him in that phone call he can’t hide from anyone—let alone Leon. Those big soulful, searching eyes, taking on water, looking for a way out. He’s mesmerizing in the visibility of his love for Leon that’s spilling all over the place—almost embarrassingly so. Sarandon isn’t a very good trans woman, and he doesn’t feel like the gay men of the era either. His queer creature doesn’t make any sense at all until Pacino is on the phone with her, and the cuckoo qualities of their relationship and this story cohere in a strangely magical moment. It’s fair to say that when modern queer audiences gravitate to the true story of John Wojtowicz they aren’t reacting to the man that actually robbed the bank (he was a chaser who consistently misgendered Liz. They didn’t live happily ever after.), but to Pacino’s performance, and the bare minimum facts of the reasons for the robbery.

a still of Al Pacino on the phone from DOG DAY AFTERNOON

I wrote about DOG DAY AFTERNOON and its complicated legacy among trans viewers for my reader's choice series. My co-writer Caden Mark Gardner will be discussing many of these same topics tonight on TCM before this film is shown. Please tune in!

www.patreon.com/posts/144308...

Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.

They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.

More updates TK.

I’m so grateful to Hotch Potch for the Pushcart nomination, and especially to Gail for the editorial assistance! You can read Making Étouffée here in Vol 3, Issue 2.

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In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

It's Rotten All the Way Down: Epstein, Trump, and the Twilight of the Elites What's being exposed is bigger than Jeffrey Epstein or Donald Trump. It's the failure of American institutions

The Epstein scandal is a symptom of a larger disease

The capture and corruption of American politics and institutions of power has created a criminal, abusive, and degenerate class of elites who believe they are untouchable and don’t care who they hurt

jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/its-rotten...

Remembering Armero: Colombia's town buried in tragedy Forty years after the Nevado del Ruiz volcano wiped out the town of Armero, the ghosts of Colombia's deadliest tragedy still haunt its slopes, and families are still searching for lost children.

Forty years after the Nevado del Ruiz volcano wiped out the town of Armero, the ghosts of Colombia's deadliest tragedy still haunt its slopes, and families are still searching for lost children. n.pr/3M38F5i

My case of Palestine cola has arrived! 🍉✨🤤

How we're feeling about our NOVEMBER ISSUE dropping ✨ TOMORROW✨

Need more SLM? We have fam interviews, accomplishment roundups, and more!! It's all on our blog 💋 LIP SERVICE 💋 buff.ly/wDdoCsb

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

“I want a compass. / I need deliverance. Good god, take me”

— Oliver Baez Bendorf (@oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social)

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This poem appeared in The Spectral Wilderness by Oliver Baez Bendorf, published by Kent State University Press (@ksupress.bsky.social), 2015. Shared here with deep gratitude.

A brown, miniature horse statue with a broken off leg.

We're opening ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY with a double accomplishment 🥳 Contributor @officialmchangpoet.bsky.social published two poems in @ricepapermag.bsky.social!! Read "White Phosphorous" buff.ly/rmEOl5F and "Drinking Age" buff.ly/DlI691a%F0%9...

I’m really enjoying The Midnight Shift by Cheon Seon-Ran 🧛🏻‍♀️🩸🫆

I really appreciated this interview because it got me talking about how expectations shift when people immigrate. The idea of “good” is challenged. What does it mean to be a “good girl”?

Mingyu Brian Chan reads from his poem HAIKU WHERE I LAY / WITH OCD, OBSESSING / OVER SYLLABLES featured in our ✨ OCTOBER ISSUE✨

Headshot of Mingyu Brian Chan in front of a wall with posters and decor, holding a plushie of Porygon-Z.

Mingyu Brian Chan’s poem “haiku where i lay / with OCD, obsessing / over syllables” offers us a moment of emotional vulnerability. Here he shares just one thing about the piece: buff.ly/MrtCHsm

Emotional resonance? Yes, please! Some thoughts on the subject by SLM staff @mollyandrearyan.bsky.social @michaeltoddcohen.bsky.social @ruthlefaive.bsky.social @cedarchromatic.bsky.social @razishadmehry.bsky.social @maxpasakorn.bsky.social @terivela.bsky.social & more!

LOVE seeing my coloring books arrive at everyone homes. But I truly can’t wait to see people’s colored in versions. Please make sure and share them when you get to that!!

Hmm. Music/movie playlist that goes with a highlight of poems? Ask people to take pictures, or you take pictures of your chap with spring/seasonal animals? Write postcards to people who pre-order? Outfits that evoke certain poems?

Every Dia de Los Muertos, Florence Project social workers organize an Ofrenda in our Phoenix and Tucson offices. This year, our staff gathered to honor clients and people detained who have passed while in immigration detention, and a beloved colleague who we lost in 2024.

Congrats are in order!! Contributors @asaldrake.bsky.social and T. De Los Reyes have poems in the Spring/Summer 2025 issue of Epiphany 🎉