Charlotte Wyatt

Stonewall National Monument (U.S. National Park Service) Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights a...

This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument.

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MORE OF THIS FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

Las Vegas folks. I am pleased to share that I will be hosting a workshop supported by Black Mountain Institute at UNLV in two weeks. "Poetry Plucked from the Tea Gardens" is free and registration is now open! Spots are limited. @BlackMtnInst @unlv.bsky.social

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A good writer will never bullshit you

An advert for a company called Magibook. The headline reads "Turn HARD books into EASY books with Magibook! Maximize your reading potential and avoid difficult language today." Underneath is two covers of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Above the first cover is the original version of the opening sentence (captioned "Turn Hard Books"), which reads "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since." Above the second cover (captioned "into Easy Books") is a simplified version, which reads "When I was young, my dad told me something that I still think about."

THE BELL JAR

HARD ❌

It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York

EASY ✅

That summer was sizzling, and so were the Rosenbergs

@charlottewyatt.bsky.social asked me to post this on Blue-skee. Voilà!

Yay! So proud of our year, and my hat.

Thank you! Sadly, it is fake.

Plant credit to my colleague @kellenbraddock.bsky.social who is enriching my office habitat.

Ok so. We have two beloved (indoor) cats, and now there’s this smallish (outdoor) neighborhood stray who stares longingly in our windows. Is it time to be a three-cat household again?

It was amazing! Great presentation and conversation - a really lovely evening. Sorry you couldn’t be there!

You really captured my dance mom energy.

Photo credit to @joshuacheverecohen.bsky.social, who captured me at the height of my powers during #blackmountaininstitute’s Evening with Teju Cole!

By our powers combined, we make Teju Cole appear. 🌎 #BlackMountainInstitute

I am not said colleague, but I am *a* colleague, and I vote we continue with "blue-skee," now that I am here and on the platform.