Crysta Parkinson (She/her)

I don't know anything about BTS, but I can send love and light!

I have been enjoying the reminder to visit one of these fantastic March Xness essays every day so far this month. Sometimes we just need a little reminder to breathe.

Creative writers: come work with us at ASU! We're currently running a search for an Assistant Teaching Professor to teach undergrad CW in-person and online, and to oversee online curriculum development as their service component. More info here: english.asu.edu/about/employ...

Jess is up again in @marchxness.bsky.social, championing "Milkshake" against "Tik Tok"! My mom read Jess's essay and said it was great, so you should read out too. Give "Milkshake" a vote while you're at it: if Jess reaches Round 3, she's beat my best tournament showing. It'd make her day!

This was so much fun! Congrats to Deanne Battle and Jo Lo! Thanks everyone for following along, sharing and voting. I really (really really really) needed that levity.

Hey friends! I did a thing, and it needs your support to get through to the second round!

Fave Five: Middle Grade Novels About Anxiety Just Shy of Ordinary by A.J. Sass The Best At It by Maulik Pancholy The Golden Hour by Niki Smith Asking for a Friend by Ronnie Riley How to Become a Planet by Nicole Melleby Bonus: Coming in Septe…

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Hey all! I am repping P!nk today. Going head to head with another Phoenix writer. Read the essays, listen to the songs, vote!

Everybody! It’s @marchxness time! Time to vote ROCK (rock!) DJ! It will make you feel so nice. marchxness.com/1strd-gorill...

March Xness, the yearly music tournament conducted by @angermonsoon.bsky.social and I starts in a few days - this year's theme is '00s dance music & you still have a few days to submit your bracket PLUS you'll have an excuse to listen to Electric Six all spring if that's your thing

It's the first one I've seen that doesn't have "Thong Song" advancing to round two! I have to work on the convincing!

12-year-olds definitely know this. That would also drive me crazy!

They are lovely! :)

The editors of West Trade Review seek creative nonfiction that engages with the ideas of mental health and mental well-being.

Details at the link below:

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Sorry, you must not have received the email I sent this morning. I'll forward it. (You know, late in the afternoon when I'm tired of the garbage, man.)

I think 2 is fun if the use isn't for something TOO super serious!

Remember the Washington Post digital picket line today, folks.

Hey ya'll. I run an account on Instagram that features writers and their (coffee/tea) mugs along with a little story/essay. IG: @ mugshotwriters2

Open right now to submissions! I guess you can't DM here so you can email me at austin.stephanie@gmail.com

Ugh. Clearly my experience with this as a little white girl is very different from your experience, but I remember being so unsure how to figure out what they were actually called, because my dad only referred to them by this name.

I have to lock mine out because I can't convince him not to drink the bath water, and I want to put oils and things in there!

My school growing up was the "Borderites." Like, we lived on the border. The only logo I recall had the Peace Arch in it, no physical representation of a Borderite. Then I went to community college and we were the Fighting Orcas, which makes a lot more sense now than it did then.

Glad to help! (And glad he was just home for a wedding, or there was no way I would have been confident I was asking the right person.)

Good luck! Can't wait to hear how they turn out. :)

Okay, so per Michael.
 
These are cookies sold all over the Mediterranean including Lebanon, but are not "Lebanese."
 
Apparently delicious.

I just realized I have a friend who is from Lebanon, so I also texted him to ask his opinion. Invested, obviously.

Um, I'm not Lebanese, but....

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My first nonfiction book GENDER REBELS: 30 Trans, Nonbinary and Gender Expansive Heroes Past and Present, for readers 12+, is out today! I am so excited to share this book with the world.
Buy Link: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kathe...
+ Resources: www.katherinelockebooks.com/gender-rebel...

ALREADY GONE comes out on Tuesday!!!

Featuring an amazing short story by @ambersparks.bsky.social!

Pre-order here: bookshop.org/p/books/alre...

Would very much like to have bodily autonomy and weed today

If y’all wouldn’t mind helping me spread the word. 😀🪓
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