Danielle Pafunda

Spring Break is long enough that one realizes how dramatically untidy their home has gotten, but not long enough to do anything about it. Literally and metaphorically.

Friends, I’ll be reading at Bar Henry in LA on Thursday 3/27 with this whole slew of sweet summer children 😍 @burnsidereview.bsky.social Black Ocean and my own new fam from Saturnalia Books

The wind got up in my hood this morning and now I know Skeletor’s origin story.

Solidarity ❤️

More on those 504 rights Texas v Beccera threatens

Photo featuring a silver coloured metal suspended sculpture of two entwined figures in a complex maze of arms and loops

Louise Bourgeois, The Couple, 2007-09 #WomensArt

The removal of a transgender reference from the National Park Service’s Stonewall website wasn’t done by NPS staff. Elon, care to elaborate?

Tell the Natl Parks how to improve their Stonewall page. Tell them real good!

2 kids, IEP & 504, chicken-chillion schools, 1 high-school dropping out: these aren’t like platinum member plans. They provide something that almost functions like access some of the time. Even in a 1:10 ratio 🦄 of a program. I need accommodations to even think about them. And an antivenom kit.

This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."

Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.

I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

New York State hasn’t signed on, so I contacted our AG Letitia James to thank her for that and advocate for the continued defense of plans that guarantee access to education and make for a bright and healthy and not-so-Hunger-Games future ffs tyvm

ID: Black and White Flyer with headline "Does Your Child Have a 504 Plan or IEP at School? Those Rights Could be in danger!" Texas vs. Beccera is an active lawsuit trying to get rid of Section 504. • 3 current bills and a drafted Executive Order plan to dismantle the Department of Education, which helps fund and enforce IDEA law, including the right to an lEP. • The Dept. of Education's IDEA data collection contracts were cancelled suddenly by Musk's DOGE team on the night of 11 February. Without the data, states may not receive the IDEA grants that fund lEPs. The good news? There's still time to fight! Two QR codes to scan, on the left info for 504 lawsuit, on the right Dept of Ed and lEPs info. www.disability-rights-watch.com

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A banner notification from the co-star app reading simply “poets lie.”

When poets break up with astrologers…

How close am I to a flip phone and a paper atlas?

Bill to rename Greenland to 'Red, White and Blueland' introduced by Georgia Rep. Buddy Carter Georgia Rep. Earl "Buddy" Carter introduced a bill to rename Greenland as President Donald Trump continues his efforts to purchase the island.

The last time someone appropriated this land for sketchy timeshares, giving it a misleading, dopey name, it didn’t go so excellent for them…

NYTimes must’ve blinked cuz they missed the halftime show by a mile.

👀👀👀 I bet they unionize and cancel the bosses

Am I delighted to live in a world where I cheer corporations whose operations approach basic decency. No. No I am not. But here we are. Go Costco with your relatively livable wage and diverse workforce and your superb Korean pickles in stock just once a year so I giddily buy four gallons.

Rewatched Midsomer Murders series 1-4 re: how to subvert the inheritors of colonial wealth. We’ll need some typewriters, manure, veterinary barbiturates, wigs, and Wellington boots. Maybe a cricket bat or two. A pair of Punch and Judy marionettes and a rotary dial telephone. C u at the village fete.

Then maybe we *will* go more a roving.

FAMILY TREE Family Tree 2:1 A Census of Daughters by Diamond Forde & these are the daughters of the first man: daughters who dream of organza veils & wake to pray. Daughters of breast milk. Daughters of strata. Daughters of kaolin clay. Daughters under throw & wheel, daughters whose births bowl a mother’s will. Thus Deborah—daughter of wombwork, daughter of war. Daughter who plaits deft as dagwood, weaving blisters down her sisters’ scalps. Mother-wish for sweetness, Deborah decks her bullies then blackens the rum cake with Alaga syrup.

Then Candi—next daughter. Daughter of hymn, of hallelujah, of hand-me-downs, daughter whose bowed head didn’t lift for decades. Candi blinks & guitar strings plink like coins in her ear well, their clatter cantoring a threadbare melody for riches. Thus Louise, daughter of harpsichord, aria daughter. Broadway & gospel warrior. Daughter who brandished her blade-belly tongue, who cut the umbilical wart, gaped the gap in its bruise-black mouth—then swore she saw her Mama gaze out. Then Mary, star-tinseled daughter. Daughter whose eyelashes fan like a tarot deck. Daughter of spirit realm, of night watch—sleepless tick: Mary scopes ghosts strung like cobwebs in the corner. Mary be the God bride. Mary wear the veil. Mary sees

what Valerie feel. Valerie be body. Valerie be young. Valerie be a tooth warmed in a dusk-gored plum. She poses in flexing sand—bikini-brilliant, hot—but she don’t touch the water. Swimming is not dreaming, is not flight, & Valerie is bird bones— she jumps & floats—an in-between—exactly what her mother wished for but ain’t—all daughters the same: stardust. Daughters shimmer in circles, daughters draw their mothers in. That’s what daughters be: a dark center gulping. They mend.

Diamond Forde “That’s what daughters be: a dark center gulping. They / mend.”

Screen shot of video where poetry text layers over itself, difficult to read: ashbody floating by up in same ozone this tongue sleep inside

Call your representatives on the Freakophone

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A chart that calculates how much pancake batter one’s breasts could hold based on bra size

Finally, inflation in our favor. Thanks, perimenopause!

Plz do!

Yup. You know I’ve been there ❤️ Am sending you and yours big love and hope the weird currents that unceremoniously barfed us back topside come for you, too

Can you imagine if you and I obeyed only that for which we had time? 🤣 transcendent resistance

The problem with faking your death, changing your name to Racoony Squirrelbird, and living in a tree is it’s actually v uncomfortable in a tree, acorns hurt your teeth, and you need your basic middle-aged meds. So there you are stuck faking your life and living in a house, Mx. Squirrelbird.

"As I was saying often for many years some one is baffling." Posted on a Gertrude Stein account on a platform not to be mentioned.