fuck "which one of you is the boy and which one of you is the girl?" try "which one of you is the academic and which one of you is the healthcare worker?"

I need to get a face tattoo so I remember to put sunscreen on my face

This essay is a double-winner thanks to @thenewquarterly.bsky.social and @canadamediaawards.bsky.social. Thank you for honouring an essay about domestic violence--how mundane and complicated it is and the hard, strange questions it engenders

National Media Awards Foundation@canadamediaawards.bsky.social · 3w ago

Writing spotlight: Gold, NMA Personal Journalism / @thenewquarterly.bsky.social @adelebarclay.bsky.social 🔗 Learn more about the 2026 NMA winners: zurl.co/PCuPn #NMA26 #CanadianLiterature

Writing spotlight: Gold, NMA Personal Journalism / @thenewquarterly.bsky.social @adelebarclay.bsky.social 🔗 Learn more about the 2026 NMA winners: zurl.co/PCuPn #NMA26 #CanadianLiterature

Here’s your morning (and forever) mood, courtesy of Ainsley Drew.

🖊️ The 49th National Magazine Awards — Personal Journalism: Gold: "Perhaps a Wolf & a Lamb," @thenewquarterly.bsky.social Silver: "Paper Trail," @thewalrus.ca #NMA26

Maybe if Vancouver Coastal Health rebranded it the FIFA Overdose Prevention Site the mayor would support it.

Photobombing is an art

I don't even know what this means. I'm just stimming in my head

The dreamy counterpart to Queer Little Nightmares is coming and we want you to submit! @adelebarclay.bsky.social and I will be filling QUEER LITTLE DAYDREAMS with writing that purposefully plays with the strange and surreal. Full details: arsenalpulp.com/News/2026/Qu...

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: @davidlywrites.bsky.social and I are looking for queer speculative fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for the anthology Queer Little Daydreams @arsenalpulp.bsky.social. Deadline August 1. Start dreaming and writing, babes! ✨💭🔮 arsenalpulp.com/News/2026/Qu...

Queer Little Daydreams: Call for Submissions (Deadline: August 1, 2026)

Arsenal Pulp Press is a book publisher in Vancouver, Canada with over 300 titles currently in print, which include literary fiction and nonfiction; cultural and gender studies; LGBT and multicultural ...

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Nominee highlight for One-of-a-Kind Storytelling #NMA26 : How to build a mobile free store Briarpatch Magazine @briarpatchmag.bsky.social See all the 2026 nominees: zurl.co/gb9A4

We're delighted to announce that The New Quarterly was nominated for 3 National Magazine Awards! 🎉 Special thanks to our editorial team for shepherding these outstanding works. Congratulations to all of the nominees!

VANCOUVER: Not All Dragons will have its launch Iron Dog Books on MAY 27, generously hosted by @jensookfonglee.bsky.social with a reading by the always-magical @adelebarclay.bsky.social. ⚡️ RSVP 🔗: irondogbooks.com/events/49345... (not mandatory, but will help Iron Dog know how many to expect!)

BOOK LAUNCH ALERT📣: Dear Vancouver Buds! I'll be launching Empties at Enabling Arts THIS WEDNESDAY (April 22) at 6:30PM with @adelebarclay.bsky.social, @davidlywrites.bsky.social, Sophie Crocker, and Karina Irvine. I adore these writers!!!!!!! Come join us! 💛🧜‍♂️

I’m looking for insight into the legality of memoir writing in Canada. Can the people in your life demand a review of your work legally?

Vancouver School Board are planning to deploy Microsoft Copilot in classrooms. We are collecting signatures to show VSB how many parents and residents are against this. If you are concerned about AI being used in classrooms, please sign and share this petition. actionnetwork.org/petitions/vo...

Voice AI Concerns to Vancouver School Board

Vancouver School Board (VSB) are planning to collaborate with Microsoft to introduce Generative AI into classrooms. As parents and guardians of children at VSB schools, we do not consent to our child...

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Mark Zuckerberg is building a data center in Louisiana that will use 3x more electricity than all of New Orleans. Oligarchs want YOU to pay for these data centers with higher water & electric bills. Americans must fight back against billionaires who put profits over people.

Still haunted by the time there was a Secrets-themed reading and every single reader got up and was like “here’s my poem about discovering my dad’s secret family”

There’s a bully in my workplace and every few years people file complaints and the higher ups just shrug their shoulders and say “she bullies us too”

THEY CAN PRY THE EM DASHES FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS

Abe Goldfarb@abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 8mo ago

when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes

Can someone explain to me the phenomenon of straight men never posting photos of their wives

the university where I work axed their studio art program about a decade ago, which is sad for a number of reasons, chiefly there is now a severe lack of whimsy without random sculptural installations popping up around campus

congratulations to the city of vancouver, who will now have one year of absurd austerity, overfunding of a useless police department, and likely several years more of undoing all the damage this shit is going to do

COPE: The Coalition of Progressive Electors@copevancouver.bsky.social · 8mo ago

JUST IN: Ken Sim and ABC have voted through a Budget that makes deep cuts.  This austerity budget makes Zero Sense. Press release: www.votecope.ca/news/zero-se... #vanpoli #FightForVancouver

this is going to harm so many people. vancouver is going to be recovering from this harmful budget for years.

COPE: The Coalition of Progressive Electors@copevancouver.bsky.social · 8mo ago

JUST IN: Ken Sim and ABC have voted through a Budget that makes deep cuts.  This austerity budget makes Zero Sense. Press release: www.votecope.ca/news/zero-se... #vanpoli #FightForVancouver

R.I.P 🦋 Elissa Barclay 🦋 November 21 ⚔️ 1980-2019 missing my dear friend ellissa today listen to her 🎶 tunes www.elissabarclay.com check out the album her sister put out for her this year.. it is very cool to have some new material..she was the best🥀🥀🥀 🔗 elissabarclay.bandcamp.com/album/tales-...

2,400 year-old skeleton mosaic reads: “Be cheerful, enjoy your life” Discovered in Turkey

bluesky is twitter on benzos and substack is twitter on coke

I am dipping my toes into the newsletter genre... join me for some stray threads adelebarclay.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

Welcome to Lessons in Ferality

Stray threads from a feral femme

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Whenever a face wash is called “a milk” I’m like “ah yes, the milk of human kindness“