Dolly taught us lots. But somewhere on the list is “Sequins are for daytime.”
Andrea Avery
@andreaavery.bsky.social
Author of: • SONATA: A MEMOIR OF PAIN AND THE PIANO (Pegasus Books) • VISITING COMPOSER: A NOVELLA (Miami U Press) • Co-author LET’S DISCUSS (Teachers College Press) BA (🎹) MFA, Ed.D @ ASU Rheumatoid arthritis since 1989. She/her.
oh yeah well annie escaped the orphanage in a laundry bin AND she brought her dumb dog
I’m so excited for people to read this incredible book, HEAD ABOVE WATER by Shahd Alahammari. I'm thrilled that this was my first acquisition at @FeministPress. It's an honest, vulnerable exploration of disability, community & moving through worlds that weren’t designed for Shahd.
If You Got Your First Period Around the Time the Berlin Wall Fell Give or Take Five Years This One’s for You 🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹 Anhedonia, acne Flaming hives and nosebleeds Angry knitting, quiet quitting Existential dread 1/?
Elmo in Hellfire
Alt: Elmo in Hellfire, hands raised, resigned
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You knew the Samsung washers and dryers play Schubert’s “Die Forelle,” 🐟 but did you know that the icemaker on the Samsung refrigerator model RS265TDRS plays the first :01 of Rilo Kiley’s “Does He Love You?”
It has been a themed fashion week over here, celebrating selected albums by Elvis Costello for no reason other than he’s my favorite of all time ever and also I like clothes. Welcome to the working week.
In a given week, I dress like every single character on The Four Seasons. That said, the “maybe stop buying necklaces at the museum gift shop” line was a poison dart straight to my soul
Me: Cruise ships sound terrible. Like the worst part of a vacation—the crowded hotel—and nowhere to escape to Cruise people: But wait! You’re forgetting there are expeditions! Like to landfills!
Oh man it was only a matter of time. The long-suffering ElDeSt DaUgHtErS are demanding to celebrate Mothers Day irrespective of whether or not they have children
As a childless cat lady, I have zero interest in horning in on y’all’s Mothers Day. In exchange, can someone spread the word that clerks, etc., shouldn’t wish every woman-appearing human over 18 a Happy Mothers Day?
My problem with the novel of the moment isn’t that all the characters are smug, cynical, and soulless. It is that the very stance of the novel itself is all those things. It excavates nothing, on a account of a sneering allergy to conviction and a deep skepticism of the possibility of sincerity.
It’s time to dust off and apply the knowledge of “r-naught” you learned during COVID Season 1.
It’s because that’s where your gums are. Hope that helps
It's an honor to be part of the editorial board for this disability-centered series of poetry -- so happy to be helping publish new crip work. Thank you to @stevekuusisto.bsky.social for inviting me into this initiative. www.ninemile.org/propel
Propel Disability Poetry Book Series
The Propel Series honors the best in disability poetry with publication and awards.
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My book on Americans’ centuries-long struggle to remember, forget, and manipulate George Washington’s history with slavery comes out Tuesday. It makes clear that today’s controversies *about* our history are deeply shaped *by* our history in ways we rarely recognize. bookshop.org/p/books/thy-...
Thy Will Be Done: George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory
George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory
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In a recent TED Talk, ASU English Professor Mitchell Jackson traced an arc from Bill Russell to Lebron James and beyond, exploring how 🏀 players use fashion on and off the court to challenge the limits placed upon them. Watch: https://ow.ly/EiCm50YyXIG #ASUHumanities
Listen. Only about 20% of mothers have three or more children so even if all of those mothers have only daughters (very unlikely), that’s not enough to account for how many people are moaning about being eldest daughters.
Did a book event today and afterward a guy in the audience came up and said, “My name is Timothy. We had a French class together in 1998. I made you a mix tape and you called me a snob.” I said, “What was on the mix tape?” He said, “Kurt Weill. You said you were really more into RATT.”
Nancy Mace looks like someone said “Hey Chat Show me Jo Polniaczek but make her MAGA”
Terrible #Pitt takes that the dullest person you know will be advancing at the water cooler, part 1: Suffering a crisis of confidence, Mohan will walk off the job, quit being a doctor, and sign up to be an ICE agent and then, finally, her family will quit trying to speak with her
Generative A.I. and prediction markets are soul-corroding and civilization-corroding and we’re all being hyper-exposed to both so that a few terrible people can get rich while everyone else gets poor and miserable
I figured it out: The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives “look,” if you can call it that, is equal parts pajama party, hunting party, and Grand Old Party.
If you haven’t read Justice Jackson’s memoir, Lovely One, I highly recommend it.
Alexander Chee@alexanderchee.bsky.social · 7mo agoI still remember how her confirmation hearings were an education to her questioners on the nature of their jobs, just in the way she answered the questions. She’s a profound justice.
As good a time as any to point out that her name was Carolyn Bessette, as distinguished from Bissett (as in Josie) and Bassett (as in Angela)