The Art of Saying No by DeMisty D. Bellinger: Chapter One: They ask you to do something. Apologize and say no. "I'm sorry, but I can't." Give a reason. "I have a bunion." Suggest someone else. "Did'ya asked Ye? He doesn't seem too busy."
DeMisty D. Bellinger
@demisty.bsky.social
Mom of twins, wife of dude, writer of stuff, prof. of uni, PhD. Lives at demistybellinger.com. All Daughters Are Awesome Everywhere out now (U-Nebraska Press: Zero Street Fiction: https://tinyurl.com/prdacfrt). JVNLA (https://www.jvnla.com) represents me.
Leave it to this federal admin to make one wake up cursing and worried about humanity. Heard it on NPR when the alarm went off. A public execution. A livestreamed shooting squad. Fuck you, Pete Hegseth, you insane Nazi-esque sadistic asshole.
Hi, all! Please send some longform work to my grad students' journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social by October 15. They'd especially love to see more nonfiction submissions! lastsyllablelit.com/submit
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Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal@lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 2w agoSubmissions for Last Syllable are now open through October 15! We accept submissions for poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and open genre pieces. Longform works ranging from 5,000 to 25,000 words for the fiction, nonfiction, and open categories are highly encouraged!
I'm Debbie Ridpath Ohi, #CanKidLit author & illustrator. Here's what I'm working on now. I am social blogging in the Atmosphere; browse this page for recent posts. See my Links page for news & blog list. Want to show your support? Pls consider buying or posting about one of my books? Thank you! ♥️
1. Tonight at Gillette Stadium, Zach Bryan, one of the biggest country music artists in the world, wore a Free Palestine shirt onstage. Gillette Stadium is owned by Robert Kraft, who pushed Ed Sheeran and his promoter to drop Macklemore from his tour. Bryan isn’t just a major country artist.
Where are we sending short fiction these days? I have a piece.
I would say that we should know by now that billionaires make awful decisions and make for horrible leaders, but then I remember who's running the country.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w agoPete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare
Not for nothing, Finnish doesn't have gendered pronouns. Imagine living in that world! And they're some of the happiest people. I wonder if I'm too old for someone in Finland to adopt me.
Pissedoffpundit@pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 2w ago👏💯👏💯👏💯👏💯👏💯👏💯👏💯👏💯👏💯🤔...
I really want to leave Fb, but I have so many friends and family on the site. Also, it's one of the few places where I share my publications. When Twitter with to hell, I lost a lot of great writing and editing folks and a platform on which to promote my work. TL;DR: I hate Zuckerburg's smarminess.
Getting ready to talk about sugar in my intro to African American studies class today, and was looking for artifacts of Kara Walker's awesome exhibit. This particular video is interesting in that two white men are preparing this sculpture for a showing. But interesting how? (There may be a poem?)
Behind the Scenes with a Kara Walker Sculpture
YouTube video by Museum of the City of New York
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Let's begin this Monday morning with the inimitable @pdforan.bsky.social's magical fiction piece, "Kissing, Still." "You are living and not living, and we are kissing." literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
Kissing, Still by Pat Foran
after David Bowie’s “Heroes”This we know: A wall is.A kiss is.And we are kissing still.We hear the drone of a slip cover of a song. Your song.We think: How it shudders, this song, how the wall does — ...
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Oh, he's an asshat and yet another reason to hate tech boys and AI freaks.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 2w agoshut up, war criminal
Please sign up for this class and help me buy a new car! www.cleavermagazine.com/classes/ HOPPERAEROBICS!: A 2-Hour Excursion into the Museum of Narrative Instructor: Sarah Freligh Date: Sunday, October 25, 2-4 PM ET Open to poets and prosers and all those who are word-curious. Cost: $60.
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Norwegian humor is on another level. Here's how the Norwegian Consumer Council explained @doctorow.pluralistic.net's concept of 'enshittification':
I reviewed The Grace of Black Mothers for Mom Egg Review!
The Grace of Black Mothers by Martheaus Perkins - MER - Mom Egg Review
Review by DeMisty D. Bellinger Martheaus Perkins’ The Grace of Black Mothers is an honest and loving homage to the women who raised him, including his mother who lived a fully American life. Perkins...
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Three good things from this week: • I'm kind of writing again. • My registration to vote is certain and I will be using that vote to make D.C. make more sense! • I have a reading in Sudbury, Massachusetts on Sunday, Sept. 20th! www.jamesleonard.org/products/sud...
Sudbury MA - The T-Shirt Shop at the End of Civilization
Latest iteration of Leonard and Gallentine’s installation. Building off last year’s installation of this project in an abandoned cathedral in Hoboken, NJ.
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I reviewed The Grace of Black Mothers for Mom Egg Review!
The Grace of Black Mothers by Martheaus Perkins - MER - Mom Egg Review
Review by DeMisty D. Bellinger Martheaus Perkins’ The Grace of Black Mothers is an honest and loving homage to the women who raised him, including his mother who lived a fully American life. Perkins...
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I remembered my grandmother's phone voice when calling my daughter's school this morning. My grandma was from the South, but lived in Wisconsin, where she moved during the Great Migration. Normally, she sounded like Black Dolly Parton, but on the phone with strangers, she sounded like a white lady.
If you get an email that seems to be from Taylor (one of our lovely readers), it's not us! We would never ever ever ask you to pay us to publish your book. #scam #publishingscam #phishing
Very beautiful work from Pat Foran (@pdforan.bsky.social), and much love and care to him.
Pat Foran@pdforan.bsky.social · last mo.I lost my Dad this summer and wrote something the day after his funeral mass. Thank you dearest @m-ixedbag.bsky.social and @lit-namjooning.bsky.social team for including it and another piece in your beautiful Issue 3. ❤️https://literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/this-new-zealand-by-pat-foran
First day of classes for me and I got a class with a piano! Sometimes, not having a dedicated English building kicks ass. Mostly, though, it sucks butt.
Grateful to the Massachusetts Teachers Association, the Massachusetts State College Association, and the National Education Association! I am a proud member of all three! Thank your local unions for this day off (if you have it; hopefully you have it). Let's hear it for workers' rights, y'all!
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Those little cloth bags that your sheet set comes in? I use them to: • Cover shoes when they are out of season to keep dust and spiders out (don't judge my housekeeping!) • Travel bag for shoes or other things, like dirty laundry • Bag for hair tools. How do you use them?
Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.
ProPublica@propublica.org · last mo.ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:
Is it crazy to post on social media that we need to spend less time talking to each other on social media? I do my share of doomscrolling. But what I've learned during my lifetime is that democracy requires having difficult conversations — and having our ideas challenged.
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