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The only other thing that episode of @bloodwork.show taught me is that Yale might be a bit more Evil than UChicago. (I was a normal UChicago kid I promise 😭😭😭😭)

Currently re-listening to that episode as I study for my neuro exam. The best supplement To learn cranial nerves and psychiatry

Naa Asheley Afua Adowaa Ashitey@foreverasheley.bsky.social · 3d ago

The into to the Dick Cheney episode of @bloodwork.show remains my Favorite intro to a podcast ever. @gregk.co.uk had me hooked crying laughing, I still laugh each time. I played that episode for my African mother just cause I knew her reaction to Gregk’s commentary would be iconic 😂😂😂😂😂😂

The into to the Dick Cheney episode of @bloodwork.show remains my Favorite intro to a podcast ever. @gregk.co.uk had me hooked crying laughing, I still laugh each time. I played that episode for my African mother just cause I knew her reaction to Gregk’s commentary would be iconic 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Oct's issue is live! With work from Zhu Xiao Di, @praxmar.bsky.social Adam McOmber, @egspeckman.bsky.social Dale Bridges, @adamfinney.bsky.social @jennymliu.bsky.social @brettstuckel.com @baileyloveless.com @ezhang77.bsky.social Bob Hicok, & @foreverasheley.bsky.social www.trampset.org

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I have a piece out in trampset today. I still can’t believe that’s a sentence I can type out now. I still remember seeing the email pop up in my inbox and I just sat in my car with my mouth wide open in pure shock.

To expunge this memory from the record.

by Naa Asheley Ashitey...Watch the way the clavicle collapses Beneath the heel of the boot. The strain it placed on the bone Was too fast for angiogenesis.

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trampset@trampset.bsky.social · 5d ago

"Watch the way the clavicle collapses Beneath the heel of the boot." @foreverasheley.bsky.social's "to expunge this memory from the record" www.trampset.org/post/to-expu...

"Silence isn't deafening. It would be brother or sister to hand grenades if it were." Bob Hicok's "Hey" www.trampset.org/post/hey

Hey

by Bob Hicok...As you know very well now, silence is quiet, and love has nothing to do with the heart, and time heals some wounds and makes others deeper...

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"Watch the way the clavicle collapses Beneath the heel of the boot." @foreverasheley.bsky.social's "to expunge this memory from the record" www.trampset.org/post/to-expu...

To expunge this memory from the record.

by Naa Asheley Ashitey...Watch the way the clavicle collapses Beneath the heel of the boot. The strain it placed on the bone Was too fast for angiogenesis.

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🖤🖤🖤🖤

trampset@trampset.bsky.social · 3w ago

1000% sincere apologies I missed including @foreverasheley.bsky.social this morning! I take full responsibility. I was the 1st to read it, I bumped it up the editor line, & then look how I fumbled this morning. Don't make my mistake & miss it Oct 30th! L Mari

my bestie, THEEE DR. Gabe Barron PhD paper out today in Science Immunology. so proud of you: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Follicle-associated epithelial tuft cells amplify type 2 mucosal immunity and IgA production

Two intestinal cell types share developmental traits and combine microbial sensing with antigen delivery to shape antibody responses.

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excited to have a new piece out with Palisades. Light NSFW. This is one of those pieces where I reread and I’m like “wow, girl you were going through it” lol. But I’m honored to share it with the world. Thank you again to Palisades Review www.thepalisadesreview.com/new-stories/...

safeword  — By Naa Asheley Ashitey — The Palisades Review

My high school chemistry teacher pretended to not remember my name and instead referred to me as “the other one.” My name means princess or queen. It’s why my mother says my first and middle name toge...

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petrichor 31 is here! w/ - New text & image from 20 contributors + - Pebbles vol. 7 w/ 39 contributors! + - Digital chaps from Laura Wetherington and Grzegorz Wróblewski (trans. by Peter Burzyński) - Cover by Jeanne Ranz! Submissions are open too!!! petrichormag.com/petrichor-31/

New piece out with @petrichor_journal . Honored to have this piece published with them. Check it out! petrichormag.com/31-naa-ashel...

Contemplating trying a manuscript consult for my poetry collection. Any writers have experience with this?

GO MAGGIE!!!

Mark Mandel@markjmandel.bsky.social · last mo.

Check out the first paper from Maggie Alexander's Lab at @uwmadisonmmi.bsky.social on microbiota-mediated immune regulation, with collaboration from Gustavo Caballero-Flores's group! @margaretalexander.bsky.social @asm.org journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Today's Feature: "COURAGED! by the body as a quiver of arrows" by @tommywyattblake.bsky.social from Mutually Assured Destruction published by @the-ethelzine.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/courage...

COURAGED! by the body as a quiver of arrows

the body as toyhacked. body as premature goreform, a marionette of blood and fluid and sinewy muck.

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Cover reveal + preorder link for my very gaysian book of craft essays!! IN CAHOOTS WITH THE RABBIT GOD out December 1st 💫 🐇

Noemi Press@noemipress.bsky.social · last mo.

In Cahoots with the Rabbit God by @chenchenwrites.bsky.social is now available for preorder on the Noemi website: www.noemipress.org/catalog/infi... Set for publication December 1st, 2026 Cover by Roda Avelar

Double publication day. Also excited to have my first piece ever with @bullshitlit.bsky.social Been submitting since 2023 so this means a lot to me. A piece heavily inspired and in honor of @chenchenwrites.bsky.social www.bullshitlit.com/blog/naashitey Thank you again @bullshitlit.bsky.social

A POEM by NAA ASHELEY ASHITEY — BULLSHIT LIT

“I look like my mother now”

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Thank you to @oneart.bsky.social for giving my piece “Day 80” a home. It’s a very vulnerable piece and means a lot to me. Thank you again. oneartpoetry.com/2026/09/23/d...

Day 80 by Naa Asheley Ashitey

Day 80 Now I lay on the floor to ground myself. I left my phone in the living room so I wouldn’t be tempted to reread the messages from a year ago, wonder if the signs were there and I could be 15 …

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Welcome 2026/27 Copello Fellowship Cohort! The advocacy program brings together emerging clinician-advocates to strengthen their skills in policy engagement, media strategy, community organizing, and health equity. https://ow.ly/VPUY50ZJC5K

I have 3 new pieces out in Hobart! These are more on the “auto-poetry” side. Also Love that after @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social posted a set of menstrual poems, one of my own menstrual poems is now out to the world www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...

Truly honored to be a part of this fellowship program and continue to be able to use advocacy to make a difference in the physician/physician-scientist path

Doctors for America@drsforamerica.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Welcome 2026/27 Copello Fellowship Cohort! The advocacy program brings together emerging clinician-advocates to strengthen their skills in policy engagement, media strategy, community organizing, and health equity. https://ow.ly/VPUY50ZJC5K

Yesterday was a very busy day so I’m behind on posting this, but new poem just dropped with SARKA. It’s a short one but I think a good one. Check it out: sarkapublishing.com/naa-asheley-...

I thought a lot about this poem by Tiana Clark, written about Madison, the moment I read the headline about the death of Corey Ruiz. I thought about how I had just gotten dinner with a friend a few blocks away from where Corey died just a few weeks prior.

Baby's first creative writing review (science review paper actually to come soon but shhhhh). Thank you @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social for sharing my review of Temperance's upcoming chapbook. Truly so honored, check out the review here: fifthwheelpress.com/blog/review-...

Review: ‘Behnt’ by Temperance Aghamohammadi — fifth wheel press

Temperance Aghamohammadi is an Acolyte of the Exquisite. A trans Iranian-American poet, medium, and critic, she is the author of BATTALION SHAPED GIRL (DISCOUNT GUILLOTINE,  2025) and Behnt ...

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I need help. I've been releasing science content daily and it's getting a ton of attention, but with that comes a lot of the social attacks. I do need some fellow supporters/scientists that I can flag sometimes to get in these comments and help me cultivate a positive space and shun the negativity 🧪

excited to have a new piece out in @eunoiareview.bsky.social ! Thank you Ian for giving this piece a home.

Eunoia Review@eunoiareview.bsky.social · 3mo ago

And Able I cannot wipe this dirt from beneath my fingernails. The porcelain has been stained like a slaughterhouse. Mama, I cannot get rid of this dirt beneath my fingernails, I fear it may be etched into my marrow. Mama, yes, I understand that God put me on this earth for a reason, But I am ready…

Opinion @cp-trendsimmuno.bsky.social @sjturn.bsky.social Targeting the fate of exhausted CD8+ T cells www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"when war crimes and genocides are no longer televised, and white kids aren’t being shot on college campuses for protesting being drafted to illegal forever wars" by Naa Asheley Ashitey (@foreverasheley.bsky.social) genrepunkmag.wordpress.com/2026/07/22/w...

when war crimes and genocides are no longer televised, and white kids aren’t being shot on college campuses for protesting being drafted to illegal forever wars –  Naa Asheley Ashitey

I woke up and saw a line of bodies laid across my eyes. Some of them were covered in what looks like the scraps from kente and Joann’s fabric whenever my mother sowed. A soft wind lifted the barely…

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