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Michael Lee Bross

@nocturnalmask.bsky.social

Poet | Writer |Trauma Survivor | ADHD Fireworks Display | Parent| Library | Professor | He/Him Website: https://www.mleebross.com/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/michaelleebross

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Michael Lee Bross@nocturnalmask.bsky.social · 2w ago

Reluctantly, I must announce that I'm stepping away from "Witness Voices Gathering in Resistance" due to ideological conflicts. To the contributors, I cannot praise you enough. Your bravery in vulnerable times and your beautiful work, truly deserved better. Thank you for sharing with us.

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My annual Mother's Day post. Because some people had great mothers but lost them, some had or have mothers who never mothered them or stopped mothering them for some reason, treated them as adversaries or as worthless, and Mother's Day can be a punitive day for all those for whom this is true.

Mother is a verb as well as a noun, so I hope everyone can honor whatever mothers them and whatever capacity to mother they have, or the equivalent in whatever gender language works for them: Some people had great mothers but lost them, some had or have mothers who never mothered them or stopped mothering them for some reason, treated them as adversaries or as worthless, and Mother's Day can be a punitive day for all those for whom this is true. The other half of the question of what there is to celebrate is what mothered and mothers you, how you mother yourself, how you celebrate and recognize what cares for you and takes care of you, and what do you care for in return. I remember once looking at the Pacific Ocean, to which I often reverted in trouble, and thinking "Everything was my mother but my mother." Books were my mother, coastlines, running water and landscapes, trees and the flight of birds, zazen and zendos, quiet and cellos, reading and writing, bookstores and familiar views and routines, the changing evening sky, cooking and baking, walking and discovering, rhythms and blues, friends and interior spaces and all forms of kindness, of which there has been more and more as time goes by. And of my own mother I wrote, in The Faraway Nearby: Like lawyers, writers seek consistency; they make a case for their point of view; they do so by leaving out some evidence; but let me mention the hundreds of sandwiches my mother made during my elementary school years, the peanut butter sandwiches I ate alone on school benches in the open, throwing the crusts into the air where the seagulls would swoop to catch them before they hit the ground. When my friends began to have babies and I came to comprehend the heroic labor it takes to keep one alive, the constant exhausting tending of a being who can do nothing and demands everything, I realized that my mother had done all these things for me before I remembered. I was fed; I was washed; I was clothed; I was taught to sp…
Addy Bross 🌈 they/xe@aebrossbooks.com · 3mo ago

So, fun thing I got to do today: An adjunct professor who prob didn't know better emailed a staff member asking them to look up some ILL circulation to find out if certain students were taking out certain books. Did you catch what was wrong with that? That's right, it's ✨illegal✨ to do that in...

Michael Lee Bross@nocturnalmask.bsky.social · 3mo ago

okay this is a b******* policy, and I know the reason for the next question I'm going to ask but I'm going to ask it anyway. how the f*** did theology get put in this list?!

🚨 Breaking News | ED Rejects Call to Expand Access to Higher Graduate Loan Caps The Trump administration finalized regulations Thursday that will put in place new loan limits for postbaccalaureate… |...

🚨 Breaking News | ED Rejects Call to Expand Access to Higher Graduate Loan Caps The Trump administration finalized regulations Thursday that will put in place new loan limits for postbaccalaureate de...

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Michael Lee Bross@nocturnalmask.bsky.social · 4mo ago

As if he wasn't already the wildest poet of the English language, I was today years old when I found out he was canonized by Aleister Crowley as a Gnostic Saint. I swear, Blake's life is the embodiment of "Oh yeah? Hold my beer."

Michael Lee Bross@nocturnalmask.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Last year was spent unpacking A LOT of repressed feelings and memories. They were so overwhelming I felt like I was dislocated in time.I was begging them to stop. But I realized "getting over it" doesn't mean you stop feeling. Getting over it means you can accept what you can't change.

a rainbow colored shooting star with the words the mo you know above it

Alt: a rainbow colored shooting star with the words the mo you know above it

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Michael Lee Bross@nocturnalmask.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I posted this over on Linkedin but has to be professional in my presentation.... Over here however, FUCK YEAH! Eat a bag, you fascist dicksicles! Union and Libraries holding the line! Go choke on your cheeto- flavored ass cheeks you red capped snowflakes!

Court Rules to Stop Trump Administration Effort to Gut Institute of Museum and Library Services

American Library Association and American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Win Order to Pause Cuts to Independent Agency, Which Threaten Libraries Nationwide Washington, D.C.

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Michael Lee Bross@nocturnalmask.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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