Erin Vachon (they/them) 🍉
@erinvachon.bsky.social
Senior Reviews Editor @smokelong.bsky.social | Multigenre & Chapbook Editor @splitlippress.com | Providence menace | I write weird shit. | Fuck ICE. | More of us than there are of them.
Looking for recommendations for celebratory zines to teach in my Intro to Creative Nonfiction class--can also be instructional but should have a "this thing/process is great!" quality. I'll purchase my students 20 copies of the ones I choose. @prisonculture.bsky.social? @marc-fischer.bsky.social?
This is such welcome news VOTE TO DIVEST FROM GENOCIDE, PVD LEAD THE NATION
The Providence Eye@thepvdeye.bsky.social · 5d agoThis week, Providence officials confirmed that activists secured enough signatures to put divestment on the ballot during the general election on November 3. It is the first time a citizen-led ballot initiative will be put up for vote, according to city officials.
this week, getting an absolute masterclass in the ways love can turn sour fast
have to remember this is my default reading mode when recommending books to other people
heavy rain is absolutely delicious today, might even…read a book…for fun?
back on my old shit (listening to mitski bangers)
Mitski - Your Best American Girl (Official Video)
YouTube video by MitskiVEVO
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me when someone hurts me three times over: well, they probably didn’t mean it, life is hard, totally fine, *shrug* me when someone hurts a loved one: TELL ME WHERE THEY LIVE SO I CAN BURN DOWN THEIR LIFE
a local dive posted a description of their show tonight as "a loud and dour evening of heavy riffs," so, yes, of course, SOLD
honestly, I had a day where I didn’t do anything except show up for people I love and it was fucking great
a band is playing at waterfire under a bank of america banner so it looks like they’re called the bank of america band
Happy Lughassadh, go eat some fucking bread!
me: oh wow, unexpected time off, I get to relax for the first time this summer my body: *immediately panics*
an app just said if I liked mother mary I would also like super troopers 3
Reason #9128 why @davidmoralespvd.bsky.social is the next mayor of Providence. He’s out with the community, keeping citizens safe from ICE.
David Morales on Instagram: "This afternoon, several unmarked vehicles, including an ICE Agent, were on Pomona Avenue in our Mt. Pleasant neighborhood. Neighbors, please be vigilant and make sure to ...
3,139 likes, 255 comments - davidmoralespvd on July 30, 2026: "This afternoon, several unmarked vehicles, including an ICE Agent, were on Pomona Avenue in our Mt. Pleasant neighborhood. Neighbors, pl...
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I love my writing students and don’t want to give them back 😩
✨We’re making history in Providence by putting divestment on the ballot. ✨ Excellent feature on this activist movement by Eric Halvarson from the PVD Eye.
Providence Will Be the First City in U.S. History to Vote on Divesting from Genocide
Providence, Rhode Island is now set to become the first city in the United States where voters will decide whether or not to divest municipal funds from foreign countries and complicit entities conduc...
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MY CITY IS THE COOLEST. In Providence, we've collected enough signatures to put city divestment from genocide and ethnic cleansing on the ballot. This is a *huge* deal.
Ballot question aimed at Israel will ask Providence voters to divest city funds - The Boston Globe
If approved by voters in November, the citizen-led effort aims to divest city assets from countries committing human rights violations and companies that are "complicit".
bostonglobe.com
teaching pop culture writing to teens today, and for a cute moment, we all hummed a few bars from mitski’s washing machine heart together, so you know what, my work might be done here
as the beatles would sing if they were here today
Erin Vachon (they/them) 🍉@erinvachon.bsky.social · 6d agoalready about to say something I regret on the internet before 9am oh boy
MY CITY IS THE COOLEST. In Providence, we've collected enough signatures to put city divestment from genocide and ethnic cleansing on the ballot. This is a *huge* deal.
Ballot question aimed at Israel will ask Providence voters to divest city funds - The Boston Globe
If approved by voters in November, the citizen-led effort aims to divest city assets from countries committing human rights violations and companies that are "complicit".
bostonglobe.com
already about to say something I regret on the internet before 9am oh boy
You may not believe in magic but something very strange is happening at this very moment. Your head has dissolved into thin air and I can see the rhododendrons through your stomach. -Leonora Carrington, The Hearing Trumpet
2027 might just be the year we switch to accepting submissions only through clandestine public meetups, who's game?
Erin Vachon (they/them) 🍉@erinvachon.bsky.social · last wk.not loving that ai is now considered “an integrated part of workflow” in the new submittable ceo announcement
once again bar trivia has humbled me like nothing else