"Adrift in hollowed out artificial logs, we trailed our fingers in the chlorinated river, then stood, arms wide, daring the darkness to strike us." From "Knott's Berry Farm, 1996," a new essay by @jenpmeadows.bsky.social. ➡️ buff.ly/n6pbseP
Jen Palmares Meadows
@jenpmeadows.bsky.social
Creative Nonfiction Writer. Essays. Memoir in Progress. Work in Lit Hub, The Rumpus, Fourth Genre, Brevity, Denver Quarterly, Hobart. Sacramento Valley via SoCal. jenpalmaresmeadows.com
I’m deeply proud to share my essay, “Knott’s Berry Farm, 1996.” Thanks so much to @therumpus.net for their continued support of my writing. This essay is 30 years in the making and a love letter to the time, to the age, to all the girls, and to that place, Knott’s 1996.
Knott’s Berry Farm, 1996 - The Rumpus
At thirteen, we were not afraid to speak aloud what we already knew—we would rather die than let them see the secrets of our bodies exposed. They had taught us enough about hiya, that we feared the we...
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It's more important than ever to know what to do if ICE shows up at your door. Head to our website now to access our Know Your Rights guides and other multilingual resources. ⬇️ stopaapihate.org/community-resources
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“large parts of the internet are information deserts, in which the only available brain food is junk.”
Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?
From brain-rotting videos to AI creep, every technological advance seems to make it harder to work, remember, think and function independently …
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ANMLY #41 is here! We’re thrilled to share new translations, fiction, a double issue of poetry, CNF, with a folio on autistic protest poetry! >>> anmly.org/ap41 And we're open for new work until February 1 >>> anmly.submittable.com
For shame, USA. We must do better! Our children deserve better. “The agency enforces the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the law creating a free and appropriate education for children with disabilities, and funds special education services to the tune of around $15 billion.”
Special education staff decimated after Trump administration shutdown firings: Sources
The nation’s special education services have been significantly damaged after Fridays’s mass layoffs within the Department of Education, sources told ABC News.
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If you are thinking about asking friends or relatives if they took Tylenol when they were pregnant, STOP. No one has to justify their TYLENOL use, and you are not helping.
Happy Star Trek Day! forever grateful to @barrelhouse.bsky.social for taking a chance on my sad-jeans Star Trek poem all those years ago www.barrelhousemag.com/online-lit/y...
Yellowshirt Elegy, by Meghan Phillips — Barrelhouse
Down in engineering you can’t even see the stars. Dad was so proud when I was reassigned— the heart of the ship, the heart of the ship,
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Queen of Spades, 1909, by Margaret Macdonald, one of the defining artists of Art Nouveau and the Glasgow School #WomensArt
No matter what uniform they wear, federal agents and military troops on our streets are bound by the Constitution. For more information, go to aclu.org/deployment_kyr.
"I'll walk through the front door and everyone will cheer, like I'm a fan favorite in a sitcom." "All the Friends I Could Have Made are Having Fun Without Me" by @mackenziemcgee.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝
All the Friends I Could Have Made are Having Fun Without Me by Mackenzie McGee
Alexis throws a big party and everyone’s invited. She lives a half-hour drive from her childhood home, the one with the big bay window and the basement where we had sleepovers every other weekend f…
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another "5" list, today from Rachel Beachy, that kinda sneaks up on you and then just knocks you out "After you wished for a horse for the backyard, I said maybe next year. You asked if I had fun at Chuck E. Cheese." https://www.havehashad.com/25jix
Lies I Told the Day You Turned Five by Rachel Beachy
A bird flew into the window and you asked if it was asleep. When I played the video of Dolly Parton singing “Happy Birthday,” you thought she had recorded it just for you. You asked if I put the same…
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“Thank GOD the National Guard is here while I EAT MY PIZZA,” shouts a woman at Red Light on 14th in DC as yet another trio of guardsmen walk by.
“With great cunning, Persephone seduced Sisyphus into trying Zeus’s Thunderbolt, a hot new app that promised to mass-unsubscribe him from spam newsletters. But it was a trick, and Zeus’s Thunderbolt instead flooded him with scores of emails hawking meme coins.” —Hyginus, Fabulae, via Alex Baia
Sisyphus’s Inbox
“And I saw Sisyphus in agonizing torment, drafting a reply to Kayleigh’s ten urgent UX questions. He hit ‘send,’ and immediately received an autore...
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Big news for authors with out-of-print prose books looking for a new home: We're opening up submissions to our Lost/Found imprint on 9/3! We were so happy to rehome Brooke Shaffner's COUNTRY OF UNDER last year + now we're ready to rehome more. Full details forthcoming, but the pertinent ones are:
We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.
Make a Zine! You! Yes, you! We couldn't agree more, Imogen GENDERTRASH From Hell Pre-orders close at the end of August 😱 www.littlepuss.net/shop/p/gende...
For when you are working with students or sending your kids off to school.
Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar)@autisticrealms.bsky.social · last yr.Yesterday I had the joy of resharing this fab resource & blog from @reachoutasc about spoon theory and Autistic energy accounting. "Let’s imagine that the social, sensory and intellectual energy an autistic person has each day can be measured in spoons......" reachoutasc.com/spoon-theory...
Thank you, Corporation for Public Broadcasting. With gratitude from viewers like me.
Corporation For Public Broadcasting (1996)
YouTube video by PBS Fanatic
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At the casino with parents. Mom won a bit at craps and I told her if she handed over 1K we could come back tomorrow. Now she’s just playing with her original seed money.
Dad refuses to eat ramen now because of what he read on “the Facebook.” Also cashews.
Blasting some Rush at 11 would really improve my mood/outlook right now, but the fear of exacerbating my tinnitus stops me.
Spirit of Radio Rush Official Video (1980)
YouTube video by Itzy Izna Babymonster
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“We were saying, “Art is not enough; do something more.” When we did it, we were thinking, art is not enough; fundraising is not enough; memorials are not enough. You know, it was a call to people to get off their asses and do something more.” - Mark Simpson of Gran Fury
Los Angeles Review of Books@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · last yr."What 'Art Is Not Enough' tells us is that while those in government may wish for us to lose this war, people have the power to break through the complacency of everyday life." Conor Williams reviews a recent survey of Gran Fury. lareviewofbooks.org/article/it-i...