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you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

#TDOV is a ploy from Big Visibility to sell more Scrolls of See Invisibility send tweet

I can’t tell you how healing it is to kick off this year’s #AWP26 with an editor for an iconic lesbian journal sharing proudly that “transfeminine people are part of the future of lesbianism.”

It's not that I don't care about your opinion. It's that your opinion is wrong and doesn't contravene fact.

There is no job I’ve ever loved more than being a professor. Teaching, though just one part of this, is something I’m good at, I love, and I know matters. But damn if a snow day cancellation doesn’t remain one of the absolute sweetest delights.

This was such a banger. I knew every single lyric to this song.

a man is wrapped in plastic wrap while dancing on a stage .

Alt: Joey Fatone is in a silver outfit while dancing suggestively on a stage .

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Mom Friend 64@momfriend64.northsky.social · 5mo ago

This N*SYNC deep cut about cybersex has everything: - catchy hook - modem noises - surprisingly risqué lyrics - an extremely confused understanding of what cybersex is I love it with my whole heart www.youtube.com/watch?v=87dG...

It’s gonna be so good, y’all. You don’t even need to attend #AWP26 to come. Just come hear trans folks read, listen to our amazing MC be amazing, then dance to rad trans DJs.

LittlePuss Press@littlepuss.net · 6mo ago

🫵 YO 🫵 💫 BALTIMORE 💫 💃 AWP-GOERS 💃 We're throwing a rager on the Thurs! March 5! Free! There will be DJs! Tons of readers! including 💪 GWEN AUBE 💪 📗 with her new book 📗 🏀 MISSED CONNECTIONS WITH TALL GIRLS 🏀 DID WE MENTION IT'S FUCKING FREE March 5, 7 PM readers, 9 pm dancing ☠️ BE THERE ☠️

boy that gyre sure keeps getting wider

This year’s top 5 reads.

It’s time for my annual reminder that Veterans Day is an Americanization that replaced Armistice Day, an international plea for peace and hope for a world without war.

“I’m often curious what the difference is between ‘being good at it,’ and ‘pretending to be good at it’ in the context of polyamory.” — @elisabeth.love , effin’ me up on a hike today

I (42F) just texted one of my partners (37NB) out of the blue to ask which Pokémon I am, despite neither of us having much cultural context for Pokémon.

Tonee Mae Moll’s deadname is Pepper Ann.

The thing about one’s first poet4poet relationship is that it inevitably leads to one’s first poet4poet breakup. Cue: TheUsesofSorrow_Mary_Oliver.MP3

If someone calls you a Luddite for being anti-AI, please remember that the luddites were right. They were workers resisting the displacement of jobs by machines, so that owners could make an extra buck.

a red wrench is attached to a gear with a red flame coming out of it

Alt: a red wrench falls into two gears, causing it to stop and red flame coming out of it

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I keep saying. (may have some new designs soon)

I beg all of y'all Please stop arguing with these fuckin accounts going TRANS PEOPLE SHUT UP AND VOTE FOR NEWSOM Not because they're right. Newsom is an absolute monster, don't support that fuck. But because its an astroturf campaign designed to wear you out 3 YEARS BEFORE THE ELECTION

Here's another ask: are any of you doing virtual readings or events between September - December? I'm looking for some to encourage my creative writing capstone students to attend this fall. I would love to add this to the list on my Canvas site

everything is fine.

No occasion fills me with more arresting indecisiveness about what to wear than first dates with other trans women.

a woman is looking through a rack of clothes with #schittscreek written on the bottom

Alt: a woman is looking through a rack of clothes

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Prescription for end times: “make something lavender.” Tonee Mae Moll’s You Cannot Save Here is just what you need to read during the apocalypse. #sealeychallenge Day 3 @maemoll.bsky.social

This weekend I got the friends and family discount from a doll I don’t know while ordering coffee. We didn’t even, like, have a moment of connection. She just took my order and put in the discount, and this, chat, is praxis, is community.

Be the chaos agent you want to see in the world, girls. 💅

elisabeth@elisabeth.love · last yr.

“do u want to go to new york with me im leaving in an hour” is wild lunch conversation

Should I get bangs y/heck y

My barrista this morning told me “oh baby—look at you! You came in with the sunshine!” and I’m here to tell you that a) Baltimore is so fucking beautiful, and b) I feel emotionally invincible now, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

The feeling of listening through a baby monitor to my boyfriend singing Indigo Girls to their child. 🥹🥹

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Well, this seems like a pretty topical day to read this essential nonfiction cut from @rikiwilchins.bsky.social