Adèle Barclay
@adelebarclay.bsky.social
writer, editor, creative writing instructor | she/they |
author of If I Were in a Cage I'd Reach Out for You (Nightwood, '16) & Renaissance Normcore (Nightwood '19)
working on: cnf, fiction, poetry
author of If I Were in a Cage I'd Reach Out for You (Nightwood, '16) & Renaissance Normcore (Nightwood '19)
working on: cnf, fiction, poetry
Can someone explain to me the phenomenon of straight men never posting photos of their wives
November 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Can someone explain to me the phenomenon of straight men never posting photos of their wives
the university where I work axed their studio art program about a decade ago, which is sad for a number of reasons, chiefly there is now a severe lack of whimsy without random sculptural installations popping up around campus
November 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
the university where I work axed their studio art program about a decade ago, which is sad for a number of reasons, chiefly there is now a severe lack of whimsy without random sculptural installations popping up around campus
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congratulations to the city of vancouver, who will now have one year of absurd austerity, overfunding of a useless police department, and likely several years more of undoing all the damage this shit is going to do
JUST IN: Ken Sim and ABC have voted through a Budget that makes deep cuts.
This austerity budget makes Zero Sense.
Press release: www.votecope.ca/news/zero-se...
#vanpoli #FightForVancouver
This austerity budget makes Zero Sense.
Press release: www.votecope.ca/news/zero-se...
#vanpoli #FightForVancouver
November 25, 2025 at 10:17 PM
congratulations to the city of vancouver, who will now have one year of absurd austerity, overfunding of a useless police department, and likely several years more of undoing all the damage this shit is going to do
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this is going to harm so many people. vancouver is going to be recovering from this harmful budget for years.
JUST IN: Ken Sim and ABC have voted through a Budget that makes deep cuts.
This austerity budget makes Zero Sense.
Press release: www.votecope.ca/news/zero-se...
#vanpoli #FightForVancouver
This austerity budget makes Zero Sense.
Press release: www.votecope.ca/news/zero-se...
#vanpoli #FightForVancouver
November 25, 2025 at 11:10 PM
this is going to harm so many people. vancouver is going to be recovering from this harmful budget for years.
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R.I.P 🦋 Elissa Barclay 🦋
November 21 ⚔️ 1980-2019
missing my dear friend ellissa today listen to her 🎶 tunes www.elissabarclay.com
check out the album her sister put out for her this year.. it is very cool to have some new material..she was the best🥀🥀🥀
🔗 elissabarclay.bandcamp.com/album/tales-...
November 21 ⚔️ 1980-2019
missing my dear friend ellissa today listen to her 🎶 tunes www.elissabarclay.com
check out the album her sister put out for her this year.. it is very cool to have some new material..she was the best🥀🥀🥀
🔗 elissabarclay.bandcamp.com/album/tales-...
November 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
R.I.P 🦋 Elissa Barclay 🦋
November 21 ⚔️ 1980-2019
missing my dear friend ellissa today listen to her 🎶 tunes www.elissabarclay.com
check out the album her sister put out for her this year.. it is very cool to have some new material..she was the best🥀🥀🥀
🔗 elissabarclay.bandcamp.com/album/tales-...
November 21 ⚔️ 1980-2019
missing my dear friend ellissa today listen to her 🎶 tunes www.elissabarclay.com
check out the album her sister put out for her this year.. it is very cool to have some new material..she was the best🥀🥀🥀
🔗 elissabarclay.bandcamp.com/album/tales-...
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2,400 year-old skeleton mosaic reads:
“Be cheerful, enjoy your life”
Discovered in Turkey
“Be cheerful, enjoy your life”
Discovered in Turkey
May 19, 2025 at 2:26 AM
2,400 year-old skeleton mosaic reads:
“Be cheerful, enjoy your life”
Discovered in Turkey
“Be cheerful, enjoy your life”
Discovered in Turkey
bluesky is twitter on benzos and substack is twitter on coke
October 31, 2025 at 11:12 PM
bluesky is twitter on benzos and substack is twitter on coke
I am dipping my toes into the newsletter genre... join me for some stray threads
adelebarclay.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
adelebarclay.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
Welcome to Lessons in Ferality
Stray threads from a feral femme
adelebarclay.substack.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I am dipping my toes into the newsletter genre... join me for some stray threads
adelebarclay.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
adelebarclay.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
Whenever a face wash is called “a milk” I’m like “ah yes, the milk of human kindness“
September 20, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Whenever a face wash is called “a milk” I’m like “ah yes, the milk of human kindness“
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All my students learn this in first year.
Have you ever noticed that "debate" isn't how knowledge actually disseminates through academics and other communities who care about evidence and methodical ways of making meaning?
That tells us something useful the value of debate for knowledge & policy, compared to mere performance or propaganda.
That tells us something useful the value of debate for knowledge & policy, compared to mere performance or propaganda.
September 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
All my students learn this in first year.
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Congratulations to this year's winner, @adelebarclay.bsky.social
August 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Congratulations to this year's winner, @adelebarclay.bsky.social
I bring a certain “we’re gonna watch each other die” to the friendship
August 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I bring a certain “we’re gonna watch each other die” to the friendship
The trick is to never have coffee so in the rare time you do you feel invincible even as the inevitable headache ensues
August 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The trick is to never have coffee so in the rare time you do you feel invincible even as the inevitable headache ensues
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📚 #NMAReadingList
🏆 Cobra Blue Mustang Strat – @fiddlehd.bsky.social
In this lyrical, searing essay, @adelebarclay.bsky.social explores memory, trauma, and sisterhood through art and loss.
Gold winner, Columns & Essays.
#NMA25 #Essays #CreativeNonfiction
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🏆 Cobra Blue Mustang Strat – @fiddlehd.bsky.social
In this lyrical, searing essay, @adelebarclay.bsky.social explores memory, trauma, and sisterhood through art and loss.
Gold winner, Columns & Essays.
#NMA25 #Essays #CreativeNonfiction
🔗 zurl.co/ksBbq
July 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
📚 #NMAReadingList
🏆 Cobra Blue Mustang Strat – @fiddlehd.bsky.social
In this lyrical, searing essay, @adelebarclay.bsky.social explores memory, trauma, and sisterhood through art and loss.
Gold winner, Columns & Essays.
#NMA25 #Essays #CreativeNonfiction
🔗 zurl.co/ksBbq
🏆 Cobra Blue Mustang Strat – @fiddlehd.bsky.social
In this lyrical, searing essay, @adelebarclay.bsky.social explores memory, trauma, and sisterhood through art and loss.
Gold winner, Columns & Essays.
#NMA25 #Essays #CreativeNonfiction
🔗 zurl.co/ksBbq
Recently my ex accidentally sent me money and then later a sext and in both cases I politely let them know they had messed up… and now THEY have unfollowed ME
July 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Recently my ex accidentally sent me money and then later a sext and in both cases I politely let them know they had messed up… and now THEY have unfollowed ME
I’m so warbled by grief that when someone posts a sentimental photo with music and a long caption I’m like “oh no that person died” but then they’re just wishing a friend good luck on their move to Berlin
June 29, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I’m so warbled by grief that when someone posts a sentimental photo with music and a long caption I’m like “oh no that person died” but then they’re just wishing a friend good luck on their move to Berlin
What if dudes’ torso pics were just them being kitties coyly showing their bellies?
June 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
What if dudes’ torso pics were just them being kitties coyly showing their bellies?
just found out my grandma used teenaged photos of me for one of her catfishing accounts… what kind of flavour of fucked up is that
June 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
just found out my grandma used teenaged photos of me for one of her catfishing accounts… what kind of flavour of fucked up is that
Thank you to @fiddlehd.bsky.social & @canadamediaawards.bsky.social for granting “Cobra Blue Mustang Strat” Gold. Having this work about my older sister Elissa, grunge music, teen girl grit, and the legacy of domestic abuse be celebrated on a national scale makes me feel like these stories matter 🎸❤️🔥
Congratulations to the #NMA25 Gold-winning @adelebarclay.bsky.social for @fiddlehd.bsky.social in the category of Columns and Essays for "Cobra Blue Mustang Strat"
June 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Thank you to @fiddlehd.bsky.social & @canadamediaawards.bsky.social for granting “Cobra Blue Mustang Strat” Gold. Having this work about my older sister Elissa, grunge music, teen girl grit, and the legacy of domestic abuse be celebrated on a national scale makes me feel like these stories matter 🎸❤️🔥
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Way to go @adelebarclay.bsky.social !
Congratulations to the #NMA25 Gold-winning @adelebarclay.bsky.social for @fiddlehd.bsky.social in the category of Columns and Essays for "Cobra Blue Mustang Strat"
June 14, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Way to go @adelebarclay.bsky.social !
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Congratulations to the #NMA25 Gold-winning @adelebarclay.bsky.social for @fiddlehd.bsky.social in the category of Columns and Essays for "Cobra Blue Mustang Strat"
June 14, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Congratulations to the #NMA25 Gold-winning @adelebarclay.bsky.social for @fiddlehd.bsky.social in the category of Columns and Essays for "Cobra Blue Mustang Strat"
I’m begging you: not everything needs to be turned into a musical
May 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I’m begging you: not everything needs to be turned into a musical
The Big Wintersleep
Some Like It Hot Hot Heat
Romancing The Stone Temple Pilots
May 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The Big Wintersleep
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Congratulations @adelebarclay.bsky.social! It was an honour to publish the essay and we are so excited to see it nominated for a #NMA25!
Wow! The first essay I published from my memoir Black Cherry has been nominated for a #NMA25 from @canadamediaawards.bsky.social
Thanks @fiddlehd.bsky.social for publishing 🌱
This is my first National Magazine Award nomination and the writing where I found the story of me and my sister 🩵
Thanks @fiddlehd.bsky.social for publishing 🌱
This is my first National Magazine Award nomination and the writing where I found the story of me and my sister 🩵
🎸 Finalist | Columns & Essays | #NMA25
Cobra Blue Mustang Strat
@fiddlehd.bsky.social | By @adelebarclay.bsky.social
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Cobra Blue Mustang Strat
@fiddlehd.bsky.social | By @adelebarclay.bsky.social
🔗 zurl.co/UOALO
May 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Congratulations @adelebarclay.bsky.social! It was an honour to publish the essay and we are so excited to see it nominated for a #NMA25!
Wow! The first essay I published from my memoir Black Cherry has been nominated for a #NMA25 from @canadamediaawards.bsky.social
Thanks @fiddlehd.bsky.social for publishing 🌱
This is my first National Magazine Award nomination and the writing where I found the story of me and my sister 🩵
Thanks @fiddlehd.bsky.social for publishing 🌱
This is my first National Magazine Award nomination and the writing where I found the story of me and my sister 🩵
🎸 Finalist | Columns & Essays | #NMA25
Cobra Blue Mustang Strat
@fiddlehd.bsky.social | By @adelebarclay.bsky.social
🔗 zurl.co/UOALO
Cobra Blue Mustang Strat
@fiddlehd.bsky.social | By @adelebarclay.bsky.social
🔗 zurl.co/UOALO
May 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Wow! The first essay I published from my memoir Black Cherry has been nominated for a #NMA25 from @canadamediaawards.bsky.social
Thanks @fiddlehd.bsky.social for publishing 🌱
This is my first National Magazine Award nomination and the writing where I found the story of me and my sister 🩵
Thanks @fiddlehd.bsky.social for publishing 🌱
This is my first National Magazine Award nomination and the writing where I found the story of me and my sister 🩵