Check out my latest conversation for @thecreativeindependent.com with artist David Hendren. ✨ thecreativeindependent.com/people/visua...
Visual artist David Hendren on building community as an introvert – The Creative Independent
Visual artist David Hendren discusses dealing with rejection, sustaining an art practice, and working with intention
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September 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Check out my latest conversation for @thecreativeindependent.com with artist David Hendren. ✨ thecreativeindependent.com/people/visua...
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“Cousins have our backs. They are our built-in friends. And from an evolutionary perspective, they have a biological stake in our survival.” The next Friendship Week story is by @dianaruzova.bsky.social and all about how cousins can be the earliest friends for some immigrant families.
First Friends, Once Removed
In immigrant families, sometimes your cousins can be your earliest friends.
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August 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
“Cousins have our backs. They are our built-in friends. And from an evolutionary perspective, they have a biological stake in our survival.” The next Friendship Week story is by @dianaruzova.bsky.social and all about how cousins can be the earliest friends for some immigrant families.
LOVE our conversation for @thecreativeindependent.com @aidenarata.bsky.social thecreativeindependent.com/people/write...
Writer and artist Aiden Arata on dealing with dread – The Creative Independent
Writer and artist Aiden Arata discusses the magic of relatability, refuting the tortured artist trope, and not writing every day.
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July 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
LOVE our conversation for @thecreativeindependent.com @aidenarata.bsky.social thecreativeindependent.com/people/write...
Really enjoyed my conversation with writer Boris Fishman for @thecreativeindependent.com thecreativeindependent.com/people/write...
Writer Boris Fishman on balancing passion and practicality – The Creative Independent
Writer Boris Fishman discusses growing up as an immigrant, artistic rituals, and keeping one foot on the ground
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July 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Really enjoyed my conversation with writer Boris Fishman for @thecreativeindependent.com thecreativeindependent.com/people/write...
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"Our cousins are our companions for all of life’s curveballs. And while sometimes, we don’t get along, like siblings, cousins share both our family secrets and genetics. They share our lives.” Story by @dianaruzova.bsky.social.
First Friends, Once Removed
In immigrant families, sometimes your cousins can be your earliest friends.
conversationalist.org
July 7, 2025 at 1:19 PM
"Our cousins are our companions for all of life’s curveballs. And while sometimes, we don’t get along, like siblings, cousins share both our family secrets and genetics. They share our lives.” Story by @dianaruzova.bsky.social.
Check out my latest interview for @thecreativeindependent.com with the indelible author Alejandro Heredia. thecreativeindependent.com/people/write...
Writer Alejandro Heredia on making art in a world that profits off our time – The Creative Independent
Writer Alejandro Heredia discusses difference, community, and dedicating yourself to your calling
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June 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Check out my latest interview for @thecreativeindependent.com with the indelible author Alejandro Heredia. thecreativeindependent.com/people/write...
Wrote about love for the @latimes.com Huge thank you to @marquesharper.bsky.social www.latimes.com/lifestyle/st...
L.A. Affairs: I grew up on Disney princesses and fairy tales. Was I ready for my own happily ever after?
I felt weird talking to people about my engagement. I had never been happier, but I still housed the fear that getting married was an uncool thing to do.
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May 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Wrote about love for the @latimes.com Huge thank you to @marquesharper.bsky.social www.latimes.com/lifestyle/st...
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"Photos act as timestamps and notes, just waiting to reveal something new or forgotten in the primary-colored Chuck E Cheese ball pit of time." ~ @dianaruzova.bsky.social (with a bonus Writing Exercise) brevity.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/p...
On Photography as a Form of Note Taking
By Diana Ruzova Growing up, my parents and I would spend long Sunday afternoons on our leather sectional looking at our family photos or watching home videos from not that long ago. Be it nos…
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April 14, 2025 at 11:11 AM
"Photos act as timestamps and notes, just waiting to reveal something new or forgotten in the primary-colored Chuck E Cheese ball pit of time." ~ @dianaruzova.bsky.social (with a bonus Writing Exercise) brevity.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/p...
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"I feel like making art has been simultaneously undervalued and yet cordoned off as a luxury activity."
lots to think about in @dianaruzova.bsky.social's excellent interview with @rosiebrand.bsky.social in @thecreativeindependent.com today!
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lots to think about in @dianaruzova.bsky.social's excellent interview with @rosiebrand.bsky.social in @thecreativeindependent.com today!
thecreativeindependent.com/people/artis...
April 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
"I feel like making art has been simultaneously undervalued and yet cordoned off as a luxury activity."
lots to think about in @dianaruzova.bsky.social's excellent interview with @rosiebrand.bsky.social in @thecreativeindependent.com today!
thecreativeindependent.com/people/artis...
lots to think about in @dianaruzova.bsky.social's excellent interview with @rosiebrand.bsky.social in @thecreativeindependent.com today!
thecreativeindependent.com/people/artis...
Really enjoyed talking to @rosiebrand.bsky.social for @thecreativeindependent.com thecreativeindependent.com/people/artis...
Artist and Naturalist Rosie Brand on choosing to collaborate instead of compete – The Creative Independent
Artist and Naturalist Rosie Brand discusses the connectedness of art and nature, the struggle of the hustle, and the inspiration of community
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April 10, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Really enjoyed talking to @rosiebrand.bsky.social for @thecreativeindependent.com thecreativeindependent.com/people/artis...
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“While sometimes, we don’t get along, like siblings, cousins share both our family secrets and genetics. They share our lives.” In our latest, @dianaruzova.bsky.social writes about how in some immigrant families, cousins can be your earliest (and best) friends.
First Friends, Once Removed
In immigrant families, sometimes your cousins can be your earliest friends.
conversationalist.org
April 5, 2025 at 12:16 PM
“While sometimes, we don’t get along, like siblings, cousins share both our family secrets and genetics. They share our lives.” In our latest, @dianaruzova.bsky.social writes about how in some immigrant families, cousins can be your earliest (and best) friends.
I wrote about cousins for @conversationalist.org! conversationalist.org/2025/04/04/f...
First Friends, Once Removed
In immigrant families, sometimes your cousins can be your earliest friends.
conversationalist.org
April 5, 2025 at 6:58 AM
I wrote about cousins for @conversationalist.org! conversationalist.org/2025/04/04/f...
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Friday!! (It's not too late to register)
Los Angeles -- join us on March 28. These are only some of our book covers, the few that I could fit on one page. This will be the biggest gathering of Soviet-born writers to date.
Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/born-in-th...
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Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/born-in-th...
#writerscommunity #reading #literaryevent #booksky #writersandreaders
March 26, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Friday!! (It's not too late to register)
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Loving how much hope vibrates in this #interview with #SanFran #collage #artist eryn kimura ... and the middle finger, and risographs!
One of the best most inspiring conversations I’ve ever had! @thecreativeindependent.com thecreativeindependent.com/people/artis...
Artist and organizer eryn kimura on seeing everything as art – The Creative Independent
Artist and community organizer eryn kimura discusses collage as a form of time travel, resisting the doom loop, and why imagination is more important than knowledge.
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March 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Loving how much hope vibrates in this #interview with #SanFran #collage #artist eryn kimura ... and the middle finger, and risographs!
One of the best most inspiring conversations I’ve ever had! @thecreativeindependent.com thecreativeindependent.com/people/artis...
Artist and organizer eryn kimura on seeing everything as art – The Creative Independent
Artist and community organizer eryn kimura discusses collage as a form of time travel, resisting the doom loop, and why imagination is more important than knowledge.
thecreativeindependent.com
March 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
One of the best most inspiring conversations I’ve ever had! @thecreativeindependent.com thecreativeindependent.com/people/artis...
My 🪳cockroach essay is in this anthology by 👀@autofocusbooks.bsky.social pre-order here: autofocusbooks.com/store/p/if-i...
IF I CAN BE HONEST: Selected Prose from the Four Years of Autofocus Lit (2020-2024) - Ed. Michael Wheaton — Autofocus Books
BOOK DESCRIPTION Before there was Autofocus Books, there was Autofocus Lit , an online journal dedicated to artful autobiographical writing in its various genres and forms. The online journal began...
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March 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
My 🪳cockroach essay is in this anthology by 👀@autofocusbooks.bsky.social pre-order here: autofocusbooks.com/store/p/if-i...
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Our summer box is now available for preorder(!): Katharine Coldiron’s OUT THERE IN THE DARK, E.N Couturier’s ORGANIC MATTER, & a surprise anthology, collecting 40+ prose works from the 4 years of our online journal (RIP, 2020-2024), plus a free 4th book. Find out more at autofocusbooks.com!
March 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Our summer box is now available for preorder(!): Katharine Coldiron’s OUT THERE IN THE DARK, E.N Couturier’s ORGANIC MATTER, & a surprise anthology, collecting 40+ prose works from the 4 years of our online journal (RIP, 2020-2024), plus a free 4th book. Find out more at autofocusbooks.com!
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Readings by, continued: Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry, Olga Livshin, @dianaruzova.bsky.social , @irinareyn1.bsky.social, Ainsley Morse, Timmy Straw
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March 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Readings by, continued: Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry, Olga Livshin, @dianaruzova.bsky.social , @irinareyn1.bsky.social, Ainsley Morse, Timmy Straw
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Calling all LA folk!! Come to this one of a kind reading brings together Soviet-born writers as they weave together an intricate story of identity, memory, cultural intersections, immigration, and war. Hosted by the @wendemuseum.bsky.social.
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March 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Calling all LA folk!! Come to this one of a kind reading brings together Soviet-born writers as they weave together an intricate story of identity, memory, cultural intersections, immigration, and war. Hosted by the @wendemuseum.bsky.social.
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