Deirdre Sugiuchi
@djsugi.bsky.social
Author of UNREFORMED (Vine Leaves Press, 2027), contributing writer at Electric Literature, '23 Barbara Deming memorial grant for feminist nonfiction, lapsed librarian, essays in Literary Hub, Action Spectacle, & more, Pilates instructor, she/hers
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It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.
NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing.
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October 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.
I visited the set of @jesuslandmovie.bsky.social with Julia Scheeres. We discussed the horrors of the troubled teen industry and religious extremism. Thanks @literaryhub.bsky.social #tti #maga
Return to Jesus Land: Exposing the Institutionalized Cruelty of the “Troubled Teen Industry”
I’m sitting cross-legged on top of a picnic table at Biloxi’s Riverside Park, facing Bay Area writer Julia Scheeres. Behind us the muddy brown waters of the Tchoutacabouffa River roll towards what …
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October 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I visited the set of @jesuslandmovie.bsky.social with Julia Scheeres. We discussed the horrors of the troubled teen industry and religious extremism. Thanks @literaryhub.bsky.social #tti #maga
I wrote about #nokings in Athens and Athens #porchfest.
No Kings, Just Neighbors: Joy, Music, and Protest in Athens, Georgia
This past weekend was pure joy.
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October 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I wrote about #nokings in Athens and Athens #porchfest.
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@djsugi.bsky.social goes on set with Julia Scheeres for the adaptation of her groundbreaking memoir, Jesus Land, and looks at the horrors of the troubled teen industry.
Return to Jesus Land: Exposing the Institutionalized Cruelty of the “Troubled Teen Industry”
I’m sitting cross-legged on top of a picnic table at Biloxi’s Riverside Park, facing Bay Area writer Julia Scheeres. Behind us the muddy brown waters of the Tchoutacabouffa River roll towards what …
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October 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
@djsugi.bsky.social goes on set with Julia Scheeres for the adaptation of her groundbreaking memoir, Jesus Land, and looks at the horrors of the troubled teen industry.
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“Sure, he knew it could get him into a lot of trouble, but life was tough enough just getting by that it was hard to care about the risks.”
My Uncle Doesn’t Need to Die in Prison to Learn His Lesson - Electric Literature
Despite his crimes, every last one of them, I still believe he deserves a good, happy, vibrant life
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May 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“Sure, he knew it could get him into a lot of trouble, but life was tough enough just getting by that it was hard to care about the risks.”
Feeling overwhelmed? Wondering Ouate de Phoque? You should take a 10 minute qigong break—it helps! Videos linked in my post.
How to Stay Sane Despite It All, V. 1
Managing Anxiety with Qigong
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May 15, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Feeling overwhelmed? Wondering Ouate de Phoque? You should take a 10 minute qigong break—it helps! Videos linked in my post.
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Huge thank you to Judge Susan Illston, who ordered a two-week pause on the DOGE’s mass layoff plans blocking two dozen agencies from carrying out the largest wave of job cuts yet. She ruled the move was illegal without congressional approval.
May 10, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Huge thank you to Judge Susan Illston, who ordered a two-week pause on the DOGE’s mass layoff plans blocking two dozen agencies from carrying out the largest wave of job cuts yet. She ruled the move was illegal without congressional approval.
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@britt-kathryn.bsky.social offers some support for former NEA grant recipients.
Here’s what to do if your NEA grant has been terminated.
Last week, hundreds of publishers, theatre companies, symphonies, and community arts programs abruptly lost funding. Beloved institutions from the Bay Area to Harlem were rudely informed of cancele…
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May 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
@britt-kathryn.bsky.social offers some support for former NEA grant recipients.
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Books about the small-town Southern Gothic, and the creature comforts and ghosts that inhabit it
7 Southern Gothic Books Set in Small Towns - Electric Literature
These writers reveal insidious legacies lurking beneath charming facades
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May 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Books about the small-town Southern Gothic, and the creature comforts and ghosts that inhabit it
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JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...
This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...
May 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...
This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...
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65% increase for Homeland Security. Sounds like more kidnappings and illegal prisons and concentration camps…
May 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
65% increase for Homeland Security. Sounds like more kidnappings and illegal prisons and concentration camps…
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List of NEA grant recipients no longer receiving funding. You don't have to care. You just have to know. @electricliterature.com @onestorymag.bsky.social @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social @redhenpress.bsky.social @mcsweeneys.net etc
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
#writingcommunity
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
#writingcommunity
NEA GRANT TERMINATION TRACKER
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May 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
List of NEA grant recipients no longer receiving funding. You don't have to care. You just have to know. @electricliterature.com @onestorymag.bsky.social @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social @redhenpress.bsky.social @mcsweeneys.net etc
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
#writingcommunity
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
#writingcommunity
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In case anyone still believed that the anti-DEI purge had anything whatsoever to do with limiting organizations to their core competencies, I give you “the NEA now does disaster recovery.”
I don't know what the NEA is supposed to have to do with fostering the skilled trades, or "making America healthy again," or "fostering AI competency," but I'm PRETTY SURE that the federal government is not supposed to direct funding *specifically* at "houses of worship."
May 3, 2025 at 10:50 PM
In case anyone still believed that the anti-DEI purge had anything whatsoever to do with limiting organizations to their core competencies, I give you “the NEA now does disaster recovery.”
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Really hard to say what the worst part of this NEA grant termination letter is (sent at 10pm on a Friday!) but I think it's finding out the federal government's priority for arts funds is now "fostering AI competency" rather than funding literature.
May 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Really hard to say what the worst part of this NEA grant termination letter is (sent at 10pm on a Friday!) but I think it's finding out the federal government's priority for arts funds is now "fostering AI competency" rather than funding literature.
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*please repost or forward* Here’s a sheet where arts orgs can record information about their NEA grant termination. Annie Dorsen is collecting this info as a first step towards coordinating a response docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
NEA GRANT TERMINATION TRACKER
docs.google.com
May 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM
*please repost or forward* Here’s a sheet where arts orgs can record information about their NEA grant termination. Annie Dorsen is collecting this info as a first step towards coordinating a response docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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“There are moments when a place you live stops being livable. Sometimes that arrives slowly, like a leak. Sometimes all at once.” A dispatch from @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social, poet in exile.
After the Rooster Crows: Dispatch from a Poet in Exile
There is no other way to say this: I write you now from exile, having (if you are reading this) fled political persecution in my home country, the United (for now) States of America. I say this pla…
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May 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
“There are moments when a place you live stops being livable. Sometimes that arrives slowly, like a leak. Sometimes all at once.” A dispatch from @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social, poet in exile.
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Today, we're officially leaving Twitter, along with our friends @literaryhub.bsky.social. We're happy to be here on Bluesky, but we hope you'll also connect with us the “old-fashioned” way: by getting our emails and going to our site! Read the full statement from Halimah Marcus: buff.ly/4aNcHae
Why Electric Literature Is Leaving Twitter - Electric Literature
X has become a dystopian shadow of itself—and a very bad place for literature
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May 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Today, we're officially leaving Twitter, along with our friends @literaryhub.bsky.social. We're happy to be here on Bluesky, but we hope you'll also connect with us the “old-fashioned” way: by getting our emails and going to our site! Read the full statement from Halimah Marcus: buff.ly/4aNcHae
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"Some Contemporary Characters" by Rick Moody was originally written in 180-character segments and serialized on EL's Twitter account from November 30th to December 2nd, 2009.
In honor of our Twitter exodus, we're reposting it here on Bluesky over the next few days. Pt. 1 of the story begins below👇
In honor of our Twitter exodus, we're reposting it here on Bluesky over the next few days. Pt. 1 of the story begins below👇
May 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Some Contemporary Characters" by Rick Moody was originally written in 180-character segments and serialized on EL's Twitter account from November 30th to December 2nd, 2009.
In honor of our Twitter exodus, we're reposting it here on Bluesky over the next few days. Pt. 1 of the story begins below👇
In honor of our Twitter exodus, we're reposting it here on Bluesky over the next few days. Pt. 1 of the story begins below👇
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Doomscroll respite: bluebells on Bluesky
April 30, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Doomscroll respite: bluebells on Bluesky
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Last day! All current Rumpus merch sales end at midnight EST TODAY/April 30! Only . . .
1 Be Brave mug left
7 Rumpus x Pilsen Community Books tote bags left
24 Write Like a Mofo black tumblers left
SOLD out of Write Like a Mofo ceramic mugs
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1 Be Brave mug left
7 Rumpus x Pilsen Community Books tote bags left
24 Write Like a Mofo black tumblers left
SOLD out of Write Like a Mofo ceramic mugs
therumpus.net/store/
1 week ONLY! Get your deeply discounted Rumpus merch while supplies last! therumpus.net/store/
April 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Last day! All current Rumpus merch sales end at midnight EST TODAY/April 30! Only . . .
1 Be Brave mug left
7 Rumpus x Pilsen Community Books tote bags left
24 Write Like a Mofo black tumblers left
SOLD out of Write Like a Mofo ceramic mugs
therumpus.net/store/
1 Be Brave mug left
7 Rumpus x Pilsen Community Books tote bags left
24 Write Like a Mofo black tumblers left
SOLD out of Write Like a Mofo ceramic mugs
therumpus.net/store/
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FBI ARRESTING JUDGES IS A TEN ALARM CONSTITUTIONAL FIRE. WHAT THE FUCK
April 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
FBI ARRESTING JUDGES IS A TEN ALARM CONSTITUTIONAL FIRE. WHAT THE FUCK
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Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.
April 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.
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This administration has fired crisis counselors for our veterans and now for kids. This bullshit doesn’t make us great.
Any one of these calls could be life or death for a child. This senseless act of cruelty will kill people and they know it.
Any one of these calls could be life or death for a child. This senseless act of cruelty will kill people and they know it.
April 23, 2025 at 1:22 AM
This administration has fired crisis counselors for our veterans and now for kids. This bullshit doesn’t make us great.
Any one of these calls could be life or death for a child. This senseless act of cruelty will kill people and they know it.
Any one of these calls could be life or death for a child. This senseless act of cruelty will kill people and they know it.