madelaine caritas longman
@effervescentvoid.bsky.social
author of The Danger Model (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019). poetry / essays / neurodiversity & disability studies / 🏳️🌈
"My brother has a van full of rifles,
a string of wives and children
along the interstate, and I do not know
if he shaves or does not. We each think
the other has flattened a life."
Mary Ruefle, "Cul-de-sac"
a string of wives and children
along the interstate, and I do not know
if he shaves or does not. We each think
the other has flattened a life."
Mary Ruefle, "Cul-de-sac"
November 17, 2025 at 1:45 AM
"My brother has a van full of rifles,
a string of wives and children
along the interstate, and I do not know
if he shaves or does not. We each think
the other has flattened a life."
Mary Ruefle, "Cul-de-sac"
a string of wives and children
along the interstate, and I do not know
if he shaves or does not. We each think
the other has flattened a life."
Mary Ruefle, "Cul-de-sac"
Thinking about how everyone has a unique way of experiencing thought (some more linear, some more associative, different speeds and rhythms, different relationships to visualization and language) can be overwhelming but it's also beautiful. Corny sentiment but everyone really is irreplaceable.
November 13, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Thinking about how everyone has a unique way of experiencing thought (some more linear, some more associative, different speeds and rhythms, different relationships to visualization and language) can be overwhelming but it's also beautiful. Corny sentiment but everyone really is irreplaceable.
I love how poetry reminds you that people have so many different emotional ranges and ways of experiencing cognition. It's such a privilige to be granted that entry to the rhythms and textures of someone's thoughts.
November 13, 2025 at 4:42 AM
I love how poetry reminds you that people have so many different emotional ranges and ways of experiencing cognition. It's such a privilige to be granted that entry to the rhythms and textures of someone's thoughts.
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Franz Wright again—
Who on earth
?
Who on earth
?
November 13, 2023 at 6:31 AM
Franz Wright again—
Who on earth
?
Who on earth
?
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newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Madelaine Caritas Longman : Three poems / @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ;
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Madelaine Caritas Longman : Three poems
guzzle XIII balcony collapsing, the roof rotting through, low rent; i’ll live here as long as i can. nowhere to turn to that isn’t...
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November 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Madelaine Caritas Longman : Three poems / @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ;
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/11/made...
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For the day that's in it...
'All Hallows' by Louise Gluck - has a deep sense of loneliness and loss, that shifting between the seasons, and the final lines where the veil between this world and the next becomes thin
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#Halloween
'All Hallows' by Louise Gluck - has a deep sense of loneliness and loss, that shifting between the seasons, and the final lines where the veil between this world and the next becomes thin
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#Halloween
October 31, 2025 at 8:22 PM
For the day that's in it...
'All Hallows' by Louise Gluck - has a deep sense of loneliness and loss, that shifting between the seasons, and the final lines where the veil between this world and the next becomes thin
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#Halloween
'All Hallows' by Louise Gluck - has a deep sense of loneliness and loss, that shifting between the seasons, and the final lines where the veil between this world and the next becomes thin
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#Halloween
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👉 This from the brilliant review/interview/essay by @effervescentvoid.bsky.social on Stephanie Bolster's «Long Exposure», just published at mRb...
mtlreviewofbooks.ca/reviews/long...
mtlreviewofbooks.ca/reviews/long...
October 30, 2025 at 11:31 PM
👉 This from the brilliant review/interview/essay by @effervescentvoid.bsky.social on Stephanie Bolster's «Long Exposure», just published at mRb...
mtlreviewofbooks.ca/reviews/long...
mtlreviewofbooks.ca/reviews/long...
Stuninng Victoria Chang poem: yalereview.org/article/vict...
Victoria Chang: “The Swan”
A poem by Victoria Chang: “The thin shirtless / man fishing by / the river. The woman // by his side, smoking.“
yalereview.org
October 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Stuninng Victoria Chang poem: yalereview.org/article/vict...
I complain a lot but do want to express my gratitude to people who've helped me feel welcome in a writing community, whether that was a kind comment when I was a teenager posting poems online, or a prof who reacted with encouragement rather than accusation when I struggled with undergrad stress.
October 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I complain a lot but do want to express my gratitude to people who've helped me feel welcome in a writing community, whether that was a kind comment when I was a teenager posting poems online, or a prof who reacted with encouragement rather than accusation when I struggled with undergrad stress.
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There are no circumstances where human beings should be without food. There are no qualifications that make someone undeserving of access to food. If you are a human being, you should get food. I don’t care about ability, job status, legal status, or anything else. If people are hungry, feed them.
October 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
There are no circumstances where human beings should be without food. There are no qualifications that make someone undeserving of access to food. If you are a human being, you should get food. I don’t care about ability, job status, legal status, or anything else. If people are hungry, feed them.
Not sure if there's a word for this fallacy but ime there's a recurring trend of people in arts communities declaring (with varying levels of correctness) that a smug, toxic, elitist in-group holds too much power, and responding to this by trying to create their own smug, toxic, elitist in-group.
October 23, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Not sure if there's a word for this fallacy but ime there's a recurring trend of people in arts communities declaring (with varying levels of correctness) that a smug, toxic, elitist in-group holds too much power, and responding to this by trying to create their own smug, toxic, elitist in-group.
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most writing advice is terrible but this is truly helpful: find a sensitive rat and let him ride your head. allow him to pull your forelocks and thus guide your typing. do not ever let anyone else know about the rat. you also have to be French
August 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
most writing advice is terrible but this is truly helpful: find a sensitive rat and let him ride your head. allow him to pull your forelocks and thus guide your typing. do not ever let anyone else know about the rat. you also have to be French
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Susan J. Dawe, 1986
October 19, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Susan J. Dawe, 1986
[1/4] I noticed that when neurotypical people talk about neurodivergent people having social difficulties, they typically think of someone who is argumentative, bossy, takes over the conversation, seems indifferent to others' feelings, etc.
October 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
[1/4] I noticed that when neurotypical people talk about neurodivergent people having social difficulties, they typically think of someone who is argumentative, bossy, takes over the conversation, seems indifferent to others' feelings, etc.
A caution I have about "More people should romanticize an average, ordinary life" (as well as with "Never settle for an ordinary life") statements is that "ordinary life" is rarely defined, and this category means very different things to different people.
October 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
A caution I have about "More people should romanticize an average, ordinary life" (as well as with "Never settle for an ordinary life") statements is that "ordinary life" is rarely defined, and this category means very different things to different people.
I am not a subscriber to "no one should ever mask their personality in any situation, ever," but it is worth recognizing how often ingratiating yourself to people you are deeply uncomfortable around will only result in having to spend more time with the people you are deeply uncomfortable around.
October 13, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I am not a subscriber to "no one should ever mask their personality in any situation, ever," but it is worth recognizing how often ingratiating yourself to people you are deeply uncomfortable around will only result in having to spend more time with the people you are deeply uncomfortable around.
organizing poems and currently have a 60 page manuscript, plus another 60 pages of possible poems to add (which must now be sorted through to find the best fits). still a long way to go, but a shape is emerging.
October 13, 2025 at 2:56 AM
organizing poems and currently have a 60 page manuscript, plus another 60 pages of possible poems to add (which must now be sorted through to find the best fits). still a long way to go, but a shape is emerging.
My various responsibilities include tutoring, teaching, and reading lit journal submissions, all of which mean I am reading an inordinate amount of really, really bad AI generated writing (in fields where making AI do the work defeats the entire purpose) and learning to recognize it very quickly.
October 11, 2025 at 8:34 PM
My various responsibilities include tutoring, teaching, and reading lit journal submissions, all of which mean I am reading an inordinate amount of really, really bad AI generated writing (in fields where making AI do the work defeats the entire purpose) and learning to recognize it very quickly.
maslow's pyramid but every level is Listen to Tori Amos' "Crucify" while staring into space in the grocery store
October 11, 2025 at 1:09 AM
maslow's pyramid but every level is Listen to Tori Amos' "Crucify" while staring into space in the grocery store
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Wonderful paper reframing autistic neologisms (inventing new words) as linguatype (an autistic way of speaking) rather than a deficit onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1... (with thanks to the ever-excellent @pkwalkersharpe.bsky.social for flagging it up!)
An Autistic “Linguatype”? Neologisms, New Words, and New Insights
In this commentary, we present new ideas about autistic neologisms. This essay has two primary goals. First, we argue that an autistic predilection to form neologisms generates intriguing new hypothe....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Wonderful paper reframing autistic neologisms (inventing new words) as linguatype (an autistic way of speaking) rather than a deficit onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1... (with thanks to the ever-excellent @pkwalkersharpe.bsky.social for flagging it up!)
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if you can replace "psychotic" with "autistic" and it'd be horrifically offensive to autistic folks, rest assured this is also the case for people who experience psychosis. stop
October 5, 2025 at 10:49 PM
if you can replace "psychotic" with "autistic" and it'd be horrifically offensive to autistic folks, rest assured this is also the case for people who experience psychosis. stop
[1/3] I've often encountered a subtly (or not so subtly) ableist perspective that anyone can become a super confident, outgoing, conventionally charismatic person if they just try hard enough. I recognize some people see that view see it as encouraging. I also think there are *some* skills
October 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
[1/3] I've often encountered a subtly (or not so subtly) ableist perspective that anyone can become a super confident, outgoing, conventionally charismatic person if they just try hard enough. I recognize some people see that view see it as encouraging. I also think there are *some* skills
"The thing about hiding one thing about yourself... is that it warps your perception of the real you. What you must protect against all odds becomes your defect, your truth, your failure, your success. It becomes the most authentic thing you have because you have no means of going further..." -Yanyi
October 9, 2025 at 4:03 AM
"The thing about hiding one thing about yourself... is that it warps your perception of the real you. What you must protect against all odds becomes your defect, your truth, your failure, your success. It becomes the most authentic thing you have because you have no means of going further..." -Yanyi
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Giving students thoughtful, personalized feedback and instruction is not a problem that originates from the difficulty for an instructor to generate feedback, it is a problem that originates from institutions pivoting to student:instructor ratios where that dynamic is not logistically feasible.
September 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Giving students thoughtful, personalized feedback and instruction is not a problem that originates from the difficulty for an instructor to generate feedback, it is a problem that originates from institutions pivoting to student:instructor ratios where that dynamic is not logistically feasible.