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felix lecocq
@felixlecocq.bsky.social
writer with a weird heart
www.felixlecocq.com
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in my opinion you should not take a single paycheck from the new york times
July 4, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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This article made me ill. It's clear that the Israeli army is massacring Palestinians daily, but to read it in the soldiers' own words...they're just "following orders."

"It's a killing field," one soldier said. "Our form of communication is gunfire."

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
June 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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April 25, 2025 at 11:58 PM
love thinking alongside my students about the narrator’s “proximity” to a character… proximal to what? their articulated thoughts? their unarticulated feelings? their heart? their skin? how close is the “close third person” really?!
April 17, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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to be read by & in conversation with David Naimon is a dream. what a generous mind, and what a gift for literature this show is! i’ve long loved Between the Covers; grateful to join this archive of moving conversations 🌀
April 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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The foreign aid cuts left partially-excavated, exposed pits of dioxin, a poison, left by the American military.

Now, rainy season is coming & hundreds of thousands of people live right around the base. Worse, less than 1,500 ft away is a major river that flows into Ho Chi Minh City, pop. 9 million.
THREAD: There’s a dire situation in Vietnam, at the largest Agent Orange spill in the country.

When Trump and Marco Rubio cancelled foreign aid, froze funding and began dismantling USAID, those who were cleaning up the Bien Hoa air base had to halt work. 1/
March 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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That left exposed enormous pits of soil contaminated with deadly chemicals.

Now, after losing several weeks of work, the contractors are scrambling — at their own expense — to secure the Bien Hoa air base before the rainy season starts.
Trump Halted an Agent Orange Cleanup. That Puts Hundreds of Thousands at Risk for Poisoning.
Diplomats in Vietnam warned Washington that halting USAID’s efforts to clean up the massive deposit of postwar pesticides would be a catastrophe for public health and relations with a key strategic pa...
propub.li
March 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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The final vote: 51-45, with 4 people absent.

CLOTURE FAILS, A CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS BAN WILL NOT HAPPEN.

Democrats hold firm, not a single dem voted for cloture.

MAJOR victory for everyone who called in today and this week in support of trans people.
March 4, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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you cannot ever be free unless you are willing to act free.
One thing that never ceases to amaze me is how willing people are to acquiesce to their oppression. Like if you're censoring yourself in anticipation of censoring then you just did their work for them. Stop it. Especially if you can afford to. Each time we do that we build their castle for them.
February 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
feeling a hankering for an essay collection that will change my life. any recent releases i should look into? some things i love: hybrid or surprising forms, heartbreak essays, grief essays, medical memoir, essays about whales, birds, trees, etc.
February 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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One of our ANMLY comrades told me they can't continue reading because they lost their housing. If the work at ANMLY has ever meant anything to you, or if the work that I have ever done in any capacity has ever meant anything to you, please consider helping them stay safe.

gofund.me/0e09177d
Donate to Urgent Aid for Unhoused ANMLY Member, organized by Sarah Clark
Since December, one of our comrades at ANMLY has been unhoused. They were able to fin… Sarah Clark needs your support for Urgent Aid for Unhoused ANMLY Member
gofund.me
February 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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#ClipOfTheDay: In this episode of Tightwires with host Hiba Tahir, poet Patrycja Humienik talks about navigating grad school and writing, identity, and her debut collection, We Contain Landscapes (@tinhouse.bsky.social). at.pw.org/Humienik
February 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Wrote about the NEA and The Kennedy Center and how these moves might be bad for trans art, but they certainly won't be the end
aftermath.site/kennedy-cent...
February 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
i get that the cruelty is the point but damn i wish something else was the point
February 12, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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The NEA will no longer fund arts programs that promote DEI or "gender ideology." The federal agency has cancelled grants that have funded programs for underserved communities for more than 20 years.
'Chilling effect': Arts organizations react to end of DEI initiatives from fed agency
The NEA will no longer fund arts programs that promote DEI or "gender ideology." The federal agency has cancelled grants that have funded programs for underserved communities for more than 20 years.
www.npr.org
February 11, 2025 at 11:34 PM
one of the benefits of masking everywhere is that my skin has been soooo bad this week & no one has been able to tell 🥰
February 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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The Urban Indian Health Institute (UIHI), which tracks health data for tribes and urban Indian communities, demanded the CDC immediately restore crucial health data to its website, saying the deletions endanger Native health & violate treaty rights. nativenewsonline.net/health/cdc-d...
CDC Data Removal Threatens Native Health, Violates Treaties, UIHI Says
The Centers for  Disease Control and Prevention has stripped crucial health data from its website that tribal nations rely on to protect their citizens’ health, prompting immediate pushback from Nati...
nativenewsonline.net
February 5, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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I have a poem-zine in the seventh wave community anthology "on endings" 🌞 theseventhwave.org/publication/...
the angels are falling - Seventh Wave
"My recklessness can fit on one hand: the divine is reserved for the thumb."
theseventhwave.org
February 3, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Of course you don't know how to write it. That's why you have to write it
February 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
today my students and i read poems by @ivertownandcountry.bsky.social, patricia smith & kaveh akbar, talking abt imagery + how our favorite images engage multiple of our senses!
January 30, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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"People love to say, What even is a sun sign?
And I say, well you know the sun?
And they say yes
But I don’t think they actually know"

—juj e lepe
One Poem by juj e lepe – beestung
beestungmag.com
January 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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one of key functions of immigration raids & crackdowns is not to actually deport all migrants/refugees but to deepen conditions of social precarity & labor deportability. to make migrants more vulnerable to exploitation from bosses & landlords & banks, and to create scapegoats for austerity policies
January 22, 2025 at 2:34 AM
"Your job [as filmmaker] is not just to translate but to transcend."
January 17, 2025 at 6:18 AM