Shirin
@howtopresspause.bsky.social
somatic practitioner + writing facilitator.
buddhist, anarchist, spinster beyond redemption.
i write a newsletter called press pause.
she/they ✨
buddhist, anarchist, spinster beyond redemption.
i write a newsletter called press pause.
she/they ✨
One of the many reasons I’m so fed up with social media right now is that most platforms are incredibly us-centric. I understand this to be a limitation imposed by my own algorithm, and I don’t really know how to fix it.
March 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
One of the many reasons I’m so fed up with social media right now is that most platforms are incredibly us-centric. I understand this to be a limitation imposed by my own algorithm, and I don’t really know how to fix it.
Anora’s success is a collective hallucination.
March 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Anora’s success is a collective hallucination.
“Whether we’re conscious of it or not, the ground is always shifting,” writes Buddhist monk Pema Chödrön.
The issue is not uncertainty itself, or impermanence, rather our resistance to it.
The issue is not uncertainty itself, or impermanence, rather our resistance to it.
March 1, 2025 at 10:25 PM
“Whether we’re conscious of it or not, the ground is always shifting,” writes Buddhist monk Pema Chödrön.
The issue is not uncertainty itself, or impermanence, rather our resistance to it.
The issue is not uncertainty itself, or impermanence, rather our resistance to it.
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sometimes i do wish "lol" meant "lots of love." lol
February 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
sometimes i do wish "lol" meant "lots of love." lol
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Nothing will tell you where you are.
Each moment is a place you've never been.
Mark Strand, Black Maps
Each moment is a place you've never been.
Mark Strand, Black Maps
February 20, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Nothing will tell you where you are.
Each moment is a place you've never been.
Mark Strand, Black Maps
Each moment is a place you've never been.
Mark Strand, Black Maps
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this Adrienne Rich poem from the @yalereview.bsky.social archives sucker punched me this am
February 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
this Adrienne Rich poem from the @yalereview.bsky.social archives sucker punched me this am
“There can be no love without justice.”
—bell hooks
—bell hooks
February 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
“There can be no love without justice.”
—bell hooks
—bell hooks
My next Somatic Writing workshop is in 2 weeks 🌊🤍
We’ll sense, move, and write together to learn how to harness our body’s wisdom to meet change and uncertainty more intuitively.
We’ll sense, move, and write together to learn how to harness our body’s wisdom to meet change and uncertainty more intuitively.
February 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
My next Somatic Writing workshop is in 2 weeks 🌊🤍
We’ll sense, move, and write together to learn how to harness our body’s wisdom to meet change and uncertainty more intuitively.
We’ll sense, move, and write together to learn how to harness our body’s wisdom to meet change and uncertainty more intuitively.
Frances, undateable.
February 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Frances, undateable.
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Mohammed el-Kurd: how do we get beyond Palestinian ‘perfect victims’?
Mohammed el-Kurd: how do we get beyond Palestinian ‘perfect victims’? | The Take
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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February 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Mohammed el-Kurd: how do we get beyond Palestinian ‘perfect victims’?
“The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others.”
—bell hooks
—bell hooks
February 13, 2025 at 10:18 AM
“The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others.”
—bell hooks
—bell hooks
“What I want to say is that the past is the past,
and the present is what your life is,
and you are capable
of choosing what that will be,
darling citizen.”
from “Mornings at Blackwater,” in Red Bird, by Mary Oliver 🍄✨
and the present is what your life is,
and you are capable
of choosing what that will be,
darling citizen.”
from “Mornings at Blackwater,” in Red Bird, by Mary Oliver 🍄✨
February 13, 2025 at 6:42 AM
“What I want to say is that the past is the past,
and the present is what your life is,
and you are capable
of choosing what that will be,
darling citizen.”
from “Mornings at Blackwater,” in Red Bird, by Mary Oliver 🍄✨
and the present is what your life is,
and you are capable
of choosing what that will be,
darling citizen.”
from “Mornings at Blackwater,” in Red Bird, by Mary Oliver 🍄✨
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will i ever stop writing about/to the moon?
not until the moon writes about/back to me! (c’mon, moon!)
🌙
i’ve got 2 new poems in the winter issue of The Poetry Review (@poetrysociety.bsky.social). here’s one of them, “Quintessential Lunar Actions”—
not until the moon writes about/back to me! (c’mon, moon!)
🌙
i’ve got 2 new poems in the winter issue of The Poetry Review (@poetrysociety.bsky.social). here’s one of them, “Quintessential Lunar Actions”—
February 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
will i ever stop writing about/to the moon?
not until the moon writes about/back to me! (c’mon, moon!)
🌙
i’ve got 2 new poems in the winter issue of The Poetry Review (@poetrysociety.bsky.social). here’s one of them, “Quintessential Lunar Actions”—
not until the moon writes about/back to me! (c’mon, moon!)
🌙
i’ve got 2 new poems in the winter issue of The Poetry Review (@poetrysociety.bsky.social). here’s one of them, “Quintessential Lunar Actions”—
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Until this society reckons with the fact that cisgender women are capable of perpetrating abuse, sexual and otherwise, and that trans women are frequent targets of said abuse, patriarchy will continue to dominate us all.
February 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Until this society reckons with the fact that cisgender women are capable of perpetrating abuse, sexual and otherwise, and that trans women are frequent targets of said abuse, patriarchy will continue to dominate us all.
Give yourself permission to experience this very moment.
February 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Give yourself permission to experience this very moment.
“The only true elegance is vulnerability.”
—Chögyam Trungpa
—Chögyam Trungpa
February 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
“The only true elegance is vulnerability.”
—Chögyam Trungpa
—Chögyam Trungpa
When Dostoevsky wrote: “my God, a whole moment of happiness! Is that too little for the whole of a man’s life?” and Sabahattin Ali wrote: “these memories were rich enough to fill an entire lifetime.”
February 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
When Dostoevsky wrote: “my God, a whole moment of happiness! Is that too little for the whole of a man’s life?” and Sabahattin Ali wrote: “these memories were rich enough to fill an entire lifetime.”
Am I being delusional or am I really being delusional?
February 8, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Am I being delusional or am I really being delusional?
Everyday reminder.
February 7, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Everyday reminder.
“My God, a whole moment of bliss! Is that too little for the whole of a man’s life?”
February 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM
“My God, a whole moment of bliss! Is that too little for the whole of a man’s life?”
“Our biggest act of resistance is to fight for our humanity, to fight for our connection to what and who we care about.”
—Chris Lymbertos
(in Staci K. Haines “The Politics of Trauma”)
—Chris Lymbertos
(in Staci K. Haines “The Politics of Trauma”)
February 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
“Our biggest act of resistance is to fight for our humanity, to fight for our connection to what and who we care about.”
—Chris Lymbertos
(in Staci K. Haines “The Politics of Trauma”)
—Chris Lymbertos
(in Staci K. Haines “The Politics of Trauma”)