Kaitlin Shetler
@kaitlinshetler.bsky.social
writes so-so poetry and dorky fanfiction, flaming heretic, unsettling fascination with horror tropes, and fan of a democracy not crumbling into fascism
here’s what you’ll need to survive:
a strong stomach
a soft heart
a clear head
cunning eyes
sharp ears
a waiting patience
a careful body
a strong stomach
a soft heart
a clear head
cunning eyes
sharp ears
a waiting patience
a careful body
August 12, 2025 at 4:40 AM
here’s what you’ll need to survive:
a strong stomach
a soft heart
a clear head
cunning eyes
sharp ears
a waiting patience
a careful body
a strong stomach
a soft heart
a clear head
cunning eyes
sharp ears
a waiting patience
a careful body
Reposted by Kaitlin Shetler
I’m a real life human woman and my secret advice for men is to talk to us like we’re people
August 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I’m a real life human woman and my secret advice for men is to talk to us like we’re people
You don’t get to opt out of the bad stuff if you’re going to claim to be a part of this group.
#deconstruction #deconversion #exvangelical #christianity #atheism
#deconstruction #deconversion #exvangelical #christianity #atheism
If You Stand for Nothing
Then What Will You Fall For?
open.substack.com
May 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
You don’t get to opt out of the bad stuff if you’re going to claim to be a part of this group.
#deconstruction #deconversion #exvangelical #christianity #atheism
#deconstruction #deconversion #exvangelical #christianity #atheism
#poemsfortheresistance
my third grader went to sleep last night holding her stuffed rabbit and talking about minecraft
she tells me funny things about school
her friends play a game under a tree
she calls it “queen of the world”
my third grader went to sleep last night holding her stuffed rabbit and talking about minecraft
she tells me funny things about school
her friends play a game under a tree
she calls it “queen of the world”
April 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
#poemsfortheresistance
my third grader went to sleep last night holding her stuffed rabbit and talking about minecraft
she tells me funny things about school
her friends play a game under a tree
she calls it “queen of the world”
my third grader went to sleep last night holding her stuffed rabbit and talking about minecraft
she tells me funny things about school
her friends play a game under a tree
she calls it “queen of the world”
#poemsfortheresistance
this is a soft apocalypse
a gentle genocide
the slow boiling of values and decency
a southern politic at church potlucks and neighborhood lynchings
this is a soft apocalypse
a gentle genocide
the slow boiling of values and decency
a southern politic at church potlucks and neighborhood lynchings
April 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
#poemsfortheresistance
this is a soft apocalypse
a gentle genocide
the slow boiling of values and decency
a southern politic at church potlucks and neighborhood lynchings
this is a soft apocalypse
a gentle genocide
the slow boiling of values and decency
a southern politic at church potlucks and neighborhood lynchings
Reposted by Kaitlin Shetler
Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
March 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
Reposted by Kaitlin Shetler
The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
March 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
A man who makes an “exception” for abortion in certain cases, does not actually care about “the unborn,” but his ability to control a woman’s body.
February 26, 2025 at 12:42 AM
A man who makes an “exception” for abortion in certain cases, does not actually care about “the unborn,” but his ability to control a woman’s body.
February 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
#poemsfortheresistance
when they take your voice
use your feet to make trouble
and when they take your feet
use your hands to make waves
and when the hands go
use your eyes to burn warnings
and when your eyes fail
use your heart to beat change
when they take your voice
use your feet to make trouble
and when they take your feet
use your hands to make waves
and when the hands go
use your eyes to burn warnings
and when your eyes fail
use your heart to beat change
February 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
#poemsfortheresistance
when they take your voice
use your feet to make trouble
and when they take your feet
use your hands to make waves
and when the hands go
use your eyes to burn warnings
and when your eyes fail
use your heart to beat change
when they take your voice
use your feet to make trouble
and when they take your feet
use your hands to make waves
and when the hands go
use your eyes to burn warnings
and when your eyes fail
use your heart to beat change
A story:
There was once a little boy who was born with a strange magic. Unlike the other children in his town, he wasn’t able to fly or heal or even change rocks into bread. His magic didn’t help people at all—it did something different, something the people had never seen before.
There was once a little boy who was born with a strange magic. Unlike the other children in his town, he wasn’t able to fly or heal or even change rocks into bread. His magic didn’t help people at all—it did something different, something the people had never seen before.
February 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
A story:
There was once a little boy who was born with a strange magic. Unlike the other children in his town, he wasn’t able to fly or heal or even change rocks into bread. His magic didn’t help people at all—it did something different, something the people had never seen before.
There was once a little boy who was born with a strange magic. Unlike the other children in his town, he wasn’t able to fly or heal or even change rocks into bread. His magic didn’t help people at all—it did something different, something the people had never seen before.
#poemsfortheresistance
a woman once died from toxic empathy
the coroner said her heart gave out
after it was crushed by the weight of all the needs she carried on her back
“toxic empathy,”
the coroner said,
“killed this woman.”
“beware,”
the king said,
“because it might be catching.”
a woman once died from toxic empathy
the coroner said her heart gave out
after it was crushed by the weight of all the needs she carried on her back
“toxic empathy,”
the coroner said,
“killed this woman.”
“beware,”
the king said,
“because it might be catching.”
February 17, 2025 at 6:03 AM
#poemsfortheresistance
a woman once died from toxic empathy
the coroner said her heart gave out
after it was crushed by the weight of all the needs she carried on her back
“toxic empathy,”
the coroner said,
“killed this woman.”
“beware,”
the king said,
“because it might be catching.”
a woman once died from toxic empathy
the coroner said her heart gave out
after it was crushed by the weight of all the needs she carried on her back
“toxic empathy,”
the coroner said,
“killed this woman.”
“beware,”
the king said,
“because it might be catching.”
This was so much fun!
I FANGIRLED OUT to hear @kaitlinshetler.bsky.social read "sometimes i wonder" on "An ExMo and a NeverMo Walk Into a Bar..."
The erasure of women's experiences is so universal that we can literally give birth to the Son of God & still be excluded from any meaningful roles in some Christian faiths.
The erasure of women's experiences is so universal that we can literally give birth to the Son of God & still be excluded from any meaningful roles in some Christian faiths.
Kaitlin Shetler Shares Her Brilliant Poem, "sometimes i wonder"
YouTube video by Two NoMos
youtu.be
February 17, 2025 at 2:37 AM
This was so much fun!
Happy Valentine’s Day (2025 Edition)!
February 14, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Happy Valentine’s Day (2025 Edition)!
Reposted by Kaitlin Shetler
looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.
February 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.
#poemsfortheresistance
despots have it so easy in america
they can just point
and the christians attack
ready-made soldiers
already armored for the lord
despots have it so easy in america
they can just point
and the christians attack
ready-made soldiers
already armored for the lord
February 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
#poemsfortheresistance
despots have it so easy in america
they can just point
and the christians attack
ready-made soldiers
already armored for the lord
despots have it so easy in america
they can just point
and the christians attack
ready-made soldiers
already armored for the lord
#poemsfortheresistance
violent criminals deserve violent deaths
say the violent men
who write the laws
it’s jesus’s will to cut the wheat from the chaff
say the men selling the wheat
profiting off the labor of the migrants they force to cut
violent criminals deserve violent deaths
say the violent men
who write the laws
it’s jesus’s will to cut the wheat from the chaff
say the men selling the wheat
profiting off the labor of the migrants they force to cut
February 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
#poemsfortheresistance
violent criminals deserve violent deaths
say the violent men
who write the laws
it’s jesus’s will to cut the wheat from the chaff
say the men selling the wheat
profiting off the labor of the migrants they force to cut
violent criminals deserve violent deaths
say the violent men
who write the laws
it’s jesus’s will to cut the wheat from the chaff
say the men selling the wheat
profiting off the labor of the migrants they force to cut
#poemsfortheresistance
it’s called resistance for a reason
but exercise has never been my forte
and i’m afraid when the going gets tough
i hide under weighted blankets and doom scrolling
it’s called resistance for a reason
but exercise has never been my forte
and i’m afraid when the going gets tough
i hide under weighted blankets and doom scrolling
February 2, 2025 at 9:28 PM
#poemsfortheresistance
it’s called resistance for a reason
but exercise has never been my forte
and i’m afraid when the going gets tough
i hide under weighted blankets and doom scrolling
it’s called resistance for a reason
but exercise has never been my forte
and i’m afraid when the going gets tough
i hide under weighted blankets and doom scrolling
When the world is a shell of what it was, when this country is powered by the bodies of all those “criminals” labeled such by monsters and opportunists, what will happen next?
#trump #gop #fascism
#trump #gop #fascism
Consequences
How Germany and America Differ
open.substack.com
January 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM
#poemsfortheresistance
the price of eggs is important
to families struggling to put food on their tables
to farmers, maybe
but not to billionaires
not ever to billionaires
the price of eggs is important
to families struggling to put food on their tables
to farmers, maybe
but not to billionaires
not ever to billionaires
January 27, 2025 at 11:37 PM
#poemsfortheresistance
the price of eggs is important
to families struggling to put food on their tables
to farmers, maybe
but not to billionaires
not ever to billionaires
the price of eggs is important
to families struggling to put food on their tables
to farmers, maybe
but not to billionaires
not ever to billionaires
#poemsfortheresistance
someone said consent was like tea
which is great metaphor for kids
but not for men
someone said consent was like tea
which is great metaphor for kids
but not for men
January 26, 2025 at 8:32 AM
#poemsfortheresistance
someone said consent was like tea
which is great metaphor for kids
but not for men
someone said consent was like tea
which is great metaphor for kids
but not for men
Even mild church experiences can be harmful.
Because it’s not always the community that is dangerous, but the theology itself.
Because it’s not always the community that is dangerous, but the theology itself.
January 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Even mild church experiences can be harmful.
Because it’s not always the community that is dangerous, but the theology itself.
Because it’s not always the community that is dangerous, but the theology itself.