Lauren Parker
@laurenparker.bsky.social
I have never heard of punk music.
Dark Way Down (Animal Heart Press, Feb, 2025)
Spells for Success (Simon and Schuster, Jan, 2025)
laureneparker.com
Dark Way Down (Animal Heart Press, Feb, 2025)
Spells for Success (Simon and Schuster, Jan, 2025)
laureneparker.com
Hey anti primers! If you’re looking for a witchcraft book that teaches you magic and helps you form a union, check out Spells for Success on Bookshop!
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Spells for Success Deck and Guidebook: 40 Spells to Set Intentions and Manifest Everyday Wins
40 Spells to Set Intentions and Manifest Everyday Wins
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July 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Hey anti primers! If you’re looking for a witchcraft book that teaches you magic and helps you form a union, check out Spells for Success on Bookshop!
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bookshop.org/p/books/spel...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Night Light, July 2025—ALFTM&OP Launch! 💌⛰️. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Night Light, July 2025—ALFTM&OP Launch! 💌⛰️. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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July 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Me: okay it’s been a decade. Time to swap out the ol IUD
Dr.: okay so around ten years or def ten years? at ten years it’s not effective anymore
Me: because it wears out or because tiny meth heads stripped it like a house in 2009
Dr.: yep, we keep the tiny meth heads under wraps for obvious reasons
Dr.: okay so around ten years or def ten years? at ten years it’s not effective anymore
Me: because it wears out or because tiny meth heads stripped it like a house in 2009
Dr.: yep, we keep the tiny meth heads under wraps for obvious reasons
July 7, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Me: okay it’s been a decade. Time to swap out the ol IUD
Dr.: okay so around ten years or def ten years? at ten years it’s not effective anymore
Me: because it wears out or because tiny meth heads stripped it like a house in 2009
Dr.: yep, we keep the tiny meth heads under wraps for obvious reasons
Dr.: okay so around ten years or def ten years? at ten years it’s not effective anymore
Me: because it wears out or because tiny meth heads stripped it like a house in 2009
Dr.: yep, we keep the tiny meth heads under wraps for obvious reasons
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This is so cool! Denver has a Zoltan in @casabonitadenver.com.
I wrote about Zoltar fortune telling machines, marketing history, and divination for @thewildhunt.bsky.social and you can read it here wildhunt.org/2025/07/zolt...
July 5, 2025 at 10:25 PM
This is so cool! Denver has a Zoltan in @casabonitadenver.com.
Reminder that I wrote a whole book of genderqueer sci fi poems about David Bowie and @animalheartpress.bsky.social bought it. You should support small presses and queer art as much as possible and if do buy it I’ll probably kiss you so factor that in. animalheartpress.net/dark-way-dow...
July 6, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Reminder that I wrote a whole book of genderqueer sci fi poems about David Bowie and @animalheartpress.bsky.social bought it. You should support small presses and queer art as much as possible and if do buy it I’ll probably kiss you so factor that in. animalheartpress.net/dark-way-dow...
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July 5, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I wrote about Zoltar fortune telling machines, marketing history, and divination for @thewildhunt.bsky.social and you can read it here wildhunt.org/2025/07/zolt...
July 5, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I wrote about Zoltar fortune telling machines, marketing history, and divination for @thewildhunt.bsky.social and you can read it here wildhunt.org/2025/07/zolt...
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Big publishing day! I Came to Walmart to Fight God just came out in the Revolution issue of Feral Magazine! feralpoetry.net/i-came-to-th...
#poetry
#poetry
June 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Big publishing day! I Came to Walmart to Fight God just came out in the Revolution issue of Feral Magazine! feralpoetry.net/i-came-to-th...
#poetry
#poetry
Big publishing day! I Came to Walmart to Fight God just came out in the Revolution issue of Feral Magazine! feralpoetry.net/i-came-to-th...
#poetry
#poetry
June 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Big publishing day! I Came to Walmart to Fight God just came out in the Revolution issue of Feral Magazine! feralpoetry.net/i-came-to-th...
#poetry
#poetry
“A desolate, intimate homage to one of rock’s most original lyricists.”
Kirkus liked my poetry collection about David Bowie, the desert, and queer yearning. And you should add it to your shelves this Pride month and support a small press.
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
Kirkus liked my poetry collection about David Bowie, the desert, and queer yearning. And you should add it to your shelves this Pride month and support a small press.
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
Dark Way Down | Kirkus Reviews
In this poetry collection, Parker plumbs personal depths via a David Bowie–inspired alter ego.
www.kirkusreviews.com
June 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
“A desolate, intimate homage to one of rock’s most original lyricists.”
Kirkus liked my poetry collection about David Bowie, the desert, and queer yearning. And you should add it to your shelves this Pride month and support a small press.
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
Kirkus liked my poetry collection about David Bowie, the desert, and queer yearning. And you should add it to your shelves this Pride month and support a small press.
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
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The most important part of republican fascism is the demand you must be nice to them.
June 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The most important part of republican fascism is the demand you must be nice to them.
“I want the ink to tell me something true as I pour it out in the teacup saucer. I’d kill for something that is good. I’d kill for something other than the damp grief of a blank slate.”
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Ink Stains Your Hands like Truth
Divining in your ink well during a hell storm.
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June 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
“I want the ink to tell me something true as I pour it out in the teacup saucer. I’d kill for something that is good. I’d kill for something other than the damp grief of a blank slate.”
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One of the ways to resist capitalism and the allure of AI slop in your personal mindset is to appreciate and enjoy being an amateur at something
June 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
One of the ways to resist capitalism and the allure of AI slop in your personal mindset is to appreciate and enjoy being an amateur at something
Me, being incognito as an Ohioan around Pennsylvanians
June 22, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Me, being incognito as an Ohioan around Pennsylvanians
My deck’s six month birthday is today! What a perfect day for it. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Spells...
June 21, 2025 at 2:01 AM
My deck’s six month birthday is today! What a perfect day for it. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Spells...
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Israel’s 80-day blockade that has enforced a strict closure of crossings and blocked aid deliveries has resulted in nearly 330 deaths, most of them children. interc.pt/43YCZ6s
June 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Israel’s 80-day blockade that has enforced a strict closure of crossings and blocked aid deliveries has resulted in nearly 330 deaths, most of them children. interc.pt/43YCZ6s
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We've prepared a zine version of our text "Melt ICE, Be Water,"
in which participants in a demonstration against ICE in Austin, Texas on June 9, 2025 describe how they escaped the control of party organizers who sought to control the protest, then evaded police for hours.
Print and distribute!
in which participants in a demonstration against ICE in Austin, Texas on June 9, 2025 describe how they escaped the control of party organizers who sought to control the protest, then evaded police for hours.
Print and distribute!
Melt ICE, Be Water
You can read the entire contents of this zine online here, complete with hyperlinks to sources bearing out its claims.
crimethinc.com
June 16, 2025 at 9:36 PM
We've prepared a zine version of our text "Melt ICE, Be Water,"
in which participants in a demonstration against ICE in Austin, Texas on June 9, 2025 describe how they escaped the control of party organizers who sought to control the protest, then evaded police for hours.
Print and distribute!
in which participants in a demonstration against ICE in Austin, Texas on June 9, 2025 describe how they escaped the control of party organizers who sought to control the protest, then evaded police for hours.
Print and distribute!
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💖BIG thanks to the 5 #authors who wowed us at Babylon Saturday night! Every one of your #readings was stellar! Check their beautiful #books! 🌠📚🌠
⭐ S.G. Browne
⭐ Duane Horton
⭐ @laurenparker.bsky.social
⭐ @katefolk.bsky.social
⭐ Paul S Flores
#writers #writing
⭐ S.G. Browne
⭐ Duane Horton
⭐ @laurenparker.bsky.social
⭐ @katefolk.bsky.social
⭐ Paul S Flores
#writers #writing
June 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
💖BIG thanks to the 5 #authors who wowed us at Babylon Saturday night! Every one of your #readings was stellar! Check their beautiful #books! 🌠📚🌠
⭐ S.G. Browne
⭐ Duane Horton
⭐ @laurenparker.bsky.social
⭐ @katefolk.bsky.social
⭐ Paul S Flores
#writers #writing
⭐ S.G. Browne
⭐ Duane Horton
⭐ @laurenparker.bsky.social
⭐ @katefolk.bsky.social
⭐ Paul S Flores
#writers #writing
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Although millions took the streets today to demonstrate against Donald Trump's power grab, there was only one shooting, in Salt Lake City.
Nonetheless, it is important to learn what you can do if a person is shot near you at a demonstration. Please read this guide.
crimethinc.com/gunshotwounds
🧵⬇️
Nonetheless, it is important to learn what you can do if a person is shot near you at a demonstration. Please read this guide.
crimethinc.com/gunshotwounds
🧵⬇️
A Demonstrator’s Guide to Responding to Gunshot Wounds
Even if you have no medical training, there are things you can do to maximize the likelihood that a person who is shot in your vicinity will survive.
crimethinc.com
June 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Although millions took the streets today to demonstrate against Donald Trump's power grab, there was only one shooting, in Salt Lake City.
Nonetheless, it is important to learn what you can do if a person is shot near you at a demonstration. Please read this guide.
crimethinc.com/gunshotwounds
🧵⬇️
Nonetheless, it is important to learn what you can do if a person is shot near you at a demonstration. Please read this guide.
crimethinc.com/gunshotwounds
🧵⬇️
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@laurenparker.bsky.social writes: "March in Michigan is birch trees as stark as corn stalks. It’s not home but it is ancestral, the cemetery filled with tombstones with my last name on them..." Give this essay a read & come hear Lauren perform @ Babylon TONIGHT! 6/14 @ The Sycamore! 5:30pm. Free!
True Story of a Sandwich - Belt Magazine
the Parker Sub doesn't want those things. It likes simple. Plain. Which is why it's something a simple and plain man has to ask for. But I am a Parker. And I do want those: the pepper, the onions, the...
beltmag.com
June 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
@laurenparker.bsky.social writes: "March in Michigan is birch trees as stark as corn stalks. It’s not home but it is ancestral, the cemetery filled with tombstones with my last name on them..." Give this essay a read & come hear Lauren perform @ Babylon TONIGHT! 6/14 @ The Sycamore! 5:30pm. Free!
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A woman walking home alone was shot point-blank with “non-lethal” rounds fired by officers in Los Angeles. A neighbor filmed the assault and rushed to help only to be fired on and ordered back.
June 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
A woman walking home alone was shot point-blank with “non-lethal” rounds fired by officers in Los Angeles. A neighbor filmed the assault and rushed to help only to be fired on and ordered back.
If any of you head up there and order that sandwich, tell em Tim Parker’s kid said hey
Read this essay I wrote about my father’s death and my family’s legacy sandwich over at @beltmagazine.bsky.social
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June 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
If any of you head up there and order that sandwich, tell em Tim Parker’s kid said hey
Read this essay I wrote about my father’s death and my family’s legacy sandwich over at @beltmagazine.bsky.social
beltmag.com/true-story-o...
beltmag.com/true-story-o...
June 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Read this essay I wrote about my father’s death and my family’s legacy sandwich over at @beltmagazine.bsky.social
beltmag.com/true-story-o...
beltmag.com/true-story-o...
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This was such a good story. Is it too early to eat my lunch?
"The Parker Sub doesn’t want those things. It likes simple. Plain. Which is why it’s something a simple and plain man has to ask for."
@laurenparker.bsky.social with The True Story of a Sandwich.
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@laurenparker.bsky.social with The True Story of a Sandwich.
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True Story of a Sandwich - Belt Magazine
the Parker Sub doesn't want those things. It likes simple. Plain. Which is why it's something a simple and plain man has to ask for. But I am a Parker. And I do want those: the pepper, the onions, the...
beltmag.com
June 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This was such a good story. Is it too early to eat my lunch?