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work with gulf coast, @adroitjournal.bsky.social, @magmapoetry.bsky.social, @picnic-mag.bsky.social, best new poets, etc. MA goldsmiths. leylacolpan.com
beginning my biennial L word seasons one and two rewatch and reminding myself that the reason people don't like jenny schechter is that you all hate women
December 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
beginning my biennial L word seasons one and two rewatch and reminding myself that the reason people don't like jenny schechter is that you all hate women
it's truly giving tuesday
December 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
it's truly giving tuesday
role play is evil. stop telling lies
December 1, 2025 at 11:21 PM
role play is evil. stop telling lies
need a deleuzian boyfriend. a boyfriend without organs. well. Maybe one organ
December 1, 2025 at 12:44 AM
need a deleuzian boyfriend. a boyfriend without organs. well. Maybe one organ
developing a counterpart to the holy fool known as the "holy smart person"
November 30, 2025 at 11:48 PM
developing a counterpart to the holy fool known as the "holy smart person"
psychoanalysis is like electrology for the mind
November 30, 2025 at 11:41 PM
psychoanalysis is like electrology for the mind
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i trust rabbit with my life
November 26, 2025 at 3:55 AM
i trust rabbit with my life
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sheep are beautiful animals. it is okay to be a sheep. you are valued for your warmth and herbivorous charm
November 15, 2025 at 3:23 AM
sheep are beautiful animals. it is okay to be a sheep. you are valued for your warmth and herbivorous charm
subtly influencing the girlies to greet each other with a jumu'ah mubarek on fridays
November 15, 2025 at 1:21 AM
subtly influencing the girlies to greet each other with a jumu'ah mubarek on fridays
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This is a comic about Pandora
November 14, 2025 at 11:35 PM
This is a comic about Pandora
holy fool market saturation is reaching an all time high in this town lowkey
November 15, 2025 at 1:19 AM
holy fool market saturation is reaching an all time high in this town lowkey
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its interesting how whenever something is reduced to a “pure” science it agrees with every prevailing prejudice
In Opinion
Early in Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign, “it was easy to assume that failure to learn his name reflected a failure to take him seriously,” John McWhorter writes. But “as a matter of pure linguistics, it would be surprising if people didn’t have trouble with the name Mamdani.”
Early in Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign, “it was easy to assume that failure to learn his name reflected a failure to take him seriously,” John McWhorter writes. But “as a matter of pure linguistics, it would be surprising if people didn’t have trouble with the name Mamdani.”
Opinion | I Now Mispronounce You the Likely Next Mayor of New York City
A lot of people seem to trip over Zohran Mamdani’s name. The reason may not be as simple as it seems.
nyti.ms
October 31, 2025 at 3:02 PM
its interesting how whenever something is reduced to a “pure” science it agrees with every prevailing prejudice
some favourites from my istanbul album
October 31, 2025 at 4:03 AM
some favourites from my istanbul album
the void as per. photo by akira
October 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
the void as per. photo by akira
in jami, joseph's escape from zulaikha takes the form of a trans-reveal
at the critical moment, as if remembering he is a man, joseph becomes an agent of pure access who penetrates through every door. no longer the fish or gazelle, he is likened now to a falcon. then she tears off his clothes lol
at the critical moment, as if remembering he is a man, joseph becomes an agent of pure access who penetrates through every door. no longer the fish or gazelle, he is likened now to a falcon. then she tears off his clothes lol
September 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
in jami, joseph's escape from zulaikha takes the form of a trans-reveal
at the critical moment, as if remembering he is a man, joseph becomes an agent of pure access who penetrates through every door. no longer the fish or gazelle, he is likened now to a falcon. then she tears off his clothes lol
at the critical moment, as if remembering he is a man, joseph becomes an agent of pure access who penetrates through every door. no longer the fish or gazelle, he is likened now to a falcon. then she tears off his clothes lol
realised today that every prose project i've ever started has been an attempt to retell the story of alageyik or kafka's the bridge
September 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
realised today that every prose project i've ever started has been an attempt to retell the story of alageyik or kafka's the bridge
not five minutes back in manhattan and i have been shat on by a pigeon with IBS
September 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
not five minutes back in manhattan and i have been shat on by a pigeon with IBS
at the heart of that thing we call The Life there is a black box, an unanalyzable and aporetic moment-of-change, or of exchange. as between life and death, between cities or countries, between one sex and another. like a throw of dice, or a leap into faith, we do this over and over
September 3, 2025 at 7:33 AM
at the heart of that thing we call The Life there is a black box, an unanalyzable and aporetic moment-of-change, or of exchange. as between life and death, between cities or countries, between one sex and another. like a throw of dice, or a leap into faith, we do this over and over
paging through the çolpan novel only to get bashed upside the head by back to back passages on the intellectual love of god and the virtues of a well-maintained 1961 pontiac tempest
September 3, 2025 at 12:06 AM
paging through the çolpan novel only to get bashed upside the head by back to back passages on the intellectual love of god and the virtues of a well-maintained 1961 pontiac tempest
thinking about copper stripping, bright-wire calving out of insulation. real umbilical
September 2, 2025 at 12:17 AM
thinking about copper stripping, bright-wire calving out of insulation. real umbilical
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wanted to walk out on that branch as one would turn down a dark alley in what rumi called the 'cities of love'; i have no idea what he meant by this except maybe that when you find the city deserted you must choose to live there anyway
July 2, 2023 at 8:28 PM
wanted to walk out on that branch as one would turn down a dark alley in what rumi called the 'cities of love'; i have no idea what he meant by this except maybe that when you find the city deserted you must choose to live there anyway
it's important that a novel's characters number among them a woman called something like phyllis
August 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
it's important that a novel's characters number among them a woman called something like phyllis
one from the archives
Keep What You Have — Columbia Journal
By giving it away. When I first learned that the line was not my lover’s—that it was, instead, a Narcotics Anonymous platitude which I might have as easily read on a proselytic tee shirt—I was, I admi...
www.columbiajournal.org
August 29, 2025 at 6:40 PM
one from the archives