Lidia Yuknavitch
@lidiamiles.bsky.social
Writer. Aquanaut. Motherloverother. Being with other beings human and beyond.
I am not much into heroes. The whole concept is a bit suspect to me, in narrative and in life. I lean Le Guin, I suppose. I profoundly understand how leadership qualities in some beings are useful to the group, I just don't think they are more important than other beautiful being qualities.
October 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I am not much into heroes. The whole concept is a bit suspect to me, in narrative and in life. I lean Le Guin, I suppose. I profoundly understand how leadership qualities in some beings are useful to the group, I just don't think they are more important than other beautiful being qualities.
GALLEY GASM :: 01.2026 Grand Central Publishing :: storyfield @ginafrangello @roxanegay74 @cherylstrayed @danquahrising @writerjalvarez @joeysoloway @writerreynagrande @monicadrak3 @pamlhouston @nguyenphanquemai_ @steinkedarcey and Lan Samantha Chang :: PREORDER NOW (or just admire blood red glider)
July 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
GALLEY GASM :: 01.2026 Grand Central Publishing :: storyfield @ginafrangello @roxanegay74 @cherylstrayed @danquahrising @writerjalvarez @joeysoloway @writerreynagrande @monicadrak3 @pamlhouston @nguyenphanquemai_ @steinkedarcey and Lan Samantha Chang :: PREORDER NOW (or just admire blood red glider)
in the place where our conversation used to live ::
July 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
in the place where our conversation used to live ::
you can join a mutual aid network in your community. you can start collecting supplies with a small group of people to help other people and each other. you can double-down on neighborhood watch groups--redirected toward the new police state and protecting your neighbors and each other.
July 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
you can join a mutual aid network in your community. you can start collecting supplies with a small group of people to help other people and each other. you can double-down on neighborhood watch groups--redirected toward the new police state and protecting your neighbors and each other.
We did not come all this way to let it ride. When dragged under, kick.
July 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
We did not come all this way to let it ride. When dragged under, kick.
The Onion calls out ‘cowardice’ of Congress in full-page NYT ad. The ad features a scathing editorial, a physical copy of which was sent to all House and Senate members (Sources: Rolling Stone, A.V. Club, The Handbasket)
June 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The Onion calls out ‘cowardice’ of Congress in full-page NYT ad. The ad features a scathing editorial, a physical copy of which was sent to all House and Senate members (Sources: Rolling Stone, A.V. Club, The Handbasket)
son :: sun :: song ::
June 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
son :: sun :: song ::
i went to meet water i had not met before. this is 62.
June 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
i went to meet water i had not met before. this is 62.
sharing for those of us who give a shit :: take turns collaboratively, don't fall for the lone hero trope when we all know (er many of us anyway) it's going to take all of us :: don't let anyone convince you that you are worthless we all have something to give :: buildingmovement.org/.../social-c...
June 15, 2025 at 11:23 PM
sharing for those of us who give a shit :: take turns collaboratively, don't fall for the lone hero trope when we all know (er many of us anyway) it's going to take all of us :: don't let anyone convince you that you are worthless we all have something to give :: buildingmovement.org/.../social-c...
two weeks at the end of May ::
June 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
two weeks at the end of May ::
if anyone has some spare pixie dust can you chuck it our way? for me and miles. micro macro, huh? hoo boy. gonna watch bad movies, eat pho, try again tomorrow. lip wobbles and weenie hut general notwithstanding, i salute those of you refusing to give up or in. we will return the love goo tomorrow.
March 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
if anyone has some spare pixie dust can you chuck it our way? for me and miles. micro macro, huh? hoo boy. gonna watch bad movies, eat pho, try again tomorrow. lip wobbles and weenie hut general notwithstanding, i salute those of you refusing to give up or in. we will return the love goo tomorrow.
I. LOVE. INDIE. BOOKSELLERS. gratitude. solidarity. love. @riverheadbooks.bsky.social
February 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I. LOVE. INDIE. BOOKSELLERS. gratitude. solidarity. love. @riverheadbooks.bsky.social
This book—like my life—emerged weirdly. Had to cancel readings, launch. If you feel able or want to, you can help this little book with a big heart along by sharing? Maybe you know someone who could use a story like this right now. Books find us. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/726930...
February 5, 2025 at 3:57 AM
This book—like my life—emerged weirdly. Had to cancel readings, launch. If you feel able or want to, you can help this little book with a big heart along by sharing? Maybe you know someone who could use a story like this right now. Books find us. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/726930...
I had a wonderful dialogue with Dave Miller on OPB Think Out Loud :: rebroadcast tonight at 8pm PST :: make art in the face of fuck :: also love each other up ::
Oregon writer Lidia Yuknavitch explores trauma and identity in ‘Reading the Waves’
Lidia Yuknavitch, the celebrated Oregon writer of fiction, essays and memoirs, has written a new book about how reframing our stories can release us from what she calls “the tyranny of our mistakes, o...
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February 5, 2025 at 3:53 AM
I had a wonderful dialogue with Dave Miller on OPB Think Out Loud :: rebroadcast tonight at 8pm PST :: make art in the face of fuck :: also love each other up ::
interviewer: would you say that you write for the forlorn?
me: (something between a laugh and a sigh). yes. As in the phrase "forlorn hope:" she urged them to stay in the forlorn hope of restoring the world. i'm ok with having spent a life riding the waves of forlorn hope, with others, for others.
me: (something between a laugh and a sigh). yes. As in the phrase "forlorn hope:" she urged them to stay in the forlorn hope of restoring the world. i'm ok with having spent a life riding the waves of forlorn hope, with others, for others.
January 18, 2025 at 9:05 PM
interviewer: would you say that you write for the forlorn?
me: (something between a laugh and a sigh). yes. As in the phrase "forlorn hope:" she urged them to stay in the forlorn hope of restoring the world. i'm ok with having spent a life riding the waves of forlorn hope, with others, for others.
me: (something between a laugh and a sigh). yes. As in the phrase "forlorn hope:" she urged them to stay in the forlorn hope of restoring the world. i'm ok with having spent a life riding the waves of forlorn hope, with others, for others.
from "Daughter" in Reading the Waves, forthcoming from @riverheadbooks.bsky.social, February 4th, 2025.Photo: Dorothy Sue Hays, my mother. Art credit: Miles Mingo: JFK Blown Away, after Robert Rauschenberg.
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Reading the Waves by Lidia Yuknavitch: 9780593713051 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
The frank and revealing memoir of a writer who draws from her own creativity to heal. "I believe our bodies are carriers of experience," Lidia Yuknavitch writes in her provocative memoir Reading the ...
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January 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
from "Daughter" in Reading the Waves, forthcoming from @riverheadbooks.bsky.social, February 4th, 2025.Photo: Dorothy Sue Hays, my mother. Art credit: Miles Mingo: JFK Blown Away, after Robert Rauschenberg.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/726930...
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She often befriended or had compassion for misfitted people. Even now, it is strange to me that artists like Rauschenberg and Janis Joplin could originate in such a pinched and barren body of land. But artists can come from any body."
January 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
She often befriended or had compassion for misfitted people. Even now, it is strange to me that artists like Rauschenberg and Janis Joplin could originate in such a pinched and barren body of land. But artists can come from any body."
My mother said two things: “People made fun of his big ears,” and “No one knew he had an artist boy living inside him at the time.” She was ridiculed for her physical disability as a girl; her right leg was six inches shorter than the other.
January 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
My mother said two things: “People made fun of his big ears,” and “No one knew he had an artist boy living inside him at the time.” She was ridiculed for her physical disability as a girl; her right leg was six inches shorter than the other.
"My mother was born in Port Arthur, Texas, east of Houston, a land of bobbing oil rig heads dotting the flat as fuck landscape like so many Singer sewing machines...she went to school with the artist Robert Rauschenberg, only back then his name was Milton Ernest Rauschenberg…
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January 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
"My mother was born in Port Arthur, Texas, east of Houston, a land of bobbing oil rig heads dotting the flat as fuck landscape like so many Singer sewing machines...she went to school with the artist Robert Rauschenberg, only back then his name was Milton Ernest Rauschenberg…
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