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Emily Mohn-Slate
@mohnslate.bsky.social
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author, THE FALLS & FEED 📚
BE WHERE YOU ARE on Substack
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PGH/LA 🌊 (she/her)
lots of feelings since 1979
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The next two Mondays are the first weeks Erinn Batykefer and I are taking OFF since we started Ass in Chair Collective – but we’ll be back on Jan 5th to keep us all going through winter ❄️ Get on the list for the January and join us! ❄️⚡️
❄️JANUARY: Ass in Chair Collective❄️
⚡️WINTER SEASON PREMIERS January 5th⚡️
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December 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Do you write poetry? Are you looking to join a poetry group? I'd love to have you apply to join my January - April poetry workshop offered through @brownbaglit.bsky.social. Read more here and reach out with any questions: chloeyelenamiller.substack.com/p/poetry-on-...
December 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
mohnslate.bsky.social
Tomorrow, Mon Dec 15th at 12 EST: Ass in Chair is free! & we'll have some giveaways. Hope to see you there to cheer you on with your creative work💥
❄️Join us for the LAST Ass in Chair of 2025!❄️ It's FREE!
🕯️And it's a Solstice Party! 🕯️
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December 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
mohnslate.bsky.social
💥🌱new beginner’s mind interview up today with badass creativity facilitator Catherine LaSota on the power of limiting your assumptions, approaching your creative practice as a relationship, and being your own daddy💥🌱 ALSO: listen to her podcast, Feed the Art, if you're a writer or creative!
"the devotion to return to a creative practice, again and again"
badass creativity facilitator Catherine LaSota on the power of limiting your assumptions, approaching your creative practice as a relationship, and being your own daddy💥🌱
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December 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
mohnslate.bsky.social
This Monday Nov 17th: it’s our FREE monthly meet-up! Come join Erinn Batykefer & the Ass in Chair Collective crew to steal time for your creative self alone/together! (on zoom 12-1 EST) ❤️🪑
🪑This month's FREE Ass in Chair Collective —Mon, Nov 17th!🪑
This one's open to anyone—Get on the list!
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November 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
mohnslate.bsky.social
Ryan Rose Weaver shares a rich window into her mindfulness and creative practices in this beginner’s mind interview. If you don’t know her and her awesome community on substack, In Tending, let this be your introduction! 🙏🏼🌱 emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/conscious-...
"conscious but gentle collaboration with what is"
parent, educator, writer, and meditator Ryan Rose Weaver on how her mindfulness and creative practices help her advocate for care and reciprocity for all beings 🙏🏼🌱
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October 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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This helped me today. Small Kindnesses, by Danusha Laméris
Small Kindnesses by Danusha Laméris I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you” when someone sneezes, a leftover from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying. And sometimes, when you spill lemons from your grocery bag, someone else will help you pick them up. Mostly, we don’t want to harm each other. We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot, and to say thank you to the person handing it. To smile at them and for them to smile back. For the waitress to call us honey when she sets down the bowl of clam chowder, and for the driver in the red pick-up truck to let us pass. We have so little of each other, now. So far from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange. What if they are the true dwelling of the holy, these fleeting temples we make together when we say, “Here, have my seat,” “Go ahead—you first,” “I like your hat.”
August 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Had a great conversation with @abbyhiggs.bsky.social about my new book, GRAPHIC RAGE!
Graphic Rage: An Interview with Writer and Artist Aubrey Hirsch
Writer and visual artist Aubrey Hirsch knows Clarence Thomas won’t be reading Graphic Rage – and that’s fine. Her new book isn’t meant to convert opponents; it aims to witness, validate, and …
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October 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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It's hard to overstate how fully engaged Chicago and the surrounding suburbs are in this ICE madness. There are neighborhood watch alerts, spontaneous crowds gathering outside schools at pick up & drop off plus madly blowing whistles and honking car horns, this city is fighting back and hard.
October 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
mohnslate.bsky.social
Margot Kahn truly lives out the ethos of beginner’s mind in her writing and her life (she opened a bakery! she hosts a podcast about ferries with her son!) Read on & channel some of that potent beginner’s mind energy for yourself.🌲
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"I have time"
baker, poet, and biographer Margot Kahn on getting over self-consciousness to begin again (and again) and the power of reminding yourself that you do have time 🌲
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October 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Kid 1, side 2 #NoKings
June 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
mohnslate.bsky.social
🪐a new beginner’s mind interview is up with Jeanna Kadlec (@jeannakadlec.bsky.social), who writes the New York Times featured newsletter, astrology for writers 🪐

IF YOU DON'T KNOW JEANNA AND HER WISDOM, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?

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"Inspiration and spiritual connection are seduced with attention"
writer, astrologer, and teacher Jeanna Kadlec on the power of getting out of the house, considering the astro-weather, and balancing your creative inputs and outputs 🪐⚡
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October 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM
mohnslate.bsky.social
New interview up with author and environmental writer Christina Rivera (@crivera.bsky.social) on opening and shutting her "subconscious door," holding suffering and grief, and the sparkle of beginner's mind 🌊 SO MANY GEMS IN HERE! 💎💎
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"befriending my subconscious"
essayist, author, and environmental writer Christina Rivera on opening and shutting her "subconscious door," holding suffering and grief, and the sparkle of beginner's mind 🌊
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October 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
mohnslate.bsky.social
We’re so excited to introduce the FALL SLATE of 🪑THE ASS IN CHAIR COLLECTIVE! 🪑 Sign up at the link in the post to join us for some accountability, community & ass jokes 🎉🔗
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🍁FALL SLATE: Ass in Chair Collective🍁
⚡️NEW SEASON PREMIERS Oct 6th ⚡️
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September 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
mohnslate.bsky.social
Such a rich interview w/ Cassie Pruyn ✨ If you haven’t read her book, LENA, and you need some queer/lesbian love poems or immersive poems that transmute grief, you know what to do.
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"trust the work"
Poet, writer, and teacher Cassie Pruyn on the power of patience, casting a wide net for inspiration, and trusting the work ✨✨
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September 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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In the rush of September, in a time of violence and division, telling our stories and making art matters. Believing you are good enough matters because we just can’t give up. So, here’s a pep talk for you from me. 🩵
Dear one who is trying so hard
a pep talk for myself & whoever else might need it
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September 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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This is less about what you do or don’t say both Charlie Kirk than it is about being alive, together, in a time and place that cares about far too few of our lives.

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How do you respond when a famous person whose ideology you abhor is shot and killed?
The same way you respond to every death in a world too full of it
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September 11, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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christafairbrother.bsky.social
The Southword poetry podcast is back with their latest season and I'm enjoying the latest episode with @tracibrimhall.bsky.social this morning 😀

#poetrypodcast #poetry

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Traci Brimhall: Love Prodigal
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August 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
mohnslate.bsky.social
✨ a very special interview for you w/ artist, writer & social change facilitator Hanna du Plessis on welcoming suffering in the midst of ALS, and her continuing practice to soften into What Is✨
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"I am here now, I trust my wise heart."
artist, writer & social change facilitator Hanna du Plessis on welcoming suffering in the midst of ALS, and her continuing practice to soften into What Is 🌱
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August 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
mohnslate.bsky.social
✨🙏🏼 New interview up with poet, essayist & memoirist Heather Lanier on her writing and Centering Prayer practices and how they help her access Something Bigger ✨🙏🏼

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"we are made to create"
poet, essayist & memoirist Heather Lanier on her writing and Centering Prayer practices and how they help her access Something Bigger ✨🙏🏼
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August 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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This Mon, Aug 18th at noon EST, Ass in Chair is FREE!! Come test drive this warm, supportive crew that will help you get going and see what you think!! We'd love to see you there xo
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⚡️FREE⚡️Ass in Chair Collective: Monday August 18
Now's your chance to test run the best creative meetup on the internet!
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August 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
mohnslate.bsky.social
Be Where You Are is two years old!!!! To celebrate, I made you a recs & links post with many many things I’ve loved this summer 🎉❤️ emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/waves-upon...
waves upon waves of Recs & Links
for your melty August days
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August 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Orwell: "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." Except we won't let them fully control it. I believe those reports exist in versions he can't corrupt and erase. bsky.app/profile/afre...
afreedma.bsky.social Andrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · Aug 7
Energy Secretary Chris Wright says Trump admin is altering previous National Climate Assessments. These were produced by hundreds of climate scientists and mandated by Congress. (1/2)
August 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
mohnslate.bsky.social
💥Monday’s Ass in Chair Collective is a treat for paid subscribers: Maritza Mosquera will be joining us as a guest host!💥 Maritza is a visual artist, poet & cook whose creations often accompany dialogues with communities.

🔗Details & link to register: emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/special-ed...
Special Edition Ass in Chair Collective: Monday August 11th
💥With special Guest Host, Maritza Mosquera! 💥
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August 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Thanks to @mohnslate.bsky.social for including me in this interview series.

My article covers my two biggest passions- #poetry and #aquaygoga
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August 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM