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Raegen
@raegen.bsky.social
Author. Editor. Consultant. Artist? Masked since 2020. Here for the good stuff the other platforms suppress, like facts. HEAD OF A GORGON (VA Press), etc. Memoir in progress; seeks rep. She/her. Raegenmp.wordpress.com
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About me:

Award-winning titles: 

Head of a Gorgon
vegetarianalcoholicpress.com/titles/raege...

An Animal I Can't Name
twoofcupspress.wordpress.com/titles/

For event/workshop/podcast/other bookings, freelance, consults, interviews, requests, etc: raegenmp.wordpress.com

Resources I’ve made (🧵)
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My poem "The Fables of Snakes" is now live in @wwph.bsky.social. Inspired by a line from a @raegen.bsky.social poem, you can read it here: www.washingtonwriters.org/2025/01/24/w...
WWPH WRITES ISSUE 90
www.washingtonwriters.org
January 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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“Joy” obtained in part by denying the fact there’s a dangerous airborne virus on the loose—that everyone’s ignoring—isn’t true or lasting peace. However any contentment you can scrap together after doing the hard work of acknowledging this troubling fact is well-earned & deserved.
January 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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The Supreme Court ruled corporations were allowed to donate unlimited amounts to politicians in 2010.

It only took them 6 years to take complete control of the government and 15 years to mark sure their voices are the only ones the masses ever hear again.
January 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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i’m looking to speak to people in the millennial boston whisper network. email and signal in bio.
January 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?

Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.

Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
2025 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!
This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!
www.erininthemorning.com
January 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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We don’t forget.

This is what January 6th is:
January 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Never forget.
January 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Four years ago today, I got one of the best emails of my life: Freddy from VA Press wanted to publish my debut poetry collection, Head of a Gorgon.

This week, I got word that a streaming show my book is mentioned in, Deep End, is available worldwide!

fawesome.tv/category/913...
December 30, 2024 at 5:45 AM
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Library purchases are purchases. They pay the press. The press counts them towards advances and royalties. And (gasp) the book is in a library!! It’s wonderful and no one should ever feel bad about getting a book through a library instead of buying it.
I got it from my local library system, which has 28 physical copies (more than half are checked out) and 4 audiobooks. The branch library is two blocks from my house so I get most of my books from there. Hope this helps because I loved the book - I'm not a historian and knew nothing of that period.
December 26, 2024 at 11:29 PM
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December 24, 2024 at 12:43 PM
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Love it when bookshops or libraries arrange their books appropriately...
December 23, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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I'm realizing that most people still don't understand the degree to which the CDC and WHO spread misinformation about COVID and the degree to which social media platforms censored the health scientists who tried to correct the misinformation.
December 23, 2024 at 9:40 PM
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31 days of December, 31 ways to resist:

#5: Change your communication.

You are to stop arguing with MAGA this very minute. No more debate. No more discussions. They don’t care about policies or results, only emotions.

Here’s how we win:
December 5, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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Good one.
December 20, 2024 at 11:29 PM
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NYPD perfectly illustrates in a single day that they only exist to protect the oligarchy.
December 19, 2024 at 10:40 PM
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The ovulation tracking app, "Ovia", now mandates you identify what state you live in. Delete immediately and warn anyone who might need to know.
December 10, 2024 at 3:55 AM
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The ultimate question.

On Jan 21, 2025, who gets to run the @POTUS account here and on twitter:

Trump or Musk ?
December 19, 2024 at 1:17 AM
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Been taking breaks from grading to cook and clean and generally keep my life together and @mybadpoetrythepod.bsky.social has been helping with that.

This podcast is freakin wholesome and wonderful. Seriously.
December 19, 2024 at 12:53 AM
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Less than 2 days now to submit your application to The SmokeLong Emerging Writer Fellowship. Deadline Dec. 15 at midnight NYC. Anyone on earth 18+ who has not published a book-length work is eligible. Details: www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
The SmokeLong Emerging Writer Fellowship 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly
For over a decade SmokeLong has supported emerging writers through The Kathy Fish Fellowship, later renamed The SmokeLong Emerging Writer Fellowship. As we have grown, we’ve decided to offer a program...
www.smokelong.com
December 14, 2024 at 12:55 PM
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December issue of the #Poetry Bulletin is out: poetrybulletin.substack.com/p/poetry-bul...
Poetry Bulletin: December 2024
15+ deadlines, writing experiments, and the 2025 update is on the way
poetrybulletin.substack.com
December 11, 2024 at 5:11 PM
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It's that time of year again.

Bosses, your employees do not want branded company swag, a donation made in their name, or a self-improvement book for the holidays.

They want money. Give them money.
December 10, 2024 at 6:27 PM
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We remind them that health isn’t permanent. That Covid isn’t over. And that they should start caring again.

The good news is it’s not too late. Stop blaming the “vulnerable” and start demanding better from governments & public health. Mask back up. Refuse to toss anyone to the wayside. /end
December 9, 2024 at 3:35 AM
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December 7, 2024 at 2:32 PM
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Covid is arguably the biggest cover-up of the 21st century—and it’s being perpetrated right in front of everyone’s eyes. There are now thousands of peer-reviewed scientific studies warning of its dangers, and articles on it are a simple Google search away.

Protect yourself and others. #WearAnN95
November 16, 2024 at 5:04 PM