Summer Koester
@summeralaska.bsky.social
Writer, artivist, teacher, culture disruptor
Substack bestseller w/ the Feral Stack
https://open.substack.com/pub/summerisferal
Substack bestseller w/ the Feral Stack
https://open.substack.com/pub/summerisferal
So the guy that ran on ending wars has now renamed the Dpt of Defense to the Dpt of War. 🙄
It’s almost as if they just don’t even care about votes anymore. Almost if they won’t even need them...
It’s almost as if they just don’t even care about votes anymore. Almost if they won’t even need them...
September 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
So the guy that ran on ending wars has now renamed the Dpt of Defense to the Dpt of War. 🙄
It’s almost as if they just don’t even care about votes anymore. Almost if they won’t even need them...
It’s almost as if they just don’t even care about votes anymore. Almost if they won’t even need them...
There’s a saying: Whoever discovered water wasn’t a fish. Fish don’t know they’re in water because water is all they know.
The water is patriarchy, which we now know is the real enemy of male mental health.
I wrote this as a love letter for men and boys.
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The water is patriarchy, which we now know is the real enemy of male mental health.
I wrote this as a love letter for men and boys.
open.substack.com/pub/summeris...
Gaslighting women is killing men
Why patriarchy is the real enemy of male mental health
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September 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
There’s a saying: Whoever discovered water wasn’t a fish. Fish don’t know they’re in water because water is all they know.
The water is patriarchy, which we now know is the real enemy of male mental health.
I wrote this as a love letter for men and boys.
open.substack.com/pub/summeris...
The water is patriarchy, which we now know is the real enemy of male mental health.
I wrote this as a love letter for men and boys.
open.substack.com/pub/summeris...
Wakeboarding in Juneau, Alaska. 9 PM.
August 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Wakeboarding in Juneau, Alaska. 9 PM.
“We understand your frustrations with our spotty wi-fi. Our carrier terns were in luteal phase, and our glaciers were menstruating HARD. Although watching you get swarmed by mosquitoes like you’ve never pitched a tent in a D.C. swamp, I nearly spit out my beaver testicles whiskey.”
Alaska to CNN: I Can See Your BS From My House
Nobody asked our opinion, but here it is anyway
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August 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
“We understand your frustrations with our spotty wi-fi. Our carrier terns were in luteal phase, and our glaciers were menstruating HARD. Although watching you get swarmed by mosquitoes like you’ve never pitched a tent in a D.C. swamp, I nearly spit out my beaver testicles whiskey.”
“My condolences, Jake Tapper, that you were picked over Anderson Cooper to report from the frozen tuliwhackers where the news media banishes its low-value males. (1)
Alaska to CNN: I Can See Your BS From My House
Nobody asked our opinion, but here it is anyway
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August 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
“My condolences, Jake Tapper, that you were picked over Anderson Cooper to report from the frozen tuliwhackers where the news media banishes its low-value males. (1)
I used to think that the underlying emotion of anger was grief, but now I know it’s love. New newsletter just dropped. 💕
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Sorry Mom, But We’re Gonna Need a Stronger Word Than Fuck
Reclaiming Sacred Rage
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July 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I used to think that the underlying emotion of anger was grief, but now I know it’s love. New newsletter just dropped. 💕
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Wrote a thing substack.com/@summerisfer...
Sorry Mom, But We’re Gonna Need a Stronger Word Than Fuck
Reclaiming Sacred Rage
substack.com
July 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Wrote a thing substack.com/@summerisfer...
"You don't have to say fuck on Facebook," my mom said. But frankly, I don’t think women say fuck enough. I don’t think we give enough fucks, and I don’t think fuck is a strong enough word to express the horror at the state of the world. I think we should also say fuck a lot fucking louder, frankly.
July 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
"You don't have to say fuck on Facebook," my mom said. But frankly, I don’t think women say fuck enough. I don’t think we give enough fucks, and I don’t think fuck is a strong enough word to express the horror at the state of the world. I think we should also say fuck a lot fucking louder, frankly.
Ted Cruz offers prayers instead of flood relief funding while voting to increase ICE's budget by 2,000%. Apparently, God loves border enforcement 2,000% more than flood victims.
July 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Ted Cruz offers prayers instead of flood relief funding while voting to increase ICE's budget by 2,000%. Apparently, God loves border enforcement 2,000% more than flood victims.
Gonna need some whiskey in my covefefe
July 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Gonna need some whiskey in my covefefe
My friends and I led / danced a crowd of almost 2,000 peaceful protestors (6% of pop.) down Egan highway in our sequins and foam fingers blasting protest songs like a bunch of sparkly Pied Pipers. In Juneau, Alaska
June 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
My friends and I led / danced a crowd of almost 2,000 peaceful protestors (6% of pop.) down Egan highway in our sequins and foam fingers blasting protest songs like a bunch of sparkly Pied Pipers. In Juneau, Alaska
“The worst thing in the world is to feel that you’re the only one who feels this way and that you are going quietly mad and everyone else is in denial,” writes psychotherapist Caroline Hickman. “That terrifies people. It traumatizes people.”
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Greta Was Right: The "Normal" Ones Are Acting Pretty Strange
The cognitive dissonance of normalizing the abnormal
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June 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
“The worst thing in the world is to feel that you’re the only one who feels this way and that you are going quietly mad and everyone else is in denial,” writes psychotherapist Caroline Hickman. “That terrifies people. It traumatizes people.”
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open.substack.com/pub/summeris...
In comedy there’s one rule: punch up, not down. It’s almost as if this administration didn’t get the memo.
May 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
In comedy there’s one rule: punch up, not down. It’s almost as if this administration didn’t get the memo.
Teaching girls to be compliant teaches them that their value lies in pleasing others. They learn to make themselves smaller, exchanging their wants and needs for a perpetual state of what-do-people-want-from-me anxiety. (1)
May 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Teaching girls to be compliant teaches them that their value lies in pleasing others. They learn to make themselves smaller, exchanging their wants and needs for a perpetual state of what-do-people-want-from-me anxiety. (1)
OK now we need people showing up who love democracy as much as they loved the Pope
April 28, 2025 at 5:07 AM
OK now we need people showing up who love democracy as much as they loved the Pope
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This ruling is a massive win for immigrant rights and proof that Trump’s authoritarian playbook is collapsing in courtrooms across America. Due process is non-negotiable. Stay loud, stay fighting! 3/3
April 27, 2025 at 10:18 AM
This ruling is a massive win for immigrant rights and proof that Trump’s authoritarian playbook is collapsing in courtrooms across America. Due process is non-negotiable. Stay loud, stay fighting! 3/3
So much hope…. The judge who was arrested for allegedly sheltering a migrant was released and now there will be no autism registry. PopeJohn Paul, first pope to openly advocate for LGBTQ, appointed 4/5 of the Cardinals in the Vatican, hoping that his spirit and mission live on. (1)
April 27, 2025 at 2:43 AM
So much hope…. The judge who was arrested for allegedly sheltering a migrant was released and now there will be no autism registry. PopeJohn Paul, first pope to openly advocate for LGBTQ, appointed 4/5 of the Cardinals in the Vatican, hoping that his spirit and mission live on. (1)
This administration wants to make the country fertile again. You know what would make me fertile?
*quality affordable childcare
*fully funded public schools
*a partner who contributes equally to housework and childcare
*a village
*less gun violence
*a habitable planet
* Making empathy cool again
*quality affordable childcare
*fully funded public schools
*a partner who contributes equally to housework and childcare
*a village
*less gun violence
*a habitable planet
* Making empathy cool again
April 25, 2025 at 3:26 AM
This administration wants to make the country fertile again. You know what would make me fertile?
*quality affordable childcare
*fully funded public schools
*a partner who contributes equally to housework and childcare
*a village
*less gun violence
*a habitable planet
* Making empathy cool again
*quality affordable childcare
*fully funded public schools
*a partner who contributes equally to housework and childcare
*a village
*less gun violence
*a habitable planet
* Making empathy cool again
Criticizing the government doesn’t make you un-American. Criticizing Israel doesn’t make you anti-Israel or antisemitic. The deportation/detention of legal migrants who criticize Israel is a litmus test… For all of us.
April 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Criticizing the government doesn’t make you un-American. Criticizing Israel doesn’t make you anti-Israel or antisemitic. The deportation/detention of legal migrants who criticize Israel is a litmus test… For all of us.
Breaking news!!! the man who least makes me want to bring life into this world is calling himself the fertilization president!
April 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Breaking news!!! the man who least makes me want to bring life into this world is calling himself the fertilization president!
“Today didn’t see an Insurrection, but a Resurrection.” Best quote yet!
April 21, 2025 at 12:46 AM
“Today didn’t see an Insurrection, but a Resurrection.” Best quote yet!
My latest unpacks why it’s hard to have high justice sensitivity right now
April 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
My latest unpacks why it’s hard to have high justice sensitivity right now
think I must be a witch because as soon as I cut my fingernails, they grow back again instantly. 🧙
April 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
think I must be a witch because as soon as I cut my fingernails, they grow back again instantly. 🧙
So cancer enthusiast RFK took a break from roasting under hotdog halogen lights to announce that autism is an epidemic caused by mold and food additives. My daughter was raised in a mold free home and breast-fed until 3 ½ supplemented w/ organic foods. Not that that matters anyway because science.
April 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
So cancer enthusiast RFK took a break from roasting under hotdog halogen lights to announce that autism is an epidemic caused by mold and food additives. My daughter was raised in a mold free home and breast-fed until 3 ½ supplemented w/ organic foods. Not that that matters anyway because science.