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Trista Mateer
@tristamateer.bsky.social
320 followers 150 following 9 posts
poet (derogatory)
into longing and yearning
I wrote some books
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painintheneckshow.bsky.social
lesbian vampires...end of sentence
December 10, 2024 at 1:32 AM
tristamateer.bsky.social
A journal page, written with crayon in bold red and black text: we have lost the luxury of tenderness, sharpen your teeth
February 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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junk journal page that says: hope can feel a lot like delusion
January 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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cuntcore.bsky.social
It’s a wonderful day to visit your local used bookstore and buy some banned books 🥰
January 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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winter-nawa.bsky.social
Is this how #booksky works? 🌈📚

Aphrodite Made Me Do It - @tristamateer.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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is Claire’s still doing lobotomies
January 23, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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illustration of flowers in crayon. reads: my heart breaks ten times per day.
January 22, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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illumi.meme
they should invent unprecedented times that are good
January 21, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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nikitagill.bsky.social
From Mary Oliver
OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.
January 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
tristamateer.bsky.social
I must become a menace to my enemies. Quote by June Jordan.
January 20, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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bilboyaga.bsky.social
Reminder: you don’t have to be good at something to enjoy it, you don’t have to get better at it, you don’t have to monetize it, and it doesn’t have to be useful.
December 1, 2024 at 8:27 PM
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*summoning circle for my fav poet to come and post to BlueSky her beautiful words*

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
November 12, 2024 at 4:04 PM
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faerie.swifties.social
MY FAVORITE POET IS ON BLUESKY .:; @tristamateer.bsky.social

she wrote .:; “Aphrodite Made Me Do It”

this is taken from the section .:;
{ Aphrodite Airs Her Grievances }

pg. 18, 19, 20, and 21

( “What brings us together will always be more powerful than what keeps us apart. “ )

#poetry
page 18 taken from “Aphrodite Made Me Do It” by Trista Mateer, written below .:; The church turned me into a symbol of lust. Called the apples in my cheeks sinful. Said heaven would spit my body back out because it had no place there. page 19 taken from “Aphrodite Made Me Do It” by Trista Mateer, written below .:; I never needed anyone else to make a place for me. I have run naked through Eden. I have chased the universe to its end. page 20 taken from “Aphrodite Made Me Do It” by Trista Mateer, written below .:; They whittled me down one piece at a time. They took my anger. They took my voice. They took my story. page 21 taken from “Aphrodite Made Me Do It” by Trista Mateer, written out below .:; They colored me pink and wrapped me in floral. They scrubbed the dirt from under my nails. They wanted you to believe love is weak, that you cannot curse and kiss with the same mouth. They wanted you to believe that the root of love is romance, soft and wide-eyed. See what they did to my stories? My temples? My statues? Regardless of whether you desire it, love is what sits at the core of this world. It is stronger than greed and hate and jealousy and pain. What brings us together will always be more powerful than what keeps us apart.
November 12, 2024 at 1:15 PM
tristamateer.bsky.social
back on my bullshit (crying in public)
November 9, 2024 at 9:19 PM
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a poem for you from my book Artemis Made Me Do It.
[image of a poem from the book Artemis Made Me Do It by Trista Mateer.] Teach your daughters to say “no.” Teach your daughters to raise their voices. Teach your daughters to make waves. To value safety over politeness. To yell fire instead of help. Teach your daughters to feel comfortable in their own bodies. Teach your daughters to live without shame. Teach your daughters to hit first. To bite back. To burn the world down when they are mistreated. Teach your daughters to out their abusers. To be deadly serious. To be dangerous. To be sure. To know what they want. Teach your daughters to take a stand. To be bold. To be brave. Teach your daughters to believe in a better world. And then tell them they deserve one. Say, you do not have to suffer like I have suffered. Say, the legacy of girlhood does not have to be one of pain.
November 7, 2024 at 12:38 AM
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nikitagill.bsky.social
From Brecht.
April 20, 2023 at 6:12 PM