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Z🖤🗝️
@zeinawrites.bsky.social
🕯️Reader | Writer | Experimental Singer-songwriter | Artist🦇

❤️‍🩹struggling with burnout & CPTSD

Ottawa ~ Algonquin territory
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📖 Galapagos, The Bluest Eye

IG: @z.writes.and.reads
Upscrolled: @zreadslit
Storygraph: @zreadslit
Pixelfed: @lovelostfireatwill
I’m not reading (or writing, singing or painting) much atm. But here’s some pretty books anyway #booksky #vintageclassics #modernclassics
February 1, 2026 at 3:30 AM
Letting myself rest / not letting myself rest
February 1, 2026 at 3:25 AM
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“One of the things that I don’t think is getting talked enough about outside of Minnesota,” she said after a pause, “is how much this feels like ethnic cleansing. People are so afraid to go out and participate in public life regardless of their citizenship status. This isn’t about immigration.”
January 27, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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So many people are volunteering to defend their community in Maine and they are going to need national support soon
January 27, 2026 at 4:09 AM
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“It is not as if the world has not long been one in which vast numbers live in dystopian depredation. The horizon is more visible now to many who had thought themselves insulated, if they thought about it at all. And dystopia for some is utopia for others. We live in a utopia: it just isn’t ours.”
A Strategy for Ruination
An interview with China Miéville
www.bostonreview.net
January 25, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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Reading Frantz Fanon
with Geo Maher

Join this hybrid political education collaboration between Haymarket Books and @abolitionschool.bsky.social

Wednesday evenings beginning February 4th

RSVP to join:
Reading Frantz Fanon with Geo Maher
A hybrid political education collaboration between Haymarket Books and the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction.
www.haymarketbooks.org
January 23, 2026 at 8:38 PM
I ended 2025 with 5 poems published, a poetry chapbook and novel in process, a book & film blog turning community blog, 52 books read, a lot of support for Gazans on the ground and elsewhere, a bookstagram community that waxes & wanes, and a completely destroyed psyche, so… (1/2)
January 23, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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New publisher listing for: Our Old Vanishing House @zeinawrites.bsky.social (Poetry Nonfiction; non-paying). #WritingCommunity
New Publisher Listing: Our Old Vanishing House
New publisher listing for: Our Old Vanishing House @zeinawrites.bsky.social (Poetry Nonfiction; non-paying). #WritingCommunity
duotrope.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Ashes ashes we all fall down
October 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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We are one week away from the launch of Premee's new book here in Ottawa at Perfect Books, with me as wingman. Please come, and support a lovely bookstore while you're at it.
If you are going to be in Ottawa Oct. 20, you should come see me and @premeemohamed.com at the launch for her excellent novella, The First Thousand Trees. At the wonderful community hub that is Perfect Books.
October 13, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Realizing the info I need is in a diary I set to flames in 2021. Oh, we should really stop doing this with our diaries, self.
October 13, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Book Review: Our Wives Under the Sea (2022), Julia Armfield [Genres: Horror, Sapphic, Lit Fic] ouroldvanishinghouse.com/book-review-...

It is not aspoiler free review
And yes I reccommend it #booksky
Book Review: Our Wives Under the Sea (2022), Julia Armfield [Genres: Horror, Sapphic, Lit Fic] - Our Old Vanishing House: A Personal, Arts and Community Blog
I read Our Wives Under the Sea in two days. I haven’t done that in a year...
ouroldvanishinghouse.com
October 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
And in that case….
The Cure - Disintegration (2010 Remaster)
Listen to Disintegration (2010 Remaster) on TIDAL
tidal.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Things I am not interested in, A Memoir in list form. Or: How I Survived the 2020s Wanting Nothing
October 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I’m trying something different in writing about music. I need more practice, but here’s a start!

Helmet's Aftertaste and Heavy Music in 1997 ouroldvanishinghouse.com/helmets-afte...
Helmet's Aftertaste and Heavy Music in 1997 - Our Old Vanishing House: A Personal, Arts and Community Blog
“Invented facts that you know you could use. Sell them door to door with religious fervour no...
ouroldvanishinghouse.com
September 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
It’s weird that I’ve spent my whole life saying I don’t really understand Arabic, but then you put a Lebanese or Palestinian content creator near me & I’m like, wait? I know Arabic I guess!?
September 4, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Not-love is a season
August 29, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I can’t believe I skipped on buyjng the dark chocolate while I’m on my period. Self, wtf.

Give me sugar or give me death
July 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Bedroom eyes lead to blurry vision
July 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Anyway, today:
#booksky
July 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Sometimes I think there’s something wrong with me for how nothing Baldwin has written has hit me very hard at all, and in fact that I’ve almost been bored. That’s 3 books, by the way. #booksky #baldwin #jamesbaldwin
July 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
One day I am dry paper girl, another drenched in lake & sticking to all sides of you. I would never let go, I would never let go. I hate this about me. I’d rather drown in you than let go.

Yet all I do is run, somehow
You’ll never catch me.
June 27, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Thanks for nothing, PTSD
June 21, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Give the photographer the Pulitzer Prize
June 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM