Airea D. Matthews
@aireadee.bsky.social
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Airea D. Matthews
@aireadee.bsky.social
· Nov 15
What if we get off everything and just start reading?
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This poem by @aireadee.bsky.social lifted me this morning on its Icarus wings.
"Light refracts my name in
dialect only moths comprehend."
"Light refracts my name in
dialect only moths comprehend."
Altitude
Icarus, he advised, heed the warning: don’t fly
poets.org
June 18, 2025 at 12:26 PM
This poem by @aireadee.bsky.social lifted me this morning on its Icarus wings.
"Light refracts my name in
dialect only moths comprehend."
"Light refracts my name in
dialect only moths comprehend."
Laundromats are one of those few places where you can connect in real time with other human beings who may or may not have vastly different lives than your own.
Go to a laundromat and watch how you learn something new. I’ll die on this hill.
Go to a laundromat and watch how you learn something new. I’ll die on this hill.
May 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Laundromats are one of those few places where you can connect in real time with other human beings who may or may not have vastly different lives than your own.
Go to a laundromat and watch how you learn something new. I’ll die on this hill.
Go to a laundromat and watch how you learn something new. I’ll die on this hill.
Wherever you are at least it’s not inside this uber of undefinable funk. At least it’s not here.
April 27, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Wherever you are at least it’s not inside this uber of undefinable funk. At least it’s not here.
We can throw this whole month in the trash for all I care.
February 21, 2025 at 2:18 AM
We can throw this whole month in the trash for all I care.
🙏🏽❤️
Early poem today for 19th day of National Black History month. Confessions From Here by Airea D. Matthews.
@aireadee.bsky.social This poem is a brilliant case of you not knowing what will come next!
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@aireadee.bsky.social This poem is a brilliant case of you not knowing what will come next!
poets.org/poem/confess...
Confessions From Here
I left our window open most nights
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February 20, 2025 at 9:59 AM
🙏🏽❤️
It would be very nice if politicians cared about upholding democracy as much as they care about tweeting. But…here we are.
Afraid to break. Content to be broken.
Afraid to break. Content to be broken.
February 4, 2025 at 11:22 PM
It would be very nice if politicians cared about upholding democracy as much as they care about tweeting. But…here we are.
Afraid to break. Content to be broken.
Afraid to break. Content to be broken.
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This is a constitutional crisis: the President doesn't have the power to cancel funds appropriated by Congress. Also, the math is insane; there is NO way to cut $4B/day by getting rid of "fraud". Cuts of that magnitude will dangerously undermine the core functions of government.
February 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
This is a constitutional crisis: the President doesn't have the power to cancel funds appropriated by Congress. Also, the math is insane; there is NO way to cut $4B/day by getting rid of "fraud". Cuts of that magnitude will dangerously undermine the core functions of government.
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Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they *done* yet but the level of …
February 2, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they *done* yet but the level of …
You’re feeling dread for a reason. Search for the reason and activate.
February 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
You’re feeling dread for a reason. Search for the reason and activate.
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Democratic strategist Keith Edwards wrote this guide for federal employees—it has suggestions for how they can slow walk and even stop the Trump administration agenda from being implemented. Please share it!
keithedwards.substack.com/p/delay-leak...
keithedwards.substack.com/p/delay-leak...
Delay, Leak, Disobey: How to Counter Trump 2.0 from Within
Bureaucrats will guard the frontlines in the fight against American authoritarianism.
keithedwards.substack.com
January 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Democratic strategist Keith Edwards wrote this guide for federal employees—it has suggestions for how they can slow walk and even stop the Trump administration agenda from being implemented. Please share it!
keithedwards.substack.com/p/delay-leak...
keithedwards.substack.com/p/delay-leak...
The value of these platforms is in the algorithm. When buyers purchase, they purchase the speculative valuation of the algorithm—which is to say they buy your desires, thoughts, patterns & try to shape culture around what you think you wanted.
Lull you to sleep sated.
Rock you awake wanting.
Lull you to sleep sated.
Rock you awake wanting.
January 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The value of these platforms is in the algorithm. When buyers purchase, they purchase the speculative valuation of the algorithm—which is to say they buy your desires, thoughts, patterns & try to shape culture around what you think you wanted.
Lull you to sleep sated.
Rock you awake wanting.
Lull you to sleep sated.
Rock you awake wanting.
Another reading selection
January 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Another reading selection
I can’t pass up the opportunity to be a Virgo and say “I told yall.”
January 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I can’t pass up the opportunity to be a Virgo and say “I told yall.”
They can’t have your mind if you don’t let them. And if you don’t let them, they won’t have your thoughts to tarnish.
January 24, 2025 at 1:12 AM
They can’t have your mind if you don’t let them. And if you don’t let them, they won’t have your thoughts to tarnish.
It’s all spectacle. It’s all Bread and Circus.
January 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
It’s all spectacle. It’s all Bread and Circus.
Unbearable beauty (without filter or editing). Sunset in Toubab Dialaw.
January 16, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Unbearable beauty (without filter or editing). Sunset in Toubab Dialaw.
Watching America from Senegal. Superbly shitty episode today with the 4th beastie boy in a gold chain talking about freedom.
January 8, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Watching America from Senegal. Superbly shitty episode today with the 4th beastie boy in a gold chain talking about freedom.
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New York at night. Dakar at sunrise.
January 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
New York at night. Dakar at sunrise.
Just a reminder that meetings that could have been an email have life or death consequences.
December 5, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Just a reminder that meetings that could have been an email have life or death consequences.
Imagine starting a battle rap and losing so completely, you call the police.
November 28, 2024 at 2:52 PM
Imagine starting a battle rap and losing so completely, you call the police.
May I suggest the Kendrick Lamar model for the next four years?
-Anticipate foolishness
-Find an inside source
-Use your art form to drop 🔥 diss tracks proving you have intel
-Stage local spite concerts
-Get media coverage
-Go 🤫
-Book gigs
-Release a global collab, double down phenom
-Anticipate foolishness
-Find an inside source
-Use your art form to drop 🔥 diss tracks proving you have intel
-Stage local spite concerts
-Get media coverage
-Go 🤫
-Book gigs
-Release a global collab, double down phenom
November 27, 2024 at 2:56 PM
May I suggest the Kendrick Lamar model for the next four years?
-Anticipate foolishness
-Find an inside source
-Use your art form to drop 🔥 diss tracks proving you have intel
-Stage local spite concerts
-Get media coverage
-Go 🤫
-Book gigs
-Release a global collab, double down phenom
-Anticipate foolishness
-Find an inside source
-Use your art form to drop 🔥 diss tracks proving you have intel
-Stage local spite concerts
-Get media coverage
-Go 🤫
-Book gigs
-Release a global collab, double down phenom
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A very wise student! I think of this Zadie Smith quote, "It’s an unfortunate thing, but it turns out that the perfect state of mind to edit your own novel is two years after it’s published, ten minutes before you go onstage at a literary festival."
November 25, 2024 at 3:13 PM
A very wise student! I think of this Zadie Smith quote, "It’s an unfortunate thing, but it turns out that the perfect state of mind to edit your own novel is two years after it’s published, ten minutes before you go onstage at a literary festival."