Alex Chand
@alexchand.bsky.social
MFA @ Mississippi / MA @ Leeds / poet and writer / https://alexchand.com / recent poems in The Cincinnati Review and The Offing
Excited to have a poem in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social 22.2! Here's the link if you'd like to read it [link]: www.cincinnatireview.com/articles/int...
Intertidal Zone - The Cincinnati Review
In the winter a woman brings the oceanin a crate, goes about separating the seacucumbers from the starfish from the hermitcrabs and anemones into
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November 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Excited to have a poem in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social 22.2! Here's the link if you'd like to read it [link]: www.cincinnatireview.com/articles/int...
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Call for Work: Autistic Protest Poetry
This call for work seeks poetry by autistic writers that is socially-engaged, politically-charged, and geared toward raising our voices together against oppression and erasure.
Deadline: July 1st
More details: medium.com/anomalyblog/...
This call for work seeks poetry by autistic writers that is socially-engaged, politically-charged, and geared toward raising our voices together against oppression and erasure.
Deadline: July 1st
More details: medium.com/anomalyblog/...
Call for Work: Autistic Protest Poetry
Autistic people’s rights are being threatened. Our worth is being questioned. And suddenly, we’re facing a bizarre accusation that an…
medium.com
April 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Call for Work: Autistic Protest Poetry
This call for work seeks poetry by autistic writers that is socially-engaged, politically-charged, and geared toward raising our voices together against oppression and erasure.
Deadline: July 1st
More details: medium.com/anomalyblog/...
This call for work seeks poetry by autistic writers that is socially-engaged, politically-charged, and geared toward raising our voices together against oppression and erasure.
Deadline: July 1st
More details: medium.com/anomalyblog/...
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***CFP*** Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Directions/Intersections/Contradictions, Durham University, 24-26 June 2025
ndhumanities.com/2024/12/17/c...
Deadline for 300 word abstracts: 28 Feb 2025
Fully hybrid, no registration fee, bursaries+fellowships available.
ndhumanities.com/2024/12/17/c...
Deadline for 300 word abstracts: 28 Feb 2025
Fully hybrid, no registration fee, bursaries+fellowships available.
Call for Abstracts: Critical Neurodiversity Studies, 24–26 June 2025, Durham, UK – ND Hums
ndhumanities.com
December 18, 2024 at 3:55 PM
***CFP*** Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Directions/Intersections/Contradictions, Durham University, 24-26 June 2025
ndhumanities.com/2024/12/17/c...
Deadline for 300 word abstracts: 28 Feb 2025
Fully hybrid, no registration fee, bursaries+fellowships available.
ndhumanities.com/2024/12/17/c...
Deadline for 300 word abstracts: 28 Feb 2025
Fully hybrid, no registration fee, bursaries+fellowships available.
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hello, good evening, my name
is chen chen, i’m a poet, and you may know me from such poems as this, “i love you to the moon &”
is chen chen, i’m a poet, and you may know me from such poems as this, “i love you to the moon &”
November 22, 2024 at 10:46 PM
hello, good evening, my name
is chen chen, i’m a poet, and you may know me from such poems as this, “i love you to the moon &”
is chen chen, i’m a poet, and you may know me from such poems as this, “i love you to the moon &”
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Just published a new Substack. It's mostly writing from other people because they had much more to say than I ever could. Enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/iraeidle...
Unmasking Discourse on Masking
Masking is something discussed often in autistic spaces-but what does it actually mean?
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December 2, 2024 at 1:43 AM
Just published a new Substack. It's mostly writing from other people because they had much more to say than I ever could. Enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/iraeidle...
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#tl;dr -
• Wikipedia's main entry on autism is overlong, poorly structured and mostly ignores decades of autistic insights
• Epistemic injustice is a widespread problem: too many are not believed about their own experiences, or given the tools to understand them
• Wikipedia's main entry on autism is overlong, poorly structured and mostly ignores decades of autistic insights
• Epistemic injustice is a widespread problem: too many are not believed about their own experiences, or given the tools to understand them
Written by @ferrousmu.bsky.social and published by @thinkingautism.bsky.social . This is important reading material re: epistemic injustice and the forces that shape how Autistic people are seen.
thinkingautismguide.com/2024/11/how-...
thinkingautismguide.com/2024/11/how-...
How Wikipedia Systematically Misleads People About Autism — THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
Wikipedia's editing is consensus-based, so when a subject is objectively contentious—as is the case with autism—that editing gets tricky.
thinkingautismguide.com
November 29, 2024 at 9:31 AM
#tl;dr -
• Wikipedia's main entry on autism is overlong, poorly structured and mostly ignores decades of autistic insights
• Epistemic injustice is a widespread problem: too many are not believed about their own experiences, or given the tools to understand them
• Wikipedia's main entry on autism is overlong, poorly structured and mostly ignores decades of autistic insights
• Epistemic injustice is a widespread problem: too many are not believed about their own experiences, or given the tools to understand them
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As a first proper post, I’m mad excited to announce my debut pamphlet dropping with Little Betty in 2025, edited by the legend that is @anjakonig.bsky.social ✨ Big love to the team at Bad Betty Press for taking on these poems. Can't wait to bring them into the world 🙌🏾
November 16, 2024 at 8:40 AM
As a first proper post, I’m mad excited to announce my debut pamphlet dropping with Little Betty in 2025, edited by the legend that is @anjakonig.bsky.social ✨ Big love to the team at Bad Betty Press for taking on these poems. Can't wait to bring them into the world 🙌🏾
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ANMLY is now open for new work in ALL genres!
> anmly.submittable.com
*Fee waivers available*
Check out our latest issue to see what we're into!
> anmly.org/ap38
> anmly.submittable.com
*Fee waivers available*
Check out our latest issue to see what we're into!
> anmly.org/ap38
ANMLY
**ANNOUNCEMENT: Fees will be waived for all Black and Indigenous writers, and writers of Palestinian descent, to support those most targeted by state violence. Email editor [at] anomalouspress [dot] o...
anmly.submittable.com
May 30, 2024 at 8:11 PM
ANMLY is now open for new work in ALL genres!
> anmly.submittable.com
*Fee waivers available*
Check out our latest issue to see what we're into!
> anmly.org/ap38
> anmly.submittable.com
*Fee waivers available*
Check out our latest issue to see what we're into!
> anmly.org/ap38
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ANMLY #38 is here!
We’re excited to share new translations, fiction, poetry, CNF, with a new surprise folio coming later this summer!
>>> anmly.org/ap38
We open for new work on May 1st!
>>> anmly.submittable.com
We’re excited to share new translations, fiction, poetry, CNF, with a new surprise folio coming later this summer!
>>> anmly.org/ap38
We open for new work on May 1st!
>>> anmly.submittable.com
April 15, 2024 at 2:45 PM
ANMLY #38 is here!
We’re excited to share new translations, fiction, poetry, CNF, with a new surprise folio coming later this summer!
>>> anmly.org/ap38
We open for new work on May 1st!
>>> anmly.submittable.com
We’re excited to share new translations, fiction, poetry, CNF, with a new surprise folio coming later this summer!
>>> anmly.org/ap38
We open for new work on May 1st!
>>> anmly.submittable.com
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"Time opens up life and takes everything away. Wondering about time is wondering about the very sense of our life."
-- Carlo Rovelli, theoretical physicist
-- Carlo Rovelli, theoretical physicist
March 1, 2024 at 2:40 PM
"Time opens up life and takes everything away. Wondering about time is wondering about the very sense of our life."
-- Carlo Rovelli, theoretical physicist
-- Carlo Rovelli, theoretical physicist
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Job Alert - Director of National Poetry Centre in Leeds - Permanent role, £50k+, and on such an exciting project to shape something from its inception to its realisation.
www.artsjobs.org.uk/jobs/search/...
www.artsjobs.org.uk/jobs/search/...
Director | Job
We are looking for a dynamic and visionary leader responsible for establishing and guiding the NPC towards its proposed opening in 2027 and beyond.
www.artsjobs.org.uk
February 12, 2024 at 9:57 AM
Job Alert - Director of National Poetry Centre in Leeds - Permanent role, £50k+, and on such an exciting project to shape something from its inception to its realisation.
www.artsjobs.org.uk/jobs/search/...
www.artsjobs.org.uk/jobs/search/...
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A pleasant loaf. 🍞 1817. www.ashmolean.org/collections-...
January 18, 2024 at 1:08 AM
A pleasant loaf. 🍞 1817. www.ashmolean.org/collections-...
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Merton College, Oxford, is offering a Visiting Research Fellowship in the area of Book Arts (very broadly defined) for 2024-2025
Deadline for applications is 23 February 2024
Deadline for applications is 23 February 2024
www.merton.ox.ac.uk
January 12, 2024 at 8:09 PM
Merton College, Oxford, is offering a Visiting Research Fellowship in the area of Book Arts (very broadly defined) for 2024-2025
Deadline for applications is 23 February 2024
Deadline for applications is 23 February 2024
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“I think it’s terribly dangerous for an artist to fulfill other people’s expectations. They generally produce their worst work when they do that.”
-- David Bowie
-- David Bowie
January 12, 2024 at 2:25 PM
“I think it’s terribly dangerous for an artist to fulfill other people’s expectations. They generally produce their worst work when they do that.”
-- David Bowie
-- David Bowie
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May your days beavery merry and bright ✨
December 25, 2023 at 4:45 PM
May your days beavery merry and bright ✨
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I wish a very happy and safe Christmas to all who celebrate, and a very happy and safe regular day to all who do not! Postcard from 1878 belonging to the Minnesota Historical Society.
December 25, 2023 at 6:39 PM
I wish a very happy and safe Christmas to all who celebrate, and a very happy and safe regular day to all who do not! Postcard from 1878 belonging to the Minnesota Historical Society.
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