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Danielle Pafunda
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ALONG THE ROAD EVERYONE MUST TRAVEL (Saturnalia 2025)

poetry worldbuilding altering fabric of space and time in a counter-clockwise loop she/they parent partner moss starfat salt 🏳️‍🌈

SPITE, BESHREW, THE BOOK OF SCAB, THE DEAD GIRLS SPEAK IN UNISON etc
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ID: Black and White Flyer with headline "Does Your Child Have a 504 Plan or IEP at School? Those Rights Could be in danger!" Texas vs. Beccera is an active lawsuit trying to get rid of Section 504. • 3 current bills and a drafted Executive Order plan to dismantle the Department of Education, which helps fund and enforce IDEA law, including the right to an lEP. • The Dept. of Education's IDEA data collection contracts were cancelled suddenly by Musk's DOGE team on the night of 11 February. Without the data, states may not receive the IDEA grants that fund lEPs. The good news? There's still time to fight! Two QR codes to scan, on the left info for 504 lawsuit, on the right Dept of Ed and lEPs info. www.disability-rights-watch.com
February 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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When poets break up with astrologers…
A banner notification from the co-star app reading simply “poets lie.”
February 13, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Diamond Forde “That’s what daughters be: a dark center gulping. They / mend.”
FAMILY TREE Family Tree 2:1 A Census of Daughters by Diamond Forde & these are the daughters of the first man: daughters who dream of organza veils & wake to pray. Daughters of breast milk. Daughters of strata. Daughters of kaolin clay. Daughters under throw & wheel, daughters whose births bowl a mother’s will. Thus Deborah—daughter of wombwork, daughter of war. Daughter who plaits deft as dagwood, weaving blisters down her sisters’ scalps. Mother-wish for sweetness, Deborah decks her bullies then blackens the rum cake with Alaga syrup. Then Candi—next daughter. Daughter of hymn, of hallelujah, of hand-me-downs, daughter whose bowed head didn’t lift for decades. Candi blinks & guitar strings plink like coins in her ear well, their clatter cantoring a threadbare melody for riches. Thus Louise, daughter of harpsichord, aria daughter. Broadway & gospel warrior. Daughter who brandished her blade-belly tongue, who cut the umbilical wart, gaped the gap in its bruise-black mouth—then swore she saw her Mama gaze out. Then Mary, star-tinseled daughter. Daughter whose eyelashes fan like a tarot deck. Daughter of spirit realm, of night watch—sleepless tick: Mary scopes ghosts strung like cobwebs in the corner. Mary be the God bride. Mary wear the veil. Mary sees what Valerie feel. Valerie be body. Valerie be young. Valerie be a tooth warmed in a dusk-gored plum. She poses in flexing sand—bikini-brilliant, hot—but she don’t touch the water. Swimming is not dreaming, is not flight, & Valerie is bird bones— she jumps & floats—an in-between—exactly what her mother wished for but ain’t—all daughters the same: stardust. Daughters shimmer in circles, daughters draw their mothers in. That’s what daughters be: a dark center gulping. They mend.
February 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Call your representatives on the Freakophone

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Screen shot of video where poetry text layers over itself, difficult to read: ashbody floating by up in same ozone this tongue sleep inside
February 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Finally, inflation in our favor. Thanks, perimenopause!
A chart that calculates how much pancake batter one’s breasts could hold based on bra size
February 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Alice Notley is my Foxfire Book. “Left dead after our cultures were broken by triumphant enemies, our stories changed to suit others. We now change them again to suit ourselves.”
There was power in that room. I saw it, because my eyes were crushed out It's my judgment holding the mouth on this almost face SO. The scars on my right side won't fail. I've come back wearing them instead of a conscience or a guide in order to cause trembling white in black sky spell what it emotional universe it had no a breakaway culture. vertical lines above sea. they might be; the tone of the old was vicious. care for me Who matters it died. There will be no abrogation of this face you can find it in the ground. The magic and on its part I utter anything know it's in my unlawful hand for I choose a form not easily seen. Face is my own it may look demons but is not a side like this place where they want to walk over and over until all in the ground is fast dead. The light between letters will become in my unlawful hand the conversant weapon so you'll let me destroy your intentions.
January 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Literally the only photo of a celebrity I have—saved it cuz I wanted to show a student who looks uncannily just like Björk of this era. I wish this pic = therapist business was a binding contract!
Phot of young Bjork
January 30, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Cover reveal! ALONG THE ROAD EVERYONE MUST TRAVEL this March from Saturnalia Books. Big thanks to Robin Vuchnich for the design. Blurbs, other gratitudes, links, how many dark horses you might actually expect, what to do when you’re between the underworld and topside to flood your feed soon!
Matte and glossy black collage of objects horses bottles baroque elements on a sea of salt and triangle pages against a midnight background
January 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Tonics and homeopathics! Marie-Claire Blais’s Mad Shadows, purely grim. Joyce Mansour for staging despair. Teaching Sarah Schulman’s Rat Bohemia later this spring. Holly Raymond’s goblin poems—are those a book yet? Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s story Through the Flash.
Library of Canada cover of Mad Shadows
January 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Me looking through the Bluesky arch wondering if this time humans will surprise me 👀(Fitzgerald’s Faeries Looking Through a Gothic Arch)
January 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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In case you wanted a preview of the first act of Binti, or you wanted a tattoo of the crustacean spaceship, worldbuilding students have got you covered. This is the first time we’re running Advanced Worldbuilding and it’s such a blast to challenge them to level up 🚀
Marker on white board drawing of a home a person running from home a ship shaped like a shrimp
January 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Today, Advanced Worldbuilding discusses Binti by @nnedi.bsky.social. We’re focusing on the first-act of three-act tales, this semester, and this trilogy is a matryoshka of three-acts! Plus immediately immersive, poetic of image, exciting of plot, and fiercely loyal to its own logic.
Copy of Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti—Black woman’s face adorned with red clay against the cosmos—on a generic brown desk with the lamp light reflected at the top of the book
January 23, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Reveled in its Neanderthal content. Considering cave radio and subterranean undersky worship 2025-♾️
January 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM