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Dihya Tamaghza
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Disabled indigenous Imazighen visual artist, poet, writer, and biologist primarily interested in invertebrates and plants (working on deep sea coral genomics). Writing a novel.

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She's so precious 🥹
November 26, 2024 at 7:34 PM
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This week's reading 💙📚
One for leisure, one for research for my next write.

#books #witches #history #literature #bookreview #literaryprize #booksky #readingsky
November 26, 2024 at 9:31 AM
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The stereotype of what I get gifted for my birthday as a writer...

#writerscommunity #writers #typewriter #antiques
November 19, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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Vintage photograph of a potato field. Was stranded on the side of the road for eight hours (entire night) and starting looking around for pests or disease at 4am. Even in dire situations, the need to be a biologist persists 🫡🌱🥔 #STEM #biologist #fieldwork #artphotography #vintagephotography #potato
November 18, 2024 at 6:01 AM
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Here's mine (how do you like the new Cure album?)
November 14, 2024 at 10:45 AM
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Why do my toads look so standoffish? 🤌🏾🐸

#toads #frogs #pets #herpetofauna #herpetology #cutefrog #texastoad #derpy
November 12, 2024 at 3:56 PM
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Nettle Dance.

Art Photography with manual edits.

#art #artphotography #photography #artist #visualpoetry #disabledartist #artistofcolor
Art Photography of nettles swaying in which the blues and purples are enhanced
November 12, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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Skogkatt and Other Felines poem. 2/2.

CW// mentions of animal ab*se
CW

#poetry #poem #art #poets #artist #writing #writingcommunity #cat #pets
In the darker recesses of history, it is thought they skinned cats for their fur, farming them to survive brutal Nordic winters. In Nonnebakken, 68 cats were found in a well, broken necked and sliced. Cat-burnings were allegedly a Medieval ceremony in which cats, thought to be witchy familiars, were lowered onto bonfire. The haunting yowls were said to be the evil spirits exiting the singeing flesh. Ancient Egypt held the cat in high regard, mummifying their remains like those of a nobleman. These cats became divine symbols of deities such as Sekhmet and Bastet. Sculptures and paintings were made in their honour. These fierce predators killed venomous snakes, protecting villages, chasing birds from precious crop fields. Later, these cats were considered clean for their self-cleaning habits. The cat gardens of Cairo heaving with purrs, laden with furry paws. It is said that the Prophet Muhammed cut his sleeve off to avoid waking his darling Muezza from a nap. According to Hadith, a woman burns in hell for animal abuse. And so, the world rotates on its axis, cat-mad, and starry-eyed.
November 11, 2024 at 9:56 PM
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Skogkatt and Other Felines is an essay in the form of a poem covering the history of cats as human companions from Old World origins to Vikings sailing them around the world. 1/2

#poet #poetry #writer #writers #writingcommunity #art #cats #cute #poem
Dr. Eva-Maria Geigl concluded that Vikings likely helped spread the joy of feline companions around the globe. From wildcat to lap pet, they still stalk weary critters hiding in dark corners, under brambles, in the overgrown dirt, in your jumble-sale basement. We know these furry friends are ancient, sacred, clever, agile. From sandy-coloured African Wildcats haunting the Nile Deltas to frosty Freya’s gib-cats with blue-black hair, large enough to pull a chariot carrying a goddess of war. These wily creatures are thought to have sailed the world on the back of knarr. Legends speak of a poor man who found his princess in the head of a cat. Whispers of ghost cats roaming the Danish wilderness, larger than a house, traipsing misty spruce woodland. The cats hunted stowaway rodents, protecting Viking food supply on the high seas.
November 11, 2024 at 9:56 PM
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A dipper poem on a tomato's shelf life 🍅

#poetry #poets #poet #gardening #fruit #tomato #art #writers
For the Juicy Flesh of a Tomato Fruit: plump plum-plucked pomodoro your gold skin hides ripe marrow, seeds belly-deep in a row juice trickles staining yellow, big beef big rainbow big boy lush live leaves lick lips enjoy, sweetness bitterness surly sanguine slop slushing spores bloom within, blemishing rotting rancid revolting mycelia spread choking, I hear you, see your aching, A lifecycle finishing.
November 11, 2024 at 9:34 PM
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She Weeps.

Vintage art photography with manual edits.

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Photograph of a statue featuring a female figure glancing down, holding flowers to her bosom against a pale, dusty sky.
November 11, 2024 at 9:07 PM