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I call it “joyful rigor” when I explain this effort to my students. I don’t believe in or rather, I’m not a “suffering poet.” I’m a writer who enjoys writing. The work works on me and I’m grateful for the opportunity to delve into the process at my own pace and to be changed by it.
That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually.
The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.
The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.
In terms of process, I enjoy writing but revising????? Oh, that’s my real kink. A second or third draft???? A fourth???? Making tweaks on my desktop AND my phone???? *moans* I’m a WHORE for revision.
October 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I call it “joyful rigor” when I explain this effort to my students. I don’t believe in or rather, I’m not a “suffering poet.” I’m a writer who enjoys writing. The work works on me and I’m grateful for the opportunity to delve into the process at my own pace and to be changed by it.
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Join ARC's week of action for incarcerated #survivors! These #trans and cis #women are organizing campaigns to protect their and others' #health and safety in #prison. Please share, but above all, please take the actions! 5 min each, big impact.
Details: tinyurl.com/ARCActionDet...
Details: tinyurl.com/ARCActionDet...
September 14, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Join ARC's week of action for incarcerated #survivors! These #trans and cis #women are organizing campaigns to protect their and others' #health and safety in #prison. Please share, but above all, please take the actions! 5 min each, big impact.
Details: tinyurl.com/ARCActionDet...
Details: tinyurl.com/ARCActionDet...
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Anywhere? Paris is a Black trans femme in #Florida prison who has been denied healthcare for burns in the aftermath of someone throwing boiling water on her. Contact (386) 963-6201 or Chris.Lane@fdc.myflorida.com and demand burn treatment for Timothy Jackson, V47251
June 18, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Anywhere? Paris is a Black trans femme in #Florida prison who has been denied healthcare for burns in the aftermath of someone throwing boiling water on her. Contact (386) 963-6201 or Chris.Lane@fdc.myflorida.com and demand burn treatment for Timothy Jackson, V47251
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Ready for digital action against fascism this #Pride? Here we go! First up, let's show up for trans femmes in #prison: Paris and Jacinda.
1) Paris is dealing with burns after someone threw boiling water on her. She's not getting the antibiotics and other care she needs. Make some noise!
1) Paris is dealing with burns after someone threw boiling water on her. She's not getting the antibiotics and other care she needs. Make some noise!
June 12, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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A couple of months ago, I posted a checklist of things one could do to be useful in these days of rising fascism.
Here’s Part Two of that list—more focused on ways to protect you and those in your tightest circles of care.
Part One is embedded and also skeeted below.
Here’s Part Two of that list—more focused on ways to protect you and those in your tightest circles of care.
Part One is embedded and also skeeted below.
Care for yourself and others!
Checklist 2.0
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
June 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
A couple of months ago, I posted a checklist of things one could do to be useful in these days of rising fascism.
Here’s Part Two of that list—more focused on ways to protect you and those in your tightest circles of care.
Part One is embedded and also skeeted below.
Here’s Part Two of that list—more focused on ways to protect you and those in your tightest circles of care.
Part One is embedded and also skeeted below.
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Find a local #NoKings protest and plan to show up with your friends June 14!
No Kings
No Prisons
Defend Trans Freedoms
www.nokings.org
No Kings
No Prisons
Defend Trans Freedoms
www.nokings.org
No Kings
On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...
www.nokings.org
May 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Find a local #NoKings protest and plan to show up with your friends June 14!
No Kings
No Prisons
Defend Trans Freedoms
www.nokings.org
No Kings
No Prisons
Defend Trans Freedoms
www.nokings.org
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Record a short video for trans and queer people inside this Pride season through Trans Pride Initiative!
tpride.org/emails/pride...
tpride.org/emails/pride...
Trans and queer persons caught up in the justice system can be ostracized by staff and other incarcerated persons, cut off from chosen family outside, and abandoned by bio family due to their identity and relationships.
tpride.org
May 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Record a short video for trans and queer people inside this Pride season through Trans Pride Initiative!
tpride.org/emails/pride...
tpride.org/emails/pride...
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Keep the pressure on to free Mahmoud Khalil!
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Tell Congress: Free Them All
Our fight for justice and our fundamental rights is working. In the past few weeks, federal judges have ordered the releases of Dr. Badar Khan Suri, Rümeysa Öztürk, and Mohsen Mahdawi from unlawful d...
actionnetwork.org
May 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Keep the pressure on to free Mahmoud Khalil!
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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2) Call (202-224-3121) and email Congress and tell them to oppose the big evil budget bill! It would steal from the poor to give to the rich, keep trans people from getting Medicaid coverage for our care, fuel immigration and invasion. action.transequality.org/a/stopmedica...
Action Alert: Protect Our Healthcare Now!
Congress is moving forward on a bill that would end Medicaid coverage of our healthcare. It takes two minutes to send an email to your senator!
action.transequality.org
May 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
2) Call (202-224-3121) and email Congress and tell them to oppose the big evil budget bill! It would steal from the poor to give to the rich, keep trans people from getting Medicaid coverage for our care, fuel immigration and invasion. action.transequality.org/a/stopmedica...
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Round up of urgent actions for trans liberation and prison abolition!
1) ARC member Jacinda Lee Allenbaugh is still being held in solitary (RHU) and suffering from a mental health crisis . Call (724) 852-2902 and email ra-contactdoc@pa.gov, and ask them to move her to diversionary treatment unit.
1) ARC member Jacinda Lee Allenbaugh is still being held in solitary (RHU) and suffering from a mental health crisis . Call (724) 852-2902 and email ra-contactdoc@pa.gov, and ask them to move her to diversionary treatment unit.
May 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Round up of urgent actions for trans liberation and prison abolition!
1) ARC member Jacinda Lee Allenbaugh is still being held in solitary (RHU) and suffering from a mental health crisis . Call (724) 852-2902 and email ra-contactdoc@pa.gov, and ask them to move her to diversionary treatment unit.
1) ARC member Jacinda Lee Allenbaugh is still being held in solitary (RHU) and suffering from a mental health crisis . Call (724) 852-2902 and email ra-contactdoc@pa.gov, and ask them to move her to diversionary treatment unit.
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HERE WE GO:
Federal judge orders Rümeysa Öztürk's released immediately, finds she has made a "substantial claim" her constitutional rights were violated.
"The reason she has been detained is simply and purely the expression that she made in the op-ed in violation of her First Amendment rights."
Federal judge orders Rümeysa Öztürk's released immediately, finds she has made a "substantial claim" her constitutional rights were violated.
"The reason she has been detained is simply and purely the expression that she made in the op-ed in violation of her First Amendment rights."
May 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
HERE WE GO:
Federal judge orders Rümeysa Öztürk's released immediately, finds she has made a "substantial claim" her constitutional rights were violated.
"The reason she has been detained is simply and purely the expression that she made in the op-ed in violation of her First Amendment rights."
Federal judge orders Rümeysa Öztürk's released immediately, finds she has made a "substantial claim" her constitutional rights were violated.
"The reason she has been detained is simply and purely the expression that she made in the op-ed in violation of her First Amendment rights."
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The way Rumeysa Öztürk holds her heart as she testifies for her own freedom at a bail hearing in federal court is truly heart-rending.
She cannot be freed soon enough.
She cannot be freed soon enough.
May 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The way Rumeysa Öztürk holds her heart as she testifies for her own freedom at a bail hearing in federal court is truly heart-rending.
She cannot be freed soon enough.
She cannot be freed soon enough.
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I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
April 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
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Much respect to the Eagles who refused the White House fascism normalization ceremony. (Especially Brandon Graham. He gets it.) Jalen Hurts, AJ Brown, DeVonta Smith, Jalen Carter, Jordan Davis, Brandon Graham, Nolan Smith, Zack Baun, Nakobe Dean, CJ Gardner Johnson, Darius Slay, Quinyon Mitchell
April 29, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Much respect to the Eagles who refused the White House fascism normalization ceremony. (Especially Brandon Graham. He gets it.) Jalen Hurts, AJ Brown, DeVonta Smith, Jalen Carter, Jordan Davis, Brandon Graham, Nolan Smith, Zack Baun, Nakobe Dean, CJ Gardner Johnson, Darius Slay, Quinyon Mitchell
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One of the most shocking things I have read for a while:
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t.co/lg46ijHLDF
April 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
One of the most shocking things I have read for a while:
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t.co/lg46ijHLDF
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Rally led by ACT UP NY this Thursday 4/25 at 5-6p at the Permanent Mission of El Salvador at 46 Park Ave to call for the release of Andry José Hernández Romero, an LGBTQ asylum seeker, and everyone who was kidnapped and taken to CECOT. #freethemall
April 22, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Rally led by ACT UP NY this Thursday 4/25 at 5-6p at the Permanent Mission of El Salvador at 46 Park Ave to call for the release of Andry José Hernández Romero, an LGBTQ asylum seeker, and everyone who was kidnapped and taken to CECOT. #freethemall
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gonna just be the millionth person to say: we in the US should indeed be mad that our electoral choices have been narrowed down to "genocide abroad is fine" vs "don't settle for genocide abroad when we could also have internment camps here". but neither Palestinians nor their supporters put you here
October 12, 2024 at 8:47 PM
gonna just be the millionth person to say: we in the US should indeed be mad that our electoral choices have been narrowed down to "genocide abroad is fine" vs "don't settle for genocide abroad when we could also have internment camps here". but neither Palestinians nor their supporters put you here
Masks are vital tools in mitigating COVID transmission, especially in close public spaces such as transit. Masking must remain accessible to everyone.
Banning masks endangers everyone.
Reject mask bans.
www.jewsformaskrights.com/resources/ma...
Banning masks endangers everyone.
Reject mask bans.
www.jewsformaskrights.com/resources/ma...
#NoNYMaskBan Call Script | Make calls against mask bans! — Jews for Mask Rights
An interactive call tool to help you get the word out for #NoNYMaskBan!
www.jewsformaskrights.com
April 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Masks are vital tools in mitigating COVID transmission, especially in close public spaces such as transit. Masking must remain accessible to everyone.
Banning masks endangers everyone.
Reject mask bans.
www.jewsformaskrights.com/resources/ma...
Banning masks endangers everyone.
Reject mask bans.
www.jewsformaskrights.com/resources/ma...
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ARC member Nadirah recently lost her nephew, and her family is struggling. Please give if you can and share either way. tinyurl.com/DeanNadirah
Donate to Honoring Dean S Shaw Lockhart: Home going service needed, organized by Latisha Howerton
I’m sorry to inform you of the passing of My Son, Brother, Fa… Latisha Howerton needs your support for Honoring Dean S Shaw Lockhart: Home going service needed
tinyurl.com
April 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
ARC member Nadirah recently lost her nephew, and her family is struggling. Please give if you can and share either way. tinyurl.com/DeanNadirah
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Phone Zap! Leileen Lilith Aquino, a trans woman in Maryland prison, attempted suicide after being abused by her cellmate, and the prison punished her by putting her in solitary confinement. Let's get her out! #FreeHer #FreeThemAll
April 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Phone Zap! Leileen Lilith Aquino, a trans woman in Maryland prison, attempted suicide after being abused by her cellmate, and the prison punished her by putting her in solitary confinement. Let's get her out! #FreeHer #FreeThemAll
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You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.
April 7, 2025 at 1:20 AM
You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.
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Looking for ways to #resist and show #solidarity this month? Here are some actions coming up (US based):
Mon, 3/17, 7pm ET: @genderlib.com Mass Call bit.ly/GLMCALL2
Wed, 3/19, 8:30pm ET: #TeslaTakedown Mass Mobilization Call. actionnetwork.org/forms/teslat...
Mon, 3/17, 7pm ET: @genderlib.com Mass Call bit.ly/GLMCALL2
Wed, 3/19, 8:30pm ET: #TeslaTakedown Mass Mobilization Call. actionnetwork.org/forms/teslat...
#TeslaTakedown Mass Mobilizing Call
We've got big plans, and we want YOU to be part of them. Join #TeslaTakedown and special guests on Wednesday, March 19 at 8:30 p.m. ET for a Mass Mobilizing Call. You'll hear from experts, leaders and...
actionnetwork.org
March 17, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Looking for ways to #resist and show #solidarity this month? Here are some actions coming up (US based):
Mon, 3/17, 7pm ET: @genderlib.com Mass Call bit.ly/GLMCALL2
Wed, 3/19, 8:30pm ET: #TeslaTakedown Mass Mobilization Call. actionnetwork.org/forms/teslat...
Mon, 3/17, 7pm ET: @genderlib.com Mass Call bit.ly/GLMCALL2
Wed, 3/19, 8:30pm ET: #TeslaTakedown Mass Mobilization Call. actionnetwork.org/forms/teslat...
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"I never thought I would wake up to find the National Guard taking the count alongside the guards who have chosen to stay, greeting me with a smile."
What Was the NY Wildcat Strike Like for Incarcerated People?
Three writers from three state prisons on the view from inside during a chaotic period in New York prison history.
prisonjournalismproject.org
March 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM
"I never thought I would wake up to find the National Guard taking the count alongside the guards who have chosen to stay, greeting me with a smile."
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3/27 6:30-8 PM ET: Information workers! Join us and For The People Leftist Library Project for a workshop focused on resisting and disrupting ICE in library/info workplaces, de-escalation in library spaces, and abortion and repro health information criminalization: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
March 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
3/27 6:30-8 PM ET: Information workers! Join us and For The People Leftist Library Project for a workshop focused on resisting and disrupting ICE in library/info workplaces, de-escalation in library spaces, and abortion and repro health information criminalization: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...