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Heather Christle
@heatherchristle.bsky.social
Two new books--

IN THE RHODODENDRONS: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf

PAPER CROWN: Poems

both out now.

https://linktr.ee/heatherchristle
To be clear, I want none of this, but if I were to suddenly feel the need for a posthumous avatar of my grandmother I would want one that included her particular shames & idiosyncratic pleasures. The fears she would not know how to name! Her boringness! The dreams she woke from and promptly forgot!
November 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM
7pm
6 Plympton St
Cambridge, MA
or on THE internet
more info here
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Upcoming Readings — Grolier Poetry Book Shop
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November 13, 2025 at 10:31 AM
November 12, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Reposted by Heather Christle
The “they’re rapists” line from racists is not about women’s autonomy or dignity; it’s not even about the wrongness of rape. It is about white men’s property interests over white women. It’s not “they’re doing something horrible”; it’s “they’re raping the ones only you have a right to rape.”
November 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
...where "outside monitors have heard accounts of shortages of clean drinking water, chronic sleep deprivation and kids struggling for hygiene supplies and prompt medical attention)

also teaches Sunday school.
September 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM