Simon Calero
@hellosimoncalero.bsky.social
✍🏻 thoughts on poetry, craft, art. tenderness.
🖊️ mfa poetry @ AULA
🌈 lost in the land of metaphor & matcha 🍵
⭐️ “a ball of sunshine” - girl from college
👎 “meh” - my little sister
📸 www.instagram.com/hellosimoncalero
🖊️ mfa poetry @ AULA
🌈 lost in the land of metaphor & matcha 🍵
⭐️ “a ball of sunshine” - girl from college
👎 “meh” - my little sister
📸 www.instagram.com/hellosimoncalero
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i am so touched by the sheer love i witnessed in my very first residency. one colleague's letter to me stood out in particular due to the weight of kindness with which she wrote & how she made me—my work—feel so understood. i want to make this account a scrapbook, so i'll share. thank u forever, P.💛
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As a father of five kids, I totally agree with this evergreen post.
January 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
As a father of five kids, I totally agree with this evergreen post.
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“Even as we express the deep disappointment … we can’t find ourselves so ensconced in that disappointment that we don’t create the kind of hope that will allow us to move forward and pass legacies to the next generation of people who are struggling.”
As Angela Davis says, let’s keep building hope.
As Angela Davis says, let’s keep building hope.
“Infinite Hope”: Angela Davis Speaks at 2025 Peace Ball Ahead of Trump Inauguration
With the U.S. political establishment gathered in Washington for the second inauguration of Donald Trump, the iconic venue Busboys and Poets on Sunday hosted the Peace Ball, an event held around presi...
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January 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
“Even as we express the deep disappointment … we can’t find ourselves so ensconced in that disappointment that we don’t create the kind of hope that will allow us to move forward and pass legacies to the next generation of people who are struggling.”
As Angela Davis says, let’s keep building hope.
As Angela Davis says, let’s keep building hope.
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People need to revisit the 900 page project 2025 template to understand what’s happening.
January 21, 2025 at 3:17 AM
People need to revisit the 900 page project 2025 template to understand what’s happening.
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You won't be any better at fighting what's coming if you burn yourself out and spend all your time feeling bleak and hopeless, and the people telling you that it's all despair now probably don't have anyone's best interest at heart.
January 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
You won't be any better at fighting what's coming if you burn yourself out and spend all your time feeling bleak and hopeless, and the people telling you that it's all despair now probably don't have anyone's best interest at heart.
I have so much to learn
January 16, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I have so much to learn
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The trans sex workers in the TL fucking owned, tbh, they were like part-time street vigilantes who'd do shit like chase creepy guys away from drunk girls & walk you back to your apartment at night. Loved them.
January 13, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The trans sex workers in the TL fucking owned, tbh, they were like part-time street vigilantes who'd do shit like chase creepy guys away from drunk girls & walk you back to your apartment at night. Loved them.
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one of the funniest things I've ever seen was a car full of white cis girls yelling slurs at trans girl sex workers in the Tenderloin in SF, only to get stuck at a red light, dragged out of the car by the SW'ers, slapped to shit, stuffed back in the car & left to drive away within a matter of 60secs
January 13, 2025 at 7:56 AM
one of the funniest things I've ever seen was a car full of white cis girls yelling slurs at trans girl sex workers in the Tenderloin in SF, only to get stuck at a red light, dragged out of the car by the SW'ers, slapped to shit, stuffed back in the car & left to drive away within a matter of 60secs
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can't stop thinking about this little (vast) poem
January 14, 2025 at 12:12 AM
can't stop thinking about this little (vast) poem
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better, i think, when i work on a poem, to believe i have something to learn rather than something to say
January 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
better, i think, when i work on a poem, to believe i have something to learn rather than something to say
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I honestly think we are experiencing the end of the internet as those of us born in the 20th c understand it. Smaller, siloed communities like discord servers and newsletters will persist, but the idea of the global public square is dead, as is “the information superhighway.” VCs killed it.
it genuinely sucks that basically nothing on the internet works well anymore. search? barely works. social media? filled with garbage engagement-bait designed to game the algorithm. news websites? pages that refresh at random or so covered in video ads that it’s impossible to read stories
January 9, 2025 at 7:37 AM
I honestly think we are experiencing the end of the internet as those of us born in the 20th c understand it. Smaller, siloed communities like discord servers and newsletters will persist, but the idea of the global public square is dead, as is “the information superhighway.” VCs killed it.
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Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
January 9, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
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as LA is burning, a swath of the country is recovering from an ice storm, Alabama is preparing for up to 6” of snow and I’m praying for the TX power grid, a reminder:
we don’t need climate action just for future generations, we need it now.
the climate crisis is here, all around us
we don’t need climate action just for future generations, we need it now.
the climate crisis is here, all around us
January 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM
as LA is burning, a swath of the country is recovering from an ice storm, Alabama is preparing for up to 6” of snow and I’m praying for the TX power grid, a reminder:
we don’t need climate action just for future generations, we need it now.
the climate crisis is here, all around us
we don’t need climate action just for future generations, we need it now.
the climate crisis is here, all around us
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—Franz Kafka (1912)
January 8, 2025 at 1:05 AM
—Franz Kafka (1912)
i want to live a soft, tender life filled with art & beauty. where every person i know is a living, breathing poem. & to recognize this (love) in every moment
January 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM
i want to live a soft, tender life filled with art & beauty. where every person i know is a living, breathing poem. & to recognize this (love) in every moment
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Politicians who moralise about “protecting kids” from “wokeness” are usually the most dangerous to them. They obsess about children “being corrupted” while pursuing policies to deny health care to trans kids, end public services for poor kids, and deport refugee kids. It’s sickeningly disingenuous.
January 4, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Politicians who moralise about “protecting kids” from “wokeness” are usually the most dangerous to them. They obsess about children “being corrupted” while pursuing policies to deny health care to trans kids, end public services for poor kids, and deport refugee kids. It’s sickeningly disingenuous.
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Working this energy in 2025.
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January 5, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Working this energy in 2025.
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the thing about “trans women are women” is that if you truly believe that — and you should — then you will become horrified beyond measure at what we as a society are willing to put young girls through, just because they are trans
it’s not just a statement of fact; it’s a recognition of brutality
it’s not just a statement of fact; it’s a recognition of brutality
December 31, 2024 at 10:00 AM
the thing about “trans women are women” is that if you truly believe that — and you should — then you will become horrified beyond measure at what we as a society are willing to put young girls through, just because they are trans
it’s not just a statement of fact; it’s a recognition of brutality
it’s not just a statement of fact; it’s a recognition of brutality
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"The literature of imagination, even when tragic, is reassuring, not necessarily in the sense of offering nostalgic comfort, but because it offers a world large enough to contain alternatives and therefore offers hope."
—"The Critics, the Monsters, and the Fantasists"
—"The Critics, the Monsters, and the Fantasists"
December 31, 2024 at 12:21 AM
"The literature of imagination, even when tragic, is reassuring, not necessarily in the sense of offering nostalgic comfort, but because it offers a world large enough to contain alternatives and therefore offers hope."
—"The Critics, the Monsters, and the Fantasists"
—"The Critics, the Monsters, and the Fantasists"
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Something to remember
December 31, 2024 at 2:24 AM
Something to remember
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December 31, 2024 at 5:31 AM
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a poem is a cosmos, a vastness—and a poem is a kiss, an eyelash
December 30, 2024 at 2:58 PM
a poem is a cosmos, a vastness—and a poem is a kiss, an eyelash
December 27, 2024 at 3:03 AM