Jacqui Zeng
@jacquiz.bsky.social
reader. writer. tutor. adjunct prof. cat person.
social media editor and poetry reader for Tinderbox Poetry Journal
linktree of my published poems: linktr.ee/jacqui.z
she/they
reposts =/= endorsements, views are my own
social media editor and poetry reader for Tinderbox Poetry Journal
linktree of my published poems: linktr.ee/jacqui.z
she/they
reposts =/= endorsements, views are my own
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Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
Donate - Native Organizers Alliance
Supporting organizing and advocacy initiatives for Indigenous justice.
nativeorganizing.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
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Direct link: nlgchicago.org/donate/
Support the NLG!
nlgchicago.org
October 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Direct link: nlgchicago.org/donate/
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@nlgchicago.bsky.social is trying to raise $10k to fund ongoing legal support for protesters. They've had to cover long shifts at Broadview, and their volunteers have been repeatedly assaulted by police in the process. More info with ways to donate here: instagram.com/p/DP36ITJja-W/
October 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
@nlgchicago.bsky.social is trying to raise $10k to fund ongoing legal support for protesters. They've had to cover long shifts at Broadview, and their volunteers have been repeatedly assaulted by police in the process. More info with ways to donate here: instagram.com/p/DP36ITJja-W/
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If you'd like to see beestung keep buzzing, please consider dropping a few bucks our way 🖤💛🖤💛
We're still trying to raise $246 this year to cover expenses, if you're feeling generous.
We'll never charge a submission fee, and we pay our writers.
Your help will also ensure that we can bring on a guest editor in the new year, to avoid that whole 'monolithic voice' business 💛🖤
Thank you. 🐝
We'll never charge a submission fee, and we pay our writers.
Your help will also ensure that we can bring on a guest editor in the new year, to avoid that whole 'monolithic voice' business 💛🖤
Thank you. 🐝
Happy non-binary day and week!
We're a small mag publishing non-binary, genderqueer, and two-spirit writers.
If you'd like to help us out, we're currently working towards our goal for paying writers for this and next year.
Shares are very much appreciated, too!
www.gofundme.com/f/beestung-y...
We're a small mag publishing non-binary, genderqueer, and two-spirit writers.
If you'd like to help us out, we're currently working towards our goal for paying writers for this and next year.
Shares are very much appreciated, too!
www.gofundme.com/f/beestung-y...
October 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
If you'd like to see beestung keep buzzing, please consider dropping a few bucks our way 🖤💛🖤💛
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I don't want 100 troops sent to Chicago. It's a major escalation that must be opposed. I also want folks to understand that the agents that have been attacking us at Broadview are more heavily armed and elaborately, tactically outfitted than National Guard troops would be. We're already in some shit
September 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don't want 100 troops sent to Chicago. It's a major escalation that must be opposed. I also want folks to understand that the agents that have been attacking us at Broadview are more heavily armed and elaborately, tactically outfitted than National Guard troops would be. We're already in some shit
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The Street Vendors Association of Chicago is raising emergency funds to support vendors who can't safely work right now. They have a significant goal of $300k for impacted workers + families.
GFM is here: www.gofundme.com/f/chicago-st...
Instagram account: instagram.com/streetvendorsofchicago
GFM is here: www.gofundme.com/f/chicago-st...
Instagram account: instagram.com/streetvendorsofchicago
Donate to Chicago Street Vendor Relief Fund, organized by Maria Orozco
Support Chicago’s Street Vendors
We are the Street Vendors Association of Chicago… Maria Orozco needs your support for Chicago Street Vendor Relief Fund
www.gofundme.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The Street Vendors Association of Chicago is raising emergency funds to support vendors who can't safely work right now. They have a significant goal of $300k for impacted workers + families.
GFM is here: www.gofundme.com/f/chicago-st...
Instagram account: instagram.com/streetvendorsofchicago
GFM is here: www.gofundme.com/f/chicago-st...
Instagram account: instagram.com/streetvendorsofchicago
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Legacy media and cable news reduced Trump's aggression against Chicago to a question of whether troops would be sent immediately. When he said he was taking his fascist military spectacle elsewhere, those media players declared the situation over—while waves of federal agents attack our neighbors.
September 15, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Legacy media and cable news reduced Trump's aggression against Chicago to a question of whether troops would be sent immediately. When he said he was taking his fascist military spectacle elsewhere, those media players declared the situation over—while waves of federal agents attack our neighbors.
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Sodexo continues to deny T Hoxha written confirmation of her library job, 25 days into her hunger strike.
Pressure their large shareholders (incl. Artisan Partners and BlackRock), which are listed here.
Use our toolkit for email templates: tinyurl.com/FREETHOXHA
Pressure their large shareholders (incl. Artisan Partners and BlackRock), which are listed here.
Use our toolkit for email templates: tinyurl.com/FREETHOXHA
September 4, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Sodexo continues to deny T Hoxha written confirmation of her library job, 25 days into her hunger strike.
Pressure their large shareholders (incl. Artisan Partners and BlackRock), which are listed here.
Use our toolkit for email templates: tinyurl.com/FREETHOXHA
Pressure their large shareholders (incl. Artisan Partners and BlackRock), which are listed here.
Use our toolkit for email templates: tinyurl.com/FREETHOXHA
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‼️T Hohxa, a Pal Action prisoner is on DAY 16 of their hunger strike. Their statement Aug 26, 2025:
"A nurse asked me why I was going on hunger strike, giving myself long term damage for something so insignificant...but when the state has taken your house, your job, nearly two years of your life..."
"A nurse asked me why I was going on hunger strike, giving myself long term damage for something so insignificant...but when the state has taken your house, your job, nearly two years of your life..."
August 27, 2025 at 5:08 AM
‼️T Hohxa, a Pal Action prisoner is on DAY 16 of their hunger strike. Their statement Aug 26, 2025:
"A nurse asked me why I was going on hunger strike, giving myself long term damage for something so insignificant...but when the state has taken your house, your job, nearly two years of your life..."
"A nurse asked me why I was going on hunger strike, giving myself long term damage for something so insignificant...but when the state has taken your house, your job, nearly two years of your life..."
Very grateful to @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social for taking this one. 😊 Read the rest of the Summer Riot series while you're over there, it's a hoot!
Any rain big enough, anywhere,
could sweep a house away.
I need to reacquaint myself
with the Earth I actually inhabit.
—Jacqui Zeng, with our #SummerRiot poem today! ☔️🔥
@jacquiz.bsky.social
could sweep a house away.
I need to reacquaint myself
with the Earth I actually inhabit.
—Jacqui Zeng, with our #SummerRiot poem today! ☔️🔥
@jacquiz.bsky.social
“I Search the Internet for Evidence to Justify My Melancholy” by Jacqui Zeng
Yes, headlights are 15% brighter nowand plane turbulence is actually worse.Birds crash into windows, little yellow packages droppedonto the sidewalks, announcingthe death of spring and the riseof b…
moistpoetryjournal.com
August 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Very grateful to @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social for taking this one. 😊 Read the rest of the Summer Riot series while you're over there, it's a hoot!
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“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”
AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study
Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.
www.bloomberg.com
August 12, 2025 at 11:41 PM
“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”
Now is a great time to donate to Palestinian orgs and gofundme’s! Dollars are going a little bit farther, for now.
‼️‼️‼️
from Sameer:
Rice prices dropped! With aid starting to come in, prices in markets are slowly dropping. Our kitchen decreased the price of 800g of rice from $17.50 to $9.
Donate: chuffed.org/project/1132...
from Sameer:
Rice prices dropped! With aid starting to come in, prices in markets are slowly dropping. Our kitchen decreased the price of 800g of rice from $17.50 to $9.
Donate: chuffed.org/project/1132...
South Gaza: Tents, Food & Water
**With Famine on the rise, we will significantly lower tent purchases and focus on food (rice and bread) and water over the next couple of weeks**
chuffed.org
August 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Now is a great time to donate to Palestinian orgs and gofundme’s! Dollars are going a little bit farther, for now.
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The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025!
survey.gendercensus.com
It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.
survey.gendercensus.com
It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.
July 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025!
survey.gendercensus.com
It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.
survey.gendercensus.com
It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.
📌 (just reposting so I remember to share this thread with my students next semester)
People *without* executive dysfunction are finding that using chatgpt buries them under multitasking: they have to expend more effort and attention in more tasks to check that it hasn't outputted *absolute fucking nonsense*
July 31, 2025 at 9:08 PM
📌 (just reposting so I remember to share this thread with my students next semester)
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On Monday, details emerged that not only was Smalls detained, but he was physically beaten by the IDF. He was the only Black member of the Freedom Flotilla on the Handala, writes @mikeelk.bsky.social:
www.commondreams.org/opinion/chri...
www.commondreams.org/opinion/chri...
Where's the Outrage Over Labor Leader Chris Smalls' Violent Arrest by the IDF? | Common Dreams
Despite Smalls having been profiled by every major media outlet in the U.S. when he successfully led the union drive at Amazon, not a single major media outlet has covered his violent detention by the...
www.commondreams.org
July 29, 2025 at 6:17 PM
On Monday, details emerged that not only was Smalls detained, but he was physically beaten by the IDF. He was the only Black member of the Freedom Flotilla on the Handala, writes @mikeelk.bsky.social:
www.commondreams.org/opinion/chri...
www.commondreams.org/opinion/chri...
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The Gaza Soup Kitchen run by Hani Almadhoun and family is currently feeding 3000 people a day under the monstrous conditions of the engineered famine happening before our eyes. You can help feed at least a few people. Please donate: gofund.me/e37b4bae
Donate to Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza, organized by Hani Almadhoun
Do you know what it’s like to watch your family starve? I do.
My… Hani Almadhoun needs your support for Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza
gofund.me
July 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The Gaza Soup Kitchen run by Hani Almadhoun and family is currently feeding 3000 people a day under the monstrous conditions of the engineered famine happening before our eyes. You can help feed at least a few people. Please donate: gofund.me/e37b4bae
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Mutual aid organizations like The Sameer Project, a rapid-response initiative led by Palestinians in the diaspora, need your help to support their work in Gaza.
Israel is starving Gaza. Here’s how you can help keep people alive.
“People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses.” These are the words of Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency,…
buff.ly
July 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Mutual aid organizations like The Sameer Project, a rapid-response initiative led by Palestinians in the diaspora, need your help to support their work in Gaza.
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This week the Worldcon membership will get a chance to add a #poetryhugo to the ballot permanently. Poetry has been here from the beginning and it deserves recognition. If you love speculative poetry, please share this awesome article by Lynne Sargent.
And here's the editorial on the SPI. Thanks again so much to @strangehorizons.bsky.social for their support. If you have a Worldcon membership, please come to the virtual meeting this Friday @9am PST/12pm EST to support this initiative when it comes to a vote!
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Speculative Poetry and the Hugos
A guest editorial in support of adding a permanent Hugo award for poetry
strangehorizons.com
July 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
This week the Worldcon membership will get a chance to add a #poetryhugo to the ballot permanently. Poetry has been here from the beginning and it deserves recognition. If you love speculative poetry, please share this awesome article by Lynne Sargent.
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Restore Alaa's account! She's a real person. This suspension undermines her ability to seek support, which undermines the survival of her family. These people are dying. Let her fucking talk and connect with people who care.
July 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Restore Alaa's account! She's a real person. This suspension undermines her ability to seek support, which undermines the survival of her family. These people are dying. Let her fucking talk and connect with people who care.
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Our most beloved comrades at Open Books have been running an urgent fundraiser for Sameer. They are getting close to their $10k goal thanks to a few new matching campaigns. Please contritibe and share, offer a match (named or anon- dm us) open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...
Urgent Fundraising for The Sameer Project
As many journalists in Gaza are now experiencing serious health problems due to the extended campaign of forced starvation, it is more important than ever for all of us to keep speaking about the unsp...
open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com
July 22, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Our most beloved comrades at Open Books have been running an urgent fundraiser for Sameer. They are getting close to their $10k goal thanks to a few new matching campaigns. Please contritibe and share, offer a match (named or anon- dm us) open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...
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Incredibly I have six sonnets in the new issue of The Missouri Review. I've included two of them here. Thanks as always to the editors for including my work! These ones are full of space and Florida and vanishing, so a good summation of my obsessions.
July 21, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Incredibly I have six sonnets in the new issue of The Missouri Review. I've included two of them here. Thanks as always to the editors for including my work! These ones are full of space and Florida and vanishing, so a good summation of my obsessions.
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it's the end of non-binary awareness week today, and beestung is stalled at $385/$1840 for our campaign to keep paying and publishing writers under the non-binary, genderqueer, and two-spirit umbrellas.
and amount helps, and would be greatly appreciated!
www.gofundme.com/f/beestung-y...
and amount helps, and would be greatly appreciated!
www.gofundme.com/f/beestung-y...
Donate to beestung: Years Six & Seven, organized by Sarah Clark
What is beestung:
beestung is a quarterly online micro-magazine for non-binary, genderquee… Sarah Clark needs your support for beestung: Years Six & Seven
www.gofundme.com
July 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
it's the end of non-binary awareness week today, and beestung is stalled at $385/$1840 for our campaign to keep paying and publishing writers under the non-binary, genderqueer, and two-spirit umbrellas.
and amount helps, and would be greatly appreciated!
www.gofundme.com/f/beestung-y...
and amount helps, and would be greatly appreciated!
www.gofundme.com/f/beestung-y...
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"For decades, policy makers and profiteers have swapped human care for high-stakes testing, scripted curriculum, and surveillance. AI isn’t the disease — it’s a symptom of a colonizer’s model of schooling that is extractive and dehumanizing, rather than liberating."
Regulating AI Isn’t Enough. Let’s Dismantle the Logic That Put It in Schools.
AI in schools isn’t progress — it’s a sign of how far we’ve strayed from the purpose of education.
truthout.org
July 10, 2025 at 3:25 AM
"For decades, policy makers and profiteers have swapped human care for high-stakes testing, scripted curriculum, and surveillance. AI isn’t the disease — it’s a symptom of a colonizer’s model of schooling that is extractive and dehumanizing, rather than liberating."
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This is a season of trench warfare and we have to continue to fight because a law passed is NOT the end and I think we all know this. There will be implementation fight opportunities, there will be constant organizing and pushback. Nothing is permanent. Onwards.
July 3, 2025 at 9:46 PM
This is a season of trench warfare and we have to continue to fight because a law passed is NOT the end and I think we all know this. There will be implementation fight opportunities, there will be constant organizing and pushback. Nothing is permanent. Onwards.