Kat Moore
@katmoore.bsky.social
PhD. Writer. Dweller at Cat Palace. Essays in: Brevity, Image, Creative Nonfiction, Diagram, Passages North, Salt Hill and more. Bread Loaf Scholar ‘21. Tin House Winter Workshop ‘22. she/her
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My essay collection has been a semi-finalist and finalist in multiple competitions. Going to dive back in for some slight re-arranging and revision. See if I can make it sparkle more.
November 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
My essay collection has been a semi-finalist and finalist in multiple competitions. Going to dive back in for some slight re-arranging and revision. See if I can make it sparkle more.
“If a man wears his riot gear during prayer, will the sacred forsake him? If a man wears his riot gear to the holiday meal, how will he eat? If a man enters the bedroom in his riot gear, how will he make love to his wife? If a man wears his riot gear to tuck in his children, what will they dream?”
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
“If a man wears his riot gear during prayer, will the sacred forsake him? If a man wears his riot gear to the holiday meal, how will he eat? If a man enters the bedroom in his riot gear, how will he make love to his wife? If a man wears his riot gear to tuck in his children, what will they dream?”
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Thanks to @sonorareview.bsky.social for publishing my essay. sonorareview.com/2025/11/04/s...
Staring at the Silence | Jill Talbot - Sonora Review
Stepping through the back door, I squint against the shadows before sliding into the corner booth of the bar section. The restaurant’s near empty, the way I like it. Every few weeks, I drive the seven...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Thanks to @sonorareview.bsky.social for publishing my essay. sonorareview.com/2025/11/04/s...
Civil rights should never be up for debate! I am glad the corrupt SCOTUS rejected this call.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects a call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.
Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Civil rights should never be up for debate! I am glad the corrupt SCOTUS rejected this call.
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Trump: *gets booed massively in front of a huge stadium crowd*
Senate Democrats: Wait, they should be booing at us!
Senate Democrats: Wait, they should be booing at us!
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Trump: *gets booed massively in front of a huge stadium crowd*
Senate Democrats: Wait, they should be booing at us!
Senate Democrats: Wait, they should be booing at us!
When I walked into class Wednesday night, the grad students were talking about Pink Flamingos. Melt my heart!
a drag queen is talking into a microphone and says `` filth are my politics , filth is my life '' .
Alt: Divine in an orange dress with high drawn on eye brows and sparkling blue eye shadow and black liquid eyeliner, rectangular shiny earrings, talks into a microphone and says ``filth are my politics, filth is my life ''
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November 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
When I walked into class Wednesday night, the grad students were talking about Pink Flamingos. Melt my heart!
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...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site
dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani?
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site
My sister, Lanie Zipoy, won the Harlem International Film Fest’s Mira Nair Rising Female Filmmaker award in 2020. I’m sad Lanie never got to rise due to her life being cut cruelly and suddenly short.
November 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
My sister, Lanie Zipoy, won the Harlem International Film Fest’s Mira Nair Rising Female Filmmaker award in 2020. I’m sad Lanie never got to rise due to her life being cut cruelly and suddenly short.
Money for gold ballrooms while intentionally starving people.
October 27, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Money for gold ballrooms while intentionally starving people.
I’ve donated to local pantries and my school’s pantry for students. Billionaires exist, yet I, a post-doc teaching fellow, am donating hoping that people won’t be starved by our government.
October 27, 2025 at 3:29 AM
I’ve donated to local pantries and my school’s pantry for students. Billionaires exist, yet I, a post-doc teaching fellow, am donating hoping that people won’t be starved by our government.
Went to a showing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show put on by a student org. It was such a celebration of transness, queerness, and all different types of bodies. Gave me a flicker of hope. Allowed me to glimpse the queer future Muñoz wrote of.
October 25, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Went to a showing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show put on by a student org. It was such a celebration of transness, queerness, and all different types of bodies. Gave me a flicker of hope. Allowed me to glimpse the queer future Muñoz wrote of.
Re-reading to teach in the grad class tomorrow night. Love the juxtapositions of art and social critique in these powerful and well-crafted essays. And the use of opera to reveal Detroit in “D is for the Dance of the Hours.”
October 22, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Re-reading to teach in the grad class tomorrow night. Love the juxtapositions of art and social critique in these powerful and well-crafted essays. And the use of opera to reveal Detroit in “D is for the Dance of the Hours.”
“…whose sentences often refuse the standards of punctuation and flow like water, like the wind, like the story you have to tell fast in order to get it down before it’s gone. But this short sentence—we don’t know where here is, but we know it’s dark and we can feel the scream.”
Yes, delighted to review the new edition of MEMORIES THAT SMELL LIKE GASOLINE by David Wojnarowicz, one of my favorite books, for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social💥 lareviewofbooks.org/article/i-fe...
I Feel Like a Human Bomb Tick Tick Tick | Los Angeles Review of Books
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore reviews the new edition of David Wojnarowicz’s collection “Memories That Smell Like Gasoline.”
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October 21, 2025 at 1:40 AM
“…whose sentences often refuse the standards of punctuation and flow like water, like the wind, like the story you have to tell fast in order to get it down before it’s gone. But this short sentence—we don’t know where here is, but we know it’s dark and we can feel the scream.”
Teaching Lily Hoang’s A Bestiary in the grad CNF workshop tonight. Because of this, I’m in a very good mood.
October 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Teaching Lily Hoang’s A Bestiary in the grad CNF workshop tonight. Because of this, I’m in a very good mood.
I completely checked out of reality today. I explored a pumpkin patch and corn maze. And yes, I did re-enact scenes from Children of the Corn while in the corn maze. Bought a pumpkin. Played glow in the dark Halloween deco mini-golf. Went on a silly Bigfoot tour. And watched Halloween 4.
October 12, 2025 at 4:10 AM
I completely checked out of reality today. I explored a pumpkin patch and corn maze. And yes, I did re-enact scenes from Children of the Corn while in the corn maze. Bought a pumpkin. Played glow in the dark Halloween deco mini-golf. Went on a silly Bigfoot tour. And watched Halloween 4.
Really looking forward to AWP.
a woman in a polka dot dress is dancing in front of a wooden fence .
Alt: Divine strutting on the streets of Baltimore
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October 10, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Really looking forward to AWP.
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Hi, CNN. Please stop framing it like he’s NOT outright breaking the law
President Trump doesn't commit to back pay for furloughed federal workers when the government shutdown ends. Follow live updates: https://cnn.it/46DIVEI
October 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Hi, CNN. Please stop framing it like he’s NOT outright breaking the law
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This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
October 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Reading about HRT/perimenopause on the Mayo Clinic’s site—it says that if HRT isn’t possible for whatever reasons then other options are clinical hypnosis, cognitive behavioral therapy, and weight loss. Like just in case, here is the default treatment for when modern science fails women.
October 6, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Reading about HRT/perimenopause on the Mayo Clinic’s site—it says that if HRT isn’t possible for whatever reasons then other options are clinical hypnosis, cognitive behavioral therapy, and weight loss. Like just in case, here is the default treatment for when modern science fails women.
20 federal agents beat a man at my old elementary school. How horrible for the children. How horrible for the man. Memphis needs resources of care and community, not brutality. And I say this as someone who lost her mother and sister to crime in Memphis.
October 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
20 federal agents beat a man at my old elementary school. How horrible for the children. How horrible for the man. Memphis needs resources of care and community, not brutality. And I say this as someone who lost her mother and sister to crime in Memphis.
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All I know to do when things are Very Bad is make art with more artists. I hope my little lit mag @zinemachine.bsky.social (launched today!), brings you what it’s brought me—an insistence that there’s so much brilliance, cleverness, humor, & beauty. That it’s never far away.🩷
zinemachine.com/the-mag
zinemachine.com/the-mag
Read — Zine Machine
Our launch issue is LIVE!! Read zines made by real (paid!) human artists in Zine Machine's Summer '25 Edit, out now.
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October 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
All I know to do when things are Very Bad is make art with more artists. I hope my little lit mag @zinemachine.bsky.social (launched today!), brings you what it’s brought me—an insistence that there’s so much brilliance, cleverness, humor, & beauty. That it’s never far away.🩷
zinemachine.com/the-mag
zinemachine.com/the-mag
I’ve been to three readings this month. Met many lovely writers. Community is survival.
September 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I’ve been to three readings this month. Met many lovely writers. Community is survival.
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I assume that we won't get Surgeon General reports about the epidemic of white men shooting people and sociological studies about where their fathers are?
September 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I assume that we won't get Surgeon General reports about the epidemic of white men shooting people and sociological studies about where their fathers are?