Kelly Joi Phelan
@kjoiiooi.bsky.social
Xennial. Writer by day, leftist layabout by night.
https://kjoiiooi.substack.com/
https://kjoiiooi.substack.com/
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"Is urinary incontinence a symptom of perimenopause, or are my bladder muscles atrophied from too many years wearing diapers on the floor of an Amazon warehouse?" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/is-...
Is It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism?
Are my hot flashes due to an estrogen imbalance or a rapidly warming planet hastened by unaccountable oil barons who own our elections? Am I irrita...
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November 2, 2025 at 1:00 AM
"Is urinary incontinence a symptom of perimenopause, or are my bladder muscles atrophied from too many years wearing diapers on the floor of an Amazon warehouse?" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/is-...
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This week's oasis of sanities in a single place – how not to waste your life, the nautilus and the spirituality of wildness, and a watercolor reckoning with war and humanity: mailchi.mp/themarginali...
How not to waste your life, the nautilus and the spirituality of wildness, and a watercolor reckoning with war and humanity
Hello <<Name>>! This is the weekly email digest of The Marginalian by Maria Popova. If you missed last week's special edition — Annie Dillard on how to live, Alain de Botton on friendship, and a Gnostic...
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November 2, 2025 at 4:47 AM
This week's oasis of sanities in a single place – how not to waste your life, the nautilus and the spirituality of wildness, and a watercolor reckoning with war and humanity: mailchi.mp/themarginali...
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If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.
Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt
37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN
Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.
www.cnn.com
October 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.
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There's a quote by Assata Shakur, one I think of pretty much every day.
"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them."
Truth.
Keep fighting against oppression, as she did all her life.
"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them."
Truth.
Keep fighting against oppression, as she did all her life.
September 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
There's a quote by Assata Shakur, one I think of pretty much every day.
"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them."
Truth.
Keep fighting against oppression, as she did all her life.
"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them."
Truth.
Keep fighting against oppression, as she did all her life.
With a name like that, surely this person was destined to become either a politician or an evangelist.
Christian Ghoul
United States, Census, 1870
United States, Census, 1870
September 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
With a name like that, surely this person was destined to become either a politician or an evangelist.
There's a lot to dislike about the AI takeover of Google search, not least the loss of Boolean search operators.
September 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
There's a lot to dislike about the AI takeover of Google search, not least the loss of Boolean search operators.
Just had a horrifying thought: President Joe Rogan. And he mandates that all legal cases be fought not in a courtroom, but in an alligator pit.
August 22, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Just had a horrifying thought: President Joe Rogan. And he mandates that all legal cases be fought not in a courtroom, but in an alligator pit.
New way to throw out my back just dropped: I call it 'Simply standing up'
July 21, 2025 at 3:11 AM
New way to throw out my back just dropped: I call it 'Simply standing up'
As an introvert, I sometimes worry I don't know enough people to GoFundMy future health crises.
July 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM
As an introvert, I sometimes worry I don't know enough people to GoFundMy future health crises.
— Danez Smith, "it doesn't feel like a time to write"
July 3, 2025 at 4:05 AM
— Danez Smith, "it doesn't feel like a time to write"
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For better or for worse, I've been attempting to write on Substack to bulk up my atrophied creative muscles.
This one's about how I grew up down the block from where the Republican Party was founded (true story).
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This one's about how I grew up down the block from where the Republican Party was founded (true story).
open.substack.com/pub/kjoiiooi...
Origin Story
My weirdest piece of personal trivia: I grew up on the same city block the Republican party was founded on.
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June 23, 2025 at 4:52 AM
For better or for worse, I've been attempting to write on Substack to bulk up my atrophied creative muscles.
This one's about how I grew up down the block from where the Republican Party was founded (true story).
open.substack.com/pub/kjoiiooi...
This one's about how I grew up down the block from where the Republican Party was founded (true story).
open.substack.com/pub/kjoiiooi...
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all of this, on the holiest of days no less.
June 5, 2025 at 10:06 PM
all of this, on the holiest of days no less.
New U.S. national anthem updates just dropped.
May 30, 2025 at 6:29 PM
New U.S. national anthem updates just dropped.
From 'Enter: Poems' by Jim Moore, @graywolfpress.bsky.social, 2025
May 17, 2025 at 2:28 AM
From 'Enter: Poems' by Jim Moore, @graywolfpress.bsky.social, 2025
A missed opportunity to call himself Pope Bob.
Breaking News: Robert Francis Prevost was chosen to be the first American pope. He will be known as Pope Leo XIV. nyti.ms/3EUsnNI
May 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
A missed opportunity to call himself Pope Bob.
Really feel like a proper sequel to 'The Lion King' would be 'The Lion Democratically Elected Leader.' Like, small 'r' republicanism comes to the savannah, yanno?
April 5, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Really feel like a proper sequel to 'The Lion King' would be 'The Lion Democratically Elected Leader.' Like, small 'r' republicanism comes to the savannah, yanno?
Heyyy, so look at all these cool news stories that I collected in just 15 minutes that may or may not live in a file named, "Headlines from the Apocalypse."
*chuckles* we're in danger...
*chuckles* we're in danger...
March 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Heyyy, so look at all these cool news stories that I collected in just 15 minutes that may or may not live in a file named, "Headlines from the Apocalypse."
*chuckles* we're in danger...
*chuckles* we're in danger...
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When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.
March 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.
The power goes out here often enough that I have PG&E's outage map bookmarked. And here we are again in another blackout because it's...gently drizzling.
March 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The power goes out here often enough that I have PG&E's outage map bookmarked. And here we are again in another blackout because it's...gently drizzling.
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“Do you see how mighty you’ve made us, / all these generations running? / Every day steeling ourselves against it. / Every day coaxing it back into coils. / And all the while feeding it. / And all the while loving it.” — Tracy K. Smith
“We Feel Now a Largeness Coming On”
“Do you see how mighty you’ve made us, / all these generations running?”
www.newyorker.com
March 5, 2025 at 2:45 AM
“Do you see how mighty you’ve made us, / all these generations running? / Every day steeling ourselves against it. / Every day coaxing it back into coils. / And all the while feeding it. / And all the while loving it.” — Tracy K. Smith
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Reminder: we are being trained not to care about other people. It underlines the attacks on migrants, on DEI, on trans youth, on so-called "wokeness."
Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.
Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.
March 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Reminder: we are being trained not to care about other people. It underlines the attacks on migrants, on DEI, on trans youth, on so-called "wokeness."
Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.
Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.
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The more I live the more I’m astounded by how difficult it is to keep living and to remain a person. This is WORK.
March 4, 2025 at 2:39 AM
The more I live the more I’m astounded by how difficult it is to keep living and to remain a person. This is WORK.
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Welcome sign
Kremlin, MT
Kremlin, MT
February 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Welcome sign
Kremlin, MT
Kremlin, MT