Rachel Hunt
@rachelhunt.bsky.social
Founder of Tiny Kindness Insta (https://www.instagram.com/tinykindnesses/). Author of Mother's Milk & I Gave Her a Name w/ BCC Press. Editor of Mormon Feminism: Essential Writings w/ Oxford University Press. Tired.
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Brian Bilston, "Word Needles." 🎄
![[this part of the poem is written in the shape of a Christmas tree]:
“I wrote a poem in the shape of a Christmas tree, but then forgot to water it only a few days later”
[The following portion is written with the words positioned haphazardly underneath the part of the poem that is in the shape of a Christmas tree:]
“There were words all over the carpet”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:akctgxwubbhv2rr4u3b7ritg/bafkreifg5zehrmycknu6oavqsrh3hia7da7vgpuulgo2bo3edpsxgsguzq@jpeg)
December 7, 2023 at 11:25 PM
Brian Bilston, "Word Needles." 🎄
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For the past few days I’ve been reading I Gave Her a Name by @rachelhunt.bsky.social. Her musings on the nature of a female god are incredibly powerful to me.
What are you reading today?
Are you in the mood for some speculative poetry? Try The Saint of Witches by @avramargariti.bsky.social,
or Nombono: Anthology of Speculative Poetry by BIPOC Creators from Around the World, Akua Leslie Hope editing
or The Place of Broken Things by @nytebird45.bsky.social and Alessandro Manezetti
or Nombono: Anthology of Speculative Poetry by BIPOC Creators from Around the World, Akua Leslie Hope editing
or The Place of Broken Things by @nytebird45.bsky.social and Alessandro Manezetti
November 27, 2023 at 5:50 PM
For the past few days I’ve been reading I Gave Her a Name by @rachelhunt.bsky.social. Her musings on the nature of a female god are incredibly powerful to me.
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Two weeks ago, Jewish Currents interviewed three doctors in Gaza to show the world the direness of their situation. The story was just updated to reflect one of the doctors was killed by an airstrike in his own home, making this quote even more gutting. jewishcurrents.org/we-have-lost...
November 14, 2023 at 12:24 AM
Two weeks ago, Jewish Currents interviewed three doctors in Gaza to show the world the direness of their situation. The story was just updated to reflect one of the doctors was killed by an airstrike in his own home, making this quote even more gutting. jewishcurrents.org/we-have-lost...
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Powerful. In Brooklyn, activists from the Illuminator collective projected the names of all 4,000+ children killed in Gaza and Israel so far.
November 14, 2023 at 5:22 AM
Powerful. In Brooklyn, activists from the Illuminator collective projected the names of all 4,000+ children killed in Gaza and Israel so far.
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okay, well can AI do THIS??
*cries in the corner*
*cries in the corner*
November 7, 2023 at 9:48 PM
okay, well can AI do THIS??
*cries in the corner*
*cries in the corner*
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I am sorry about everything in the world that’s happening so so much, but also look at this little hedgehog kitchen timer I got at the thrift store
November 7, 2023 at 10:06 PM
I am sorry about everything in the world that’s happening so so much, but also look at this little hedgehog kitchen timer I got at the thrift store
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Imagine reading all the reports of autopilot Teslas running over kids, Elon unplugging giant servers at Twitter just to see what happens, and the huge mortality rate of primates who were test subjects for Neuralink, and thinking, "yeah, this is the guy who I trust to put a chip in my brain."
November 7, 2023 at 11:57 PM
Imagine reading all the reports of autopilot Teslas running over kids, Elon unplugging giant servers at Twitter just to see what happens, and the huge mortality rate of primates who were test subjects for Neuralink, and thinking, "yeah, this is the guy who I trust to put a chip in my brain."
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I lived in New York so long, I kind of expected everything to be open, always, in every other big city. But places like San Francisco and London, things actually… Close?
That's the main difference between NYC and London: Here at 5AM nothing is open
November 4, 2023 at 8:03 PM
I lived in New York so long, I kind of expected everything to be open, always, in every other big city. But places like San Francisco and London, things actually… Close?
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A prayer for every person in the arts who has adapted their natural night-owl rhythm to drag themselves to an early morning day job in a school. We need this light so badly
November 4, 2023 at 8:02 PM
A prayer for every person in the arts who has adapted their natural night-owl rhythm to drag themselves to an early morning day job in a school. We need this light so badly
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Y'all. Jon got me one of the viral twinkling TikTok christmas trees, and be warned--its NOT warm white. It's BRIGHT PURE WHITE, and that's not for me. We boxed that baby back up and hope that its new owner really really loves it.
November 4, 2023 at 2:06 AM
Y'all. Jon got me one of the viral twinkling TikTok christmas trees, and be warned--its NOT warm white. It's BRIGHT PURE WHITE, and that's not for me. We boxed that baby back up and hope that its new owner really really loves it.
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I’ve decided that winter darkness is for mystery, not dread, and I’m going to treat my SAD with films and books and anything else that evokes a vibe of universal mystery, the deepest magic, a holy sort of unknowing and acceptance. What you got for me, internet?
November 4, 2023 at 2:39 AM
I’ve decided that winter darkness is for mystery, not dread, and I’m going to treat my SAD with films and books and anything else that evokes a vibe of universal mystery, the deepest magic, a holy sort of unknowing and acceptance. What you got for me, internet?
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Have y'all been following this thing where for 20 years they stopped teaching phonics in American schools due to some sketchy research, and now lots of kids straight-up can't read?
Parents, are you in pitchfork and torch mode?
Parents, are you in pitchfork and torch mode?
November 3, 2023 at 9:50 PM
Have y'all been following this thing where for 20 years they stopped teaching phonics in American schools due to some sketchy research, and now lots of kids straight-up can't read?
Parents, are you in pitchfork and torch mode?
Parents, are you in pitchfork and torch mode?
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Forced myself to work on just one thing all day. No toggling back and forth between emails, grading, projects, etc. Felt amazing, like I imagine lumberjacks or deep sea fishermen must feel.
November 3, 2023 at 10:15 PM
Forced myself to work on just one thing all day. No toggling back and forth between emails, grading, projects, etc. Felt amazing, like I imagine lumberjacks or deep sea fishermen must feel.
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I find this legitimately inspiring and also I didn’t do this before the internet, either
Forced myself to work on just one thing all day. No toggling back and forth between emails, grading, projects, etc. Felt amazing, like I imagine lumberjacks or deep sea fishermen must feel.
November 3, 2023 at 10:18 PM
I find this legitimately inspiring and also I didn’t do this before the internet, either
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I am convinced people are going to look back on films and TV of the early 21st century and be astonished at the high heels.
November 3, 2023 at 9:23 PM
I am convinced people are going to look back on films and TV of the early 21st century and be astonished at the high heels.
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“why some people be mad at me sometimes”
by Lucille Clifton
they ask me to remember
but they want me to remember
their memories
and i keep on remembering
mine.
by Lucille Clifton
they ask me to remember
but they want me to remember
their memories
and i keep on remembering
mine.
November 3, 2023 at 9:43 PM
“why some people be mad at me sometimes”
by Lucille Clifton
they ask me to remember
but they want me to remember
their memories
and i keep on remembering
mine.
by Lucille Clifton
they ask me to remember
but they want me to remember
their memories
and i keep on remembering
mine.
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I just heard about a gathering with the marvelous poet/essayist Ross Gay that a toddler interrupted first by asking, “What is chaos?” and then by intermittently shouting the word “chaos!” It’s hard to imagine anything more wonderful!
November 3, 2023 at 9:01 PM
I just heard about a gathering with the marvelous poet/essayist Ross Gay that a toddler interrupted first by asking, “What is chaos?” and then by intermittently shouting the word “chaos!” It’s hard to imagine anything more wonderful!
At this moment, I'm at IU's academic conference on Taylor Swift. My favorite panel was on Taylor's anxiety/relationship to memory & time, but my overall favorite part is hearing people take a woman's words & art seriously.
November 3, 2023 at 8:50 PM
At this moment, I'm at IU's academic conference on Taylor Swift. My favorite panel was on Taylor's anxiety/relationship to memory & time, but my overall favorite part is hearing people take a woman's words & art seriously.
Do you have any shows that you know in your heart are not that good, but you still just want to keep watching? Mine currently is Suits, which Netflix had been aggressively advertising to me for a long time, & which I somehow did not initially realize was not a new show bc of said advertising.
November 2, 2023 at 1:42 AM
Do you have any shows that you know in your heart are not that good, but you still just want to keep watching? Mine currently is Suits, which Netflix had been aggressively advertising to me for a long time, & which I somehow did not initially realize was not a new show bc of said advertising.
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Happy anniversary to my greatest career achievement.
November 2, 2023 at 1:25 AM
Happy anniversary to my greatest career achievement.
The best part of Halloween was finishing a read aloud of The Graveyard Book with my daughter, on the most appropriate day.
November 1, 2023 at 3:23 AM
The best part of Halloween was finishing a read aloud of The Graveyard Book with my daughter, on the most appropriate day.
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I have a friend who teaches middle school social studies. She doesn’t let her students use “freedom” without saying freedom OF/TO/etc. In this case, a gun is giving 1 man freedom to terrorize 150,000 ppl, who have freedom to leave their houses & risk getting turned into smoothies by a man with a gun
140,000 people have been locked down for days because of one man with a gun, so tell me again how guns make us free
October 27, 2023 at 2:15 PM
I have a friend who teaches middle school social studies. She doesn’t let her students use “freedom” without saying freedom OF/TO/etc. In this case, a gun is giving 1 man freedom to terrorize 150,000 ppl, who have freedom to leave their houses & risk getting turned into smoothies by a man with a gun