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Val DeBarra
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Writing, Activism, Lesbianism 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💪🏻
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I went to visit Sylvia Plath's grave yesterday in the pouring rain.
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#sylviaplath #death #lgbt
The Grave as an Unresolved Narrative
Visiting the grave of a woman the world could not hold.
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December 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Excavation
How to grow roots over an ocean
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November 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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What happens when a stranger’s voice knows your shape better than you do?

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When the Line Is a Curve
Something is ending.
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November 6, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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I went to Rome, I had some thoughts.
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Queer Pilgrimage
Ruins, art, and the architecture of queer survival.
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September 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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A poem about withholding softness, even from yourself.

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Inventory
You don’t light the candle
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August 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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We weren’t waiting for romance to make it count, queer friendship was already the centre.

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We Raised Each Other
What queer friendship builds when hierarchy falls away.
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August 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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I’ve never shared my writing here before.
For years I kept it to myself not because I didn’t have the words, but because I didn’t trust the world with them. This year I decided to change that. vdebarra.substack.com/p/hue?r=1ojmac
Hue
Writing from the space between things
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August 9, 2025 at 2:12 PM