"Reserve your energy instead for crafting assignments that compel care from students who care enough to think, offering thoughtful feedback on the papers that exhibit their own thoughtfulness." www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

i miss you, Esmé. with you, things felt possible

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

grief is a reordering of the cosmos “who am i in your absence”

Some of the worst harms I’ve experienced in the past five years happened when I was homeless, and continue to happen now. Please. V SNDesiree C $SNDesiree gofund.me/1dbe73f2d

a friend created this poster for me, and wrote: "Please, please share this in your spaces. The amount that Désirée needs to raise to keep housing from December 5 on has tripled. This is urgent. It is cold. Shelters are full. There is nowhere for her to go. Please share."

Don’t leave anyone behind.

when you are alone, your ESA dog of 8 years and only family suddenly dies of acute heart failure during the second veterinary ER visit in 72 hours, and you’re homeless, there are no holidays. there is just one interminable day after another, hour after hour, minute after minute.

i’ve been job-hunting since February.

Please help if you can.

You know, some days I sit and think about how absolutely wild it is that we've built a society where we don't provide a place for people to even sleep at night without having to pay for it, and that we've somehow made it seem like that's normal.

In the middle of another move. Esmé the ESA dog greeted me with her small squeaky lambchop toy, then put it down, walked closer, looked into my eyes to say, “Don’t forget to bring me, too, okay?” I would & could never, beloved. Esmé always worried she’d be left behind during moves. (22 Feb 2023)

How Gaza Broke the Art World • EQUATOR www.equator.org/articles/how...

She wanted to take the job away from an underpaid trans graduate student who gave her a fair grade w/thoughtful feedback on 1 of the most vapid assortment of attempted thoughts&words I have ever read&OU admin are a bunch of yellow-bellied chickenshit bastards for caving&setting this precedent

it's deeply not a waste of time

I hate Rahm Emanuel so much that the word hate doesn't actually suffice. I need a more specific word to capture the feelings I accumulated across years of fighting his austerity measures, and demanding justice for people who died because of him — and for Laquan McDonald, whose murder he covered up.

Help—… Please… help—-… a hundred people kicking in $18 helps me meet this #MutualAid. I need an #XmasMiracle too, and soon.

what do you do with isolation and loneliness, with nobody to talk with, not even a dog companion, and not be preyed upon by people who hunt vulnerable lonely people and why are things set up like this the grief and loneliness are stunningly painful nobody chooses to be this alone

“can someone please help me get safe housing”

"Well, then, eliminate the people, curtail them, force them to be silent. Because the European enlightenment is more important than people." —Dostoevsky, notebooks for “The Brothers Karamazov”

for friends with allergy-prone cat companions considering chewable Apoquel: please be cautious <3 dog-approved chewable Apoquel is causing acute kidney injury and kidney failure when given to cats. www.usnews.com/news/health-...

The thing about persistent poverty and the long-term effects of homelessness is that it sets into motion a powerful cascade of events that make a person more and more vulnerable to people with whom they would have otherwise never interfaced. (18 oct 2024)

100%. People are cruel. I've been job-hunting since Feb.* I can't get on a lease w/o proof of income. The judgment, scorn, & mockery of the owning class & those with family are meant to cut people like me down. I want better from people & better for myself. But material conditions I cannot control.

“A longstanding myth about poor people has been that the problem lies in lack of 'impulse control' and desire for 'immediate gratification.' Very eugenics. Very wrong. … Whatever 'difference' may exist is an *effect* of poverty, not a cause” — @mssinenomine.bsky.social x.com/mssinenomine...

She was a little drive-by ankle licker. She was my whole world. Thank you for caring. I miss my only family member.

"My 13-pound dog would follow this man and his dogs around the park [and] one day to the man's truck. It embarrassed me, the dog's desire to be close. [One day the man] turned and said to me, not unkindly, 'I hate to say it, but I think your dog is lonely.' Was he talking to me? Did he mean me?"

try global

Here. Some context in the OP would've been nice.

how i miss these two one-of-a-kind beings. Namu the first ESA dog companion, then Esmé to keep him company. it took longer to bundle them up to go out than it took to toilet them outside. it was -31 degrees Fahrenheit outside on 23 Dec 2022. Esmé and Namu were displeased w/ accoutrement

“can someone please help me get safe housing”

Some of the worst harms I’ve experienced in the past five years happened when I was homeless, and continue to happen now. Please. V SNDesiree C $SNDesiree gofund.me/1dbe73f2d

“Let us not forget the people in ICE custody, the children kept from those who comfort them most, the lonely queers who are [homeless]. When loneliness is the only blanket available for warmth, remember that your grief and sorrow are never too big [for] this beautiful and finite planet” 21 Dec ‘25

i don't want to be homeless. i'm scared. i've been job-hunting since Feb. i'm scared. i don't want to be alone. i'm scared. i am so tired of fighting and being alone. i'm scared. temp paid work Apr-Jun. i'm scared. Esmé my ESA is dead. i'm scared.

come January i'll be living in a 21-year-old used car. i'm scared of living in a car. i'm scared of getting arrested. i'm scared of being alone as a single woman. i'm scared of getting towed. i'm scared of being assaulted. i'm scared of not having a dog to alert bark. i'm scared of car homelessness

If every one of my 3000+ followers could give Désirée $2, she'd exceed her goal for getting safe housing. I know that everyone won't see this, but if you do see it and have $5 or a bit more to spare, please consider it. gofund.me/cfd069ce3

I, working full-time, paid for a hotel and was homeless. This was me in summer 2018. I, working full-time, couch-surfed and was homeless. This was me in fall/winter 2019. Severance from 2018 NGO program manager job meant I owed taxes for first time in my life. Severance = “self-employment” income

Media rarely mention white supremacy+isolation faced by transracially, internationally adopted people. Before 21-yo Philip Manshaus attempted to murder people at a mosque outside Oslo, he killed his 17-yo stepsister, Johanne Zhangjia Ihle-Hansen, adopted from China at age 2.

Dear freak, please #stayalive

www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_Aq... Leslie Feinberg and Kate Bornstein talking movingly and articulately about the trans liberation movement all the way back in 1996. I think in a time of such rampant transphobia legislatively and culturally it's important to remember what we're fighting for and why.

Please donate or share at the very least. This'll surely be a crushing Winter for them.

I have always said it, I will continue to say it, we are limiting the productive potential of millions of freaks by demanding they earn a wage to survive instead of enabling them to do whatever thing their brain is broken for

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

‘Scuse me. Hey. Hi. Hello.

hello, it’s me, Esmé (26 Sept 2020)

On the left, a small white and black dog with black nose, big ears and underbite. She's stood on the inside driver's side door ledge, looking out. On the right, the small dog referenced in the essay. Curly-haired, white, tan ears, a brown nose, seeking his human's return.

Wanted to post this resource in a findable spot. #cats

today marks 3 weeks since you died, my dear Esmé. i am alone. i miss you so much.

“Only one thing can transcend modern homelessness, and that is worldwide solidarity. Fraternity is too easy a term. … it somehow promises that all problems will be solved. In reality many are insoluble. Hence the never-ending need for solidarity.” —John Berger