Susan Rukeyser
@susanrukeyser.bsky.social
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Writer person. 🌈💥 OUT NOW: Bad Words & The Worst Kind of Girl.
https://linktr.ee/susanrukeyser
🌈📚 Will I see you?
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June back East
The past is the present.
https://open.substack.com/pub/susanrukeyser/p/june-back-east?r=3glzt2&utm_medium=ios
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🩵❤️🖤 The Worst Kind of Girl has a complicated relationship with this desert. Buy the book:
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Susan Rukeyser (@susanrukeyser)
🩵❤️🖤 The Worst Kind of Girl (Red Light Lit Press) is available to buy online wherever you buy books.: https://linktr.ee/susanrukeyser?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=72fb50a5-214f-4a19-9370-9f...
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🌵📚 Just popping by with a reminder of this weekend’s literary abundance.
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This Weekend in the Hi-Dez for Lit Lovers
Hope to see you
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13 days ago
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♉️♏️♌️ A few days ago, an eight-year cycle ended, 2018-2026, when Uranus (four times the size of Earth and the coldest planet in our solar system) finally left my sign of Taurus. Uranus is known as the “great awakener” planet, bringing chaos and unpredictability…
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8 Years of Uranus in My Fixed Sign
Buh Bye & Thank You
https://open.substack.com/pub/susanrukeyser/p/8-years-of-uranus-in-my-fixed-sign?r=3glzt2&utm_medium=ios
26 days ago
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🌈💥 Let me read to you
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Bad Words - YouTube
I read from my new collection, BAD WORDS: Feminist, Queer & otherwise Radical. Now available wherever you buy books online. linktr.ee/susanrukeyser
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYoJlPpP-Ab7XwdXDvlqt61UWfNo6FOcs
about 1 month ago
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🌈💥 I read my LGBTQ+ ABC, “L is for Late to the Party, but I Have Some Notes,” from my new collection, BAD WORDS:
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BAD WORDS: L is for Late to the Party, but I Have Some Notes
YouTube video by Susan Rukeyser
https://youtu.be/_1lJnIYlwms?si=J3YnvQ3zUsl2np74
about 1 month ago
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🌈💥 New words at Substack.
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Happy Things
in a helluva time
https://open.substack.com/pub/susanrukeyser/p/happy-things?r=3glzt2&utm_medium=ios
about 2 months ago
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🌈💥 The Next (New) Chapter: Animals, Words, and Women Turn the Page
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2 months ago
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🌈💥 Will I see you?
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Hi-Desert Lo-Fi Lit Weekend
Reminder: Sun 3/22, 1 PM: The DSO Revival
https://open.substack.com/pub/susanrukeyser/p/hi-desert-lo-fi-lit-weekend?r=3glzt2&utm_medium=ios
2 months ago
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📚🌈🌵Don’t miss the Desert Split Open Revival this Sunday 3/22, 1 PM in Twentynine Palms, CA, as part of the Hi-Desert Lo-Fi Lit Fest! We have such good, powerful work to share with you: poetry, prose, fiction & truth. Let’s be together and really listen. 🩷🤍🩵🤎🖤❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜
circeconsulting.net/hdlf/
2 months ago
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🌈💥 “This feels like a time to broaden your perspective and listen to others, really listen, noticing where you feel challenged and where you connect. It feels like a time to show up as you are.” New words on what’s next, past, & soon:
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Connection through words at the end of the world
as we know it
https://open.substack.com/pub/susanrukeyser/p/connection-through-words-at-the-end?r=3glzt2&utm_medium=ios
3 months ago
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🌈🙌 We’re back! Can I get an amen?
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Uplift your Spirit at the Desert Split Open Revival 🌈🙌
Sunday March 22 at the Hi-Desert Lo-Fi Lit Fest
https://open.substack.com/pub/susanrukeyser/p/uplift-your-spirit-at-the-desert?r=3glzt2&utm_medium=ios
3 months ago
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“I still cling to the belief, his belief, that goodness and justice will prevail.” 🖤 Today would’ve been my father‘s birthday. He was a journalist, the real kind, and he would be horrified.
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I miss my dad
In honor of his birthday, 20 years after death
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4 months ago
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Let’s help each other claim and reclaim our voices.
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Book Promo in Unspeakable Times
On words, "bad" and otherwise
https://open.substack.com/pub/susanrukeyser/p/book-promo-in-unspeakable-times?r=3glzt2&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
4 months ago
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I say more on Substack:
susanrukeyser.substack.com
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5 months ago
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For anyone worried that they will never move on from their ex, I offer this: I just remembered that I used to get a period every month. For decades! Completely slipped my mind. Yes, you can even forget a relationship that annoys the shit out of you, 3 weeks of every 4. ✅
5 months ago
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🌈💥 “I close this year, this chapter, and open a new one, fresh and inviting as a thick, blank notebook and my favorite purple ballpoint. I wish you the same, renewed possibility, in whatever form you need.”
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5 months ago
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🩵❤️🖤 Open Mic this Friday night at the Underdog Bookstore in Monrovia, CA
5 months ago
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🌈💥 More from BAD WORDS: Feminist, Queer & otherwise Radical. Now available! Here is “For Sale: Black & Blue Babydoll (Used).” It first appeared in my chapbook, Swap/Meet (Space Cowboy Books, 2018). This recording is from 2020, when we were all locked down. 🖤
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BAD WORDS: For Sale: Black & Blue Babydoll (Used)
YouTube video by Susan Rukeyser
https://youtu.be/3foVPK2bIgA?si=Ig-OHXrJQS2_nFZQ
6 months ago
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🌈💥 From my new collection of short, hybrid prose inspired by the Desert Split Open Mic, BAD WORDS: Feminist, Queer, and otherwise Radical:
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BAD WORDS: I Pledge Allegiance to Nothing But
YouTube video by Susan Rukeyser
https://youtube.com/shorts/juUpxxupbP8?si=dfBuOtEGQEOCyO7T
6 months ago
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New words.
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Animals | Voice
This Sunday.
https://open.substack.com/pub/susanrukeyser/p/animals-voice?r=3glzt2&utm_medium=ios
6 months ago
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I need you to understand how excited I am for this upcoming book event at Viva Rescue, a queer women run animal sanctuary in Menifee, California. After I introduce my novel, The Worst Kind of Girl, we will have a community open mic, followed by a tour of the sanctuary. 🐐🐴
vivaglobalrescue.org/events
6 months ago
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HOORAY (finally)
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BAD WORDS: Feminist, Queer, and (finally) Here
Plus: Sweet Animals & an Open Mic, Sun Dec 14
https://open.substack.com/pub/susanrukeyser/p/bad-words-feminist-queer-and-finally?r=3glzt2&utm_medium=ios
6 months ago
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You knew I had to weigh in on this nastiness. This brief post includes an excerpt from my novel The Worst Kind of Girl, a passage all too relevant to this conversation.
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"Barely Legal": A Gen X Reckoning
Megyn Kelly & The Worst Kind of Girl
https://open.substack.com/pub/susanrukeyser/p/barely-legal-a-gen-x-reckoning?r=3glzt2&utm_medium=ios
6 months ago
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Epic rain in southern California this weekend. I’ll see you in Menifee, CA, on Sunday December 14.
6 months ago
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“I want us to get really comfortable with the sound of our voices, amplified, insistent, saying what we mean, how we feel, and what our experiences have been — consciously exercising our right to free speech, as if it could be taken away, because it could.”
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What's the connection? Animals, open mics, & The Worst Kind of Girl
See you at Viva Rescue, Sat Nov 15
https://open.substack.com/pub/susanrukeyser/p/whats-the-connection-animals-open?r=3glzt2&utm_medium=ios
7 months ago
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Will I see you this weekend? 📚🎤
7 months ago
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Saturday! 🌈✨Bookish LGBTQ+ folks and their friends will be here - will you? I’ll be signing and selling books from 10-11 AM (when it’s still nice & cool) with local authors under the big tent. 🎪 Now, more than ever, let’s show up loud and proud. 🖤🤎🩷🤍🩵❤️🧡💛🌴💙💜
7 months ago
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Time isn’t real/doesn’t matter, unless you want to make it to one of these upcoming book events. Hope to see you! 🌈💥
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What time is it there?
or here, for that matter
https://open.substack.com/pub/susanrukeyser/p/what-time-is-it-there?r=3glzt2&utm_medium=ios
7 months ago
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The Worst Kind of Girl and I will be out and about in Southern California in the next few weeks. Will we see you?
7 months ago
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Aaron Rupar
8 months ago
The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”
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🌈✊📚 Hope to see you at the Desert Split Open’s celebration of Banned Books Week! Saturday, 3 PM, at the Flamingo Heights Community Center (55977 Perris St, Yucca Valley, CA, behind La Copine).
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Saturday: Banned Books Week Reading, Open Mic
& Book Swap
https://open.substack.com/pub/susanrukeyser/p/saturday-banned-books-week-reading?r=3glzt2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
8 months ago
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“We must not obey in advance, shrink ourselves, or keep quiet about the truths that hurt us. The personal is political and the political is coming for us.” Will you join us on Saturday 10/11 to celebrate our right to write and read freely?
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Unlearning silence
Also: where to find me Oct/Nov
https://open.substack.com/pub/susanrukeyser/p/unlearning-silence?r=3glzt2&utm_medium=ios
8 months ago
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Could not be more excited about this! 🌈SAVE THE DATE: Sat 11/15, 3 PM. I’ll introduce new readers to The Worst Kind of Girl, host an open mic & meet the animals! 🐐🐴 If you’re anywhere nearby, don’t miss this. “Viva is a grassroots, LGBTQ+ women run nonprofit trying to change the world for animals.”
8 months ago
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🎤💥 Don’t miss the Desert Split Open’s celebration of Banned Books Week! This year at the Flamingo Heights Community Center in Yucca Valley, CA. Brief readings by local authors followed by an open mic. Bring a book for the FHCC book exchange! 🖤🤎🩷🤍🩵❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 Details:
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8 months ago
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At Substack I wrote about BAD WORDS 🌈💥 my new collection of short and very short work, which is infused with the urgency I felt with the rise of Trump and rooted in fierce love. Most were written the Desert Split Open Mic, but some are older than others brand new. 
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Good News: Bad Words
Coming soon! Here's a sneak peek...
https://open.substack.com/pub/susanrukeyser/p/good-news-bad-words?r=3glzt2&utm_medium=ios
9 months ago
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Roxane Gay
9 months ago
We always knew exactly who the shooter would be. The only detail we didn't know was his name.
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The reaction to this man’s death shows us everything we need to know about white supremacy. Acting like “politics” is something to discuss politely, agreeing to disagree, is pretending the GOP’s “politics” are not specifically about removing basic human rights from certain citizens. ✋
#sureJan
9 months ago
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The Volatile Mermaid
9 months ago
The left isn’t “dancing on Charlie Kirk’s grave,” we’re just pointing out that, thanks to rhetoric like his, a lot of other graves exist.
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🌈🌵🛼 My novel The Worst Kind of Girl is now available to order!
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Thanks to Red Light Lit, this book gets a 2nd chance. To me this book is about hope & queer joy. Hope it feels that way to you too.
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Not a dream, a party
The Worst Kind of Girl is relaunched & ready to order
https://open.substack.com/pub/susanrukeyser/p/not-a-dream-a-party?r=3glzt2&utm_medium=ios
9 months ago
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My son just moved to Australia, where it is already/always tomorrow, meaning he moved to the future. Obviously I’m going to obsess about this like a moody poet/mom with jokes for the entire time he’s there! “Hello? Is this the future calling?” I miss him.
9 months ago
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I liked him better when he was dead.
9 months ago
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Plot twist! 🌈🌵
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Turns out I belong here
The desert as karmic lover and/or home
https://open.substack.com/pub/susanrukeyser/p/turns-out-i-belong-here?r=3glzt2&utm_medium=ios
9 months ago
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🌈✨NEWS >>> The Worst Kind of Girl was acquired by Red Light Lit and we’re celebrating on Fri 9/5 at The Pop-Hop in Los Angeles - can you join us? Look at this lineup of readers! So thrilled to be among them, and grateful for a second chance at getting this book into the hands of more readers.
9 months ago
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Rachel Lapidow
9 months ago
This. It doesn't matter how you're using it (brainstorming, summarizing, editing,etc.) you are supporting a company who does this.
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Los Angeles—> The Worst Kind of Girl was acquired by Red Light Lit! I am so thrilled to be with RLL, a woman-run publisher and event series that embraces many of the themes in this book. ❤️🔥 Help us celebrate on Friday, Sept 5, 7 PM, at The Pop-Hop: 5002 York Blvd, LA.
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9 months ago
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Amber Sparks
10 months ago
lol remember libertarians
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Let’s make sure there is nothing but shame and prison time for anyone aiming a gun at a fellow citizen on behalf of a man, not the constitution, whether they are military, police, or rogue militia/Ice.
10 months ago
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New book out soon! BAD WORDS: Feminist, Queer & otherwise Radical, a collection of short (and very short) hybrid prose, inspired by my experience hosting the Desert Split Open Mic in Joshua Tree, CA. Be the first to know when it’s available to order! Subscribe for free:
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10 months ago
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It’s gonna be tough if/when MAGA — with its smug confidence that they’re the ones worried about THE CHILDREN and sexual predators — finally (FINALLY) realizes they’ve enabled a serial sexual abuser & probable p3dophile. But awakenings happen all the time and I have faith (not in God but the truth).
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