So much fun making the artwork for this story by @jessdawn.bsky.social!

Just finished reading The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister and I loved it so much.

HEALTHCARE IS A HUMAN RIGHT

The ACA made my whole self-employed life possible. For almost ten years, I was able to build a career that actually worked for me AND keep receiving necessary care to address the consequences of childhood medical neglect. And I still deserved better. We all do.

the vast majority of the self-employed artists and writers you love can only do what we do because of the ACA

My boomer parents were appalled to learn that my partner, who works a full time job, does not have healthcare covered by his employer. TALK TO YOUR BOOMER PARENTS - they do not know the situation.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

No healthcare, NO DEAL.

Here's my hot literary take of the morning: All teaching artists should earn the same rate across an organization. And that rate should be transparent.

Setting up some zine & writing workshops in the Adirondacks for December! 😍 ✂️ 🌲

Is $80-$90/month a normal electric bill for a house that's under 1000 sqft? Our bill seems high to me.

it's giving Shia LaBeouf

Retired men couldn't POSSIBLY get dinner started but they can re-inflate the Halloween blow up decorations every night.

"There is this whole landscape of people out there, doing what you wish you were doing already." Always gems from @wendyortiz.com newsletter.mommyselcamino.com/archive/gent...

Menstrual products are a good thing to donate to food pantries. Absurd that they're not considered healthcare/free for all.

I snagged this! Really looking forward to this one ❤️‍🔥

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities. alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

AFN has a story today. This is the first that I heard someone died. So many villages devastated. It will take years to recover because it's so expensive to build in these rural villages. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...?

Read this today and loved it. Fave quotes: "...I do not remind myself of myself as I was five-plus years ago" & "I’m afraid that art is over, which is why, I believe, I can’t write."

I'm tabling (& cohosting!) North Country Zine Fest in Plattsburgh this weekend! Stop by Saturday from 12-5pm after you do some protesting/leaf peeping ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 www.strandcenter.org/zine-fest

Desperately don't want @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social's Comics for People Who Can't Draw class to end... it's the best thing I've done for my creative self in YEARS. Take this class !!

Libra season is upon us. My power is now infinite and fall has finally fallen. Crisp and clear today. Praise Beyoncé.

Rather like imagining future humans (if any of us make it) wondering about the giant plastic skeletons they keep finding in ancient garbage dumps.

✨Zine artist reveal!✨ Erin Dorney lives in Western New York and has authored a book of epistolary poems addressed to Yoga with Adriene, a book of Shia LaBeouf erasures, & many zines. Follow her at @erindorney.bsky.social & don’t miss her zine, “Artist Residencies I Wish Existed,” dropping TOMORROW!

New issue DIAGRAM 25.3 LET'S GOOOO thediagram.com/25_3/index.h...

This sounds great!

I'm tabling the Rochester Indie Book & Zine Fair tomorrow at 30 Adventure Place! Come check out some zines & say hiiii #ROC

Finally answered some emails. I guess yesterday's griping was just my inbox death knell 💀

First 41st birthday item has been purchased... a future gift to myself 🤤 lakridsbybulow.us/licorice-wit...

I simply cannot deal with my personal email inbox. It's not just 1 email, all of them feel just insurmountable. This is not normal for me! I'd say it's been this way since ~April?

Last week to check out my exhibition at @curio-lancaster.bsky.social in Lancaster, PA!

PA friends!

Zoom is better than Google Meet because Zoom somehow allows two overlapping talkers while Meet is constantly interrupting the speaker. That's why audio discussion on Meet is hard (& I tend to use the hand-raise button more).

18 days to my birthday and I have been forbidden to check the mail 🫣

I’m doing a (free!) virtual book launch for GRAPHIC RAGE on pub day (October 7)! You can register by clinking the annoyingly long link below to get a reminder on the day! us02web.zoom.us/rest/meeting...

Logging out! Again! Bye!

Shout it from the rooftops!

We don't know what's going to happen so might as well fight for better. That's really my basic political orientation.

What should I do for my 41st birthday? I can feasibly have 3 days off in a row & I live in Western NY.

We (gestures broadly) are not doing well.

Come talk about art with me Monday evening?

This weekend has been horrific in many ways. I was thinking about taking a mental health day from work tomorrow but I can't endure any more scrolling & I fear that's all I'd do.

Brockport, NY: Scheduled covid vax online for Walgreens, selected I have a health condition (they didn't ask which), showed up, they asked again at the pharmacy counter (again, didn't ask what) and then gave me the jab. United health coverage. No prescription. 🙏 Please get your vax!

this.

Once more for the night crew! I'm really proud of this book. It deals with being a parent at A Time Like This, and NC ecology, and risk, and so much more. Also there is funny stuff because life is fucking absurd. Poetry contains multitudes

Just log off now - the internet is bad today.

Introducing Zora Bucks! The Hub City Writers Project's Zora Bucks initiative is a bold, neuroscience-backed literacy program that gives Spartanburg children the joy and agency of buying a book of their choice–using Zora Bucks currency. www.hubcity.org/zorabucks

This job sounds like a dream 💗 Folks in my LIS sphere, check it out!

Moon is wild right now 🩸🌕