Whenever a face wash is called “a milk” I’m like “ah yes, the milk of human kindness“

All my students learn this in first year.

Congratulations to this year's winner, @adelebarclay.bsky.social

I bring a certain “we’re gonna watch each other die” to the friendship

The trick is to never have coffee so in the rare time you do you feel invincible even as the inevitable headache ensues

📚 #NMAReadingList 🏆 Cobra Blue Mustang Strat – @fiddlehd.bsky.social In this lyrical, searing essay, @adelebarclay.bsky.social explores memory, trauma, and sisterhood through art and loss. Gold winner, Columns & Essays. #NMA25 #Essays #CreativeNonfiction 🔗 zurl.co/ksBbq

Recently my ex accidentally sent me money and then later a sext and in both cases I politely let them know they had messed up… and now THEY have unfollowed ME

I’m so warbled by grief that when someone posts a sentimental photo with music and a long caption I’m like “oh no that person died” but then they’re just wishing a friend good luck on their move to Berlin

What if dudes’ torso pics were just them being kitties coyly showing their bellies?

just found out my grandma used teenaged photos of me for one of her catfishing accounts… what kind of flavour of fucked up is that

Thank you to @fiddlehd.bsky.social & @canadamediaawards.bsky.social for granting “Cobra Blue Mustang Strat” Gold. Having this work about my older sister Elissa, grunge music, teen girl grit, and the legacy of domestic abuse be celebrated on a national scale makes me feel like these stories matter 🎸❤️‍🔥

Way to go @adelebarclay.bsky.social !

Congratulations to the #NMA25 Gold-winning @adelebarclay.bsky.social for @fiddlehd.bsky.social in the category of Columns and Essays for "Cobra Blue Mustang Strat"

I’m begging you: not everything needs to be turned into a musical

The Big Wintersleep

Congratulations @adelebarclay.bsky.social! It was an honour to publish the essay and we are so excited to see it nominated for a #NMA25!

Wow! The first essay I published from my memoir Black Cherry has been nominated for a #NMA25 from @canadamediaawards.bsky.social Thanks @fiddlehd.bsky.social for publishing 🌱 This is my first National Magazine Award nomination and the writing where I found the story of me and my sister 🩵

She’s a 10 but she has a 8/9 Beighton score

you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you

🎸 Finalist | Columns & Essays | #NMA25 Cobra Blue Mustang Strat @fiddlehd.bsky.social | By @adelebarclay.bsky.social 🔗 zurl.co/UOALO

I wanna make out with the lilacs

“I smell charcoal and cloves.” A poem by @adelebarclay.bsky.social

congrats to these wonderful writers!! what a pleasure to read all the finalist entries (again & again). find these three beautiful essays in the next issue of EVENT

Announcing the winners of our 2024 Non-Fiction Contest, judged by Michelle Cyca! 🥇 Predator, Prey — Hilary Fair 🥈 The Remember Timeline — Stephanie Chou 🥉 Witches of Silver Creek — Adèle Barclay Find the winning stories + judge’s essay in EVENT 54/1 (Spring/Summer 2025).

It took me three days to drink a decaf cappuccino

in retrospect it's kind of funny that sci fi was like "imagine a world where robots gain sentience, but humanity refuses to grant them personhood" but in reality every loser techbro loser thinks chatgpt deserves more rights than like, actual people

If you want an authentic GIRLS rewatch experience you gotta go for an illegal stream on the dusty screen of a white MacBook

Duolingo just asked me to vacuum the dishes to find a chocolate bar… yeah how’s that AI working out?

Game show idea: “is it sex?” Like “is it cake” but straight people are shown scenes of queers doing a variety activities, including fucking but also other things, and the straights have to figure out if the activity is sex or not, often much to their surprise.

#awp offsite @clementgoldberg.bsky.social @rykaaoki.bsky.social @charliejane.bsky.social @adelebarclay.bsky.social @alexmlwrites.bsky.social

@adelebarclay.bsky.social, winner of the Lit POP Award, The Walrus Readers’ Choice Award, and The Fiddlehead’s Fiction Contest, is the author of If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You and Renaissance Normcore (Nightwood Editions). Find their full essay, Every Possible Way, in EVENT 53/3.

1/x @adelebarclay.bsky.social, @zoewhittall.bsky.social Chelene Knight, Adrienne Stevenson, Bridget Huh, Chloé LaDuchesse, Dümideya, @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social, @jayesimpson.bsky.social, King Kimbit, Jessica Hiemstra, Laurie Koensgen, Pamela Mosher, ...2/x

BAD ROMANCE #AWP Offsite - readings for the filthy bent & heartbroken. 💦 dream line up: @rykaaoki.bsky.social @charliejane.bsky.social @clementgoldberg.bsky.social @adelebarclay.bsky.social @alexmlwrites.bsky.social

Happy Valentine’s Day

Look at this brilliant event: Alex Leslie, Corinne Manning, @jencurrin.bsky.social and @adelebarclay.bsky.social! Sunday, March 16, 3 pm, in New West!

NOW. hundreds have gathered in union square for the rise up for trans youth rally here in NYC! shooting videos and stills

a few times a day I remember that there are more r*pe/s*dual assault allegations in the current White House than there are trans athletes in high school sports across the entire U.S.

It is truly a horrible time of year and moment in history. Book club where we read Natalia Ginzburg and set fire to things?

#Breaking: Giller Foundation ends its decades-long partnership with Scotiabank

A year ago I walked into the gym and left utterly changed after a trainer told me to do something very unwise with a medicine ball. I went to work with her due to a foot injury and wound up with a head injury.

When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure. Read our op-ed here ⤵️

ME: *sits at desk and works* Just focus. Just focus. Don't look around. Do NOT look around. THE NEWS:

I think that we should be talking about what Trump is trying to do to trans people in the context of the Nuremberg laws.

(From @[email protected] )

A Frazey Ford sighting is a blessed day

DEI as a whole does not challenge capitalist structures & instead became a sort of adjunct industry unto itself that was easily assimilated into corporations as a form of HR & Public Relations - and now we see that DEI is just as easily discarded now that political dynamic in the US has changed 2/5

what the fuck is copilot get it offffffff of the page ew

i miss zorseplay

When Lady MacBeth said “out, damn spot” I really felt that because I have a birthmark in the middle of my left palm

C. D. Wright ⸻ from Shallcross (2016)