Unlikely Stories Six, the latest incarnation of the web-journal founded in 1998, is publishing literature and art and submissions are wide open! We’re currently accepting submissions of all kinds but are particularly looking for POETRY at this time. Check out unlikelystories.org/mission #submissions

It’s mushroom season 🍄🍄🍄

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

Portrait of the Duchess of Rotermund- Paul Mak

Being a columnist is so cool. You can have absolutely no experience whatsoever and still drop whatever takes you want. Serve in the military? No? Work in natsec? No? Have an academic background in defense? No? Have any government experience at all? No? Who cares! Fire that column off anyways!

i wanna kick everybody in the fucking teeth

Roses are red Sweetly sings the lark

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

Wow wow wow. She's a chair.

A huge thanks to @profaliceroberts.bsky.social for boosting @nionwomen.bsky.social on the hellsite

Footwear Friday once again! These everyday shoes were owned by Margaret Gorsline Baker (1820-1853) of Stillwater, NY during her short adult life. Their square toes and flat soles are au courant with the fashions of the 1830s-1850s. www.facebook.com/fenimoreartm... 🗃️🪡

I think I've accidentally taken some drugs.

BIG EXCITING NEWS in the lit mag world! Contributor @saralippmann.bsky.socia is now the EDITOR-IN-CHIEF of @epiphanylit.bsky.social‬!

I also, would like to read about 5000-year-old beads.

Also, thank you so much!!

i suppose i love this life in spite of my clenched fist. — andrea gibson

This poem by @chamm6.bsky.social‬ is “part of a series based on [her] studies of insane asylums for women in Great Britain and America during the late 19th century." Read the full poem here, as well as the rest of its context limited by the Bluesky word count. www.mudroommag.com/christine-e-...

Pronouncing it "lehnwort" in order to harness its full power

Art found in and around the hospital 🥰

If not friend why friend shaped.

Gonna wish y’all a Pride. It don’t need to be happy. Be mad as hell, girl. Key a car. Terrorize a homophobe. Be the gay bully you’re meant to be. This is the year to do it. Throw a brick for me.

A poem I wrote.

Excited about this www.assetsforartists.org/blog/welcome...

Grackles are gorgeous and entitled.

fuck the leadership at The New York Times, too

I finished this new collage/painting today, but I've been working on it, one way or another, for a few years. I think it's related to my mother -- the woman's face ended up looking like her. #art, #collage, #acrylicpainting, #painting, #artist

So grateful to @chamm6.bsky.social for this thoughtful review of DATA MIND. losangelesreview.org/data-mind-po...

I'm so thrilled that The Inflectionist review published this poem! www.instagram.com/p/DGUWw6Hgn6N/ #poetry, #amwriting, #sadfamilies, #litmags

As a big fan of not having prisons anymore, seeing Indigenous people block a prison by buying the land out from under the state is very satisfying.

More of this, please. It's hell or glory now.

eBay’s been writing poetry again

I've been doing a series of prints and collages, and I finally did a few I like. The first one is "two faces with bird", and the other is "two faces and nose". #collageart, #collageartist, #printandpattern, #gelliplate, #gelliprinting, #drawing, #art

A little art appropriate for the day

Well, this looks amazing. Upcoming sci-fi program at @banffcentre.bsky.social with @aijiang.bsky.social, @premeemohamed.com, and @amalelmohtar.com! 💚 Apply by April 16. #writingcommunity

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Sahar. Sahar had just finished her studies and internship in marketing before the war. She has 4 children, Hala, Royal, Odai and Talin. They lost their home and are living in a UN shelter, Odai was shot by a paracopter and has a leg injury.

Black folk started getting rights 60 years ago and white folk really decided they’d rather destroy their own country than let that madness continue.

Privilege is a shield. You can use it to shield other people too.

Antifascist Book Club 📚

It's FINALLY here! New site & new Issue, feat. @terryallenbelew.bsky.social, @chamm6.bsky.social, @jpjrpoet.bsky.social, Ryan Burruss, Caitlin Dwyer, Scott Nadelson, Shraya Singh, Sara Blazevic, & Lillian Emerick Valentine! Cannot wait to share this one with all y'all 🎉🥂 www.pacificareview.com

Loved this exhibit: www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/...

Not only is it Women's Christmas, but it is also just one more day till our podcast debuts. Don't forget to subscribe!

Napkins + poems = Afterimages Until 1/22/25, @gardnerdorton.bsky.social is reading napkin poems for a unique submission call on Afterimages. Poems, ekphrasis, doodles, & anything that can fit on a napkin. Full details can be found below. Get to writing! thirtywest.submittable.com/submit/31529...

Art is...(Dancer in Grass Skirt) by Lorraine O'Grady, 1983.

Today, on Shirley Jackson’s birthday, let’s all marvel at one of the greatest opening paragraphs ever written (from THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE)

Thank you!!

Working on some portraits using Gelli plate prints as the background, to create textures. I call this one Cat Eyes.

Grad students, I cannot emphasize enough what a difference this conference made on my future career. I made connections and received feedback that *STILL* has an impact, close to 15 years after I attended. Apply if you can. 🗃️ #milhist #academicsky networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

This should be every day. Every minute, perhaps...