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These nostalgic homages are 🔥

The animating force at the heart of US conservatism currently is incandescent rage at the mere idea of women's autonomy and independence. An image of a smiling woman who looks insufficiently deferential for their tastes riles them up enough to tear up the social contract.

Two to pre-order: @kerrischlottman.bsky.social’s DAYTIME MOON & Luke Goebel’s KILL DICK. I recently finished the former & am now reading the latter. Wildly different books, they share a thread: the complication of searching for one’s own identity while navigating chaos, precarity, and loss.

A favorite from the title essay: “On two occasions around that time [2000], I objected to the behavior of a man, only to be told that the incidents hadn’t happened at all as I had said, that I was subjective, delusional, overwrought, dishonest—in a nutshell, female.” — @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

They settled on 2,500 words b/c we read @kevinrmaloney.bsky.social's story "Ghost" and they decided that was a length they liked--"kinda long, but without feeling long," so someone copy/pasted the text into Word to get an exact count, then rounded up. Editing!

This one pretty much sums up the relationship I have with poetry and - who am I kidding? - with myself 😬😬. Thanks so much to @poolpartymag.com for publishing it recently; they’re doing really cool stuff 📱

(1) The last time I was this scared of somebody, I was 13. I had been drugged, then raped on videotape, & that night it was projected at a punk show. Many of my classmates were there. W/in weeks, I had been doxxed online b/f there was a word for it …

You’re gonna want to read this one!

Don’t understand how ppl and org’s can identify as “radically feminist” while also identifying as trans-exclusionary. Trans women are NOT men who have just cavalierly decided they “feel like women” in order to infiltrate women’s spaces. To claim that is utterly ridiculous & not based in evidence.

Am I broken? Really thought more was going to happen in the White Lotus finale after being strung along all season. The only thing that surprised me was Chelsea dying. Everything else was either jump scares or predictable mayhem (obvi Walton Goggins was going to kill his own father, for ex.) 😒

The is poem rife with hauntingly evocative imagery.

Thank you Senator Cory Booker. This guy truly cares about the people he represents.

I wanna know how much the copywriter who wrote the new “You can’t win. So win.” headline for Nike. It’s surprisingly bad.

You win some, you lose some.

babe, wake up! @kevinmkearney.bsky.social's novel, FREELANCE, is available for pre-order!!! asterismbooks.com/product/free...

🥹 so excited to share this new essay.

Always astounded when I get chats like this from customers. And I love using the opportunity to put my feminism into action.

I keep LinkedIn notifications turned on so that when I see alerts for promotion updates and posts like, “Top 5 Hiring Trends for 2025,” the feeling of disgust which rises up inside me confirms I’m on the right path.

Are people just afraid to be actual critics these days? I fear the make-nice-ness of the PNW has infected the rest of the country. I know for a fact that there are other critics of this season’s Severance (one is a TV writer) but no one’s writing about it. The heck?

OK…unnecessary plot tangents, plot holes, and the overuse of capsule eps notwithstanding, the last 5 mins of the Severance finale could have carried the season had there been actual tension. Unfortunately, we were set up from the start at the birthing cabins to expect Mark S. to choose Helly 🫥

We killin’ baby animals now? 🥺

Marching band? I’m sorry but wtf is happening?

Kierbot show host?

Milchik knows how to run?

Pop-up card was legit 🧇

Have no fear. Kier is near!

The hallways lighting is scawwy

Can we get Severance a better portrait artist?

I’m sorry but is anybody else getting weed gummy writing room naval-gazing masturbation vibes from this season finale? You know which show I’m talking about 👀

@charleneelsby.bsky.social's VIOLENT FACULTIES was my entrée into horror lit & for those of you who know her work, you know that choice was a straight-up cannonball. Had no idea what I was in for 🤪 Can’t express how honored I am to have been able to review her newest, and hope you give it a read <3

Have you ever pooped your pants as an adult? Asking for a friend 👀

Yesss!!! So thrilled to publish this gloriously bloody revenge story by @janstinchcomb.bsky.social !! Give it a read 🩸🐷🎳

Celebrating my birthday weekend by publishing a review on my substack about my awful birthday dinner at :)

The more I read & write horror, the more I understand the ways in which its pages can serve as outlets for dealing w/ rage that has nowhere to go; problems w/out solutions; & people/institutions which exploit & alienate you. It’s the only place u can commit murder & break shit w/out consequences 😊

This season of White Lotus leaves me feeling like I’ve been edging for weeks. When the hell am I gonna get to have a climax??? Every episode has been more or less predictable thanks to the slow drama drip—just like vanilla sex. I’m holding out for a solid finish but also not holding my breath.

Goddess, if you’re taking requests, I want to be reincarnated as this dog after I die.

Thrilled to start the week w/ an acceptance from Farewell Transmission. RUNOFF takes place in the rural south, where weekly trips to the gumball machines & magazine aisle of our Piggly Wiggly grocery store felt like an adventure. Can’t wait to share it with you … 📺🌾🐶 Lookout for issue 4. #CNF

Just watched Lamb and I am not OK.

If you can’t find women, transpeople, POC, queer folx, disabled folx, etc. to participate in your readings or events, you’re not trying hard enough.

Me if I were a #whitelotus character (note the arms). Also, has anything happened this season? I feel like I’m lost in an infommercial for an essential oil MLM, and several episodes in, I’m still trying to figure out what I get from the deal 🙃

PSA: I am unsubscribing from all marketing emails from B2C brands today who have anything about the time change in the subject line. It’s literally the lamest reason for an email & also totally unnecessarily. That shit is auto these days. Find a more interesting way to harass loyal customers.

I’m sorry, but how can any news source possibly spin reality to reflect that DEMS are the ones doing anything to “shut down the government,” when DT is literally doing that exact thing. I always wondered how magic was done and I guess this is it: just tell ppl what’s happening is not happening 🫥

Where have I been for the last 24 hours? Reading this book. Can’t remember the last time I devoured something so fast and cannot wait to meditate on it. Now off to see Thelma & Louise! Pre-order THE ORGANIZATION IS HERE TO SUPPORT YOU by @charleneelsby.bsky.social bf it sells out! bit.ly/41BYx7M

Is it wrong to say … I LOVE ADDEROL. Literally changing my life. How did I ever manage before? Idk but my longtime resistance to pharmaceuticals is challenged by this 180 in my state of mind.

Stoked to participate at this @maudlinhouse.bsky.social reading during #awp25!! And with band Movie Club playing live throughout, no less 🤩 RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/awps-loude...

Self-recognition=powerful vindication: “Feminism’s project is to end the tireless pursuit of pleasure, which Ahmed argues begins thru becoming a killjoy. Killjoys initiate a revolt against the promise of happiness thru ‘acts of revolution’ & ‘protests against the costs of agreement.’” —Andrew Culp

Started taking meds for my nightmare condition last night. About to take my first-ever adderol. Still recovering from my first iron infusion. I imagine I’ll be a superhero by next week?? That, or a monster.

When you email someone and then they CC three other people in their response to you … that’s a fucking move.

Reading and writing in bed with these two 😍