Labor Day Nicolaas van der Waay, The Strike of the Ballerinas, c. 1936

i think all the toads & toadettes come from the same mycelium and therefore share a hive mind

[to the tune of Lee-Ann Womack's I Hope You Dance] I hope he dies

hopescrolling

anyway neoluddite movement when

Today I share my last Letter from the Editor as EIC of @theoffingmag.bsky.social. Thank you for being part of this journey with me! mailchi.mp/theoffingmag...

For those of us who were actually unemployed adults in 2008, shit like this is hilarious

My translation of poetry and prose by Liu Chen-Chun 劉宸君, the late Taiwanese transgender poet and writer whose life was tragically cut short by a mountain trekking incident at age 19. from “Before the Snowmelt” 我所告訴你關於那座山的一切

“When I write about the children, I know your mind will wander back to someone else.” Read this story by Lê Khải Việt, tr. by Phương Anh, in theoffingmag.bsky.social . Phương Anh contributed to our issue “Untethered States: Literature of the Vietnamese Diaspora.” theoffingmag.com/translation/... (1)

Thank you to Gauri Awasthi and @theoffingmag.bsky.social magazine for publishing this interview

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It’s canon, now, that that T should be capitalized.

A thing that will clarify everything about these discussions of race (and the brokenness of reporting on politics in NYC) is that mainstream media absolutely *cannot* conceive of conversations that aren’t mediated by whiteness…

but also, when i say the NYTimes deserves neither your money nor your respect, i also mean NYTimes cooking, NYTimes puzzles, crosswords, connections, and wordle, the wirecutter, the athletic, and all their podcasts.

ICYMI: still open for volunteer readers for the Micro department @theoffingmag.bsky.social!! plz share with your friends 🙏🏼❤️✨

Excited to read Nishant’s new novel! I previously chatted with Nishant about his debut, which grew out of a piece published early on at @theoffingmag.bsky.social: theoffingmag.com/interviews/q...

"This piece holds the tension between the beauty of acts of care and the systems of violence that necessitate them." Read "Notes on My Grandpa’s Senninbari and the In-Between of Art and Politics" by Sarah Matsui. theoffingmag.com/art/notes-on...

Zohran the Destroyer was my favorite What We Do in the Shadows character

"But can’t I remember so clearly the trees, the night, the sting of a bone in my throat, the safety of embracing the body that carries me?" Aninna Zh's "Fish Bone" in @theoffingmag.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social #ArchiveChallenge theoffingmag.com/fiction/fish...

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can't wait to go around being like "wow hello mayor" & wave like i'm a villager from animal crossing

Hey, y'all. I'm editing essays @theoffingmag.bsky.social! Look out for some of our new work, coming soon!!

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It was an honor to write some reflections on @theoffingmag.bsky.social for our 10-year anniversary anthology.

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I think you could market Nineteen Eighty Four as romantasy.

Loved getting into it with novelist Alejandro Heredia on the topics of Sex and the City and “slice of life” literature (with a shoutout to @debutiful.bsky.social’s podcast) for @theoffingmag.bsky.social theoffingmag.com/interviews/q...

Loved getting into it with novelist Alejandro Heredia on the topics of Sex and the City and “slice of life” literature (with a shoutout to @debutiful.bsky.social’s podcast) for @theoffingmag.bsky.social theoffingmag.com/interviews/q...

I feel a bit queasy in the aftermath, but I just returned my MA and PhD degrees to NYU in protest of their draconian repressions of free speech.

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Two days ago, I officially earned my MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Pittsburgh. But, for the second degree in a row, a dictatorship robbed me of a graduation day. 🧵

Today in @thenation.com: After 3 yrs of carving a home in U.S. exile, I fled again fearing an ICE arrest. The risk wasn’t just deportation, but life in prison back in Egypt. What myths does the US empire uphold about itself? When does fascism stop "descending"? www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Was trying to explain to someone younger than me the absolute stranglehold the movie Amelie held on elder millennials—in 2002 it ran at the one-screen movie theater in my small women’s-college town in Massachusetts for SEVEN MONTHS

when interpol sang "she can read, she's bad" i really felt that

"A city has sprung up, tunnels and boxes have bloomed, and nature remains only as a black-and-white memory inside a photograph." From "You and I on the Motorbike," a new piece by Lê Khải Việt, translated from Vietnamese by Phương Anh, at The Offing today. theoffingmag.com/translation/...

might fuck around and rewatch CHILDREN OF MEN, a documentary

“You asked to be handsome and were / handed a lullaby.” From “Self-Portrait as Top Surgery Scars,” a new Micro by Annette Covrigaru at The Offing today. theoffingmag.com/micro/self-p...

I’m sick of millennials complaining about losing JK Rowling when anyone can see that the real tragedy was losing M.I.A.

"Moments like these... are the gold thread glinting in my fiction. In some ways, I’m always writing for my parents, towards my mother." From Q&A with Liwen Xu, author of “In the End,” by Mary Pappalardo, at The Offing today. theoffingmag.com/interviews/q...

It’s kinda perfectly in synch with the critique of modern capitalist imperialism in the first three eps via Andor’s backstory. Like, damn, this show doesn’t just have themes, it has a fuckin thesis

hi friends, for your afternoon reading, here’s today’s Micro by Despy Boutris, out in @theoffingmag.bsky.social! It was a treat to edit, and I’m so taken by the blurry clarity in this piece, how it threads memory and longing in such a small, sprawling space. And, of course, “the moon so bright.”🪻🌙

Me, trying to give job advice to my students about to graduate college

what did she know???

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—