Hey anti primers! If you’re looking for a witchcraft book that teaches you magic and helps you form a union, check out Spells for Success on Bookshop! bookshop.org/p/books/spel...

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Me: okay it’s been a decade. Time to swap out the ol IUD Dr.: okay so around ten years or def ten years? at ten years it’s not effective anymore Me: because it wears out or because tiny meth heads stripped it like a house in 2009 Dr.: yep, we keep the tiny meth heads under wraps for obvious reasons

This is so cool! Denver has a Zoltan in @casabonitadenver.com.

Reminder that I wrote a whole book of genderqueer sci fi poems about David Bowie and @animalheartpress.bsky.social bought it. You should support small presses and queer art as much as possible and if do buy it I’ll probably kiss you so factor that in. animalheartpress.net/dark-way-dow...

Cat Influencer #cats #kittens #caturday #linkedin

I wrote about Zoltar fortune telling machines, marketing history, and divination for @thewildhunt.bsky.social and you can read it here wildhunt.org/2025/07/zolt...

Big publishing day! I Came to Walmart to Fight God just came out in the Revolution issue of Feral Magazine! feralpoetry.net/i-came-to-th... #poetry

Big publishing day! I Came to Walmart to Fight God just came out in the Revolution issue of Feral Magazine! feralpoetry.net/i-came-to-th... #poetry

“A desolate, intimate homage to one of rock’s most original lyricists.” Kirkus liked my poetry collection about David Bowie, the desert, and queer yearning. And you should add it to your shelves this Pride month and support a small press. www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

The most important part of republican fascism is the demand you must be nice to them.

“I want the ink to tell me something true as I pour it out in the teacup saucer. I’d kill for something that is good. I’d kill for something other than the damp grief of a blank slate.” buttondown.com/laureneparke...

👏 👏 👏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHvW...

One of the ways to resist capitalism and the allure of AI slop in your personal mindset is to appreciate and enjoy being an amateur at something

Me, being incognito as an Ohioan around Pennsylvanians

My deck’s six month birthday is today! What a perfect day for it. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Spells...

Israel’s 80-day blockade that has enforced a strict closure of crossings and blocked aid deliveries has resulted in nearly 330 deaths, most of them children. interc.pt/43YCZ6s

We've prepared a zine version of our text "Melt ICE, Be Water," in which participants in a demonstration against ICE in Austin, Texas on June 9, 2025 describe how they escaped the control of party organizers who sought to control the protest, then evaded police for hours. Print and distribute!

💖BIG thanks to the 5 #authors who wowed us at Babylon Saturday night! Every one of your #readings was stellar! Check their beautiful #books! 🌠📚🌠 ⭐ S.G. Browne ⭐ Duane Horton ⭐ @laurenparker.bsky.social ⭐ @katefolk.bsky.social ⭐ Paul S Flores #writers #writing

Although millions took the streets today to demonstrate against Donald Trump's power grab, there was only one shooting, in Salt Lake City. Nonetheless, it is important to learn what you can do if a person is shot near you at a demonstration. Please read this guide. crimethinc.com/gunshotwounds 🧵⬇️

@laurenparker.bsky.social writes: "March in Michigan is birch trees as stark as corn stalks. It’s not home but it is ancestral, the cemetery filled with tombstones with my last name on them..." Give this essay a read & come hear Lauren perform @ Babylon TONIGHT! 6/14 @ The Sycamore! 5:30pm. Free!

A woman walking home alone was shot point-blank with “non-lethal” rounds fired by officers in Los Angeles. A neighbor filmed the assault and rushed to help only to be fired on and ordered back.

If any of you head up there and order that sandwich, tell em Tim Parker’s kid said hey

Read this essay I wrote about my father’s death and my family’s legacy sandwich over at @beltmagazine.bsky.social beltmag.com/true-story-o...

This was such a good story. Is it too early to eat my lunch?

Hey #poets check out @viewlesswings.bsky.social I’m featured this episode and they take submissions! viewlesswings.com/2025/06/09/f...

"The Parker Sub doesn’t want those things. It likes simple. Plain. Which is why it’s something a simple and plain man has to ask for." @laurenparker.bsky.social with The True Story of a Sandwich. beltmag.com/true-story-o...

New essay out with @beltmagazine.bsky.social where I tell family secrets and try to fix a recipe beltmag.com/true-story-o...

It’s Anthony Bourdain’s greater feast day today. I wrote an essay last year about what his passing meant to me, a ravenous young woman who wanted to taste the world. Thanks to The Racket for publishing it. theracketsf.com/home/laurenp...

It's time for a thread about how to participate in demonstrations as safely and effectively as possible. First—if at all possible—don't go by yourself. Go in a group of friends you trust. Talk in advance about what you aim to accomplish and what each of you needs. crimethinc.com/affinitygroup 🧵⬇️

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

Welp I sold it

I once wrote a poem about witchcraft and murder. www.fairytalemagazine.com/post/throwba...

I’m considering selling zines again but I’m off Etsy, what’s everyone else using to sell without being a nightmare for yourself and the people buying?

Me: my parents’ tendency to move made it difficult to connect to my family culture! Me whenever I hang out with my relatives:

Thanks so much to @amyblackthorn.bsky.social for having me on Blackthorn Grove to talk about Spells for Success podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Many thanks to Fairy Tale Magazine for the glowing review of Spells for Success. www.fairytalemagazine.com/post/review-...

I’m excited to introduce the bewitching @laurenparker.bsky.social, author of Dark Way Down and Spells for Success, at @babylonsalon.bsky.social's Summer reading and performance on 6/14! Join us for merrymaking, storytelling, drinks, curly fries, and catching up with friends at the Sycamore Bar!

Thanks so much to @vromansbookstore.bsky.social for stocking Spells for Success!

My free newsletter comes out on Monday, and I'm telling the story of the party after closing that many lousy jobs have in common. Join me for Tales of the Underpaid. buttondown.com/megelison

At least 31 gender and sexuality based resource centers have shuttered across 23 college campuses. Read the full story here ⤵️

People are shitty to homeless people like whole castles haven’t been turned into talking furniture over something similar

So excited to be a part of this show!

“But the first, very jetlagged, night I was on Irish soil drinking Irish Guinness, a small voice broke through the din of the room of people: Bare bar, bad luck.” New essay on Irish spirit petitions, tipping culture, and being an Awkward American. buttondown.com/laureneparke...

On May 18th, I’ll be having a drop-in mini class at Ancient Ways and be doing a spell deck signing. Come by any time between 2-4 to do a little magic and check out Spells for Success. If you haven’t picked up a copy yet, Ancient Ways has stock and if you buy one you get a free witchy gift!

Had a great time talking about Keanu Reeves and David Bowie at Book Society last night.

On May 18th, I’ll be having a drop-in mini class at Ancient Ways and be doing a spell deck signing. Come by any time between 2-4 to do a little magic and check out Spells for Success. If you haven’t picked up a copy yet, Ancient Ways has stock and if you buy one you get a free witchy gift!

I just got the new proof of my poetry collection Dark Way Down, which just got a five star review by Readers’ Favorite! I’m so proud of this book and I’m so glad people love it. Many thanks to @animalheartpress.bsky.social for publishing it and to @brokenspinearts.bsky.social for reviewing it.

"As a practitioner of the witchcraft of the working and middle classes, there has to be the magic of what happens when your modest magic suddenly becomes a luxury, and the ways you adapt. I find depression era cookbooks in a thrift store."