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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · Jul 4

in my opinion you should not take a single paycheck from the new york times

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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · Jun 27

This article made me ill. It's clear that the Israeli army is massacring Palestinians daily, but to read it in the soldiers' own words...they're just "following orders."

"It's a killing field," one soldier said. "Our form of communication is gunfire."

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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felix lecocq @felixlecocq.bsky.social · Jun 15

:/ embarrassing…

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felix lecocq @felixlecocq.bsky.social · Jun 14

maybe they’re planning on burning them lol

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felix lecocq @felixlecocq.bsky.social · May 18

i'll also be attending as a scholar!! we can hang out in july :)

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queer & trans bookstore @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social · Apr 25

tomorrow is indie bookstore day! come see us for:

🥳10% off ALL SIGNED BOOKS
🥳10% off select staff picks (a whole table full of em!!)
🥳15% off ALL ROOM MERCH
🥳IBD EXCLUSIVE MERCH
🥳A GOLDEN LIBRO.FM TIX -- whoever finds it gets TWELVE FREE AUDIOBOOKS

AND MOOOREEEEEEEEEE <3

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felix lecocq @felixlecocq.bsky.social · Apr 17

love thinking alongside my students about the narrator’s “proximity” to a character… proximal to what? their articulated thoughts? their unarticulated feelings? their heart? their skin? how close is the “close third person” really?!

white board drawing of a misshapen body labeled “FEELINGS” within a larger body shape labeled “THOUGHTS” within a square labeled “ENVIRONMENT” within a cube labeled “HISTORY?”

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Patrycja @patrycjasara.bsky.social · Apr 6

to be read by & in conversation with David Naimon is a dream. what a generous mind, and what a gift for literature this show is! i’ve long loved Between the Covers; grateful to join this archive of moving conversations 🌀

David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · Apr 5

Excited to share my conversation with Patrycja Humienik (@patrycjasara.bsky.social) about her debut collection We Contain Landscapes. What does it mean to risk rupture for rapture, on the page, & in one's life?
Audio📻🌊: tinhouse.com/podcast/patr...
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Patrycja Humienik : We Contain Landscapes - Tin House

What does it mean to risk rupture for rapture, on the page, and in one’s life? Or for water to be one’s method, mode or muse? Are inherited forms (of womanhood, of sexuality, of national identity) a g...

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felix lecocq @felixlecocq.bsky.social · Mar 30

such a delight to run into you!! see you next year :^)

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · Mar 18

The foreign aid cuts left partially-excavated, exposed pits of dioxin, a poison, left by the American military.

Now, rainy season is coming & hundreds of thousands of people live right around the base. Worse, less than 1,500 ft away is a major river that flows into Ho Chi Minh City, pop. 9 million.

ProPublica @propublica.org · Mar 18

THREAD: There’s a dire situation in Vietnam, at the largest Agent Orange spill in the country.

When Trump and Marco Rubio cancelled foreign aid, froze funding and began dismantling USAID, those who were cleaning up the Bien Hoa air base had to halt work. 1/

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ProPublica @propublica.org · Mar 18

That left exposed enormous pits of soil contaminated with deadly chemicals.

Now, after losing several weeks of work, the contractors are scrambling — at their own expense — to secure the Bien Hoa air base before the rainy season starts.

Trump Halted an Agent Orange Cleanup. That Puts Hundreds of Thousands at Risk for Poisoning.

Diplomats in Vietnam warned Washington that halting USAID’s efforts to clean up the massive deposit of postwar pesticides would be a catastrophe for public health and relations with a key strategic pa...

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Mar 4

The final vote: 51-45, with 4 people absent.

CLOTURE FAILS, A CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS BAN WILL NOT HAPPEN.

Democrats hold firm, not a single dem voted for cloture.

MAJOR victory for everyone who called in today and this week in support of trans people.

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october krausch @octoberk.bsky.social · Feb 28

you cannot ever be free unless you are willing to act free.

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · Feb 28

One thing that never ceases to amaze me is how willing people are to acquiesce to their oppression. Like if you're censoring yourself in anticipation of censoring then you just did their work for them. Stop it. Especially if you can afford to. Each time we do that we build their castle for them.

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felix lecocq @felixlecocq.bsky.social · Feb 25

feeling a hankering for an essay collection that will change my life. any recent releases i should look into? some things i love: hybrid or surprising forms, heartbreak essays, grief essays, medical memoir, essays about whales, birds, trees, etc.

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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · Feb 21

One of our ANMLY comrades told me they can't continue reading because they lost their housing. If the work at ANMLY has ever meant anything to you, or if the work that I have ever done in any capacity has ever meant anything to you, please consider helping them stay safe.

gofund.me/0e09177d

Donate to Urgent Aid for Unhoused ANMLY Member, organized by Sarah Clark

Since December, one of our comrades at ANMLY has been unhoused. They were able to fin… Sarah Clark needs your support for Urgent Aid for Unhoused ANMLY Member

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Poets & Writers @pw.org · Feb 21

#ClipOfTheDay: In this episode of Tightwires with host Hiba Tahir, poet Patrycja Humienik talks about navigating grad school and writing, identity, and her debut collection, We Contain Landscapes (@tinhouse.bsky.social). at.pw.org/Humienik

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Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · Feb 13

Wrote about the NEA and The Kennedy Center and how these moves might be bad for trans art, but they certainly won't be the end
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It’s strange to be so angry and sad about the loss of horizons I never thought it was possible to sail toward, but while the Trump administration might own the institutions, they can’t ultimately do away with trans art in any meaningful sense. At my core, I’m not afraid of them; Trump and his cohort don’t matter to me in a way that really matters, despite how very bad and dangerous and even unlivable they are eager to make my life. My confidence comes from a lot of places–my politics, my faith–but also from trans art, from the work we’ve made with and for each other for decades upon decades, which didn’t depend on them for its existence and doesn’t now. I’m sad about the losses we’ll see in the next four years and maybe beyond; I mourn the art we won’t get because of this. But that art found its way before, and will still, and will again. We never needed them, and we still don’t need them, and they’ve never been able to stop us.

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felix lecocq @felixlecocq.bsky.social · Feb 12

i get that the cruelty is the point but damn i wish something else was the point

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NPR @npr.org · Feb 11

The NEA will no longer fund arts programs that promote DEI or "gender ideology." The federal agency has cancelled grants that have funded programs for underserved communities for more than 20 years.

'Chilling effect': Arts organizations react to end of DEI initiatives from fed agency

The NEA will no longer fund arts programs that promote DEI or "gender ideology." The federal agency has cancelled grants that have funded programs for underserved communities for more than 20 years.

www.npr.org

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felix lecocq @felixlecocq.bsky.social · Feb 11

one of the benefits of masking everywhere is that my skin has been soooo bad this week & no one has been able to tell 🥰

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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · Feb 5

The Urban Indian Health Institute (UIHI), which tracks health data for tribes and urban Indian communities, demanded the CDC immediately restore crucial health data to its website, saying the deletions endanger Native health & violate treaty rights. nativenewsonline.net/health/cdc-d...