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all poets are cowards (except for me 😘) @thaumatropia.bsky.social · Aug 18

I caved and set up a Linktree page so that I can quickly point folks to my work, along with upcoming readings and performances ^.^

Bridget Gordon | Instagram, TikTok | Linktree

Poet | Writer | Spoken Word Performer

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Em, spookily 👻 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 29m

Note that border patrol have got access to the flashy flashy cop lights and IL plates now

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 39m

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 1h

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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all poets are cowards (except for me 😘) @thaumatropia.bsky.social · 1h

good morning to desert rain

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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 5d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 22h

“Again space is full of voices, the entire body has become heart.”

—Hélène Cixous

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Grunkle Harm @harmcox.bsky.social · 1d

Today on the blog, I consider Scott Thompson's support for Graham Linehan and what it means for me as a transmasculine comedy fan who worshipped Buddy Cole back in the day. What do trans folks do when our heroes let us down? We find ways to cope. harmcox.ghost.io/death-to-sco...

Death to Scott Thompson, Long Live Buddy Cole

It feels fitting to leave Thompson behind in the graveyard he made for Cole to vamp in. The evil that men do live after them, the good is oft interred with their bones. So let it be with Scott Thompso...

harmcox.ghost.io

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Sage Divinorum 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 1d

go the fuck outside. find a goth club. go there on a kink / queer night. go even if you think “you won’t fit in” (cheat code: just wear black).

be friendly. give yourself time. repeat as necessary. you will make exceptional friends.

life is for the living. do it scared.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 1d

"We just found out through social media that my aunt — who sells tamales every morning to support her family — was taken by ICE. We never got a call. We had to learn about it from strangers online."

Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 1d

This is a GoFundMe supporting the tamale lady taken by ICE on 21st Place and Damen in Pilsen yesterday.

“Now she’s being forced to start over in Mexico with nothing — no home, no job, and no access to the medical care she desperately needs.”

Donate to Help My Aunt Rebuild Her Life After Being Taken by ICE, organized by marilyn perez

We just found out through social media that my aunt — who sells t… marilyn perez needs your support for Help My Aunt Rebuild Her Life After Being Taken by ICE

www.gofundme.com

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all poets are cowards (except for me 😘) @thaumatropia.bsky.social · 1d

(also the other stuff)

all poets are cowards (except for me 😘) @thaumatropia.bsky.social · 1d

(the joke is the photo was taken at ghareeb nawaz)

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all poets are cowards (except for me 😘) @thaumatropia.bsky.social · 1d

the damage we incur for trying to make art in these times is incalculable and permanent

eat ghareeb nawaz

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deertransition, baby ghost @deerea.rs · 1d

@meatcvnt.bsky.social @literallyjustadog.online @adira.bsky.social @sublimemarch.bsky.social @an-alexa-k.bsky.social and @gnarlyghost.bsky.social all brought such awesome art and wearables and books and zines to share too, it was so cool to see so many people walking around with their stuff <3

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deertransition, baby ghost @deerea.rs · 1d

last night was incredible. thank you to everyone who showed up for a magical evening. I didn't get to take many pictures but here are a couple brief memories <3

eri reading on stage at the Leather Archives during DOLLS DOLLS DEMONS DOLLS. Its at a black podium that says "Leather Archives & Museum" and it looks like a deer, with a screen behind it to the left and artwork behind it to the right.

Kira Gurovich and Ari Scott playing some duelling cellos on stage during DOLLS DOLLS DEMONS DOLLS.

C. Russell Price reading on stage during DOLLS DOLLS DEMONS DOLLS. They are lit entirely in blue LEDs, giving the photo a monochrome aspect, save for tiny bits of green from post-it notes on the edges of their papers.

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all poets are cowards (except for me 😘) @thaumatropia.bsky.social · 1d

I dented my notebook at the end of the reading lol

a picture of the back cover of a soft-cover notebook, with a notable bend/crease at the top corner. there’s a sticker on the cover; it’s cut off by the frame but the whole thing reads, “if u want anime girls to be real u could just become an anime girl”

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all poets are cowards (except for me 😘) @thaumatropia.bsky.social · 1d

good morning to exhaustion

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all poets are cowards (except for me 😘) @thaumatropia.bsky.social · 1d

anyway tonight was delightful and @deerea.rs pulled off something incredible and I’m still dumbfounded that I got to read a silly little poem at @leatherarchives.bsky.social

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sorry y’all

I blame bitch-ass maurice from collections

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all poets are cowards (except for me 😘) @thaumatropia.bsky.social · 5d

whatever. bye

all poets are cowards (except for me 😘) @thaumatropia.bsky.social · 5d

I was about to say “well at least I can’t get fired from existing” but I guess that’s what The Camps are for so idk come and get me Federal Government I’m on a PIP for my entire life and I failed to meet expectations

all poets are cowards (except for me 😘) @thaumatropia.bsky.social · 5d

oh and then I’ve got couples therapy which is probably going to be more like a work disciplinary meeting

all poets are cowards (except for me 😘) @thaumatropia.bsky.social · 5d

was planning to take a nap after dayjob today but I guess I’m going just going to angry-cry in bed for an hour or so until it’s time to make dinner instead

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Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 6d

I am so tired of being told that I, a person who got a significant portion of my diet out of dumpsters in my early 20's, hold elitist & "luxury" beliefs by people who have been Professors of Thinking at Harvard since before I was born.

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 6d

If your considered analysis is that everyone has gone completely mad except for you, then is it likely that’s what happened? Or is it you that is the arse here.

Rob Henderson © @robkhenderson • 11h
"the left has allowed itself to become shackled by unpopular luxury beliefs: abolishing the police, opening the borders, the corruption of female-only spaces. Everyone has gone mad...associated with the observable decline in literacy across the rich West"

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all poets are cowards (except for me 😘) @thaumatropia.bsky.social · 5d

everything in my life except poetry feels like *work* right now and I’m so fucking tired

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Pitchaya Sudbanthad @pitchaya.bsky.social · 6d

Meanwhile, in other civilized countries where government funding does not largely go to war and overpriced healthcare...

Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 6d

Budget 2026: Basic income for artists to become permanent www.rte.ie/news/budget-...

Budget 2026: Basic income for artists to become permanent

The Basic Income for the Arts scheme will be put on a permanent footing in the Budget tomorrow.

www.rte.ie

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