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Alizabeth Worley

@alizabethworley.bsky.social

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Essays in Guernica, MQR Online, Post Road Magazine & elsewhere. I have CFS/ME & hEDS and my husband, Michael, has Cerebral Palsy. Writer, visual artist, parent.

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Alizabeth Worley @alizabethworley.bsky.social · Jan 14

By way of introduction, here's a piece in MQR Online I wrote about some of the things I like best:

sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2024/05/...

A Moment That You Couldn’t Tell: Riding the Gradient of the Lyric Essay

I In his poem “Because You Asked About the Line Between Prose and Poetry,” Howard Nemerov writes: Sparrows were feeding in a freezing drizzleThat while you watched turned to pieces of snowRiding a …

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Alizabeth Worley @alizabethworley.bsky.social · 23d

Thank you so much!

Alizabeth Worley @alizabethworley.bsky.social · Sep 11

Wonderful to wake up to this publication this morning! CRAFT is an incredible journal, and it's a delight to have my work there.

Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · Sep 10

"…now I’m wondering, why have I refused myself the gravel of this memory until now, when I can remember so little of it all?" Beautiful flash-length meditation on a childhood experience by @alizabethworley.bsky.social at CRAFT: www.craftliterary.com/2025/09/10/w...

What I Want to Know by Alizabeth Worley - CRAFT

One day when I was little, I trespassed the aluminum gate that was next to our little orchard in search of a Frisbee or Nerf ball or some such thing that we had sent flying, accidentally, over the bar...

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Alizabeth Worley @alizabethworley.bsky.social · Aug 14

Personally I like exmo or Ex-Mormon more officially.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Aug 13

A virulently white supremacist administration from top to bottom and if they all wore white sheets to work daily, a good chunk of the country and the entire mainstream press would shrug.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Jul 30

Lovely. Good job to the young people of Circles and Ciphers. You can support their work here: circlesandciphers.org

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WE ARE ONE - C&C (MARKO STAT$, Pressure Baby R, RWE Neptune, 333 Jilla, Z Saj & Cassius)

YouTube video by Circles and Ciphers

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Jul 21

ICE agents are harassing the courthouse volunteers who assist besieged immigrants

"They want to be doing this with no witnesses."

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · Jul 20

ICE attempted to enter the home of a woman with her children in Huntington Beach. However, the entire community, police department, and city council intervened and forced them to leave.

Keep fighting back ✊🏽

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Jul 21

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · May 30

Letter: One wonders if some see Trump’s destruction of our world as justifiable because the end of days, and the return of Jesus Christ, is nigh. Why bother with responsible stewardship for the Earth — and its people — when it’s all about to end?

Letter: Is Jesus Christ bound to high five Utah lawmakers for a job well done?

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Franchesca Ramsey @chescaleigh.bsky.social · May 16

RE: #diddy case - please leave the reporting to the reporters. most of y’all do not have the range.

signed, a very tired survivor

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Alizabeth Worley @alizabethworley.bsky.social · May 17

This is so lovely. I can understand how deeply people can get burnt out from any number of things, but if someone is supported and has their needs met, caregiving is one of the sweetest intimacies. (And my husband has cerebral palsy, so we do a lot of mutual caregiving as well!)

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · May 12

Letters F to N in Jacobus Publicius' "mnemonic alphabet", 1482. Each object echoes a letter's shape, a technique used to aid memory. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/m...

Our attempt in emojis: 🖇🏹 🥐👌🏾 🎼🎏🐌🛏🕴🏻🎷 🎋💪🏿🎹 ⛩🎾👎🏾🍭🎗⚡️🌴⚓️🍕🦋🙅🏻‍🤸🏾‍💤

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Alizabeth Worley @alizabethworley.bsky.social · May 12

"I am missing
my selves sister
spread across seas"

Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social · May 9

I’ve got another poem from my aquatic chronic pain project in the latest issue of The Indianapolis Review. Many thanks to @nataliesolmer.bsky.social for giving this poem a home!

theindianapolisreview.com/chronic-pain...

Chronic Pain as Archipelago

I am missingmy selves sisterspread across seas like ancient constellationscalling sailors homecups and arrows swimming over skiesbut in risingtides I cannot find my ownbeginning or endwade through …

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Alizabeth Worley @alizabethworley.bsky.social · May 12

Oh yay, the best kind of package!!! 😊

Alizabeth Worley @alizabethworley.bsky.social · May 11

Pic my kid took of a dandelion, the fluff gathered from the day's rain. He said they looked like minecraft pixels.

I picture of a dandelion gone to seed, the fluff closed into little rectangle tufts, on ground carpeted with dry brown leaves and over laid by several thin dandelion leaves.

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Alizabeth Worley @alizabethworley.bsky.social · May 8

I'm attending Indivisible's event, “No Kings! 6/14 Provo Protest + Flag Day Celebration” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

No Kings! 6/14 Provo Protest + Flag Day Celebration · Mobilize

Flag Day is June 14, 2025. This also happens to be Donald Trump's birthday. Groups all over the country are taking this day to protest in favor of democracy and against increasingly scary executive ab...

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Film Crave @filmcrave.bsky.social · May 7

It's been 8 years since the iconic moment Tom Holland lip-synced "Umbrella" by Rihanna for Zendaya. 🎥

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Jennifer Shin @jennifershin.bsky.social · May 1

For those of you that missed it, here's Kamala's speech.

LIVE: Kamala Harris delivers first major address since leaving office

YouTube video by Associated Press

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Alizabeth Worley @alizabethworley.bsky.social · Apr 30

In light of this news, I've created a Utah County May Day event for Saturday, May 3rd at Provo Hall, from 1-2 p.m.

Let's get the referendum on the ballot and protest the Government takeover!

mobilize.us/s/oQV28i

Alizabeth Worley @alizabethworley.bsky.social · Apr 30

I love everything Sarah Fawn Montgomery writes!

Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social · Apr 29

ABBREVIATE is out next week! Can’t wait for this hybrid study of smallness to be out in the big wide world!

A purple and pink cloud background features the word “Abbreviate” and a glowing girl wearing neon coral standing with her hands held over her head. The back cover copy reads: A small collection of small essays, Abbreviate examines how the injustice and violence of girlhood leads women to accept—and even claim—small spaces and stories. In lyric flash prose, Sarah Fawn Montgomery shares a girlhood shaped by neglect and abuse from adults and saved through the communal care of fierce female friends. The essays in this collection probe the girlhood play of Polly Pocket and planetariums, strobe with a sleepover blacklight illuminating teenage magic, and ricochet with the regret and rage of adult women whose lives have been constellated by harm. Full of stars and scars, Abbreviate examines what happens when girls and women are haunted by hunger and self-erasure, asking us to reconsider the space we make for our secrets, shames, and selves.

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Alizabeth Worley @alizabethworley.bsky.social · Apr 28

it's fun tho

The Onion @theonion.com · Apr 27

Artist Always Carries Around Sketchbook In Case He Feels Like Making Someone Uncomfortable
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Alizabeth Worley @alizabethworley.bsky.social · Apr 26

“The reason it hasn’t remained wasn’t because it didn’t solve the problem,” Koven said. “It actually really hugely solved the problem. There weren’t any complaints, there were actually only praises. It just came down to finances and aesthetics.”

The hitch: admin said the poles were ugly.

The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · Apr 26

This new idea for saving birds from deadly collisions with buildings “really hugely solved the problem,” but there was a hitch.

This Utah ‘death zone’ for birds was fixed. Here’s why it’s back killing again.

This new idea for saving birds from deadly collisions with buildings “really hugely solved the problem,” but there was a hitch.

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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · Apr 23

UPDATE: As of Wednesday morning, proponents of the repeal effort have now met the required threshold for signatures in four of the 15 senate districts required to let voters decide in 2026 whether to repeal the anti-union HB267.

Union referendum live updates: Effort to repeal Utah’s anti-union law has reached signature target in 4 senate districts

Live updates: Here's how close labor groups are to putting a referendum to repeal an anti-union law on Utahns' ballots in 2026.

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The Soggy Boggy Witch 🪻🌱🧹 🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸♿🏳️‍⚧️ @antidramallama.bsky.social · Apr 20

At the #protest yesterday, I led 2 calls & responses & it felt so good! It was fun! If we can convince folks #protests are not boring/scary, but fun & the energy is so invigorating & motivating, we'd get more bodies out there. We need to focus more on that aspect even if that isn't the point.

A picture at the protest in Provo Utah yesterday. My daughter is wearing a blue shirt representing the rescue agency she supports and a pink Cheshire cat mask and she is sitting in her wheelchair. Her white sign says in pink letters even the pets are angry and has a black angry dog and a black angry cat at the bottom. She is sitting next to a woman who is standing and holding a black sign with a fluffy white bunny face and it says no Bunny wants trump. A large crowd of protesters stand behind them.

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Annastasia @annastasia77.bsky.social · Apr 19

Salt Lake City, Utah

#NoMediaCoverage
#NoKings
#RiseUpAndResist
#PROTESTS

JennyQuackles @jennyquackles2.bsky.social · Apr 19

Wow 👀 Salt Lake, UT continues to show up! 🪧🔥
#50501movement #handsoff #April19

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