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Jennessa Hester 🍒

@cherrypoppunk.bsky.social

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lambda poetry fellow, fawc scholar 👸 disney and nintendo studies 🏰 edits at IHLR, JCMS 📝 perpetually sleepy 💤 she/her 🏳️‍⚧️ jennessahester.com

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Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · Apr 1

New poem out today from the always wonderful @petrichorlit.bsky.social!

This is an especially distraught piece from my WIP, and I'm so grateful it has a safe home 💖

Read the full issue here: petrichormag.com/petrichor-27/

wilderness survival
be prepared to freeze scout
master says or you might not survive

beyond us mist crawls along the skin
of a pond he says to breathe it in

big breaths like a man and taste
the fresh cuts it leaves along the inside

of your throat let your body quiver
as your blood bleaches the fine air red

i stand frozen beside the master my throat
yoked tight within his grasp a firm man’s hand

i feel his fingers crawl inside my mouth
and slouch down through the blood

he fingers the folds and they peel back
leading him deeper and deeper down

i do not know who dragged us under
the water i cannot tell my flesh from his own

i try to scream but men only
jump to save little girls from drowning

looking up at the pond i wonder if water
freezes beneath the surface or just on top

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 1d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Natalie Portman with a shaved head in the film V for Vendetta, which is a movie not real life, gazes at the masked anarchist revolutionary V, who again, is not real life but based on a comic book character.

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mosh pit daria @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social · 3d

icymi, i lost my job and am running some workshops to make money to uh, live?

tickets for the first run of THE RANDOMIZER are up now at natraum.com/links. the rest are coming soon!

2025 workshops

It's Lit: Literary Magazine Submissions. October 29 @ 7PM EST.

THE RANDOMIZER #1. November 6 @ 7pm EST.

No Choice But to Stan: Writing Pop Culture in Poetry. November 15 @ 12pm EST

Writing to Grieve: Poetry as Processing. November 22 @ 12pm EST

THE RANDOMIZER #2. TBD late November.

About your instructor

nat raum is a queer, disabled, and recently unemployed artist and writer based on unceded Piscataway and Susquehannock land in Baltimore. They hold an MFA in Creative Writing with a focus in Poetry, and have served as an adjunct faculty member at the Maryland Institute College of Art and The University of Baltimore. They’re the author of 22 books of poetry, all of which were proudly published independently.

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Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 3d

business professor, film professor, sociology professor

Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 3d

Editor in chief, city editor, features editor

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Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 5d

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Nonfiction: Pretty by KB Brookins! 🎉🎉🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

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Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 5d

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Poetry: Girl Work by Zefyr Lisowski! 🎉🎉🎉 @zefrrr.bsky.social @noemipress.bsky.social
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 6d

Haven't seen this shared a lot - but yes, 26 out of 30 of the scholars on the NEH Council just got axed - and surprise, what do you know about the 4 left? ⬇️

Janay Kingsberry @janaykingsberry.bsky.social · 8d

The National Council for the NEH had 26 scholars and leaders serving humanities efforts across the U.S. After today’s White House firings, it’s down to just 4 Trump-appointed White men, one terminated member told me.

From me, @travismandrews.bsky.social and @kelseyables.bsky.social:
wapo.st/3IRQBdg

White House fires much of the National Council on the Humanities

The White House appeared to fire all but four members of the National Council on the Humanities, an advisory board to the head of the government’s grantmaking agency.

wapo.st

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Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 6d

That suuuuure is a choice 🫠

Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 6d

Did Susan's Place get into fiction writing?

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 7d

We are now also the most official looking Taco Bell account on here and I would just like to let everyone know that eating Taco Bell makes you trans

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Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 8d

This is fabulous! Lovely work, Angel 💕

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Angel L🏳️‍⚧️ @angelvleal.bsky.social · 8d

My new poem "GPS Girl" about a navigation system slowly warping into sentience and...eventually depression..is out today💜 @radonjournal.bsky.social and look at that cover!!! This whole issue is filled with dark & strange & powerful words 🖤 www.radonjournal.com/issue-11/gps...

GPS Girl | Issue 11

Radon Journal Issue 11 featuring writers of science fiction and social commentary.

www.radonjournal.com

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Stephanie Harkin @saharkin.bsky.social · 8d

My book is out! 💗
Girlhood Games: Gender, Identity and Coming of Age in Videogames is a 6-year-long labour of love for young adult stories, teen heroines in videogames and unnoticed girly game histories.
Thank you @livvy.itch.io for the beautiful cover!

www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Book cover for "Girlhood Game: Gender, Identity, and Coming of Age in Video Games." A youthful feminine bedroom is depicted, centring on a computer desk setup with game accessories.

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New Title Cards Every Day! The Official DBZEpisodes Account @dbzepisodes.bsky.social · 8d

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Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 8d

Grateful to guest lecture on the Disney Silver Age today to a group of lovely undergraduates ✨

Title slide for a PowerPoint presentation on "The Silver Age: Understanding Disney from 1950-1967."

Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 9d

I love that you skipped the obvious Pokémon reference and went to Battle Network 🙏

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NK 💀 Vtuber @ohthatnk.bsky.social · 10d

POV: You're on a date with Lanky Kong. 💖

[ #OhThatNKart #fanart #DonkeyKong ]

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Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 10d

Changes are happening. One step at a time 🙏

Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 10d

This is MASSIVE news for anyone without institutional access!

Tagging @thetransfemininereview.com in particular, since we've discussed this issue before.

Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 11d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 11d

How does he intend to enforce this?

Tax the productions themselves, which aren't imports?

Tax the reels or hard drives that get shipped back to the US, which are a tiny portion of the budget?

Tax the exhibition of foreign films, which also aren't imports?

Ridiculous nonsense.

CNN @cnn.com · 11d

Trump announces 100% tariff on movies made outside of the US https://cnn.it/4gManmU

Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 11d

I'm reminded of the old story that Lord British (designer of Ultima) hated EA so much that he had a tombstone put in his yard with the current CEOs name on it.

Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you for these words 🫂🫂🫂🫂 So grateful to have wonderful people like you on my side!

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Dr. Emily Hamilton-Honey @hermioneclone.bsky.social · 12d

Okay, y'all, I want to do something nice. If you have a new book about to be published, or that was just published, reply! Let's make a thread of orders and pre-orders. I'll start with mine: mcfarlandbooks.com/product/news...

Book cover for "Newsies, Newsies - Read All About It! Essays on the film and Broadway productions." Edited by Emily Hamilton-Honey; forward by Vincent DiGirolamo. The cover shows a black and white photo of a denacing newsboy. The text is black on a yellow background, and loose pages of newsprint frame the edges.

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Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 13d

It's official: my school believes my gender is invalid.

Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 13d

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” The professor spoke by phone from the inside of a car to avoid being overheard by colleagues.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders

www.nytimes.com

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