Emogene Cataldo
@emogene.bsky.social
PhD, art history. Writing a novel. Works in messaging and content design. Tin House ‘25. She/her
www.emogenecataldo.com
www.emogenecataldo.com
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If 2025 didn't stop you nothing will
January 1, 2026 at 10:55 AM
If 2025 didn't stop you nothing will
Bluesky doesn’t really hold my attention and I think that’s beautiful. Here’s to 2026 🥂
January 1, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Bluesky doesn’t really hold my attention and I think that’s beautiful. Here’s to 2026 🥂
Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve dreamed about dressing like a 50-year-old woman.
December 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve dreamed about dressing like a 50-year-old woman.
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
@summerbrennan.bsky.social on “Cat Person” and discourses of yore (and ongoing projects to deny women as artists)
“In fiction, female authors are constantly asked to explain how their personal experiences have somehow qualified them to tell the stories they are telling, and live under the constant suspicion that their fiction isn’t really fiction at all…”
open.substack.com/pub/summerbr...
open.substack.com/pub/summerbr...
Going Through Old Notebooks Part 12: The Defining Moment of What Was Literary Twitter? Or "Discourse Person"
On empathy, fiction, plagiarism, the woman as artist, the short story that launched a thousand takes—and the lost world we writers once shared online.
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
@summerbrennan.bsky.social on “Cat Person” and discourses of yore (and ongoing projects to deny women as artists)
“In fiction, female authors are constantly asked to explain how their personal experiences have somehow qualified them to tell the stories they are telling, and live under the constant suspicion that their fiction isn’t really fiction at all…”
open.substack.com/pub/summerbr...
open.substack.com/pub/summerbr...
Going Through Old Notebooks Part 12: The Defining Moment of What Was Literary Twitter? Or "Discourse Person"
On empathy, fiction, plagiarism, the woman as artist, the short story that launched a thousand takes—and the lost world we writers once shared online.
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:37 PM
“In fiction, female authors are constantly asked to explain how their personal experiences have somehow qualified them to tell the stories they are telling, and live under the constant suspicion that their fiction isn’t really fiction at all…”
open.substack.com/pub/summerbr...
open.substack.com/pub/summerbr...
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He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
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🎶 because I knew you
I have been changed for good 🎶
I have been changed for good 🎶
November 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
🎶 because I knew you
I have been changed for good 🎶
I have been changed for good 🎶
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“Zohran has been marinated in love…He’s so secure in knowing who he is. There was a feeling of great pride and gratitude the night he won—that we had yielded this person who will bring, and who has already brought, hope to the world. That he has the mettle to do it.”
ABSOLUTE FUCKING MOM GOALS 🥰🥰🥰🥰
ABSOLUTE FUCKING MOM GOALS 🥰🥰🥰🥰
I interviewed ferociously brilliant filmmaker Mira Nair, a.k.a Zohran Mamdani’s mother, about how her voice and vision have shaped a man who sees a better way forward for all of us. SPOILER ALERT: Love matters.
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
How Mira Nair Built the World That Made Zohran Mamdani
The legendary director talks with Harper's Bazaar about becoming an artist and a parent
www.harpersbazaar.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
“Zohran has been marinated in love…He’s so secure in knowing who he is. There was a feeling of great pride and gratitude the night he won—that we had yielded this person who will bring, and who has already brought, hope to the world. That he has the mettle to do it.”
ABSOLUTE FUCKING MOM GOALS 🥰🥰🥰🥰
ABSOLUTE FUCKING MOM GOALS 🥰🥰🥰🥰
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Back briefly to share my essay again. Because this, too, is a fundamental part of this country’s corruption.
My pedophile voted Democrat. He was personable, charming even. A lot of ppl thought he was a good guy.
Idc who is on that list.
I want them all outed.
Please read, if you can.
My pedophile voted Democrat. He was personable, charming even. A lot of ppl thought he was a good guy.
Idc who is on that list.
I want them all outed.
Please read, if you can.
My essay is up at @literaryhub.bsky.social about the late, great Lana Clarkson and other promising young women whose lives have been derailed or destroyed by men. It’s also about my childhood sexual abuse and how I have tried, and failed, to reckon with it.
lithub.com/on-promising...
lithub.com/on-promising...
On Promising Young Women (and the Nameless Men Who Get in Their Way)
“The woman is a footnote in the man’s history.” –Rebecca Hazelton * There’s this photo of Lana Clarkson that I think about often. She’s outside, backed by a blue sky, the green and brown spotted hi…
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November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Back briefly to share my essay again. Because this, too, is a fundamental part of this country’s corruption.
My pedophile voted Democrat. He was personable, charming even. A lot of ppl thought he was a good guy.
Idc who is on that list.
I want them all outed.
Please read, if you can.
My pedophile voted Democrat. He was personable, charming even. A lot of ppl thought he was a good guy.
Idc who is on that list.
I want them all outed.
Please read, if you can.
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The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
I didn’t see the Northern Lights on 11/11, but I did see the neon signs inside Lioni’s Italian Heros shop in South Brooklyn and I think that’s a pretty close second. Similar color palette.
November 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I didn’t see the Northern Lights on 11/11, but I did see the neon signs inside Lioni’s Italian Heros shop in South Brooklyn and I think that’s a pretty close second. Similar color palette.
“This Just In: Water From Tap is Wet”
November 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
“This Just In: Water From Tap is Wet”
So proud of my Tin House baddie @sumaiya.bsky.social for fighting for this story and doing a public reading for Brooklyn and the world last August.
Now everyone can read it online, thanks to @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social 🩵
www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/11/02/s...
Now everyone can read it online, thanks to @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social 🩵
www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/11/02/s...
Sunday Stories: “You Say Roti; I Say Ruti”
You Say Roti; I Say Rutiby Sumaiya Aftab Ahmed for Abdul Latif Joarder Jessore, East Pakistan, 1971 The Pakistani soldiers joke among themselves, and Iftekar cannot trace the indefinite shapes of t…
www.vol1brooklyn.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
So proud of my Tin House baddie @sumaiya.bsky.social for fighting for this story and doing a public reading for Brooklyn and the world last August.
Now everyone can read it online, thanks to @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social 🩵
www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/11/02/s...
Now everyone can read it online, thanks to @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social 🩵
www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/11/02/s...
The last push happened as my infant son became a toddler, I held down a full time tech job, and worked towards a draft of an unrelated book project. It sounds impressive until you consider I may have not done any of these things well at all. Anyways, to eventual publication!
Just got proofs for an academic article that’s somehow been 8 years in the making. Slow and steady work, full of second-guessing and double-checking and anxiety. Many research trips, conference presentations, revisions—all boiled down into 23 pages. How do I feel about it? At this moment, tired. 😅
November 12, 2025 at 12:53 AM
The last push happened as my infant son became a toddler, I held down a full time tech job, and worked towards a draft of an unrelated book project. It sounds impressive until you consider I may have not done any of these things well at all. Anyways, to eventual publication!
Just got proofs for an academic article that’s somehow been 8 years in the making. Slow and steady work, full of second-guessing and double-checking and anxiety. Many research trips, conference presentations, revisions—all boiled down into 23 pages. How do I feel about it? At this moment, tired. 😅
November 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Just got proofs for an academic article that’s somehow been 8 years in the making. Slow and steady work, full of second-guessing and double-checking and anxiety. Many research trips, conference presentations, revisions—all boiled down into 23 pages. How do I feel about it? At this moment, tired. 😅
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Did women ruin the workplace?
November 7, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Did women ruin the workplace?
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Children are the largest recipients of SNAP benefits. Also: Seniors, the disabled and the folks who care for them. Because that's what civilized countries do: Support their citizens when they need support and ensure they can live with dignity
www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...
November 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Children are the largest recipients of SNAP benefits. Also: Seniors, the disabled and the folks who care for them. Because that's what civilized countries do: Support their citizens when they need support and ensure they can live with dignity
www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...
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quoting mario cuomo is cold as fuck man
November 5, 2025 at 4:39 AM
quoting mario cuomo is cold as fuck man
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Zohran Mamdani quoting Mario Cuomo in his acceptance speech is nasty work and I love it. The Sicilian in me bows to his killer instinct.
November 5, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Zohran Mamdani quoting Mario Cuomo in his acceptance speech is nasty work and I love it. The Sicilian in me bows to his killer instinct.
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More than anything, Mamdani has killed the “corporate democrat political avatar” as a force in elections . If you can’t be authentic, don’t run
@jamellebouie.net
@jamellebouie.net
November 5, 2025 at 4:43 AM
More than anything, Mamdani has killed the “corporate democrat political avatar” as a force in elections . If you can’t be authentic, don’t run
@jamellebouie.net
@jamellebouie.net
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I have actually not seen Mamdani give a formal speech and what I’ll say is that unlike so many of his peers he is not trying to mimic anyone in his delivery. He is simply being himself and it is very effective.
I’ve been interested in political speeches for as long as I can remember. I’ve listened to nearly every inaugural and major address, and I’ve given tons of public speeches myself.
Zohran’s talent in this arena ranks among the best. He’s damn good. Hella good. Remarkably good.
Crazy to watch.
Zohran’s talent in this arena ranks among the best. He’s damn good. Hella good. Remarkably good.
Crazy to watch.
November 5, 2025 at 4:42 AM
I have actually not seen Mamdani give a formal speech and what I’ll say is that unlike so many of his peers he is not trying to mimic anyone in his delivery. He is simply being himself and it is very effective.
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“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”
November 5, 2025 at 4:22 AM
“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”
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