Hannah Matthews
@hannahmatthews.bsky.social
Wrote YOU OR SOMEONE YOU LOVE (Atria Books, 2023). Writing other stuff. Public library worker. Abortion clinic angel, abortion fund board. Queer. t1d. Pure of heart, dumb of ass.
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(let’s talk about death and bodies and sickness and isolation and t1d but make it fun and sexy and weird and juicy and queer and…honestly…a WILD ride)
(let’s talk about death and bodies and sickness and isolation and t1d but make it fun and sexy and weird and juicy and queer and…honestly…a WILD ride)
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a service where you pay $500 for Isaac Chotiner to interview your least favorite ex
November 25, 2025 at 3:23 AM
a service where you pay $500 for Isaac Chotiner to interview your least favorite ex
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isaac chotiner came to my house and tricked me into admitting we weren’t out of ice cream in front of my five year old daughter
November 25, 2025 at 2:33 AM
isaac chotiner came to my house and tricked me into admitting we weren’t out of ice cream in front of my five year old daughter
a service where you pay $500 for Isaac Chotiner to interview your least favorite ex
November 25, 2025 at 3:23 AM
a service where you pay $500 for Isaac Chotiner to interview your least favorite ex
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Look I just try to live my life so that if Isaac Chotiner ever interviews me I will have nothing to be worried about. As a heuristic, I think it’s pretty good
November 25, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Look I just try to live my life so that if Isaac Chotiner ever interviews me I will have nothing to be worried about. As a heuristic, I think it’s pretty good
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November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I see your risky text and raise you a risky close friends story
November 25, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I see your risky text and raise you a risky close friends story
good love, good parties, good food, good wine, good books, good sex, good friendship. fire burning in the woodstove, snow falling, babies sledding. neighbors skiing through the woods with the dogs, little bells & lamps on their collars. winter in maine is dark & intense & brutal & I love her so much
November 24, 2025 at 10:48 PM
good love, good parties, good food, good wine, good books, good sex, good friendship. fire burning in the woodstove, snow falling, babies sledding. neighbors skiing through the woods with the dogs, little bells & lamps on their collars. winter in maine is dark & intense & brutal & I love her so much
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i fact-checked this beautiful piece about South Africa's exiled jazz musicians: www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/lik...
Like Deepening Thunder into Our Hearts — Parapraxis
Sounding South African Exile Francis Gooding
www.parapraxismagazine.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
i fact-checked this beautiful piece about South Africa's exiled jazz musicians: www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/lik...
ultimately the final boss between me and a full-blown ED relapse at any given moment is the knowledge of WHO ultimately profits from a cultural obsession with thinness. those losers can’t have our precious money/time/energy, that’s for spending on love and pleasure and art
November 24, 2025 at 4:09 AM
ultimately the final boss between me and a full-blown ED relapse at any given moment is the knowledge of WHO ultimately profits from a cultural obsession with thinness. those losers can’t have our precious money/time/energy, that’s for spending on love and pleasure and art
can a girl just get a Baja Break
November 24, 2025 at 3:24 AM
can a girl just get a Baja Break
people always apologizing for their grief, saying: it’s nothing. saying: it was a long time ago. saying: I don’t know why I can’t get over it. but I don’t care if the rock in your shoe is TINY, if it got in there 5 years ago, if you put it in there yourself. it’s still a rock in your shoe. and—
November 24, 2025 at 12:57 AM
people always apologizing for their grief, saying: it’s nothing. saying: it was a long time ago. saying: I don’t know why I can’t get over it. but I don’t care if the rock in your shoe is TINY, if it got in there 5 years ago, if you put it in there yourself. it’s still a rock in your shoe. and—
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I keep coming back to this
November 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I keep coming back to this
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Anne Carson's translation of the famous lines in Aeschylus' "Agamemnon":
Yet there drips in sleep before my heart a griefremembering pain.
Good sense comes the hard way. And the grace of the gods
(I’m pretty sure) is a grace that comes by violence.
Yet there drips in sleep before my heart a griefremembering pain.
Good sense comes the hard way. And the grace of the gods
(I’m pretty sure) is a grace that comes by violence.
November 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Anne Carson's translation of the famous lines in Aeschylus' "Agamemnon":
Yet there drips in sleep before my heart a griefremembering pain.
Good sense comes the hard way. And the grace of the gods
(I’m pretty sure) is a grace that comes by violence.
Yet there drips in sleep before my heart a griefremembering pain.
Good sense comes the hard way. And the grace of the gods
(I’m pretty sure) is a grace that comes by violence.
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The continuing bamboo metaphor is like…a child’s fingerpaint version of a braided essay. Bamboo was invented by Steven Bamboo
November 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
The continuing bamboo metaphor is like…a child’s fingerpaint version of a braided essay. Bamboo was invented by Steven Bamboo
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Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
walking the dog a few streets over and a kid, maybe 6, came sprinting out of their house all wild-eyed, out of breath. was scared til they called, panting, “CAN YOU COME WATCH ME PLAY IN MY BASKETBALL GAME AT THE REC CENTER IT’S AT 10!!!” anyway my kid & I are making signs w/ their jersey number now
November 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
walking the dog a few streets over and a kid, maybe 6, came sprinting out of their house all wild-eyed, out of breath. was scared til they called, panting, “CAN YOU COME WATCH ME PLAY IN MY BASKETBALL GAME AT THE REC CENTER IT’S AT 10!!!” anyway my kid & I are making signs w/ their jersey number now
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What if: leaf on ground
November 21, 2025 at 10:06 PM
What if: leaf on ground
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truly didn't know grieving was gonna involve so much of me doing a random activity and then a voice in my head goes "my mom is dead?" out of nowhere
November 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
truly didn't know grieving was gonna involve so much of me doing a random activity and then a voice in my head goes "my mom is dead?" out of nowhere
trying to imagine how empty and colorless my life—and how fragile and thin my sense of self—would have to be in order for me to get mad about being a woman who, while pregnant, is accurately referred to as a “pregnant person”
November 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM
trying to imagine how empty and colorless my life—and how fragile and thin my sense of self—would have to be in order for me to get mad about being a woman who, while pregnant, is accurately referred to as a “pregnant person”
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Now THIS????
is a white man!
this is how you white man!!!!!!!!!
is a white man!
this is how you white man!!!!!!!!!
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Now THIS????
is a white man!
this is how you white man!!!!!!!!!
is a white man!
this is how you white man!!!!!!!!!
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Whistles are one of the most accessible tools in resisting ICE.
Here’s how to use them:
Here’s how to use them:
November 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Whistles are one of the most accessible tools in resisting ICE.
Here’s how to use them:
Here’s how to use them:
cover letter as humiliation ritual
November 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
cover letter as humiliation ritual
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NEW: Trump's DOJ sent a subpoena to a gender-affirming care clinic seeking information on patients, including minors, and its insurance billing practices. The clinic—which doesn't even take insurance—fought the demand in court and won.
Read @garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co
Read @garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co
The DOJ Subpoenaed Patient Info From a Gender-Affirming Care Clinic. It Fought Back.
A Washington judge quashed the Trump administration's attempt to subpoena patient information from the telehealth practice QueerDoc—but the fight may not be over.
www.autonomynews.co
November 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
NEW: Trump's DOJ sent a subpoena to a gender-affirming care clinic seeking information on patients, including minors, and its insurance billing practices. The clinic—which doesn't even take insurance—fought the demand in court and won.
Read @garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co
Read @garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co
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NEW: ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.
Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.
Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.