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Justin Aoba

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hi poetry editor: identitytheory.com hybrid editor: bleatingthingmagazine.com a guy at: syzygyworkshop.org/slow-orbit extimateothers.com

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Justin Aoba @justinaoba.bsky.social · Feb 24

Now in Slow Orbit: a David Lynch sonnet by @hanvanderhart.bsky.social

"As much as I love the fields, the cedars, the creek I grew up beside, the land is death-haunted in Virginia, and that violence is overwhelmingly colonial."

syzygyworkshop.org/virginia-see...

"Virginia seemed like always night." — SYZYGY

SYZYGY is a writing workshop and publication founded by the Heung Coalition.

syzygyworkshop.org

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Vic Nogay @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social · 18d

COVER REVEAL!!! So excited to finally share the cover of Naming a Dying Thing with you all. You can preorder a copy from @yellowarrowpub.bsky.social

www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/store/p/nami...

Naming a Dying Thing by Vic Nogay — Yellow Arrow Publishing

Like humid Ohio summers, often wistful and lovely, yet undeniably heavy, Naming a Dying Thing by Vic Nogay is a sticky collection. At times a confrontation, at others an abdication, the poems within t...

www.yellowarrowpublishing.com

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 20d

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity.

"To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women

"This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies," argues Kylie Cheung.

www.teenvogue.com

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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · Sep 3

Please come see @majda.bsky.social @alinaetc.bsky.social Julia Kolchinsky read their new books for @notatawp.bsky.social on Tuesday, September 9th at 7pm.

Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/nawp-a-rea...

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · Sep 1

Announcing Maya Salameh's third workshop for us💕
Cryptids and Creatures: Mythology in Poetry
October 4, online

Sign up here: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/cry...

workshops for gaza
@workshops4gaza
Maya Salameh
Cryptids and Creatures
Mythology in Poetry
October 4, 10-noon PT

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Justin Aoba @justinaoba.bsky.social · Sep 1

Following up: looks like it won't be until at least October! There will definitely be a general announcement when subs do reopen.

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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · Aug 15

I think this is a really great and important initiative but I think it'd be really important to be inclusive of poets, and also to get more translators of color and those from the global south involved. It would be great if the team can reach out and chat more

Translated Hugo Initiative @translatedhugo.bsky.social · Jul 3

Hello, Bluesky! This is a weird day to go live with this project, but: this is an initiative to add a Translated Speculative Fiction category to the Hugo Awards. If you are a fan of global SF, and want to put some more "World" in "Worldcon", check out our site! Lots more to come.
translatedhugo.org

The Translated Hugo Initiative

Putting the World in Worldcon

translatedhugo.org

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Sonia is an Ignyte and Ember Award winner! @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · Aug 13

Thank you, kind folks, for using my tip jar. If you’d like to help with my internet bill, I would appreciate it. Otherwise, I’ll have my commissions sheet ready tomorrow. ko-fi.com/soniasulaiman

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · Aug 7

i love bagels and i love bagel sandwiches

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Justin Aoba @justinaoba.bsky.social · Jul 31

hobbling around with back pain 👴

Justin Aoba @justinaoba.bsky.social · Jul 31

a fundamental pleasure of reading for me 👾

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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · Jul 31

We want to give someone $500 to keep writing queer planty lit!

ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · Jul 31

Today is the final day to apply for the ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers!

The recipient will receive $500 to incubate their future creative endeavors.

It's a super easy application! Don't self-reject!

Deadline: July 31, 2025.

More information: alocasia.org/alocasias-mi...

Wet monstera leaf background, text reading: "the ALOCASIA microgrant for queer writers"

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Justin Aoba @justinaoba.bsky.social · Jul 30

Sorry but everyone who reads derrida is a sad and lonely freak...we can tell when you don't know what you're talking about

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Bleating Thing Magazine @bleatingthing.bsky.social · Jul 30

Hello! Please do not use AI to generate an essay in time for our submission deadline just because we really need them. 1) we can tell, & 2) our whole deal is deeply human work. Thank you!

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Justin Aoba @justinaoba.bsky.social · Jul 30

Weirdly many videos randomly citing derrida...a guy said differance is how language is defined by relational difference between terms and then flashed a wikipedia screenshot. brother that is the saussurean semiotics differance is complicating. that is the structuralism to derrida's poststructuralism

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Justin Aoba @justinaoba.bsky.social · Jul 26

are emails from .edu addresses less likely to be disappeared into spam filters or no? i'm so tired

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · Jul 24

It's apt that corporations/governments divided the internet into SFW and NSFW & are now making it all Safe For Work, because that is the defining frame they want to place on the world--everywhere you go is for Work, not pleasure or art or love or culture. You must always Work for Them, or die.

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Justin Aoba @justinaoba.bsky.social · Jul 21

🗑️ hell no

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Amie Souza Reilly @amiesouzareilly.bsky.social · Jul 21

"For Gilpin, the liminal isn’t a literary device but the inevitable outcome of paying attention: we each stand with one foot on either side of a threshold."

Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · Jul 21

Friends, I wrote a piece on poet Laura Gilpin, who died of glioblastoma in 2006.

She is best known for “The Two-Headed Calf.”

With gratitude to the Poetry Foundation for allowing me to try to restore this remarkable healthcare practitioner/poet’s legacy.

www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/170...

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Justin Aoba @justinaoba.bsky.social · Jul 20

Reactivated my account to see 2010s buzzfeed era male gaze discourse imported from x dot com

a close up of a man 's face with a gray shirt on

ALT: a close up of a man 's face with a gray shirt on

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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · Jul 20

I have a Sasquatch poem in the latest issue of @asteralesjournal.bsky.social

A sprig of blueberries and the words Jared Beloff "Sasquatch mourns those who died trying to find him"

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Justin Aoba @justinaoba.bsky.social · Jul 6

Hope ur ok

Justin Aoba @justinaoba.bsky.social · Jul 6

My traitorous thumbs

Justin Aoba @justinaoba.bsky.social · Jul 5

I still can't get over how funny this is

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · Jul 5

"What does Lacan show us? He shows us that desire is not a biological function; that it is not correlated with a natural object; and that its object is fantasized. Because of this, desire is extravagant. It cannot be grasped by those who might try to master it."
- Bruce Fink

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