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KalpitaPathak

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#Writer. Seeker of magic in the mundane. Queer, disabled, autistic & brown (she/him). I love the smell of rain in the desert 🌵⛈️🏜️🌈 linktr.ee/kalpitapathak

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KalpitaPathak @kalpitapathak.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks again, @themassreview.bsky.social, for publishing "For the Trees", feat. an autistic main character. The debate about autism causes & prevention/cures threatens our existence. But we deserve to be loved & accepted as we are. We're human beings, unbroken. 10 Qs:
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10 Questions for Kalpita Pathak - The Massachusetts Review

Detective Varela calls it an interview room, but it looks an awful lot like the interrogation rooms in Law and Order. Over-airconditioned, scuffed floors, grubby walls, one-way mirror, rickety chair t...

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KalpitaPathak @kalpitapathak.bsky.social · 3h

Stunning. "Joy sweeps over us like a bright sheen of water."
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Art History by Susan Auerbach - Rattle: Poetry

In the picture he sent, a naked young woman hangs trussed in a tangle of red rope, legs tied in mid-leap, crisscross-bound breasts and thighs gaped at by salarymen with cameras.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 6h

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

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Gorgeous 😍

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 4d

There is a tree in Nashville that I'm pretty sure was pulled up into a tornado when it was a sapling, but it had strong roots and it survived. I visit it every time I'm at Centennial Park. When I first moved here, it was barely taller than me, and now it's an adult!

Catalpa Tree is TWISTED. Parthenon in the background.

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 5d

At age 34, Marcus Boyd speaks across the country, sharing his story, spreading awareness about autism, and encouraging people not to allow their disability or diagnosis to define their life or future.

Marcus Boyd: Thriving on the Spectrum, Finding Solace in Sound

Vicksburg resident Marcus Boyd was diagnosed with autism at 10. He is now a successful music composer, producer and autism activist.

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The Massachusetts Review @themassreview.bsky.social · 9d

Happy October to all--but especially to those who have been waiting so patiently to submit work to MR... Our submission period is now OPEN! Read our guidelines and submit your own work today: massreview.org/new-submissi...

Submissions - The Massachusetts Review Submission Guidelines Submissions

The Massachusetts Review 2025 – 2026 Submissions Period is now open. If you have submitted to us online, please check that your spam filters do not block our email. You can add [email protected]...

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KalpitaPathak @kalpitapathak.bsky.social · 5d

10 Questions for Kalpita Pathak - The Massachusetts Review

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6d

This Sunday, we’re SHREDDING 🎸

Join me (or someone who looks a lot like me) at one of two locations to safely dispose of old bills, bank statements and documents you no longer need.

+ DJs, family portraits and frozen treats.

12-3pm in Harlem and the Bronx. Details in the video ⬇️

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 10d

People of Illinois, we need your help.

Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.

We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 17d

Slamming Tylenol like tic tacs so my children will be gods

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 17d

my mom took tylenol when she was pregnant with me and now I post on a niche microblogging site everyday :/

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KalpitaPathak @kalpitapathak.bsky.social · 17d

Thank you for saying this ✨ Been feeling a bit blue about how autism and trans are being treated as "disorders".

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Earl Grey: 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 @earlgreymemes.club · 17d

when your mom takes Tylenol in the 3rd trimester but you're already autistic

TNG "Transfigurations" scene in sickbay with Doctor Crusher and a nurse; the healer John Doe is in his white jumpsuit, going stiff as if feeling a surge of energy, with a strong yellow glow emanating from his chest and illuminating most of his body

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 19d

Vote with your dollars.

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 26d

First time seeing this - the line “I wear the sun like a shawl on my neck
and arms.” is sublime.

A poem in black text against a white background. The poem:

And Now It's September
By Barbara Crooker
and the garden diminishes: cucumber leaves rumpled and rusty, zucchini felled by borers, tomatoes sparse on the vines. But out in the perennial beds, there's one last blast of color: ignitions of goldenrod, flamboyant asters, spiraling mums, all those flashy spikes waving in the wind, conducting summer's final notes.
The ornamental grasses have gone to seed, haloed in the last light. Nights grow chilly, but the days are still warm; I wear the sun like a shawl on my neck and arms. Hundreds of blackbirds ribbon in, settle in the trees, so many black leaves, then, just as suddenly, they're gone. This is autumn's great Departure Gate, and everyone, boarding passes in hand, waits patiently in a long, long line.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 26d

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 26d

California is devising a plan to create their own National Institutes of Health to counter federal cuts to science research.

California’s $23 Billion Plan to Restore Federal Cuts to Scientific Research

www.nytimes.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 27d

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 28d

The New Mexico Department of Health has issued a standing order that expands access to updated COVID-19 vaccines by allowing healthcare providers and pharmacists to vaccinate anyone six months and older without requiring individual prescriptions.

You can get a copy here:

New Mexico removes barriers to COVID-19 vaccines

www.nmhealth.org

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 29d

The murder of Charlie Kirk was criminal, wrong, and should be condemned.

And Charlie Kirk was a horrible, hateful man who spent his life radicalizing young people to embrace their worst demons by targeting women, people of color, immigrants, and the marginalized.

I refuse to sanitize him.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 29d

Here’s a story that’s becoming all too common: federal immigration agents using racial and ethnic profiling as a rationale for stopping, questioning and detaining U.S. citizens who they suspect are undocumented.

A U.S. Citizen Detained by ICE for Three Days Tells His Story

A conversation with George Retes, an Army veteran swept up in a California raid

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 29d

Today, we honor the lives lost and the courage of the first responders who were impacted on September 11, 2001.

We remember not only the tragedy of that day, but the deep scars it left on families, communities, and our nation.

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Lindsay but pumpkin-spiced @lindsaynicolle.bsky.social · Sep 8

I crocheted Patti Smith’s Horses cover

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Sep 4

Warnock: Clearly you have an agenda. It is a threat to the public health of the American people. It's clear that you are carrying out your extremist beliefs.

RFK JR: We’re the sickest people on earth. How am I a threat?

Warnock: I think that you ought to resign.

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Lilly ⭐️ @mothcub.bsky.social · Sep 4

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

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