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Dianthe West (she/they)
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🌱 Poet, author, art historian | #AuDHD 🏇♿ ✨💖💛💙✨| P: M. Cassatt
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Dianthe West (she/they) @dianthewest.bsky.social · Aug 1
Book release! My new #poem, "Some Shining Earth," is a #solarpunk sequel/retelling of Christina Rossetti's #Goblin Market, mashed up w/ The Green Children of Woolpit. Read it here first! --> www.amazon.com/dp/B0FKPPNT7X ed. @carinabissett.bsky.social #SFFH #fantasy #darkfantasy #SFWA #SFPA #poetry
Fractured Reveries. Blue, red, aqua and gold paint strokes with fingertips emerging from them.
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Dianthe West (she/they) @dianthewest.bsky.social · Sep 8
Check out this cover tho. >.> www.youtube.com/watch?v=THhu...
Dead On A Sunday ' "Lovesong" (The Cure cover)
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Dianthe West (she/they) @dianthewest.bsky.social · Sep 8
Best hook I've read in a long time. Or maybe it just hit me at the right moment. 💯 😉 #writing #journalism #psychology www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
A better life is possible - but only if you dive deep into your unconscious
We are used to skimming the surface of our emotions, distracting ourselves with endless doing. To discover what we really need, we must move beyond the shallows
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Dianthe West (she/they) @dianthewest.bsky.social · Aug 1
Book release! My new #poem, "Some Shining Earth," is a #solarpunk sequel/retelling of Christina Rossetti's #Goblin Market, mashed up w/ The Green Children of Woolpit. Read it here first! --> www.amazon.com/dp/B0FKPPNT7X ed. @carinabissett.bsky.social #SFFH #fantasy #darkfantasy #SFWA #SFPA #poetry
Fractured Reveries. Blue, red, aqua and gold paint strokes with fingertips emerging from them.
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Dianthe West (she/they) @dianthewest.bsky.social · Aug 1
Book release! My new #poem, "Some Shining Earth," is a #solarpunk sequel/retelling of Christina Rossetti's #Goblin Market, mashed up w/ The Green Children of Woolpit. Read it here first! --> www.amazon.com/dp/B0FKPPNT7X ed. @carinabissett.bsky.social #SFFH #fantasy #darkfantasy #SFWA #SFPA #poetry
Fractured Reveries. Blue, red, aqua and gold paint strokes with fingertips emerging from them.
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Julie C. Day (Essential Dreams Press) is sleepy @thisjulieday.bsky.social · Jun 21
10 days! Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology ships JULY 1st! I'm thrilled with how it turned out. These authors are fire!
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@marthawells.com @csecooney.bsky.social @nisishawl.bsky.social @mythicdelirium.bsky.social @marisca.bsky.social @mayadeane.bsky.social and more
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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · Apr 22
it may not be encouraged but I also got a spring Covid vaccine in Ontario. In Toronto to be more specific. East Toronto to be even more specific and Pharmacare pharmacy on Broadview with lovely Lindsay the Pharmacist to be more specific still!
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Dianthe West (she/they) @dianthewest.bsky.social · Apr 28
My 72-year-old half-sister has profound #autism. So, very likely, did my great uncle Carl, born in 1900. The #MMR vaccine was introduced in 1971. (Single Measles vaccine was introduced in 1963.) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ IME + in science's HO. #eugenicists go home.
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Dianthe West (she/they) @dianthewest.bsky.social · Apr 28
My 72-year-old half-sister has profound #autism. So, very likely, did my great uncle Carl, born in 1900. The #MMR vaccine was introduced in 1971. (Single Measles vaccine was introduced in 1963.) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ IME + in science's HO. #eugenicists go home.
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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · Mar 4
Only a week to go before the BFS and Waterstones' Leeds 'A Conversation on Characterisation.
Tickets just £5. tinyurl.com/characterleeds
11 March, 7pm, Albion St.
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Shown is a graphic that has a river winding through a plain with mountains in the background. On the right bank of the river is a tall, golden statue of hooded character. They hold a lantern in one hand and a staff in the other. Top right is the Waterstones logo, a black W. On the top right and left of the top text box is the BFS logo, a white dragon design curling around the letters ‘BFS’. Photos: Katie Bruce (top left); Dan Hanks (middle left); Stephanie Burgis (top right); Alethea Lyons (bottom left); Mike Brooks (bottom right). Shown is a graphic that has a river winding through a plain with mountains in the background. On the right bank of the river is a tall, golden statue of hooded character. They hold a lantern in one hand and a staff in the other. Top right is the Waterstones logo, a black W. On the top right and left of the top text box is the BFS logo, a white dragon design curling around the letters ‘BFS’. Photos: Katie Bruce (top left); Dan Hanks (middle left); Stephanie Burgis (top right); Alethea Lyons (bottom left); Mike Brooks (bottom right). A graphic with the four book covers with the authors names underneath. Wooing The Witch Queen - Stephanie Burgis, The Hiding - Alethea Lyons, The Way Up Is Death - Dan Hanks, The Black Coast - Mike Brooks A picture of Katie Bruce in the centre with 'Chair Katie Bruce' underneath At the top is the text: Waterstones Leeds & The British Fantasy Society Present A Conversation on Characterisation - with the BFS logo of bfs topped with a dragon in the two top corners Underneath is the text 11.03.2025 www.waterstones.com/events/a-conversation-on-characterisation-fantasy-panel/leeds 19:00
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Dianthe West (she/they) @dianthewest.bsky.social · Feb 26
I would even characterize it as 'pay for access'. In my case, my US college paid. In my co-interns' case, IIRC her wealthy family was paying.
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Dianthe West (she/they) @dianthewest.bsky.social · Feb 26
As a US merit scholar, I had one of these #unpaid #internships at a private UK gallery in the 90s. I'll add to this critique that I was de facto cut out of things like galas bc I couldn't afford to buy the clothes. It has always struck me as a bizarre arrangement. The owner was a $$$ celeb.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Feb 26
Arts sector’s use of unpaid interns for some roles could be illegal, experts say
Arts sector’s use of unpaid interns for some roles could be illegal, experts say
Concerns also raised that practice prevents young working-class people from finding paid work in creative industries Arts employers could be breaking the law by relying on unpaid interns to perform roles that should be left to paid workers, preventing…
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Dianthe West (she/they) @dianthewest.bsky.social · Feb 18
‪I'm waiting for #Canada to whip out the actual head of state. The US administration seems oblivious to the fact PM #Trudeau is not the sovereign. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Canada's foreign minister says she gave Europe a 'wake-up call' on threat Trump poses to Canada | CBC News
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly concluded her recent tour of Europe saying she delivered a “wake-up call” to Canada’s allies across the Atlantic about the economic and political threat the Trump...
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Dianthe West (she/they) @dianthewest.bsky.social · Feb 18
Today, we renamed our house "Castle Fuck It," and I just put a shot of bourbon in my coffee. /how it's going
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Dianthe West (she/they) @dianthewest.bsky.social · Feb 2
Cried. Going to try to sleep now. Hopefully two out of four of us continue to have an income this year? 😬
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Dianthe West (she/they) @dianthewest.bsky.social · Feb 2
Lovely to have you here and thank you as always.
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Dianthe West (she/they) @dianthewest.bsky.social · Jan 23
Thank you!
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Dianthe West (she/they) @dianthewest.bsky.social · Jan 20
I'm here to tell you if you can't focus or get anything done today because you're in a marginalized group that's about to lose rights, then resting and connecting is totally valid. Self care is resistance. Community care is resistance. 🕊️💕
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Dianthe West (she/they) @dianthewest.bsky.social · Jan 20
I'm here to tell you if you can't focus or get anything done today because you're in a marginalized group that's about to lose rights, then resting and connecting is totally valid. Self care is resistance. Community care is resistance. 🕊️💕
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Dianthe West (she/they) @dianthewest.bsky.social · Jan 20
Federal Liberal Party comms have been less than top notch, IMHO. For example, I was quite surprised at one point by reading an official party platform PDF with multiple editorial errors.
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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · Nov 10
"We are living through precedented times."
- Historians
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Dianthe West (she/they) @dianthewest.bsky.social · Jan 15
Thank you!
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Dianthe West (she/they) @dianthewest.bsky.social · Jan 13
Achievement unlocked! I've moved from Apprentice to Associate in the #SFWA. Thanks to @carinabissett.bsky.social, @angrygablepress.bsky.social, @angelayurikosmith.bsky.social & 3rd Estate Art for believing in my work + to my wonderful SFWA mentor, LJ Cohen. #fantasyfiction #SFFH @sfwa.bsky.social
Your SFWA membership application has been approved!
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Dianthe West (she/they) @dianthewest.bsky.social · Jan 2
Contract signed for Goblin-Market-adjacent poetic #climate flash fiction. Coming soon! Excited for this one. #poetry #poet #fantasy #fantasyfiction #horror #shortstory #SFFH #ChristinaRossetti #preraphaelites #solarpunk #poem #gothiclit #canadianauthor
Golden Head by Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Public Domain
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Dianthe West (she/they) @dianthewest.bsky.social · Jan 5
My 2024 #poem "Gorgoneion" qualifies for the short-form Rhysling Award at @sfpoetry.bsky.social. Find it in Katabatic Circus Vol. 1 or in the #SFPA members' drive. A nomination would be lovely! #vote #rhysling #rhyslingaward #sfpoetry #canadianpoet #awardconsideration @angrygablepress.bsky.social
Katabatic Circus Vol. 1 Released!
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Dianthe West (she/they) @dianthewest.bsky.social · Jan 6
Hi @ghostlyverse.bsky.social!
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