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Lara Alonso Corona (they/them)
@laraacorona.bsky.social
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queer commie writer & translator, commonly known as "that science fiction person"
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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 11h
As ever, I direct your good gazes to the "Structurally F'cked" report on gallery visual arts, but widely applicable on extractive labour practices. All arts degrees should teach this report.

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Structurally F–cked - a-n The Artists Information Company
An inquiry into artists’ pay and conditions in the public sector in response to the Artist Leaks data.
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Lara Alonso Corona (they/them) @laraacorona.bsky.social · 11h
It's a general problem, totally. We cultural workers are so very good at exploiting ourselves and believing our precariry doesn't matter because art is not "really work" or some such toxic nonsense. We need our own Wages for Housework moment
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Benjanun Sriduangkaew @benjanun.bsky.social · 1d
70%!!!
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Cirice Gray (Temporary Odin Slayer) @ciricegray.itch.io · 1d
She's getting there, please help!
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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 1d
"It’s fun not just to have different forms, but also to have different languages [...] The way they sound, the way they whisper in your ear, is like a different language speaking to you every time, customized to that particular world ..."

— Bothayna Al-Essa

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“[Literature is] a dance around silence, an attempt to get closer to what we are not saying”: A Conversation with Bothayna Al-Essa—Erik Noonan
Anglophone audiences first encountered the Kuwaiti novelist, publisher, and bookseller Bothanya Al-Essa through excerpts of her 2004 novel A Soundless Collision (trans. Chris Bredin), published in …
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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 3d
last week @ minor lits ...

— new fiction from @robrubsam.bsky.social

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— alphabetical images from @eoghancarrick.bsky.social

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[un]inhabited initials [after Holbein] — Eoghan Carrick
from Alphabet with Dance of Death, Hans Holbein the Younger   Chronically cash-strapped, the Emperor [Maximilian I] stimulated contemporary local artists […] to try out new techniques and form…
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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 3d
AND! Monthly Dispatch #27 — feat. everything we published in September — went out ...

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minor literatures ; stuttering cultures. Click to read minor literature[s], a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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Lara Alonso Corona (they/them) @laraacorona.bsky.social · 3d
😍😍😍
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Lara Alonso Corona (they/them) @laraacorona.bsky.social · 4d
Thanks!!
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Lara Alonso Corona (they/them) @laraacorona.bsky.social · 10d
Athens is really beautiful but people here have a relationship to punctuality that is very anxiety-inducing for my extremely-on-time persona. Which is probably very reactionary of me, I know
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Lara Alonso Corona (they/them) @laraacorona.bsky.social · 12d
Not gonna lie, I'm very excited for Greek coffee
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Lara Alonso Corona (they/them) @laraacorona.bsky.social · 13d
Last minute but I'm flying tomorrow to Greece for a feminist festival so mutuals! Drop me your Athens recommendations. If they don't cost much money, even better😉
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Lara Alonso Corona (they/them) @laraacorona.bsky.social · 12d
The plane to Athens already warning me
Plane seat with a panel saying "Literature only"
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Lara Alonso Corona (they/them) @laraacorona.bsky.social · 12d
So happy that my piece is out at the evergreen review (such an iconic name in the game). I'm very fond of this one, I have performed variations of it live, but I'm quite happy with this text incarnation
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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 12d
“Copyright laws are great if you are a rumored-to-be-cryogenically-frozen racist in America, but thieves like us we know how the song goes.”

Up now our Fall/Winter 2025 issue: “If Bruce Springsteen was a lesbian” by @laraacorona.bsky.social. Art by Carol Bruns. evergreenreview.com/read/if-bruc...
If Bruce Springsteen was a lesbian
Evergreen Review
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Lara Alonso Corona (they/them) @laraacorona.bsky.social · 13d
Last minute but I'm flying tomorrow to Greece for a feminist festival so mutuals! Drop me your Athens recommendations. If they don't cost much money, even better😉
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 13d
“Asked about the inscription on the bullet, the friend said: “Josh was an edgelord who wanted someone to get blamed. I think he tried his best to write something goofy …to rile people up.”
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 13d
ICE shooter Joshua Jahn's politics aren't what's being reported, three longtime former friends tell me.

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The ICE Shooter’s Motive
Joshua Jahn's friends speak
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Lara Alonso Corona (they/them) @laraacorona.bsky.social · 13d
Oh yeah I'd rather translate the living. Not my case (the one dead author I translated came with no problems) but I know friends who have wasted years fighting with family and heirs...
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Lara Alonso Corona (they/them) @laraacorona.bsky.social · 13d
Love the non-retinal
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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 13d
Reminder that this week is for Marah.
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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 14d
This week, 100% of profits from anything sold on or through ArabLit go to 19-year-old poet Marah Mohamed Al-Khattab, who writes, "In Gaza, dreams are interrupted before they can take shape. Here, we do not grow into adulthood—we are thrown into it by force."
This week, 100% of profits from anything sold on or through ArabLit go to 19-year-old poet Marah Mohamed Al-Khattab, who writes, "In Gaza, dreams are interrupted before they can take shape. Here, we do not grow into adulthood—we are thrown into it by force." visit arablit.org/shop or arablit.gumroad.com.
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Lara Alonso Corona (they/them) @laraacorona.bsky.social · 13d
And when you ask for butches they show you a femme in flannel 😭😭😭
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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 13d
Venus Voluptuous in the Loins of the Last God — Joseph Nechvatal ( @orbistertiuspress.bsky.social )

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Venus Voluptuous in the Loins of the Last God — Joseph Nechvatal
Nimbus Mimesis Penis and the Velvet Hammer It once was a given that the power of confirmation and denial is vested, not in the ability to connect and become visible, but rather in the ability (and …
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Lara Alonso Corona (they/them) @laraacorona.bsky.social · 14d
I would assume everyone wants this
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 14d
From 1952: The critic ponders the plight of professional painters but who, for economic or personal reasons, have little actual time to work artreview.com/john-berger-...
John Berger on Professional Amateurs
From 1952: The legendary critic ponders the plight of professional painters but who, for economic or personal reasons, have little actual time to work
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Lara Alonso Corona (they/them) @laraacorona.bsky.social · 14d
I LOVE it when they get as high as they can
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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 15d
"I think that one autobiographical impetus was, well, what would it look like to fail and just completely reject these methods, or the idea of productivity that we are enmeshed in?"

— Austyn Wohlers talks to @monalisavitti.bsky.social

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“What would it look like to just seek absolute stillness?”: An Interview with Austyn Wohlers—Cristina Politano
Austyn Wohlers is a New York-based writer and musician, whose debut novel, Hothouse Bloom, was recently published by Hub City Press. In the novel, Wohlers details the struggle of the protagonist, A…
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Lara Alonso Corona (they/them) @laraacorona.bsky.social · 16d
I lost that book moving back to Spain (one of the book boxes never arrived)
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