Lauren T. Yates
laurenyates.bsky.social
Lauren T. Yates
@laurenyates.bsky.social
✍🏾 Poet
🏳️‍🌈 Queerdo
🧠 AuDHDer
🦣 Millennial Fossil
📍Philly
Participating in a poetry slam wasn’t on my 2025 bingo card but here we are!
February 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I’m watching Paris Is Burning and someone outside my house is blasting Got to Be Real.
February 15, 2025 at 1:21 AM
My neighborhood pizza shop is under new MGMT. I asked for fried onions on my cheesesteak and got red onions. RED. ONIONS.
February 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I shouldn’t be crying over a man who listens to Creed.
February 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
MUSTARDDDDDDDD
February 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Performing a Grammy Award-winning diss track at the Super Bowl Half Time Show is such a flex.
February 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Reposted by Lauren T. Yates
i think my favorite kind of music is lyrics depressing af but with a beat that makes me wanna throw some ass
February 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Who else has someone they’ve matched with on multiple apps over the years yet have never been on a date with that person?
February 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The urge to let out a primal scream while in pigeon pose.
February 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This is why my bio reads “Millennial Fossil.”
Can we rewind time to the boy band era? I felt like times were simpler when One Direction was still together.
February 8, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Reposted by Lauren T. Yates
I never understood the musicians playing music while the Titanic sank.

Now I do.
February 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Currently in the chicken nuggets and Paramore stage of post-dystopian regression.
February 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I say my primary special interest is pop culture, but it’s actually etymology.
February 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
My first and last name haven’t been available to me as a social media handle since 2006.
February 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Reposted by Lauren T. Yates
Women and non-binary poets for a first or second collection 🫶😘
January 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM