Liza W (she/they)
@lizawemakor.bsky.social
Writer | Clarion West ‘23 | English Ph.D. candidate @ UC Riverside | ‘Loving Safoa’ sapphic vampire novella available @ Neon Hemlock Press
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writing updates, media analyses, notes and scraps
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I will never accept indirectness as a communication norm, because it’s dysfunctional 🤷🏾♀️
Sometimes a sensitive topic may need to be communicated more gently, but expecting someone, especially someone you don’t know well, to intuit something without communicating it directly is deranged.
Sometimes a sensitive topic may need to be communicated more gently, but expecting someone, especially someone you don’t know well, to intuit something without communicating it directly is deranged.
December 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I will never accept indirectness as a communication norm, because it’s dysfunctional 🤷🏾♀️
Sometimes a sensitive topic may need to be communicated more gently, but expecting someone, especially someone you don’t know well, to intuit something without communicating it directly is deranged.
Sometimes a sensitive topic may need to be communicated more gently, but expecting someone, especially someone you don’t know well, to intuit something without communicating it directly is deranged.
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December 7, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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The book community is working together to fund an African small press to translate two novels. #BookSky
We need to close this. And we're in reach! Very grateful for your help.
We can do this!
Still needed: $740 (USD)
Last donation/purchase: 9:27p EST / 04:27 SAST ($20)
We need to close this. And we're in reach! Very grateful for your help.
We can do this!
Still needed: $740 (USD)
Last donation/purchase: 9:27p EST / 04:27 SAST ($20)
Support African Translation Project
African Translation Project / We're overdue - let's rally this. / please see - please share / After nine months - let's complete funding for the translation of Zvinobvinza to: The Crocodile Doesn't Hu...
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December 3, 2025 at 2:34 AM
The book community is working together to fund an African small press to translate two novels. #BookSky
We need to close this. And we're in reach! Very grateful for your help.
We can do this!
Still needed: $740 (USD)
Last donation/purchase: 9:27p EST / 04:27 SAST ($20)
We need to close this. And we're in reach! Very grateful for your help.
We can do this!
Still needed: $740 (USD)
Last donation/purchase: 9:27p EST / 04:27 SAST ($20)
Lonely at the top doesn’t mean people shouldn’t be confident or ambitious in ultimately harmless ways, it means a pedestal cannot hold many people. Thankfully pedestals are not the only structures that can be built.
December 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Lonely at the top doesn’t mean people shouldn’t be confident or ambitious in ultimately harmless ways, it means a pedestal cannot hold many people. Thankfully pedestals are not the only structures that can be built.
Part of what I’ve perceived in the broader fiction landscape is an overwhelming lack of joy. Maybe joy in the branding, but not joy in the words, sentences and ideas. And too many people who don’t see how beautiful an essay can be.
November 25, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Part of what I’ve perceived in the broader fiction landscape is an overwhelming lack of joy. Maybe joy in the branding, but not joy in the words, sentences and ideas. And too many people who don’t see how beautiful an essay can be.
finding some solace in feminist spec fic from decades past
November 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM
finding some solace in feminist spec fic from decades past
Some of the rancid things people say & do in the name of ‘being a team player’ have had a major impact on my worldview. I think political theory is incomplete without emotional theory. We need different social structures for sure, but we need to think about the formation of cruelty, too.
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Some of the rancid things people say & do in the name of ‘being a team player’ have had a major impact on my worldview. I think political theory is incomplete without emotional theory. We need different social structures for sure, but we need to think about the formation of cruelty, too.
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I'm going to get real about writing for a minute. I'm not looking for advice. I understand the realities of publishing and that there's no guaranteed route to success as a writer.
I do not need to hear any of that.
And I really don't need to hear one more person tell me to just write for myself.
I do not need to hear any of that.
And I really don't need to hear one more person tell me to just write for myself.
November 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I'm going to get real about writing for a minute. I'm not looking for advice. I understand the realities of publishing and that there's no guaranteed route to success as a writer.
I do not need to hear any of that.
And I really don't need to hear one more person tell me to just write for myself.
I do not need to hear any of that.
And I really don't need to hear one more person tell me to just write for myself.
Sometimes people begin thinking too abstractly, and so I must remind them that I am a person.
November 22, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Sometimes people begin thinking too abstractly, and so I must remind them that I am a person.
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Socialism is anyone they don’t like doing anything that they’re not a fan of
November 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Socialism is anyone they don’t like doing anything that they’re not a fan of
Everyone should be thinking critically about their control issues tbh, and how they might be attached to the idea that people shouldn’t be able to leave them or find alternatives even if their needs are very unmet. These control issues are systemic.
November 20, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Everyone should be thinking critically about their control issues tbh, and how they might be attached to the idea that people shouldn’t be able to leave them or find alternatives even if their needs are very unmet. These control issues are systemic.
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Manipulative people by design or strategy
Like to convince you that having an appropriate response to awful treatment is “not smart” / “unhealed”
as a method of control.
People who voted for someone who expressed they thought you were subhuman
Don’t actually deserve unlimited grace
Like to convince you that having an appropriate response to awful treatment is “not smart” / “unhealed”
as a method of control.
People who voted for someone who expressed they thought you were subhuman
Don’t actually deserve unlimited grace
November 16, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Manipulative people by design or strategy
Like to convince you that having an appropriate response to awful treatment is “not smart” / “unhealed”
as a method of control.
People who voted for someone who expressed they thought you were subhuman
Don’t actually deserve unlimited grace
Like to convince you that having an appropriate response to awful treatment is “not smart” / “unhealed”
as a method of control.
People who voted for someone who expressed they thought you were subhuman
Don’t actually deserve unlimited grace
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It’s funny that even now, with everything we know, there’s still a retreat towards treating racism as somehow uniquely unbelievable.
November 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
It’s funny that even now, with everything we know, there’s still a retreat towards treating racism as somehow uniquely unbelievable.
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If you have a transactional relationship to other people's work, it can seep into your work too.
People who outsource their writing, even daily mundane communication, are also outsourcing their thinking.
People who outsource their writing, even daily mundane communication, are also outsourcing their thinking.
November 9, 2025 at 10:19 PM
If you have a transactional relationship to other people's work, it can seep into your work too.
People who outsource their writing, even daily mundane communication, are also outsourcing their thinking.
People who outsource their writing, even daily mundane communication, are also outsourcing their thinking.
Worded another way, a hyper-individualistic culture is antisocial. A hyper-repressive culture is antisocial. It is not only individuals who are capable of being antisocial. A group of people, even a large group of people, can be antisocial, together.
November 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Worded another way, a hyper-individualistic culture is antisocial. A hyper-repressive culture is antisocial. It is not only individuals who are capable of being antisocial. A group of people, even a large group of people, can be antisocial, together.
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Many are weaponizing methodological individualism. It removes the social relations from the equation, thereby circumventing the social sciences.
“Social” requires at least two conspecifics, though, and MI takes the contrarian stance. Framing around the free agent, or an anti-social stance.
“Social” requires at least two conspecifics, though, and MI takes the contrarian stance. Framing around the free agent, or an anti-social stance.
November 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Many are weaponizing methodological individualism. It removes the social relations from the equation, thereby circumventing the social sciences.
“Social” requires at least two conspecifics, though, and MI takes the contrarian stance. Framing around the free agent, or an anti-social stance.
“Social” requires at least two conspecifics, though, and MI takes the contrarian stance. Framing around the free agent, or an anti-social stance.
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i got my first ever story published in a literary magazine and think it would be cool if people wanted to read it!
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November 1, 2025 at 2:23 AM
i got my first ever story published in a literary magazine and think it would be cool if people wanted to read it!
bsky.app/profile/j-al...
bsky.app/profile/j-al...
My heart’s the same, but my aim has changed
October 31, 2025 at 8:59 AM
My heart’s the same, but my aim has changed
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have you ever felt like public health is an overreach? do me a favor and look up tertiary syphilis or, alternately, the concept of "shitting yourself to death", which used to be something that happened with medium regularity
October 28, 2025 at 10:57 PM
have you ever felt like public health is an overreach? do me a favor and look up tertiary syphilis or, alternately, the concept of "shitting yourself to death", which used to be something that happened with medium regularity
I like to incorporate elements of black party culture into my fiction, and there’s only so much explaining I’m willing to do about that. I enjoy fic outside of my immediate cultural context without authors needing to plead their case, and it seems fair to expect the same openness of mind in return.
October 25, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I like to incorporate elements of black party culture into my fiction, and there’s only so much explaining I’m willing to do about that. I enjoy fic outside of my immediate cultural context without authors needing to plead their case, and it seems fair to expect the same openness of mind in return.
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they know grievance is a great motivator
I don't honestly know what maga has to be angry about. They're getting everything they wanted and more.
October 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
they know grievance is a great motivator
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D’Angelo has spoken against his sex icon image. He was pushed into that by the label and hated when he was on tour and ladies were treating him like a stripper. I hope in his passing we can celebrate his incredible musicality and dedication to the craft. 🌚
October 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
D’Angelo has spoken against his sex icon image. He was pushed into that by the label and hated when he was on tour and ladies were treating him like a stripper. I hope in his passing we can celebrate his incredible musicality and dedication to the craft. 🌚
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Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
I want social structures that make sense, and last. Which means I want social structures that don’t require hazing and ring kissing and conditioning and repression to function, which is what most of this world’s social infrastructure requires.
October 13, 2025 at 4:26 AM
I want social structures that make sense, and last. Which means I want social structures that don’t require hazing and ring kissing and conditioning and repression to function, which is what most of this world’s social infrastructure requires.
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My goodness, Baldwin could had written this last week.
October 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
My goodness, Baldwin could had written this last week.