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Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)

@scarletwitchy.bsky.social

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Beautiful but Sinister Forest Spirit 📍 Philly 🥀 Rosemont MFA 📝🤓💭🦄 🍒 TU LGBT+ Studies/GSWS 💁🏼‍♀️🏳️‍🌈 https://linktr.ee/scarletwitchy

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Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him) @scarletwitchy.bsky.social · Jul 5

I say let it out, too 😤😭

Call for Submissions! Who's the King?: Men, Manhood, and Masc Anthology. Now accepting Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Visual Art for print anthology! A QR code leads to a PDF with more information.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

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Credit: @wendyhiggins.bsky.social 🤩

Note About AI. No Artificial Intelligence was used in the creation of this novel or its cover. Wendy Higgins and most fiction authros were using emdashes various creatively stylized punctuation long before AI was being used to write books. In fact, all of Wendy's works, along with thousands of other authors' works, were downloaded illegally and used to train AI systems without permission or compensation. It is AI that resembles authors' works, not the other way around. Thank you for understanding.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 2d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 5d

I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.

www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?

Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels

Critics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive

www.thetimes.com

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 21d

I read 1984.
And Fahrenheit 451.
And A Brave New World. And The Handmaid‘s Tale.
And The Giver.
And The Road.
And The Lottery.
And The Parable of the Sower.
And The Hunger Games.

I know what I’m seeing.

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Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him) @scarletwitchy.bsky.social · 21d

2nd tiny glass unicorn one of my BFA students has made for me. I don’t mind this becoming a tradition. 🥲

Really leveled things up with these pegasus wings. 🦄🪽

A hand holding the tiny glass figurine of a unicorn pegasus under a purple UV light. Bookshelf kitsch in background.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 21d

Let’s mock them still

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Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him) @scarletwitchy.bsky.social · 24d

poet laureate but it’s all trump acrostics

Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him) @scarletwitchy.bsky.social · 24d

I’m sure they will, now.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 26d

Therapy.
Lifted heavy.
Blocked internet 18 hours a day.
The good coffee beans.
The good creamy grits from that place I like.
Sit on a bench.
Called three friends.
Sauna time booked.
Cuticle care.

(Inspired by @karenho.bsky.social)

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Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him) @scarletwitchy.bsky.social · 26d

This sits on the bookshelf in my office, and it’s by far one of the most popular things students pick up to read, or colleagues pop in to ask to read.

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Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him) @scarletwitchy.bsky.social · Jul 5

Putting together a new project! Masc Anthology. Please share around. 🤙😎 #poetry #writing #cnf #writingcommunity

A call for submissions to the Who's the King?: Men, Manhood, and Masc Anthology.

Who's the king? How does being the king, or the expectation thereof, impact our mental and social well-being? Defining "king" broadly as someone who expresses themselves in a masculine way regardless of gender identity, Who's the King?: Men, Manhood, and Masc Anthology seeks to explore and express the interconnected challenges which now impact our public and private lives.

Now accepting poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art.

Submissions open from July 5th, 2025 to December 1st, 2025.
Email submissions to kingsanthology at gmail dot com.
Email Subject Example: Poetry Submission
Submissions open for print anthology. Works of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art are welcome.
Poetry: Up to 5 pieces.
Prose: Up to 5k words.
Visual Art: Show me what you got.
Formatting: Be reasonable.
Simultaneous submissions are accepted. Please let me know immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.
Previously published work may be considered if author retains the rights, but please include acknowledgements.
No Al-generated work.
I cannot compensate contributors at this stage.
Now accepting Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Visual Art for print anthology.

About the Editor.
Find him at scarletwitchy.bsky.social.

Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him) is a writer-activist with a Philly attitude and a background in LGBT+ studies. He is dedicated to the belief that art shapes ideology and that education is crucial for achieving social justice and social mobility.

Former Managing Editor and Fiction Editor of Rathalla Review, Stephen's poetry and prose have appeared in various literary journals and anthologies, mostly queer ones. He is the author of two multi-genre chapbooks, A Portrait of Brotherhood as Two Boys from Space (2025) and His Boyfriend Materials (2024), both of which are available from Bottlecap Press.

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Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him) @scarletwitchy.bsky.social · 27d

Subs open until Dec 1 #SubmissionCall

Call for submissions!

Who’s the King?: Men, Manhood, and Masc Anthology.

Now accepting poetry, fiction, and visual art for print anthology!

Send submissions to kingsanthology at gmail dot com

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 28d

The evil that men do lives after them

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Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him) @scarletwitchy.bsky.social · 29d

Top text: The Firemen of Philadelphia are Giddy, Expressionless Dancers.

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Bottom text: Stephen Brown is a writer-activist with a Philly attitude and a background in LGBT+ studies. He is the author of two multi-genre chapbooks, A Portrait of Brotherhood as Two Boys from Space (2025) and His Boyfriend Materials (2024), both of which are available from Bottlecap Press. Find him at: scarletwitchy.bsky.social

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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · Aug 24

My job remains designing situations within which it is both desirable and possible to become more human, more capable of thinking and asking questions, more capable of being alive with others, on earth

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · Sep 7

the demand for yassification of authors, a class traditionally allowed to look like freakazoids, is an assault on me personally

Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · Sep 7

I just don’t want “film a video and hope it goes viral” to be a “reasonable” expectation of authors!! I hate being on video! I am too awkward for video!

A screenshot of Mad Men of Don Draper yelling. The subtitle has been edited to read, “that’s why I write books!”

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him) @scarletwitchy.bsky.social · Sep 2

Freshly printed poetry smells so good. 😤😤😤 @metachrosislitmag.bsky.social

A print literary magazine entitled Metachrosis featuring a painting of a girl squatting over a plate with a butter knife and a jar of jam.

A glimpse of the inside of Metachrosis literary magazine, showing the title of a poem “Eulogy for an Old Man Who’s Still Alive” by Stephen Brown.

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Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him) @scarletwitchy.bsky.social · Aug 27

printers absolutely yearn for death’s sweet embrace, yes

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Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him) @scarletwitchy.bsky.social · Aug 26

Her street sweeps align too well with GOP treatment of the housing impaired.

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Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him) @scarletwitchy.bsky.social · Aug 19

a woman is standing in front of an american flag with her arms outstretched and making a funny face .

ALT: a woman is standing in front of an american flag with her arms outstretched and making a funny face .

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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · Aug 16

People posting about how they’ve never seen em dashes used before the rise of ChatGPT are really great at telling folks they’ve never read a book before.

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Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him) @scarletwitchy.bsky.social · Aug 13

I trust orb. 🙏🏼

Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him) @scarletwitchy.bsky.social · Aug 11

In my diva moment of my life, I had a woman removed from WF South Street for bumping me twice with her cart.

two women are talking in a store and one of them is saying big mistake big huge

ALT: two women are talking in a store and one of them is saying big mistake big huge

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