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phoenix, az, with the cult
Joined March 2024
hey!! our inaugural issue is out NOW. we’re so so honored to be publishing these people and this issue 🖤🖤 link: calameo.com/read/0078793192c…
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You have reached your American dream. Today is the day you go to work for the war machine. I wrote about the politics of striving! Read here: open.substack.com/pub/p0cket…
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some excerpts from this piece, which was sparked in part by the 'ethics of working at lockheed martin' discourse that made the rounds on this app a while ago (say wallahi rn)
i wrote about identity politics and what it means to be an asian-american striver in an era where success and status is tied to techno-facism. "The American Dream In The War Machine" is up on my substack! p0cketwatch3s.substack.com/p…
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today is one of the happiest days of my life because i get to say something i’ve dreamt of since i was a little girl: I WROTE A BOOK!!! my poetry collection, WINDOW PERSON, is available for pre-order now. ❤️🪟 sybiljournal.com/store-1/win…
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It's finally here, and it's full of work from some incredible writers. It's so lovely to look at too! Do go check it out, I've got two poems in here and they're eager to be read. 📚 📖 👓
hey!! our inaugural issue is out NOW. we’re so so honored to be publishing these people and this issue 🖤🖤 link: calameo.com/read/0078793192c…
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here is one of my poems in this! it’s about loser musicians
hey!! our inaugural issue is out NOW. we’re so so honored to be publishing these people and this issue 🖤🖤 link: calameo.com/read/0078793192c…
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Thanks to @bustalklit for including my micro CNF about High School Debate in your inaugural issue. Exciting to have a space for my little slice of nostalgia. calameo.com/read/0078793192c…
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& here’s another it’s about everything being For the Narrative thank you to @cambrownwrites & @academic_core for having me! 🖤
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Thought this was a good one to start the year on! My poem ‘HARD LAUNCH’ was included as part of a teaser in the lead-up to the… hard launch… of the first issue of @bustalklit 💛 Full poem below & link to the website with work from two other writers, including @megannn_lynne 😍
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“we are perpetual performers giving Sabbaths up for Lent for the grace of strangers’ slapping hands” We're Charlie Judd's debut publication, and we couldn't be prouder. Read Platonic Allegory (2) now: bustalklit.wixsite.com/home/…
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Self-Portrait in Semi-Starvation Neurosis II ❤️❤️
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“Skinny is a bootstrap sort-of religion: you die for your own sins.” “Self-Portrait in Semi-Starvation Neurosis I” by Megan Williams (@megannn_lynne) blows us away. Read this haunting piece on the BUS TALK website here: bustalklit.wixsite.com/home/…
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SUPRISE! we're stoked to be dropping a small selection of pieces we love from bus talk issue 1 before we roll out the official issue (coming soon). keep an eye on the website today! 👁️
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works will be from a pair of writers we're obsessed with: @megannn_lynne @devonwebbnz and charlie judd, who doesn't have a twitter ❤️
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drop date is likely to be december-ish! your EICs are sooo on theme of the mag (stressed highschoolers with trainwreck personal lives). thanks for your patience, guys. 🫂🫂
i promise we didn't steal your poems and run! (or- drive off, for bus talk). your EICs are hard at work creating issue 1, which has a lotta special graphics going on ;) but we're also swamped with college applications and the start of tournament season, so please be patient!
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we have concepts of a plan... (kidding. i do have a fair amount of poems done. our graphics are definitely not cut-and-dry text on background, because i'm a perfectionist artist, so the visuals are also taking me some time).
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the sexual tension between debate kids (ld) and the card they can recite by memory (winter and leighton 99)
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i promise we didn't steal your poems and run! (or- drive off, for bus talk). your EICs are hard at work creating issue 1, which has a lotta special graphics going on ;) but we're also swamped with college applications and the start of tournament season, so please be patient!
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"WAIT. tell me again about SOKO NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION baby tell me the world’s ending when we’re stuck in highschool i want to annotate books in the margins of what it means to love" —arushi (aera) rege beestungmag.com/issue20/one-…
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submissions are now CLOSED! thank you everyone for the honor of reading through your work. we're so excited to roll out issue one soon. -🚎🗣️
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