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aspiring poet

morgantown wv
Joined June 2020
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🍂Check out Issue 17: Fall Formal! 🍂 It features poetry, CNF, fiction and visual art that experiments with form, considers the human body and even the shape of urinals. Don't miss it! cheatriverreview.com/issues/…
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Fantastic interview with Reece Murtagh, a rank and file rail worker who is now running against incumbent leadership for the presidency of his union, Machinists District Lodge 19.
A roadway mechanic who voted for Biden now feels the president is turning his back on rail workers. He tells @kaitlancollins why:
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If you're looking to get your start in book publishing, please apply to the @FeministPress paid spring apprenticeship. We're open to remote apprentices. Please share widely! feministpress.org/apprentice…
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We've gotten notice that some of our flyers on campus are being taken down. Want to help us replace them? Here's our black and white version - we're challenging you to print and put up FIVE in your area of campus!
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Following the Supreme Court ruling restricting abortion rights federally & WV passing SB302, we have joined @GradAction in calling for a student strike on October 6th on our campus - WVU Morgantown. We invite you to join us in front of Woodburn at 1pm for a rally.
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And if we don't see you on campus this week, we've got your invite right here:
Springtime is makeover season, and we're following the year's hottest trend: Unionizing. WVHESN is now officially West Virginia Campus Workers -- a union for employees at WVU (and other WV higher ed institutions!)
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A poem I wrote about, among other things, the Baltimore subway, is in Muzzle Mag Issue 30 :-)
🎉🎉 Issue Number 30 is LIVE!! Click the link to read poems by ⁦@ishathepoet⁩ ⁦@4447111S0007⁩ Monica Gomery, Kathryn Hargett-Hsu, Sophia Lou, ⁦@ebxydreambxy⁩ ⁦@JulianThePoet⁩ , Fox Rinne, ⁦@discoletters⁩ ⁦@han_smith2⁩ muzzlemagazine.com/spring-20…
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YOU have the right to organize at WVU. If you want to learn more about us and organizing at WVU, fill out this general interest form. Let's talk! forms.gle/75s3Q1Bm9cWFpmHv7
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Significant steps have been made towards the realization of Body Spritz, a casual movement class years in the making.
The future of Sycamore Review is in peril, and we need you to make a little noise. The Purdue MFA and, with it, the 30-plus year tenure of Sycamore Review are under threat by the University administration. Post about us & share our statement using #Purdue and #SaveSycamore /🧵
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As concerned WVU graduate students we are sharing our letter in support of the proposed faculty senate resolution that the Gee-Reed administration is unfit to lead, and are calling all WVU grad students to join us and sign our petition. forms.gle/Tht3YowqmFTpvoiq5
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#BREAKING workers @TudorsBiscuits in Elkview, West Virginia marched on their boss this afternoon to demand recognition of their union! Management called the police on them, but we will keep fighting until their union is recognized and they get the fair contract they deserve! #1u
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We stand in solidarity with the graduate students who amplified the student, faculty, and staff majorities calling for a vaccine mandate at Gee's creepy state of the university speech today.
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did someone say porpoise institute
Over the last couple weeks I've helped a bit with planning this, and I've met union members across the U.S. who are ready to mobilize for College for All & more. I'm really optimistic for what's to come from this coalition, which is still growing!
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derby name for a plein air painter: necessary easel
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