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She/Her. Poet. Metaphysically living a whole life in Melbourne. Probably hungry. MFA @ButlerUniversity.

Indianapolis, IN
Joined November 2010
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i hate writing that is more about the writer’s capacity for cleverness and erudition than about a reader’s capacity for compassion and transformation
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Donald Trump was found guilty of 34 charges but won't face any punishment — and will be back in the White House this month. 800 prisoners are now helping to battle Los Angeles fires, making as little as $5.80 per day. A tale of two justice systems.
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this tweet is my roman empire
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i love browsing—a bookstore, a library, a gallery, etc. no aim but slow wandering, meandering, lingering. delighting! in 2025: let me scroll less and browse more
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Life is all about having coffee with your friends for five hours actually
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My friend sent me a message that said you’ve been strong all year so don’t finish strong, finish rested. Sharing because I’m sure I’m not the only one who needed to hear this.
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Oh you want me to work....in December? When there's sugar plum fairies dancing and chestnuts roasting on an open fire. Get real.
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‘Desire, like the dishes’ F. Douglas Brown’s make out sonnet
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— James Baldwin.
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Paulo Freire was preaching when he said teaching cannot be neutral it either dismantles systemic inequities or perpetuates them
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If you listen to anyone this morning, let it be Gideon Levy. A phenomenal Israeli journalist who has been speaking truth to power for decades. Share his words. Far and Wide.
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It’s weird that people read that Chappell Roan quote about the election and take it to mean that she’s an undecided centrist and not that every option available to her is too far right of where she stands as a woman and as an artist.
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If being a person is too much work, it's okay to take a break and be a nameless thing that haunts the shadows, a creature on the fringes of perception whose passage is only marked by cheese gone missing from the fridge
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"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them." Author, Black Panther, and Black Liberation Army revolutionary Assata Shakur was born on this day in 1947.
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happy pride month to her
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Assata Shakur: "Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them."
and let this be a reminder to all of us that liberation will not come from the courts of our colonizers, but from the strength and steadfastness of our resistance.
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There is no good way to perceive this nightmare.
Never seen so many people describing videos instead of sharing them
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adding mary shelley's "life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it."
when dostoevsky wrote "i exist, in thousands of agonies, i exist" and andrea gibson "i suppose i love this life, in spite of my clenched fist."
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the palestinian genocide being the most well-documented genocide in history yet people still have the nerve to deny it.
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