Saturday thread of stuff I've published so far this year! For your reading pleasure (or displeasure if you do not like it):
First up: a creepy story in @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social about how you can't go home again
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The cited quote and information written in black against a white background. At the top is the Rumpus logo within a blue circle, flanked to the left by circles of varying size. To the right of this is the national poetry month logo.
"No word, no bond. Row on, / drawn onward, / deified. / Pull up if I pull up."
From "“DRAB AS A F OOL, AS A LOOF AS A BARD,” a new poem by @cuckedtodeath.bsky.social for National Poetry Month.
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The video in the article clearly shows sex workers getting put in handcuffs and led away in police cars, yet they still use the grotesque euphemism of "rescue" when this happens.
And many people who now scream about ICE raids accept this as being "normal" when it's anything but.
If you advertise on @tryst.link, a reminder that you can get advertising credits through a donation to the Black Sex Workers Collective via the Tryst donation matching program. The collective does so much on a global scale, and donations help people in emergency situations
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If you advertise on @tryst.link, a reminder that you can get advertising credits through a donation to the Black Sex Workers Collective via the Tryst donation matching program. The collective does so much on a global scale, and donations help people in emergency situations
thebswc.org/donate/
Also, and likely separately, a California attorney to help with a closed title ix case in which witness statements were not logged, various procedural errors etc
I’m looking for help finding an attorney in California familiar with FERPA who could help with a case of the university accidentally leaking my medical records (related to my pregnancy) to another individual
Ron Schatz spoke to curators Joe and Delsa White when visiting their ongoing "Labor & Art" exhibit at the Bost Building in Homestead, Pennsylvania. Learn more about it at LaborOnline.
lawcha.org/2025/11/04/l...
I honestly don't want to have any conversation that doesn't start from accepting that hex work is morally neutral & that hex workers deserve to live free from incarceration and policing.
Let's also take a minute to acknowledge that we can't even talk about it in our most-used public spaces (here)
I appreciate “morally neutral!” I get an ick seeing pleas for our humanity hinging on the idea that we are all sweet angels, even though I get it and it’s obviously in response to a violent ideology. I’m not goody goody just because I’m precarious, and we don’t need to be because everything you said
Someone @ me when this place becomes a platform for sickos and cyberbullying ideological enemies and not just vote blue / “# poetry community” posting
“sex workers are smart sex workers are kind sex workers are talented sex workers aren’t all mentally ill” starting my own dumb whore brigade to fight for our rights too
I live here
who are some younger sex worker poets writing (at least a little bit) in relation to their labor? Every now and then I come across zoomers I haven’t heard of with publishers I haven’t heard of and I want to do pay more attention to what they’re building
You and me both, there may be something in the air!
Hudson Valley next week!
Omg I didn’t know this—signing up when I’m back at my laptop !
periodic reminder that I have a patreon called Working Notebook: poetry drafts, out of print chapbooks, and photography.
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“Young activist” is a crazy was to say Nazi
They can't even tell it like it is and this is the party that is supposed to protect us?!!! The party we're supposed to vote for and support?!
"It is difficult to know what to make of this relentless positivity. Making money is obviously important and can be liberating, but it's hard not to feel sceptical about how empowering the work really is, and doubtful of the wisdom of embarking on it as a career."
Throughout the article she speaks to creator after creator who tell her that while the work is hard, they like it and it offers them opportunities and revenue that other work doesn't.
Her conclusion? This career is a bad idea.
giving myself a screen time limit on google docs so I stop wasting hours obsessing over line breaks
Obviously there are so many exceptions to every rule, but the fact that they’re so refreshingly rare to come across in the works of writers my age—
smolbeanery really has destroyed a generation of writers
Natalie Diaz on Mary Oliver. Lots of beauty in the way Diaz looks at place and personhood in these poems. lithub.com/natalie-diaz...
it’s giving