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The only thing getting to the end of this article draft is closing all my tabs

Michelle Pfeiffer is so so so good in Margo’s Got Money Troubles

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My favorite coffee was $7 off?!!? So I got two bags for $20!

YAYYYYY! Congrats!!❤️ Get margs!

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I got $.20 off at the gas station!

This essay really captures the sensorium of cruising and how the woods are a queer space of wildness—“remote spaces of the unknown wilderness in response to the known violences of the colonial present and the criminal disorder of things,” to quote Ronak Kapadia.

And with this essay, my CRUISING mini-collection is complete

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Spring is in the details 📸

But fuck ass administration refuse to listen. It’s infuriating

I laundered money! I threw my jeans in the wash with my wallet still in the back pocket

Wrote a bunch, reread it, hated it, deleted it*.

*put it in a separate word doc called “Things I Deleted” just in case it actually was good and useful

You’re making me blush

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Some guy just came up to me on the street and said, “Big Money, baby!” and walked away. Felt like a blessing

This is so scary. So many colleges face this. What a loss to those students, professors, and staff.

I cannot fathom the kind of money a place like Johns Hopkins or Columbia just roll around in. A fraction of that would save a college like mine. SLACs are so valuable and yet we’re the first cuts

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Asha Bhosle was a powerhouse. She shaped my love for Bollywood and my understanding of what genre means. I was lucky enough to be in the front row of her concert back in 2015, when she was 81. She had the entire Fox Theater in ATL on their feet dancing and swaying. She was magnificent.

Edge. Bear your ultimate freedom. (CRUISING IV.)

Oh my god, my friend just asked me what Grey Gardens is. I’ve been prepping for this for like 10 years

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I did this once and not a single student read. AND I was being observed.

I asked students what they thought of the reading and they were like “we didn’t read.” I had to do a writing assignment instead, off the cuff. It was fine!

But then: as I was teaching, the projector screen fell to the floor.

This kind of political analysis still myopically centers America. What about the dead in Iran, Lebanon, and Palestine? What about the displaced people? What about the racial violence domestically bc of the imperial behavior abroad?

Exceptionalism causes such tunnel vision. But that’s the point…

lol my college paused faculty funding for the rest of the AY

lol i have to pay $648.18 for poetry permissions for my book

I just want it to be green and warm and not rainy so I can shoot my first big narrative collection

Thinking about summer 📸 #photography

Anyone in Congress who is not working frantically to stop this will share the responsibility for it.

I hate email so much oh my god