Posts by Susan Rukeyser
ππ₯ I read my LGBTQ+ ABC, βL is for Late to the Party, but I Have Some Notes,β from my new collection, BAD WORDS: youtu.be/_1lJnIYlwms?...
ππ₯ The Next (New) Chapter: Animals, Words, and Women Turn the Page open.substack.com/pub/susanruk...
πππ΅Donβt miss the Desert Split Open Revival this Sunday 3/22, 1 PM in Twentynine Palms, CA, as part of the Hi-Desert Lo-Fi Lit Fest! We have such good, powerful work to share with you: poetry, prose, fiction & truth. Letβs be together and really listen. π©·π€π©΅π€π€β€οΈπ§‘πππ©΅ππ circeconsulting.net/hdlf/
ππ₯ βThis feels like a time to broaden your perspective and listen to others, really listen, noticing where you feel challenged and where you connect. It feels like a time to show up as you are.β New words on whatβs next, past, & soon: open.substack.com/pub/susanruk...
βI still cling to the belief, his belief, that goodness and justice will prevail.β π€ Today wouldβve been my fatherβs birthday. He was a journalist, the real kind, and he would be horrified. open.substack.com/pub/susanruk...
Please do better.
You can leave me out of this biphobia
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For anyone worried that they will never move on from their ex, I offer this: I just remembered that I used to get a period every month. For decades! Completely slipped my mind. Yes, you can even forget a relationship that annoys the shit out of you, 3 weeks of every 4. β
ππ₯ βI close this year, this chapter, and open a new one, fresh and inviting as a thick, blank notebook and my favorite purple ballpoint. I wish you the same, renewed possibility, in whatever form you need.β
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π©΅β€οΈπ€ Open Mic this Friday night at the Underdog Bookstore in Monrovia, CA
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ππ₯ More from BAD WORDS: Feminist, Queer & otherwise Radical. Now available!
Here is βFor Sale: Black & Blue Babydoll (Used).β It first appeared in my chapbook, Swap/Meet (Space Cowboy Books, 2018). This recording is from 2020, when we were all locked down. π€ youtu.be/3foVPK2bIgA?...
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ππ₯ From my new collection of short, hybrid prose inspired by the Desert Split Open Mic, BAD WORDS: Feminist, Queer, and otherwise Radical: youtube.com/shorts/juUpx...
I need you to understand how excited I am for this upcoming book event at Viva Rescue, a queer women run animal sanctuary in Menifee, California. After I introduce my novel, The Worst Kind of Girl, we will have a community open mic, followed by a tour of the sanctuary. ππ΄ vivaglobalrescue.org/events
You knew I had to weigh in on this nastiness. This brief post includes an excerpt from my novel The Worst Kind of Girl, a passage all too relevant to this conversation.
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Epic rain in southern California this weekend. Iβll see you in Menifee, CA, on Sunday December 14.
βI want us to get really comfortable with the sound of our voices, amplified, insistent, saying what we mean, how we feel, and what our experiences have been β consciously exercising our right to free speech, as if it could be taken away, because it could.β open.substack.com/pub/susanruk...
WIMMENβS COMIX panel at the 29 Palms Book Festival, Friday Nov 7 at 3:30, Twentynine Palms, CA
Red Light Lit performance at the Out There Bar, 29 Palms Book Festival, Saturday Nov 8, 8 PM, Twentynine Palms, CA
Will I see you this weekend? ππ€