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Tehran-born LA-raised NYC-based author 5th 📖: TEHRANGELES anticipated/best: TIME, Vogue, Seattle Times, W, LitHub, Nylon, Harper’s Bazaar, Electric Lit, & more

New York, NY

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@PKhakpour

porochista khakpour she/her پوروچیستا خاکپور

1 year

Thank you to the attorneys at @AuthorsGuild who went through hundreds of files & saw the truth about the stalking & harassment I dealt with for years. It came from one person but then others believed her lies. Luckily this did not kill me but it almost did many times.

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3 years

Gucci why are we doing this

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Seoul with over 9 million people (basically close to NYC at over 8 million), also extremely dense & with a major subway system, had 2 COVID19 deaths. Two. We are at over 19K dead in NYC.

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4 years

One thing I know about white people is some of them secretly have horses. Secret horses are a thing, I swear. Say things like “wow, I wonder what it would be like to own a real pony, would you feed it carrots and alfalfa” and watch them get very nervous.

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I think about this tweet all the time

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do you guys remember this trash candy? was there a single person who liked these? show yourselves

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4 years

@MisterLindgren “different cultures have different ways?” um i have covered music since the 90s & i have never seen songwriters act the way you guys do. I don’t think the fans are so off. Esp as white people collaborating with artists of color don’t you think your grievances seem misguided?

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7 years

Never forget.

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7 years

Okay I got to tell this story now:

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4 years

@Grimezsz honestly Influenza Musk was better

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@jrhennessy Where do they speak with this cadence

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@Grimezsz oh dear we were all praying this was a joke

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2 years

four seconds of txt’s yeonjun lipsyncing “im a motherfucking starboy” was enough to break my brain this morning i guess

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4 years

i was today years old when i found out vanilla comes from orchids

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@MisterLindgren please do not act like these kids don’t understand songwriting. I am old af and i get it. I think using your platform to boost the artists you are lucky enough to work FOR is the look not this other nonsense

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4 years

I wrote a little essay for The Guardian on how I went from a big HRC supporter to a Bernie superfan!

In 2016 I was all in for Hillary but now I'm feeling the Bern | Porochista Khakpour

Maybe I picked Clinton because I wanted a woman to be president. I still do. But Sanders is a leader we can believe in

www.theguardian.com

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I just responded to an email from 2017. “It’s been a pretty crazy three years, so sorry for the delay.”

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4 years

kinda obsessed with how instagram lesbian influencers now look like sweet valley high villain covergirls

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I posted this Lucille Clifton gem last year & i think we need it again.

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6 years

So here it is: it is going to be called OFFBEAT, a quarterly online zine. It will be devoted to writers writing "off their beat." So, if you, like me, are constantly being asked to write about identity, we want to publish whatever else you wish people would let you write about.

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4 years

If you aren’t furious at America, richest country on earth, then you are not paying attention. We had all the resources in the world, all the extra warnings & everything.

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8 years

Bernie Sanders & Elizabeth Warren can actually make changes in a country run by Clinton--no chance under Trump. Wake the fuck up.

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I have just started getting into Ateez in my kpop journey & I truly think San is a top 10 performer of all time. Like this is so punk

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Literally every South Asian & Middle Eastern man dates this exact girl most their life

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Our country chose a massacre. Our country believes we are expendable.

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Please love Iranians. It has never been easy to be us here. I don’t know what else to say. My heart is constantly broken for my homeland.

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3 years

hard no

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Some of you all stan Natalie Portman so hard but in 2012 we were at a mutual friend’s wedding & I had just become disabled—it was my first event in ages & I was struggling. At one point I could barely stand & no one was helping me & I looked over & Natalie & her bf were pointing.

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Someone (i now blocked) just got mad at me for posting about frivolous things like lipstick! Bitch I am in Queens, aka corona hell, can you give me a fucking break here, you bored cop

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this energy for our haters 2020 💅🏽

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@MisterLindgren (sorry ARMY i try not to get involved, i know some of you find my annoying etc, but i just hate how you guys get framed as ignorant & young when you make good point. also i LOVE “Sweet Night” & Taehyung is a genius!)

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Demi Lovato is just SO good.

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wow this shit has backfired, a lot of you love this garbage

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It is a crazy violent chaotic bop #bts #btsarmy

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It’s been a rough year i get it

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755 dollars

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@billboard gotta say I am with those complaining about the BTS omission here. I’ve listened to nearly all these albums & have been a music journalist since the Nineties. None of these come close to BTS’s artistry. Also, their album did amazingly worldwide—ignoring this seems problematic.

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It occurred to me again recently that people don’t know how little we make. My last NYTBR review paid 300 dollars. I had a cover piece in 2014 that paid 600. I read the books i review carefully & often read other works by that same author to understand their whole trajectory.

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4 years

This idea of Warren as some kind of poor ignored underdog is typical white lady delusion. Aside from Sanders, she is probably the most famous American senator of all time. She is ridiculously beloved & gets away with the craziest shit, like pretending to be Native American!

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Every year on January 1 post this Lydia Davis piece.

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3 years

HBD capricorn queen Jisoo 💖

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@PublishersWkly @amNewYork Good job you managed to make diversity look racist, a real talent of white America!

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so look, publishing, here is how it goes: if you starve a bunch of talented writers of color—try to tuck them away all indie & obscure—but then dump the millions you supposedly do not have (lol) on white writers who are basically ripping off their lives, a problem you will have!

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@overdramatique i thought i did once and somewhere around the three month point he told me “i love dating you immigrant poc women as you have suffered so much & really understand life” 💀

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I want to say something very gently: as someone who has weighed both 108 pounds and 180 pounds I can tell you skinnyshaming and fatshaming are not “the same.”

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okay “Black Swan” was the song & choreo that got me obsessed with BTS & my god this is just so stunning

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@juliashiplett Omg it is terrifying how much you look like her here

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4 years

They might say, “well, I have heard some horses like apples but really one should stick to their horse food” and quickly look away but you know. They might also be sore from riding in the night but they will tell you it’s from a machine at the gym.

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I am sorry, but a young Black queer woman makes a thread here about moving to Bali after the stresses of this past year in America & you all just jump on her & start grilling her about gentrification & colonization? lord. Some of you need less time online.

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there is a whole genre of white woman OBSESSED with the existence of any WOC they can think of as high-achieving. they spend their days like our truest fans, reading everything we’ve written, stalking our every friend & family, trying to piece together just how we exist.

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In Iran, we protest. In Hong Kong, we protest. In the US, we protest. If you are upset about the violent outcomes of protests then be upset about the violence that makes them necessary. Protests are a reaction.

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I hate to tell you all but if that video of the old man bleeding bothered you there are MANY more like it that are not in rotation here, from just this week, all by the police. This should be a state of emergency—the police have gone completely rogue in a whole new way.

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@TakesSoggy @sarahschauer This right here is the key. I usually just look at my phone & mutter “wow, wild” at points

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the cop shake shack story reminds me of this blonde girl in elementary school who threatened to beat me up every week & eventually when caught told the teacher she felt i put a curse on her that made her threaten to beat me up weekly

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Please don’t mistake the silence of some women as consent for anything. Some of us are utterly overwhelmed by trauma. I can’t begin to go down some of those roads. So much of my life has been defined by cishet men abusing me in large & small ways. I just can’t right now.

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@Alyssa_Milano Honey, you are being toxic as fuck by gaslighting millions of Americans who want a chance to stay alive. Your boy Biden is a rambling fool & girl-sniffing rapist. He is an embarrassment & a guaranteed victory for Trump. Wish rich undereducated celebs could stay in their lane!

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Some of you all getting mad that the Central Park Karen’s info is out there really need to use your brain. She committed a crime—prob 2, if you count animal abuse. And yet many of you all were upset about Ahmaud Arberry. The birding dude could have easily been killed by the NYPD.

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I don’t know whether to laugh or cry

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I must admit i do find it very funny that the right thinks Garrison Keillor, Matt Lauer & Charlie Rose were our great heroes.

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Trying to go to sleep but can’t get these numbers out of my mind.

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the wrappers were very pretty though! just to be clear i meant no disrespect to grandmas lmao sorry muting this now ❤️🍓❤️🍓❤️🍓

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I mean I am fine now, but please stop worshipping celebs. They are the most protected people in the world. They are treated so delicately & yet they are so entitled.

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MY ABDOMINAL CT CAME OUT CLEAN! My liver & kidneys are okay!!!!!!!!!

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@Voydage the stans are the disease? the industry is the prob? meanwhile your diss track isolates actual kpop artists? Which is it, bro? you seem confused. also this wasn’t great art, the whole thing is trash—you made it so you could have the drama of triggering yourself & playing victim

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You guys, it’s really okay to not be focused on whatever your normal life is right now. America is in the midst of a major crisis—two actually. Our major cities are once again confronting generations of racist violence, all in the midst of a pandemic. It’s a lot.

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Lucille Clifton.

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The news is out, it seems! I’m excited to announce you won’t be getting rid of me anytime soon! I got a two book deal at Knopf ❤️

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Free idea for some publication: Please find Isabella & update us on who she is today. She is a teen now, I think, & I hope thriving 🖤

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Wow, the firing of Reza Aslan by CNN is extraordinarily pathetic. "Piece of shit" is the most polite way I could put Trump.

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Hey @nytimes this lede sucks. The talking down to activists & making it about their perception: NO. There is no gray area here for debate.

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In some ways it’s heartening to see all these people tweet they’ll never vote Republican again. But in other ways it’s not: just proves in America money is your only god. No amount of racism, xenophobia, sexism, homophobia, even pedophilia, could flip you but $

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Also George Michael didn't have answers. He let you watch him mid-struggle, trying to figure things out. That I deeply related to, still do.

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I legitimately dread whatever comes after a poet says mid-poem “Listen: “

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@cmclymer Wow Georgia wants to win the messiest bitch contest it seems

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I have adored Itzy since their debut & they are killing it at KCON

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what if i was just like fuck it this is my new author photo

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exhausted by photos of couples...we get it, one time someone wanted to have sex with you & then you successfully trapped them for like a decade & counting, bravo 🌾

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@Voydage and it is 100 percent racist & xenophobic aside from the cruel suicide stuff. and also kpop stans had nothing to do with any of you—your existence had no meaning to them—but somehow you are so obsessed with them 3 of you dipshits made this trash & now you are crying lmao

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I pretended like I did not notice the way you do with celebs but I fell & they KEPT staring & at one point Natalie laughed. It was so blatant. I was so embarrassed, at this fancy Hollywood event, struggling. This is all I think when I see your girl trying so hard to be woke.

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The way Capricorns start & end the year, to think some of you try to mess with us lol

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6 years

We need to talk about guns. And we need to talk about men. Scratch that: men need to talk about men. I am sick of this labor. Tweet from 2015, but it’s been on my mind since the 80s.

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The common denominator to almost all the violence in the world: men. As we all know. Not all men, I know. But.

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@ambernoelle oh my god my first day of work at urban outfitters in 1996 a young woman took a GIANT shit in the dressing room

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@CharoShane oh lol i found it!

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She is an absolute nasty mean girl & the last time I told this story anothet woman told me a story of her being so brutal to her. I cannot tell her story but yeah some of these cutesy goodgirl celebs are the worst.

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4 years

Hollywood by definition is ableist. They present “perfect bodies” and “idea humans” and that’s how the money is made. I don’t think many of these celebs even know what real people are like after a while, their lives are so obscenely curated.

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Hey book publicists, please take your jobs super seriously! I am on a major prize committee & we keep noticing MAJOR books missing! Like books that could have won a lifechanging prize. Now it is too late. This is incredibly scary & I hope editors keep an eye on this.

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@JShahryar @Wolfe321 @nytimes This whole thing is so bizarre. I truly do not get it. Are there parts of the story you all cannot disclose? It just makes zero sense to me. How did they word firing her for that tweet? i have never seen a more innocuous tweet in my life.

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porochista khakpour she/her پوروچیستا خاکپور

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I dream of a day when people speak of Sylvia Plath outside only the context of her death. I’ve read pretty much everything out there that she has written & there is plenty of life & joy too. Why do we only want to buy into her undoing. Well, i know why.

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4 years

excited for when it’s safe to start complaining about Joe Biden 🤗

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2 years

just dyyyyying at these front row Persians, in front of Madonna

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Afghanistan is a beautiful country with plenty of culture. So is Iran. So is Lebanon. So is Yemen. So us Palestine… The way some of you talk. We are not a playground for your violent fantasies. Try to cultivate real empathy w/o constantly centering worst Western perspectives.

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porochista khakpour she/her پوروچیستا خاکپور

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I feel inclined to put this out there: Nicole Cliffe gave me money several times when i was so ill & without a home, way before any real crowdfund or anything. She had never met me but knew the basics of my story & gave me more than Mayor Pete so you should know she is so so kind

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My new book is American Sand. It’s about a cab driver named Mohammed who loves Allah & hates terrorism. His first wife makes her own camel milk, his other wife is a belly dancer. Because of sanctions Baba Ali Joon cannot sent them baklava. To Mecca Inshallah! 🧕🏼🧞‍♂️🐫🕌

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Happy #InternationalWomensDay to ALL women. Trans. Queer. WOC. Incarcerated. Disabled. Chronically ill. All women who still feel invisible.

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3 years

To be American I realize means to be in a constant state of heartbreak for people you have never met, as injustice on such a massive scale is the norm. It never stops, never better. America is the most haunted place in the world & instead of healing it just creates more ghosts.

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yesterday i secured my first permanent apt in far too long & today i got my dogson back!

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@WaywardWinifred Cannot emphasize this enough. Centrist Democrats destroyed it all

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3 years

@jereichwrites Oh wow yeah they are my number 2. I am a huge Jisoo stan!!

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