My book of poetry is now available on Amazon!
Thanks to all for continued support on the publication of this book and special thanks to cover artist Lee Zimmerman (
@zim2918
)!
"It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences."
- Audre Lorde
Happy
#WorldPride
#PrideNYC
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"There is a language, little known,
Lovers claim it as their own.
Its symbols smile upon the land,
Wrought by natureโs wondrous hand...
For Love Divine and sunny hours
In the language of the flowers."
We didnโt need nine,
just one: to find
the truthโ of us,
we bewitched
each other,
transfigured
to the needs
of our hearts,
we learned
a new language
of our own:
that we could be
surreal & still real,
a palate painted by
the pen:
I was your
#ocelot
,
you were my
Salve~Adore
#vss365
Today is my birthday. Iโm a thirty-five-year-old woman now! Here is one of my favorite photosโ this is my happy place. Have a wonderful October 10th!
Two things to celebrate: (1) that our Divine Miss L still LIVES and (2) that tonight she will receive a much-deserved Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement.
#AngelaLansbury
Behold, the cover art for my 2019 book of poetry, Straight Jacket, has arrived. I offer my sincerest gratitude to artist Lee Zimmerman, whose drawing was inspired by the bookโs title. Onto the cover design phase. Thank you,
@zim2918
!
On nuns, tea, felines, witchcraft, sistrrrhood, wicked wordplay, feminist madness, and other ludicrous Sapphic purrsuits worthy of close investigation. Warning: not for the faint of mind.
Calling all WITCHES and WIZARDS, trans and cis, from all just houses: itโs time to stand up *for* trans rights. We cannot let ignorance and hatred cast their shadows over our arts&crafts. Time to cast spells for education!
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
#LGBTQ
#JKRowling
@jk_rowling
Tomorrow is going to be busy! Working registration desk, then chairing two roundtables in a row, from 2:15 - 6, then hightailing it to the
@Springsteen
concert for soul-care.
I lucked out: StubHub righted a sellerโs wrong & I now have a ๐๐๐๐ seat!
#willpower
#edu
#nemla
@TransEthics
Iโm a cis woman and psychiatric survivor. I have friends who are trans women who have been deeply traumatized and dehumanized (as I was). My advice is NEVER call the cops on anyone you care about, cis or trans, unless your own life or someone elseโs life is in extreme danger.
Okay, a photo of me in real time: a moment during my work day today that started at 7:30 AM, when I left the house, and won't end until around midnight tonight, if I can muster the energy to do two more hours of grading after doing the dishes.
#phdlife
#teacher
#willpower
#edu
Today, I received good news-- I have been offered a fellowship with an organization called Herstory that partners with Stony Brook University. It is called the Herstory Coalition for Community Writing Graduate Fellowship: Teaching for Justice and Peace. It is truly an honor!
No coward soul is mine,
No trembler in the worldโs storm-troubled sphere:
I see Heavenโs glories shine,
And faith shines equal, arming me from Fear
- Emily Dickinson
#Soul
#travel
#poetry
#poem
Dear Friends,
#Writers
, & MadFolk,
I'm launching a small campaign to support my
#book
of
#poetry
, Straight Jacket. It will be published this year by Finishing Line Press, but our print-run will depend on pre-sales. Please help!
Thank you,
Your Hexmistress
Pt 2
@justin_garson
, re: having been blocked by
@JonathanShedler
-- the blocking proves my point: as long as psychiatrists function out of fear of and hatred for the subject (under their power), psychiatric violence against the marginalized will continue.
#Disability
#Psychiatry
Well,
@justin_garson
, I have been blocked by
@JonathanShedler
for expressing a legitimate opinion about the field of psychiatry, one which some of the great philosophers, clinicians, and psychiatrists (Szasz) have shared and expressed.
@ewarren
Thank you, Elizabeth Warren! My daughters love their lesbian mothers and I look forward to telling them that you care about our safety and our rights, and that you are going to fight for the futures of non-traditional families.
A bit of good news from my corner of the world: I will be with my girls in a couple days (YEAH!!!) and an article I wrote was published today in the peer-reviewed journal HUMANITIES.
#WillPower
#Edu
#Phd
#PhdLife
#Education
The Dickinson series is not only delightfully entertaining and compelling, itโs also importantโ itโs doing important work to grapple with white supremacy, misogyny, and cis heteropatriarchy historically and in the present!
#Dickinson
#EmilyDickinson
#TV
#Edu
#Education
#WillPower
Thank you,
@kate_manne
, for unpacking the work youโve done in devising what is a shattering, important contribution to feminist theory, as well as for answering my question about your use of the word โdiagnosisโ with regard to [the social diagnosis of] misogyny.
@UBGenderIn
Today was the first day of my internship with the Erie County Commission on the Status of Women! I was given an ID card. Wish me luck on my (now lifelong) mission to participate in changing and improving the mental health system.
Tonight, my 91 year old grandmother told me she read my book of poetry and cried the entire way through. The book is dedicated to her Irish grandmother who was institutionalized, too.
@StephenKing
@Jenjuxtapose
With all due respect for your intelligence, there are plenty of folks who hold false beliefs about lots of things -some might argue about God- who do not kill people. A man can hold a false belief about being followed: that does not lead to violence *unless the man is violent.*
@SharonCStorm1
Sending my best wishes to you for a negative result and good outcome. My grandmother (almost 90) has Covid and has had it for almost a month. But sheโs doing really well right now and made it through the worst, it seems. This is such a difficult time. Strength and health to you!
โWe both know tricks... but I among all the Gods have renown for wit (metis) and tricks.โ
- The Goddess Athena, Homerโs ODYSSEY, Book III
@AndrewSacks13
@wise_tea
Proof that you can have 88 bucks to your name, thirty thousand dollars in student loan debt, and a broken AC unit in your mileage-maxed car on a hot August day, and still be the happiest lady around.
Just a few more hours until I reach my destination, my girls. ๐
I hide myself within my flower,
That wearing on your breast,
You, unsuspecting, wear me tooโ
And angels know the rest.
- Emily Dickinson
#Soul
#Love
#Art
Verdict in.
I WON MY COURT CASE.
The divorce was found to be unconscionable by the judge.
Tears and relief. And gratitude to my lawyer, Alison Atticus Finch Vawter.
Restorative Justice.
Not to detract from the crisis in Turkey, but my family memberโs street in West Seneca was/is the *actual* epicenter of the quake! ๐ณ
#Buffalo
#buffaloearthquake
#earthquake
If Donald tRump wants to call the act of reading โspyingโ then letโs embrace it and all call ourselves โspiesโ (hint: itโs code for โreadersโ)
I just received wonderful newsโ my graduate department has offered me a teaching assistantship! I wonโt *need* to adjunct while going to graduate school anymore. And I can focus more on my graduate work now. Iโm so relieved.
I was up all night on the bathroom floor with abdominal pain and nausea, until my dad found me and took me to the hospital in the wee hours this morning. It turns out it wasnโt food poisoning; I have appendicitis and have to have surgery to have my appendix out.
THE BEST NEWS HAS JUST ARRIVED! The girlsโ dog, Sylveon, has been found by their neighbors!!! She survived. I am so relieved and happy for my girls and for Sylvie: they can breathe a sigh of relief and rejoice in being reunited! โค๏ธ
My students gave me a round of applause today when I told them about the teaching award. That was so nice of them. Such good humans. Iโm very lucky to be able to work with them.
#WillPower
Today is my first day of classes in my PhD program at UB and my second day teaching at Buff State. I'm also excited to share the news that my first full-length book of poetry has been accepted for publication by Finishing Line Press. (Photo credit: Vincent Lopez Photography.)
We've reached the final day of our 5-month journey together. Tomorrow, I'll help my girls set off on the next part of their adventure, as they prep for the hybrid school & dance year. We don't know what autumn will bring, but we're grateful our family has stayed healthy thus far.
YAY!!! I just learned that I'm going to be a recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award at the University at Buffalo. I am SO very grateful to my wonderful dissertation director, Dr.
@eyweltschmerz
, who nominated me and to my students. This news SAVED the semester.
#WillPower
My 14-day quarantine has ended & I have two new pairs of glasses. I love this grey pair. I'm still adjusting to the new prescription; it was adjusted slightly for a minor astigmatism. Right now, I feel a lens-change-inspired migraine coming on, and I miss the old lenses.
Oh NOOO!!!! RIP, Helen Reddy. I will always adore you, adore singing with you, love lighthouses because of you, & remember how I used to watch you sing โCandle on the Waterโ over & over in the months leading up to my realization that I was a lesbian. ๐
#RIPHelenReddy
#HelenReddy
โWe are all called to decolonize our hearts as well as our bookshelves.โ
- Laurie Halse Anderson
The most profound of many profound insights from an excellent workshop on the importance of (organic) clarification-focused revision.
Thank you,
@halseanderson
and
@nysec_tweets
!
"When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak."
- Audre Lorde
Image: Stonewall Plaque
Photographer: Victor Parker
#WorldPride
#PrideNYC
#Pride2019
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#Manifest
-ing
liberation
is an excruciating
endeavor:
the insistence
on our existence
over centuries
takes a toll--
our bodies
are tired,
carrying all that
weight
of history erased
and truth
suppressed;
even so, we
persevere
and share
our Love.
#vss365
#LGBT
#LGBTQ
+
#Poetry
I miss my children.
This is always the case, but sometimes I need to send the sentiment and reality out into the ether.
Three more weeks until we'll have a weekend together.