Rebecca Faria

Lapsed poet. Sister, cousin, auntie. Cultural hyphenate. Walking thesaurus. Feminist, secular, humanist. Caribbean cadence, former Yukoner. Complicated.

[Rebecca Faria @RebelBeckerton]

I should start a business, call it "Rhymes With Maria," and hand business cards to people who mispronounce my last name.
#entrepreneurdreams

[Rebecca Faria @RebelBeckerton]

@RomkeyW @AllyGarbs The library is funded by municipal government. Now, if you're arguing that the provincial government should fund a social worker in every library across NS, and properly fund the social programs those workers connect people to, I am all for that. Let's write some letters.

[Rebecca Faria @RebelBeckerton]

@RomkeyW @AllyGarbs Extending the safety net so people have a better chance of surviving drug poisoning is a small part of their job. They also help people access housing, food support, disability resources, and more. Libraries offer a low-barrier setting for all kinds of helpful programs.

[Rebecca Faria @RebelBeckerton]

@RomkeyW @AllyGarbs Librarians aren't social workers, that's why the libraries also hired those excellent community navigators who are experienced in social work and/or other forms of community care. The library is for everyone, even (especially) those who have nowhere else to go.

[Rebecca Faria @RebelBeckerton]

It is not surprising that I didn't figure my queerness out until I left the Yukon. But it didn't have to be so difficult.

[Rebecca Faria @RebelBeckerton]

I am trying toswitch to bluesky but came back to this hellsite specifically to wtf at this news from my old high school. HOW IS THAT PLACE STILL AS BASSACKWARDS AS IT WAS WHEN I WAS IN THE GRADUATING CLASS OF NINETEEN FUCKING NINETY-EIGHT.

[Niko Stratis @nikostratis]

In my hometown they JUST, in 2024, removed a book from a school that I attended that compares being gay to other "disordered" acts like bestiality.

[Rebecca Faria @RebelBeckerton]

Twitter name changed for the spooky season. My preferred pinned tweet isn't going to make sense until the end of October.

[Rebecca Faria @RebelBeckerton]

@bitchwitch143 Yes please.

[Rebecca Faria @RebelBeckerton]

So apparently Tweetdeck got put behind a fucking paywall while I was on vacation this summer and I didn't realize until now. 🤦🏽‍♀️

Not giving muskrat a dime. But damn. 🤬

[Rebecca Faria @RebelBeckerton]

Decided to don the Halloween display name after all (for the last time?) and wrest every possible scrap of joy from the withering dystopic barrens formerly known as Twitter. Cheers!

[🫐Amelia J. Peabody (pseud.) @LilOldAl]

Public libraries in #NovaScotia are still supplying free #Covid rapid test kits. Today we stuck big stickers on every box reminding people to report positive tests to @nshealth. If you test positive, report it! Maybe we can get some actual numbers again. https://t.co/oS8MKUauJJ

[Nadia Detriment @nadia_detriment]

I had to explain to my kids that (voice becomes 10x weaker and more crackly) in fact TV used to turn off for the night.

[Rebecca Faria @RebelBeckerton]

@nadia_detriment Totally remember falling asleep in front of the TV and being woken up by the anthem at the end of the CBC North sign-off. https://t.co/nSvHJ4KKyX

[Rebecca Faria @RebelBeckerton]

I talk to inanimate objects all the time, but they don't talk back.

Not yet.

[Travis Baldree @TravisBaldree]

Need my own personal Calcifer because what is missing from my life is a bantering relationship with my stove.

[Rebecca Faria @RebelBeckerton]

@Girrl_Friday Oh no! At the best of times, shapewear feels like punishment for having a body. This time of year it's so much worse.

I do wear these with shirts and dresses for friction prevention (and in case of wind). No shaping, just coverage. https://t.co/XZdKNviuMC

[queer lit bot ✒️ @queerlitbot]

Do not buy into their system of censorship, imagining that if you drop this character or hide that emotion, you can slide through their blockades. Do not eat your heart out in the hope of pleasing them.

Dorothy Allison, Survival is the Last of My Desires

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

Again, structural racism is rooted in white people saying WILDLY UNTRUE things & demanding we go along with it or face violence

[Gillian Anderson @GillianA]

Always thrilled to be of service. 😉 🏳️‍🌈

[Rebecca Faria @RebelBeckerton]

ngl so happy for toronto rn

[Rebecca Faria @RebelBeckerton]

@bakedmoon Oh, I adore that documentary. It's such a perfect mix of audacity and tenderness.

[Nnedi Okorafor, PhD🕷️ @Nnedi]

With the whole cis and cisgender (see the #CisIsNotASlur) thing happening right now, please remember this 👇🏾.