McKenzie Watson-Fore

I write, knit, and watercolor my feelings. Opinions and hot takes my own. Pronouns: she/her/hers

[McKenzie Watson-Fore @WatsonFore]

I took a field trip to the Focus on the Family headquarters in conjunction with @kkdumez’s LIVE LAUGH LOVE book launch event. Read my full recap here: https://t.co/zCV8R7z3Fc

@LiverightPub @cse_uccs

[McKenzie Watson-Fore @WatsonFore]

Absolutely loved this essay by @adellewaldman in @the_point_mag -- about how we are all, in different ways, limited by sexism, and whether or not, or to what degree, literature represents universal truths

https://t.co/XQhszNUAsn

[McKenzie Watson-Fore @WatsonFore]

I just got a response on an essay that I submitted in July of 2024.
I also paid a small submission fee for the honor of waiting over two years to hear that my work ‘is not right for them at this time.’

[McKenzie Watson-Fore @WatsonFore]

New work from @meganstielstra in @therumpus and holy cow IT IS SO GOOD https://t.co/0Fm4VI7kaT

[McKenzie Watson-Fore @WatsonFore]

Teo Rivera-Dundas has written a dry, tender, and darkly funny metacritical novel about working in bookstores in NYC, and I reviewed it for @fullstopmag! @UnivNebPress #slowguillotine https://t.co/yeVJX0YUez

[McKenzie Watson-Fore @WatsonFore]

Complementarianism is gender essentialism, and it's part of the scaffolding of r@pe culture. This is why Epstein invoked Dobson's advice -- read more in @the_revealer -- https://t.co/2krfdkb5qd

[McKenzie Watson-Fore @WatsonFore]

Happy pub day to @StalveyArt and her new graphic memoir, EVERYTHING IN COLOR! I reviewed it for @hippocampusmag and wrote some behind-the-scenes thoughts for this week’s Critic at Play.
https://t.co/YqI3SXNNzz

[McKenzie Watson-Fore @WatsonFore]

Wanna talk about complicated mother-daughter dynamics, sexual agency, substance use, and tropes of femininity? Check out this panel on May 8!
@lwwesterfield @Bokchoygurl @rescuepress @PineStatePub @chariscircle

https://t.co/HGfzVG5pUK

[McKenzie Watson-Fore @WatsonFore]

So, when is Netflix going to produce the reality tv show where you forge a connection through a wall and then the production team reveals you’ve been talking to an AI? I suggest they call it, LOVE IS BL(AI)ND
#ai #loveisblind

[McKenzie Watson-Fore @WatsonFore]

I wrote about my love for communal bathing and compiled some of my favorite cathartic bathing scenes for Electric Literature! Check it out ~ https://t.co/SbcKE10hPS

[McKenzie Watson-Fore @WatsonFore]

I reviewed @annajrollins’s gorgeous and powerful FAMISHED for @ChristianCent.
Find the review here — @eerdmansbooks @PineStatePub
https://t.co/a8fNYIWkNz

[McKenzie Watson-Fore @WatsonFore]

Matt Mauch wrote this essay for sneaker wave magazine about what’s happening in Minneapolis right now. Please read and share — and #fuckice.
#minneapolis #reneegood #AlexPretti #georgefloyd

https://t.co/BSA4u3WgO1

[McKenzie Watson-Fore @WatsonFore]

Cincinnati Romance Review’s new issue features my review of Anne Berest’s gripping “nonfiction novel,” LA CARTE POSTALE (The Postcard)—incredible storytelling and a chilling reminder about the costs of looking away from rising authoritarianism
https://t.co/MwtqsE2MbO

[McKenzie Watson-Fore @WatsonFore]

@coynewriter Yay! I’m glad my dad passed your book along to me. Thanks for writing it.

[McKenzie Watson-Fore @WatsonFore]

I wrote about golf and reading as a portal to empathy and quests that never end. Thanks to @coynewriter for the inspiration, and to my dad for letting me borrow his book for three years.
https://t.co/7Le4AWwr28

[McKenzie Watson-Fore @WatsonFore]

I reviewed Stephanie Schechner’s new translation of Mireille Best’s Hymn to Moray Eels (out now via the Pride List from Seagull Books) for @fullstopmag! A sharp interrogation of gender and heteronormativity, set in a French sanatorium #bookreview
https://t.co/VrendOoqsr

[McKenzie Watson-Fore @WatsonFore]

Flu season is here, folks. Get yourself vaccinated, and then get yourself a cat-panion who will keep watch from the crook of your knee-pits.

[Founder & CEO of the David Dark Situation @DavidDark]

"In Tait’s case, no part of his public persona allows him to name harmful elements of the theology he was raised with. Theology wielded to inculcate hatred or disgust rather than grace is one of the most destructive forces I know." @WatsonFore https://t.co/XoPlsi5rie

[McKenzie Watson-Fore @WatsonFore]

Has anyone written a cultural history of the paint-and-sip?? I would love to read that.

#culturalcriticism #arthistory #historyinthemaking

[McKenzie Watson-Fore @WatsonFore]

I wrote about the #michaeltait scandal in light of an evening I spent with #flamygrant, the iconic drag queen of CCM. Read about how Christian music has prioritized performance over authenticity, up now at #christiancentury
#personalessay #ccm
https://t.co/rEG4M6TzYi