Amelia Crowther

she/they. poems & indie games & media stuff

[Amelia Crowther @amecrow]

@umkalra Even if not, salt and electrolytes will fix the headaches

[Amelia Crowther @amecrow]

@umkalra If you have a high heart rate that goes wild when you do cardio, you get dizzy/lightheaded more than most ppl (esp when changing positions), you're really intolerant to heat, or you have thyroid issues, it might be worth looking into!

[darius. @_dariussimpson]

we can build institutions with explicit political lines. we must. otherwise we’ll keep projecting our politics on to identity-based sites of neocolonial reproduction only to be “let down” by them. clarify your politics, and build something meaningful we can count on. it’s urgent.

[Prism @prismreports]

Why isn’t PEN America paying its incarcerated literary prize winners? @alex_tretbar & @deutschbitte ask in a new op-ed. Recent winners of PEN America’s Prison Writing Awards are missing a total of $925 in payments—a small fortune in prison.
https://t.co/T8jDtZbvSP

[Academy of American Poets @POETSorg]

“This poem was written while looking for work, swimming in the vocabularies of potential utility to employers and overseers.”

—Jordan Kapono Nakamura
#AboutThisPoem

https://t.co/nOOxqNlwA7

[Tasnim @snimo63]

i really encourage people to reframe their activism as a duty, not a kindness. we aren’t big hearted for pressing buttons oceans away.

the big hearted are the hungry and splitting meals. the poor housing the displaced. the defenceless defending others. this is the bare minimum.

[Sarah @caesarah_]

something insidious about white people sharing that X’s poetry offers solace “in times like these” or is “what the world needs” — i’m not sure you should be able to self-soothe w a poem during genocide...for starters, i think you should be clear: what times? like what?

[Meredith Whittaker @mer__edith]

I (+others) risked my career to organize against Google's development of AI weapons. We won. Our arguments were evidenced and clear and made Google (temporarily) cancel the contract.

But being right is not a strategy. And I've been sickly sitting w this.
https://t.co/jTl6M1U5f9

[R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon]

I really love Jenny George’s poetry

[summer :) @summabis]

thank you to my cover artist @_tiffant for these freaky lil guys on the moon 💐 wade into my hyrule-palestine-california-michigan-hybrid poetic world, out March 12. 🌙https://t.co/BQtwtbUrfg

[summer :) @summabis]

wrote about the @PoetryFound boycott for @PalStudies, actions taken so far & why publishing Palestinians isn't enough https://t.co/QJqdLtrgXE

[summer :) @summabis]

spoke with my dears @rashaabdulhadi @samah_fadil & @prwath for @ElectricLit
https://t.co/BQUb1UURzM

[aracelis girmay @aracelisxgirmay]

since morning i hear a beloved voice saying ::::now is a good time to remember what gives u strength:::: we are building power even as they terrorize. i'm ashamed & determined. sharpened by fury. sharpened by love. we keep finding ways to each other. more vast than they fathom.

[Noura Erakat @4noura]

. @RutgersU is the first public university to suspend its #SJP chapter. This decision was arbitrary as the students
did not receive a warning, a hearing, & found out from media bc the suspension letter was leaked. The students issue their demands below. I stand with them. #Gaza

[Nadia Shammas 🇵🇸 @Nadia_Shammas_]

There is no Palestinian victim who will ever be pure enough to be publicly and universally decried as one. If they made dark jokes, they called for atrocities. If they refused to engage in bad faith arguments, they supported terrorism. If they were infants, they aren’t mentioned.

[Palestine Festival of Literature @PalFest]

Brian Cox reads If I Must Die, by beloved Palestinian poet, teacher and martyr Refaat Alareer.

Refaat was killed on December 7th by an Israeli airstrike.

This was the last poem he published.

[asia murphy phd (river to the sea) @am_anatiala]

today!