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not a human i'm a dove

[Ashish Kumar @Ashish_stJude]

i'm currently reading "i do everything i'm told" by @mfernandespoet and it is so good. here's my personal favourite, though every poem in this collection is brilliant.

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"And maybe another way is that sometimes people just kind of turn over some rocks, and they panic as a result of what they see." - @jackie_ess https://t.co/78IE6vIfDp via @believermag

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https://t.co/2GT4VKRebO "I buckled the bump into the back seat. Not to protect it, but because I couldn’t leave it loose in the seat with all the other forgotten, unwanted items collected in transit."

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"Women who put themselves in excruciating places on purpose, women willing to freeze themselves to reconcile the dissociative split between mind and body, women who grow to love the cold." - @collectivemyth_ on Detransition, Baby & Luster https://t.co/Mq0HktUFQv

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@AriaAber Detransition, Baby

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https://t.co/PC07k9AQSG Capitalism breaks down our communities and roles and then sells us new ones that require state or corporate intervention. When someone then challenges those definitions, people can feel like their community, and self-identity, are at risk of falling apart.

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Wrong Side of the River, Stanley Plumly

[Mia Sato @MiaRSato]

i spent much of 2020 knitting and it got me thinking about the reverence we give to “handmade” things. i wrote about the collision of craftiness and capitalism, and whose labor is erased in the process, in my first for @newrepublic.

https://t.co/IAlp0mjGZS

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"Our weariness of her writing was not out of unkindness or thinking she was a "bad" writer—it was deep, mostly unvoiced, discomfort over seeing someone spend two years trying to decide how to grieve herself into a conclusion she could live with."-@aelaineo https://t.co/EBfQ8eYjUl

[LikeTheStatue @k8bushofficial]

If you've ever asked yourself "Am I queer enough?", this DAVID's for you. https://t.co/3wmWAD6NoI

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"Quarantine teaches me what I’ve already been taught, but I’ll never learn—that there are so many other ways to be lonely besides the particular way I am lonely." - https://t.co/jWz9WiCwgR @lsjamison

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"Yeah, it was my mom who showed me how to select the needle from her tomato, snip the bit of string, and find the eye." - https://t.co/DzIGDHXgKW @patrickrosal

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"Lately, I am more worried about a different kind of debt, the one that happens when you let someone else do the work of always telling the story, of remembering the details, of arguing and working for the thing you know is right." - @wyatt_williams https://t.co/AQ8PVodKCj

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--This Is To Live Several Lives by @murmurshewrote https://t.co/19vqQkEVj2

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"Even though the Babies haven’t been proven to do much at all — even though the money and the time could be far better spent on real supports — their job is to comfort adults." - https://t.co/C1K2CRsGB8 @siennazeilinger

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"It stung." -- @martamaranda, Five, Ten, Fifteen, Twenty

https://t.co/VGzbujh3Zd

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"But all I could manage was a blithering acknowledgment, a little brother’s sheepish confession." - Barrett Swanson,
https://t.co/d00HQ4zieG

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"But why do I say 𝘸𝘦 when I mean 𝘐 𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶" - @tatianaryckman https://t.co/0GgCBsCZea

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"Other lives are shells I want to scavenge only when the mood strikes right, only when the shells are good enough" - @lsjamison https://t.co/kmeZyIq4i1