Sarah Panlibuton Barnes

glamorous shut-in
Essayist @ArchDigest @CatapultStory @GuernicaMag, etc;
rep: @AragiAuthors

[Sarah Panlibuton Barnes @femmedrag]

What are the Sarahs (with an H) in your life like, as a people? Like if Sarahs were a species unto their own, how would you describe them based on your interactions with Sarahs in your life?

[Sarah Panlibuton Barnes @femmedrag]

@andymintan @Center4Fiction Oh my god yay!!! Congratulations so deserved 💜

[Sarah Panlibuton Barnes @femmedrag]

@vlmadden @APublicSpace Gorgeous essay! Such life and so sharp!

[crispin long @crispinoblong]

only gender-neutral clothing companies who advertise on insta are brave enough to ask: what would it look like if the teletubbies had depression?

[Sarah Panlibuton Barnes @femmedrag]

Same

[Lauren Groff @legroff]

I love airports. If you nurse a glass of wine long enough at any bar, a Jimmy Buffett Dad will eventually sit down beside you and talk so much that he will end up dissolving into tears. It it A+ storytelling entertainment.

[Sarah Panlibuton Barnes @femmedrag]

there's poets that drive and then there's the rest of us

[Sarah Panlibuton Barnes @femmedrag]

@PoemsAndCake YESSSSSSSSSS YESSSSSSSS YESSSSSS DIAMOND. FORDE. An In. SPir.Ation!!!!

[Sarah Panlibuton Barnes @femmedrag]

@cowlickcarly hard agree

[franny choi @fannychoir]

When Asian and Asian American women tell you their lives (and our movement) depend on understanding and fighting against the deep American history of criminalizing Asian sex workers, believe them.

[Sarah Panlibuton Barnes @femmedrag]

@wendy_dinwiddie really!! I wished my name was ruth rose... who were we

[Sarah Panlibuton Barnes @femmedrag]

What are the Sarahs (with an H) in your life like, as a people? Like if Sarahs were a species unto their own, how would you describe them based on your interactions with Sarahs in your life?

[Sarah Panlibuton Barnes @femmedrag]

@surrealsermons Okay okay okay I have been looking for other theremin lovers!! Of course I find you!

[Sarah Panlibuton Barnes @femmedrag]

@wendy_dinwiddie EXACTLY

[Sarah Panlibuton Barnes @femmedrag]

this thread is so hot

[Sarah Panlibuton Barnes @femmedrag]

i miss crying in public

[Sarah Panlibuton Barnes @femmedrag]

@AriaAber What do you do? I never ever get enough of other seratonin deprived people telling me how they also somehow carry on participating

[Sarah Panlibuton Barnes @femmedrag]

omgosh @GuernicaMag gassing me

[Guernica Magazine @GuernicaMag]

The cicada is maybe the most human animal of them all. Read @femmedrag on how they “shatter the air with longing,” just like us. https://t.co/wedkXgbAuZ

[Sarah Panlibuton Barnes @femmedrag]

As a community service, I wrote some alternative small talk scripts to make your weird and stressful interactions in this weird and stressful world, weirder than they already were— but, like, in a fun way @repeller

https://t.co/YnggoIVV59

[Sarah Panlibuton Barnes @femmedrag]

@devon_librate Omgosh Devon hello it's you!! thank you so so much for your notes and for our conversation about the longform ache of rural queerness. So proud to know you!

[Sarah Panlibuton Barnes @femmedrag]

@NatalieLima09 thank you so much for laying early eyes on this one in its most primordial form! I can't tell you how much your attention helped this one grow when it was still a wee babe

[Sarah Panlibuton Barnes @femmedrag]

I wrote this essay, but this essay raised me, taught me how to survive the loss of my first great love, it told me

"Cut all the curtains from their rods. Let the faucets run. Throw open every door. Surround yourself with proof that everything that can close can also open."

[Guernica Magazine @GuernicaMag]

“I am lost in the ticking of the days, lost in my own skin, and lost in the state of Alabama without my beloved who smelled of vetiver and came to me in every dream for months.” New from @femmedrag. https://t.co/wedkXgbAuZ