Sam Ferrante

She/Her. Poet. Metaphysically living a whole life in Melbourne. Probably hungry. MFA @ButlerUniversity.

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

i hate writing that is more about the writer’s capacity for cleverness and erudition than about a reader’s capacity for compassion and transformation

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Donald Trump was found guilty of 34 charges but won't face any punishment — and will be back in the White House this month.

800 prisoners are now helping to battle Los Angeles fires, making as little as $5.80 per day.

A tale of two justice systems.

[Annie Wu (all socials: @annie_wu_22) @Annie_Wu_22]

this tweet is my roman empire

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

i love browsing—a bookstore, a library, a gallery, etc. no aim but slow wandering, meandering, lingering. delighting! in 2025: let me scroll less and browse more

[jbolina jolie @pastapilled]

Life is all about having coffee with your friends for five hours actually

[Stephanie Alston @Steph_R_Alston]

My friend sent me a message that said you’ve been strong all year so don’t finish strong, finish rested. Sharing because I’m sure I’m not the only one who needed to hear this.

[Case @Cactuscali19912]

Oh you want me to work....in December? When there's sugar plum fairies dancing and chestnuts roasting on an open fire. Get real.

[Caroline Bird @CarolineBirdUK]

‘Desire, like the dishes’

F. Douglas Brown’s make out sonnet

[love drops @lovedropx]

— James Baldwin.

[We are all Field Negroes now @TheBlackCyde]

Paulo Freire was preaching when he said teaching cannot be neutral it either dismantles systemic inequities or perpetuates them

[Dr. Jennifer Cassidy @OxfordDiplomat]

If you listen to anyone this morning, let it be Gideon Levy. A phenomenal Israeli journalist who has been speaking truth to power for decades. Share his words. Far and Wide.

[Val Halla @thevaleriehalla]

It’s weird that people read that Chappell Roan quote about the election and take it to mean that she’s an undecided centrist and not that every option available to her is too far right of where she stands as a woman and as an artist.

[Sam Ferrante @samjferrante]

@ireneteacher8 @heymrsbond Seconding I wrote a good omelette!

[Wizard Cal 🕯️✨ @MageOfSolitude]

If being a person is too much work, it's okay to take a break and be a nameless thing that haunts the shadows, a creature on the fringes of perception whose passage is only marked by cheese gone missing from the fridge

[Friendly Neighborhood Comrade @SpiritofLenin]

"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them."

Author, Black Panther, and Black Liberation Army revolutionary Assata Shakur was born on this day in 1947.

[Sam Ferrante @samjferrante]

@booksijustread @rchlltrmn I cannot believe that the pink showed up on my feed. Trigger warning indeed!

[Sam Ferrante @samjferrante]

@stevenespadaw Congratulations, Steven! I cannot wait to read it.