@emilymgoldsmith
Louisiana Creole Writer, Poet, Educator, and Researcher • MFA, PhD • Poems in the Penn Review, Witch Craft Mag, LaCreole Journal, Eucalyptus Lit, and elsewhere • here & queer 🌈 • Views are my own! Emilymgoldsmith.com
32? Tracking your blood pressure and oxygen levels, getting more comfortable shoes, spending your birthday money on your critter of a dog who has terrible allergies (seriously a dropped half a stack at the vet)
Turned 32 on Saturday. 32 zan, boug.
CNN: More than 1,000 civilians killed in Iran since war began, rights group reports By Helen Regan More than 1,000 people, including children, have been killed in Iran since the war began on Saturday, according to US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). The rights group said as of Tuesday afternoon ET, at least 1,097 civilians had been killed, including 181 children. More than 5,400 civilians, including 100 children, have been injured, HRANA reported. The group said its report is preliminary and is veritying hundreds more reported deaths.
At least 1,097 civilians had been killed in Iran so far, including 181 children.
A reminder that white nationalism isn't just abhorrent, it's stupid.
hug your people, fight for your neighbor, resist the oppression of anyone even if you think it doesn’t affect you, be kind, don’t give up! Together, we are powerful. Quitting is not an option.
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"For three months after they cut it, her chest felt sunburned inside. She woke up, ate Ativan, and slept. The meat below her shoulders was red sore."
This time last year, we published Selen Ozturk's CANCER. Find it in the archive: buff.ly/ged7zV5
"I freeze at the thought of choosing wrong, haunted by the memory of spending my most formative years having no control over my health.'
Maria Lata's SURRENDER is in our FEBRUARY ISSUE & it's her first publication!! 🥳 Read this memoir now ✨️ buff.ly/gzUOyIn
If you're going to AWP, check out the lineup ✨ Pretty cool readers if we do say so 😜
Portrait of a blonde woman: face smooshed sideways against the glass of a scanner, gaze unfixed, mouth parted. Repositioned mid-scan, the top half of her face repeats in fresh distortion, a slight glitch at the seam. Her hard blue eyes look away.
Love makes the world go 'round and so does art 💕 Enjoy our FEBRUARY ISSUE, made with love 💕 buff.ly/eKv5fuz
The biggest thank you to our contributors
WORDS: Brett Hymel Jr., Rowan Tate, Maria Lata, @tarabetts.bsky.social
ART: VANDI
PLUS: A.D. Lauren-Abunassar reviews @asaldrake.bsky.social
I often think about the fact that if the FBI et al had not killed Fred Hampton, he would be 78 today. Younger than Jesse Jackson was. Must have felt strange to outlive many of your contemporaries by decades.
It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me.
Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?
I had a dream I was chain-smoking last night (I’ve never been a smoker). I think I’m stressed out, lol
If you make the BOARD OF PEACE and you make yourself THE CHAIRMAN and nobody from democratic countries joins you and you declare you will “redevelop” a destroyed country with displaced people (because of ongoing genocide) and you say it’s a “great location” and you want to re-build it?
You’re evil.
When our neighbors are being shot and kidnapped and our government oppresses us, we can’t turn away. More than ever, we have to tune in and get involved. No matter who you are, there’s a way to get involved. There’s even volunteer work you can do from home!
We are playing the long game: whatever you have to do to stay in it for your neighbors, do it. That might mean you increase your tolerance for discomfort. Especially for us white folks who have benefited from systems that are harming others. Mental health isn’t an excuse to disengage / sit this out!
My first ever real knit 🧶 project in process—what will be a trial scarf! I’m already on the third ball of yarn. It is crazy to see something come from nothing!
The word of the day on Wordl the other day was Gumbo and baby, we (Creoles) are so up!
* Fuck the NYT
It’s my mama’s birthday and I am feeling very lucky to have her as my mom and to see her age 💗
History would indicate that I will not sustain this hobby, but who knows? The world is on fire! Democracy has crumbled. Stranger things have happened.
I knit my little stitches to keep myself from despair so that I can keep going!
I feel like it’s not bad for a beginner!
Therapist told me to get a hobby, LOL
Picked up knitting. Been doing it for three days. Can my ADHD brain sustain it? Only time will tell!
semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
via Minneapolis photographer Chris Juhn on Facebook
No one who doesn't want to be convinced will be moved by the forensic accounts undertaken by the media but it's still good that they offer the accounts. Not because people will be convinced but so that others can tell accurate stories.
For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies
We're already excited for AWP!! ✨We'll have food, drinks, and a lovely reading to benefit CHARM, an organization that strives to support and publish young writers in Baltimore. Check out their work at charmlitmag.org ✨
We hope to see you there 🤩
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
