i’m back to me
thank god
o lord
what a desert
u were
not okay
how selfish
can u be?
lots
good riddance
good lord
oh my
it’s an
earth quake
i was lucky
to be outside
when u
shook
good bye
good nite
mimi said
I don’t know what it is about me
It always is
What did I just say?
The great color of raw cabbage
Write that down
and then write down two years
and even if we aren’t talking in two years
look at that message
and then text me.
Two months pregnant
yeah two years i see myself two months pregnant
cuz I see it
the perfect man who offers me that situation
Traffic Misdirector by Pedro Pietri | Poetry Foundation
the greatest living poet in new york city was born in Puerto Rico.
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Gendering the debt crisis: Feminists on Sri Lanka’s financial crisis

By Kanchana N. Ruwanpura, Bhumika Muchhala and Smriti Rao Countless images of women carers flitted through April-July 2022 on Sri Lankan television …
Gendering the debt crisis: Feminists on Sri Lanka’s financial crisis
untitled verses
a statuesque lady
came to me lately
she told me i was pasty
and that i’d never make it ❤
thought that love was sacred
but forgot to bake it
never took the station
o was that my train? shit
what’s your situation?
something bout the nation
is crazy making gang hits
makin us complacent
think it’s time to face it
let’s meet in the basement
have the operation
on united snakes yeah
wait is u an agent
or is this just a face lift?
i could not be hasty
with my liberation
sometimes it gets spacey
when u meditate see
how is that okay g?
idk i’m blame-free
Christine McVie RIP
Christine McVie, Fleetwood Mac’s great keyboard player, and the singer and songwriter of a huge proportion of the bands hits, has died age 79 after a short illness.
It’s difficult to sum up exactly how pivotal and yet strangely overlooked McVie was in the band’s success, so I’m grateful to the excellent Chris O’Leary for something he said on Twitter that helped put McVie in her proper context. He asked if there was, in any other band, a parallel to her:
“Was thinking about whether Christine McVie had equivalents in other bands—lead singers, songwriters, essential players who weren’t quite the “star”–and the closest I got was Richard Manuel.”
Of the replies he received, he said, the best suggestions were Bob Weir and Benjamin Orr. But with all respect to Manuel, Orr and Weir (and the respondents who suggested them), they’re not in the same league as McVie. On FM’s 1988
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UC Faculty Announce Work Stoppage | BestColleges
UC Senate faculty said instructors may withhold grades as a sign of solidarity with striking academic workers.
— Read on www.bestcolleges.com/news/uc-faculty-announce-work-stoppage-as-tentative-agreement-emerges/
LGB and/or T History – Digital Transgender Archive
Any line we might try to draw to separate lesbian/gay/bisexual history (LGB) from transgender history (trans) would be imprecise, blurry, and certainly not straight.
— Read on www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/learn/LGBTHistory
Christine McVie [1943-2022]
The songs she wrote were always my faves. She was the heart and soul. Rest in peace.
i guess i'm not as strong as i used to be and if you use me again it'll be the end of me
and i love you i love you i love you like never before
can you hear me callin out your name? you know that i'm fallin and i don't know what to say
rob mclennan’s blog: 12 or 20 (second series) questions with Laura Jaramillo
rob mclennan’s blog: 12 or 20 (second series) questions with Laura Jaramillo
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