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Mentally, I Sent This A Month Ago
Hello all, Today’s newsletter is sponsored by a fresh start when things go stale, and a desperate attempt to get s o m e t h i n g out. Sometimes, the void gets hungry… Also: Spoiler Alert for Nope (2022) below, even though I’m probably the last person to have watched it. Prose and…
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Love and T(he urge to overthrow capitalism on a daily basis)hunder
Hello all, Happy Fall! Today’s newsletter is sponsored by the two wolves inside me. They’re girlfriends. Is this from cinematic masterpiece What We Do In The Shadows (2014) dir. Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, featuring Rhys Darby eight years before his beautiful role in Our Flag Means Death (2022)? Who’s to say. Prose of the…
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Un Año de Xisme y Xingaderas
Translation: One Year of Gossip and Shenanigans Hello all, Today’s newsletter is sponsored by ONE YEAR AND 23 NEWSLETTERS LATER!!! Prose of the Week Xismosa Xit A year ago, I needed something to keep me (arguably) sane. Writing has always kept me vaguely sane, but I wanted to push myself more. I didn’t want to…
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No Mortifying Ordeal of Being Known!
Hello all, Today’s newsletter is sponsored by self-compassion. And also for you all, specifically almost all of you that I have not yet texted back: Prose of the Week The funny thing about making new friends is that you get a whole new opportunity to tell old stories, and sometimes it’s weird to feel happy…
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Be The Kirby Car You Wish To See In The World
But also: Fuck off Gandhi and possibly kawaii. But not Kirby, my child. Hello all, Two newsletters within a month in 2022?? It’s more likely than you think. Today’s newsletter is sponsored by momentary-and-hopefully-continuing consistency. Note of the Week Gonna be honest, there was no writing I was particularly excited to post about this week.…
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Amor A La Morena
Translation: Love The Brown Girl Hello all, Today’s newsletter is sponsored by an attempt at consistency. Prose and Poetry of the Week Blackbird Wine, Blackberry Kiss In an attempt (I know, lots of attempts today. It’s all we can ever do.) to be more honest and upfront about my writing, this is an imagined scenario…
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Xismosa vs. Xit
Hello all, Today’s newsletter is sponsored by my heroic effort to resist inertia. Looking specifically at closing shift for fucking up my sleep schedule. Prose and Poetry of the Week Creation I wrote this during my junior year of college, thus references to syllabi and such. I still feel the same way about writing, and…
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I’m Back like Lemonade Memes After Lemonade Finally Dropped On Spotify
Listen, I know it’s a niche title, but we couldn’t all pay for Tidal and therefore we had to wait three years after our free trial(s) of Tidal were up to fully enjoy Lemonade again. Hello all, Today’s newsletter is sponsored by a cutie telling me she daydreams about receiving this, and realizing that the…
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Snakes in a Poem
Hello all, Today’s newsletter is sponsored by finding time between sleepiness from working against my circadian rhythm and the need to not have a full month between updates. **TW: sexual assault mention at the double astricks** Poetry of the Week To Be A Doll This came out of me, not sure how, but I’m proud…
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Bisexuals Against Cowardice
Hello all, Today’s newsletter is sponsored by the need to write despite and yet because of anxiety. First Piece A Gem, a Witch, and an 8 Foot Tall Lesbian I essentially wrote a first draft for this – Non-Chronological Queer Looking for a Decolonized House – about my theory that queer people live non-chrological lives…