Love this smart and well-researched response from cottagecore Emily Dickinson I've been so frustrated with sesame street's claim that "puppets don't have sexual orientation" --puppets don't have autism either and yet there's Julia, an autistic character.

When asked, "Why write poems?" Mary Oliver paused for a moment then answered with the most sincerity: "What else are we going to do?" (from my notes, 2008)

Thank you for reading @7Rose75 --I'm thinking about Mary Oliver so much right now and how that poem and so much of her work is like a quiet anthem for anyone who's had to re-learn how to inhabit their own skin.

Maybe houseclean—sing it, sister

I’m psyched that Mount Sinai Health System has visible signs welcoming the LGBTQ community, but I hope this means the forms will soon reflect this support with more options than just F/M

I was feeling daunted writing so much about science while not being a scientist and then I just happened to read this Lapham’s Quarterly essay by Samantha Hunt that had been open in a tab and it was the exact thing to read about this very question: laphamsquarterly.org/discovery/quee…

sometimes this is all I feel.

YES--I can't read/re-read this essay enough--it's really given me permission to do my own work--it's hard not to internalize the voices that say don't write about trauma and so this sharp dissent cuts right through the bs--thank you, @melissafebos

I SO agree! @shooglet 's work is amazing and Instagram needs to get their shit together--this is blatant fatphobia and body-shaming nonsense #saveshoog

I wrote for Ravishly about stuffed animals & the need for touch & comfort & of course I quoted Lane Moore💿is on Bsky/Substack about being alone ...thanks to Erin Khar for her edits ravishly.com/i-m-39-year-ol…

As someone raised Catholic, but who no longer identifies as such, I so feel Kathleen McKitty Harris 's powerful essay from Longreads

Sometimes an essay just echoes in your bones for days -Cyrus Grace Dunham's essay A Year Without a Name is one of those newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…

"A stone is a thought that the earth develops over inhuman time." Obsessed with this story by Louise Erdrich Louise Erdrich newyorker.com/magazine/2019/… when I re-read, going to pair it with Andrew Bird echolocations canyon album

After learning from the documentary Echoes in the Canyon that Brian Wilson wrote Pet Sounds sitting at a piano in a room full of sand, my take away is wow that's cool and oh, I guess he didn't have cats.

so excited to see this essay out in the world: "I believe, on the one hand, that my mother was not her belongings, but on the other hand, I don’t know if that’s true."

love this piece from my dear friend Julia LoFaso

love this short piece of fiction from my friend Sasha Graybosch

Did you ever read a book that you had forgotten and read it again as if you never have? do you feel it affected you more because you had forgotten it?

Thanks so much to The Manifest-Station for publishing my essay--I truly hope that we can talk more about the need for touch, as we only seem to under extreme circumstances (like the pandemic)