I tried to avoid this but have to talk about the abuse I experienced in 2021 and name who put me in intensive trauma therapy. Last year I was emotionally, verbally, and sometimes physically abused or harassed by John Maher (@/JohnHMaher), editor at Publisher’s Weekly. (1/33)

spent some time with some of my closest and most trusted people today and felt held in all the right ways, literally and figuratively 🖤

if you don’t know Ashna Ali’s poetry and find out about it through these tweets you’re welcome because they are brilliant and tender and beautiful

Pandemic life and shitty relationships will absolutely murder your ability to reach out for like, basic venting and co-regulation, damn

Of course it's during the implosion and death of Twitter that I begin to have ideas about how I want to use Twitter

I feel like 'goblin mode' being the word of the year exposes the degree to which all mainstream media is gaslighting us into a normal that we have long given up on. Dirty hair and ice cream pints for all!

LA feels a haunted abandoned lot in a zombie suburb but with palm trees. Wtf.

to this day one of the best compliments I’ve ever received is “you are such tender proof of the power of poems.” it made me feel very seen and I carry it in my heart as the Truth.

Behold the most fabulous of poetry monarchs, silk sonic the hedgehog

I love being so disabled that I'm too disabled to apply on time to the disability fellowship. WOO!

Getting stuck in a two-month autoimmune rollercoaster does really interesting things to one's relationship to rage, lemme tell ya. Please excuse me while I pull a psychological Carrie on the medical industrial complex

No prof could tell me when and where poc women wrote in Italian, so I showed up with an annotated bibliography proving that we do. Wrote the damned thing in 6 months and got the hell out of there.

Never underestimate the impact of a kind word or well wishes toward folks having a rough time. Sometimes, it is the only buoy. It takes little time or effort but is a powerful gift of heart.

April is moving at hyper speed so I'm gonna survive on true crime podcasts like every other millennial femme in existence. Taking recs!

I’ve never understood some ppl’s opposition to pop culture references in poems. Pop culture is a deep, fun analysis into the world around us — politically, socially, etc. It also potentially takes the poem off the page into a deeper cultural transcendence.

Grateful that huge outlets like the NYTimes are starting to talk about the challenges disabled people face in love and dating: nyti.ms/3MFxNMr

Giving up on the cesspool. Find me on Bluesky at Ashna Ali

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