Teaching a class on reading as writers (multigenre, MA level) this summer. What advice do you wish you’d had about how/what to read in graduate school/as a beginning writer? How do you enter into conversation with what you’re reading?

depends on who you ask--either former NFL player Tony Collins or the Public Universal Friend (they were born in RI but spent most of their adult life here)

(If you've ever been in the bar with me when I'm spending too much money on touchtunes...you know.)

Grading in the coffee shop in my hometown & they're playing the entirety of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours + "Silver Springs" & I'm pretty sure it's just for me.

when she says she was ‘dehumanised’ she is 100% referring to being called ‘Eve Fartlow’

Patients play a very strange role in the entire debate about transgender medical care. The opposition to trans healthcare is predicated on the idea that this is about protecting patients... but the patients themselves overwhelmingly consist of, well,, trans people.

Over the weekend, I told my bf that I think that I’m queer (I’m figuring some stuff out) and he said, while eating a BBQ rib, “That’s cool. You can be anything you want as long as we’re together” 🥹

Dude, literally no one feels this way about you lol

There is nothing that makes me question my entire being quite as much as someone casually saying "you're supposed to deep clean [this object/household thing] regularly" and it's something I've never cleaned at more than a surface level, if at all, in my whole life

all personal essays should be at least a little bit embarrassing because being a person is embarrassing

Also, hi, this website is a hellscape but I needed to complain. It's been a shitty day. My grandma died. I'm waiting in Chicago for my connection to Rochester. I don't have a suit. I'm gone for a week and then almost immediately leave for AWP. I am really sad & also miss my cats

A giant fuck you to the boomer lady hacking up a fucking lung with no mask on who can't even be bothered to cover her mouth. Have you learned nothing?

77% done with On Our Way Home from the Revolution, by Sonya Bilocerkowycz

36% done with On Our Way Home from the Revolution, by Sonya Bilocerkowycz

This is not a subtweet but only because the people I went to high school with don’t follow me here 🙃🙃🙃

If you’re my friend & are sleeping with a dude who hates people like me, you should probably consider whether or not you’re really my friend. Just a thought.

I’m the same name, without the dash, over on the new site. No, I don’t have any invites yet but I will share once I do!

SERIOUSLY. Listen to her voice in the old videos vs. in the more recent interviews. She was a KID. I am horrified.