@chenchenwrites

Book of craft essays, IN CAHOOTS WITH THE RABBIT GOD, out December 1st. Preorder now ⬇️

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let me stay tender-hearted, despite despite despite
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racism isn't "edgy" humor or a differing "opinion." it's harm. it's abuse. it's violence. it's dehumanization. it's a system of power. it's cruelty.
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i love how many gay guys' instagrams are basically just underwear ads
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not mine though. it's all poetry. except for that recent post.
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anyways remember that your little “learning experiences” are black ppls traumas. racism is a traumatizing experience and no one has to forgive you for it ever.
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finn 🍉@ironasssOct 21
everyone saying "well if you werent racist you mustve been homophobic or transphobic or ableist or—" is such an insane self report
g ✶ met z and seb!@N1NETY6SOct 20
“y’all didn’t have a racist past when u were teenagers?” no?????????????
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dire 🐰@suqartalkingOct 21
white queers when you don’t forgive someone for being racist
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“understand that it’s a privilege to have parents that taught you that racism was bad” have you LOST your MIND ??????😭😭😭
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stevie 🐞@sapphodiIOct 21
i don’t believe anyone when they say racist/otherwise cruel teenagers were just naive. they absolutely knew better. knowing better and doing it anyway was the appeal. they liked being edgy and thought it was funny. don’t pretend the wrongness of the thing wasn’t the entire “joke”
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When I got beat up as a child because I’m brown, that was just ‘general racism’ guys, not your special aunty semiconductor racism, my bad.
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y'all are always so quick to defend and victimize former racists because they were teenagers who "just had an edgy phase", but never care about the countless black & brown teenagers who were on the recieving end of that "edgy phase"
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It’s so crazy people are turning this slayyyter shit into “we were all bigoted when we were teenagers” when that’s not true? The kids you were torturing every day bc they were a minority definitely weren’t
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We have only one minute and I love you. —Dunya Mikhail, from "Tablets V"
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Proofreading a smutty poem that's in my new book (forthcoming this spring) and I'm blushing again, even though it's been years since I wrote it.
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Times when I understand myself a little, I understand others less. —Antonio Porchia, tr. W.S. Merwin
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Tom Snarsky@TomSnarskyOct 17
two poems by Bill Knott
WRONG I wish to be misunderstood; that is, to be understood from your perspective.

ALT WRONG I wish to be misunderstood; that is, to be understood from your perspective.

LOVELADE The sea is the cargo of empty ships Moon bears the sun when it’s gone My face with the trace of your lips Will fare from now on and on

ALT LOVELADE The sea is the cargo of empty ships Moon bears the sun when it’s gone My face with the trace of your lips Will fare from now on and on

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There are many cheesy poems (some I adore), but are there many poems *about* cheese?
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Let me see your eyes. No, your real ones: The overgrown trestle above the dam. How it feels to leap. —Paige Ackerson-Kiely, from "Trestle"
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Always funny to realize that your personal favorite pieces among your own writing are sometimes (often?) not what other people gravitate toward. It's like, Are they wrong? Am I? Do I just have more of an emotional connection to these? But these *are* the best! Are they, though?
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the degree to which the state of my hair determines the state of my Being
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@LiterariiumOct 12
— Fernando Pessoa
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