emilyyy

People rly don't know what to do w their lives and BOOM masters degree

Beaming everyone the confidence of the Tinder guy who, after 2 dates, said he “didn’t have room for another person in his heart rn” and then, after seeing my book at front of bookstore, hit me up

A love language for those trying to heal from trauma is: following your own heart, dreams, and vision, even when you’re misunderstood.

I was raised to be polite and accept an uncomfortable hug and to never make a man feel bad about himself. It took a long time to see and reject all of that, and bodily autonomy still feels hard won. I will NEVER show my daughter that someone can touch her without asking,

I was SO grateful to be seen like that, and to know that it is the 40 yrs of cultural conditioning that my body is community property that I have received that makes it feel anything short of correct to tell someone to get their hands off me, off my daughter, off all of us.

thank you @WatershedCSUC for publishing my poem “dinner table script.” new issue out today! 🍽📝♥️

hey can i come over and be weird at your house

hey sorry i can’t come out tonight i need to google diseases

@araoameny @BestNewPoets congrats!!!! ♥️

@BestNewPoets Congratulations everyone! Glad to be here.

We've posted our fifty selections for Best New Poets 2022 at bestnewpoets.org/finalists.php. Special thanks to guest editor Paula Bohince. Please join us in congratulating these wonderful poets!

If I had a bf I would ask him one million billion questions

the central grad school fashion dilemma is how to balance a) needing 18 year olds to respect you b) needing 50-70 year olds to respect you but in a different way c) being hot

I really wish people would stop drastically using the scenarios of rape or incest as the sole premise for an abortion. A woman doesn’t have to be in a traumatic situation for it to be reason enough. In fact there is zero explanation that needs to be given.

Today, the Supreme Court not only reversed nearly 50 years of precedent, it relegated the most intensely personal decision someone can make to the whims of politicians and ideologues—attacking the essential freedoms of millions of Americans.

i do feel like being a writer & a teacher are callings for me. but they are also JOBS. & i am well aware of how "calling/vocation" rhetoric gets used to underpay (or not pay!) artists & educators all the time bc we're supposed to just do all this labor for "love"

A lover, once: You can’t say every action is political. Then the word political loses all meaning. He added: What is political about this moment? I was washing his dishes. I had left the water running. —Solmaz Sharif

*actual conversation with my new doctor* Him: what does your wife do Me: husband, actually Him: husband??? are you on PREP???

The tireless work of the graduate students has paid off! Despite major opposition, we have convinced enough of the UC to vote yes and committ VT to providing a livable wage for all grad students! We did this and we did it together so fucking congrats to us 🎉

Explaining to people why I fail to respond to them in a timely manner without disclosing my ADHD has become something of an art form for me recently. People always just see the inconvenience to themselves without thinking of the reasons behind it. Oh if only they asked!