hilesh
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Here’s the thing: when it comes to GenZ, the more you try to censor, erase and eradicate, the more they will dig in.
The harder you try to cease the flow of information, the more legitimacy you lose with them.
So, I really don’t know who all of this is for.
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@olicketysplit This is one of my favorites from @olicketysplit ! Thanks for this @hilesh. I feel like I know these aunties from this tiny poem.
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all my aunties burrow inside whatsapp &
into the perimeter of a shared screen
english is like concrete breaking apart in their mouths
the messages are always in gujarati &
their illuminated faces are translations of silent nods
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Ranting When Talking to Ja
Over the course of multiple millennia
I wonder do you still think of us.
You might make a blessing happen
Here and there
But where is the care?
Are you afraid of what you’ve made?
Guess we’ll talk someday.
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bless the dancer’s body that houses you. the lush red in your palms, frayed ends of your ma's saree tucked into your denim. shedding off manhood to touch grace. I see you. I see you & I set you free from my gaze. colour yourself in jazz. blur out of your body & become dance.
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All the time
I
I have
I have all
I have all the
I have all the time
I have all the time in the
I have all the time in the world
I had all the time in the
I had all the time in
I had all the time
I had all the
I had all
I had
I
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Another Anniversary of Her Death
Four years ago,
bolts unlatched,
trees uprooted,
and so the heart.
Blasphemous
pink muscle,
it keeps on beating.
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This project from @sawakonakayasu is so resonant to me: "In the last few years, is there something you’ve lost for which you haven’t felt permission to mourn? What invisible loss have you endured?"
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The South Shore Housing Preservation Ordinance would set aside all city-owned vacant lots for affordable housing, ban move-in fees, cap rental application fees and security deposits…
Read more of @_ToniaHill’s reporting👇🏾
thetriibe.com/2023/09/i-dese…
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Aurora police are investigating a bomb threat that was reported Tuesday afternoon against the city’s three public library branches.
trib.al/1AqgQV3
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NOW ANNOUNCING🎙: The finalists for the 2023 GBOMA!! Thank you to everyone who shared their work with us. We invite you to join us on Thursday, September 28 at 6:30PM live at @TheDenTheatre for the finals! Visit guildcomplex.org/event/2023-gwe… for info. Tickets will be available soon. 💚
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VIDEO: Luz Encina, 94, travels every year to the Chilean coast to remember her son on his birthday. Mauricio Jorquera was one of more than 1,400 people who disappeared during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
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Since there is no white lily emoji I can only choose 🌫
Richard Siken@richardsiken
Which emoji means "Days go by, endlessly pulling you into the future"
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Today's a great day to sign up for this Wednesday's virtual workshop on Writing Queer and Trans Joy, taught by our own SG Huerta with @AbodePress. ✏️ 🌈 ♥️
buff.ly/3qRITqJ
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@AnjulieRao Dip your feet into the lake, Garfield park conservatory, dumplings in Chinatown or you could wait in a really long line for mediocre brunch 😂
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