RE: https://mastodon.social/@MAKS23/116499501767397286

Russian terror attacks on International Workers' day:

#russia #InternationalWorkersDay #IWD #MayDay #Ukraine #Ukrainerussiawar

Beautiful Tuesday | A Double Feature in Flowers and Verse

My poems were featured on Maggie Devers’ One Poem Only podcast two+ months ago. World Poetry Day (February 21) would have been the perfect time to share that news, but…I forgot.

Yes, I’m hanging my head in shame.

Thankfully, podcasts don’t disappear (unless deleted), so you can still access the poems (yay!). Maggie’s double feature involves her reading one poem on her podcast and the another one on Instagram. I was honored to be selected for a double feature.

Please take a moment or two to listen to Maggie’s beautiful reading of both poems.

You’ll Hear Music by Chandra! [“You’ll Hear Music” was first published in the Stafford 2024-25 Anthology].

You can access the second poem on Instagram.

Abandoned by Chandra! [“Abandoned” was recently published in the debut revival issue of Athena’s Web, the literary arts journal of Athens State University].

Let me know what you think in the comments!

About the Images: Anne Lene, my Wildflowers friend from Norway, sent the two postcards featured in this post–one for International Women’s Day 2025, the other for International Women’s Day 2026. Aren’t they lovely?

From @joannechocolat

Maddalena Casulana (1544–1590) was an Italian #composer, lutenist, and singer.

In #Venice, her book of madrigals for four voices, "Il primo libro di madrigali", was the first printed and published work by a woman in Western #music #history.

Personal note: much of her work has been lost or is incomplete, but several pieces have been found, restored, & were performed for the first time in 400 years in 2022, on BBC Radio 3 for #InternationalWomensDay

#CelebratingWomen #Italy #Maddalena_Casulana #IWD #Artemisia_Gentileschi #Madrigals

Happy International Women’s Day! 🌷

Heute feiern wir die Stärke, Kompetenz und Innovationskraft von Frauen - weltweit.

Vielfalt ist für uns kein Schlagwort, sondern ein Erfolgsfaktor. Wir setzen uns für Chancengleichheit, gegenseitigen Respekt und echte Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten ein – heute und an jedem anderen Tag im Jahr.

Danke an all die inspirierenden Frauen, die unsere Branche und unser Unternehmen jeden Tag mitgestalten.

#InternationalWomensDay #IWD #WomenInTech #Diversity #audiusgroup

For everyone sick of the #manosphere content, here’s a more joyful side of the internet that is also on the rise.

Read on to learn about 'solarpunk girlhood' 🩷🪄✨

#solarpunk #scicomm #technology #hopefulfutures #girlhood #iwd2026 #womenshistorymonth #whimsy #witchcraft #LEGOfriends #iwd

https://open.substack.com/pub/isabelrichards/p/friendship-witch-tech-and-whimsy?r=23ad8u&utm_medium=ios

This's pretty great by Eleanor Courtemanche on why British suffragettes were more violent than their US counterparts

'The moment when the fight for the women’s vote in Britain flipped from its longstanding commitment to nonviolence to a campaign of bombing and arson (from about 1912-1914) falls into a peculiar historical blind spot. It doesn’t fit in neatly to the liberal heroic narrative about how women organized peacefully in vast rallies...It doesn’t really fit the leftist narrative of these years either'

#feminism #iwd #suffragettes #history #socialJustice

https://eleanorcourtemanche.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/why-was-the-british-womens-suffrage-movement-more-violent-than-the-american-one/