Best quote of the day: We’re told that men should be bold, resilient, strong, that they should be providers, but based on those standards, my mother is one of the toughest men on the planet.
From Electric Literature's Interview with Adam Farrer on his memoir Broken Biscuits and Other Male Failures.
Great quote for the day from "Poppy" by Hope Henderson:
Most of all, I didn’t want to learn what the brain did: if I knew where it all came from, thoughts and movement, memory and math and dreams and speech and even love, then I would know, really know, that a human was just mud, briefly shot through with lightning and then extinguished back into the earth.
#ElectricLiterature #ElectricLit #literature #AmReading #WritingCommunity
So much love for #ElectricLiterature
Collective Nouns for #Writers #WritingCommunity #writing
--A taunting of blank pages
--An IOU of beta readers
--A whiteness of canonical texts
More brilliant words by #Ukranian #author and #soldier Artem Chapeye in #ElectricLiterature
His resistance inspired by #BlackPanthers
It was an interview of some relative of Tupac Shakur who was in the Black Panthers, and that’s what she said. Something like, “I don’t want to fight, I would like to be a gardener, a sculptor, whatever, not a warrior, but if I don’t fight, I would feel that I am compliant to evil and I would feel that I’m an accessory to evil.”
We have changed what we are by our choice, by our choices not to succumb, by our choice not to suffer defeat, not to quit, not to give up, and by our choice to fight.
Brilliant words by #Ukranian #author and #soldier Artem Chapeye in #ElectricLiterature
"It’s especially unconscionable in light of what we know now—and let’s be real, we knew it then—that low wages keep out those with less means, and those from marginalized communities, in particular. This kind of gate-keeping is deeply problematic, and the exact opposite of what publishing should be doing."
https://electricliterature.com/i-never-made-a-living-wage-when-i-worked-in-publishing/
I'm addicted to my regular emails from Electric Literature, like this article that came on Friday. My 'to-read' list now have 5 new books on it.
#Books #ElectricLiterature
Please welcome to the stage, ME! #Introductions
I write #fiction, #poems & #nonfiction (#memoir mostly). Please read my stories at #electricliterature, #shenandoah, #waxwing & other fine #publications.
I write about #poverty, the #diaspora, #trauma, #gay & #magicalrealism.
Besides being an #art #goddess, a #flamingo & a #freedomfighter, I’m a #slut, a #glamazon, a person in #recovery, a #dogmom & America's #sweetheart.
On Twitter, I was (am?) @aureleos and on Instagram I’m @aureleosans <3
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