Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

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author of BEAST MERIDIAN, first-gen anchor baby, PhD single mami. MAGICAL/REALISM, out with Penguin /Tiny Reparations Books in Fall 2023
Websitehttps://vanessaangelicavillarreal.com/about
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Twitterhttps://twitter.com/Vanessid
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Vanessa Angélica VillarrealNov 14, 2022
Nicole ChungNov 14, 2022
just used pruvisto.org/debirdify to find folks from Twitter and import them to my followed list here—it was very fast and appears to have worked!
Show threadVanessa Angélica VillarrealNov 8, 2022
"[Digital white flight] is premised on a single privileged assumption: that there are, somewhere, safe and comfortable spaces of existence."
Vanessa Angélica VillarrealNov 8, 2022

Just going to leave this here

“Leaving Twitter now says more about you than Elon Musk”
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/twitter-blue-ticks-elon-musk-white-people-leaving/

Leaving Twitter says more about you than Elon Musk

OPINION: The platform was already a haven for abuse. What could be taken away is structural privilege, not safety

openDemocracy
Vanessa Angélica VillarrealNov 7, 2022
Oh it's overcast and raining in LA? My writer's block is gone
Vanessa Angélica VillarrealNov 7, 2022

I guess I'll do an #introduction
Hello hello, I'm Vanessa, and I'm a poet, critic, and PhD student at USC in CW and literature, studying mostly postcolonial and critical race theory, memory studies, and more recently, the intersections between fantasy and race. Looking to connect with writers of color.

I've written for The Cut, Harper's Bazaar, Oxford American and others, and have poems in Poetry, Poets.org, Paris Review, NYT, etc.

I'm also a single mom living in LA. It's expensive.

Vanessa Angélica VillarrealNov 7, 2022
I understand this, but the whole point of Mastodon is that it's decentralized, meaning that a commons is not built-in as a FEATURE. "No main characters" and all that. So no matter how many of "my" people I follow, if a new writer posts their work, it's unlikely I'll ever see it.
Vanessa Angélica VillarrealNov 7, 2022
Super-interesting how Elno impersonation accounts get *immediately* suspended but Imani Perry's account remains hacked
Vanessa Angélica VillarrealNov 7, 2022
Post-pandemic, so many of us have become more isolated, lonely, nearly friendless. Twitter was and is crucial for alleviating that loneliness, and I worry about what will happen to people, including myself, who are losing this as not only a place of connection, but a commons.
Show threadVanessa Angélica VillarrealNov 7, 2022
And before you say Mastodon is a commons, no it isn't. You cannot just search and find people on Mastodon if they are on other instances. People on other instances are invisible to you.
Vanessa Angélica VillarrealNov 6, 2022
I just