after Amanda Goldblatt after Anne Boyer, etc.

Things I cannot write because I am a contingent faculty member at a defunded public university during this extreme speed-up of authoritarianism and use all of my days and weeks to do: union work, rapid response emails, prepping two packed gen ed writing classes and one stacked undergrad/grad writing class:

how some of Lisa Fishman's stories in World Naked Bike Ride might be understood alongside of Kathryn Scanlan's Aug 9 - Fog and Thomas Hardy's gloomy preservationist impulses

how certain femme clerks at the Addison and California Sally Beauty Supply have assisted me over the years when I go in with our (now, age 14) daughter to buy hair dye, which I will apply for her in our dining room while we watch a "show" (on youtube) called Sightseeing Sally

about the movie Weapons (an orange-haired parasite enters a community--causing public rifts between parents and teachers--and then weaponizes and disappears people, forever altering the individuals' and families' sense of wellbeing--but, btw, Phil pointed out to me last night that the film has a dangerous potential to be read as antisemitic) & Tim Robinson's new project The Chair Company (kind of normcore Kafka stuff) & this web series-turned-streaming-series Ha Ha You Clowns as depicting a certain strand of the "decline of America" that relies on plastic-garbage-bougee-homes-jam-packed shelves-of-products meets the tender

my poetry novel about vampires who just want pleasure to go on forever and for tender moments to be elevated to the sublime and doomy feeling of eternity

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-Not Writing – Bookforum Magazine

-Amanda ran an exercise in our NEIU English Dept. Writing & Literature Collective last year, to think about what will not exist as a result of the NEA cuts