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The New Species - Voiceover
This blistering poem names Trump’s white evangelical base as a devolved “new species,” exposing their worship, cruelty, and hypocrisy in vivid…
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The best century to be stupid
We’re trained to fear being wrong. Discover why reclaiming your raw curiosity and willingness to look "stupid" is the ultimate tool for invention.
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A top of my preferred posts to start with
A top of my favorite posts on Permission to Weird.
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Sitting with yourself
Loneliness is not always a sign that someone is missing from your life. Sometimes it’s a sign you’ve been taught to outsource your happiness.
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The Curriculum of Feelings: A Complete Series
Six Stories About What Only Mortality Can Teach
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Spin Doctrine
A contemporary poem exploring embodiment, artistic freedom, anxiety, creativity, and the courage to live without performing for others.
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Impotent in Chief
A sharp contemporary satire poem about Trump, the Reflecting Pool, failed restoration, and the absurd ritual of power, invoking swamps, ducks, tariffs…
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Pending Animal
A powerful meditation on modern work, exhaustion, and what it means to stay alive.
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The Unsettling Thoughts

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Poison
A personal essay on childhood trauma, alcoholism, accountability, and breaking generational cycles of abuse without confusing compassion with…
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How to survive patriarship
A feminist essay on emotional labor, domestic labor, unequal relationships under patriarchy, and why women lose desire when they are forced to parent…
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How to save your job from AI
AI layoffs are real, but the bigger risk is becoming easier to replace. Here’s how to audit your tasks, use AI strategically, and move toward work AI…
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feminist!

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Kings of the Yes
A devastating poem about consent, violence, and how patriarchy translates a clear no into a negotiated yes.
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Motherless
A site called Motherless runs tutorials on raping unconscious women. I wrote a poem called "Motherless" about the world that lets it thrive.
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Dead woman walking
This poem is about how nobody wants to see a living woman being abused, but everyone will stare at the spectacle once she’s dead.
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Permission to Weird
Permission to Weird
This is where 'what if' questions become poems, stories, and experiments. Serialized dystopian fiction and middle-grade magical realism, really weird short stories, feminist poems and sometimes angry songs, sarcastic label designs. Want permission?

Permission to Weird

This is where 'what if' questions become poems, stories, and experiments. Serialized dystopian fiction and middle-grade magical realism, really weird short stories, feminist poems and sometimes angry songs, sarcastic label designs. Want permission?
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