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Dr. Mike McClelland 🌈
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Writer! Dad of 2. Teach @EIU. Book: #GayZooDay. Words: @guardian @rollingstone, @WIRED. Fiction ed. @bluestemmag. Rep: Helen Lane at Ki. Awkwardly cheerful.
Champaign, IL
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    Dr. Mike McClelland 🌈
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    Jul 15, 2024
    I really struggled to write this. Earlier this year, to discovered that the bodycam footage of my comedic, traumatic 2021 arrest had not only been released, it had gone viral on YouTube. Thanks to @guardian for giving me the space to write about it:
    Police bodycams are supposed to be tools for accountability. Are they? | Mike McClelland
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    Feb 15, 2024
    You think you’ve seen it all and then your 13-year-old blind beagle throws up the French flag in the middle of the night.
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    Dr. Mike McClelland 🌈
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    Jul 17, 2023
    Replying to @clhubes
    I don’t understand it at all. How does everyone have a couch? Couches? How are we all not just sitting on folding chairs all the time?
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    Dr. Mike McClelland 🌈
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    May 13, 2022
    Got my PhD today!
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    Dr. Mike McClelland 🌈
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    Mar 13, 2023
    No fat person is a whale, no fat person is a cute metaphor for your suffering. No fat person deserves to be represented by rubber and paint. And being fat is not a punishment, nor is it evidence of dreams unrealized.
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    Dr. Mike McClelland 🌈
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    Feb 19, 2023
    This morning my 3-year-old told me I was beautiful and my 5-year-old told screamed “No, he looks like an old clown!” so everything is fine, everything is great.
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    Dr. Mike McClelland 🌈
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    Nov 16, 2023
    Two writers who were very cruel to me are having moments and I need you all to know that I’m not being silent because of my immense grace and kindness but rather because revenge, like a hoagie, is best served long and after soaking in its own juices for a day or two.
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    Dr. Mike McClelland 🌈
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    Jul 2, 2022
    Ruined my husband’s birthday dinner by calling my racist aunt a racist how is your Saturday going?
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    Dr. Mike McClelland 🌈
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    Nov 21, 2021
    Both of my kids and all six of my nervous breakdowns were born during the writing of this big beauty (my dissertation), which I turned in last Monday! I defend in two weeks, send magic this way! ❤️❤️❤️
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    Dr. Mike McClelland 🌈
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    May 3, 2021
    I complained about my rejections yesterday and poof! - got two of my bigger acceptances today! So the lesson is...whine to the universe? 😂😍
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    Dr. Mike McClelland 🌈
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    Aug 10, 2023
    I had an absolutely terrible writing world experience last month, and my confidence was shot. Here I am on my way to dear friends for a glorious, unexpected residency, and hope is restored. When things get bad, don’t give up!
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    Dr. Mike McClelland 🌈
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    May 31, 2022
    I just made it a full hour into a book before figuring out the protagonist was a heterosexual. Unrepentantly heterosexual. Immediate one star on Goodreads, will be writing to the publisher. I will never get that hour of my life back. Devastated.
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    Dr. Mike McClelland 🌈
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    Apr 6, 2023
    Oh gosh I got a rejection from an academic journal and I forgot how MEAN these things are! Like if you’re going to reject it I don’t need all of the insults while you’re at it. Of course my argument isn’t substantial, I’m writing about gay fruit trees in Jane Austen!
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    Dr. Mike McClelland 🌈
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    Jun 9, 2021
    Woke up to a rejection from an agent that I didn’t even query, so I’m breaking new rejection ground!