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what’s the best declaration of love and why is it “since I met you I’ve been thinking about getting a car”

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Kifah: jellyfish have survived 600,000 years without brains.

Nasir: a ray of hope for Altair.

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asoue + tumblr

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I got some really good news after speaking at an anti racist healthcare meeting today and I am uplifted by people doing the work of decolonizing themselves and the systems they are a part of

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dipshits can send me as many pro white supremacist anons as they want I will continue blocking and not engaging

side note you ass clowns are not special you are backed by the state which has been built through systemic violence

and also you are fucking morons

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supporting Israel is a facet of supporting white supremacy, if you can’t see how- read more (or pull your head out your ass)

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Gale: i have no chance with katniss if peeta is hurt she literally only cares about fixing people it's like she doesn't even love me

Peeta: do i like breathing i think i do

Katniss: i need to kill the president

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Shout out to all the notes-app poems, love letters, secrets, novels, diary entries, bucket lists and lyrics that were hurredly typed into people’s phones at 3am and then hidden from the world and forgotten. Maybe one day you’ll open the app and laugh at how pretentious you were, or maybe you’ll smile at that part of yourself that noone else saw

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Psych 3x10

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Me, a black American who has watched east and south Asians culturally appropriate our culture with impunity for years, see east and south Asians having a melt down over white women discovering Lehengas and Korean makeup:

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City Lights’ Bookstore // San Francisco, USA

Off Jack Kerouac St this popular Beatnik hangout was so cozy and I found a book (The Mountain in the Sea) I sat there reading for way longer than intended. Shoutout to bookstore staff picks for always coming through

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"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them." ― James Baldwin

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Kenan Thompson was the best guest star on Psych

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Who makes the porn bots. Where do they come from. What do they hope to achieve.

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There Used to Be a Lake Here Once (April, 2024)

I wrote this poetry collection when I was in college and it ended up getting acquired by the Writers Workshop, Kolkata- an Indian independent press that has published, among others, the works of Ruskin Bond, Vikram Seth, Kamala Das, Nissim Ezekiel and AK Ramanujan.

I grew up in Kolkata in the mid 2010s, whilst juggling multiple identities- Bengali girl child, queer teen brought up under a Catholic school system, later, a transgender enby poet and writer reconciling my personal and political worlds through academia and writing. This chapbook, divided into two sections, contains twenty-six poems on Bengali trans queer coming-of-age. I wrote it for the same reason I write all my stories: in the hopes that younger queer and trans desi youths can take some heart, and know they aren't as alone as I felt when I was a kid– even if the versions of India we have lived through are quite different, for better and for worse.

Anyway, cheesy stuff over. My author copies just arrived today and well, aren't they simply beautiful? Apparently, there will be more different colour editions. Which one do you like best?