Some poets: We hate The New York Times more than The New Yorker. Actually, we love The New Yorker.

Really? That's interesting.

The @nytimes had an entire series called THE DISABILITY SERIES. So that happened.

Remind me, again, when @NewYorker last pubbed disabled writer?
And while we're here: How many openly & out disabled editors does @NewYorker actually employ? How many staff? How many tech people? How many ANYONE AT ALL openly and out as disabled at #TheNewYorker
Poets of a Certain Pedigree & possibly my Elders in Disability Studies:

"Cy, this is not the way to go about it."

Really? Interesting.

Because I've been "going about it" the other way, by writing poems, for FIFTEEN YEARS and nothing has changed.

#ChangeIt #DisabilityPride
To quote my teacher, Ishmael Reed, "I'm not even from New York." #IshmaelReed #MyTeacherRepsForDisabledPoets #DoesYours
You want to see him say it?

The direct quote is: "I don't even live in New York. I'm just someone who takes on institutions against the odds." 🖤



#HireDisabledPpl @NewYorker #OrBecomeIrrelevant

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Mar 7
Lex posts are generally about:

1) The same person named Sammy fucking everybody up in California & 1000 ppl writing "help me get over my ex they're so beautiful"

2) User not found: these are lost heterosexuals aka queer next year

3) People who garden
I have never met SO MANY GARDENERS in my life. I could start a Garden of Eden
This reminds me @AskiasEmporium I owe you something for that publication & I swear I am on it.

Thank you very much for accepting the poem "Are There Any Lesbians Left in the Garden." I'm so happy that poem has a home w/ Columbia
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Mar 6
How many students are going to tell me what men did to them before somebody at my work place does something to protect our students
I am disgusted. I am receiving yet another revelation. I am holding space for that student.
If you are a student and you are being harmed then I am asking to plz reach out to any of the following places:

FSU Victims Advocate (850) 644-7161. This is confidential & I trust them. But they are Univ affiliated.
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Mar 5
What's up with @NewYorker for the abled poets who just haven't noticed their favorite zine reeks of fascism + ableism:

@TheBrooklynRail : ... in response to the ableism in her poem “The Star Market” in The New Yorker. In the penultimate stanza, your speaker interrupts herself to
say, “No one likes the poetry police. I’m not the poetry police.” Can you say more about what you mean by that? And have there been instances in which readers have reacted negatively to your criticisms and activism?
@TheBrooklynRail : Do you have any suggestions for dealing with defensiveness or fragility in the face of dissent?

Cy: I’m thinking of how Žižek, when answering a question, often says, “Did you see this movie? It’s not even a good movie.” Right? And then he moves on
Read 6 tweets
Mar 5
Happening now: Zoom with @lacancircle

"We have been invaded by the proliferation of the impossible Real" quoting Lacan
"Science affects nature but it does not affect the subject. Disjunction between science and the human psyche." Rik Loose paraphrasing #Freud from Civilization & Its Discontents
"Stars in the sky? They never lie. They do not commit errors. But humans do [...] Knowledge is based on an unlimited universe and when applied to Earth it encounters limits."

Rik Loose talk: The Fall of the Object to Earth:
Object a at the Zenith Immonde and Discontent
Read 22 tweets
Mar 5
Times I think 'what is Marie Howe doing tonite' : 0

Times I think 'what is Ronaldo Wilson doing tonite' : Infinite
If you have not read Ronaldo Wilson, then are you just wanting to make sure you have something really good to read at some later point or what.
The Poet of a Certain Pedigree: We must not say that.

Catullus: I will draw dicks all over the joint.

Ronaldo Wilson: Herman the German
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Feb 14
One of my support ppl right now

(I have like a team of 17 support ppl bc this workplace harassment been going on a minute so obviously I have team of support ppl & I told each "dont be obvious on social")

is indubitably watching me tweet & abt to txt:
How do I know? Because that specific support person? That is her only thing she says. She says, "I am here to tell you to get off the internet" and I say back "thank you very much. That is excellent advice. For someone else. You still wanna support tho?" and she says, "YES."
She is my designated Le Tigre.
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