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Your Body is Inside of a Mountain

Muscle memory in the scroll. Phantom vibrations like ghost limbs. What does it mean to try to hold a thought when everything wants to split it into shards...

Adolescent Cynicism & Mutual Aid in the Classroom

Teaching amid chaos, I'm grappling with how to ignite care in my students.

When July comes before September

$ · June 30, 2024

July used to be my December

I miss writing poetry.

Free Palestine.

$ · April 26, 2024

On taking a break and loosening the fuck up

my most favorite belongings

Visual Newsletter #1

February 21, 2024

straight from my desktop meme folder

$ · February 15, 2024

liah. 28. gouache babe. professional crier.

I got out of bed again.

February 7, 2024

My therapist has prescribed one hour in front of the sunlamp daily.

The Mother Grief

$ · January 4, 2024

Content Warning: Suicide Attempt, Illness, Discussion of Weight

Did Neopets make me queer?

November 10, 2023

Nah, but it sure as hell got me there faster. (2/3)

Invite your friends to read Do Art

November 3, 2023

And get some x ray goggles so you can see through paywalls.

October 31, 2023

Spooky files that have been floating around my computer.

Sometimes it's a lot.

October 25, 2023

It's all a lot.

An Ode to My Teenage Girlhood

September 25, 2023

it protected me until I could emerge: genderless and whole (1/3)

I've Inherited 70 Years Worth of Home Videos

September 14, 2023

and I'm grieving and laughing at the same time

Let's go get a slushie.

How much cast iron is on your stove?

How do you keep it all from boiling over?

Same, Marie Kondo, same.

do art > do magic

do magic > do art ?

Do we love the chaos?

On Sunday, especially?

I'm sending some memes

because it's sunday

I'm painting queer folks on skateboards

I Was Born on a Sunday

And I'm leaving Instagram on a Sunday

“What are you going to do today to resist domination?” bell hooks

....on this day that is a sunday

It is Sunday and I am making paper pulp

February 12, 2023

welcomewelcomewelcome

February 12, 2023

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