Lala

a full body illustration of leora in a hanfu in celebration for lunar new year

Happy Lunar New Years' Eve! 🧧🎨

A miniature manifesto for friendship in this #birddivination from Audubon's Woodpecker. As always, find it as a solo print and part of the deck of 100, along with the story and process behind them, at almanacofirds.org

Full on coveting rn

Ooooh that belted dress 💞

I made some cyanotype prints today that weren’t too bad

A variety of red plastic bags filled with Chinese candies

Just got a package of all my fave Chinese candies from my fam in the bay and I’m crying - I love my Tucson life but packages like these remind me how much I miss living in a city with at least one proper 99 Ranch market

Yesssssss

Killer last line - Gorgeous!

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

poets are the opposite of content creators we basically just make really effed up bowls that you can store the remains of your wondering in

Currently in Tucson

It keeps me up at night

Today's Poem brought to you by the great and wise Octavia Butler:

Pidgin is poetry bah

A billboard that says "NO BE A STINKAH, USE ONE BLINKAH"

The Hawaii Department of Transportation has a message for everyone.

Shut up and take my money

My cousin’s parents take their kid every single weekend - they go out for drinks, go on dates, go to shows, sleep in. My parents are out of state and I have no family help, so when they start complaining about parenting stress my “you don’t know how good you got it” look shuts them right up.

Ooooo I love this

How did it turn out? It sounds goods and I also have an excess of peanut butter in the house…

I got very choked up in class today showing my students what James Baldwin had to say about Shakespeare:

“the greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. he could have done this only through love…”

©️ Cristian Berga

Collage #1549
Besar tu nombre con mis labios.

Love this - my best friend died last fall, yesterday was her birthday and I planned to go have cake for her but couldn’t do it, made me too sad - hoping I have the spirit to honor her memory in this fashion soon

For real let’s direct their bloodlust at soldiers who know what they’re doing rather than ppl armed with whistles

Aspirational as I start therapy

That place is so weird and cool

The Night Cry Not with my full strength O not yet with my full strength Kneeling down to be closer to the water At night He had been drawn from his home by the gray fields To the black water Whose far runnels sounded distinct In the dawn of the gray fields The night standing The principles he'd fought for The dog saving him All a dream Which had comforted him without meaning to 1961 (written ca. 1958)

John Ashbery

Love it when being a scum sucking second fiddle douchebag doesn’t pay off

There’s a Tucson feed here in Bluesky that has a lot of timely postings for local activism and events

A Poem for Someone
Who Is Juggling Her Life

Regardless of occasion, pie is superior to cake in virtually every metric: Better use of ingredients. More options for variety. No cloying icing. The potential for sprinkles.