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🌈🙌 We’re back! Can I get an amen? open.substack.com/pub/susanruk...
“I still cling to the belief, his belief, that goodness and justice will prevail.” 🖤 Today would’ve been my father‘s birthday. He was a journalist, the real kind, and he would be horrified. open.substack.com/pub/susanruk...
Please do better.
You can leave me out of this biphobia
Let’s help each other claim and reclaim our voices.
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For anyone worried that they will never move on from their ex, I offer this: I just remembered that I used to get a period every month. For decades! Completely slipped my mind. Yes, you can even forget a relationship that annoys the shit out of you, 3 weeks of every 4. ✅
🌈💥 “I close this year, this chapter, and open a new one, fresh and inviting as a thick, blank notebook and my favorite purple ballpoint. I wish you the same, renewed possibility, in whatever form you need.”
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🩵❤️🖤 Open Mic this Friday night at the Underdog Bookstore in Monrovia, CA
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🌈💥 More from BAD WORDS: Feminist, Queer & otherwise Radical. Now available!
Here is “For Sale: Black & Blue Babydoll (Used).” It first appeared in my chapbook, Swap/Meet (Space Cowboy Books, 2018). This recording is from 2020, when we were all locked down. 🖤 youtu.be/3foVPK2bIgA?...
Available online wherever you buy books: linktr.ee/susanrukeyse...
🌈💥 From my new collection of short, hybrid prose inspired by the Desert Split Open Mic, BAD WORDS: Feminist, Queer, and otherwise Radical: youtube.com/shorts/juUpx...
I need you to understand how excited I am for this upcoming book event at Viva Rescue, a queer women run animal sanctuary in Menifee, California. After I introduce my novel, The Worst Kind of Girl, we will have a community open mic, followed by a tour of the sanctuary. 🐐🐴 vivaglobalrescue.org/events
You knew I had to weigh in on this nastiness. This brief post includes an excerpt from my novel The Worst Kind of Girl, a passage all too relevant to this conversation.
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Epic rain in southern California this weekend. I’ll see you in Menifee, CA, on Sunday December 14.
“I want us to get really comfortable with the sound of our voices, amplified, insistent, saying what we mean, how we feel, and what our experiences have been — consciously exercising our right to free speech, as if it could be taken away, because it could.” open.substack.com/pub/susanruk...
WIMMEN’S COMIX panel at the 29 Palms Book Festival, Friday Nov 7 at 3:30, Twentynine Palms, CA
Red Light Lit performance at the Out There Bar, 29 Palms Book Festival, Saturday Nov 8, 8 PM, Twentynine Palms, CA
Will I see you this weekend? 📚🎤
Saturday! 🌈✨Bookish LGBTQ+ folks and their friends will be here - will you? I’ll be signing and selling books from 10-11 AM (when it’s still nice & cool) with local authors under the big tent. 🎪 Now, more than ever, let’s show up loud and proud. 🖤🤎🩷🤍🩵❤️🧡💛🌴💙💜
Time isn’t real/doesn’t matter, unless you want to make it to one of these upcoming book events. Hope to see you! 🌈💥
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Signing with local authors on Sat November 1, 10-11 AM, Palm Springs Cultural Center
Panel Moderator: Wimmen's Comix, a VIP Conversation, at 29 Palms Book Festival, 3:30 PM, Friday November 7. Reader, Red Light Lit, 8:00 PM, Saturday November 8.
Reading, open mic, and sanctuary tour Saturday November 15, 3-5 PM, at Viva Rescue, Menifee, CA. RSVP for address
The Worst Kind of Girl and I will be out and about in Southern California in the next few weeks. Will we see you?
The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”
The Desert split open celebrates band books week, sat 11, 3 to 5 PM, local author readings plus an open mic. At the flamingo Heights community center, 55977 Perris St, Yucca Valley
🌈✊📚 Hope to see you at the Desert Split Open’s celebration of Banned Books Week! Saturday, 3 PM, at the Flamingo Heights Community Center (55977 Perris St, Yucca Valley, CA, behind La Copine). open.substack.com/pub/susanruk...
