Shel For The Public @shel@cybre.space

ok new #introductions

i'm shel i'm 24, non-binary/de facto a trans woman. i'm a "significant figure in mastodon history" and former big deal dev. i appreciate marx and do DSA/Refoundation stuff. i write poetry. i'm a queer shitposting furry. i'm working full-time while doing grad school for library science on the side. I made http://sailingroughwaters.com which is a mental health resource targeting marginalization/microaggression-induced stress. find my shit at https://datapup.info also twitter is @datapup_@twitter.com

#introductions addendum: also check out me and @masklayer's band https://fuckcore.bandcamp.com

Not everything you see is directed at you personally

Hey y'all, Philly Socialists, one of the most promising leftist organizations in the country, is raising funds to provide pabdemic disaster relief mutual aid across Philadelphia, one of the poorest major cities in the country. They do amazing work and pioneered the base-building model of organizing that has found so much success in tenant's unions and community gardens. Now they're responding to COVID-19

If you can donate it would be so impactful.

https://chuffed.org/project/philly-socialists-covid-19-mutual-aid-support-delivery

Working on a new mini-chapbook while at work. Here are some excerpts

Sixth attempt at posting this

FUCK WRONG PRIVACY SETTINGS

NEW CHAPBOOK

https://itch.io/jam/poetry-jam-february-2020/rate/579129

My new Chapbook for @hologramvin's February Poetry Jam 2020 is PUBLISHED! WOO!It's a 40-page book of mostly haiku about trains and trolleys and lotsa stuff but mostly about family, memory, and moving on.I will be recording an audiobook version to be released as a patreon-exclusive very soon.

https://itch.io/jam/poetry-jam-february-2020/rate/579129

https://shelraphen.com/new-chapbook

My new Chapbook for @hologramvin@twitter.com's February Poetry Jam 2020 is PUBLISHED! WOO!

It's a 40-page book of mostly haiku about trains and trolleys and lotsa stuff but mostly about family, memory, and moving on

https://itch.io/jam/poetry-jam-february-2020/rate/579129

My poetry jam chapbook is alllmossst done just needs some finishing touches then I'll release it for free and post an audio recording to Patreon. Regular Patreon content will resume later this month probably gonna queue it up during spring break from grad school.

curious about the details of the cult I was in? and what exactly the poems in Jovian Flesh & Fauna trying to describe, I tell the gritty real stories without the metaphors in the author commentary being published on Patreon. What IS a Sleen? It's on https://patreon.com/shelraphen

I just recently on Patreon posted a poem about a bunch of queers doing a nude ritual in a lake under the New Moon, and a poem about class disparity fucking with our relationships. On the 15th I'll be posting a poem about your co-worker being replaced by an anthropomorphic insect

I just wrote a poem about recovery from unhealthy behaviors using a Sonic the Hedgehog metaphor and a poem about the embodiment of Hedonism trying to seduce you and fuck you instead of thinking about the state of the world.

(just got told my car needs brake service and it'll cost nearly a month of rent, and my job didn't give me any hours for a few weeks because we were closed, so yeah time to shill for my fuckin Patreon MaPa needs that gig economy money)

The only way to get hard copies of my chapbooks right now is through pledging to my Patreon. You get the chapbook mailed to you and access to nearly a whole chapbook's worth of exclusive content on Patreon; including poems about alienation from (E)stranged Earth, my next chapbook