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
If you are outside PA and do not have a PA area code: PHILLY NEEDS YOUR HELP
Flood 215-776-1261 with inane pointless calls and texts. Make it unusable. This phone number belongs to a tear-gassing PPD officer who is trying to avoid accountability by using his cell phone instead of radio to communicate (where we can track police activity)
Do not use leftist symbols that would indicate his number was leaked
Force the PPD back onto radio so we can track them. Harass this ass.
RUIN 215-776-1261
CALL FOR SOLIDARITY WITH PHILADELPHIA CITY WORKERS!!
Mayor Kenney is making huge cuts to city services and laying off city workers! Philadelphia is the poorest major city in America and city services are ESSENTIAL to the survival of our most vulnerable communities in a majority nonwhite city. Civil servants keep the city running and the city workers unions are asking us to act in solidarity
May 26th is a day of action! There's remote and in-person ways to participate
New poem up on Patreon
"Nails" is about how it's said that humans didn't have skin until they left the Garden of Eden. It's about imperfections.
Are you a leftist with UI/UX programming skills in React? (Why... Isn't that what Mastodon is made in? 🤔)
Anti-Eviction Map is looking for your help developing a data tool empowering tenants to fight back against landlords!
More information at this link: https://twitter.com/blprnt/status/1248380498646204422?s=19
If you're feeling lost right now, and you want to know what to do. How do we organize now? A comrade in the communist collective I'm in put together this really good introductory text compilation that I HIGHLY recommend you read:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lPOG_Iuev9ggZEGn9xEZl3VCPTEJ5kPxp9msWBYSq_U/edit
It's only 54 pages, it's not dense, it's very accessible. You can read it all in 1-2 hours and you will feel a lot more prepared afterward. It's worth your time whoever you are, I promise.
Big poem on Patreon
New poem up on Patreon for my patrons! "Tactile Memories" is a particularly long poem about being an autistic child and the heightened sensory experience of noticing small shapes, textures, and details in your environment.
New poem up on Patreon for my patrons! "Tactile Memories" is a particularly long poem about being an autistic child and the heightened sensory experience of noticing small shapes, textures, and details in your environment.
Happy #MastoMonday read my new chapbook https://workingdog.itch.io/not-about-covid19
NEW CHAPBOOK OUT NOW:
"Poems that are not about coronavirus disease 2019" is a 16-page chapbooks containing 18-or-so poems about squirrels, librarianship, frogs, King Solomon, and finding hope in time.
It's free/pay-what-you-want on itch.io
NEW CHAPBOOK OUT NOW: Poems that are not about coronavirus disease 2019
poems that are not about coronavirus disease 2019 by shel raphen
Hi everyone!! I have a new chapbook out for free/pay-what-you-want over on itch.io! https://workingdog.itch.io/not-about-covid19
A chapbook of 18-or-so poems, across 14 pages + full-color cover and
back-cover. I wrote this during the last w
https://shelraphen.com/new-chapbook-out-now-poems-that-are-not-about-coronavirus-disease-2019
NEW CHAPBOOK OUT NOW:
"Poems that are not about coronavirus disease 2019" is a 16-page chapbooks containing 18-or-so poems about squirrels, librarianship, frogs, King Solomon, and finding hope in time.
It's free/pay-what-you-want on itch.io
IMPORTANT POLL FOR MY PATREON PATRONS:
COVID-19 has affected my ability to make audio content for Patreon. Please vote on how you want me to handle that.
Happy #MastoMonday here is a poem from my nearly-finished the chapbook: "Poems that are not about coronavirus disease 2019"
I only have one page left before it's done I've just been stuck trying to figure out how it should end. This is the penultimate poem.
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
@shel one of my fav & first mastodon bandcamp finds was Night of Mourning by @papichulo – a queer afrolatinx NB trans man w/a rich, amazing voice & beautiful, pure love-song lyricism
http://mxvalentino.bandcamp.com/album/night-of-mourning
@shel@snouts.online Smoulder is a Canadian heavy metal band who flew to Greece for a tour, like, as things got really awful and immediately had to fly back to Canada. If you like classic heavy metal and sword-and-sorcery subjects, I highly recommend their music. They're an up-and-coming band without the backing of a major label so cancelling an entire tour hit them really hard.
Gay jackal dog (תן) poet troublemaker. this is my public alt account. my main is private.
http://pronoun.is/ze/hir?or=they
twitter: @workingdog_@twitter.com