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Lucas Scheelk@tc221bee.bsky.social |
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🏳️⚧️ autistic poet 🏳️🌈 ✨ Irish-American antizionist Jew ✨ college dropout ✨ married ✨ lifelong student for liberation ✨ [they/them]
📚: lucasscheelk.substack.com/about
🚨: ceasefiretoday.com
ALL EYES ON RAFAH
PALESTINIAN LIBERATION IS TIKKUN OLAM
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Lucas Scheelk
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I’m opening poetry commissions this month so I can pay utilities ($100) as I continue job searching. NOTE: Please first prioritize your own survival needs, as well as funds towards Palestinians, before commissioning me. Thank you!
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Lucas Scheelk
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Things I’ve been emotional about now I’m not homeless: - access to a bathroom sink - not having to sleep on a broken loveseat - the fear of neighbors calling the treyf on me has lessened - access to a working oven Kicker is my old place sat empty the WHOLE YEAR I was homeless
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Lucas Scheelk
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I’m still technically away.
After nearly a year of being homeless, I’m getting housing this week! So my focus is on that.
In the meantime, please check out @gazafunds.bsky.social (refreshes to a new GFM when you visit) ⬇️
gazafunds.com
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Lucas Scheelk
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Sending my support to the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at the UMN (Twin Cities campus)! It’s one of the colleges I attended years ago. Since I’m not residing in the same state anymore, I’m there with you all in spirit!
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Lucas Scheelk
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Towards the end of the article is Mohammad Saleh’s translated poem, “She tripped in beauty (…)” Please take the time to read Saleh’s words May he rest peacefully / may his memory be a blessing / may his memory be for liberation
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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Today is the last day U.S. hospitals will be required to report COVID admissions, capacity, or occupancy data to the federal government. This will make it even more difficult to track the state of the ongoing COVID pandemic, as well as monitor potential pandemics like bird flu.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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Love this! Fund science, not genocide.
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Georgina Kiersten (they/them)
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When it comes to this Freydis Moon situation we should at all times be centering the queer and trans Latinx book community who affected the most. We should also be centering Freydis's victims. This is not the time to get on your self-righteous self-congratulatory soap box.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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Every person has the right to wear a mask. There are many good reasons for doing so: COVID, airborne pathogens, sickness, privacy, surveillance, allergies, work etc. No one should ever have to explain or justify why they are wearing a mask — that’s none of your business.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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No one should ever be harassed or attacked for wearing a mask and businesses should never prohibit employees from wearing a mask to protect themselves. For public health, workers' rights, and human rights reasons, governments should implement laws that protect everyone's right to wear a mask.
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Lucas Scheelk
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This Pesach (& often) I reflect on Hereness: - how to be a better guest on Turtle Island - how to best aid in Tikkun Olam Free Palestine! —————— Next year may we all be free! ✨ eSims for Gaza [gazaesims.com] ✨ Operation Olive Branch [🔗🌲: opolivebranch] ✨ Freedom Flotilla [freedomflotilla.org]
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Lucas Scheelk
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Gazan poet Nadine Murtaja and her family need help evacuating from Gaza! Nadine’s dream is to become a dentist!
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Radical Graffiti
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'If you don't like graffiti look away like you do for genocide" Seen in Austin, Texas
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Lucas Scheelk
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& while I have people’s attention for a moment:
1. Operation Olive Branch is a grassroots collective effort to amplify Palestinians & their GFMs
linktr.ee/opolivebranch
2. eSims for Gaza
gazaesims.com
3. Crips for eSims for Gaza
chuffed.org/project/crip...
FREE PALESTINE
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Lucas Scheelk
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I acknowledge the apology from Ian & Mason Jar Press. I don’t know if it’ll ever include forgiveness. At every point, the outcome could’ve been different. Poets smarter than myself state that to be a poet is to be a witness, and to that extension, so should a literary press.
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💀Zeldrick🪐
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I've heard a lot of people are in a slump lately, so here are some words to take to heart
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Lucas Scheelk
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Yesterday, Mason Jar Press finally released an official statement about the ongoing genocide that Palestinians are facing. This comes two months after my open letter (where I ended my author contract), and after writer Maya Salameh turned down the 1729 Book Prize. Disappointing, to say the least.
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Lucas Scheelk
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Last week I distributed the last 34 copies of, “A Prayer For A Non-Religious Autistic” (former publisher) to Little Free Libraries. My books came in the mail 2 days before Small Press Distribution closed. Why document this? Getting a book published is a Life Event - even if it’s at an end.
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Cats of Yore
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Look at this beauty. ❤️ A stained glass piece by my friend @stonkers.bsky.social inspired by the medieval Old Gaelic poem, Pangur Bán. It is by a monk who would work tirelessly at his studies as his cat, Pangur Bán, faithfully hunted mice. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangur_...
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Lucas Scheelk
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Two months sober from alcohol! [Note: I try not to fixate on sober dates (for memory reasons & also it can be extremely stressful), but for the moment I feel I need to document it]
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Lucas Scheelk
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This is going to disproportionately impact homeless people, this is horrific, Spokane! Anyone can overdose on fentanyl (regardless of one use, having a substance use disorder, etc.), and mandatory treatment only harms communities more!
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SG ☀️
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info on solidarity with Palestine (and accountability for lit orgs that have no interest in that), opportunities for marginalized writers, fantastic writing from around the internet, and more in my latest:
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Lucas Scheelk
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Happy #TransDayOfVisibility ✨🏳️⚧️✨
If you’re like me & have been struggling to stay in this universe:
I see you & I’m glad you’re still here 💖
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beestung
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Happy #TDOV #TDOV2024 #TransDayofVisibility #TDOV24
Read some really good two-spirit, non-binary, and genderqueer writing at beestung, the magazine for that.
beestungmag.com/issues/
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Lucas Scheelk
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“In solidarity with [Gazan poet and Mizna Fellow] Yahya Ashour’s nineteen family members who must escape the dire situation in Gaza, Mizna is supporting Yahya Ashour to fund their evacuation through the sale of this e-book.”
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Dom Evans
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Don't believe the lies the government is trying to tell you. The pandemic is not over. Things have never been more dangerous for everyone not paying attention to what's really happening.
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Prisonculture
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SPD going down is truly horrible. The presses they distributed are screwed out of money and also out of their print runs already in the works. I keep saying how difficult publishing is and it's just gotten so much harder. Distribution is KEY.
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Sonia Sulaiman
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All aboard the hype train, pre-orders for Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction are live! fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/thyme-t...
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Preeti Chhibber
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apropos of some things, libraries are the best, librarians are the best, borrow as many books as you want from the library, fund libraries, thank you
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Lucas Scheelk
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What a horrible way to end things, SPD & you didn’t even give publishers a warning first?!
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Lucas Scheelk
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PUBLISHERS FOR PALESTINE: “If you are facing punishment for your solidarity with Gaza and the Palestinian people, or simply for being Palestinian, in the spheres of writing, publishing, or bookselling, or if you have witnessed censorship of Palestinian voices and solidarity in the book industry…”
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Lucas Scheelk
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Your Little Free Library is inaccessible if… - it’s inside a building (& is locked “after hours”) - you have to use stairs to access it - you install a nearby camera - there’s no way to protect the books from the elements *examples are from observing many Little Free Libraries
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Plague Poems
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When I am overcome by despair I try to remember back to the early days and months of the pandemic when imperfect as it was so many people acted as if they understood that we are in this together yes, I try to remember that but my despair answers “and then what happened?”
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Alice Wong
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Don't become numb to the atrocities and suffering happening to Palestinians at the hands of the IDF. Help us facilitate communication by providing free eSims to people desperately in need. Donate here: chuffed.org/project/crip...
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Lucas Scheelk
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[Minneapolis-specific] “On April 24, 2024, at 7pm, join us for a screening of Wajib by Annemarie Jacir. In addition to ticket fees going to support the featured Palestinian filmmakers, we will be raising money for Crips for Esims for Gaza.” FREE PALESTINE
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Lucas Scheelk
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COVID Mutual Aid: KN95 Masks (✨ only if you’re able) 1. Get single-packaged KN95s 2. Size & color will vary but MUST have standard number GB2626-2019 on KN95 masks 3. Use sandwich bags to make 5-packs 4. Put COVID safety info on sandwich bags 5. Give out to community members!
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Lucas Scheelk
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On #WorldPoetryDay I mourn the Palestinian poets & writers martyred during the ongoing genocide in Palestine
Here are just some of the community members lost & universes now gone:
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Lucas Scheelk
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day! FREE PALESTINE! ———————— Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh! Saoirse Don Phailistín!
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Lucas Scheelk
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day! FREE PALESTINE! ———————— Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh! Saoirse Don Phailistín!
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Link is coconut-pilled. 🥥 🌴
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March 12, 1990. US Capitol Crawl. Disabled activists went up the steps of the US Capitol building without their mobility aids and devices in order to demonstrate the need for Congress to pass the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Georgina Kiersten (they/them)
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It's a day of action! It's been 150 days since the St.Martin's boycott began. St Martin's Press and Wednesday's Books
still refuse to acknowledge or truly give a sincere apology for the blatant racism and islamophobia their social media manager exhibited last year. #speakupsmp
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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4 years ago today, the WHO declared COVID a pandemic. Today, we will rightfully remember the tens of millions of people who have died. We must never forget. But we must also remember COVID is still killing, disabling, and excluding too many. We are still in a pandemic. We still need to act.
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Sage Still Masks
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Ramadan Mubarak to all celebrating! ❤️
If you’re able to, please donate eSims through Crips for eSims— organized in part by @SFDirewolf —as eSims have been vital for Palestinians to contact family & friends, & make a huge difference:
chuffed.org/project/crip...
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Lucas Scheelk
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Ramadan Mubarak to all who observe 💖
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Lucas Scheelk
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I’m one month sober from alcohol today!
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Lucas Scheelk
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Poetry community, what are your fave poems: 1. Set in & are explicitly about the early years (2020-2022) of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic 2. By poz poets written during the height of the AIDS epidemic (1980s & 1990s) This is part of my lifelong self-education path as a poet.
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Lucas Scheelk
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WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT? “If we can demonstrate our political power and discontent through thousands of votes for 'Uncommitted Delegates' in Washington State’s Democratic Presidential primary, we’ll create a way to have our pro-CEASEFIRE voices heard in the Democratic Party process.” FREE PALESTINE!
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Lucas Scheelk
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I now have regained access to FB & IG
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Lucas Scheelk
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I cannot access my personal facebook, and my instagram is not working. For the time being, texting and email are the best ways to get a hold of me, if we’re in connection that way.
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