Shira Erlichman
@sheer_awe
writer ∞ artist ∞ musician • Author of Odes to Lithium & Be/Hold: A Friendship Book • Founder of @insurreallife (she/her/hers)
Sometimes when we sit down to write, we feel "in charge." This poem came to me whole, as a visitation, with appearances by my @morganapple & Allegra & my dead. Thank you to the vastness for giving me space to receive a spell that says "Get in" to it all. thenation.com/article/cultur…
people who have been using the em dash long before ai know that it’s the jazz riff of punctuation, the tightrope between intuition and impulse, the trapdoor for digressions—it’s the writing fidget spinner for centrifugal thinkers
On grieving a friend 🤍 shiraerlichman.substack.com/p/grieving-a-f…
🥰🫂😈 we in there.
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The last paragraph is something like a Hippocratic oath for humanities professors
NEW: AI is not revolutionary. It’s a gimmick, writes @JonMalesic. hedgehogreview.com/web-features/t…
I get this question a lot. I don't have strong views on how transmasc people should dress, but since I often get the question, I've thought about it a bit. Will share some thoughts in this thread. 🧵
Derek would you ever consider doing a thread on how transmascs can dress well and have clothing that helps hides hips and stuff? Only advice I've gotten are straight leg jeans and a boxy shirt
Van Gogh wrote this in a letter to his brother Theo who he often corresponded with about his art and life.
We were taught about Anne Frank so it would never happen again, and every day I open this app and see the last words of countless new Anne Franks in real time...
Good morning, we are still alive and we will not give up 🍉🇵🇸
Y'all realize how chilling this statement is? 😶
my mama didn’t raise a quitter, she raised a burnt out perfectionist who is sometimes bludgeoned into settling for mediocrity
This is your sign to start a hyperlocal magazine with your roommates
I've been trying to find this quote forever, and just saw that I bookmarked it ages ago. Anyway, this has kept me going through many rejections.
Trust your work. You don’t have to trust fate, or destiny, or other people, or contests, or prizes. Develop your skills. Focus on them. Give them your attention & energy. Everything else is extra, is touch & go, is fine, is the plate. But your work is the meal.
when ppl are coming out of a depressive episode, one of the most common self-reports is that a gust of wind *feels* like something again. So often it’s a gust of wind, evoking something that had for a time been lost. Again & again ppl say this
Israel tortures a child in prison to death. AP can't even say that
A teenager from the West Bank who was held in an Israeli prison for six months without being charged died after collapsing in unclear circumstances, becoming the first Palestinian under 18 to die in Israeli detention, officials said. apnews.com/article/israel…
Please join me & help Yasser, Najla, & their 5 children survive in Gaza 🇵🇸🩶❤️ chuffed.org/project/113180…
studio ghibli already made a movie where children starve and die because an imperialist power wanted to go to war so there was no need for the ai.
We thought we’d also hop on the Ghibli trend.