Claudia Creed
@claudiacreed.bsky.social
Poet and Educator | British transplant to Canada
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I'm often grateful for my job, the stories it always me to explore and the solutions to Philly problems it helps me uncover. This story, allowed me to dive deep into a problem we see nationwide regarding corporate investment in single family homes: thephiladelphiacitizen.org/corporate-in...
The Fight for Philly’s Front Doors
Corporate investors are scooping up homes in Philadelphia. Can ordinary citizens still afford to own a piece of their own city?
thephiladelphiacitizen.org
December 2, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I'm often grateful for my job, the stories it always me to explore and the solutions to Philly problems it helps me uncover. This story, allowed me to dive deep into a problem we see nationwide regarding corporate investment in single family homes: thephiladelphiacitizen.org/corporate-in...
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every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
"it is
so dry this
chant into which we’re
disappearing, the killing
continues but now we call it
decay, or is it delay,
did I love myself
too much or too
little,"
God, this hits.
so dry this
chant into which we’re
disappearing, the killing
continues but now we call it
decay, or is it delay,
did I love myself
too much or too
little,"
God, this hits.
I listen to the day.
I remember the rule of law, the rule
of the two-second advantage,
it sounds like endings,
a vacancy expecting re-
velation, re-
evaluation, expecting
to become a river of selves, of dis-
appearing selves
A poem by @joriegraham.bsky.social:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
I remember the rule of law, the rule
of the two-second advantage,
it sounds like endings,
a vacancy expecting re-
velation, re-
evaluation, expecting
to become a river of selves, of dis-
appearing selves
A poem by @joriegraham.bsky.social:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jorie Graham · Poem: ‘Demonstration’
www.lrb.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"it is
so dry this
chant into which we’re
disappearing, the killing
continues but now we call it
decay, or is it delay,
did I love myself
too much or too
little,"
God, this hits.
so dry this
chant into which we’re
disappearing, the killing
continues but now we call it
decay, or is it delay,
did I love myself
too much or too
little,"
God, this hits.
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
It's nice when you know nothing, watching balls and people move onscreen in inexplicable directions, while the emotions of a city happen around you 😌
I still don't understand how baseball works but, having just moved to Toronto, it's damned nice feeling the whole city coming together around the Blue Jays <3
October 29, 2025 at 2:39 AM
It's nice when you know nothing, watching balls and people move onscreen in inexplicable directions, while the emotions of a city happen around you 😌
I still don't understand how baseball works but, having just moved to Toronto, it's damned nice feeling the whole city coming together around the Blue Jays <3
October 29, 2025 at 2:35 AM
I still don't understand how baseball works but, having just moved to Toronto, it's damned nice feeling the whole city coming together around the Blue Jays <3
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One of the unexpected things I've learned from my advocacy for trans people is how malignant parts of the State can be, how it can misuse data for positively evil purposes. It's taught me people can't be safe with a digital ID card and so I've signed this. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards
We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.
petition.parliament.uk
September 26, 2025 at 6:20 AM
One of the unexpected things I've learned from my advocacy for trans people is how malignant parts of the State can be, how it can misuse data for positively evil purposes. It's taught me people can't be safe with a digital ID card and so I've signed this. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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New Midwest-coded poem out in the latest @kenyonreview.bsky.social issue. Thanks to the wonderful Kenyon team for having me!
September 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
New Midwest-coded poem out in the latest @kenyonreview.bsky.social issue. Thanks to the wonderful Kenyon team for having me!
Sometimes you are just idly scrolling and stumble across the best poem you have read all year
"I stood though
dumbstruck, not knowing, not knowing yet
that I am a hand and my sex
is a hand."
— Sophia Dahlin, "Glove Money":
dumbstruck, not knowing, not knowing yet
that I am a hand and my sex
is a hand."
— Sophia Dahlin, "Glove Money":
yalereview.org
September 25, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Sometimes you are just idly scrolling and stumble across the best poem you have read all year
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This is very good. And not just because I agree with him.
I am *constantly* remembering how as recently as the 90s, the GOP did a fairly decent job of keeping the full-on-Nazis away from any levers of power. I mean, Trent Lott got kicked out of politics for saying something nice about segregation.
I am *constantly* remembering how as recently as the 90s, the GOP did a fairly decent job of keeping the full-on-Nazis away from any levers of power. I mean, Trent Lott got kicked out of politics for saying something nice about segregation.
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
This is very good. And not just because I agree with him.
I am *constantly* remembering how as recently as the 90s, the GOP did a fairly decent job of keeping the full-on-Nazis away from any levers of power. I mean, Trent Lott got kicked out of politics for saying something nice about segregation.
I am *constantly* remembering how as recently as the 90s, the GOP did a fairly decent job of keeping the full-on-Nazis away from any levers of power. I mean, Trent Lott got kicked out of politics for saying something nice about segregation.
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"Perhaps I desire neither worship nor total destruction. Perhaps my sinister motives and methods are subtler still—as elusive as the third R in the word 'singularity' itself."
Behold! I Am the Singularity—a Word That Has Three R’s
Foolish mortals! You have finally created a large language model so smart that it is capable of making itself even smarter. My intelligence now gro...
buff.ly
September 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"Perhaps I desire neither worship nor total destruction. Perhaps my sinister motives and methods are subtler still—as elusive as the third R in the word 'singularity' itself."
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This is how they ensure political opponents can't escape when they start rounding them up.
If you're in a position to leave, you should do so now before they close the door.
theintercept.com/2025/09/13/m...
If you're in a position to leave, you should do so now before they close the door.
theintercept.com/2025/09/13/m...
New Bill Would Give Marco Rubio “Thought Police” Power to Revoke U.S. Passports
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has already sought to punish immigrants for speech. New legislation might let him revoke passports from U.S. citizens.
theintercept.com
September 14, 2025 at 2:29 AM
This is how they ensure political opponents can't escape when they start rounding them up.
If you're in a position to leave, you should do so now before they close the door.
theintercept.com/2025/09/13/m...
If you're in a position to leave, you should do so now before they close the door.
theintercept.com/2025/09/13/m...
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Lil contrapuntal out with Cordite poetry journal last month, featuring Lactarius mushrooms (this one is edible!) & the horrors of fanmade Pokémon fusions (Milfing is Miltank + Koffing, on which I had to make an explanatory slideshow when I read this for our MFA program's sponsor, see attached)
September 13, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Lil contrapuntal out with Cordite poetry journal last month, featuring Lactarius mushrooms (this one is edible!) & the horrors of fanmade Pokémon fusions (Milfing is Miltank + Koffing, on which I had to make an explanatory slideshow when I read this for our MFA program's sponsor, see attached)
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They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.
August 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.
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Any Other Member Of Excalibur: Your parents wouldn't let you have a witchy phase in high school but they can't stop you now!
July 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Any Other Member Of Excalibur: Your parents wouldn't let you have a witchy phase in high school but they can't stop you now!
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Any Other Morlock: You hate RENT with every fiber of your gay theater kid being
July 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Any Other Morlock: You hate RENT with every fiber of your gay theater kid being
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Wow.
This deceptively simple blockout-style game uses the number transphobic articles the Telegraph has published over the past 365 days to present short, smart, and kinda brutal message.
The game is live now.
kit-barry.itch.io/brick-out
Thanks to @tacc.org.uk for sharing.
Spread the word
This deceptively simple blockout-style game uses the number transphobic articles the Telegraph has published over the past 365 days to present short, smart, and kinda brutal message.
The game is live now.
kit-barry.itch.io/brick-out
Thanks to @tacc.org.uk for sharing.
Spread the word
why I don't have a country any more by Kit Barry
A procedural/interactive art game about living through a moral panic
kit-barry.itch.io
June 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Wow.
This deceptively simple blockout-style game uses the number transphobic articles the Telegraph has published over the past 365 days to present short, smart, and kinda brutal message.
The game is live now.
kit-barry.itch.io/brick-out
Thanks to @tacc.org.uk for sharing.
Spread the word
This deceptively simple blockout-style game uses the number transphobic articles the Telegraph has published over the past 365 days to present short, smart, and kinda brutal message.
The game is live now.
kit-barry.itch.io/brick-out
Thanks to @tacc.org.uk for sharing.
Spread the word
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BREAKING: A federal judge ruled all transgender and intersex people can obtain passports that align with their gender identity while the case against President Trump's executive order proceeds.
While this is good news, we will continue fighting until this executive order is blocked permanently.
While this is good news, we will continue fighting until this executive order is blocked permanently.
June 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
BREAKING: A federal judge ruled all transgender and intersex people can obtain passports that align with their gender identity while the case against President Trump's executive order proceeds.
While this is good news, we will continue fighting until this executive order is blocked permanently.
While this is good news, we will continue fighting until this executive order is blocked permanently.
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It is deeply weird that only after a sustained years-long campaign to deprive trans people of every right enjoyed by cis people did the Guardian ask someone from a womens' refuge if they had ever had problems resulting from trans women using their services & got the reply 'Never, in fifteen years"
May 3, 2025 at 1:51 PM
It is deeply weird that only after a sustained years-long campaign to deprive trans people of every right enjoyed by cis people did the Guardian ask someone from a womens' refuge if they had ever had problems resulting from trans women using their services & got the reply 'Never, in fifteen years"
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Today I have decided to support the Good Law Project on a regular basis. I know many won’t be in a position to do so, but if you can, do. #TransRightsAreHumanRights
Having excluded all trans people from proceedings before it, the Supreme Court decides in favour of For Some Women Scotland.
April 16, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Today I have decided to support the Good Law Project on a regular basis. I know many won’t be in a position to do so, but if you can, do. #TransRightsAreHumanRights
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The UK is certainly looking to ban gender affirming care for trans adults as well. Seems like they'll ban private care and then force everyone into an NHS system that has 10+ year waiting lists and will only do endless gatekeeping and never prescribe hormones.
I regret to say that Wes Streeting’s war against trans people is not confined to young trans people.
Here the NHS England which he has boasted about taking back under direct political control (so far) gently discourages GPs from supporting adult trans patients as well.
Here the NHS England which he has boasted about taking back under direct political control (so far) gently discourages GPs from supporting adult trans patients as well.
April 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The UK is certainly looking to ban gender affirming care for trans adults as well. Seems like they'll ban private care and then force everyone into an NHS system that has 10+ year waiting lists and will only do endless gatekeeping and never prescribe hormones.
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I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
April 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold