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Laura Chow Reeve
@laurachowfun.bsky.social
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🌀writing + drawing
🐍 author: A SMALL APOCALYPSE (@nupress.bsky.social)
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So happy that my graphic essay/comic about fear, safety, queer domesticity, and bats 🦇 found a home at @theflreview.bsky.social’s online journal Aquifer! It’s up now and I’d love for you to take a peek.

🔗 in bio!
February 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Ok but look at these latest beauties that will be a part of the #abortionquilt! There is still time for you to submit.
February 20, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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A few early submissions to the abortion quilt project! There is still time to submit your square or make one with a friend to mail them to us by 3/14!
Scrappy improv log cabin quilt square in blue and green with a red pop in the middle. Pieced quilt block with a clinic in blues, greens, red door A quilt square with blue, green, and neutral color lines of the same size radiating out from the center hexagon with thin red lines disrupting the pattern.
February 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Fiction writers! Looking forward to reading your submissions to the 2025 Bellingham Review literary contest. 1st place winner wins $1k!

More details: bhreview.org/general-subm...
Graphic announcing the 2025 Bellingham Review contest judges with photos of Gabrielle Bates (poetry), Laura Chow Reeve (fiction), and Lilly Dancyger (nonfiction).
January 31, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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drawn mostly while on the phone with a very nice woman at chase bank. how has your sleep been?
Comic of water faucet with two drops of water in front of plastic water bottles and a pot being boiled. Text reads: Richmond, VA has been in a water crisis with no water since Monday. People with water are being told to boil it. Comic of red and orange flames surrounding Los Angeles neighborhood. Text reads: Los Angeles has been on fire for days Comic of blue and grey speech text bubbles cover the page. Comic of artist lying in bed with eyes open surrounded by text of headlines and intrusive thoughts about the fires, water, capitalism, Palestine, and personal anxieties.
January 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Thinking about how quilts have been used in our movements:

The AIDS Memorial Quilt: www.aidsmemorial.org/quilt

The Anguilla Prison Massacre Quilt: www.anguillamassacre.com (by Rachel Wallis + @prisonculture.bsky.social)

Queen Liliʻuokalani's quilt that documents the colonization of Hawaiʻi.
December 30, 2024 at 10:21 PM
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A project I am so very excited about. Please send me and my co-quilters a 9x9 inch quilt square and help us co-create a quilt for abortion!

Find us on instagram (@abortionquilt) and submit your square here: bit.ly/abortion-quilt-submission 🌀☁️🧵
illustrated infographic with letters that look like quilt squares: “Let’s make the ABORTION QUILT together!” 1. Make a 9x9 inch quilt square     ⁃    Use blues, greens, neutrals, a pop of red     ⁃    Limit patterns to florals and natural elements     ⁃    NO coat hangers 2. Fill out our google form: bit.ly/abortion-quilt-submission (http://bit.ly/abortion-quilt-submission) (link in bio) 3. Mail it to us by 3/14/25 (you will get the address after filling out the form) 4. Keep up with the project by following us here on Instagram. This quilt project is organized by Daire, Laura, & Lee, three queer quilters based in Richmond, Philly, and Western Mass. The final quilt will be publicly displayed an d auctioned off to raise $$$ for @rrfp.va
December 30, 2024 at 4:49 AM
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Recently: turned 34, hand sewed this jacket
Woman sitting in the sunlight wearing an orange-red jacket with a blanket stitch around the edges.
December 5, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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I also made this one in July
November 11, 2024 at 3:07 AM
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I made a niche meme. @prisonculture.bsky.social
April 14, 2024 at 9:23 PM
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Today is ✨pub day✨ for A SMALL APOCALYPSE, my debut short story collection!

It’s been such a joy to see my book find its readers leading up to this day. What a dream, truly. Thank you for reading and here goes nothing!🎢 🩷😵‍💫
March 15, 2024 at 12:41 PM
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see you in kansas city, babes!
A graphic with 4 squares titled "see you @ awp" that includes information on a panel about short story collections and university presses, a reading with triquarterly + curbstone books, and where to get a copy of A SMALL APOCALYPSE
January 30, 2024 at 2:22 PM
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Booklist says that A SMALL APOCALYPSE is (perhaps)✨startlingly cathartic✨ !!! check out the full review in the forthcoming February 1st issue coming your way on 1/25! 🩷🐊🩷

You can still pre-order through the links in my bio! 🔗
January 11, 2024 at 11:35 PM
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🩷🐊COVER REVEAL🐊🩷 for A SMALL APOCALYPSE my debut short story collection forthcoming in MARCH! Look at this ✨stunning✨ design by Morgan Krehbiel who read my mind and heart and created this weird and gorgeous masterpiece! Read more about the book through the link in my bio!🖇️
November 16, 2023 at 4:27 PM
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I drew today in prep for the national march on washington next week! I got ~20 printed if anyone in richmond wants one and can also send along the .pdf to folks who want to print their own.

solidarity forever 🖤
palestine will be free 🇵🇸
October 29, 2023 at 8:14 PM
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Finally got some professional author photos done by the kind and talented Em White (emwhitephoto.com).
Photo of an Asian woman with tattoos sitting at a table with out of focus flowers in the foreground and looking out of frame.
August 24, 2023 at 5:02 PM
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Maybe an 8 week old puppy was too tough of a challenge for my first foster experience
Small white dog with brown spots curled up in a blanket with a stuffed lion
August 13, 2023 at 3:36 PM
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Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?
July 30, 2023 at 1:35 AM
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I should probably get this dress and be a femme lord farquaad for halloween this year, right?
model wearing a short red velvet dress with big ruffled sleeves and corset-like top
July 26, 2023 at 10:29 PM
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Made my two babes matching outfits for the drive-in viewing of Barbie 💖
a brown, trans person wearing a denim shirt with pink puffy paint that says Ken holds a small dog wearing a jacket that says Scout: Rat Barbie
July 23, 2023 at 4:48 AM
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I’m a writer and illustrator currently working on a novel and a graphic memoir. My debut short story collection will be published in March 2024 by TriQuarterly Books. Links can be found on my website: laurachowfun.com
July 22, 2023 at 8:17 PM
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Hi! I’m a writer & illustrator. My debut short story collection has lots of queer ghosts, chosen families, and Florida fauna. It’s coming your way in March 2024! Some of my favorite illustration work has been graphic recording these sessions on daily abolitionist practices: abolitionist.tools
Publishing announcement screenshot for Laura Chow Reeve’s debut short story collection, A Small Apocalypse.
July 22, 2023 at 8:08 PM