Z🖤🗝️
@zeinawrites.bsky.social
🕯️Reader | Writer | Experimental Singer-songwriter | Artist🦇
❤️🩹struggling with burnout & CPTSD
Ottawa ~ Algonquin territory
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📖 The Wretched of the Earth
IG: @z.writes.and.reads
Upscrolled: @zreadslit
Storygraph: @zreadslit
Pixelfed: @lovelostfireatwill
❤️🩹struggling with burnout & CPTSD
Ottawa ~ Algonquin territory
6📚
📖 The Wretched of the Earth
IG: @z.writes.and.reads
Upscrolled: @zreadslit
Storygraph: @zreadslit
Pixelfed: @lovelostfireatwill
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Dwight Baird (Canadian, b. 1957, lives and works in Montreal), The Aloneness of Winter, 2023. Acrylic on wood panel
February 16, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Dwight Baird (Canadian, b. 1957, lives and works in Montreal), The Aloneness of Winter, 2023. Acrylic on wood panel
The internet should have never evolved passed 2005. Arguably, 1995. But we live under colonial capitalism so of course it would have turned dystopian.
February 16, 2026 at 5:13 AM
The internet should have never evolved passed 2005. Arguably, 1995. But we live under colonial capitalism so of course it would have turned dystopian.
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OK so Margaret Killjoy's infomercial for "Shut the fuck up" is my new favourite thing.
"When I get arrested, there's only one strategy I trust...
I shut the fuck up!"
- @margaret.bsky.social
"When I get arrested, there's only one strategy I trust...
I shut the fuck up!"
- @margaret.bsky.social
February 8, 2026 at 2:05 AM
OK so Margaret Killjoy's infomercial for "Shut the fuck up" is my new favourite thing.
"When I get arrested, there's only one strategy I trust...
I shut the fuck up!"
- @margaret.bsky.social
"When I get arrested, there's only one strategy I trust...
I shut the fuck up!"
- @margaret.bsky.social
It’s lonely knowing you will hate what I said. That you might ignore or never read it. I can’t undo remembering now. I tried to be something palatable, normal, joyful. And it was a lie. For you, him, them.
February 6, 2026 at 5:14 AM
It’s lonely knowing you will hate what I said. That you might ignore or never read it. I can’t undo remembering now. I tried to be something palatable, normal, joyful. And it was a lie. For you, him, them.
Alsoooooo, please submit writing to my blog! I’ve read lots of lovely pieces so far (that were sadly a bad fit), but you should submit more! Again! #writingcommunity
New publisher listing for: Our Old Vanishing House @zeinawrites.bsky.social (Poetry Nonfiction; non-paying). #WritingCommunity
New Publisher Listing: Our Old Vanishing House
New publisher listing for: Our Old Vanishing House @zeinawrites.bsky.social (Poetry Nonfiction; non-paying). #WritingCommunity
duotrope.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Alsoooooo, please submit writing to my blog! I’ve read lots of lovely pieces so far (that were sadly a bad fit), but you should submit more! Again! #writingcommunity
Spent days going “where even is my mojo? How come I am not painting or writing!” (Knowing full well all the reasons) Then I sang a song. Then a few days later I did write a poem. Today I’ve started formatting the poetry chapbook. Maybe we’ll self-publish it afterall. #writer #writersky #publishing
February 5, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Spent days going “where even is my mojo? How come I am not painting or writing!” (Knowing full well all the reasons) Then I sang a song. Then a few days later I did write a poem. Today I’ve started formatting the poetry chapbook. Maybe we’ll self-publish it afterall. #writer #writersky #publishing
Americans need to start getting violent
February 3, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Americans need to start getting violent
Thinking of expanding my boycott of most things to include everything. This world is not good. We need to reject tf out of it
February 2, 2026 at 6:49 AM
Thinking of expanding my boycott of most things to include everything. This world is not good. We need to reject tf out of it
I’m not reading (or writing, singing or painting) much atm. But here’s some pretty books anyway #booksky #vintageclassics #modernclassics
February 1, 2026 at 3:30 AM
I’m not reading (or writing, singing or painting) much atm. But here’s some pretty books anyway #booksky #vintageclassics #modernclassics
Letting myself rest / not letting myself rest
February 1, 2026 at 3:25 AM
Letting myself rest / not letting myself rest
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“One of the things that I don’t think is getting talked enough about outside of Minnesota,” she said after a pause, “is how much this feels like ethnic cleansing. People are so afraid to go out and participate in public life regardless of their citizenship status. This isn’t about immigration.”
So much love for @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social
“Everything We Do Matters.” Minneapolis’s Moon Palace Books is a Hub For Anti-ICE Resistance
Angela Schwesnedl from Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis picked up my phone call on Saturday almost two hours to the minute after Alex Pretti was murdered in the street by ICE officers. “If you have…
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January 27, 2026 at 3:37 PM
“One of the things that I don’t think is getting talked enough about outside of Minnesota,” she said after a pause, “is how much this feels like ethnic cleansing. People are so afraid to go out and participate in public life regardless of their citizenship status. This isn’t about immigration.”
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So many people are volunteering to defend their community in Maine and they are going to need national support soon
Now in Maine: ICE watchers say federal agents are coming to their house to threaten and intimidate them.
www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
ICE watchers in Maine say they were threatened by federal agents
Community members have been monitoring the activity of immigration agents in Greater Portland.
www.pressherald.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:09 AM
So many people are volunteering to defend their community in Maine and they are going to need national support soon
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“It is not as if the world has not long been one in which vast numbers live in dystopian depredation. The horizon is more visible now to many who had thought themselves insulated, if they thought about it at all. And dystopia for some is utopia for others. We live in a utopia: it just isn’t ours.”
A Strategy for Ruination
An interview with China Miéville
www.bostonreview.net
January 25, 2026 at 6:23 PM
“It is not as if the world has not long been one in which vast numbers live in dystopian depredation. The horizon is more visible now to many who had thought themselves insulated, if they thought about it at all. And dystopia for some is utopia for others. We live in a utopia: it just isn’t ours.”
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Reading Frantz Fanon
with Geo Maher
Join this hybrid political education collaboration between Haymarket Books and @abolitionschool.bsky.social
Wednesday evenings beginning February 4th
RSVP to join:
with Geo Maher
Join this hybrid political education collaboration between Haymarket Books and @abolitionschool.bsky.social
Wednesday evenings beginning February 4th
RSVP to join:
Reading Frantz Fanon with Geo Maher
A hybrid political education collaboration between Haymarket Books and the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction.
www.haymarketbooks.org
January 23, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Reading Frantz Fanon
with Geo Maher
Join this hybrid political education collaboration between Haymarket Books and @abolitionschool.bsky.social
Wednesday evenings beginning February 4th
RSVP to join:
with Geo Maher
Join this hybrid political education collaboration between Haymarket Books and @abolitionschool.bsky.social
Wednesday evenings beginning February 4th
RSVP to join:
I ended 2025 with 5 poems published, a poetry chapbook and novel in process, a book & film blog turning community blog, 52 books read, a lot of support for Gazans on the ground and elsewhere, a bookstagram community that waxes & wanes, and a completely destroyed psyche, so… (1/2)
January 23, 2026 at 7:32 PM
I ended 2025 with 5 poems published, a poetry chapbook and novel in process, a book & film blog turning community blog, 52 books read, a lot of support for Gazans on the ground and elsewhere, a bookstagram community that waxes & wanes, and a completely destroyed psyche, so… (1/2)
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New publisher listing for: Our Old Vanishing House @zeinawrites.bsky.social (Poetry Nonfiction; non-paying). #WritingCommunity
New Publisher Listing: Our Old Vanishing House
New publisher listing for: Our Old Vanishing House @zeinawrites.bsky.social (Poetry Nonfiction; non-paying). #WritingCommunity
duotrope.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:08 AM
New publisher listing for: Our Old Vanishing House @zeinawrites.bsky.social (Poetry Nonfiction; non-paying). #WritingCommunity
Ashes ashes we all fall down
October 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Ashes ashes we all fall down
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We are one week away from the launch of Premee's new book here in Ottawa at Perfect Books, with me as wingman. Please come, and support a lovely bookstore while you're at it.
If you are going to be in Ottawa Oct. 20, you should come see me and @premeemohamed.com at the launch for her excellent novella, The First Thousand Trees. At the wonderful community hub that is Perfect Books.
October 13, 2025 at 10:15 PM
We are one week away from the launch of Premee's new book here in Ottawa at Perfect Books, with me as wingman. Please come, and support a lovely bookstore while you're at it.
Realizing the info I need is in a diary I set to flames in 2021. Oh, we should really stop doing this with our diaries, self.
October 13, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Realizing the info I need is in a diary I set to flames in 2021. Oh, we should really stop doing this with our diaries, self.
Book Review: Our Wives Under the Sea (2022), Julia Armfield [Genres: Horror, Sapphic, Lit Fic] ouroldvanishinghouse.com/book-review-...
It is not aspoiler free review
And yes I reccommend it #booksky
It is not aspoiler free review
And yes I reccommend it #booksky
Book Review: Our Wives Under the Sea (2022), Julia Armfield [Genres: Horror, Sapphic, Lit Fic] - Our Old Vanishing House: A Personal, Arts and Community Blog
I read Our Wives Under the Sea in two days. I haven’t done that in a year...
ouroldvanishinghouse.com
October 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Book Review: Our Wives Under the Sea (2022), Julia Armfield [Genres: Horror, Sapphic, Lit Fic] ouroldvanishinghouse.com/book-review-...
It is not aspoiler free review
And yes I reccommend it #booksky
It is not aspoiler free review
And yes I reccommend it #booksky
And in that case….
The Cure - Disintegration (2010 Remaster)
Listen to Disintegration (2010 Remaster) on TIDAL
tidal.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
And in that case….
Things I am not interested in, A Memoir in list form. Or: How I Survived the 2020s Wanting Nothing
October 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Things I am not interested in, A Memoir in list form. Or: How I Survived the 2020s Wanting Nothing