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& resources, recommendations, a prompt, etc.

Despy Boutris
Jul 22
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TGIF, all.

Here’s what I have for you today:

  • Housekeeping

  • Recommendations

  • Resources

  • Call to action

  • To read

  • Quotations

  • Tweets


Housekeeping:

Lately:

My dad’s cactus bloomed & it was beautiful.

This Barbara Hammer exhibition is gorgeous.

As you know, I’ve been having much fun making necklaces. (You can buy one here!)

Hilarious.

I made these earrings for myself. Pls enjoy.

Mood lately.

Well, consider me clocked.


Have I told y’all I have a new website?

Because I have a new website. Didn’t you hear?

I’m still in the process of sourcing products, but it’s basically going to be an online marketplace dedicated to showcasing a wide array of goods from our global community of artists & creatives.

Also:

Interested in sustainability, our catalog is made up of ethically-sourced—and mostly small-batch—goods. Many are handmade, and others are a curation of hand-picked vintage in an effort to limit landfill contributions & encourage sustainability.

I’m having a lot of fun—or at least I will, once someone buys something.

Anyways!

You can view it right here:

All Swarm Co.


Teaser:

Click here (x) for an excerpt from my zine LUST EMPIRE (x).


Recommendations:

Many of you know that I’ve been on a year-long journey toward finding sunscreens I can actually bear to wear daily. I can’t stand the heavy ~feel~ of a lot of them, and I absolutely refuse to go out in the world with a white cast, looking like a vampire.

For anyone in search of light, easy-to-apply sunscreens, I’ve been a long-time fan of Cerave’s Ultra-Light, *but* it only comes in SPF 30.

That said, my new favorite, slightly more protective, one is Supergoop’s SPF line. I’m wearing this today (SPF 50), which is really easy to apply on-the-go—and I just ordered the Unseen Sunscreen and the Glow Screen (SPF 40), too.

In case anyone else is trying to take better care of their skin (mood),

you can get $10 off purchase of $65+ at this link.


Resources:

  • 61 Opportunities Open to Submissions From Historically Underrepresented Voices this July


I’ve been thinking a lot about about list-poems.

(That is, poems that utilize the “list” form.)

Here are a few I’ve encountered recently:

  • A fairy keeps track of February

  • When I Think of My Mother, I Remember

  • List of all the Things We Got Right

Call to action:

Try one for yourself!


To read:

  • The Power of No: A Meditation on Boundaries and Black Womanhood

  • Queer Writers Are Building Canon Everywhere

  • What Do We Owe Each Other?


Quotations:

I don’t know what it means to be lyric anymore.

-Jos Charles


God lacks the imagination / to tender without shame.

-Jos Charles


I can’t wait / to be forgotten.

-Jos Charles


No one writes / me get well cards / anymore.

-Jos Charles


Tweets:

Twitter avatar for @itsdboutsDespy Boutris @itsdbouts
need 2 be called sexy at least twice a day or i will shrivel up like a snail when u pour salt on it

July 20th 2022

1 Retweet8 Likes
Twitter avatar for @ConSelfOwnsConservative Self-Owns @ConSelfOwns
Image

July 22nd 2022

294 Retweets5,303 Likes
Twitter avatar for @afrodesiaqexcessively black ✡️ @afrodesiaq
this monkeypox breakout is going to be very ugly when it "suddenly" explodes into the general population. the messaging around it currently is horrendously irresponsible. painting it as an sti that affects queer men is going to lead some very dark places that we have seen before.

July 20th 2022

17,563 Retweets82,283 Likes
Twitter avatar for @alyssaharadAlyssa Harad @alyssaharad
How does this look exactly like a Rosetti painting of Ophelia. Ophelia the Octopus.

Josh Wallace 🌻🌻🌻 @wildwallacepix

I still can't get over being able to observe this Giant Pacific Octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini) for over an hour yesterday https://t.co/II8bT9sGDS

July 19th 2022

9,975 Retweets66,535 Likes

That’s all I have for you today!

Stay healthy, sane, & keep looking out for each other—

-Despy Boutris
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