Dr Sweet Machine

@sweetmachine.bsky.social

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Supernova with human skin. Author of We the Destroyers & Borrowing Your Body (Riot in Your Throat) & All Sex and No Story (Rabbit Catastrophe). she/her. http://linktr.ee/laurapassin

Walt Whitman's poem: TO THE STATES. TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after- ward resumes its liberty.
Promo graphic that says "Happy Birthday! Riot in Your Throat is 5 years old!!! We're celebrating with a sale on all our books!! Snag them now for only $10 each!" There is a line drawing of a birthday cake and three hearts, and there is a polaroid-like graphic of the press logo, which is a woman with long hair and a tattoo that says Riot in Your Throat.
INHERITANCE The family tree in an alphabet I can’t read because my great- grandfather lived to lose his god and I was given to another. A palimpsest of dangerous genes. An eyeblink of a memory of snow, the lake, the star-strewn lake, oh, the lake in the snow.
10,000 Feet Above Sea Level by Laura Passin A hummingbird hangs like a drone, tries to sip nectar from my breasts. My father told me he and my mother, three marriages ago, camped in this same park, breathing each other inside the thin sky. Sometimes you are the flower. Sometimes you are the elegy yourself. Sometimes you are the elsewhere, the seas, ineluctably rising.
Promotional graphic with the Riot in Your Throat press logo and the text "Sealey Challenge Book Sale, All Titles $10"
Purple promotional graphic with Riot in Your Throat logo. Promo text says "1 Week Remaining to snag EVERY RIYT book for only $10!"
Book cover of "Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction" by David Seed
Tweet by @hamnox that reads: RIP to everyone killed by the gods for their hubris but im different. And better. Maybe even better than the gods
List of author names on greenish blue background, with "Queer Environment" on the side
This Regularly Happens after The Onion headline “'No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens” During the lockdown drill I forget to wait for the code word that means ALL CLEAR is real and not part of the disaster, an easy trick learned by everyone who grew up with active shooter drills, which is to say: everyone younger than me. I let the students start talking again, their nervous energy visible like motion lines in the manga my white friends read in high school and then the loudspeaker speaks the code I’d forgotten. The students stop dead, look at me with unsimulated fear: I had made a mistake. Twenty years ago I was in college, waiting for CNN’s video to buffer because the whole world was watching the Columbine kids