Novelist, poet, scholar. She/they. Author of Out of Order (2015), Order in the Court (2016), & Doctor's Orders (2023). Lit PhD from Trinity College Dublin.
Canada β’ Sweden
Joined June 2012
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I know the submission and defense are the actual milestones, but graduating makes it feel real. I have a PhD! π #PhDone
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Literary Blackface, DEI, and the Ethics of Authorship by @MyExplodingPen
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βthe ampersand is the sexiest punctuation mark
& I dont case who knows it
& she doesnt either
because shes the one holding it togetherββββ@MyExplodingPen medium.com/promptly-written/β¦
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Congratulations to @MyExplodingPen
Their marvellous story (which we first published in our SKIN Anthology) has been shortlisted by Tenebrous Press for Brave New Weird Vol 3!
tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025β¦?
After what just happened to @DrAllyLouks, Iβm officially deleting this app from my phone. Twitter keeps sending notifications to tell me Iβll be interested in this pile-on, but all I see is how vile this app has become.
Iβm out. Find me on Bluesky with the same handle.
Transitioning over to where the skies are bluer: find me over there with the same handle, MyExplodingPen.
Got my 100th rejection for the year today (goal = met), on the same day as receiving $300 for a poem. Being a writer is really weird!!
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Joyce readers in Ireland/UK/Europe/Middle East, we scheduled this so you could attend! Vicki Mahaffey online book launch: "The Joyce of Everyday Life" 12 November, 5pm GMT
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1994 academic: "do you do spousal hiring?"
2024 academic: "do you do hiring?"
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Academics will have a 2 hour conversation about how busy they both are that ends in them agreeing to co-write something new
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Watching a cheesy movie where the hot young neighbour gifts Jennifer Lopez a first edition of her favourite book...The Iliad.
A first edition. Of The Iliad. He found it in a garage sale.
Ah yes because we just block people for funsies, not because abusers use social media as a way to stalk and harass women. Ffs.
Iβm betting this update doesnβt comply with EU regulations fwiw
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I'm talking at a conference later this year (on UX+AI).
I just saw an ad for the conference with my photo and was like, wait, that doesn't look right.
Is my bra showing in my profile pic and I've never noticed...? That's weird.
I open my original photo.
No bra showing.
I put the two photos side by side and I'm like WTF...
Someone edited my photo to unbutton my blouse and reveal a made-up hint of a bra or something else underneath. π€¨
Immediately, I email the conference host.
(FYI he is a great, respectable guy with 5 kids at home.)
He is super apologetic and immediately looks into the issue.
He quickly reports back that the woman running their social media used a cropped square image from their website.
She needed it to be more vertical, so she used an AI expand image tool to make the photo taller.
AI invented the bottom part of the image (in which it believed that women's shirts should be unbuttoned further, with some tension around the buttons, and revealing a little hint of something underneath). π€―
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FYI the conference organizers were super apologetic and took down all of the content with that photo.
