Lover of art, words, travel, clouds, curiosity, 🌍☮, puns, pets. Feminist. Equity enthusiast. #amediting @SCQuarterly @UNCSouth Ayşe is pronounced I-sheh🇹🇷

Durham, NC
Joined July 2007
Ayşe E. 👉 @heyayse.bsky.social retweeted
The staff of UNC Press’s hearts are heavy due to the incomprehensible path of destruction that has devastated western North Carolina. @BlueRidgePublic has published a vetted list of ways to donate and help that will be updated periodically: uncpressblog.com/2024/09/30/…
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Ayşe E. 👉 @heyayse.bsky.social retweeted
Think you’re registered to vote? Think again. An army of 40,000 self-proclaimed vigilante vote-fraud hunters have already challenged the rights of 851,000 voters. Have you checked your registration lately?
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Ayşe E. 👉 @heyayse.bsky.social retweeted
Saw this today:
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Ayşe E. 👉 @heyayse.bsky.social retweeted
I'm always struck by how closely Trump's querulous tone resembles that of his inspiration, Livia Soprano
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Ayşe E. 👉 @heyayse.bsky.social retweeted
“You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.” This week, to celebrate James Baldwin’s life and legacy on the occasion of his one hundredth birthday, we’ve unlocked his Art of Fiction interview from our archive. buff.ly/3dC4FD5
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Ayşe E. 👉 @heyayse.bsky.social retweeted
Remember when John Kerry was Swiftboated by Chris LaCivita who is doing it to Tim Walz now? Guess who funded it? Harlan Crow, the billionaire who has been lavishing freebies on Clarence Thomas.
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Ayşe E. 👉 @heyayse.bsky.social retweeted
Sign in front of the Minnesota governor's residence just now. Congratulations @Tim_Walz – at Minneapolis, MN
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Ayşe E. 👉 @heyayse.bsky.social retweeted
Pick you a Vice President that has your opponents wishing you picked somebody else.
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Ayşe E. 👉 @heyayse.bsky.social retweeted
I have never posted that gif of some muppet running around happily but if I posted gifs and could remember with any specificity what that one was, I would post it right now: a muppet with their hands in the air running around ecstatically.
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Ayşe E. 👉 @heyayse.bsky.social retweeted
One of the many extremely appealing things about Walz is that he doesn’t appear to have had a grand plan to take over the universe. He appears to have gone into politics because he likes helping people, and risen because he’s really good at that. What a concept!
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If you ask : what is the value of the humanities? I would say that it teaches you to read with acuity, to analyse wild claims, to argue responsibly to questions to which there are no right answers. Do we need the humanities? Let’s hear it for yes!!!
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Ayşe E. 👉 @heyayse.bsky.social retweeted
About to post tonight's letter and it has just hit me how much we are trying to absorb. The rally shooting was just 12 days ago. Then the RNC. Vance. Biden refused the nomination just 4 days ago. Harris clinched the nomination 32 hours later. Now EVERYTHING has changed. Stunning.
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Ayşe E. 👉 @heyayse.bsky.social retweeted
You might never make shallot pasta again once you hear how I feel about abortion
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Ayşe E. 👉 @heyayse.bsky.social retweeted
With today's big news, speculation is rampant about who @KamalaHarris's Vice Presidential pick will be. One name floated has been North Carolina's own Governor @RoyCooperNC. For those of y'all not from NC - welcome. Allow us to introduce you to Governor Cooper. 🧵👇
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