Kristen Gallagher; writer; intergeneric garden figure; fictional scientist; animal futurist; she/they
Florida & New York City
Joined March 2010
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Got new fiction up at @thebafflermag: Florida, The Skunk Ape, cat face trees, tree communication, evolving humanoids, Swamp Thing, Philly & The Everglades. thebaffler.com/fiction/this-β¦
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Now: "The Classic Rock DMZ," a story by Kristen Gallagher @openopenopen, the author of 85% TRUE/MINOR ECOLOGIES (Skeleton Man), GRAND CENTRAL (Troll Thread), and WE ARE HERE (Truck Books).
peachmgzn.com/kristen-gallagβ¦
ALT Text says, "kristen gallagher / 1 story" above a light purple illustration of a peach.
ALT Excerpt of the beginning of a story. Text says, "Essentially, Iβm on an assignment to find out if the Fountain of Youth makes you younger. Iβm getting paid by Art Papers to review Michael Marinucciβs current βsituation,β as he likes to call it. This time, for one month, he will take a daily one-hour soak in the Fountain of Youth, then take a photo to see if he gets younger over time. Heβs glamping on site with an entourage. I got a space nearby, through a new service called βBerniebnbβ modeled after Airbnb, but βsocialistβ in that guests pay on a sliding scale and the money gets redistributed to pay hosts according to their needβand everyone involved agrees that they are socialist to some degree. "
This was a fun! Thank you @TomComitta. It was a delight to hear and share space w @kyrasimone11 & Anelise Chen.
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Andy Goldsworthy is an artist that produces site-specific sculptures and land art using natural materials, ephemeral and transient because it returns back to nature . Here are some sycamore leaves around tree roots and Sumach leaves art
πΈAndy Goldsworthy
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A dog psychic, a songbird detective, a nature researcher with a car full of frogsβin new short fiction from @openopenopen, a pack of chill cultists follow in the footsteps of a (late, great) painter of the spiritual realm.
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As Florida spends $7B on 119 new highway lane miles, Disney World has a larger bus fleet than Orlando, Jacksonville & Gainesville combined. This leaves 3.5 million Floridians with less transit capacity than an amusement park shuttle system.
ALT Disney Bus Map (Unofficial)
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In new short fiction from @openopenopen, an underemployed journalist travels to Florida to investigate the cult their sister seems to have joinedβand discovers they are kind of nice, actually. thebaffler.com/fiction/the-dβ¦
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Inosculation is a natural phenomenon in which parts of two different trees, commonly but not exclusively the same species, grow together, self grafting and sharing nutrients
The term emanates from latin- ΕsculΔrΔ«, to kiss
The thinner tree was cut years ago and the big one has been holding and feeding it since then. They "wake up" together in the spring and "go to sleep" together in the autumn.
#Tiredearth #biodiversity
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There is a traffic law in Cambodia: elephants have the right of way.
Elephants learned to exploit it to stop sugar cane trucks and snack at will
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The Queen, a Northern Cardinal, was visiting the nature center parking lot this morning. She is finishing a suet nugget when she is startled by an Red-winged Blackbird. The growling after the Blackbird grabs a peanut is her informing him that she will be taking her spot back.
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Arkansas-raised friend of my daughter is working on a fantastic playlist of country songs ("Climate Twang-xiety") about environmental degradation and climate change.
What you got?
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A woodpecker drilled holes in someoneβs house in California and filled them with acorns.
When the homeowner cut open the wall, the nuts spilled out. All 700 pounds of them.
These photo! They are amazing.
Story by @smessenger via thedodo.com/amphtml/daily-doβ¦
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Striking French workers gave free energy to low-income households, cut power to a politician and plan to target the wealthy.
Here's how nationwide strikes with "Robin Hood" tactics are rocking the country and what's expected next.
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A lot of talk about English, Lit., and unions in response to Guillory Gate. But this from ACLA is fantastic. No professionalization w/o unionization. Unions as sites of literary criticism; unions for grad students; for profs; for UPs; if literary studies has a future, it's here.
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βIf you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.β
β Malcolm X
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Check out this link to sign on and take action in solidarity with the movement to stop Cop City & defend the Weelaunee Forest! defendtheatlantaforest.org/sβ¦
