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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

4 years

One of my eyelashes turned completely white, listen I love you, death is coming

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

3 years

Does anyone else ever remember a cruel thing your parent said to you & it takes the wind out of you? Even if it was almost ten years ago?

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Emily Van Duyne

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5 years

10 years ago, I thought my life was over. I was a broke single mom, recovering from an abusive relationship. I thought I had nothing. Today, I found out I won a Fulbright fellowship. Remember: it can get better. Your life has worth. Go after the things you want.

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5 months

"Men speak to me as if I need them to." -Knockout opening line from a student essay.

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My 13-yo is suddenly terrified of school shootings because our 3-yo started pre-K. He said he has a plan to save his brother if a shooter enters the school. I would wish every politician who let school kids die for 30 years burns in hell, but we're in hell, & they're in charge.

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Emily Van Duyne

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3 years

Every time there’s a Sylvia Plath book some man pops off about how overexposed she is, but I have borne approximately 377 Batman films in my short lifetime & each one is greeted as if we last saw Batman some time before the Franco-Prussian War

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Emily Van Duyne

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3 years

15 years ago I spent too much money on a wedding gown at a snooty shop & cried my way into a bad marriage. Today I bought a $150 off-the-rack dress from a gorgeous trans woman of color named Achilles, to laugh my way into marrying my best friend. Life gets better. Hang in there.

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Emily Van Duyne

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2 years

Student just claimed in an essay that was 50+ days late that "fishing emerged in the 15th century," and either I have Covid-induced cabin fever, or this is the funniest thing I've ever read.

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Emily Van Duyne

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3 years

My 12-year old just wished me a Happy Pride Month & then came out to me & then I came out to her & then we hugged for five minutes in the messy kitchen. A better world is possible.

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Emily Van Duyne

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3 months

We played A-Ha's "Take On Me" for our 3-year old and he turned to us and said, "Dat was da best song I have heard in my whole life."

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

3 years

I feel like this needs to be a collaborative poem.

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

4 years

I got a dream acceptance this morning from a journal I've submitted to for a decade. I will be 41-years old tomorrow. Let's normalize that writing success almost never happens overnight & is possibly even more thrilling when you're 40+.

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

3 years

This morning I found our beloved cat, Frances, dead under the dining room table. He was playing and eating at 7 am when I came downstairs, and gone by 11. I know he was "just" a cat, but we loved him so very much. Hug your people & your animals.

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Emily Van Duyne

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3 years

I want you all to know I am sorting through and reading and thinking of and trying to respond individually to each of these stories. I’m making pasta and reminding myself to be tender with my kids and tender with myself, as much as humanly possible, always. Please do the same. ❤️

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Emily Van Duyne

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3 months

Since Publishers Weekly reports that sales of "Hillbilly Elegy" are once again "soaring," I beg of you-- if you want to read it, borrow it from a library, an invaluable institution his fascist party is working to dismantle. Don't give him or his publisher another cent.

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Emily Van Duyne

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3 years

1.Went to ask a male colleague about a student we share today at lunch, & before I could, he said, 'You pregnant again? Didn't you just have one?' SO. Where to start?

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Emily Van Duyne

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3 years

I will be having strawberry shortcake for lunch to honor ALL of you.

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Emily Van Duyne

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5 months

From the same piece: "All women should write. All women who are constantly discredited should write."

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Emily Van Duyne

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6 months

Happy Good Friday to the student who wrote that Christ was killed "by Pilates" in an essay, many moons ago.

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

3 years

@HyperionCeleste This was a big one aimed at me, too. I was selfish and lazy. Like daily.

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

3 years

Also, I am privileged to have a good therapist. If you are able to see one & have not yet done so— do it! It is life changing. You deserve it.

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

2 months

My dad holding my book in Judy Blume's bookshop in Key West. My heart can't take it.

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Emily Van Duyne

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6 months

A colleague just told me they had a student use generative AI to write papers, twice, and get caught both times, and then they emailed my colleague an apology note written with generative AI.

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Emily Van Duyne

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3 years

People. PEOPLE. I am not kidding. I’m having dinner alone at a restaurant in Connecticut, at the bar, and a woman just said to her husband, “I found critical race theory on Andy’s computer, today” in the GRIMMEST tones.

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Emily Van Duyne

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2 years

@clhubes I don't play with my kids. I talk to them, I feed them, I read to them, I cuddle them, I kiss them when they are sad, and I work to PAY FOR THEIR LIVES. They have friends to play with. I would rather die than play with them. It is boring beyond acceptability.

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Emily Van Duyne

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2 years

Depp’s playbook isn’t original— Ted Hughes threatened Plath with a libel suit when she spoke out about his treatment of her in winter 1963. He did the same to writers trying to tell that story for decades after her death. This is an old story. We have to keep telling new ones.

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

3 years

Also want to remind people that silence is always an option. You are welcome to shut the fuck up about people's bodies, forever.

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Emily Van Duyne

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2 years

@nancy_reddy This is why I can't stop laughing, Nancy. Like either, "Oh shit, there's something in there?" Or else, "We saw them swimming, didn't realize you could EAT the bastards!"

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

4 years

The pitch to mothers in America for ‘self-care’ is the worst. In a racist, misogynist country w/no family leave policy, where the vast majority of women are forced to work right up to the end of their pregnancy & go back right after, calling for ‘self-care’ amounts to shaming.

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

4 years

@sjjphd A student once asked me if she could interview me for a paper about fashion in the 90's, and then said in awed tones, "Because, you know... you were *there*."

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

7 months

You've Got Mail is a soulless dystopian nightmare & Tom Hanks' character gaslights and abuses Meg Ryan's from start to finish. I will die on this hill, full of the truth.

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

3 years

9. 'Didn't you just have one?' Didn't I, indeed. Didn't you know that, since we work closely together? Didn't you only say that to drive home your casual ownership of my feminized body, my supposed right to it, which you clearly dispute? Shouldn't you shut the fuck up?

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

3 years

2. Men-- don't do this. Women-- don't do this. Non-binary people-- don't do this. Work colleagues-- don't do this. Pregnancy has historically (is still) used to discriminate against women/transmen/non-binary people. You ask about this, you perpetuate that discrimination.

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

3 years

5. This happened in the cafeteria, in front of the 8 members of the teaching faculty of the summer program I have taught in for 9 years & which brings me huge joy. My students were at the next table. This undermines my authority. This undermines my body. It undermines my joy.

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

5 years

11-year old daughter’s first order of Fulbright business: learn to say “chicken nugget” in Greek.

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

6 months

I'm sorry, but when did the "We hate Ocean Vuong" discourse begin?

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

4 years

I’m part of a veritable village of women who help out a single dad friend whose wife died suddenly & I’m so glad to do it, but I do want to point out that when I was a single mom, there was no village of dudes helping me out.

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

3 years

Does anyone else ever remember something an ex-boyfriend said to them & then sort of... laugh in a way that indicates unhinged rage?

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

3 years

3. My question for my colleague concerned our shared student's academic welfare and, guess what? It didn't get asked because I was embarrassed and wanted, frankly, to run away and cry, so I walked away quickly after saying 'No, and that was incredibly rude,' to him.

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Emily Van Duyne

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3 years

Batman: I’m Batman The Men: THIS IS MASSIVE NEWS

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Emily Van Duyne

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3 years

8 years & 3 kids later, we’re getting hitched. 🌈💜

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Emily Van Duyne

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5 months

Am I the only English major in the Western world not watching Bridgerton?

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Emily Van Duyne

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3 years

7. I'm not even in recovery for ED. Imagine what a comment like that could do to someone who is. Imagine how you can make a 'casual' comment & make a person reconsider the entirety of the choices they've made in the preceding weeks, will make in the weeks to come. Really. Try.

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

3 years

4. What might seem like a passing moment of proprietary sexism actually (also) works against our students. The classroom & the academy are linked sexist & racist institutions that BIPOC & women & queer/trans & non-binary people spend every moment of their working lives fighting.

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

3 years

My mom fat shames me like daily and frankly, Twitters, I can't take it anymore.

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Emily Van Duyne

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3 years

6. It made me reconsider my food choices. It made me reconsider my clothing. My haircut. How I move. What's for dinner. What's for breakfast tomorrow. Should I start Pilates? I had better wait to wear that new bathing suit. Better postpone our wedding. Better not eat.

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

3 years

From notes by Atlantic Monthly editors on Plath's bee poems, fall 1962: "She certainly is queer for bees."

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

3 years

@Vivien_Jackson Oh my god, FUCK that dude. What the bloody hell.

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

3 years

I found out my 11-year-old thought the Fulbright Scholarship was a raffle I won to take us all to Greece for a while.

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

3 years

8. I wrote about this in 2016 for the @chronicle -- I'll post it again because it's still, unfortunately, relevant.

No, I Am Not Pregnant

Why women in academe feel our bodies are “always under watch.”

www.chronicle.com

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Emily Van Duyne

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4 years

@billyeichner

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

3 years

@anne_theriault I had this moment when my aunt came the night Hank was born in to wake me & said, I think he’s hungry. (I had a home birth & she spent the night so I could get a little sleep.) I thought, Well, fucking feed him, I just gave birth... oh... wait...

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

3 years

Little known fact, there was no Force, it was just women picking shit up & no one noticing.

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

3 years

I’m wearing a bustier & pleather leggings with three-inch heels to teach tomorrow. Ask me if I’m pregnant again, mofo. Try me.

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

3 years

@katiejstone91 @pizzafruittart Thank you for looking it up, it’s an extraordinary phrase.

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

2 years

@cjm427 I mean. I have yet to teach one course in gender studies or feminist theory where some dude doesn't tell me on day one, "I took this course, but I don't agree with feminism." Like. Does any chemistry teacher encounter this? "I'm here, but I think the periodic table is bullshit."

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

5 years

Someone really needs to write a scathing piece about Plath & profit, about how the literary industry has made a mint off of exploiting the death & sadness of Plath & women like her.

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

4 years

I don't know if announcing this kind of stuff is a thing we do on this website, but in any case, I'm pregnant, I'm due a week before Sylvia Plath's birthday, and anyone that knows me know I'll hold out to make that kid get born on her actual birthday, if you doubt me JUST WATCH.

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Emily Van Duyne

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3 years

When I was engaged in 2006, my prof. Laure-Anne Bosselaar said, 'I wouldn't marry anyone unless I'd lived with them at least 5 years.' I was enraged. Newly married after 8+ years, I am here to tell you all: Don't marry anyone unless you've lived with them at least 5 years.

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

2 months

I will never recover from Sylvia Plath saying Ted Hughes visited weekly "like an apocalyptic Santa Clause."

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

5 years

If anyone wants a laugh, I just remembered the time my son told his kindergarten teacher that there is a word called motherfucker that’s so bad, if you say it, they arrest you, & she called me almost in tears & I had to act very grave & serious while I laughed into a pillow

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Emily Van Duyne

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4 years

We made it. 👨🏼‍🎤👩🏼‍🎤

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

2 years

Ladies & gentlemen & everyone, I give you Sylvia Plath’s wristwatch, courtesy of my wonderful friend @DemkoSuzanne 🐝❤️‍🔥

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Emily Van Duyne

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5 years

For @lithub , I wrote about Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, & the complicated lure of abusive men.

Sylvia Plath and the Communion of Women Who Know What She Went Through

Each time I left the Charles Woodruff Library at Emory University during my week-long visit there, I set off the alarm. I carried nothing but a tote bag with my laptop, cell phone, wallet, and one …

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

2 years

@Bazza30 @clhubes Never. Very sad household. I give them Dostoyevsky for fun.

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

3 years

My husband's American GP would not give him more than one month's supply of his antidepressant, a pill that means a literal world of difference for his quality of life. We discovered today you can buy it for 11.40 euro in Greece, OTC. The pharmacist apologized for the cost.

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Emily Van Duyne

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4 months

I am a Fulbright scholar & a tenured academic with an MFA in poetry who is writing a novel & I have three un-fucking-believable kids who I don't rely on to give my life meaning, instead allowing them to be whole, free people who I love beyond measure, you fucking fool.

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Having children is the most meaningful thing you can do with your life. Intellectuals and creatives can't accept this because it means their vocations aren't supremely meaningful and any fool can have a more worthwhile life. But it's true and all the counterarguments are cope.

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Emily Van Duyne

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5 years

Because we live in the world we do, I grew up obsessed with Sylvia Plath’s death, with a singular woman’s singular pain. Now, almost 40, I look around at the life-giving community she creates, & I marvel at her humor, her grit, her poems & prose. I marvel at her life, lived.

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Emily Van Duyne

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3 years

I stopped using Goodreads 10 years ago, but I went to their site today to see what was happening with @laurenthehough & am horrified. Goodreads is trash. Lauren Hough is hilarious & smart. I bought her book. You should too.

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

2 months

Plath fans-- or anyone who loves a good novel-- do yourselves a favor and get "But the Girl," by Jessica Zhan Mei Yu, which is an ingenious, very meta retelling of The Bell Jar. I am almost finished and I can't say enough good things about it.

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2 years

@clhubes LOLZ I am so prone to hyperbole. I would not, in fact, rather die than play with my children. I stand by the truth of its boredom, however.

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

4 years

If I started a Sylvia Plath newsletter, would anyone wanna read that?

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

6 months

That I wrote I "dislike Swift" on this website and someone thought I meant Jonathan and chimed in to object is one reason I can never truly break free of it.

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Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

3 years

Incidentally, I find Batman ridiculous.

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3 years

"Ted is so stupid." -Sylvia Plath

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Emily Van Duyne

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4 years

If anyone ever says “Breastfeeding is FREE!” to me again, I will hit them over the head with Kapital & force them to watch me pump with a stopwatch, a calculator, & my 2019 W-2.

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Emily Van Duyne

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3 years

I think the difference between 25 and 41, for me, is at 25, if something made me cry, I cried for like, the whole day. Now I cry for five minutes & decide the person who made me cry can fuck off, I have work to do.

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Emily Van Duyne

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3 years

I don’t have any snark or any rage or any words big enough for the tragedy in Texas. I’ll just say what I always do: my great-Aunt died of complications from an illegal abortion in the 1940s & it destroyed her family, & we felt the ripples of it 40 years later. We feel them.

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@EmilyVanDuyne

5 years

I mean, I got tenured and promoted and Vince changed the cat litter while I was at work, so I guess today is alright.

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Emily Van Duyne

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4 years

Once a retired dean wrote to say he thought Facebook would prevent my tenure, as I’d just posted that the tragedy of my life was I’d never have a Bowie/Prince threesome. I said thanks, but I had an essay about said imaginary threesome coming out, so it was part of my tenure file.

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Emily Van Duyne

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3 years

Happy Birthday, Sylvia Plath. She would have turned 89 today. Celebrate by reading her poems, any poems, even writing your own. Poetry was the thing that helped her thrive, not that killed her, as the myth goes. Here’s a piece I wrote about exactly that.

No One Gets Sylvia Plath

In researching my book-in-progress, Loving Sylvia Plath, I came upon a 2019 article in the Los Angeles Review of Books called “Who Gets Emily Dickinson?” Not, as the title suggests, a piece about w…

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Emily Van Duyne

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2 years

I have freaking Covid. After almost three years of super-dodging.

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@EmilyVanDuyne

4 years

Today a stranger approached me on the beach & said, Are you pregnant or just really fat? Anyway, then I stabbed her. Happy Labor Day!

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Emily Van Duyne

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5 months

Glad to see Kim Kardashian has reached the stage of her beauty development in which she can neither walk or breathe properly, and by glad, I mean horrified. Call me a puritan. Call me jealous. Call me fat. I will take them all, if it means I get to inhale air, unimpeded.

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5 years

I just told my 11 & 9-yo children that we have to reschedule our trip to Disney world next week, & they both hugged me & said it was no big deal, they understood. Sometimes your kids make the world seem like a better place. ❤️

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6 months

Thrilled to announce that I've just signed the contract for my next book, "Loving Ted Hughes: A Celebration," which will recenter my favorite British poet as the victim of feminist killjoys the world over. I couldn't be happier to bring this story into the light!

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@TujungaDude @DevinCow Hey man, so is the new Sylvia Plath.

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6 months

My husband isn't my partner. He's my mentor, my lover, and, only in certain contexts, my friend.

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My husband isn't my partner. He's my mentor, my lover, and, only in certain contexts, my friend.

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my contribution to the PhD acceptance discourse is I finally worked up the courage to apply to one & a faculty member there wrote to tell me she wanted to work with me & would ensure my acceptance & then I fell in love with a literal psychopath & had his baby whoops no phd for me

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I left an abuser in 2011 w/the clothes on my back & our 8-month old son. I had no self-worth. My family was barely speaking to me. I went back to teaching as an adjunct the following year, teaching 24-credits/semester on 4 campuses. But I never stopped writing.

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I have white women in my life who believe $45 shampoo regrows their hair but won’t get the COVID vaccine.

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3 years

13-year-old in isolation in her bedroom = her dinner plate comes down covered in the bangs she decided to cut at 11 pm.

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8 months

My editor's wonderful assistant just sent me this-- the galleys of Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation are in. Pinch me, this hardly seems real.

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3 years

@laurenthehough When I taught at one community college, I did a unit on protest rhetoric & played 'Fuck Tha Police.' A white kid took a video covertly & I was like, 'Is there a problem?' He said, 'No, I'm sending this song to my best friend because it's fucking awesome.'

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Because the world gives with one hand & takes with the next, I found out that the woman who helped me run away from my abusive ex--gave my son & I shelter, advice, food, love, hid us, helped us get on a plane--died last night. We're still here because of Dawn. What a loss.

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@ambernoelle ❤️❤️❤️ When Hank was 3, he told me that when he got big & I turned little, he would be my mom ❤️

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