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internet slut, barroom bitch ššø | read me in @wigwagmag @havehadhavehad @autofocuslit | u of ms alum | mfa nonfiction @ uwyo | she/her
mississippi
Joined January 2011
@wownicebuttdude see I love this because in both of the college towns Iāve lived in the library is the fratty college bar where dads also go to pick up 20 year olds.
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@RaxKingIsDead my favorite is āi found a sandwich in one of your parks & i would like to know why it didnāt have mayonnaiseā.
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john reinke, erik cowie & saff are the only people i care about in this show i hope theyāre all doing well #TigerKing.
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got this text from my daddy tonight unprompted & when i tell yāall i almost shed a tear
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i love how people not from mississippi think they can make jokes to me about what's happening back home like i won't fucking tear them to pieces - this is NOT A FUCKING JOKE.
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gonna spend 2022 reading small weird novels & making shit like oysters rockefeller.
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my favorite mississippi trend is āalternative peopleā who are still really into jesus that get married before they can drink.
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I just want yāall all to know I helped the guy from the movie Sky High at the bookstore today & he thought I was cute.
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Tennant's final Doctor Who episode is on BBC America we're five minutes in and I'm already crying it's fine.
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in case anyone whoās not a university of mississippi grad or not from mississippi wants to know why weāre all so fucking pissed.
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do you think if i bite someone at work they'll let me go home.
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Is your read on people ever so off that you go home with someone & then see a CONFEDERATE FLAG ON THEIR WALL.
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what if i just started commenting āoh dearā on peopleās engagement pictures how do you think they would respond.
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Some boy last night asked where I went to undergrad - didnāt recognize the name ole miss but when I said the university of mississippi he said āOh! The harvard of the south?ā Yāall I about DIED.
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hello to all the new followers who found my mississippi rant - sorry to report this is an account mostly about drinking & writing & shitty men & bad sex.
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Iāve been accepted to a grad program for less than a week & a man has already approached me in a bar to say āThis is the approach you should take/how you should use your degree/what you should focus on,ā - all after asking me WHAT A MASTERS IN CREATIVE WRITING WAS.
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Bye bye Oxford, MS. You chewed me up, you spit me out, & I fucking spit right back. I will miss & will not miss many things. But I grew because of you. Thank you for that.
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I kind of panic-applied to be a flight attendant & long story short I now have two video interviews for two different airlines?Āæ.
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popped a bottle of champagne cause LOOK WHOāS IN PRINT YāALL
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@worldsworstfem @dumpingbrain a sorority making its instagram private is maybe the most hilarious thing i've ever seen.
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been at this for a month or two & forgot to share, but i read flash fiction for @xraylitmag now :)
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Can we PLEASE outlaw trendy graphic tees with jokes about how much champagne, rosƩ or tequila you drink?.
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when i tell people where i'm from, i literally always say "a white flight suburb of the mississippi capitol.".sometimes people ask what that means. this. this is what it fucking means.
BREAKING: Election officials in Madison County quietly rezoned 2,000 Black & Hispanic voters out of a majority white precinct into an already-majority Black one. Now, 3,670 mostly non-white voters must share 25 parking spaces and five voting machines.
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there's been a lot of discussion about performative activism lately - taking cheap shots @ the blackest state in the nation, the most disenfranchised, making generalizations about them & using them as america's scapegoat instead of actually doing shit? PEAK PERFORMATIVE ACTIVISM.
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Fondly remembering when I worked at the bookstore & we were at one time all very confused as to why every other frat adjacent white guy was buying āThe Myth of Sisyphusā by Albert Camus. Turns out the local cigar shop had a book club.
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1/ Today is #SuicidePreventionDay. 4 months ago I took a bottle of pills & hoped I wouldnāt wake up. Most people still donāt really believe it happened, because it ājust doesnāt seem like me.ā There is no āone wayā a person looks when theyāre suicidal.
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I may be crazy but at least Iām not the drunk girl who forced her way into Ajax after 10:30 & threw up crawfish & strawberry daiquiris all over our bathroom before leaving through the front window.
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niche tweet for MS folks, but i got my first mccarty pottery piece this week so i guess i'm now a metro-area mom & i have to start drinking wine with ice cubes.
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I wrote a silly little thing about driving and solitude and growing up and loneliness and comfort food and Sonic Drive-In and the Bitter Southerner liked it enough to publish it in their Southern Folklore Project column.
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brad is the reason i came to WY. i still remember his phone calls to let me know i was in. i felt so alone & empty in oxford, but brad reminded me why i loved it there so much while also reminding me how much i could grow if i left. he was a kindred spirit. i will miss him dearly.
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I think all I really want for my friends, acquaintances, anyone in my life really, is for my relationship with them to help them feel seen. I think thatās what we should strive for.
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i was about to say that mississippi is making me wanna gouge my goddamn eyes out today, but itās not mississippi - itās her goddamn racist-ass leadership at all fucking levels.
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at my prettiest with a PBR in a dive bar while the sun sets
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this is not "funny" - it is sad & heartbreaking & people are working hard to make change & i will not have you shit on their efforts so you can seem woke.
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Me to out-of-state/far-away customers: āYeah Mississippi is a weird place to grow up.ā.Customer: āWhat do you mean?ā.Me: ā. do you have like 6 hours to talk about this?ā.
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@SomersErin she is continually on this website just posting embarrassing shit like this like WHYYYYYY.
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half-baked thought: ole miss should offer reusable game day water bottles you can refill for free in the stadium so long as you bring them in empty. students stay hydrated, maybe they stay for the game. also way less plastic use.
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I donāt know what my mother thinks I look like, nor do I know why she thinks a trip to the salon is going to fix it??
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brb gonna write a horror movie set in 80s northpark.
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i told my mother how no one in wyoming had ever heard the burner on the stove called an eye & she nodded matter of factly & just said, "we know more down here, i think.".
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@AlannaBennett I donāt know if itās underrated or not, but the scene in The Spectacular Now where Amy is talking about how āguys donāt look at me that wayā & then Sutter kisses her in the middle of her sentence is my absolute FAVORITE
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My parents are in town. I recorded us talking because no one at work believes my parentsā have Southern accents when I donāt. Yāall. This shit COMES OUT around my parents & I donāt even notice it.
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Iām FINALLY in ā¦@havehadhavehadā©, a dream pub of mine, with a poem about when the Oxford service industry found out Alex Trebek had cancer. Pour one out for a real one & maybe read this after?
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okay i would just like to say: coming to a protest with a sign that says āracism is a mental illnessā THAT SHIT AINāT IT CHIEF.
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me to my inspiration & will to write.
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people who live somewhere other than NYC or LA or related places are fun because they have to make their own personality outside of being defined by the city they live in.
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i know it's bad but it is sometimes really hard to resist the urge to ask "okay so how exactly did you end up in mississippi?" when i meet someone not from here.
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let it be known that through all of my nonsense i have never once lied about how important taylor swift is to me.
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drinking champagne tonight cause this bitch has a new job WITH A SALARY š¾š¾š¾.
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i have decided i am going to have a melodrama summer, which is just a hot girl summer but with a touch more yearning.
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@blgtylr ācritically acclaimed author & critic Brandon Taylor ā also known as āman on twitterāā.
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I will miss oxford very much but WOW I canāt wait to get out of a place where people I know flat out ignore me/pretend to be nice to me.
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phoebe bridgers said 25 felt like flying - i sure fuckinā hope sheās rigjt
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So, a reminder: things may not always be good. But they most definitely arenāt always bad either. This too shall pass. You will be okay, I promise.
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no one will fix the roads or fund the schools & all the white kids go to segregation academies :))).
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Got a new one about where Iām from this week:. Woman who has mentioned sheās from Georgia: āSo, where are you from?ā.Me: āIām from Mississippi.ā.Georgia: āOh! So like, technically The South too!ā. technically? Excuse me maāam? What the fuck is your definition of The South?.
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well it finally happened a man on instagram offered to pay me for feet pics. where is my hot girl induction ceremony also do i get a cake.
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@MilenaRodban Fuck you & your low-punch jokes for clout. Get educated my gal - MS is the blackest state in the nation. We are more upset about this than anyone. We are trying harder than anyone. And fuck you for dismissing that for fucking retweets you self-obsessed asshole.
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i constantly oscillate between thinking i am very hot but proufoundly stupid or tragically homely but intelligent there is no middle ground here.
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remember that time i said "what if i wrote an essay about pete davidson"?. well, i wrote an essay about pete davidson. i'm reading it next week & you can all come watch if you want :)
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Today I leave Wyoming for my home in Mississippi. I learned a lot here about myself, my craft, & where I come from, made a few good friends, but honestly? THANK FUCKING GOD.
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āI work at Ajax and the bookstore.ā.āThe Bookstore. Is that like a bar?ā.
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all these men look like someone who would've grabbed me by the waist in a bar w/o my consent or tried to monopolize my time in the bookstore when they didn't actually read shit.
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I hiked ten miles & chugged a bottle of cabernet afterwards I contain multitudes bitch
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every visit to oxford is like āman that was so much fucking fun, i can see how i almost died hereā.
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all my coworkers are at my house & weāre drunk & iām making them listen to afromanās mississippi while i explain the grove.
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got pissed on mississippiās behalf on twitter while drunk again - what the fuck else is new.
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Iām interviewing an artist I really admire today. Itās the first interview Iāve pitched to a magazine thatās gotten accepted. Iām very nervous. Iāve had too much coffee. Good thoughts for me, please!.
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someone at my favorite nice consignment shop brought in all of their jadeite to sell & i cried in the store
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A real interaction at work today:. Coworker: āSo would you say you like, grew up country?ā.Me: āNo I am from the suburbs.ā.Coworker: āSo the south isnāt like, all country?ā. BITCH HAVE YOU NEVER HEARD OF A LIL PLACE CALLED ATLANTA OR LITERALLY ANY SOUTHERN CITY.
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nervous new teacher photo set - first day first day first day!!!!
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sometimes i forget how loved oxford mississippi can make me feel.
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life at home is still kinda rough but i start my radio show tomorrow, i finished a good book this week, i like my serving job & iām good at it & i submitted a short story a friend i trust was really impressed with to two pubs i love. things arenāt so bad :).
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other writing news: iām doing my first ever āin conversationā event! with the first bookstore i worked at & a writer i love & at a really cool location! they called me a ālocal poetā! wow!
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i do my best to vet my sexual partners, but there is nothing more disappointing than going home with a man, seeing a packed bookshelf with no women on it & having to say "so sorry but i have to go like, right now.".
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no more āyou donāt seem like youāre from mississippi thatās a complimentā comments pretty please.
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it took me less than 6 hours to make an oxford connection in NYC oxford is bewitched yāall i am convinced.
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server just asked me if i had a wine key because āyou look like you work in the service industryā
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do yāall ever just stare at the overgrown lot of the old university sonic (this is a cry for help i think iām losing my mind).
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lane kiffin looks like your high school friendās hot dad iām sorry.
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least favorite thing: people obsessed with presenting themselves as "different" who look down on people who aren't "different" enough.
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How would you describe your style?. Mostly Free People but found on the clearance rack at Belk when shopping with my mom.
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went out in public in mississippi & forgot about my reputation as a slut. WHOOPS.
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we got out of mississippi? to WRITE? AND WEāRE PRETTY?!.
What would 12-year old you say if they met 2020-you?.
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The fun part about being young & working in a restaurant is sometimes underage kids give you IDs that belong to people you know & you get to laugh in their faces.
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& can you imagine whatās gonna happen when prices to live close to the square spike (like they arenāt already hella expensive) the city of oxford does not value service industry works as people nor does it value our labor & itās fucking disgusting & dehumanizing.
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