Xismosa Xit

An archive of my weekly newsletter, promoting my writing, rabbitholes I dive into, and chisme of my life.

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January 20, 2023: New Year, Same Procrastination

Featured Poetry: The Highways Are Young
Smooth Highway Hairpins
Looking Up At Them
Viejo Los Cerros
Saguaros and Brush
Rabbithole: Everything Nona The Ninth
Book Búho: Everything Nona The Ninth
Personal Chisme: Once I take the patience and dedication to teach myself how to sew my own clothes and make Amigurumi, it’s over for you hoes.
The Void Shouts Back: what piece of media, especially fiction, unexpectedly changed you or taught you something you still think about, even in a small way?

November 19, 2022: Mentally, I Sent This A Month Ago

Featured Prose: The Epitome of Evolution
Rabbithole: Try Guys Drama
Book Búho: We Ride On Sticks, Saga, Drama of the gifted child, Peoples guide to capitalism: an introduction to marxist economics, Organizing Solutions for people with ADHD
Personal Chisme: Nope (2022)
The Void Shouts Back: What’s the pettiest drama that has nothing to do with you but you love to hear about?

September 22, 2022: Love And T(he Urge To Overthrow Capitalism On A Daily Basis)hunder

Featured Prose: Decolonizing My Body In A Colonizing Religion
Featured Prose: Gospel of Love
Rabbithole: I should start a union.
Book Búho: The Library Of The Unwritten
Personal Chisme: me? up at 7am voluntarily??
The Void Shouts Back: Do you have a dream product? Like a dream car? There might not be ethical consumption under capitalism, but I think it’s okay to imagine having nice things.

August 29, 2022: Un Año De Xisme Y Xingaderas

Featured Prose: Xismosa Xit
Featured Prose: Sweetest Loves I’ve Known
Rabbithole: Cute Tomato Butt
Book Búho: Letter to a CES Director, Sex at Dusk, World Religions: An Illustrated Guide
Personal Chisme: New sticker!
The Void Shouts Back: Compared to where you were a year ago, what is something unexpected and pleasant that has happened to you?

August 9, 2022: No Mortifying Ordeal of Being Known!

Featured Prose: Luisa And Luisa Meet And Ariana Happens: A Wellesley Story
Featured Prose: Three Kinds of Pink
Rabbithole: Do great good in one thing
Book Búho: IT’S HAPPENING
Personal Chisme: Bisexual Tote Bags full of Junks
The Void Shouts Back: What aesthetic do you aspire to?

July 24, 2022: Be The Kirby Car You Wish To See In The World

Featured Prose: wildly enough, none
Featured Poetry: see above ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Rabbithole: See title B)
Book Búho: The Rules Do Not Apply, Art Matters
Personal Chisme: P E R F E C T C U R L S ! ! ! ! ! !
The Void Shouts Back: What genre is your life?

July 13, 2022: Amor A La Morena

Featured Prose: Blackbird Wine, Blackberry Kiss
Featured Poetry: Brown Body Love
Rabbithole: The Baby Gays, what else?
Book Búho: Pleasure Activism; Sissy
Personal Chisme: New Personal Aesthetic Announcement^(TM)

June 28, 2022: Xismosa vs. Xit

Featured Prose: Creation
Featured Poetry: Is This What It Comes To?
Rabbithole: RAMON EL JAMON
Book Búho: Lore Olympus [in English]; Lore Olympus [in Spanish]
Personal Chisme: Let me eat a baby.

May 13, 2022: I’m Back like Lemonade Memes After Lemonade Finally Dropped On Spotify

First Featured Poetry: Diaspora of My Swallowed Words
Second Featured Poetry: Death Has A Tough Coat But It’s Softer On The Inside
Rabbithole: Bingo! I crave the flame.
Personal Chisme: working on a “History Will Call Them Gal Pals” cross stitch

April 4, 2022: Snakes in a Poem

First Featured Poetry: Like a Doll
Second Featured Poetry: Medusa
Rabbithole: He Run
Book Búho: Payback’s A Witch; Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood; Loose Woman
Personal Chisme: new full-time-ish job!

March 8, 2022: Bisexuals Against Cowardice

First Featured Prose: A Gem, a Witch, and an 8 Foot Tall Lesbian and Non-Chronological Queer Looking for a Decolonized House
Second Featured Prose: Think Cult Classics, but Female Friendships
Rabbithole: cute owl comic!
Personal Chisme: desperately trying to get some serotonin in my life

February 9, 2022: Búhos and Blues

First Featured Prose: Plummeting Into Carnations
Second Featured Prose: Deserted
Rabbithole: a blue dress that I think about every goddamn day
Personal Chisme: I MADE STICKERS

January 24, 2022: New Year, Same Xit

Featured Poetry: Death Lay Beside Me
Featured Prose: The Paradoxical Principles of Minimalism
Rabbithole: Encanto, of course
Personal Chisme: don’t be fooled by the rocks that I got

December 16, 2021: You Are Not Hard To Love

Featured Prose: Suave YourSelf
Rabbithole: tall people are suspicious
Personal Chisme: A Goddamn Plan™ and a tiny tree!

December 5, 2021: Sprouting Back Up

Featured Poetry: Say My Name
Featured Prose: OUR Star Sign
Rabbithole: Hot Girls Have IBS Billboard
Personal Chisme: the robots visited my house 😡

November 20, 2021: Bet On Yourself

Featured Poetry: Pink Reduction
Featured Prose: Lessons from a Gambling Family
Rabbithole: the robots are coming
Personal Chisme: job! job! job!

November 8, 2021: I Have Continued

Featured Poetry: Library Search
Featured Prose: Pearly Whites
Rabbithole: Hoestory
Personal Chisme: I am the unknown to the unknown

October 28, 2021: Spooky Time Stimulation

Featured Poetry: Jellyfish Blues
Featured Prose: Raging Mind
Rabbithole: Eldest Daughter Xit
Personal Chisme: 10th newsletter!

October 22, 2021: Creation Creates

Featured Poetry: Wax Hearts
Featured Prose: Creation Creates
Rabbithole: giant dogs and tiny cats!
Personal Chisme: boo at Sickly Victorian Children!

October 14, 2021: Lucky 13!

Featured Poetry: Happy List
Featured Prose: Lala Y El Vaquero
Rabbithole: s q u i s h
Personal Chisme: looking back at old journals

October 7, 2021: Cuerpo Care

Featured Poetry: Coatlicue
Featured Prose: Death to Denim
Rabbithole: “I am a mosaic of everyone I’ve ever loved, even for a heartbeat.”
Personal Chisme: Drinking games can be great for hydration

October 1, 2021: Calm Your Cabeza

Featured Poetry: Calm The Fuck Down
Featured Prose: Headbangers for Headaches
Rabbithole: Take Up Space!
Personal Chisme: Went to a car show, v cool

September 23, 2021: Being Difficult In Difficult Times

Featured Poetry: Unnecessary Grief
Featured Prose: Enchanted Chocolate
Rabbithole: Having Powerful™ friends
Personal Chisme: Thinking of a long term project as inspired by Book of Delights by Ross Gay

September 15, 2021: U-Hauled!