The Bitter Southerner exists to explore, from every possible angle, the duality of the Southern thing. A beacon and a bellweather. Based in Athens, GA. Literature, photography, art, music. Make more biscuits, get into good trouble.
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Iβm so proud to live in the most diverse and culturally rich part of the country!! I love the Bitter Southerner for centering and celebrating the culture and thought of the South while openly challenging the systems that oppress that culture and scholarship. Killer photography, print style and editing all really helps too.
Mar 27, 2025
i have been on pi.fyi for several months now and I am aware of the NY-adjacency of the app however seen lots of Texans on here and it's making me consider cultural merit of locations further south for example, the Southwestern US
I have been working on a zine/publication/site for a while about the American Southwest and am actively looking for contributors if you feel inclined! if you've lived/worked in TX, AZ, NM, CO, UT, NV, OK and are an artist/maker/writer I would love to interview you or have you contribute a piece of art/writing/opinions!!
I often hear so many conversations guided by misconceptions about the desolation and backwardness of these regions and would love to explore the cultural contributions of the places! maybe pi.fyi will be of some help
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Apr 13, 2024
An independent music blog with outstanding ideas. The first article I read was about coolmathgames.com, and I was so excited by the journalism it contained. It's hard to find press with a real voice anymore. I don't find many articles that truly move and inspire me. Since discovering and admiring the blog as a reader, I'm thrilled to have my work featured within it. My essay called Dread Hides Easily In The Basement will be included in the first print edition of No Bells. It's about misogyny in DIY music spaces and my experience as a woman in the Philadelphia scene.
Sep 30, 2024
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This is so serious and not cool-fun and I'm sorry, but I beat breast cancer last year (yay ππΌ) and the clinic I got treatment from uses Noona. Appointments, test results, lab results, billing questions... A symptom tracker!! Messaging options. It really came in handy for so many things and I was grateful to have it! The app didn't save my life, but kept me in close touch with the team that contributed the most. Definitely made going through the fight a lot easier!
While we're here, for the sake of awareness. FEEL UP YOUR BREASTS, often. Don't assume anything abnormal that you feel is something harmless. Modern medicine is amazing and it's not a death sentence anymore. Get genetic testing if it's an option (it's stupid expensive.) I was diagnosed at 39 and I've learned that people are getting diagnosed younger and younger every year...
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My deck is full of container gardens, and Iβm doing everything in my power to ensure that the plants are successful. I would like my own tomatoes, thank you Mort Garson π
May 3, 2025
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(I'm an old(ish). Thanks for considering this advice, given earnestly and with good intention, from experience.)
Assuming the nature of your work isn't the source of the sadness? The gratitude you mentioned... Find ways to blow that up! Reflect on whether a past version of yourself would be proud of where you are now. The peace of boredom is a blessing. Seriously! A large amount of time spent as an adult is simply existing day-to-day. It gets repetitive, "there's nothing new under the sun."
But also, stay as healthy as possible so you can do things outside of work. Make sure you are getting enough sleep, eating well. Don't smoke or vape anything. Maybe when the rhythm of your career settles in you will be able fully build out your whole life and work will only be a little part of it. The transition from school to career is temporary, trust that you'll get the balance right soon enough. IDK... I wouldn't know about long term careers, π I have done a bunch of different stuff since I finished with school, none of it even close to what I went for. If I got bored or outgrew it or it got toxic, I moved on. No one *wants* to labor, right? Capitalism π€¬ sucks. But we *do* want to contribute to society, to our communities. Many types of work do that even under capitalism. So. Whatever you do, be grateful that you are contributing, but realize it doesn't define you, and learn how to be grateful for things that you might otherwise not be, like boredom.
Gratitude is always the answer, especially to sadness; and comparison is a thief of joy.
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