writer, poet and migratory tea leaf. upcoming events: linktr.ee/z.en 📷 icon photo Zahra Siddiqui + header Justin Milburn
t'karonto | Toronto, Canada
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it warms my heart when people go on about how much they love their @chai and tag me by mistake
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Zen Alladina ☕ retweeted
"If we talk about birds, I hope, maybe we'll remember how to talk to each other joyfully and hopefully. Maybe we'll remember how to listen to each other and hear something other than the sound of raptors closing in." @tithenai
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Zen Alladina ☕ retweeted
Come join us for something new: Tea Stories 🫖, an art workshop & discussion led by local poet & tea sommelier, @chai!! This Sunday, 2-4pm, at our Clubhouse! All creative mediums welcome. Let's cultivate warm stories — together!
Register now⬇️ eventbrite.ca/e/tea-stories-…
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I'll be one of the speakers at this event with @WorkmanArtsTO tomorrow— online and free!
I describe myself as 'always calm/always chaos.' If you can relate to that in your own creative process, I hope you'll find some catharsis in me sharing my experience as an artist with ADHD!
Workshop: NEURODIVERGENT CREATOR COZY TEA TIME: ENVISIONING AFFIRMING AUTISTIC AND ADGDER REPRESENTATION by Kat Singer at #RWM2022.
Date: Saturday November 5, 1 - 2:30 PM
workmanarts.com/rwm-events/n…
#RWMFEST #MORETHANREBELLION
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catch my poetry feature and all these brilliant South Asian readers at TT Secret Reading #35 next week!
eventbrite.ca/e/tartan-turba…
(it's online and it's free!)
ALT A virtual reading: Thursday July 28th, 2022, 7-9:30PM
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Zen Alladina ☕ retweeted
Photos from the July 5th show at the @ArtBarPoetry last week 😀 📷
All photos: drive.google.com/drive/folde…
#artbarpoetry #spokenword #poetryreading #openmic #artbarpoetryseries #torontopoetry
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Zen Alladina ☕ retweeted
Our first amazing spotlight 🌟 for July is on artist, @chai. Zen is a writer & poet whose work sometimes is about simple observations, and other times explores frameworks for healing beyond history. We love her work! Read her full interview on our website: eastendarts.ca/july-east-end…
ALT A headshot of Zen Alladina, a South Asian woman. She is standing behind a tree or plant, and the leaves obscure half of her face.
ALT Zen is standing next to a mic, gesturing with one hand. Behind her a wall is covered in vines.
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Zen Alladina ☕ retweeted
THIS TUESDAY 😃
@ArtBarPoetry Series Feat. @ValAssenza, Zen Alladina @chai, and Denis Stokes (with Open Mic)🎙📝🔥
FB: fb.me/e/4tMc0AuHR
-Host: @paul_e_costa -Cover: $10
#artbar #openmic #poetryreading #poetry #spokenword #livepoetry #poetryevent
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Zen Alladina ☕ retweeted
@chai is the solarpunk writer we need and deserve ☀️ so proud of you!
Our first special micro fiction issue is out tomorrow, available in pdf format for free download on our Patreon page. The theme is mental health in solarpunk futures, featuring @TheSuiWay @ChrisRMuscato @Jasmingelinck @chai & Briane Willis. link in bio. #Solarpunk #MicroFiction
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oh hey, that's me 🤗🍵 keep an eye out for my botany + tea-inspired flash piece in @solarpunklitmag's next mini-issue, out soon!
Our first special micro fiction issue is out tomorrow, available in pdf format for free download on our Patreon page. The theme is mental health in solarpunk futures, featuring @TheSuiWay @ChrisRMuscato @Jasmingelinck @chai & Briane Willis. link in bio. #Solarpunk #MicroFiction
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me, in supposed spring, getting attacked by the wind and slipping on hidden ice on a grassy lawn: "THIS IS WHY I HAVE TRUST ISSUES."
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Zen Alladina ☕ retweeted
Today, playing a video game where you’re a writer instead of actually writing, count as writing.
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Zen Alladina ☕ retweeted
Getting 8 hours of sleep isn't enough I want to slumber underneath the earth for millennia like the old gods
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tbh, i simply want more diverse rep for desi parents lol
more south asian books where parents are actually in love, exchange smiles, sing old songs to each other, dance awkwardly & embarrass their children by being a cute couple instead of the common but overused trope of desi parents tied in an unhappy, compromising relationship.
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I was struggling to write a character making puri from scratch, because I'd never made puri from scratch. So... this was research:
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Zen Alladina ☕ retweeted
Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction.
Palestinians create a world through poetry. A civilization wrestles with the magic inherent in the land slowly dying. New civilizations emerge from the ruins of giants of magitech engineering. #SFFpit #poc
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this game absolutely fucked me up:
Trash the Planet, our narrative resource-management game about raccoons taking over, is available NOW! It's FREE! Go PLAY IT! Buy the soundtrack on BANDCAMP! RT for the chance to help us have a REALLY GOOD DAY!
Game: trashtheplanetgame.com | OST: bryvox.bandcamp.com/album/tr…
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Zen Alladina ☕ retweeted
Toronto spends 3.1 million dollars on policing a DAY. 1/3 of that figure alone could house/ pay the rent of over 80+ houseless people for over a year.
But Toronto would rather criminalize people for being houseless in a park.
One day of policing $ could house everyone there.
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