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Concluding Stability Sammy (June 2025- June 2026)
By Sammy Ginsberg In June of 2025, I started Stability Sammy, a project to document and support me becoming stable in all forms: housing; lifestyle & health; purpose & contribution; relationships; systemic societal supports; money. It has been a fucking journey, and clearly, I am still not super stable as I there is a high…
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Toilet Leadership
By Sammy Ginsberg Thank you Toilet! Thank you for listening always,holding space for our private excretions,taking our shit.Toilet for president!Toilet for prime minister!Toilet for pope!Oh, you’re an anarchist? This piece is from The Feminist Toilet #3. To return to the table of contents, click here.
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Poetry Feedback Group for Summer 2026
Organized by Keleigh Ferguson and Sammy Ginsberg After our lovely time in May, we’ve decided to host a poetry feedback group for Summer 2026 in-person. This group will be co-hosted by Keleigh Ferguson and Sammy Ginsberg (we met during our Masters in Secondary ELA at CSUN in 2022 and are both high-school ELA teachers and…
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She Returns to LA
By Sammy Ginsberg she is me is back, babya poet againbubble-wrapped in beatific lovepost-school Jack Kerouac of Disembodied Poetics dazewhere human error creates warmth.it’s okay to not like where you liveand share about it.it’s okay to not be happyall the time.actually, that is poetry.these human feelingsstifled, repressed, unconscious -speak them into beinginto healing.we want to…
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The Feminist Toilet #3
If These Stalls Could Talk Edited by Sammy Ginsberg and Brian Sonia-WallacePublishing Assistant: Juliana McKenna Feel free to copy, redistribute, or share this work, but please credit the authors and The Feminist Toilet, and do not sell it. Read PDF below or scroll to read digital links. This zine was published with support from The…
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Update #58: Teeehheeeheheee
By Sammy Ginsberg Oh my! Since I stopped teaching last week on Wednesday, I have become so scattered in a daze summer mode craze. Also I’ve been dating this guy and when we’re together, everything falls away and the ordinary is so very blissful. I’ve been so scatterbrained in a beautiful way, but also in…
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Update #57: I have decided to leave full-time public school teaching
By Sammy Ginsberg It’s been a long time coming. I resigned from full-time teaching because I burnt out. I went on medical leave twice that year from burn out, and I just needed it to be over. I didn’t really have a plan of what to do next, I just knew that what I was…
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Update #55: Do I move to Oklahoma?
By Sammy Ginsberg Watching Murder She Wrote on Amazon Prime last night, an advertisement came on about moving to Oklahoma. While none of the other ads spoke to me, this one did. Should I move to Oklahoma? I said it out loud, “Should I move to Oklahoma?” and the next commercial break, it ran again.…
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Update #54: Do I Move Back To London?
By Sammy Ginsberg Dude! I’ve been spiraling. Things are hard again, and am planning my escape. Will things get better? Sammy – moving can be a form of self-abandonment. What is it that I want? Things are going to get better. They are. I’ve been having this deep conversation with myself about teaching and the…