The Personal Blog of Emily Gorcenski

The breaking of the fragile bonds.

A personal statement on AI usage on emilygorcenski.com.

Join me this weekend at the Rivanna Area Queer Center for a session on understanding news literacy in the age of algorithmic media.

A poem for all victims of secret police.

Reflections on repatriation, AI, and thriving as the world falls apart.

Charlottesville Tomorrow asked me what I hoped to see over the next 20 years.

I was happy to sit down with Awkword to discuss Charlottesville and how the community’s experience under the first Truml administration has given it tools to resist the second.

A post about coming home.

The first part of what I hope to be an ongoing series about repatriating and owning my own data and tech.

Robert Evans invited me to read my poem “The Time of Cowards” on the episode covering Trump’s 2025 inauguration, and I was honored to do so.

A poem of our times originally written as a Bluesky thread It is the time of the coward.

We are no longer in a culture war, we are fighting instead an epistemological war, where authoritarians seek to replace process with diktat: why truth is a gradient and not a boolean.

I was honored to come on Episode 2 of the new season of The Anti-Trans Hate Machine, looking into far-right paramilitary violence plays into anti-trans hate.

I joined Freja with Redox to talk about the state of US politics and white supremacy following Donald Trump’s second election.

I’ve always wanted to visit Transylvania, the land of my people.