Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

When people say “I want my kids to have things I never had the opportunity to have,” I did not realize they meant measles.

I'm looking for pitches for @MotherJones' print culture section, Mixed Media! These are ~2,000-word essays that combine reporting, cultural criticism, historical research, and/or personal narrative. More details in our pitch guidelines here: www.motherjones.com/contribute/w...

streetcake: experimental writing magazine @streetcakemag.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Art; non-paying) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting

Manchester streets speak back.

The Sealey Challenge, a month-long project where participants read a book of poetry every day during August, is donating all money collected to The Sameer Project.

a week late because I ran away to the woods, but here’s my #chani / sappho / apocalypse poem, out in one of my favourite northern publications

📚Friends don’t let friends buy books from Amazon📚

Writers & readers! Our main submissions are Poems to Palestine but you can submit poems & fiction via our Creative Writing Group. Just subscribe to The Madrid Review (it’s free!) and send your work! #WritingCommunity #creativewriting #wip #wips #submissions themadridreview.com/creative-wri...

Time to do it. Issue coedited by 22yr old Gaza poet Haia Mohammed - who had no food OR water today. She wants to read you. #GazaGenocide “Poetry is an act of peace.” - Neruda “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators…” - Shelley #Poetry #Peace #Palestine themadridreview.com/f/subs-open-...

Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride. However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Thousands march through New York City’s Times Square protesting the bombing of Iran.

On Monday, Israel struck Iran’s Evin prison, known for the intellectuals, activists, artists and students who have served time there—many of whom are fighting for democracy. In 2024, we published five Iranian women’s accounts of their life behind bars in Evin. www.thedial.world/articles/new...

"In these harrowing days of calculated overwhelm, our job is to resist consent manufacturing and calls to craven acquiescence. To think critically about language, hold media coverage accountable. To protest." - Kaveh is such a beautiful writer. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Truth

“I can only say that I admire and support Palestine Action wholeheartedly – and I will continue to, whether that becomes a terrorist offence or not.” Sally Rooney continues to be a real one. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Moonlit still life with butterfly | Mary Fedden

Happy 21st day of Pride! It’s Pride Solstice! Pride Midsommar! Your goal today is florals, garlands and pagan weirdness so unsettling it scares the straights! Build a Wicker Gay! Lure folks to your gay rural village! Possibly don’t throw them off cliff! All hail the Green Man of Pride!

The literary world's prestigious Taco Bell Quarterly has surpassed 22k followers on Bluesky, which is more than the Paris Review, Granta, and Ploughshares combined. I assure you there is no literary world. It's just this contextual silo from like 20 years ago that's still pointlessly gatekept

Literature is dead and no one reads anymore! I would still encourage you to make terrible life choices and become a writer anyway! Fuck a job, write poetry!

i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!

Almost as if gender critical transphobic politicians don’t actually care about women’s autonomy. Hmm.

This class explores techniques of politically-committed writing. Together will focus on strategies by which literature engages its social context and how we might skillfully incorporate some of these approaches ourselves! Sign-up: tinhouse.com/product/spri...

The existence of little private armies are actually major forces enforcing enclosure and inequality in our society, and they are positioned to play a huge role the the coming wave of fascist vigilante violence.

THREAD: The assassinations in Minnesota highlight a dirty secret hardly ever mentioned in the news: U.S. has 1.1 million private police officers. There is an unprecedented footprint of privately organized violence that is doing all sorts of things most people have no idea about.

Oh my God!? We've been added to the Library of Congress. A literary magazine that I make for fun in my basement as my midlife crisis has been added to the historical record, called the uh, ahem, Taco Bell Quarterly. We are the most prestigious literary magazine of all time.

My 82-year-old mom’s choir gave a Pride-themed concert today that said No Kings, only Queens!

Best image of the day:

MY PRESS IS OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS. WE PAY YOU. WE'RE WEIRD. thebraag.co/the-press/

Sitka AK (plus a couple hundred more) #nokings

Never before have I seen a military parade where I think “This could’ve been an email.” The people in attendance deserve to look that bored.

Fayetteville, Arkansas

Some people questioned the strategy of telling people not to show up in DC and I was not one of those people because the images of the sparsely attended birthday military bullshit parade is exquisite.

Do you know how badly you have to screw up as a Republican to get this kind of turnout in IDAHO? #NOKINGS

The day started with tragedy with political violence in MN and instead of being scared, neighbors SHOWED UP to stand together at No Kings Twin Cities. We packed the Capitol Mall all the way to the Cathedral. Estimate 80,000+ right now. So proud of our state. #nokings #indivisible

This time-lapse video of protesters marching down Broadway in Oakland for No Kings Day gives an idea of how many people turned out today @sfchronicle.com

Holy shit, New York! Here’s the full view. #NoKings #50501Movement

Portland, Oregon SHOWED UP to say #NoKings in America! 💪

Nobody is rioting. Nobody is breaking any laws. These are cops in my city of Las Vegas just assaulting and arresting anyone on Fremont Street who looks at them. This is fascism.

San Antonio goes so hard

Over 300 protesters are marching the streets in San Antonio, chanting against the ICE deportations. @mysanantonio.com

Thousands of protesters turned out in downtown Dallas.

Big turnout in Boise, Idaho for the #NoKings rally

🇺🇸 NO KINGS! Live in Madison, Wisconsin. ✊

Provincetown is a small town, and it’s raining today, but I did a quick headcount and we’ve got 500+ people at our drag-queen-hosted #NoKings rally!

Chicago #NoKings

Our little town had everything: 1300 protesters, lots of patriotic dogs, excellent music, older women sitting on their walkers with signs that said "we're all immigrants", and a guy driving by yelling "there's only one Boss" and pumping his fist at people in Springsteen shirts.

Gilead in FORT WORTH, TX #NoKingsDay