Fun fact, when my agent first reached out to me, he told me he represented both of these authors and I was like "yeah right, you just happen to mention two of the authors I respect most, sure, whatever you say scammer" but after some deeeep research 🦂 I found he was telling the truth. Anyway, THIS!🔥

We're hosting "Writing and Resistance" a workshop and conversation with KIESE LAYMON, ROBERT JONES, JR. and DEESHA PHILYAW on Dec. 14! All proceeds will go to the Sameer Project. Join us! Register: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/wri...

A new opportunity may have already arrived, water signs. baltimorebeat.com/november-202...

First frost today ❄️, and my belly is full of pumpkin red curry 🤤🧡

The arc of history is a foot-long, but it bends towards justice.

it's pretty cool trying your ass off. being passionate about the things you create. gushing about your characters. talking loudly about all of it. there's nothing cringe or annoying about it. who cares if someone laughs? or whatever they think. fuck 'em. their joylessness does not pertain to you

Quasar is all about RANGE. From science panels & horror, we're bringing wide-ranging SFF writers together. That's why we're also excited about Tarot Need-to-Knows. Register by Nov 8 to join @brightflame.bsky.social & @leftlanesmith.bsky.social! Do the cards show you coming out? 👀 buff.ly/CbgABOU

New street art just dropped in my #Baltimore neighborhood overnight by a local Gemini ♊ and I love to see it!! ⚡💙🤎 @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social

Excited to offer a #Tarot seminar for #SFF #writers with @leftlanesmith.bsky.social at the upcoming @sfwa.org Quasar online conference. We've begun some juicy convos as we prepare. Hope you'll join us! www.sfwa.org/events/ (Free for Nebula attendees or $50) #SpecLit #WritingCommunity #writing

@leftlanesmith.bsky.social I bought 78 Acts of Liberation and I haven’t read a tarot book this juicy in a long time. Cannot believe this isn’t more wildly popular; so many unique and salient points and I’m not even halfway through it. Extremely smart, grounded and practical. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Dem establishment is going to double down on their anti-immigrant and anti-LGBT stance by saying the rest of the country isn't NYC & so they can't risk losing "the heartland" or whatever. It's a time to celebrate for sure but it's definitely NOT a time to sit back & think change'll trickle up.

The world is up for grabs I feel glorious, glorious Got a chance to start again I was born for this, born for this It's who I am, how could I forget? I made it through the darkest part of night And now I see the sunrise Now I feel glorious, glorious I feel glorious youtu.be/7OrLroFa0AI

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

Nothing, just thinking about all the white "liberals" screaming in my face their fantasies about me being raped & thrown off a roof by brown and/or Muslim people for the last two years and how the only politician to be unashamedly & loudly supportive of trans people is a brown Muslim man.

AND HE WAS REALLY UNABASHEDLY PRO TRANS RIGHTS WITHOUT NEEDING ANY PRODDING AT ALL JEREMY

Full Moon in Taurus in my pleasure house. Mmmmm hmmmm. Prepared to fully soak in & enjoy the satisfaction of whatever comes my way over the next 24 hours. ♉🌕

This idea that trans rights and economic concerns can be disentangled and separated are completely wrong too. Cheap housing and healthcare are trans rights. And trans rights will materially benefit everyone by enabling the bodily autonomy and freedom for every human.

I am old enough to remember when Dick Cheney set the bar for evil

Dick Cheney was one of the architects of the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, one of the faces of a deadly war that should never have been waged, that killed millions and destabilized the region. If there was justice in the world, he would have been tried at The Hague for war crimes.

But if Dick Chaney is dead, who will the next Democrat nominee try to get approval from?

Ask any of your favorite Black women writers from a decade ago why their bylines stopped appearing, and you’ll likely hear the same response: There is no place for us in media. In TV. In publishing or academia. For the majority of us, there’s no place but gone.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

Teen Vogue has shown that you can do courageous, accountability political journalism *and* get huge engagement while doing so. And they've just decided to throw that all away. This is an unbelievably grim day for journalism.

A rad transbian comrade introduced me to Autoheart's "gay angst" music last night & it's perfect 💙🖤 It's not a spirit but I'm paralysed From the neck down, I'm so unsatisfied Got to find a way to leave the darkness in the past Blue black magic What I need is something strong enough to bring me back

Good. Night.

It is my very great honor and pleasure to be on the schedule for this @sfwa.org conference next month, talking about writing & Tarot along with @brightflame.bsky.social ! ✨🃏 #Tarot #TarotSky #SciFi #ScienceFiction #SpecFic #Writers

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Scary masked trans antifa boogeyman by day, "Mr. Incredible" 😏 by night. (Putting a jacket on over this to go out because it is COLD and WINDY 🥶)

Day 31 Happy Halloween! 👻🦇 🎃 All month I gave you some less obvious, overlooked, underappreciated, or new songs for your Halloween party playlist (see all at #HalloweenCountdownSongs) but today there is only one song I care about: Michael Jackson's Thriller, of course. 🕺🏾🧟🪩🐺🌓 youtu.be/sOnqjkJTMaA

Just a handsome devil wishing you a deliciously mischievous Devil's Night 😈

Guarantee you everybody who accuses poor folks of misbehavior breaks the laws themselves and would feel persecuted by even having it pointed out. The real problem is they avoid seeing people in need so they can pretend they aren't people at all. They drown their own consciences.

Oh yes, THIS is my Mercury alright! 🤠

Day 30: Dancin in the Full Moon by Jae XO 🏳️‍⚧️ Witchy and trans new release! "...Jae turned to ritual, brewing a fragrant herbal blend... As the steam rose, so did inspiration. 'I was immediately hit with a groove that made my bones move,' Jae recalls." #HalloweenCountdownSongs youtu.be/WmAFKvfHAGI

The funeral is about 60% funded and is happening in 5 days. Please pitch in to honor the life and memory of this trans man if you're able.

Alright, now I'm waiting on one last rejection before I can say every single thing I've submitted this year, from poems to short stories to project proposals, has been rejected. A humbling year and a fun one, dabbling in things that aren't necessarily my strengths, being as queer as I wanna be. 🏳️‍⚧️ ✍🏻

Day 29: Super Freaky Girl – Nicki Minaj (2022) You already have Rick James' 1981 "Super Freak" on your Halloween party playlist, or what are you even doing? Here's an "update" that samples it. 🔪🔪🔪 #HalloweenCountdownSongs youtu.be/j5uAR9w7LBg

Guillermo del Toro said “I don’t ever make eye candy, I make eye protein” and that goes hard tbh

Seen a lot of discussion about SNAP benefits & whether recipients are working or not, but I really haven't seen anyone acknowledge that a full-time caregiver IS WORKING doing *unpaid* labor that we would have to PAY someone else to do in order to be freed up for waged labor. Childcare is expensive.

The scariest thing I can think of is that the top capitalists have clearly studied Marx & have taken very seriously the notion that "the bourgeoisie produces its own gravediggers" & have done everything in their power to circumvent that exact problem in order to win the long game.

I've had the book "Queer Lasting" on my bookshelf to start for awhile but I haven't fully grieved the conceptual framework of futurity enough yet.

Staceyann Chin is a queer Jamaican poet and I happened to meet her in 2009 when we both spoke onstage at the National Equality March (in case you want to send donations somewhere that is not a government org but also want to know the recipient isn't some random person).

Prayers of protection for the people of Jamaica.

In my experience, "writer's block" means your subconscious has identified a massive problem in the bits you've written so far and isn't letting you waste any more time charging forward until you figure out how to fix it, which is also not a thing the stochastic parrot can fix for you!

“Writer’s Block”…. what exactly is that? Is it the moment when you’re midway through something and it locks because you need to do work on the premise? That’s not block, it’s process. So what is it?

I've never believed Writer's Block to be a real thing. Sometimes you have to think more than type. It's not a bad thing unless you get distressed about it. The distress can inhibit you, I guess.

Day 28: A Nightmare On My Street – DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince (1988) In spite of the Nightmare on Elm Street copyright holders suing the record label, we still get to watch the music video with its "not affiliated" disclaimer online (thankfully) #HalloweenCountdownSongs youtu.be/fVbaYFVUbLo

Every year I leave a bowl of candy out on my steps while we're not at home because we're out trick or treating. It's gone, or mostly, when we get back. I still have my Pride flag up now, and I wonder what would happen if I put a sign out with the bowl that says "This candy will make you gay"? 🤭🍬

I want the kind of goofing-around friendship that these guys have

Day 27: Weird Science by Oingo Boingo (1985) "Magic and technology Voodoo dolls and chants Electricity We're makin' (Weird science) Fantasy and microchips Shooting from the hip Something different" 🧑‍🔬 🧪⚡🧟 "My creation... is it real?" #HalloweenCountdownSongs youtu.be/Jm-upHSP9KU

📣 please share & spread! so our housing situation has gotten worse and we were told today we have until November 9th to leave. We need help with a security deposit to get a new place & any leads in the Baltimore city or county area! two gays and our senior cat! #BIPOCMA #mutualaid #helpsky💸💕