AMERICA! "The Fortunate Fall" by @lateonsetgirl.bsky.social is on sale for $2.99 for Kindle (and possibly Nook, Kobo, Apple, Google, etc) today!

My story "The Girl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For" is part of Reactor's Short Fiction Highlights 2025 ebook, free to download in PDF or epub. reactormag.com/download-sho... I thought I linked to this before but apparently not! Grab it now for the bargain price of $0.00

if you are a trans teen right now, you do not have the lifetime of experience with the united states federal legislative branch to cope with “this will *probably* die in the senate” on top of the rest of your life and that right there feels like a fucking flavor of abuse at scale.

hi, cis folks! this week, with some democrat votes, 2 anti-trans bills passed the house. one bans medicaid funds for trans youth care, the other proposes jail time for providers. they haven't passed the senate, but dems may need convincing to vote no on both. tap into the 🧵for a quick action.

A beautiful katydid...who doesn't want to be seen. 🤔

I had questions about the latest attack(s) on gender affirming care. So grateful for some answers in the latest Beyond Do No Harm newsletter. mailchi.mp/interrupting...

18 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Big breakthrough for sexually-active/high-risk trans ppl: study of longest-acting injectable PrEP (lenacapavir) finds NO interaction with GAMT. Trans adults have long avoided PrEP for fear it impacts their hormone therapy with just 20% using it.

For those of you who like to read books with your ears instead of your eyes, THE FORTUNATE FALL is 50% off at audiobooks .com: www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

an entire generation losing their minds that their children and grandchildren would DARE to do anything they don't understand and turning the full might of the world's imperial powers against the people they profess to love most

Here in Kansas people said about KS SB 180 "oh there is no way it'll pass" It passed and now I am legally banned from ANY gendered restroom, so uh, at this point I might not trust people's assessments about which bills are "never going to pass"

I've been looking up reviews of my 1998 novel Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary, because reasons. I thought I'd turned off AI, but was presented with this:

I thought the book was stunning! It's brilliantly and defiantly queer.

WHAT WE ARE SEEKING got a starred review in Library Journal! A perceptive one, too. Bujold's ETHAN OF ATHOS is definitely a book I thought about while writing it

Feels really significant that the Trump admin is making a concerted effort to force colleges to undo policies that made campus safe and accessible for trans people, because for so many trans people college is the first place they ever get to be themselves.

“ ‘The U.S. poverty line is calculated as three times the cost of a minimum food diet in 1963, adjusted for inflation’ … [But] in 2024, food-at-home is no longer 33% of household spending. For most families, it’s 5 to 7 percent.”

This is a tremendous movie, justly a cult favorite. Read nothing else about it and go watch it

There are many reasons why I have a publishing house, but keeping trans people in print when no one else will is looking like an important goal these days.

As one of rather few trans women with a Big 5 publishing contract, I hope people will buy my book or borrow it from a library. Not just because I need money, but because I want to retain that access. Trans women's books should be in bookstores and libraries, and publishers like to see line go up 1/3

Are we doing awards eligibility posts already? Mine is simple: The GIrl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For, published in Reactor 4/2025. It's got romance in dystopia and mild superpowers and complicated trans feelings about body-swapping, and it's free to read reactormag.com/the-girl-tha...

it's kinda crazy how many Dem governors released statements for TDOR while simultaneously having their hands caught deep in the "complicit in the systemic torture and rape of trans women" jar

This is being required of trans teens in the UK in order to start puberty blockers. There is a limited time period in which PBs are even useful. Are there ANY medical treatments that require this many pre-requisites? This is designed to exhaust patients so that they age out of the system.

There is no context in which grown cisgender adults questioning Trans+ kids and teenagers about their sexual experiences or body parts is acceptable It’s profoundly inappropriate - and frankly, creepy as fuck Systemic clinical malpractice is the standard within NHS cis-controlled Trans+ healthcare

Ngl, it doesn't feel awesome that so much discourse about policies designed specifically to hurt trans people is about the negative effects it might have on some cis people. Not cos it's not bad that it will have broader incidental effects but because it should be enough that it will hurt us.

This is the exact same kind of fairy tale that gave us Kavanaugh stops. The wise enforcers of the law inquire politely and retreat when they're corrected. No one gets harassed or beaten or imprisoned or deported or killed. Everyone has a good laugh together afterward

"It's hard for me to care about Riley Gaines tying for fifth when my swim coach is accused of raping my teammates.”

There are (rightfully) several of these challenges going on — and likely more we don’t yet know of — and I hope to be able to spend some time on this issue soon, but this is a notable win that I’m glad to see getting coverage.

I support games costing more if necessary to pay all the workers who make them, even much more. I do not support pumping them full of pink slime to make them cheaper. If you paid for this get a refund to send a message

People INCLUDING TRANS FRIENDLY MEDIA keep writing news stories on exclusions of trans people from women's sport while never talking to trans women athletes involved in women's sports.

for our "Texas Canon" series, I wrote about Halt and Catch Fire, the underrated AMC show about the '80s Dallas tech boom, and how it reminds us of why we were optimistic about tech in the first place: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

"Although young trans people were most frequently and viciously targeted by Trump, the report found that “transgender youth under 20 were quoted in just 6% of articles. Who did msm corporate media turn to? Trump, a member of his administration, or other Republicans were quoted in 50% of articles"

This is my transition timeline

A historic win for equality in #Albania! Parliament has passed the Law “On Gender Equality”, keeping protections for sexual orientation, gender identity and expression and withdrawn a proposal to recognise only two genders. A victory for unity, dignity and democracy. 🧵

Oh wow, look at this new blurb for WHAT WE ARE SEEKING from Cory Doctorow! Preorder links here: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

NHS Sussex are forcibly detransitioning trans people. These patients need full restoration of their healthcare, and everyone involved in doing this needs to be sacked.

I don't follow baseball or understand its more arcane rules, but it's been so much fun to watch people who do lose their minds over and over on my skyline. Thank you sports fans for letting me pick up a contact high from whatever it is you're experiencing

Sadako crawling out of your tv, turning motion smoothing off, then crawling back in

man that's a lovely piece of tech horror

Advocates for Trans Equality has endorsed @dewayneforminneapolis.com for Mayor!

Every cis asshole who told a trans person that Newsom wasn't a threat and we needed to stop criticizing him owes every trans person they told that to $50.

wow, would you look at that cough btw the latest blurb on this is @annaleen.bsky.social: "I am in awe"

sent a copy of What We Are Seeking to a bookseller friend

"In less than 36 hours since we announced that we will be sending payments to disabled SNAP recipients in the South—$100 to individuals and $250 to households—we have received more than 12,400 applications, totaling $2.7 million in requests." - they have to close the form tomorrow... no way to cover

Proofs of Field Guide to Dragonflies & Damselflies of GB&I have arrived and look good. Written by Steve Brooks & Steve Cham with many new artworks, photos and detailed maps, make it the most complete guide to British Odonata. The 6th edition in 28 years

If you see this, post 4 female characters you love

also my trans identity is a fucking kitchen table issue and so is abortion you nihilistic centrist FUCKS

Upper Midwesterners: what are good food banks/shelves/etc. to give $ to in our area? I gave to Second Harvest Heartland and to Community Connectors, which runs a halal food shelf in Willmar, Minnesota, but there must be lots of others www.communityconnectorsservices.org/health-nutri...

Pet food is usually not covered by SNAP (depending on where you are), but needing to cover more groceries may take up what you would have spent on it. Many animal shelters have pet food pantries, so check your local if you're struggling to feed your pets.