Heads up! Stoked that on Sept. 28, I am reading with the magnificent @ajdolman.bsky.social & @amandaearl.bsky.social at the Lieutenant's Pump in Ottawa. Thanks again, Amanda, for putting this together.

Ottawa friends! Would love it if you came out on Tuesday at 7 to Perfect Books for this fabulous event. Honoured to have Crazy/Mad shortlisted alongside these two wonderful books!

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

Friends! There’s still time to bid on various goodies at our silent auction in support of the Bi+ Arts Festival. www.32auctions.com/biartsfestival2025

How’s that for timing www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Very excited to share this forthcoming Sunday, Sept. 28 event in Ottawa. Reading with the magnificent @ajdolman.bsky.social and @amandaearl.bsky.social at the Lieutenant's Pump, 361 Elgin. Doors 1:30pm. Reading, 2pm. Thanks, Amanda, for organizing the whole enchilada.

Happy Labour Day. I believe we need the labour movement more than we have in a very long time, given what is arrayed against us. (Poster by Ricardo Levins Morales, who sells lots of cool things at his store and is having a 20% off sale! www.rlmartstudio.com)

It was a privilege to meet so many wonderful people at Capital Pride! Thank you for all the support as we grow and become a bigger voice for the Bi+ Community in Canada! The conversations at our booth were the highlight of our Pride. Stop "bi" our comments and let us know your favorite moment :)

Let's do that.

No, authors aren't burnt out because "writing without AI is slow" We're burnt out because we're paid dirt so we need day jobs to survive

Come visit us at Capital Pride today!

come on out to T's Pub in Ottawa tonight, if you're free, and please be kind to me as I read some poems for the first time in a long time!

Queer Indie Authors at T's Pub Featuring: Host Eden Moore @ajdolman.bsky.social Natalie Hanna @ceeeejohnson.bsky.social Yours truly 1/3

This weekend, Aug 23 and 24, we're tabling our first ever booth at Ottawa's Capital Pride Street Festival. Bank St, between Lisgar and Cooper, 12 to 8pm, Sat and Sun. Drop bi(!) and say "Hi". We'll have brand-new business cards. And stickers. And a big, beautiful banner. And friendly volunteers!

Stoked to be a part of Queer Indie Authors at T's Pub in Ottawa. Come on out! Featuring fab host Eden Moore & @ajdolman.bsky.social @battleaxepress.bsky.social @ceeeejohnson.bsky.social Stevie Mikayne @jamestheballadeer.bsky.social 1/2

Eden Moore, AJ Dolman, Natalie Hanna, Chris Johnson, Stevie Mikayne and myself read at T's! Thurs., Aug. 21. Y'all are invited. That's how the pros do it, true believers. We've got it all—lit, poetry, spec-fic, and mystery. 2/2

Queer Indie Authors at T's Pub in Ottawa Featuring fab host Eden Moore & @ajdolman.bsky.social @battleaxepress.bsky.social @ceeeejohnson.bsky.social Stevie Mikayne @jamestheballadeer.bsky.social T's Pub or tspub.ca Thurs., Aug. 21. Doors "open", 5:30. 6:00pm start. Free event. 1/2

To be clear, any "concerns" parents have over their kids being LGBTQ+ are rooted in either: 1) ignorance, or 2) prejudice, and are about them, and not their child. You cannot "protect" kids from being queer. You can only protect them from the people who wish they weren't. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you. It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.

ICE now has over 70 billion dollars to build more concentration camps. Just in time for Independence Day. God damn you, America.

I was part of a terrific Thurs. night Queer Indie Authors readng at Toronto's Super Bargain Cocktail Bar before @pridetoronto.bsky.social. Host fab @dorianne.bsky.social; Antonio Ribaldo; @xtianbaines.bsky.social; yours truly; @ajdolman.bsky.social. 1/2

@ajdolman rocking their pome, "Delusions of Grandeur", a cheeky open letter to Canada.

Billionaires driving warming more than all of commercial Heathrow. How consistent with their destructive data farms and pipelines, megayachts and fake "intelligence." A plague on billionaires.

Toronto Queer Indie Authors Reading. Tonight! Do I know anyone in TO? Wait—do I owe them money? Readin' at Super Bargain Cocktail Bar with @xtianbaines.bsky.social, @ajdolman.bsky.social, @dorianne.bsky.social, @jmarshallfreeman.bsky.social & Antonio Robledo.

Tomorrow night, Toronto! Can't wait to see you all and hear the rest of this amazing lineup read!!

If you are in Ottawa, you should go to this reading tonight. It's going to be fabulous!

Reading for #TorontoPride with @ajdolman.bsky.social @jamestheballadeer.bsky.social @jmarshallfreeman.bsky.social and more amazing #OntarioAuthors Then come see us on the street at #TOPride #WritersofToronto #Booksky

another data point for how trans hatred is taught: consider that Christine Jorgensen's front-page story in 1952 was framed as an astounding accomplishment of modern science

If you were a Bi+ Canada member, you would have the latest issue of the Bi+ Canada bimonthly e-newsletter by now! Sign up by emailing [email protected] to get news, insights and community information #bisexual #stillbisexual #BwiththeT #bisexualCanada #bigbiumbrella

When billion-dollar AIs break down over puzzles a child can do, it's time to rethink the hype | Gary Marcus

June 10, 2003: Ontario legalized same-sex marriage after the Halpern v Canada ruling that declared defining marriage in heterosexual-only terms violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Ontario was the first jurisdiction in Canada and the third in the world to legalize same-sex marriage.

On the occasion of a ChatGPT outage, I sure hope some elders are available to help teach the youth how properly to use a Magic 8-Ball.

Wired is putting both the NYT and WaPo to shame with their excellent reporting. It's one thing to say our legacy media is broken (and it is!), but being able to point to a concrete example of how you do it right makes that indictment a thoroughly convincing one.

if white Americans didn’t want Mexicans in California maybe they should not have conquered California from Mexico and then spent 150 years building up an economy entirely dependent on the flow of people and goods across the border just a thought

Texas Republicans pass bill to ban LGBTQ+ clubs from schools, claiming they ‘sexualise’ children

If you haven’t read Crazy/Mad, just trust me. Go grab a copy. #BookSky 💙📚🏳️‍🌈

Thrilled with this stellar #bookreview of Crazy/ Mad in Event magazine #poetry #lgbtqpoetry #mentalillness www.eventmagazine.ca/2025/05/aman...

In other news, if any publisher wants to take over a really good medieval action-thriller novel with lots of queer romance, hey, SCOTTISH BOY is a proven seller even with zero marketing

This would be a good time for the French to unleash what they hid inside the Statue of Liberty all those years ago

If you are stopped by Trump's ICE goons, or any other kind of cops: I INVOKE MY RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND COUNSEL AND WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY PRESENT. Memorize it. And don't let ICE in without a JUDICIAL warrant. No, administrative warrants don't count.

"Yet she stands at my door, has hand-ribboned a small box of Mexican lightning for me" #TodaysPoem #poetry Gynephelia by @ajdolman.bsky.social from Crazy/Mad (2024 Gordon Hill Press) tinyurl.com/bdhvphky

The U.S. government invited reports against Canadian doctors who provide gender-affirming care — in Canada. This was a direct threat to our sovereignty. We should pay attention to it. “If it were any other group being targeted, we would be in a moment of national scandal..." — @celeste.lgbt

Poems for a planet: The new anthology Speech Dries Here On The Tongue www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

I'll be on CBC Radio's All in a Day this afternoon at 3pm! Tune in to hear me, @domparisien.bsky.social and @textcurious.bsky.social discuss and read from #poetry anthology Speech Dries Here on the Tongue theporcupinesquill.com/products/spe... #mentalhealth #environmentalcrisis

You know the *only* reason he got out so fast was a reporter live posted about this for hours. And, a large amount of public pressure. Every time someone gets grabbed, there has to be a robust public response immediately.

Every morning I read the news and something else reminds me of Robert Musil saying in 1930s Germany that one of the defining aspects of fascism was the mockery of compassion

NEW: The CDC has been gutted this morning. Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die. from me, @makenakelly.bsky.social, @knibbs.bsky.social: