BlueStoop has some amazing in-person and virtual workshops for writers in March! Adding the links March! More details in the next post! #writers #blueskywriters www.bluestoop.org/classes/p/de... www.bluestoop.org/classes/p/he... www.bluestoop.org/classes/p/qu...

In our magazine: After a hate incident, about 100 trans and gender nonbinary people flooded the spillway of Austin's most popular swimming spot to celebrate queer joy and show that they won't back down.

🏳️‍⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives! Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you. With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026. Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️ 🧵 Details 👇

CBS News has reportedly disbanded its race and culture unit, which was formed in the wake of George Floyd's murder in 2020 NBC News eliminated its editorial teams for NBC Asian America, NBC BLK, NBC Latino and NBC OUT earlier this month

Lauryn Hill just shared a moving tribute to the late D’Angelo:

Chicago news media groups filed suit against ICE and Homeland Security, claiming excessive force against reporters and protesters of immigration arrests.

They still haven’t found all the missing children from the floods. Why are they more worried about Illinois than about the children in Texas?

October feels like it's going to go really fast. Idk why

"This isn't who we are," says nation whose history books are a bunch of redactions

I keep running into eclipse/astrological videos telling me to look back at certain moments in my life through pics from specific months and years to reflect and see where Im heading, and umm... THEY'RE ALL MEMES. EVERY SINGLE PIC IS A MEME. WHAT DO I DO?! WHAT DOES IT MEAN 😭😭

Trump proposes to rescind AIDS funds. Congress rejects the proposal. So Trump and his henchman Russ Vought just refuse to spend the money and try to hide that decision from Congress and the public. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/h...

I'm going to start a newsletter where I yap about cms platforms and project management tools because that's apparently my thing now...and why not lol

Half the States Are Bucking Trump’s Anti-DEI Demands—Despite Funding Threats buff.ly/at4FuxF

Midterms are not going to save us from this.

Music and writing saved my life

Our top story, from @josephinekee.bsky.social: Deep cuts at VA health care centers leave both veterans and workers suffering, especially the 45% of workers who also served. www.texasobserver.org/veterans-tex...

There’s such a constant stream of bad that it almost gets normalized, but there are still things that stop you dead in your tracks.

DC is almost 50% Black. He's a racist and pissed he has to be near Black people

Genuinely cannot think of a task more designed to erode national guard morale and make them fucking hate you

Media blackout on the eve of an invasion the whole world has condemned, by a state that’s been willing to do a genocide on livestream. What do you think comes next? Hearing reports of intensive bombardment. They’re leveling whatever is left.

Resist and fuck things up at every opportunity. But don’t fool yourself that this is the One Big Thing that changes everything. It’s just the next step in a fascist takeover.

This is not normal😩😩😩

I live in CONSTANT fear of the next hurricane for Louisiana cause we are absolutely finished under this administration

I so appreciate this essay. The language of chronic illness is problematic at best and often impossible. I’ve written about this from the perspective of someone with metastatic cancer. Even in remission, as I am now, there is no good language to express the sustained weirdness of my body.

#LegendOfFuyao fans get it!! I'm still searching for another epic love story like theirs. ❤️ #cdrama

“I just had this rage inside of me for several years, and it was important for me, for Nicole to have that same rage and, as a woman too, I think women are not supposed to have that kind of rage. So it was important for me to have this lead character who’s going through it and is not being sweet.”

Update thread!! I achieved a lot in six/seven months. Some on this list and others...I'll just substitute lol

Check out my piece on #Immunotherapy! #HealthWriting #MedicalWriting #Immunotherapy #ChronicCondition #CancerCare

New York is about to make all prison phone calls free. This move will make it easier for the state’s over 30,000 prisoners to stay connected to loved ones, saving them over $13 million a year. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/n...

My first OncoBites article in a while, please check it out! Thank you @jojojoy.bsky.social for your help in editing this piece! 😊

ICE agents were caught on camera unlawfully trespassing and urinating on the grounds of an LA public school, risking exposure to minors. They’re not only terrorizing our communities—illegally kidnapping people—but also urinating on playgrounds. ICE is a morally bankrupt, state terror organization.

There's no way you're typing this in 2025 and you're not an opp.

I just remembered this and can say it CONFIDENTLY that I will have number 2 done by July 30th. The other ones... let's just leave that God and the universe...hope for the best 😅😅

“Higher standards” I know what you are 🧐

SO grateful for this must-read weekly roundup - and to Kelly for pointing folks to This Month in Criminalization (mailchi.mp/interrupting...) for ways to take action. Looking forward to being in conversation with Kelly, @shaneburley.bsky.social & more about anti-fascist organizing at #Socialism2025

With the joyful unfurling of rainbow flags in Chicago during Pride Month, it’s easy to forget the fight that led to this point.

UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!

“Having access to counselors at school can be a lifeline to young queer people who are trying to make sense of how they fit in the world and also trying to maintain a healthy relationship with their parents.”

NIH funding will abruptly cease for dozens, if not hundreds, of ongoing overseas trials of drugs and treatments. Its policy change puts thousands of trial participants in limbo. https://go.nature.com/3Z8xNM1

When bird flu inevitably becomes a human spread illness the fact that he stopped development of the vaccine means some of us will die -- just like my healthy 25 year old grandmother died of flu in 1919. We could prevent this. RFK chose not to.

UnitedHealth secretly pressured nurses to change patients' records to include DNRs (Do Not Resuscitate) without their consent, so those patients would die instead of being saved with medical interventions that could cost UnitedHealth money. This is murder. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"Neuropathic pain can affect a patient’s overall quality of life by influencing their daily interactions with family and friends, work, eating habits, and mental and emotional well-being." My piece for OncoBites on the benefits of using #gabapentin to relieve cancer-related #neuropathicpain

Microsoft employees have discovered that any emails they send with the terms “Palestine” or “Gaza” are getting temporarily blocked from being sent. Microsoft confirmed to The Verge that it has implemented some form of email changes. Details 👇 www.theverge.com/tech/672312/...

Finally! Hallelujah!

Starting #Razia Im rooting for the first daughter to live her best life.

Today at least two judges were arrested for acts that are not criminally illegal and a two year old U.S. citizen was kidnapped and shipped to Honduras by ICE, who called it a "deportation." Are we great again yet?