Devoured @nightgleaming.bsky.social's "Living Fossils" tonight. Picked it up twice at the bookstore and finally could not resist its call. Love love love the language, the use of natural phenomena and geologic time as a lens for the human and deeply personal. Gorgeous. Loved every page.

This pride month, if you’re not plugged in, please take a moment to think about what you specifically can do to support trans kids under attack. I get asked all the time about steps people can take, so I hope at least one person takes this to heart. I’ll be adding throughout June. A thread.🧵

Happy Pride Month. If you know a young person (age 13-26) in the US who is getting their access to queer library books restricted because of local small-minded folks, please refer them to the Books Unbanned program. More people should know about it. #pride booksunbanned.com/card

"For queer authors of color and other multiply marginalized people, the pressure is even more intense."

Today @dairinstitute.bsky.social is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work. labor.dair-institute.org

[sweating nervously in wrote my undergrad thesis 11 years ago on the Catalogue of Ships, working on a poetry project about it right now, had at least 5 friends text me about this news] wow, yeah, what a weird part of the Iliad to be buried with

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded. “This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.” www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

And… Anathema’s Kickstarter is live! Please read, donate & share to increase our reach! We’re excited to bring more speculative fiction, poetry and nonfiction by queer writers of color into the world! Our fundraiser is scheduled to run through the end of May: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ana...

this trans day of visibility we deserve liberation & not just visibility, but it's also a great day to check out LIVING FOSSILS, my new, very trans book of poems about weird creatures & survival in the face of empire 🏳️‍⚧️ www.tamupress.com/book/9781680...

Reporting in @insidehighered.com on the CCCC Resolution on Academic Freedom and Upholding Students' and Teachers' Right to Refuse Generative AI in the Writing Classroom that was passed at the #4c26 Annual Business Meeting.

We need reparations for ICE victims. Anything short of that is setting the stage for a massive wealth grab from people of color that will re-entrench racial disparities for generations.

the best thing about a new poetry collection is that it can double as an inexpensive cat bed and/or object of scorn happy official pub day to LIVING FOSSILS, out now from Texas Review Press 📖 www.tamupress.com/book/9781680...

#TransRightsReadathon begins soon. It's a decentralized event, which means you don't have to sign up or do anything in particular, you just have to love trans people and trans books. Here's what I'm doing this year 🧵 @trreadathon.bsky.social

I am going to link to organizations that I know for sure are helping trans Kansans. This thread will develop slowly as I either know people or will vet them. At this point we have not heard from anyone being helped via relocation resources. These exist, but I assume they are overwhelmed.

On the record as profoundly and violently sick of this shit

highly recommend holding your real life poems in your real life hands instead of paying attention to the agonies if you like poems about weird creatures & queer/trans survival, LIVING FOSSILS is out March 10 (!!) www.tamupress.com/book/9781680...

MicroVerse will have 4 dedicated poetry editions in 2026! Look for poetry recs from guest editors Marisca Pichette, Loren Maria Guay, Angela Liu, and Ai Jiang! I'm grateful to these fantastic poets!! @marisca.bsky.social @nightgleaming.bsky.social @angelaliu.bsky.social @aijiang.bsky.social

Conflicting info about whether Pretti was murdered by ICE or CBP makes it clear that ICE is not single "rogue agency" ICE, CBP and ALL policing & borders must be abolished. This isn't just one agency; its an entire infrastructure of carceral control, illegalization & criminalization, and fascism.

oh no, are publishers getting squeamish about buying queer books right now for some impossible-to-guess reason?? sounds like our books need to get even more queer, relentlessly queer, battle-axe queer, cackling queer

And we said abolish ICE too. ICE is not inevitable, its existence is not settled —even as it fortifies the settler state. Historically speaking, that ain’t certain either.

Today you should give Latin Americans the dignity of rage, and not expect people to feel grateful for your passive indignation

2025 eligibility post: like many of us I was Eligible for having a nervous breakdown & yet I did not do that, wow! however I also did not publish any fiction. here are some books (& one play) by other people I enjoyed reading very much instead

Dear bluskeeters! I'm doing research with a friend. If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection. Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share

Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that bans gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18, and threatens any medical professional providing this care to youth with 10 years in prison. Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.

UPDATE — For those who want to help, there’s now a way to donate directly to the 7500 South Shore Tenants Union to help with emergency relocation costs as residents “vacate in one of the snowiest winters in Chicago’s history.” Details in our story. thetriibe.com/2025/12/judg...

Arcadia.

thrilled to announce that my debut poetry collection LIVING FOSSILS is now available for pre-order from TRP! tell your cats, tell your friends, support queer/trans literature and art [coelacanth emoji when] www.tamupress.com/book/9781680...

Huge congratulations and good luck to beestung's 2026 Best Microfiction nominees! em roth nat raum Loren Maria Guay Yufan Lu sterling-elizabeth arcadia Read their work at beestungmag.com

A new post on Refusing GenAI in Writing Studies from @jsanofranchini.bsky.social, @rcmeg.bsky.social, and me: "A Year of Refusal" refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/a...

Thanks to Rex for spotting this one! Necropolis contains 5 stories about strange, decaying cities and is now available for purchase at Hexagon's patreon! @alexfox.bsky.social @omersarae.bsky.social @nightgleaming.bsky.social @improbablerex.bsky.social and Victoria! cover art by @warls.bsky.social

fact: transphobia is for losers

workers at Detroit Institute of Arts are announcing a wall-to-wall union drive for all staff at the museum. DIA is an amazing museum with a ton of incredible exhibits. if you could sign the petition, that may help motivate museum leadership to voluntarily recognize the union. diaworkersunited.org

it should be illegal to move your cat off-camera during a Zoom meeting

If you would like to support some of the families of people who have been abducted by ICE in my area during the recent federal attacks on our community that I've written about, local organizers have put together this trusted list of crowd funds.

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

If you'd like to see beestung keep buzzing, please consider dropping a few bucks our way 🖤💛🖤💛

Strange Horizons turns 25 this year, which is pretty much an eternity in the world of spec fic zines, and I had the privilege of going through the archives for a special short fiction roundup: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

WE'RE LIVE! AND WE ARE SO EXCITED! Back now to support a new magazine of speculative fiction by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists! Snag some amazing rewards, including discounted subscriptions! Support queer art! And help us SMASH DAY ONE! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

As ICE continues to terrorize Chicagoland, protesters gathered this morning outside the Broadview detention center—throwing stuffed animals at DHS agents, playing music through tear gas assaults, and putting their bodies on the line to stop ICE vehicles. My latest.

Thank you @clmporg.bsky.social for including my poem in @beestung.bsky.social in this list, alongside so many other fantastic reads!

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

emerging from a cave of PhD exam-writing to see people saying nice things about my poetry & now THIS (!!!!!!!)

"Alternative title: You become a queer elder by accident, not because you are good at living but because you are slow at dying." —Loren Maria Guay beestungmag.com/issue24/one-...

Today we are halfway done with the campaign, but only one-quarter of the way to our goal. It’s all or nothing. Please share, and any amount you can help is very appreciated. Horror and weird fiction are good for us. kck.st/4mIkEm1

Periplus, a mentorship collective serving US-based early-career writers of color, is now accepting applications for our 2026 class of fellows! Apply by 9/20: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... You can learn more about Periplus (including fellowship eligibility requirements) here: bit.ly/periplusfaq

Let's be clear: all the AI in edtech stuff (Canvas, Blackboard, Grammarly, Duolingo, OpenAI, the rest) is all about the "lock-in" - locking in students as subscribers or institutions via long-term license agreements for value generation. Is there good pedagogic evidence for it? No.

thrilled to have a new poem out ("Exhibition Notes: Portrait of Arapaima at the All-Night Diner") in this issue of beestung! it's about big weird fish & outliving the lifespan you expected to have. trans & non-binary lit needs readers now more than ever ✨

Stop telling trans people that our calls for basic human rights are what’s holding the left back. Be honest: our humanity means less to you than the convenience of passivity.