Since my autism is invisible, I experience ableist microaggressions most days for failing to meet neurotypical standards. I’m grateful to publish poems a/b the painful reality of autistic masking, as well as the anti-autism rhetoric that plagues academia. heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/04/14/m...

It's a new story day! "The Metamorphosis" is my heart story, about how turning into an invisible sloth is a Kafkaesque metaphor for getting ME/CFS or Long Covid, but you can still find a path to a happy ending. Read it for free in @gavagai.com gavagai.com/posts/3894

See my name all tiny at the bottom! My Ashkenazi ghost story "Soul Candle, Living Light" found the perfect home in UK penny-dreadful-style mag The Ghastling alongside other spooky tales. Look at this gorgeous cover! And it's fully illustrated! Pre-order link: theghastling.com/the-ghastlin...

New from 404 Media: WebinarTV is a company secretly scraping peoples' Zoom meetings and posting them online for others to watch. We've now found those include anonymous recovery programs, substance abuse meetings, etc. Supposed to be anonymous but show names and faces www.404media.co/webinartv-se...

this is what i meant weeks ago when i said so much of the aggressive surge in migrant policing felt like a boundary test, where a period of highly visible violence would eventually recede in favor of less visible and more "professionalized" migrant policing at a level beyond its baseline pre-trump.

Really bummed that my copy of The Shrouds is messed up, straight out of the package. And the return policy only covers unopened discs.

ARTISTS. We have an open call for fanastical art running from April 17-May 17. We pay. Selected works will appear in print, and possibly on the cover of our print magazine. Full guidelines here! (photo: Ivan S.) fabulistmagazine.com/spring-2026-...

Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.

Can't stop thinking about this Adam Zagajewski poem

We’ve enlisted a house painter who’s won awards for historical restoration and I don’t understand why he’s willing to do our boring ‘70s ranch house but boy we’re grateful.

My #LastFourWatched for #LetterboxdFriday 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, 4 & 1/2 stars Alien: Romulus, 3 stars Terminator: Dark Fate, 3 stars David Byrne’s American Utopia, 4 stars

ICYMI, here's the video of me and @jrdawson.bsky.social reading our two Nebula-nominated short stories on @storyhour.bsky.social ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T5W...

Last month, a hospital in Iowa quietly changed its policies to tell employees to give ICE/CBP agents sensitive patient information without a warrant going against national guidelines. www.patreon.com/posts/155034...

Hooray, the news is out: OwlCrate is publishing a limited edition of Enchanting the Fae Queen, and it's going to be GORGEOUS. Here are just a few pics (that don't even include the beautiful illustrated endpapers or the specially designed signature page or the bonus scene I wrote for the end!):

It never fails. The weather is nice so I go out and fill the critter feeders. Then it rains. Soggy cuisine.

I’m working with chalk markers for the first time and I didn’t anticipate how stop and go it would be. Glad I queued up TOOL before starting, even if it did spook the cat.

Also of note, Iowa paid Chris Rufo—perhaps the leading propagandist for the current assault on higher ed, an unqualified hack and admitted fabulist—$34,000 to speak. It's embarrassing that any higher ed institution would invite him, especially when they are cutting departmental budgets.

Would you like to hear award contenders read as their authors intended? Current Nebula nominees J.R. Dawson and Effie Seiberg will read their nominated stories on Story Hour! Join us Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. PDT! @jrdawson.bsky.social @effies.bsky.social #Booksky www.storyhour2020.com

I could overhear tourists saying that Wifredo Lam's work looked like Picasso when Picasso was the one who was drawing from the well of African art and culture that was Lam's birthright. Wifredo Lam had respect for the culture while Picasso had contempt. #Surrealism #Cubism

I’m offering a single session class on fairy tales to raise money for rent relief in my south Minneapolis neighborhood. Fairy Tales and the Subversive Power of Collective Storytelling   4/16, 6-8pm central, online through zoom

Our associate editor Ghazal is looking to leave Tehran as soon as possible, so if anyone knows of an art residency or work opportunity or uni posting that they can apply to, please let us know (dm or email). These are scary times, and we must protect each other as best we can.

Do horses want cake? We conducted an investigation into statements published by @bencollins.bsky.social in the print edition of @theonion.com.

reading These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart by @izzyxen.bsky.social and as;sdfjlksf I'm gonna be reccing this for years and years to come. Do you LOVE MURDER MYSTERIES but HATE COPS and also you're QUEER AS IN MAGNETO WAS RIGHT? here's the book for you! tachyonpublications.com/product/thes...

I’d been putting off this poem and now that it’s written, I understand why. It’s heavy stuff. Inspired by this assemblage by Betye Saar, “To the Manor Born” 2011. weatherspoonart.org/exhibitions_...

I'm starting April, as I start each month, in the hole. I'm trying for 500 and in March I received 117. Please help. I'm a disabled enby helping my disabled mom I don't get much from SSI/snap everything helps PayPal.me/Ambelies or cash.app/$ambelies

If you want to get your own Canada Space Agency #ArtemisII patch, you can order the official one here: boutique.ingenium.ca/en/crest-art... (I bought two.)

there is so much more to a place than what can be extracted. Corpus as a body deserves care: its people, its groundwater and coastline, the other-than-human vivacity of pelicans and buntings.

the water crisis in Corpus Christi, Texas is the worst Coleridge parody: this city, lipped by the Gulf of Mexico, is in sustained drought. residents are made to ration showers, dishwater, the negligible usage of ordinary life; meanwhile, refineries go on exhausting the supply of fresh water.

🌸April is National Poetry Month! 25% off poetry titles! buff.ly/DknHZVm

Along w/BORSTAR, the Border Patrol's Search, Trauma & Rescue Unit for wildland rescues & created in the late 90's to address rising migrant deaths along the Southern border, BORTAC was used as the 'tip of the spear' for DHS' immigration blitzes in Chicago, LA, MN, & elsewhere

BORTAC, or the Border Patrol's Tactical Unit, was founded in 1984 to suppress riots in immigration detention centers. Since then, it has grown to 11 detachments around the US country plus its main element out of Ft. Bliss in Texas (259 agents as of 2020) www.wired.com/story/ice-cb...

My story about voyeuring a god is out in this month's Cosmic Horror Monthly (@chmmagazine.bsky.social), issue #70 ✨ "Behold the Beholder" 👀, available here NOW 👀: cosmichorrormonthly.com/subscribe/

This sounds great! Putting it in my TBR queue

Buzz Aldrin zonked a dude in the face for a loud and proud moonlanding denial. Y'all be careful bandying about those AI accusations with writers. You might catch a real one. The nerves are frayed and we are not okay.

I just backed Anathema: Spec from the Margins! And you should too! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ana...

It’s poetry month! And I have a poetry book! TIME TRAVEL IS EASY examines Deep Time, queerness, childhood traumas, dinosaurs, and the dread of the late Anthropocene. It includes my Rhysling-nominated poem “Toward a Cladistic Analysis of Hauntings.” Available here: mimulus.weebly.com/books.html

....none of you TRULY thought that I was done playing with the Sleeping Beauty myth, did you? I didn't think so. New poem, free to read: kaleidotrope.net/spring-2026/...

The first issue of @nervetowrite.bsky.social is out today and I’m overwhelmed with joy! This magazine has been such a labor of disabled love and collective care.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility, a day that makes it sound like trans people are magical beings who live unseen on the peripheries of your consciousness, which may be true for you (I don't know your life) but trans folks exist and need to work and use bathrooms safely and drive and have rights

Invincible bodies don’t make invincible minds; the powers which bring us fame and fortune leave us lonely and hollow. @izzyxen.bsky.social’s ‘The Mighty Impervious Woman Considers Retirement’ in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social examines our yearning for untouchability, our inescapable pain. #scifi #sff

I'm so tired. For this day of Trans Visibility I wish most fervently for my trans, enby, genderqueer, gender-nonconforming, etc. friends... to be safe. To be able to pause, to breathe easy, to rest - safe. I just want them to be safe. Why is that so much to ask?

I’ll be listing a collection of one-off pieces made using these silver Victorian & Edwardian lockets & charms this Weds(1 Apr) 8.30pm Uk time.Incl tiny beehive & clock lockets,oak &silver acorn mini propelling pencil & silver swallow. For a ping of dopamine look for the long tailed tit in the photo🪶

Here's the start of Strange HoRhizomes, the fungi special issue! Mushroon by Mary Soon Lee @marysoonlee.bsky.social art by Romie Stott @romiesays.bsky.social "Mushroon: verb to stay rooted in one place more broadly, to favor thought over action." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

Update from the poetry front: my poem "Mushroon" is in the fungi/mushrooms special issue of Strange Horizons 🍄 :-) strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po... For the curious: - written in 2023 - accepted in 4 days - previously rejected 6 times - this is my 10th poem in Strange Horizons - they paid $50 ✏️

Now 100/500 for March. I am just trying to survive. Queer, disabled, I get very little on SSI. I live with my disabled mom and have restrictions on my food stamps as to what I can buy. I need help. I have necessities I can't get because I can't afford them. PayPal.me/Ambelies or cash.app/$ambelies

Because in my household, we like, speak, and promote Spanish #NoKings #SinReyes

When a ghost mariachi band shows up to play at Darren’s transition to the afterlife, he fails to die on schedule. Now he’s stuck with them, and they with him, and nobody knows quite what will happen next. go.dfstory.com/ides

Bluesky giveaway incoming March 29! The prize is a $25 @sistahscifi.bsky.social gift card! Follow this account and comment on tomorrow's post with your favourite piece we've published. One winner will be randomly chosen after 48 hours! Excited to see which works have stayed with folks!

And this one, still in process, is an homage to the great Mexican printmaker José Guadalupe Posada