This Pride Month it'd be super cool if folks remembered disabled queer folks exist. Include alt text with every image you post. If you're forgetful (like me) there's a toggle under Accessibility in Settings to remind you every time you post. Make this Pride an accessible one.

Along with the reminder that bi/pan people are still bi/pan no matter who their partner is, please remember that romance novels about 2 characters of different genders can still be queer romances. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been told my bi4bi MF romances don’t count.

a lovely audience member asked my panel about this at the PGH Book Fest this weekend and there were audible gasps from the audience when we all agreed we want readers to use the library. This shouldn't be secret knowledge! Don't feel guilty, there's no reason to!

Happy Pride! Folks on the asexual and aromantic spectrum are queer too. The A in LGBTQIA+ belongs to us, not allies. Being queer isn't only about who you fuck.

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Taking your kid to Chuck E. Cheese hits different when you know the Five Nights at Freddy's lore. 😶‍🌫️

Drinking Coffee, Watching Grackles: The Audrey Heffers Story

My first review! See what @nicole.curlsuptoread on instagram thinks of Multimorbid! www.instagram.com/p/DY161fCOuU... Get your copy here www.kithbooks.com/shop/p/multi...

They didn't die while serving in the military, but they died protecting our freedoms from those who would destroy them, nonetheless. Remembering these heroes on this Memorial Day.

Another disability scholar adding on: The "anti-ai is ableist" argument is built on the objectification of disabled people. Disabled people are treated as a tool so that AI proponents can win an argument and/or profit. The argument also acts as if disabled people are a monolith without any nuance.

I’m finalizing my list of authors for my pride short story series. Queer writes, have any of y’all published a short story recently that you’re proud of? (It must be freely accessible online.)

Walking a cat is a more intense workout setting than walking a dog. Or: this is at least the case with one of our cats, who I just took out on a harness for the first time in years. She complained the whole time, but then fought me whenever I suggested we could go back inside. 😆

My debut novella THIS IS HOW THE WORLD ENDS is coming out in September. I can’t wait! 📚🏳️‍🌈 📚💙 📚🏳️‍⚧️ Available for preorder here: www.amazon.co.uk/This-World-E...

Starting the morning by listening to Queen with the cat.

Wrapped up most of the research for this project on eugenics & literature. Now moving into the scripting stage! Eventually, this will be a series of publicly-accessible Youtube videos, which I'm really excited for! #AcademicSky #Disability #BookSky

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin Circe by Madeline Miller The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka

Pick a Bond from the photos you already have on your phone.

Just in: State officials in New York say the Salmon River district's special education program confined young children with disabilities in wooden boxes. Parents weren't notified.

“Use AI or get left behind!” Please, leave me behind. Drop me off on the side of the road somewhere. Sentence me to a remote cabin with a typewriter and some wildflowers that don’t know how to use the internet

One of our squirrel neighbors has spent the whole morning alternating between eating some of the fresh peanuts I put out and burying others in my planters. My theory is that she's trying to keep our newer squirrel friend from finding them. But hey! Bonus garden prep help!

"Those who are pain-ridden, in an effort to transform their pain, sometimes make works that can relieve the pain of others. The main tool for this delivery system is art." This Is the Door: The Body, Pain, and Faith by Darcey Steinke

I probably also would have also said Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado. I also really love What Does It Mean When A Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah and Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu.

Found out a book I was reading was written by a transphobe, which I have neither the time nor the patience for in my one wild and precious life. Now reading This Is the Door: The Body, Pain, and Faith by Darcey Steinke.

Being a Virgo really saved me here. (I got my grades in early.)

Found out a book I was reading was written by a transphobe, which I have neither the time nor the patience for in my one wild and precious life. Now reading This Is the Door: The Body, Pain, and Faith by Darcey Steinke.

I've had such a long day/week that I had a large afternoon iced cappuccino and I *still* feel like I'm going to fall asleep any minute now. 😣

On this day in 1933, Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld library in Berlin. The world’s greatest collection of LGBTQ books and scientific papers were looted and later burned, erasing decades of research into sexuality and gender identity. ‘Where they burn books, in the end they will burn humans too’.

Eugenics-ass bullshit. (Do I have a doctorate and expertise in Disability Studies? Yes. Am I still a Queens girl, born and raised? Also yes.)

Nightmare Cheerio

The older I get, the more I turn into Garfield.

Penguin documentary, a new horror novel, and cat cuddles. Happy Saturday!

15 shows gut instincts The Good Place The Fall of the House of Usher Wandavision Agatha All Along Everybody Loves Raymond Russian Doll The Nanny Steven Universe Buffy the Vampire Slayer Gargoyles Sailor Moon The 'Burbs Only Murders in the Building Legend of Korra Bridgerton

A person‘s attractiveness increases by a minimum of 58% when they support their local library.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

Today's research assistant

Dr. Heffers

Sunrise, grackles, and coffee. 🌄

Dr. Heffers

My current research obsession has been eugenics in literature and culture, and it is exactly because of things like this. The plan is to create a public scholarship Youtube series.

Repost with your first crush (if you had one). (Not that I realized it at the time as a baby bisexual.)

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

It's a good day to work in the garden. 🌱

I got to write the words AND stitch the cover! A dream! Multimorbid is available for preorders now! Release Date: May 28, 2026 kithbooks.com/shop/p/multimorbid @kithbooks.bsky.social

One of my current research obsessions has been eugenics and ableism in literature, and also in culture more broadly. Which is how I came across this: www.cnn.com/2025/05/31/u...

Name Four Non-Person Things That Make Your Life Liveable: 1) Birds 2) Coffee 3) Books 4) Chronic Illness Meds

GENRE IS A MYTH

Watching a spider weave her web and listening to the birds sing.

I've taught Brooms in multiple classes now. It's a fantastic graphic novel, and it's always popular with my students!