🌈🙌 We’re back! Can I get an amen? open.substack.com/pub/susanruk...

“I still cling to the belief, his belief, that goodness and justice will prevail.” 🖤 Today would’ve been my father‘s birthday. He was a journalist, the real kind, and he would be horrified. open.substack.com/pub/susanruk...

Let’s help each other claim and reclaim our voices. open.substack.com/pub/susanruk...

I say more on Substack: susanrukeyser.substack.com

For anyone worried that they will never move on from their ex, I offer this: I just remembered that I used to get a period every month. For decades! Completely slipped my mind. Yes, you can even forget a relationship that annoys the shit out of you, 3 weeks of every 4. ✅

🌈💥 “I close this year, this chapter, and open a new one, fresh and inviting as a thick, blank notebook and my favorite purple ballpoint. I wish you the same, renewed possibility, in whatever form you need.” open.substack.com/pub/susanruk...

🩵❤️🖤 Open Mic this Friday night at the Underdog Bookstore in Monrovia, CA

🌈💥 More from BAD WORDS: Feminist, Queer & otherwise Radical. Now available! Here is “For Sale: Black & Blue Babydoll (Used).” It first appeared in my chapbook, Swap/Meet (Space Cowboy Books, 2018). This recording is from 2020, when we were all locked down. 🖤 youtu.be/3foVPK2bIgA?...

🌈💥 From my new collection of short, hybrid prose inspired by the Desert Split Open Mic, BAD WORDS: Feminist, Queer, and otherwise Radical: youtube.com/shorts/juUpx...

New words. open.substack.com/pub/susanruk...

I need you to understand how excited I am for this upcoming book event at Viva Rescue, a queer women run animal sanctuary in Menifee, California. After I introduce my novel, The Worst Kind of Girl, we will have a community open mic, followed by a tour of the sanctuary. 🐐🐴 vivaglobalrescue.org/events

HOORAY (finally) open.substack.com/pub/susanruk...

You knew I had to weigh in on this nastiness. This brief post includes an excerpt from my novel The Worst Kind of Girl, a passage all too relevant to this conversation. open.substack.com/pub/susanruk...

Epic rain in southern California this weekend. I’ll see you in Menifee, CA, on Sunday December 14.

“I want us to get really comfortable with the sound of our voices, amplified, insistent, saying what we mean, how we feel, and what our experiences have been — consciously exercising our right to free speech, as if it could be taken away, because it could.” open.substack.com/pub/susanruk...

Will I see you this weekend? 📚🎤

Saturday! 🌈✨Bookish LGBTQ+ folks and their friends will be here - will you? I’ll be signing and selling books from 10-11 AM (when it’s still nice & cool) with local authors under the big tent. 🎪 Now, more than ever, let’s show up loud and proud. 🖤🤎🩷🤍🩵❤️🧡💛🌴💙💜

Time isn’t real/doesn’t matter, unless you want to make it to one of these upcoming book events. Hope to see you! 🌈💥 open.substack.com/pub/susanruk...

The Worst Kind of Girl and I will be out and about in Southern California in the next few weeks. Will we see you?

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

🌈✊📚 Hope to see you at the Desert Split Open’s celebration of Banned Books Week! Saturday, 3 PM, at the Flamingo Heights Community Center (55977 Perris St, Yucca Valley, CA, behind La Copine). open.substack.com/pub/susanruk...

“We must not obey in advance, shrink ourselves, or keep quiet about the truths that hurt us. The personal is political and the political is coming for us.” Will you join us on Saturday 10/11 to celebrate our right to write and read freely? open.substack.com/pub/susanruk...

Could not be more excited about this! 🌈SAVE THE DATE: Sat 11/15, 3 PM. I’ll introduce new readers to The Worst Kind of Girl, host an open mic & meet the animals! 🐐🐴 If you’re anywhere nearby, don’t miss this. “Viva is a grassroots, LGBTQ+ women run nonprofit trying to change the world for animals.”

🎤💥 Don’t miss the Desert Split Open’s celebration of Banned Books Week! This year at the Flamingo Heights Community Center in Yucca Valley, CA. Brief readings by local authors followed by an open mic. Bring a book for the FHCC book exchange! 🖤🤎🩷🤍🩵❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 Details: open.substack.com/pub/susanruk...

At Substack I wrote about BAD WORDS 🌈💥 my new collection of short and very short work, which is infused with the urgency I felt with the rise of Trump and rooted in fierce love. Most were written the Desert Split Open Mic, but some are older than others brand new.  open.substack.com/pub/susanruk...

We always knew exactly who the shooter would be. The only detail we didn't know was his name.

The reaction to this man’s death shows us everything we need to know about white supremacy. Acting like “politics” is something to discuss politely, agreeing to disagree, is pretending the GOP’s “politics” are not specifically about removing basic human rights from certain citizens. ✋ #sureJan

The left isn’t “dancing on Charlie Kirk’s grave,” we’re just pointing out that, thanks to rhetoric like his, a lot of other graves exist.

🌈🌵🛼 My novel The Worst Kind of Girl is now available to order! bookshop.org/p/books/the-... or www.susanrukeyser.com/store/p/the-... Thanks to Red Light Lit, this book gets a 2nd chance. To me this book is about hope & queer joy. Hope it feels that way to you too. open.substack.com/pub/susanruk...

My son just moved to Australia, where it is already/always tomorrow, meaning he moved to the future. Obviously I’m going to obsess about this like a moody poet/mom with jokes for the entire time he’s there! “Hello? Is this the future calling?” I miss him.

I liked him better when he was dead.

Plot twist! 🌈🌵 open.substack.com/pub/susanruk...

🌈✨NEWS >>> The Worst Kind of Girl was acquired by Red Light Lit and we’re celebrating on Fri 9/5 at The Pop-Hop in Los Angeles - can you join us? Look at this lineup of readers! So thrilled to be among them, and grateful for a second chance at getting this book into the hands of more readers.

This. It doesn't matter how you're using it (brainstorming, summarizing, editing,etc.) you are supporting a company who does this.

Los Angeles—> The Worst Kind of Girl was acquired by Red Light Lit! I am so thrilled to be with RLL, a woman-run publisher and event series that embraces many of the themes in this book. ❤️‍🔥 Help us celebrate on Friday, Sept 5, 7 PM, at The Pop-Hop: 5002 York Blvd, LA.

lol remember libertarians

Let’s make sure there is nothing but shame and prison time for anyone aiming a gun at a fellow citizen on behalf of a man, not the constitution, whether they are military, police, or rogue militia/Ice.

New book out soon! BAD WORDS: Feminist, Queer & otherwise Radical, a collection of short (and very short) hybrid prose, inspired by my experience hosting the Desert Split Open Mic in Joshua Tree, CA. Be the first to know when it’s available to order! Subscribe for free: susanrukeyser.substack.com

It’s gonna be tough if/when MAGA — with its smug confidence that they’re the ones worried about THE CHILDREN and sexual predators — finally (FINALLY) realizes they’ve enabled a serial sexual abuser & probable p3dophile. But awakenings happen all the time and I have faith (not in God but the truth).

New words at Substack. Spring 1984: Blizzard of Ozz in the high school Art wing. “Reagan was a nightmare, but no way was he going to be reelected. Hopefully he’d be the last time we fell for the novelty of an actor President.” open.substack.com/pub/susanruk...

Update on the forthcoming release of BAD WORDS from World Split Open Press aka me. 🌈💥

🌈💥 Coming soon —> BAD WORDS, a collection of my short, hybrid work, inspired by the Desert Split Open Mic, which I hosted in Joshua Tree, CA, from 2019-2024. I’m having the best time pulling this together, to be released from my imprint, World Split Open Press. #cnf #fiction #hybrid #lyric #prose

Thrilled to be alive to witness the complete destruction of the lie that the GOP is the party of family values, morality, or any of that bullshit. Literally covering for a sexual predator; scooping hard-working immigrants off the street and putting them in camps. Been waiting for this since the 80s.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

One day, we will have faced the truth of our nation’s racist, sexist history, and we will understand the psychology of narcissistic manipulation, the actual brain damage caused by constant gaslighting and threats. On that day, all of this will make a lot more sense. (Am I a fantasy writer now?)

Pls enjoy this“patriotic” poem, written 2 years ago to accompany the flag (and free period product dispensary) I made.

Just putting it out there that I am not interested in interacting with anyone wearing a recording device in their sunglasses (?!?) or anywhere else. When did we all decide we were cool with surveillance? Sometimes words are overused to the point of losing all meaning, like: “freedom.”

just found out that if you write, you will have written. big if true

Annual reposting of this deliberately low-quality video, until this country snaps out of its violent, patriarchal delusion. Happy Friday. 💔 youtu.be/DJujNLkZzbQ?...