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BREAKING: At least 35 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, medical sources have told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/jyzzrz

Here’s to the first day of teaching for the semester. Let’s go fall 2025!

Check out this new piece out today in @memezine.bsky.social

Today’s news confirms it: Cuomo is Trump’s choice for Mayor. The White House is considering jobs for Adams and Sliwa to clear the field. New Yorkers are sick of corrupt politics and backroom deals. No matter who’s running, we will deliver a better future on November 4.

It's an honor to earn the endorsement of the Bronx Democratic Party and the elected officials who fight for this borough every day. Families in the Bronx are being crushed by the affordability crisis. As Mayor, I’ll deliver for them and all New Yorkers.

Spent the last two days painting my writing/reading room. Love this space even more now.

Had an amazing and creative time at the Desert Rat Writing Residency and met my goal of finishing a draft of the book I’ve been writing the last year and a half.

My mood always.

Yesterday’s trip to this famous roadside attraction:

A few pics from my first full day at the Desert Rat Writing Residency (Saturday): Writing, swimming, lunch and shopping in Palm Springs.

Hey Desert Rat Writing Residency, I’m back ❤️

Up extremely early and at the airport. Excited to be returning to the Desert Rat Writing Residency for the next week. West Coast bound.

Thanks to @villaineralit.bsky.social for the nomination ❤️

hug your friends who work in higher ed—between the prevalence of AI, slashed funding, visa restrictions, travel bans, restrictions on academic freedom, and the general political shitshow, ppl are working SO hard while also being forced to watch as their careers and futures collapse in slow-motion

Jeff Hiller getting a surprise Emmy Nomination for Somebody Somewhere has made my day. The show deserved so many more over its three year run. Hiller portrayed a queer character we rarely get to see on TV. Well deserved.

Sometimes you need to take yourself out: nails, lunch, and a bookstore run today.

New poem out this past week in Lit Magazine from my upcoming book Final Slash Boy.

New poem out this past week in Lit Magazine from my upcoming book Final Slash Boy.

New poem out today in Lit Magazine. From my forthcoming book Final Slash Boy. www.litmagazine.org/final-boy-re...

Hope everyone had a fulfilling pride 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

“I wanted to tell her all the ways I saw queerness before I even had the word for it. Before I ever called myself queer. I wanted to tell her how many men in cars have seen my queerness. Shouted faggot out of windows. Driving at high speeds.”

As we close out Pride Month, giving this another reshare. My piece on queer visibility published in @villaineralit.bsky.social earlier this year. villaineralit.com/2025/03/04/q...

The reaction to Zohran's win by the establishment of the Democratic Party is just another demonstration that the party doesn't care at all about voters or winning. Every time they have exciting candidates that are connecting with voters, they attack them. We need to vote these people out.

A few pics from my time in Bangkok last week. Truly loved the city and would love to go back.

TONIGHT! We’re a finalist for the @clmporg.bsky.social Firecracker Award for Best Debut Magazine. Would love to see familiar faces there. (zoom ceremony). Register: www.clmp.org/event/2025-f... Honored to be nominated alongside wonderful company like @revelliterary.bsky.social @short-reads.org

Had an amazing time in Singapore. My second visit there. #vacationpics

Honestly, this made me laugh out loud (maybe it was more of a horrified cynical rattle). Points for honesty!

Been out of the country for the last two weeks on a trip to Singapore, Bali, and Bangkok. Had a lot of dread coming back to America yesterday, but to arrive in time to watch Zohran take the democratic primary for mayor of New York was truly uplifting. Let's keep it going!

So proud of New York right now. #zohranformayor

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

Tomorrow is ours if we want it. zohranfornyc.com/gotv

I’ll be out of town for all of early voting and Election Day but I made sure to get an early mail-in ballot. Rank @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social number 1! Let’s go, New York.

Orville Peck was perfection.

One of the first gay novels I ever read was A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White. His work has been a touchstone for so many queer writers over the years. He helped forge a path for queer voices that is ongoing today. (1/3)

HAPPY PRIDE NYC 🌈 I won’t just be your ally in words but in action, policy and funding—12 months a year.

Had a theater outing yesterday to see Dead Outlaw which I enjoyed. Great to see a fun and truly original show make it to broadway.

New poems out now in @rhinopoetry.bsky.social! Check it out.

Thrilled to have two poems in the May/June issue of @ampoetryreview.bsky.social. They are both from my forthcoming book Final Slash Boy. Check out the issue.

New issue of Rhino is out and it features two poems from my upcoming book Final Slash Boy.

I'm sharing my essay “A Game for Girls” on my website for a limited time for free. It's a piece that showcases my love of using pop culture as memoir. Thanks to the Desert Rat Residency for giving me time to write this piece in the summer of 2023. www.stephensmills.com#/a-game-for-...

Wrote a lil thing about why your anger about what happened on THE LAST OF US this week is a bad reason to give up on the series. (Very spoilery through the events of S2E2) charlesjensen.substack.com/p/the-best-o...

I'm sharing my essay “A Game for Girls” on my website for a limited time for free. It's a piece that showcases my love of using pop culture as memoir. Thanks to the Desert Rat Residency for giving me time to write this piece in the summer of 2023. www.stephensmills.com#/a-game-for-...

A brilliant retelling of Wilde’s novel with a stunning and not to be missed performance from Sarah Snook. #wilde #queer #theater #nyc #broadway #doriangray

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

Some theater outings from the past week. #broadway #nyc

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Got to talk fashion. Check it out.