"Part of what was so interesting about my characters and the Hills was that they did come to believe what they’d experienced despite there being no physical evidence." @jenstjude.bsky.social's interview with @ilanaslightly.bsky.social is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/09/26/a...

If you're a transfeminine author who's trying to fundraise for basic needs, gender affirming care, or to leave the United States, either drop your link in the replies or DM me. I have a mutual aid plan that I'm gonna be working on this week.

I’m a boy mom in the sense that I’m kind of a boy and kind of a mom

My next book is up on Netgalley... if that's your thing, go forth and request! www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

Picking out candy like hey do you have anything that’s so sour it’ll make my mouth bleed

Not to follow this up with "buy my book," but researching very recent trans history -- the '80s and '90s -- for my novel helped inform my thinking on both our present and on my book, so, anyway, it is ABOUT THIS, so, yes, buy my book, or request it at your library! bookshop.org/p/books/wood...

✨Please help me spread the word as I try to raise $15K for families ASAP I will be doing a 50-page YA SFF intensive limited to 20 authors this summer for #KidLit4Ceasefire fundraising. It will be epic!!!✨ www.32auctions.com/organization...

Writing even contemporary YA sends me all the way back to my younger years. Why am I obsessively listening to Hanson? Sending pics of my favorite 2011 Bruins player to my friend? Surfing the To Write Love On Her Arms online shop?

"The ideal reader is me. I needed to read this book as badly as I needed to write it." @jenstjude.bsky.social's interview with @mcrane12.bsky.social on their new novel, "A Sharp Endless Need." (@thedialpress.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/05/13/b...

A little disturbed by how much time/energy I gave the Catholic Chuch today.

Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday plans to sign an executive order to restrict the mass collection and sharing of autism-related data for Illinois residents, in response to the country’s top health secretary’s rhetoric around the cause of autism.

Whenever I go to the pharmacy I feel a little starstruck meeting someone who was good at chemistry cuz woo boy I was not

I'm so mad at M*sk and B*zos for making space (the coolest thing ever) so deeply uncool

Me to my kid: Z, you’re so funny and cool and smart, I remember when you were just born and we were wondering who you’d somebody be Z: I want to be an ogre

Was just looking for something in my older Google Drive when I stumbled upon a spreadsheet labeled "Things That Made Me Gay" and the only things on it were Taylor Hanson, '90s sports movie tomboys, and a girl in a backwards hat in an American Girl Doll Commercial.

I’m so happy for people who like sandals in any form but they fill me with fear and sensory panic and dissonance. And other normal things.

I'm very excited to share the first blurb for CLIMATE OF CHAOS by the indomitable Jen St. Jude @jenstjude.bsky.social. If you haven't had the chance to read Jen's deeply emotional and moving YA about mental health, love and hope at the end of the world, IF TOMORROW DOESN'T COME, I highly suggest it.

Just want to say nearly all my favorite people are autistic. If you’re hurting, I love you (and always).

Some stuff you can do for trans women right now today instead of/in addition to making posts about how trans people are valid: 1. Hire them 2. Donate to their gfms 3. Boost their work 4. Involve them in the conversation about what is happening worldwide to trans rights (looking @ u podcasts)

Drummers are the goalies of music in that they're kinda just quirky little guys hiding in the back, holding it all down

My latest piece, written for the Kettering Foundation. I urge organizations, nonprofits, and companies to end the cycle of over compliance with Trump threats, and show how doing so ushers in fascism. Some lessons from what we have seen in the trans community. kettering.org/do-not-compl...

It happened to me: I just dreamed I had to go back to finish a semester of high school. Worse: I was late to the first day and couldn’t figure out my schedule. Worst of all: I’d signed up?? To do stand up?? At the all-school assembly?? My mind has no mercy.

Y’all Black Mirror is my favorite show ever but I’m sick and my kid is double sick and no one has slept in 3 nights so I am going to be so behind on this one 😭

MY WIFE’S SHORT STORY COLLECTION IS OUT 🦴🐍✨🌺💀 If you like Mortuary Barbies, organized crime run by mean queers or the fae, Viktor from Arcane, REPO!, and the intricacies of millennial anxiety via a giant gay snake, there's a story in here for you. Happy release day @allyscottauthor.bsky.social!

Thunder feels so much louder and closer than it used to and I can’t decide if it’s because I’m an adult who’s responsible for things or because it’s the Midwest.

Voted local, looked like a Boy Scout

I've been spinning Chappell's comments on parenthood in my mind for days because they 1) are valid observations! And her perception/reality. No notes. 2) challenge the VERY mainstream expectation that we should have children, and that having children is the only path to a fulfilling/worthy life.

Happy (or some other emotion) #tdov, y'all. I love you; visible or invisible or somehow both at once.

9 newly released or soon to be released young adult books containing trans rep:

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

It’s probably more than a little tacky to publicly post that I was 💫 officially💫 diagnosed with adhd today. But it feels really validating because I’ve known for so long. And things have always been so hard and this is probably a tiny, small part of why. But still.

So weird to be a depressed activist because it’s like nothing matters at all! and everything matters so much!

I have to say I went to Olive Garden over the weekend for the first time in years and there was a shockingly small amount of olives on the menu

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Writing for me is just telling myself over and over "don't make the love interest smell like a tree, don't make the love interest smell like a tree, don't--"

Love is Blind is genius in that it lets men treat women the way they often/usually do while dating, then subjects them to the very public court of opinion, and then asks them to answer for their behavior live on air with the Lacheys. With receipts. Good stuff.

Also my onion today resembled a beautiful sea creature, just thought you should know

Had a rough week with a very sick dog she’s finally on the mend

Don't buy shit, write your book

Excited/emotional to receive ARCs for my upcoming MG horror. There is a cat character in this book that might look familiar. I miss Kana all the time, but loved giving her another home in this book. My team at Bloomsbury made a gorgeous dedication page. Can't wait to share this one with the world.

I know romantasy is hot but when the tides INEVITABLY change to weird depresso queers I will be unstoppable

A huge congrats to our very own @rachellayown.bsky.social! Mark you calendars for her debut novel "How We See the Gray," coming from @nupress.bsky.social in Spring 2026!

My toddler's friends don't know she has a lesbian parent but there are signs (she's headed to a birthday party with a present wrapped using duct tape)

There are so many hard things about writing any POV, but 1st person is such a tricky beast. We are always lying to ourselves, censoring our thoughts, denying our truths. You can't just tell the story. You also have to tell the many stories the character is telling themselves.

Hot take but wow I love books

ARCS HAVE ARRIVED! My sapphic Orpheus reimagining is here in my hands and feels like a real book! @torbooks.bsky.social @zenoagency.bsky.social

I know everyone is (rightfully) making fun of the Love Is Blind men for being blander than a BRAT diet but I must admit I basically share their wardrobe.

I think I've met more lasting friends via The Chicago Sky than any other space in Chicago and that kinda rules. The WNBA does feel like a community.

Trans people were on the front lines at Stonewall. Don't let Trump, Musk, or a bunch of Vichy gays and TERFs tell you otherwise. My latest for Slate on what happened to the Stonewall monument website, why autocrats always destroy history, and where it can lead slate.com/news-and-pol...

In his new book, poet and journalist Mohammed El-Kurd rejects the notion that Palestinians must prove themselves worthy of dignity and freedom.