This is probably only me and my brand of deafness, but I find podcasts to be much more accessible when they're in a video format as well. I can lipread speakers. I can turn on captions. I've had more access to information and dialogues and thoughts when I'm able to see how the conversation goes.

Happy holidays, I just got told my credit score could only get better if I got a mortgage. 🤡

It's strange to be writing in the midst of so much emotion/grief/exhaustion, but the ideas must be given space and realized.

Reposting one of my favorite stories I've written, both to celebrate the redesign of @therumpus.net and to remind Deaf folks that Dinner Table Syndrome is an experience more shared than we know, especially around the holidays:

bless the friends who read 18 paragraph-length texts about your chance meeting with your very first partner

I will never cease to be surprised at how much of themselves people put on the internet.

I cannot stress how important it is that we make “bitch, do something yourself” a language-embedded meme on the level of “kim there’s people that are dying”

This. This is why printed books are still so important.

Perhaps as a way of burying my head in the sand, I've decided to start learning French; it's actually startling how much American Sign Language borrows from French syntax and structure. Mais oui.

I really, really loved this one. @anniejowrites.bsky.social is always so good, but this really touched me. "They remember and think of each other often in the intervening years between their conversations and meaningful glances."

I see the book piracy discourse is going around again and all I can say is I know more than one writer producing acclaimed work that is considering jacking it in or reducing the amount they write because they don't make to justify it vs a job job. It's not only piracy, but piracy is costing us art.

This is the only story I've published during a very difficult year; to have something published is validating, but to have it singled out for awards consideration is truly special. I'm very grateful. H/t to @rrrubenstein.bsky.social, especially, for being extraordinary through all this.

Of course I decided to start pitching magazines again in the midst of the most anxious timeline.

fresh bats flying your way from the watery depths! spotlighting stories from @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social, @lmanusos.bsky.social, @nuzo.bsky.social, & @angelaliu.bsky.social ⚡🦇 don't want to subscribe to my free tiny letter? weird choice! but you should still read these stories, so here's the link:

One day the US will have to face the shame and horror of what has happened here: that a cabal of wealthy people have elevated a monster into the most powerful person in the world www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court denied an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges, the case affirming marriage equality nationwide. Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.

BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

They are destroying what SHE built. #TeenVogue

This was joyous. Just a mad ray of sunshine in an otherwise desolate landscape

Sara Nović's fourth book, MOTHER TONGUE, is now available to preorder via Bookshop! You know what to do! (Seriously, if you're a fan of my writing, you are, by default, a fan of hers. Sara has had an immeasurable impact on my writing. I'm in awe of her brilliance every single day.)

As a Deaf person who hesitated to move to Philly, I honestly wish that someone had told me how many folks knew some level of ASL; I would have JETTED myself over here so fast. The community and engagement I've found here is incredible, truly second to none.

After almost three weeks of my books in boxes, I FINALLY have a bookshelf!!

My Halloween celebration is reading Kelly Link, with the lights down low, while the Twin Peaks soundtrack plays on the record player.

Saying this yet again because I’m so tired of ppl justifying this: ghosting ppl is one of the most cruel, anti-communal things you can do. I don’t expect you to stay close to ppl who aren’t good for you. I am expecting you to have the decency to say “I have to step away, and here’s why.”

I hung one of my favorite publications in my new apartment today, y’all. 😃

Holy crap, everyone: new Maile Chapman novel in 2026, her first in 15 years. So freaking excited. Love that cover, too:

Also, don't miss Vajra's incredibly powerful acceptance speech (fitting given how many of Le Guin's speeches were and are so unforgettable): youtu.be/Y5h5ZDjWPTc?...

I made it through. I feel so valued and validated as a writer, y’all.

My first in-person reading (in six years!) is tonight. Fingers crossed I make it through intact.

Since it’s my favorite month and almost Halloween, I’m going to share some favorite spooky pieces of mine from years past (and a separate thread of other ppl’s work!). First up: my horror essay, from 2018 at @electricliterature.com, forever relevant: electricliterature.com/horror-lives...

Goddammit.

I feel like I should apologize to the person living below me—the times when the furniture pieces fell over or slipped out of my hands were…not zero.

They got bored of eating each other over on X. Block 'em like any other troll.

I built a bed. From IKEA. By myself. Please clap.

For whoever cares, I am really liking living in Philadelphia.

It’s funny how grief materializes

I still can’t believe LitHub let me say this.

⚠️ USAToday reporter confirms the office in charge of special education funding has been “decimated”:

Tomorrow marks four weeks since my mom died. Time passes, but this grief continues.

I got a Philadelphia library card, and now I’m ready to take the city by storm.

I’m now at the airport to take a red-eye to the East Coast. When I land in Philadelphia tomorrow, I’m going to get my apartment keys and start setting up my little life in a brand new city. A new chapter in my life starts tomorrow.

Because the Deaf community is extremely funny politicians definitely cannot count on a loving and complimentary sign name like this one—it really demonstrates people’s genuine enthusiasm

THEY 👏🏻 HAVE 👏🏻 BEEN 👏🏻 ADMINSTERED 👏🏻

I have booked my COVID and flu vaccines. 😤

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

I didn’t think I would be asked to read at my alma mater only six years after graduation, but life thought otherwise. Portland folks, see you in October!