I’ve worked with Deaf and disabled kids for four years. I thought I knew what disability education was when I started that work, but I learned something new every day. To have someone like RFK Jr., overseeing yet inept, means that these kids’ learning will be harmed. This is terrifyingly wrong.

I’m back on Instagram—tell your friends! 😜

Speaking of catching up, I’m enthralled by this story by @rossshowalter.com from @theoffingmag.bsky.social.

Opening Submittable and checking on active submissions is now an act of organized optimism.

Happy Pride especially to my hearing counterparts who choose to learn ASL and strive for equitable and open communication.

Anyway, it’s time to submit this weird flash fiction to places.

Update: I took a step further and switched to the DuckDuckGo browser and it’s honestly a lot more streamlined and clear than Google Chrome ever was. Turning off the features I disliked (like A.I. search) was very easy.

My dad's college roommate, a TV writer, read my work and told me that I had the potential to make a career as a writer. I was 21.

The Nephew Eras Tour begins next week! I’ll be talking about Say Nephew with some brilliant writers in a few different places. I’d love to see you! If you haven’t yet preordered Say Nephew, which @catapultbooks.bsky.social is publishing on Tuesday, 5/25, you can get a copy from any of these stores 📚

Brooklyn! Come hang June 10 7PM

I'm putting together a roster of magazines to submit stories to very soon, and it is absolutely wild how I now have to judge my own work and if it's worthy of publication...against purple prose quickly made by a robot.

I crossed 50,000 words on the novel today. Home stretch now; here we go.

I will forever debate with myself on if literary magazines' spring submission windows are indeed the right times to be sending in weird Deaf ghost stories.

Today is Sara Nović's (@novicsara.bsky.social) birthday. If you know me, you know that my career and my voice wouldn't be possible without her ferocious writing. She truly is a titan in Deaf literature and an absolute stellar human being. I'm gonna drop some links to her brilliance.

Sara’s new book is breathtaking and everyone should read it!!!

"People who haven’t used hearing aids or cochlear implants often assume these devices are corrective, working in the same way putting on glasses can restore many types of blurred vision back to 20/20. But hearing technology is not equivalent to prescription glasses." @novicsara.bsky.social

Cookie Monster is out, Cake Boss is in.

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IT IS OUT TODAY.

I GOT MY MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR AND I AM SO EXCITED. I’M SO EXCITED! ZERO CHILL. (@novicsara.bsky.social)

“Her cheek is much less pleasant to scratch than the cat’s cheek, and anyway, she doesn’t want you scratching her. Especially not while she’s on trial for murdering her husband.” 🚨 Don’t miss @kcmeadbrewer.com’s deliciously wicked new story in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/Even-After-Y...

Sharing this @thomasha.bsky.social story because I love it & because it's a good story to read for #NoKings clarkesworldmagazine.com/ha_04_25

I wrote a science-fiction story about gene replacement therapy and its means towards curing Deafness and disability. It's out now in Fusion Fragment! Massive thanks to word west for workshopping this story last year and editor extraordinaire Cavan Terrill for picking this up.

Hey y’all. It’s my 51st birthday, so here’s some shameless self-promotion: If you’re looking for a transgressive gay thriller set in early 2000s Memphis, you should pick up a copy of my debut novel, AND THE TRAIN KEPT MOVING. www.ipgbook.com/and-the-trai... www.amazon.com/Train-Kept-M...

I wrote a science-fiction story about gene replacement therapy and its means towards curing Deafness and disability. It's out now in Fusion Fragment! Massive thanks to word west for workshopping this story last year and editor extraordinaire Cavan Terrill for picking this up.

My relationship with social media is becoming more tenuous as the years pass. I imagine the Bluesky account will stay active, for the time being, but it won't be used much. I'll continue to post about new publications on here. Not much else!

There's nothing better than seeing your name in print.

I wrote my first horny flash fiction of the year. We’re so back.

very very excited (& nervous! stage jitters!) to share news of a project that my person & I have been working on for so long now we're starting a tiny artist residency here in Baltimore; say hello to The Doll House! www.thedollhouse.studio

Ada Limón.

one of my standing complaints is every february 1st a lot of you are like read Black writers! and then name the same five people to read. Some writers who could use your pre-orders: The Great Wherever by @shanders.bsky.social: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

It's quite nice to have my first publication of the year get such a gorgeous cover! I'm delighted.

TFW you want to write a short story and you know it from start to finish, but you might not be smart or skilled enough to pull off its mechanics and goals.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

#ICMI: @strangehorizons.bsky.social is Open for #fiction submissions for the next 46-ish hours. Go forth and SUBMIT SOMETHING asap! strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

I completed a short story for the first time in nine months and a writer I hugely admire has said it is one of her new favorites. I think I might be getting a little writing groove back. ☺️

I have had this strange imagery in my head since April that I want so badly to coalesce into a proper story, but it remains a surreal, subterranean knot.

Dear bluskeeters! I'm doing research with a friend. If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection. Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or Alice In Chains. I'm genuinely surprised no one I follow has mentioned this one. It's my go-to record to spin when I get home from work.

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."