I've decided to launch a Ko-Fi where I'm gonna post chapter previews, short stories, and definitely behind-the-scenes stuff about upcoming books! To start things, I've posted the PROLOGUE to Book 3! You can go into it cold (heh), but spoilers for In the Valley, A Shadow! ko-fi.com/post/Prologu...

Hello, if you aren't transgender I do not care about your opinion on whether Newsom was transphobic or not on that podcast. You don't get to define transphobia for those of us who are intimately aware of its forms and experience it on a near daily basis. Thanks bye.

The pink outfit "protest" last night has me incensed. It's a hollow gesture. And if that's all they're willing to do in the face of fascism, then they might as well rip those pink outfits up and sew them into pink triangles and hand them out to my and my community

How many trans people has cable news had on the air to humanize us in the face of our extermination? Cause they sure are eager to platform and sympathize with the white people who voted for trump that are now getting their comeuppance

When cis ppl outlaw transition healthcare for everyone, what do these traitorous Tgirls think they gonna do? They won't need Breanna or Blaire anymore and they're gonna find out

🚨 Call to action: S.9 does more than just ban trans women from sports—it sets a dangerous precedent for legally defining trans people by their assigned sex at birth. We can’t afford to lose any dems on this one. Please contact your senators

The trans agenda is survival.

The trans agenda is actually wanting to look at yourself in the mirror.

The trans agenda is self-determination.

Everybody at WaPo should walk off the job.

Semi-regular reminder that I'm the Readers' Voices editor at @thepvdeye.bsky.social, and we're looking for essays from Providence residents about their lives in, and thoughts about, the city. 👋 More info here: pvdeye.org/voices-guide... Email [email protected] or get in touch with me directly.

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There's a transmasculine version of this. If someone assigned female can become a man, it means there's nothing so special or powerful about men. Each of us has the biological truth of equality between the sexes within us, as demonstrated by the ability of some to pass from one to the other.

Commentary: “I am tired of my community, my family, being spoken for but not listened to,” says @samanthatano.bsky.social who is transgender. “The time to platform trans voices is now.”

This is an excellent piece. Huzzah for @samanthatano.bsky.social! And good for @globeri.bsky.social for publishing it.

And until then, they should keep us out of their damn mouths

Substack discourse again so I am moved to reiterate: getting off Substack is one of THE most straightforward and effective ways to get fascist stink off your work. If you choose not to do it because it seems too hard, then I do not trust you to do literally anything in the face of fascism.

They put ya girl in the @bostonglobe.com LET US SPEAK FOR OURSELVES. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/25/m...

Their power is fragile. Remember that. "...she stepped confidently, her head high, and eyed each man she passed, silently marking them for death. The men around her stood confident in what they perceived as the ultimate power: they held weapons and surrounded someone unable to fight back."

New this morning for the @rhodeislandcurrent.com: I have benefitted from SSRIs for years. To hear RFK Jr. falsely malign them in the name of making me and others "healthy again" was infuriating. I wrote about this -- and the broader dark implications of his confirmation at HHS.

Give trans people your money. (Especially Black trans people.)

I just got a card from a 78-year-old cishet white man, who saw my letter in the Providence Journal, who said how much he supported our struggle, and didn't understand why people had to stand on the necks of the marginalized. I literally just put makeup on and am trying not to cry it all off

I am sorry that many people called Mark Patinkin names. Now, imagine if he had real problems, such as people labeling his existence a dangerous ideology, or if his human rights were at risk, or his life.

Oh ho I was right, the columnist who is a transphobe learned absolutely nothing from my letter or email response for an interview. Fix your hearts or die.

But doctor I am Pagliacci

Executive functioning.

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Seriously, I'm gonna put my psych meds in the acknowledgements of Her Blood Runs Cold lol

I'd say "Put This Subheadline in the Newseum" for its awfulness. But the Newseum closed. 🙃

The executive function is functioning so maybe we cook?

The denial of intersex people is as ludicrous statistically as saying redheads do not exist. The denial of trans people is like saying all the hairs on your head are the same immutable color your entire life. When we know rationally that’s just not true.

So you're writing an op-ed about how trans people are never given the mic to speak for ourselves and how cis people deny our right to self-determination even in death, & there's yet another story of a Black trans woman found dead & the news and cops deadname her and don't even identify her as trans

📢 YES, it's okay to PUNCH NAZIS. #pixelart

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American corporate-owned journalism is just a laundromat. Their purpose is to wash out the blood stains, to hand people a white shirt and claim it was never bloody to begin with. They manufacture consent, nothing more.

I finished a draft of my op-ed. Gotta let a critique partner check it out, but yeah... Apparently I'm just back on my journo shit? Or trying to be? I donno, I just don't want my community to fuckin die

Good morning. I want to share the email I wrote yesterday because I'm proud of it & how I advocated for myself & my community. Basically, the columnist who I wrote my letter to the editor about, emailed me & wanted to interview me for a "follow up" column. I declined. Here's why:

Are you someone who automatically says "yes" to things you actually don't want to do? Here’s how to break that pattern ⬇️

Sam Wilson is Captain America. Fit for the movie today ⭐

"Why have I been having an emotional meltdown for two days straight?" My vial of estradiol:

ReBoot in 1994 looked better than this trash

Good morning bluesky. In addition to writing good, being hot, I'm also autistic and sometimes get disregulated and cry, and get triggered by a TV show, and then my rejection sensitive dysphoria kicks in about annoying my friends who hate me and I can't sleep. So yeah sometimes we have a menty b

It's officially my birthday week! (Feb 19, baybee) The best present ever would be to buy my book, which just so happens to be discounted in eBook form for the next month. (Or, if you've already read it, consider voting in the Locus or Nebula Awards!) www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/755221...

Well, I feel bad that Bluesky missed out on my Valentine's Day outfit but now it feels like it might be a little late

Hi 😘

Nothing is more satisfying to someone who was neglected, than have our needs met with enthusiasm and love.

So I guess I should be on here more then? Lol it's hard for me brain to post on multiple apps

@samanthatano.bsky.social: "Columns like Mr. Patinkin’s make it harder for us to live safe, healthy lives like everyone else."

They let a transsexual clap back. Tired of seeing people talk ABOUT us, instead of WITH us. In today's Providence Journal (paywall of course 🥴). www.providencejournal.com/story/opinio...

Autistic people are not “too negative.” We’re simply not interested in lying to ourselves. Or to you.