friends! this is a fantastic opportunity to read some amazing short stories and poetry, support some super talented authors, AND participate in the incredible community-building work of the transfeminine review ✨

and the “inefficiencies” of the physical archive often lead to sources and context that otherwise would be overlooked

intertextual reference to mulholland drive as pluribus recreates an old diner to stage a conversation about individual/collective consciousness 🤯

the fact writing of autumn is over. the fiction writing of winter begins

#pluribus. anyone else notice how interpretations of the hivemind change depending on context? communistic groupthink vs. white american rugged individualism; heteronormative conformity vs. queer difference; an invading colonizing force to be resisted because "everything you have is stolen"

t-shirt shopping my way through the apocalypse. this is my favorite one yet @littlepuss.net

Party politics isn’t going to save us. Legal challengers in a court system stacked against us aren’t going to save us. Influencers and allies aren’t going to save us. Only organizing can save us.

can’t AI do that for you?

This resonates but I wonder if class plays a role? The vast majority of students I know (mostly working-class young adults) have never been hungrier for knowledge. They know that AI is a scam. They're angry & eager to learn. Perhaps it’s different for those who attend college because it’s expected?

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

book piracy discourse but it’s not about this book or pirate?

is it just me or is pluribus a clever meta commentary on the relationship between writers & fans? from the opening book reading - to the slippage from love potion plot-notes to truth serum antics - to the global fandom hivemind vs the “anti” - to the grumpy/sunshine trope writ large? plus lesbians ✨

i had almost forgotten about this! so happy for the opportunity to talk about weird dead things and methods with @mayadeane.bsky.social @jeannethornton.bsky.social and @olivasthewriter.bsky.social

book marketing strategy: i know a superfan or two

New book alert! 📚 KILLING EVE - featuring exclusive interviews with Phoebe Waller-Bridge & Sally Woodward Gentle - drops Fall 2026. Part of WSU's TV Milestones series 📺🔪🪓 Share the news!

Welcome to OTHERSIDE, a magazine of speculative fiction and poetry by 2SLGBTQIA+ writers! This October, we’ll be fundraising on Kickstarter. Until then, you can join us on our Patreon! We’ll open for submissions in January 2026. See thread for details! 🪐🗡️ (1/5)

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

San Francisco had a similar law (1867) that existed alongside bans on cross-dressing, indecency, and carrying baskets on poles through the streets - a common practice among many Chinese workers. then, as now, the policing of poverty, disability, gender, sexuality, and immigration went hand-in-hand

THIS IS THE BEST ONE MAMDANI GET TO WORK

First as farce, then as farce

this is a great thread and reminds me to recommit to buying books - academic and otherwise - where and when I can

Hot Gays in the City🔥 not too long to wait

friends, i did it! i finished writing my killing eve book 🔪❤️ i haven’t finished a writing project this big in years, and i haven’t finished one this fun… ever? can’t wait to share all the secret bits soon #killingeve

We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.

i remember sobbing in the california state archives when i first read the hand-written notes of asylum doctors. i couldn't shake the feeling for days. no training, reading, or thinking that "i already knew" had prepared me for that. now i treat it like witnessing. awful, painful, and necessary too

I wrote Arresting Dress, a history of anti-crossdressing laws in nineteenth-century San Francisco bookshop.org/p/books/arre...

Upset is correct! We can still vote NO on the obscene tentative agreement , which our chapter union leadership were not informed about when the agreement was announced. They terms are unacceptable. Press accounts have been misleading and inaccurate.

i LOVE that I am 32nd in line for @jamiattenberg.bsky.social new book at the library ✍️❤️

Thrilled to have my story “How You Enter” published in this incredible MQR special issue, edited by the amazing Alex Marzano-Lesnevich https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/mqr-issue-624-fall-2023/

WRITE A STORY it is very cool and fun

did I join bluesky just for this? possibly

i am here, perhaps