I dunno, maybe the Supreme Court majority could have the decency to bestir themselves to write an actual, you know, opinion, with their names on it, explaining their endorsement of using race and ethnicity as part of a national policy of harassing and intimidating non-white Americans.

Today brings in a further loosening of any leash on the machine that is the American carceral system. The dissenting opinion, written by Justice Sotomayor, is ringing an alarm bell for the American people that falls into din of klaxons of the last several months.

The impact of the Trump administration on academia will be felt for decades. Fascism asks the average citizen to value the words of its demagogues above any expertise, research, or evidence. The truth is not the truth beneath facism's boot.

”we have condemned 228 men to die in a foreign prison without charge or trial” is a fact that I cannot shake from my mind. It just keeps reasserting itself. God have mercy bc this is just the beginning.

Looking beautiful Time Square. 🇺🇦

most of us can’t even comprehend how this possibly feels. solidarity with Palestine always.

We have always been at war with ... *Checks notes* Ukraine? Hmm. Anyway. We have always been at war with Ukraine.

From @victoriachang.bsky.social's book, The Trees Witness Everything. Get it here: bookshop.org/a/862/978155... #poetry #books #writing

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I have friends at the protest. The removal of gender from the civil rights bill of Iowa would be a tragedy and another step towards the genocide of trans bodies. Fight like hell, folks. Fight like hell.

i really am not being glib at all when i say that i do not want nazis to know everything about us or crash our planes or forcefully separate our neighbors from their children or detransition the coolest kids in our lives

Today!

I am surrounded by the strong, brave people who I wish with all my heart didn't have to be either of those things.

The conversations I've been having with fellow trans folks lately have been bleak, but also helpful. We're already finding ways to build community and support one another. I'm thankful for that in these years of darkness.

Forever pissed that I have to be Aware and Informed instead of reading science fiction and fantasy and writing stories. I'm a children's literature critic, not an expert on government! (Not a fan of this timeline. At all.)

Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.

There are so many awful things happening. But today is the first meeting of the SPCPA D&D club and for that I am thankful. We need stories to know dragons can be slain.

I've got a short story about transgender escapism, the sea, and Moby Dick in this new anthology from Pride with a Bite. All proceeds are going to the HRC to continue the fight for trans rights. Order link: pridewithabite.com/we-bite-back... #booksky

No Subjecting Me To New Horrors Until I've Had My Coffee.

These words echo the use of the term "degenerate" to refer to trans people (a word the administration has already used).

Hannah Arendt perfectly explains how authoritarianism works.

I don't even know what to say. The cruelty we're waking up to this morning is overwhelming.

ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do

Check on your trans loved ones ❌ Write a check to your trans loved ones ✔️

Real talk

Lagoon Nebula by Hubble. Processed by @thocarp.bsky.social www.flickr.com/photos/19746... 🔭 🧪

Chicago Crystals. Lake Michigan on this day in 2016 on Throwback Thursday.

Having to work the day after a Nazi party takes over the US government and declares open genocide on trans people is certainly a mood

This is the beginning of what will be at least 4 years of tests. Did you see what you saw or what they're telling you to see? Are you complying in advance? Are you accepting evils because they are legal?

Thank you for so many years of strange art.

I'm gunna jump on this. It's been a delight to emerge from the fledgling days of writing to pursue an MFA to find a world of craft and style to dance with. It is a realization that there are so many miles to go—a lifetime even.

Somebody somewhere Needs flowers tonight

✨ #pixelart

Getting ready to run some Arkham Horror this weekend for a couple friends. 🦑

ok i took the suggestions on INDIGENOUS FUTURISM recommended reads and made this graphic with most of the suggestions. please feel free to share and/or drop any recommendations you think should be on it!

This is the old tale of the sickness of power. Kill your heroes. Champion the working writers around us.

I adore teaching classes on ghost stories. Watching students grapple with tropes, themes, and images in such a pertinent way is a delight. Like yes, personify grief and guilt as a wailing creature in an empire dress. You've got this. Go go go!

The Humanities must firmly reject AI taking over our classrooms, our pedagogy. It’s the only way.

First there were books. Then a movie based on the books. Then a book adapted from that. Then a stage musical. Now a theatrical release. Truly, there is no rest for the Wicked

In 1977, Vincent Price starred in a one-man-show where he played openly gay Oscar Wilde; it was condemned by Anita Bryant. When asked about her condemnation, Price replied that Wilde had already written a play about Anita: “A Woman of No Importance”

some forthcoming 2025 books by women of color I’m excited about!!! in this piece out today in @electriclit.bsky.social 🖤 electricliterature.com/48-books-by-...

"You seem like the sort of lesbian to have a screwdriver on you." - one of my students giving me the HIGHEST compliment.