Niche litsky post: Hanif Abdurraquib is at my gate at the Denver airport!

Thank you @autumnhousepress.bsky.social!

Ouch. This one cuts to the bone.

Bookshop is having a sale to counter Prime Day! What a great opportunity to buy this cool new book I heard about. bookshop.org/p/books/firs...

You will want to read this for sure. RIP Dad. All of this is true. The events took place last January. And thank you to Bull for publishing this.

Here's a simple way to disable AI mode in Google. I just did it, and I feel like a new, freshly showered woman! www.engadget.com/big-tech/how...

We love book mail!

CO friends: On September 19, I will be discussing my memoir SHE'S UNDER HERE with the magnificent Erika Krouse at Lighthouse Writers in Denver. If you are available that afternoon and up for it, come out and say hello. Free to members, $5 for nonmembers. Pizza party optional. tinyurl.com/348eazm3

CLOSER by Miriam Gershow (@regalhouse.bsky.social), reviewed by @robertlong4man.bsky.social necessaryfiction.com/reviews/clos...

The Gaza Soup Kitchen run by Hani Almadhoun and family is currently feeding 3000 people a day under the monstrous conditions of the engineered famine happening before our eyes. You can help feed at least a few people. Please donate: gofund.me/e37b4bae

If it feels overwhelming to choose individuals to help in Gaza while not being able to help others, I am a regular donor to the Sameer Project and really vouch for the on the ground mutual aid work they have been doing.

Amazon’s prime day profits are down 41%. To celebrate, until midnight you can get 41% off anything in our store with code 41% at malarkeybooks.com/store

It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you. It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.

Not only can we do both, we have to do both in order for either effort to be successful. Even if the Democratic Party insists this is not the case, it remains nonetheless true that fighting grotesque levels of inequality in America and fighting fascism are necessarily interdependent projects.

I spoke with people in Gaza who've been accused of being scammers or even AI.

My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!

It took a long time but here are the books we’re going to publish in the next three years: malarkeybooks.com/news/2025/6/...

We're ending our last ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY of the month saying CONGRATS 🎉 Contributor @wrefinnej.bsky.social's novel DREAMS OF MY DEAD HUSBAND made runner-up for the @autumnhousepress.bsky.social Fiction Prize!

There are a number of ways we can each show up to support trans people, including by contributing to groups that are providing critical direct support through mutual aid, mental health resources, and more. More are listed and linked in this @them.us piece here: www.them.us/story/scotus...

A very scary bill just passed in Ohio for transgender folks. No one but local LGBTQ+ orgs are talking about it. First, Ohio is only recognizing sex assigned at birth, male or female. You can get in trouble for stating otherwise on documents, I imagine. I may need to change my state ID back. 1/5

This small press is fueled by love, stubbornness, and a little bit of delusion, but also, importantly, book sales. Get 20% off in stock titles and merch with code SELLOUT at malarkeybooks.com/store

We have a cover, designed by @mrwojorising.bsky.social, for Vi Khi Nao’s forthcoming collection, My Ardent Love for the Pencil! Cover art from Jörn Budesheim. malarkeybooks.com/news/2025/6/...

I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.

Honored my novel Dreams of My Dead Husband made runner-up in this contest (and weirdly flattered to play second fiddle to Adam O’Fallon Price—a hell of a writer). I’ve put everything I am into this book—hoping this takes it one step closer to finding a good home.

🚨 Support Los Angeles immigrant communities 🚨 Please consider donating to one or all of the following orgs: Immigrant Defenders Law Center: give.immdef.org/donate LA Jail Support / Bail Fund: account.venmo.com/u/jailsuppor... Unión del Barrio: uniondelbarrio.org/main/support...

Trilled to announce I have a collection of stories coming out next year with @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social called Coyote Girl. Thank you @vanwinkle.bsky.social! 🙏 🎉

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

It’s really comforting that as food skyrockets in price, your neighbors are disappeared by masked goons, and people die en masse of preventable illness, Republicans and Democrats can come together and say: fuck this one trans teenager in particular for trying to run track with her friends

Tonight! If you or your writing group pal is feeling adrift in the murky sea of WTF (and why is it taking so long) this is for you www.writingco-lab.com/classes/draf...

The Utah Report shows exactly what the people commissioning it didn’t want to see, that gender affirming care works. This article brought to you by @evanurquhart.bsky.social

so, in short: • if we all get loud for trans rights and actually organize a movement, we can win this one • if we don’t, then a de facto ban on care is assured in us law within the next six months in other words, you found yourself in history now’s a moment to be the hero really.

gender-affirming care has regret rates significantly below completely uncontroversial interventions like knee replacement surgery no study will ever tell you differently let trans people get the care they need

Grateful to everyone who shared their thoughts with me for this piece about the difference between how people imagined they would show up for a moment like this one, and how we're actually showing up—and how we can begin to close the gap between aspiration and action.

Not a good day to be online! Also not a good day to be offline!

The house has passed a ban on coverage of gender care for all ages under Medicaid, CHIP and ACA plans. I don't know what to say to anyone this morning other than that the hundreds of thousands of people who are about to lose access to the care they need to stay alive deserve better than silence.

Reintroducing myself. I'm a diehard leftie, an editor & teacher @ Lighthouse Writers. I've published 2 novels. A memoir that took abso-effen-lutely forever to complete (SHE'S UNDER HERE) is coming next fall from Algonquin Books. Looking forward to meeting more lit community folks.

This one by @wrefinnej.bsky.social I got it in the queue as a reader at Fractured and I immediately sent a msg to the editor saying "we should get this before someone else does" fracturedlit.com/moon-pillow/

The new NEA priorities aren't random or all over the place: they're infected by white supremacist drive toward segregation and Christian nationalism.

Thank you so much @hexliterary.bsky.social and @danielmiller.bsky.social for publishing this weird little flash!

Remember that "secret sauce" I discovered a while ago? The one that has me writing so much it is an ORGY OF WRITING? Well, here it is. A simple thing you too can do! Featuring @notquitehydepark.bsky.social @alyssaharad.bsky.social @jsavrankelly.bsky.social www.maureenlangloss.com/in-the-bee-l...

if you live in texas, PLEASE call your state reps TOMORROW and register your sincere and fervent opposition to SB 37!

Anyone interested in my old climate manuscript but revised with like twenty new poems after the rights are released?

This week on Movement Memos, my friend @shaneburley.bsky.social and I discuss fascism, including techno-fascism, mutual aid, and the kind of organizing and solidarity we need to survive these times. Audio + transcript:

Happy short story month: farewelltransmission.net/2024/05/stum...

Hey guys- White nationalists have helped a white woman in Minnesota raise $300k after she was filmed calling a five-year-old Black child the n-word. The local NAACP chapter is fundraising for the boy and his family to get legal help. The least we could do is out-fundraise the nazis. Donate here:

Colorado folks: help defend trans people during this miserable and dangerous time. Learn more and email your lawmakers at the link. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

In Families for Justice As Healing's listening tour, women, most of whom were moms, were asked what they needed just before they were incarcerated. Housing, an indicator of poverty, topped the list. Only housing and cash fix homelessness and poverty. It's incredibly simple.