Look at this gorgeous list and these gorgeous books. You all know this started a year ago with a grumpy wine skeet and a half baked idea of mine!?? Look at what we made!!! My gratitude is so deep this morning. lithub.com/100-notable-...

Today is pub day for Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine! However much writing can be a solitary act, putting a book out definitely isn’t. Thanks to Stillhouse Press and all of Tell Me Yours’ many champions. My first book is out now. I hope you like it.

A first for me as a writer: You can now listen to me read “[SILENCE]” & talk about the inspiration behind this experimental short story, thanks to @westtradereview.bsky.social! It was a fun challenge to incorporate out loud elements like closed captions that I intended as visual cues on the page✨

Grateful for the four senators who did this. theintercept.com/2025/07/31/g...

One of my fav writers is @kristinaten.bsky.social—I’ve waited YEARS for her debut collection & now you can preorder it like I did! Every story she writes is ❤️‍🔥—surreal, compelling, masterfully crafted, visceral, pulsating with heart & an unsettling strangeness that lingers with you in the BEST way.

Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird. (he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...

It’s called City of Bridges & it celebrates love & community & the Portland literary scene, which we’ve been part of for 15+ years

Instead of the regular wedding hoopla, my partner and I made an anthology to celebrate our marriage & we’re launching it tonight

Honored to write something short and bittersweet for CITY OF BRIDGES, an anthology of community edited by dear @jessiepaige.bsky.social and @jrigamonti.bsky.social in celebration of their marriage and all our literary togetherness! Cover art by Zachary Schomburg. Last photo by Christopher Diaz.

“Isn’t this your golden rule? If it’s hard to take in this form, perhaps it’s time you consider why. What are your wishes for Palestinians? Clean water, air, food, and rest? Safety from state violence? Grief support? Trauma-informed care? … (1/2)

Let’s be clear that abortion can be effectively banned in this country without Congress passing a law but as a result of multiple moves that make it impossible to access. The intent of today’s Supreme Court ruling—and of Trump’s budget bill—is to shutter as many abortion clinics as possible

“I wish for you what you wish for trans kids. Hopefully that means healthcare access, accurate medical information, supportive mentors, spiritual community, family belonging, safe housing, inclusive sports, safe bathrooms, learning their history, … (1/2)

You should always be reading trans fiction, but now feels like an even more important time to be reading our stories and supporting our art. Good thing 2025 has already served up some absolutely incredible novels by trans authors!

“I’m wishing immigrants have basic safety, clear information, due process, a calm drive to work, relaxation, fair housing, affordable dinner, delicious desserts, laughter, respect, paid projects, access to education and healthcare, spiritual support, welcoming community … (1/2)

#fundraising, #donate, #help, #support, and #charity

My friend @michaelcopperman.bsky.social’s wife Mashal’s Afghan family—including kids as young as 3 years old—urgently needs help escaping danger & covering basic costs of living (food, medicine, etc.). Please donate if you can & help spread the word 💛 GoFundMe link: gofund.me/aa47f892

My wife Mashal’s family was raided by police and government officers (read, Pakistani ICE) in Pakistan, where they have been refugees from the Taliban. Help cover transportation costs, find a safe place to live , and provide basic needs like food and medicine. Every dollar counts. gofund.me/aa47f892

The most frustrating thing about the last 6 months is just how much my colleagues and fellow students at Harvard have consistently underestimated the threat Trump posed. I was told I was overreacting and things won't be that bad. And yet, it is and it can still get so much worse.

Multnomah County is gutting social services that keep people housed. every program that aids the poor and marginalized. mental health services and county adult special services, all axed. DA Nathan Vasquez is asking for a budget increase next year Oregon will give back roughly $1.5 billion in taxes

"My electrocardiogram results look like a topographic map of some strange terrain or a cryptic sheet of music. I ask my cardiologist if I can keep it." Adored "The Heart Meridian" by @jessiepaige.bsky.social in @sonorareview.bsky.social.

Our latest latest national disgrace.

My first essay was published by @sonorareview.bsky.social! It weaves together grief, skin hunger, my work as a nude model, tattoos, chess, my recent diagnosis of a large cyst in my heart, the rippling impact trauma has on survivors of domestic violence & reclaiming autonomy over my body & story🫀

I like telling authoritarians where to shove it in multiple languages

Could you imagine if the head of the United States healthcare system didn’t believe that HIV caused AIDS? …And that instead they believed that AIDS is caused by recreational drugs (“poppers”) used by gay people? Oh wait…🥴

I hate him so much that my hatred has eaten my heart and is now copulating with the carcasses of dead dictators.

riley with a damn good quick explainer. our whole pre-transition lives are a lite conversion therapy (at the very least; some folks get it worse) & it takes outrageous luck, fortitude, & will to not just survive it, but come out & stay out. 🧵

I’d been wondering what they’d destroy next.

What a delight to see my short story “[SILENCE]” in print—and in the same @westtradereview.bsky.social issue as my friend @meldoly.bsky.social & so many other talented writers! (Here’s one of two poems they published by Melody, and they’re both amazing) 💛

PSA: 🌻Access to safe abortion care is a lifesaving part of healthcare🌻 The abortion pill is extremely safe & it’s a good time to stock up from @aidaccess.bsky.social—if not for yourself, to keep on hand for someone in your life who might need it! aidaccess.org/en/

hi, cis folks! the comment period for the proposed rule to remove trans care from the ACA as an essential health benefit is open til april 11. it'd strip care from DACA recipients, too. context & guidance in the thread. do it while you’re still fired up from/about protests. only 4.5 days left!

Louder for the people in the back: If only citizens get due process, NOBODY gets due process. Because then all they have to say is that you’re not a citizen, and you have no right to due process to prove them wrong — even if it’s a lie.

This is functionally what the Cass Review was in the UK and lots of people in prestige media swallowed it whole while accusing trans people ourselves of "politicizing science" by pointing that out

Read my partner’s amazing, prize-winning (and heartbreaking) story 💛

My short story “[SILENCE],” grand prize winner of the 2024 Phyllis Grant Zellmer Prize for Fiction (judged by Margaret Malone), is now published in @westtradereview.bsky.social ✨ If you like dark, experimental work interlaced with closed captions, this story is for you!

It’s the worst drum to bang but it’s the drum I have. Our democracy is burning to cinders, but I’d be remiss to not ask for a little help and A LOT of sharing. You know people I don’t know and they might want to help. I’d really appreciate it ❤️ gofund.me/30b0aba4

Mute me if you're sick of hearing this, but I think we all need to say it every day: criticizing Israel is not a crime. Speaking out on behalf of Palestinians is not "illegal activity." Criticizing America, also not a crime, even if you're not from here.

“...the machinations behind the narrative revealed, gaining access to the screenwriters underlying intentions and the minutiae that ordinary viewers weren’t privy to.” Jessie Carver’s “[SILENCE],” featured in our Spring 2025 print edition available now. Details: buff.ly/gqIygrG #writingcommunity

#BreakingNews On 3/21/25 we received a near total termination of our federal contract for legal services under the Unaccompanied Children Program (UCP). No child should ever face a heartless immigration system w/o a lawyer by their side. #SaveUCP Read: www.immdef.org/blog/ucpcont...

if a senile old man can wave his little marker and say the department of education is gone we don’t really live in anything remotely like a democracy do we

We are witnessing a mass coordinated assault on civil rights of a marginalized group that hasn’t been seen in this country in decades, y’all, and it’s escalating to a disturbing degree.

*screams in the distance*

Okay, I cannot recommend 5calls.org enough. Enter your address and it will find all your reps (federal and state). AND give you a list of issues to call about AND which reps to call about each of them AND a little script for each, in case it's helpful. They have an app, too.

If you’re queer, you’re here, but also there in DHS’s surveillance www.advocate.com/politics/dhs...

Just got these beauties in the mail today, written by my very talented friend Crystal Odelle. 1 to read & 3 to gift—let me know if you or someone in your life needs one! You can also order copies from Gold Line Press ✨

Several good things are happening according r/fednews so I am going to drop them here. If federal workers are fighting back, how much more us? A thread/

This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.

DHS has removed manual guidance barring investigations solely based on sexual orientation and gender identity. This is a prerequisite to targeting the LGBTQ community with criminal investigations solely based on being LGBTQ. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

JUST IN: A federal judge in Washington state, who blocked Trump's executive order re: transgender health care, says it is unconstitutional in multiple ways, including usurping Congress' power of the purse storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"“It is a body part. A one-time donation. I’m not replacing my intestines with garden hoses even if you bake me zucchini bread,” Darla said."" I love love love this funny, tender story. @amygcb.bsky.social in @therumpus.net therumpus.net/2025/01/06/r...

THIS, from Kiese Laymon ❤️‍🔥