Reminder that LWL is always open to pitches from film writers. I'd love to publish more op-eds on new films, spirited rediscoveries, unusual interviews etc from the new year. Seeing so many places shutter this year has been extremely depressing so I'd love to just remind people we welcome pitches

One final bump for my TCM program tonight. I hope you'll be able to check it out. Love y'all.

Child marriage is heinous, but one thing I never see brought up in those discussions is that if you are under 18, you cannot file for divorce. If you are under 18 and married to an adult, they are your legal guardian and make decisions for you. That is not a partnership.

damn, this sucks.

hey instead of reading and sharing some book that sucks by a woman in love with an insane corpse who neither deserves nor needs the coverage, why not instead buy and read MY book. due to me being normal simplicitybook.xyz

“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”

Today is my birthday. I would like many things but from you specifically I want $2,500 for @scarleteen.com's annual fundraiser, which is supporting staff & volunteer healthcare this year. We need $2,500 to unlock a $10,000 match and this would really make my day! Donate to my campaign page here.

I'm delighted the Statue of Liberty can finally afford his top surgery 🖤

For the Disability community, losing Alice Wong is like losing Ursula Le Guin or Octavia Butler. She was a powerhouse, a pioneer, and a mentor to many. She taught me so much. And always reminded me what we were fighting towards, as well as against. I miss her clarity, bravery, and joy.

You love to see it!

Me, asleep on a plane, being woken up by the attendant asking if I want a bag of nuts

From a reddit post discussing ICE moving into Charlotte

👏AWARD👏ANTON👏SOLOMONIK👏THE👏BOOKER👏PRIZE👏YOU👏COWARDS👏

1/ I’d like to share what’s happened since Sept. 30, the night of the most dramatic raid of the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago. Under the cover of darkness, 37 immigrants were taken from an apartment complex …🧵

Over the past few weeks, HiLoBrow has run installments of my long essay “Without Care,” which maps out a 21st century gothic that I started calling The Devoid. All four installments are now live and you can read the whole thing here; enjoy!

it is wild that Labour is doing exactly what the reactionary centrists recommend and is absolutely destroying its base of support as a result, and yet reactionary centrists in the US are just utterly silent about the complete failure of their program.

Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): Third installment of a "queer, anarcho-punk fantasy" series. #transbooks translibrarian.com/books/the-im...

I do not think that Mayor Brandon Johnson was elected by people who wanted to defund their library and give that money to CPD. Following the link in thread to write a budget letter is a good thing to do.

I see people claiming the head tax is going to public libraries, but as far as we’ve been told- it isnt. The good news is, our lackluster book budget may be restored. The bad news? We’re still facing 89 positions cut. After 52 positions were cut last year. That’s 11% of our workforce!

One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.

A real loss. Rest in power, Alice Wong.

I usually share a new Palestinian account every day but today I am going to do a thread of people I’ve already verified impacted by the recent flooding in Gaza. If you can help any of these families- many who lost everything again- please do. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/14/m...

Hooray! @authorsabb.bsky.social is *OFFICIALLY* a nonprofit, and is now open for donations! For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE. Imagine what we could do with $$$ www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/

Seattle’s new wave of progressive leadership has taken on national visibility. Its newly elected mayor, Katie Wilson, has embraced comparisons to Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist mayor-elect of NYC.

Truly is there any bigger joy than reading a friend’s smart, nuanced, passionate book and being suffused with love and pride and critical hope? I think not Also: I cried a lot!

I’m back. substack.com/@sarahkendzi...

Watch tonight's @criticalrole.bsky.social for more on the just-announced Mighty Nein anthology. Respectfully, I'm having a blast writing a cozy adventure about everyone's favorite shopkeeper Pumat Sol (and Pumat Sol and Pumat Sol and Pumat Sol).

Hi! I wrote a thing about swimming and trans athletes and [*checks notes*] Santana for @defector.com, would mean a lot if you give it a read

Thatcher's government did this with Section 28, banned the "promotion of homosexuality" as a danger to children, while actively protecting Jimmy Savile and who knows how many other pedophiles. It's the same damn playbook.

Season 9 is here! And it's LITTLE RICHARD, who contained multitudes: a pioneering rock and roll musician, a conservative preacher from the deep South, and a young Black queer man thrown out of his home who became a drag performer under the name Princess LaVonne. badgayspod.com/episode-arch...

JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.

it's insanely funny for people to be talking like this about New York of all places, the city with a big metal lady in the harbor holding a sign that says "we love immigrants"

It's uncomfortable for a lot of kidlit creators to contend with, but if you leave porn without defense, the censors are comin for you next THEY ALWAYS DO (and they HAVE been in this era of book bans) (defend porn like your freedom of speech depends on it) (because it does)

There has been a noticeable reticence in left and liberal circles to voice full-throated support for pornography, even as it's become increasingly clear what the open end goals of the censorship movement are

I filled out an MTA lost property form, but if anyone saw a blue Mets jacket on the eastbound Q 45 today, or the Q 44 in either direction (I got lost!), Or at the corner of Main Street and Union Turnpike, or the southbound corner of Lafayette Avenue and the Hutchinson River Parkway…hit me up!

Awards eligibility post, or, let’s check out all the books and magazines that I’ve been published in this year! Going in release order: Short story: “The Polyamorous Heart of Death” And One Day We Will Die Poem: “love hates” We Bite Back

Also they have this really cool shirt unioncoffeegear.com/product/tran...

Ends today!

good news for the people who are saying they'd never touch starbucks coffee anyway: you can go ahead and drop $5 in their strike fund sbworkersunited.org/strike-fund/

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Bumping this as a reminder NYT leans hard on revenue from their puzzles, games, Wirecutter etc to fund their billionaire apologist headlines, contrarian Op-Ed take havers, and iffy/yikes livetweeting style of journo

#NewYorkCity! We have a new, reliable, multi-organization coalition hotline for reporting ICE activity! It will be live on Saturday, November 15th. I will be handing them out on the 15th as part of the NYC Day of Action. drive.google.com/file/d/1Ldn9...

this was SO fun to write 🍽🥩

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thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

Wow, a Long Island jury awarded $112 Million to 674 immigrants who were unlawfully held by county police so they could be handed over to ICE

No one tells you how much of this writing life is maintaining a one-sided cold war against some writer you feel wronged you years ago.

I’ve got about 45 minutes before work so let’s do a game — give me a number between 1 and 293, and I’ll give you a quote from that page

Happy paperback day to Dead Girls Don’t Dream! Now with a bonus playlist in the back, which are all songs I both listened to incessantly while writing this, and songs that are thematically or vibe-ally resonant. Available wherever books are sold, and signed copies thru @astoriabookshop.bsky.social

I could've warned Elon.