It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.

Perfectly themed for this month! Follow the story of a queer library worker searching for love online, artistic validation in New York City, and the perfect book in Checked Out by Katie Fricas #LibraryCardSignUpMonth #CreatorsGetCarded #LibComix

Assata Shakur exchanged letters with Audre Lorde from prison, and Lorde wrote for her the poem "For Assata": I dream of your freedom as my victory and the victory of all dark women who forego the vanities of silence 👇Here's the whole poem

Netanyahu had fewer attendees than an 8am panel at the MLA.

galleybrag.substack.com/p/galley-bra... i talked with Ezra Kupor on Galley Brag about identity labels, children’s literature, fascism and librarianship 🤓

*sigh* give me UBI and I swear I’d do free comics every day for everyone.

“In June, which is Pride month and the most recent month for which data is available, that shot up to 23 arrests. Attorneys and advocates say the arrests have continued escalating in the months since, with the Legal Aid Society tracking 20 public lewdness arrests in a single day in September.”

Y'all anecdata.substack.com/p/theory-of-... (by @emializh.bsky.social )

Can someone explain the existence of Hitler skunk to me?

In 2016, Azadeh Shahshahani & Stephanie Guilloud traced how post-9/11 policies reshaped U.S. law enforcement disproportionately targeting Muslims & immigrants. "The threat of terrorism has justified detention, incarceration and mass surveillance." inthesetimes.com/article/how-...

The AHA should be condemned for even allowing this job posting to go up.

The OMNY fuckery caught up with me, I'm currently in Tennessee and the MTA is in my wallet taking my money.

If you can, please donate to help support Labeba and her family in Gaza. Friends of mine have known Labeba for years and are in contact with her now as her and her husband work to feed their three young children and keep them safe. You can read more at: www.gofundme.com/f/evacuation...

The important thing to remember in the face of ongoing genocide, argues writer and ​“comic zealot” Yazan al-Saadi, is to try. inthesetimes.com/article/pale...

I set up a shop where you can buy physical copies of my comics here, if you don’t want to use my usual method of “just DM me”— right now it’s just to buy my most recent riso zine, since I can’t afford to do any in-person tabling this fall: comicsbysolomonbrager.bigcartel.com/product/swan...

We asked Sudanese people to explain what the war is about. What emerges is clear: there is no such thing as a war about nothing. continent.substack.com/p/is-the-sud...

Make a Zine! You! Yes, you! We couldn't agree more, Imogen GENDERTRASH From Hell Pre-orders close at the end of August 😱 www.littlepuss.net/shop/p/gende...

my statement on Ai from the mini-comic I'm making as syllabus for a new class I'm teaching this fall. It's simple, but I pretty much said all I have to say on it - it robs you of decisions and struggle - and the joy of being surprised. It robs you of learning...

trailer for castration movie anthology ii. the best of both worlds . cut together by Hazel Norwood

As I prepare for another semester of adjunct teaching, I once again ask that tenured and tenure track faculty consider how they can support contingent colleagues. What if you invited us to be on your panels and in your special issues? Asked about our research? Offered to write a letter?

I got to make this lion guy for Ira Temple's new album, Strange Tongue! The first single just dropped and you can listen to it. I did this work in exchange for a donation to the Sameer Project, ask about how you can get art from me by donating money to Gaza. borschtbeat.bandcamp.com/album/strang...

If you're National Guard or any other service member being deployed against people in the US and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status or have any other concerns whatsoever, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options: 1-877-447-4487 girightshotline.org

Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.

finalizing my syllabus, still asking-- what are your absolute must-read queer history texts, especially essays, especially work that has a strong methodological and/or historiographic conversation? what blew your mind in college? what do you wish you had read in college?

Oh my god they're bringing back the Presidential Fitness Test. A new generation will dangle helplessly at the bottom of a rope, chafing hands and thighs while a gym teacher mercilessly mocks them in a torture that can only have been devised by a fascist, truly.

Oh by the way you should go see Morgan Bassichis in their new show Can I Be Frank, it is incredible. www.canibefrank.nyc?fbclid=PAZXh...

Niemöller was asked by his concentration camp cellmate why he had ever supported Hitler and the Nazis. Reportedly, this is what he had to say for himself:

Two of my favorite outtakes from this interview with Elizabeth Purchell and KJ Shepherd courtesy of @kjshepherd.bsky.social

Please consider giving to the Astoria Food Pantry, which serves immigrants in Queens, many of whom have been prevented from going to work because of fear of ICE raids. The line of those waiting for food was down the block when I passed by today. www.astoriafoodpantry.com/donate-money...

List of resources in the thread ❤️🖤🤍💚

Q: Did the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act die in committee? @melissagiragrant.com do you happen to know the status of that one?

Put the comment section on the Liberty's announcement that they're waiving Jaylyn Sherrod in the Lesbian Herstory Archive.

When you show a physical therapist the hand stretches you do and she says “you’re just grinding your bones” TO MAKE MY BREAD, I say!

Coming to @anthologyfilm.bsky.social and @spectacletheater.com next month…. includes 12 features and 49 shorts spread across 17 programs, the majority of which haven’t been publicly screened (or even ever digitized) in decades.

Can @dieworkwear.bsky.social or someone explain the chokehold grip Looney Tunes had on adult casual clothing in the 90s? Who was like “cool denim shirt what if we put tweety bird on it”?

What if residencies and fellowships included specific work sample guidances for comics instead of making us guess whether we should follow prose or visual art guidelines, and being disadvantaged either way because comics are not prose and single comics pages are not standalone visual artworks.

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

3 question survey for Indiana fans at the Liberty game: 1) name one player on your team that isn’t Cunningham or Clark 2) are you from Staten Island 3) are you or is anyone in your family a cop

Fellow NYCers, definitely don't print copies of this and paste them on any surface that will take them. And definitely don't photograph them and share them with a tag like #HelloICE cc @marc-fischer.bsky.social who might be interested in this for some reason.

🚨NEW: A horror story emerges from hacked flight logs of the March 15 flight to El Salvador: mass disappearances. It's possible there are DOZENS of additional people the Trump admin sent to be imprisoned in El Salvador without trial who are imprisoned there whose names have never been disclosed.

Let's keep our sources safe! Today we @interruptcrim.bsky.social launch a digital security and doxxing prevention checklist designed for journalists and media makers to share with sources and collaborators who may be at risk. Download, share! www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...

Has there been a statement from the Israeli government on the strike on Evin prison’s trans population? Looking for sources for a thing!

This is a real email I got from Linkedin?

HEAVYWEIGHT stumbles into a form of family abolitionism, i.e., a politics of relational abundance informed by the more-than-familial, race-treacherous sensibility of resource-sharing, of comradeship across bloodlines, that anti-fascists teach us is key to survival. lux-magazine.com/article/brag...

So pleased to have the inimitable and brilliant @reproutopia.bsky.social thinking with Heavyweight, now up at Lux! lux-magazine.com/article/brag...

NEW: Immigrants complain of inhumane conditions at ICE holding cells in NYC. No showers or changing clothes. Sometimes only one meal per day. Over 100 people in small rooms. Sleeping on benches, the floor, or sitting up, due to lack of space. gothamist.com/news/theyre-...