This fight over “should authors get paid for their work” debate boils down to this: many, MANY people do not see art as labor. If art isn’t labor, then you don’t have to change your political views to justify piracy. Easy peasy!

Specifically, trans people.

The thing about so-called generative artificial intelligence is, the intelligence isn't artificial. It's real. It's OURS. The techbros stole our intelligence (our data, our thoughts, our stories, our art) and used the software to regurgitate it and spackle it together into digital particleboard.

Need a little escapism? Grab my bestselling #mmromance “Splinter” free on Amazon, only until Friday! 💖 getbook.at/Splinter #gayromancebooks #biromance #queerromance #lgbtqreads #authorsofbluesky

“If we claim to be men, we cannot experience oppression based on our unique position within patriarchy; if we insist on accurately naming our experiences, then we must erase our identities as men.” Read more: open.substack.com/pub/edaviesa... (Free, ofc—we don’t give these guys money.)

I’ve been working on my first nonfiction book. “The Desert: The Exile of Transmasculinity” is about why/how we must be made invisible or impossible in the public imagination. But we need transmasculine conversations toward liberation now, so I started a Substack. Here’s the first post.

This is the first page of this morning’s edition of the Globe and Mail (arguably the English Canadian paper of record) I don’t remember seeing anything like this before

My wife shared this today. She is the best. #poetry

Get in good trouble, necessary trouble.

All applications for gender marker change are on hold while the State Department changes this policy. Anyone who now submits an application for a change runs the risk of losing access to their passport and documents while their application is being processed.

Introducing Rena Yehuda Newman… my husband. 💖 I can’t describe how proud and happy I am. The last few years have been the hardest of my life; Rena Yehuda has been my cornerstone. Even after a decade of writing happy endings, I keep discovering what it means to love and be loved so well.

The looters I want to talk about are the ones who stole our safe and stable climate from us. Millennia of planetary harm for individuals' profit. They set the fires.

One of the weirder things about watching the hard right turn of big tech is that it really reminds you that they don’t think people outside America are real

Reminds me of the time @edaviesauthor.bsky.social and I were writing in the same room and paused to mime so we could figure out scene blocking. Ed was putting hands together to check sex positions. I was holding an imaginary shotgun to sight along. We write very different genres 😂

CALLING ALL AMERICAN READERS! . @edaviesauthor.bsky.social, his boyfriend Rena Yehuda Newman and I are squeezing in a quick US sign and ship event of signed paperbacks, zines and art! . THE ORDER FORM CLOSES ON SATURDAY! So don't delay! . forms.gle/xr7kDeWk1vXn...

Teapigs advent calendar (from @poopraven.bsky.social) plus writing deadlines equals… I can’t believe I’m pretending to review tea on the internet. #writerlife Anyway, we started strong! Real punchy winter smell, but without tasting like the garnish from the office Christmas party punch bowl.

Did you know that @edaviesauthor.bsky.social & I are doing a UK Sign & Ship! Order paperbacks in time for Xmas! Did you also know that I’m offering TWO paperback exclusives that you can’t get from Amazon? One of them has limited stock, so once they’re gone, THEY’RE GONE! forms.gle/7vW8Fpe5e25X...

chuck tingle, notable 'joke' and 'bit', still wildly successful despite neurotypical people thinking autistic folks cant possibly create 'real' art

1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.

"Cis people are afraid that trans people will laugh at them. Trans people are afraid that cis people will kill them"

FYI, I’m editing and reposting an old thread from the bad place, but I only have brainpower for 1-2 posts at a time. This may take a while. 🙈 I’m calling it “slow theory”. 🤣

MASSIVE win for a Monday morning - campaigners in Scotland have succeeded in getting NHS Lothian to drop their openly discriminatory surgery ban for trans people aged under 25.

We can’t keep pretending that trans men are not targets of transphobia and misogyny. The patriarchy needs to protect the unchangeable category of woman (as an asset). Trans men can’t be allowed to exist. The silence about us is not accident, ignorance, tolerance, privilege—it’s a threat.

brutal to get toasted so when I haven't even had second breakfast

If nothing else read this for the part in the mid-2000s when RWA begs Nora Roberts to stop shit-talking them because she doesn't understand that the lesbians are trying to take over RWA.

This thread up & down is important reading for Romancelandia lore (tho all of us who were there undoubtedly remember too well) But the thing I will DIE MAD over is that the complaint said having Courtney chair the ethics committee was akin to having a neo-nazi in charge of a human rights commission

Recovery is at the “mostly boring” stage. But occasionally it’s very exciting, because I have both a catheter and the sweetest little violent baby 🤣

Yep. The goal of anti-porn laws isn't to stop people from seeing pornography. It's to create a class of speech that's legally suppressible, and then apply it to dissent.

I wanna follow other trans authors, especially UK-based. Self-pubbed/hybrid/trad, any genre. Help me out, say hi! 🏳️‍⚧️4️⃣🏳️‍⚧️

Ok so now i’ve settled in a little, maybe it’s time for an intro post: I’m an award winning transfeminine writer for stage, screen and audio. My work centres trans folk, and transfems specifically but on a wider note i’m interested in exploring stories of othering & being othered. also i’m hot x

My best writing advice? Avoid the scarcity mindset. When you see others who are succeeding, be happy for them and remember, if they could do it, so could you. Give them their flowers & have hope for your future. The book you're writing *right now* could be the thing that changes everything for you.

Speaking as an expert on transphobia and the gender critical movement: Block them. Hide replies. Report them. Do not "debate" them. The fact that they are campaigning so hard against blocking and in favour of debate/their right to harassment should tell you - it serves their interests to engage.

So we can post about our hobbies and the algo won’t punish us? 😍 WELL THEN! Buckle up for all kinds of shenanigans 🤣 Pictured: the Barbie dress I made last Halloween; my allotment plot; a messy 2-tone oil sketch; giving a speech on stage at a dance show.

I had my “final” stage of bottom surgery in January. The implant immediately broke—faulty batch. Another surgery in August to replace it. Then I had 13 weeks of excruciating pain, peeing blood, fever, and much more. 2 weeks ago, I finally got a scan. The implant reservoir was INSIDE my bladder.

Anyway you may also wanna follow me to hear about trans stuff—especially transmasc theory, my bottom surgery (phallo) journey through the NHS, and hard-won dick jokes.

It’s funny getting set up on a new platform and trying to choose and arrange your most important lore by its recency and necessity.

Hi, lovelies 🥰 Impromptu bio: unapologetic femme transfag, and MM romance author since 2013. Pretty obsessed with queer HEAs: book #52 (Unmoored) is on preorder now! Canadian living in London, cat daddy, T4T forever, hobby collector, and particularly a fan of flowers and bees.