it’s awful because it comes from everywhere & then you constantly have to decide what to swallow & what to fight. what’s worth being perceived as The Problem over.

everyone shows their antiblack ass if you wait long enough.

lmao this is a joke, right?

i’m almost 30! an age i never imagined i’d get to!

anyways, if you're wondering why this isn't a 20k-30k word masterpiece, it's because I've been dealing with this landlady situation, which you can read about here. If you like my writing and think it's good and want to help me destress. paypal.me/stompsite I need $5500 to pay down my medical costs

marginal eyes marginalize marginal lies.

bi(sexual) people of color

i actually logged on to ask if there are any (licensed) therapists/psychologists who would be interested in participating in a podcast episode to talk about power imbalances in romance fiction — specifically relationships where one partner is imprisoned and the other is in a position of power.

the way darker skinned black video game female characters are treated has always been pretty horrible both from a dev side and a fandom side. i don’t really see that getting any better but despite it all i still will continue to put dark skin women in my projects

These strikes come as deaths in ICE custody skyrocket - and private prison contractors rake in record profits. "ICE data shows 51 people have died since the start of the second Trump administration, including 18 deaths reported this year as of May 1, 2026." documentedny.com/2026/05/21/f...

Hundreds inside an ICE concentration camp are on a work and hunger strike at Delaney Hall in New Jersey and other hunger strikes have been announced in New Mexico and Southern California. In Tacoma, WA, over 100 detainees announced the formation of the 'Union of People Kidnapped by ICE.'

existence as a poor person is a humiliation ritual.

i would also make it illegal for landlords to rent out a space without having lived in the space for 30 days between tenants. & if you violate that law, you’d owe a fine equal to the amount you paid for the property.

i never wanna hear someone refer me to careerlink for job-finding assistance ever again lmao

i read my poetry for an audience for the first time in a very long time last night & it felt really good to do 😌

The folks running "gifted kid" stuff look at the IQ tests of "gifted" kids that show obvious ADHD markers like relatively slow processing speed and relatively low capacity working memory and they go "oh that's just because they're so smart and think such big thoughts".

The way so-called "gifted" students' fairly obvious support needs are treated as not actual problems to help provide strategies to deal with early is part of why so many former "gifted" kids crash and burn later on.

The concept of "giftedness" and the treatment of "gifted" kids strongly reinforces intellectual ableism—to the detriment of all students, whether they're slower-than-average, average, or faster-than-average learners.

I think it's good that more people don't try to tell me about how giftedness fits into neurodivergence because it isn't a real thing and it doesn't. "Giftedness" is a bullshit category made up for kids who learn too fast and disrupt assembly-line education systems.

if i was the mayor of philadelphia & sitting on a $1.19 budget surplus, i would simply figure out how to fund things people need & avoid, say, a massive public transit cut. too bad we don’t have a mayor though!

like, would naming her as autistic completely strip her of her potential or something?

why didn’t they just write morgan in high potential as explicitly autistic like she clearly is lmao

i think it would’ve been very funny to find out brooklyn nine-nine & law & order (especially special victims unit) took place in the same universe

something i think about occasionally: in his 2013 sequel to the shining, doctor sleep, one of the clues stephen king gives for piecing together that one of the main characters has the shining is that she essentially predicts 9/11. as a baby. she is a baby. who predicts 9/11.

i think it’s so awesome that every top position in the united states government is being run by a guy like this & i haven’t been able to find a stable job in two years. i just think that’s neat & it doesn’t make me wanna die at all.

first i need to fight every perfectionist bone in my body that tells me “writing is the only thing you’re good at & if you write something bad, that means you’re no longer good at anything 🙂,” but this is good advice.

write something terrible, is my advice. like genuinely, just write something god awful. commit to it. you can then spend time making the terrible thing better having already done the hard part of actually writing anything at all.

if i ever get accused of using ai to write something solely because of my use of em-dashes or some other arbitrary metric that only serves to tell me people don’t! fucking! read! bet your bottom dollar that i will become the joker.

wait, am i actually ai? have i been ai all along?

happy to report that the books i’ve been reading these past couple months have been very good 😌

mileage may vary, but in my experience, (black) natural hair has only ever been “high maintenance” when trying to make it look like something it’s not & was never meant to be.

my black trans disabled ass cannot create sympathy for a nazi boy who only ever sought to reinforce bioessentialism.

i started hacks on tuesday & caught up this morning because i’m depressed & unemployed, & while there are many aspects that resonate with me, i have never felt seen quite like the moment when ruby’s trainer is watching ava walk away & is like, “she has scoliosis,” & ruby responds with “i know.”

i feel like it has always been a tiny bit of an overcorrection to say nate & andy’s other friends were the real villains of the devil wears prada (2006).

my gender is i’m transmasculine but i’m still treated like a black (disabled) woman when it’s convenient for people to treat me with all the disregard that entails 🙂

Welp: My name is Ayo, and I was one of the 350,000+ Black women and femmes ✨laid off✨ in 2025! I'm a ✨freelance✨ illustrator for hire now, and my work can be found at ayojoy.com

i wrote some poetry & put it in book format last year & it’s very good, if i may say so.

also: what a way to admit you don’t read. like, anything. ever.

is the conversation about promoting your books still going on? because i have a little poetry chapbook (my first ever!) that i published last year & i wanna share it: bit.ly/pierceyournipsbook

the idea that english doesn’t allow emotional expression as fully as some other languages doesn’t hold up for several reasons, but the simplest reason in my opinion is literally the use of multi-word phrases.

these “health” influencers really just be out here rebranding eating disorders

in the absence of the overthrow of capitalism, i just want a job that allows me to pay my bills & feed & take care of my cats & maybe even give my partner a little treat every now & then. as more time goes by without such a job, however, i’m feeling more & more defeated.

do y’all think npr has heard of any of the systemic shit behind rising energy prices & intensifying climate change?

i need writers (especially of fiction) to know that, more often than not, they can just use “said” as a dialogue tag. i think one of the worst pieces of writing advice out there is “said is dead.” it’s not! it’s alive! & it’s there for you to use!

yesterday, my partner sent me the sweetest message for trans day of visibility acknowledging that i may not wanna be visible but i am always seen by them, & i just love them a lot 🥰

i hate the overabundance of the word “slop” so fucking much

i’m not saying there’s no revolutionary potential fomenting at no kings marches or whatever, but i’m reminded of how in the lead-up to the ones last year, a lady raising awareness of them said, while looking directly at me, a very apparently disabled person, “we need all able-bodied people there.”

BREAKING: The PA Supreme Court holds that mandatory life without parole sentences for all "felony murder" convictions -- a sentence more than 1,000 people in PA are serving -- violates the state constitution's "cruel" punishment ban. This is GROUNDBREAKING: www.pacourts.us/assets/opini...

they keep saying this, we keep learning it, & people still wanna hold their hands over their ears singing “la la la, i can’t hear you” when abolitionists even start to breathe in their direction.

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