this website full of elder millennials has been training for this for 25 years

We all need a combination cafe/bar/lounge/office/bakery/ice cream parlour/convention center like Crimson Lights from Y&R

you're telling me these miserables are lez

Once again thinking about the editor who responded to a ms. with: "I wanted this to be more like [Bestselling Cozy Fantasy], but it wasn't, so I have to pass." No shade to that book, with its many shiny editions--I like it and get why it's popular. But we have to talk about uniformity in publishing.

I think a lot about Nisi Shawl's observation that white people are more scared of being called racist than they are of *being* racist.

Love that most of Ancient Roman poetry is just "these twinks are killing me."

Highly recommend Joni Mitchell's Blue when you're snowed in

A cool thing about being in your 40s is that you can pull a muscle by not moving

What are people's favorite one act plays? Bonus points for queer and trans playwrights.

Here's a piece I did for the Brockton Writers Series on queer and trans worldbuilding: brocktonwritersseries.wordpress.com/2025/12/17/b...

If you have a neighbor or loved one detained by ICE or need help with a federal agency, contact my office at (773) 799-8219.

"There are more of us (trans people) being born everyday. They cannot stop the future"- Natalie Rupp on Louisiana's Trans Income Project, getting cash directly to trans people to get gender affirming care after cuts and legal barriers. soundcloud.com/deathpanel/a...

Next fall I'm teaching a grad course on fantasy and magic systems. What are some of your fave magic systems from lit and video games?

I kind of love this. And potatoes 🥔

It feels like a good day to spend some money in @soengery.bsky.social's shop. She's a fantastic artist. Shirts, comics, tabletop games--I think I'm going to fork some over for Death to the Wizard Kings.

Lots of things are possible with coffee, Bach, and a TBR pile

Archivist job for an awesome archive at U of S: universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

Love that AI is stealing our work--our whole textual lives--and then sending us scam emails pretending to promote what it's stolen.

Lilly Wachowski is my guest on the new ep of How Was your Week and we discuss the motion picture ZARDOZ and it's really special howwasyourweek.com @lillywachowski.bsky.social

I have a lot of thoughts about The History of Sound. I enjoyed it, though it was frustrating at times. I am still uncertain about how the queer love story was handled, and I feel like this never comes up in interviews, even with a queer director. It's odd but intriguing.

what's wild about people using ChatGPT is that they think it's like asking the all-knowing computer from Star Trek, but it's really like asking your day-drunk neighbor, who then steals your water and sets fire to your house

It's Only Forever: Labyrinth: ecwpress.com/products/its... I Hate Parties: harbourpublishing.com/products/978... The Winter Knight: ecwpress.com/products/the... Occult Special Investigator: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/BL4/o... Thinking Queerly: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Can folks recommend good books about the history of women in astronomy and astrophysics?

Christmas comes early.... ✨

What are people's favorite sources for well-written film reviews?

Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program

As the trans community have known for a while now - the definition of activist is someone who dares to state they exist

Having to identify oneself as disabled to access accommodations is, on its own, a huge barrier to getting many disabled people the accommodations they need.

Hi! I write queer urban fantasy + horror, weird nervous poetry, and academic work on medieval studies and 18thc gay bars. My book on the 80s movie Labyrinth + queer culture is available for pre-order: ecwpress.com/products/its... No queer community without trans liberation and a free Palestine.

Love how the Scissor Sisters try to slightly ruin every song with slam poetry but can't quite do it because the beats are so solid

Wes Craven's New Nightmare feels like an AIDS allegory. There's a shot of an AIDS journal in Craven's office, then a friend gets turned away at the hospital because she "isn't family," the doctor is extraordinarily judgmental but also incompetent, and Nancy has to defy public opinion to survive.

What queer horror films are folks currently enjoying?

What are your favorite bonkers 80s films?

Aside from Florence Wyle (who didn't publish poetry until the 40s but was active earlier), can folks think of queer women Canadian poets who were writing in the 20s?

TRON: Ares is a movie that asks what if all our data was just little guys with frisbees

Absolutely cracking blog post from @simonxix.com calling for collective investment in staff and community-owned, open-source infrastructures in place of costly proprietary systems, based on the BL incident. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

I knew we were living in a shitty cyberpunk dystopia these days, but didn't realise it was specifically Shadowrun.

This is what I hope to accomplish with everything I write

That's it, that's the International Day of People with Disabilities skeet.

It's incredibly hard for indie bookstores to survive in the era of Amazon and the algorithm on Amazon (including Goodreads, which they own) is designed to promote some books and not others while undercutting how much publishers make per sale by selling the books at a loss

I realize I've been posting about my book a lot and want to share why 🧵 1. It's fucking hard to write a book and getting this one to the finish line with everything happening in my life has been a huge accomplishment for me. I'm excited. 2. Now is a hard time to get a book into circulation. Because

My book on Labyrinth is available for pre-order, just in time for the film's 40th anniversary: ecwpress.com/products/its...

Great resource from @halperta.bsky.social on taking risks in higher ed within a threatening political climate: halperta.com/shalperta%20...

This is just my opinion, but I don't think departments need to change their strategy for reading or grading student work. Departments need a strategy for responding to harassment and attacks.

I wrote a workbook earlier this year about taking risks in higher ed. The premise is that the current moment requires us to take action to advance our principles in a context of repression and fear. The reality is this can put our jobs and our safety at risk. halperta.com/shalperta%20...

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An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

Hey, @bookshop.org has free shopping for Black Friday! you can get my book, and so many others, and as an added bonus you're not supporting a terrible billionaire bookshop.org/p/books/the-...