Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

Eve Dunbar on Alice Childress and the creative, professional, and manual labor performed by Black women in America.

Ask any of your favorite Black women writers from a decade ago why their bylines stopped appearing, and you’ll likely hear the same response: There is no place for us in media. In TV. In publishing or academia. For the majority of us, there’s no place but gone.

No one is coming to save us but us.

Also on sale on @bookshop.org

MP Vare has written a beautiful essay about their complicated family ecology--one shaped by anger and fear--and how they have tried to find a different way to exist within that ecology: audacity.substack.com/p/family-eco...

Re-upping this one more time: this is the audio version of one of my new stories for the year, "Data Ghost" originally published in the Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology Storyteller.

Fuck this is so upsetting. I wrote about Bluestocking Books in my newsletter last year, bc it's an indispensable community resource and one of the last feminist bookstores standing. I hate that it ended this way. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.

Another great review:

We are creating a Spanish language section on The Rumpus, for original creative work written in Spanish and are looking for a volunteer editor for this section. If this could be you, please send a brief letter of interest to [email protected] by Tuesday, September 2nd!

Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

My pledge to our city.

For a dream to be prophecy, it must come three times. This week, Reading the Weird dips into @nkjemisin.bsky.social short fiction collection "How Long 'Til Black Future Month?" for a story about hope, herbs, and horror grounded in the real world reactormag.com/reading-the-...