very excited and honored to be the new SLP novel/novella editor!!! ❤️ keep your eyes peeled for our call for applications to join the reading team (a great way to dip your toe into editorial work!), and i'm excited to read all of your lovely book submissions this summer!

We are so excited to announce that long-time novel/novella reader jonah wu ( @rabblerouses.bsky.social ) is our new Novel/Novella Editor!!! We received many incredible applications and it was a very hard decision, but we're confident jonah will do an incredible job leading our N/N team.

Okay I'm not going to be reblogging book promo all day, so here's the deal: If you're a transfemme author and have a new or upcoming *2026* book release, drop your links in the replies! 🏳️‍⚧️📚 #tdov

Happy Trans Day of Visibility Go Fuck Yourself 🌈

It’s Trans Day of Visibility! Buying a book by a trans author is great, but don’t stop there! Make sure to call your representatives. Support your local trans communities. Donate to mutual aid organizations. If we’re going to make it through this we need you to do more than post on social media!

Call Gavin Newsom's office like you called ABC/Disney/Sinclair/Nexstar

my bsky feed is real quiet (anyone around anymore?) and i’m wondering if i should just silently transition this account into a fandom account lmao

literary bsky, @justinaoba.bsky.social and i are once again looking for submissions for our publication space, Slow Orbit! send us a creative piece (can be previously published) with accompanying remarks of any length. accepting rolling submissions through 2025 syzygyworkshop.org/submission-g...

Oops a volunteer updated and now we are in the red by over $14K again! We are thankfully less in the red the last time this happened, though it does mean we’ve been keeping less eSims active. Thank you everyone! bit.ly/eSimsRUs #ConnectingGaza

This was one very bad week in what is turning into an interminable parade of bad weeks and if you're like me and looking to put that anger and anxiety to productive use, here's a hasty guide to the fresh hells of the week and some things we can do about it right now Get on Signal and get out there

beestung reopens for new work on april 1st for all two-spirit, genderqueer, and non-binary writers! we're usually only open for a few days, so start getting those packets ready! beestungmag.com/about/

I lost my mom and grandmother to pancreatic cancer. Mom was only 47 and passed within 9 months of diagnosis. Its insidious. Hard to find early. Difficult to treat. Almost always fatal. This gives me so much hope… but there’s a bill in the U.S. to ban mRNA vaccines. We must push back.

Hi everyone, We aren’t receiving funds quickly enough for our current spending. Remember: if we do not raise enough, we will have to potentially cut thousands of people off from the Internet, during Ramadan. Let’s not let this happen. bit.ly/eSimsRUs #ConnectingGaza

Researching concentration camps, I often saw governments justify atrocities and genocide against a violent opposition by saying "they would do worse to us if they could," without acknowledging that these opponents lacked any real capacity to rival the level of state violence that had been unleashed.

My friends,we are tired of living in the tent. Today we found an apartment for rent for $500a month.I will ask you to help me raise it.If we raise it by tomorrow,we will move from the tent to a small apartment The matter is in your hands.Any amount helps🇵🇸 chuffed.org/project/help...

the bigots are, in fact, doing this disgusting thing. today is a great day for cis people to: • give a trans person money to pay for hrt or surgery before they ban it • buy a trans person’s book or art & it’s a great day for trans people to: • survive • kick ass • COME OUT OF THE CLOSET 🧵

it’s a great time to start investing in some N95s or even N100s you can wear outside 🤗 as always, if you need help finding a comfortable mask that fits you well, please hit me up. i’ve helped a couple of different friends find and try on options that work best for their unique face shape

please help my lovely friend justin if you can! he’s been such an invaluable part of the poetry/indie lit community and his health issues (and the accompanying battles with health insurance) have been horrendous for him this past year. would love for him to not worry about impending doom for once ❤️

After endless ER surgeries & tests, finally have my first reparative surgery on May 1. My health has left me unable to regularly work, my student loans are about to default, etc. (aren't we all going thru it). In case you have dollars to spare: ko-fi.com/justinaoba Anything appreciated, thx

Every China vs US comparison (wherein ppl are extolling China’s rise and US’s decline on the global stage) makes me insane bc I don’t exactly support what China is doing either

This is huge and monstrous. The nasal vaccines are our only hope of getting back to a world where you don't have to fear getting covid indoors. I would like to stop masking some day, and they're going to make it impossible.

Please support our lovely member at ANMLY! If you believe that people working in the arts deserve safe and dignified lives, here’s an opportunity to make that belief a reality. ❤️

One of our ANMLY comrades told me they can't continue reading because they lost their housing. If the work at ANMLY has ever meant anything to you, or if the work that I have ever done in any capacity has ever meant anything to you, please consider helping them stay safe. gofund.me/0e09177d

Wow, this resonates. I grew up in VA, including time in Fairfax & undergrad at W&M, & w/ a dad often deployed as well. I was so depressed at W&M especially, like a sponge soaking up all the ghostly trauma of the place. This brings the smell of those old buildings & the dark, swampy woods right back

I love the model of Slow Orbit, and how tenderly it is curated by @justinaoba.bsky.social 💙 It felt both really challenging and generous to write into the space around this poem: “Trauma is rarely ever one thing—it touches communities, spreads like a cloud of contaminant in water.”

Now in Slow Orbit: a David Lynch sonnet by @hanvanderhart.bsky.social "As much as I love the fields, the cedars, the creek I grew up beside, the land is death-haunted in Virginia, and that violence is overwhelmingly colonial." syzygyworkshop.org/virginia-see...

Pre-order Both/And, a vital anthology of essays by trans and gender-nonconforming writers of color, sharing stories of joy, heartbreak, rage, and self-discovery from EL and Denne Michele Norris! https://buff.ly/3EwBC60

Looking forward to this book! An essay I love by @rabblerouses.bsky.social is in it <3 @electriclit.bsky.social

gently begging everyone i have a crush on to start masking post haste 😀

Y'all gotta get comfortable talking about pornography and defending its right to exist and for people to look at it, even if you don't (but especially if you DO).

these were posted around Chicago last week. qr code points to simple steps to take www.uhohelonmusk.com

a year ago 16-year-old Oklahoman Nex Benedict died after a bathroom beating. in the time since, we've lost more trans kids, while losing federal trans rights. how a community is holding itself together after years of living under Trump's current anti-trans policies at the state level @teenvogue.com

When people talk about the "descent into fascism" there's a passive voice that misses that with every prison built, every budget dollar to police, every bomb paid for and dropped on Gaza, every student sanctioned for protest, every deportation, every border patrol, we laid the bricks one by one.

I wrote about trans community suicide prevention, including a 4-step guide to peer interventions with links to further resources, for Xtra: xtramagazine.com/health/we-mu...

Worked hard on this, and I hope it will be a useful resource for many. A beginner’s guide to Long COVID, with a discussion of mechanisms: www.thegauntlet.news/p/what-is-lo...

1000%. There is no one coming to the rescue except ourselves. I did something unique this week but i didn't do it alone and i was guided by the knowledge (however terrifying) that no one else was going to act if I didn't and so i did everything in my power to stop the biggest of the crises

Adulthood is just yearning for the social architecture of the average college campus