Y’all, the world is so heavy. But we exist because we stand on the shoulders of our younger selves. At 35. At 25. At 15. At 10. We dreamed. Told stories. Became. Thank you, Campaign for Southern Equality, for publishing this piece 💙 You can read it in its entirety at the link in the comments.

Ready for March? To see this ICE melt? Between today, 2/9, and 3/1, I am donating 100% of my personal earnings from TORE ALL TO PIECES ordered at CoffeeTree Books to the ACLU of Kentucky. Link in comments. Let's help our neighbors. Let's love them.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

My heart is so full. In less than 24 hours, y’all made the audiobook of Gay Poems for Red States a #1 Amazon Bestseller in Poetry About Places. We made that poetry and place Appalachia 💚 Thank you. Happiest of holidays 💛✨️

It’s here—a Christmas Eve Eve Eve miracle 🎄 Gay Poems for Red States is now live on Audible. I recorded it in studio and narrated it myself, which means Appalachian poems get an Appalachian voice 💙 iTunes, Amazon, and other platforms coming in the next few days! Thanks, Dynamix and MAS Comm! 💙

Saying the GOP can't be racist because they've embraced Nicki Minaj is like saying your church can't be homophobic because the preacher is on Grindr.

I can't believe not only that I have a blurb from Peter Parnell — who I have idolized for so many years — but that it would be so tender and beautiful. You can pre-order Tore All to Pieces now anywhere books are sold. Thank you, University Press of Kentucky 💙

Your ancestors were queer.¹ 1. Yours. Specifically.

#BookTok #AuthorTok #PoetryTok #QueerAppalachia #AppalachianAuthor #SouthernGothic #KentuckyAuthor #QueerPoetry

Trans youth exist. Denying this doesn't stop that fact. It just tortures them

The Trix Rabbit is capitalism’s queered Christ—forever yearning, always denied the sweetness he was created to sell.

We're coming upon the one-year anniversary, and I can still smell the artificial berry on the hot and prescient breath of his holy rabbitself.

image by the brilliant and hilarious @williecarver.bsky.social (but not posted on bluesky yet, so far as i can tell)

They cannot touch love. They cannot touch my marriage. They cannot undo what God has ordained. In righteousness, morality, and love, my marriage is beyond the reach of their cruel and dirty mouths and hands. All that they do simply shows us who they are. Because they aren't worthy of defining us.

Gay Hillbilly Jesus. Still barefoot, defending town whores, and telling dramatic stories to get people to act decent, but now with more mud and Dolly Parton.

@williecarver.bsky.social is in Issue 4. He’s super great, you guys. Mothman wants you to read his poetry and prose. — #litmag #appalachia #redbranchreview

Every day, something extraordinary happens in our public schools. That’s why we’re relaunching #PublicSchoolProud—to lift up stories like Elk Valley Elementary, where a rebuilt library brought joy & hugs back to students. www.aft.org/news/hugs-an...

When others are banning books, we’re giving them away for free. Through @aft.org’s #ReadingOpensTheWorld campaign, we’ve put more than 10 million books into the hands of kids and families, because every child deserves the joy of reading. www.aft.org/read

As kids head back to school, some districts are removing books & inserting religious content into classrooms. We must defend inclusive, fact-based education. Public schools must be places of truth and inclusion, where every child can learn freely. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

My gay marriage has already lasted longer than any of Kim Davis's five straight marriages. And she had a helluva head start cause her first one happened when I was in 3rd grade.

My neighbor's cactus suddenly grew hands and looks like a toddler wanting to be picked up. I'm no cactologist, but is this a sign of the End Times?

Phew! I need to sit down after reading that. To sit down and say thank you 💙 50% of all author proceeds of online sales of Gay Poems for Red States and presales of Tore All to Pieces made at CoffeeTree Books will go to EastKY mutual aid. www.coffeetreebooks.com/product-page...

Dear Lord, Make me good. Righteous. Virginal and untouched, like Kim Davis on her fourth wedding night. tinyurl.com/3ww5wtw3

I'm so proud to be sharing this photo essay through The North Meridian Review. This is perhaps the most vulnerable writing I've ever done. I spent my first two decades alive in the closet. And I thought I had come out. But I hadn't. Not fully. thenorthmeridianreview.org/blog/coming-...

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I'm so proud to be sharing this photo essay through The North Meridian Review. This is perhaps the most vulnerable writing I've ever done. I spent my first two decades alive in the closet. And I thought I had come out. But I hadn't. Not fully. thenorthmeridianreview.org/blog/coming-...

Short shorts big calves feet pick. Giving the government workers tracking my social media a little sumpin sumpin 😉

Exactly.