My book is out today and I got to write an essay reflecting on disability in romance for LitHub! Check out the article below🥹

We are doing a second run of my "poetry against ICE" workshop via @buttonpoetry.bsky.social on Wednesday, Feb 18 on zoom. Register for the workshop here: buttonpoetry.com/product/butt... Forwarding 100% of my payment to CTUL's emergency & rapid response fund: chuffed.org/project/1671...

I wrote my final book review column for the Washington Post a while back. (I didn't know it was the last one of course.) I was worried it might not even run since the book section is ending, but thanks to the heroic efforts of editor Jacob Brogan, here it is: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2026/0...

Folks, please don’t tell artists they shouldn’t be making or selling their art right now. For many, it’s how they pay the bills. Art is vital during times like this. ALL ART. Whether it’s a protest sign or a book cover or just a beautiful drawing. It’s part of the heart of humanity.

Today I helped host a zoom book club meeting about Le Guin's 1971 Lathe of Heaven. (I volunteered before I understood how many spoons yesterday's MRI saga would drain from my body and soul.) Even exhausted, I had a lot of thoughts on the book which I may as well attempt to share here. 1/?

Amazing thread. It's wild to me that I know the truth of this in my bones from my archery career, yet struggle so much to put it into practice with writing. The blueprint of forcing myself to shoot 100s of arrows a day thru burnout somehow hasn't translated to consistent creative practice. 😭 Yet...

The same people who slashed food support for millions of Americans. Booing is the politest reception they deserve.

Encouraging to see some members of the US Olympic team wearing masks to protect their health ahead of competition.

What a BS dystopian premise, underpaid workers in the Philippines used to give the illusion of being actually autonomous. Capitalism bending over backwards to hide the actual labor being done by real humans, all to avoid paying an actual salary and benefits to taxi drivers with a union.

The executive function theft built into the American medical system bureaucracy is fucking RUDE and I hate it to tiny little pieces. Yesterday that applied to me and two loved ones, all simultaneously for different reasons. Today? I am chasing approval for an MRI I don't want, but need to beg for.

Asimov's actions, and the tolerance-up-to-celebration of it, absolutely drove women out of field and out of fandom, and made it easier for others in the field, writers, editors and fans, to follow his lead for decades. Asimov pinching asses was not about his work. It kept women and their work out.

This play wasn't performed in its day because it was most likely censored. Now I kind of want to make readthroughs of it exist, like those zoom dramas from the pandemic

Give me an iconic #StarTrek image.

Dem leadership for generations: no you fool, you infant. It is a process. It takes time and political capital and expertise, it's- Mamdani, dusting off his hands: fixed it Dem leadership: what do you mean you fixed it Mamdani: Just had to unplug it.

Some updates on the treatment of disabled folks in ICE custody, including people being permanently disabled by agent abuse. www.disability-rights-watch.com/2026/01/16/i...

VR workouts are among the most physically accessible forms of exercise I've ever tried. Many in the disabled community were relying on VR to be able to keep moving safely even while injured or on bed rest. What I would've given for a VR headset while desperate to escape hospitals as a child! 😞

It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies

Tell me five classes you took in college: • History of Imperial Japan • Gay & Lesbian Lit & Culture • Gems and Gem Minerals • Fiction and Medievalism • From Jesus to Christianity

I feel like I know dozens of queer authors with 2020 novels who should see this.

The wildest part about the discrepency isn't even the dollar amount but the ratio of asked vs given. Renee and Alex's families asked for $50k & $20k respectively & people gave so much more. Not the case for everyone else. All links provided in thread.

If you’re feeling helpless amidst the ongoing horrors being perpetrated by ICE… engage in mutual aid. Donate to someone in need. Give to a community library or food bank. You could also help Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s been held by ICE for a year. His story is often forgotten:

Keith Porter. Shot & killed by off duty ICE agent. Silverio Villegas González. Shot & killed by ICE after dropping his kids off at school. Marimar Martinez. Shot 5 times by ICE after they said “do something b*tch”. None of the agents responsible have been investigated or charged.

Happy book birthday to this excellent fantasy anthology I recommend all the time for its rich exploration of stories by disabled authors!

Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com

Have you gotten a copy of my poetry chapbook, Offerings to a Tumbled Temple? It's out now from @purpleinkpress.bsky.social I am proud to share these very vulnerable embodied poems about healing my relationship with my body and being in kinship with other disabled folks. I hope you read it!

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You don’t know your role yet maybe, but we are all finding out just what we have to offer. In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

A Black man named Keith Porter was shot and killed by an ICE officer on New Year’s Eve. Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body. This is not new but it is expanding.

I want crocodile technology. What's croc tech? It's tech that follows the philosophy of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." Crocodiles have found the winning formula and stuck to it. You think crocs are adding apps, subs, Bluetooth, AI, data collection, and internet connectivity?

Quick reminder that law enforcement hasn’t stopped killing unarmed Black people just because other law enforcement is now killing unarmed white people.

Good news! We’ve added The Machine That Makes Things Up to our service, Important Information That Needs To Be Correct. This is the future, don’t get left behind

Anyone else have a book hopscotch problem? I re-read Wild Seed & Dawn by Octavia Butler. I checked out Strange Matings from the library so I could read some analysis of her work. Got distracted by The Last Interview, but first I want to read Positive Obsession so I get all the historical context. 1/

I've been looking forward to reading this, and now it's on sale! A cozy fantasy about a dryad with chronic pain and fatigue recuperating in an Edwardian spa? Yes, please!

"Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love." - Tolkien

It's #BrailleLiteracyMonth - and we're excited to see #DisabilityTech products like this this speech-to-#braille printer getting attention at #CES2026. #BlindNewWorld (Story via @pcmag.com ⬇️)

Is one of your New Year's resolutions for 2026 to dedicate time to your writing and creative projects? Have you been stuck in your creative practices and need some direction? I would love to work with you!

Just started Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler by Susana M. Morris and I already love it. Two Butler quotes I'd never heard before: "To be remembered Long after your death Is, inevitably, To be lied about." "There's nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns."

"Allow me to coin this “Chekhov’s Ableism”. Where a disabled character exists, eventually they will be killed, cured, or made invisible in some way or another—just as a loaded gun on the mantlepiece must eventually be fired."

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.

What a quote.

Nooo, the Austin Public Library says "digital services currently unavailable" and won't let me check out any new audiobooks! This is bad because, like a cat with a full food dish, I somehow don't feel in the mood for all the [number redacted] other books I currently have checked out 😅

Been reading up on fawn responses this year. Loved the book Fawning by Dr Ingrid Clayton, and I just started Are You Mad At Me? by Meg Josephson. I keep thinking about my own fawn responses, rooted in my childhood experience of hospitals and doctors. I want a book on fawning and disability!

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains. (I could listen endlessly to 1200 Curfews, a 1995 live album by @indigogirlsmusic.bsky.social. The concert banter feels like a hug from an old friend and "Virginia Woolf" always invokes hopeful tears.)

I'm three books away from finishing two reading challenges this year: #ReadHarder by @bookriot.bsky.social that I've been taking annually since 2018 and #DecolonizeYourBookshelf (more of a journey) by @paperbacksfrybread.bsky.social which I enjoy even though I've never completed it yet. (YET!)

So grateful to have such wonderful friends and writers in my life like @utarcher.bsky.social!

Taped a copy of this new poem by @leticiaasu.bsky.social inside my monthly pill organizer. A hug for my future self. 🥰 This poetry collection is phenomenal & would make a wonderful gift for the disabled & chronically ill folks of #BookSky. Just requested copies at my library for a book club!

Sobbing. Not Alice. 💔

I got to chat with @harperkinsley.bsky.social about writing disability and the complexity of "overcoming" narratives 😁💖 Watch it here 👉 youtu.be/Jaklw1v1r_E?... & let us know what you think! #Disability #DisabledStories #Writer