As state terror amps up, here's a list of actions you can take now-- a lot of resources and a list of upcoming virtual trainings on a number of topics:

Your Thursday reminder that when you meet a baby you DON’T actually have to guess their gender. Just say “And who is this tiny perfect person?” Guaranteed no one will ever, ever object.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Today I read a review of my new show that described it as, among other very nice compliments: “…if Spalding Gray were alive, and happy.” I’ll take that any day. gender-defiant.ghost.io/the-first-je...

Boston friends, check out Bear's show! I was lucky enough to see it last year, and it was such a great evening of storytelling!

this is an amazing storytelling experience, i was just talking it up the other day.

Boston! Come see the show @broadwayworld.com called “skillful, deeply affecting, funny and sad and sweet and difficult and true,” and @intermissionmag.bsky.social says is “a solo show with a sense of heart and honesty that'll leave your cheeks wet and your chest warm.” TICKETS! bpt.me/6732394

I am having a hot bath because I’m fighting a cold. While soaking, I finished the water in my glass, and then had the thought that I wished I could stay in but I really needed a drink of water. So I would obviously need to get out. Of the bathtub. To get water. (The cold may be winning.)

When my children sass me, I just remember that as a child who could not keep my nose out of a book, I got many scoldings about watching what I was doing. Once my mother was particularly aggravated and I said yes, she should go complain to the other mothers about her child that won’t stop READING.

Some years ago, a Jamaican friend introduced me to the phrase “no broughtupsy” and while I don’t use it (feels appropriative; I am a middle aged white Jew from New York) I do find that I think it a whole lot these days.

I recommend you share a few potato chips with a dog if you have the opportunity. A big cozy ding-dong is ideal for this, but really any dog.

Francis, teaching his graduate seminar in coziness. Enrolment opens soon for his summer intensive, rolling on your back in a cool bed of clover.

I’m a transgender Jewish writer and storyteller; imagine how I feel.

"In Clipboards We Trust."

Once again I beg you to consider my proposal that a rotating committee of librarians and stage managers be put in charge of the US.

Can we not just accept that we need all the different kinds of brains to do all the different kind of human things? Because I am FOR SURE not keeping a 17-volume-and-counting detailed record of my decades of effort in restoring heirloom apple varieties, but I’m very glad someone is. ::crunch::

Little wins but Troy Kostur looking hot (without additional context) in the Bottega Veneta ad wrapper for the Sunday NYT about the poetry of gesture qualifies I think.

Really loved reading Special Topics in Being a Parent: A Queer and Tender Guide to Things I've Learned About Parenting, Mostly the Hard Way by @sbearbergman.bsky.social I cried many times ❤️

Someone’s going to tell the early modern historians why the students are all talking about the pear of anguish this week, right?

How about that? A victory for people who actually read.

This feels like a @theradr.bsky.social question: does Judaism already have a bracha that is roughly “Baruch Hashem for letting me live in such comfort that this constitutes an inconvenience? If not, can we write one?

I wish to announce that today I have cleaned and reassembled the dishwasher and also migrated my email to Google hosting and I feel EXTREMELY accomplished please clap.

Today I, a professional storyteller and author, described something as “the lightiest light” because I was so distracted and overwhelmed I forgot that the word bright exists and if that’s not a metaphor then I don’t even know what (but also, please someone name your band The Lightiest Light).

Daily(ish) #PrideMonth #SmallPress #books: Special Topics in Being a Parent by @sbearbergman.bsky.social‬, ill. Saul Freedman-Lawson (@arsenalpulp.bsky.social‬) & ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬Thunder Song by Sasha Lapointe (Counterpoint @catapultbooks.bsky.social) #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky 🌈📚

Anyone want to talk me out of relaunching Queer Culture Catchup as a standalone site? (This brought to you by the many people I know making queer and trans arts & culture things, especially early career, and getting 0 reviews because arts media has contracted like a salted slug, and I just...)

I’ll be celebrating Trump’s birthday by performing a trans Jewish historical show, just up the road from the US War College.

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... powerful and beautifully framed argument against book banning (thx @sbearbergman.bsky.social )

It’s June 1, so if you haven’t reserved your homosexual yet be advised that we’re into surge pricing now.

Evidently, the minister of education from Alberta is yelling at me over on twitter about my anti-book-ban article and I cannot TELL you how glad I am not to be there for him or his various legions of fools. No, thank you.

When we remove books from schools or libraries, as Alberta is proposing, we prune the landscapes of children’s imaginations, by @sbearbergman.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com

Trans Jews still standing at the end of today: yasher koach. The victory condition is survival and you did it. A medal and a perfectly ripe fruit salad for everyone. I love you. Try to get some sleep.

Can whoever is responsible for such things take their foot off the NEWS pedal please? It’s just too much.

Counterpoint: my grandfather, who was UDT for weeks before D-Day and arrived to Omaha while the tide was still high, who earned a purple heart and a silver star with a bronze cluster *that day*, was a progressive who backed every equal rights movement and would have *hated* this paskudniak Miller.

Today I was asked to briefly describe what my focus would be on a panel about, roughly, why the current fad for book bans is harmful. I am posting my response because I think this is the best I have ever done at distilling it to one paragraph:

Today I was asked to briefly describe what my focus would be on a panel about, roughly, why the current fad for book bans is harmful. I am posting my response because I think this is the best I have ever done at distilling it to one paragraph:

Strangely, I am not noticing a lot of outcry from the “you can’t just change your name” crowd that they’re just going to call Pope Leo by his birth name, nor any sign that they won’t respect His Holiness’ new pronouns, Your Holiness/His Holiness.

Today someone remarked that I had been a queer activist longer than they’d been alive. Anyway, you kids get off my lawn (come up on the porch, I made limeade).

Just had to text my husband, with whom I share a Kindle library, to let him know that I was downloading a book called “How Not To Hate Your Husband After Kids” for work research and to not be alarmed (he’s used to me, but it seemed kinder this way).

Ah yes. One day I served a toddler toast w cheese, cut in half as requested, only to be told they wanted the slice whole. When I proposed to eat the cut one and make them a fresh one they insisted that I needed to UN-CUT the toast, leading to 7am me trying to explain that toast can’t be… healed.

A question for the medically-knowledgeable smartypantses: when you feel like you’re about to vomit and you don’t, but something feels sort of thick and swollen in your throat a while, what is that? Like, physiologically, what is happening that feels like that? And what’s the best way to clear it?

Is it troop movement or troupe movement? Are we managing a battalion or the company of Pippin? Do I pack a whistle and a clipboard or a whip and a chair; can wordspersons weigh in, please?

New interim guidance from the UK "Equality and Human Rights Commission." Trans people are effectively banned from all bathrooms. www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...

Proposal: stop calling it AI and start calling it what it is: a large-language model, or LLM. It has no native intelligence. LLMs produce answers that SOUND LIKE what a knowledgeable person might write, based on the (often stolen) writing of knowledgeable people. You still have to BYO intelligence.

As someone married for 16 years to an autist, with an autistic kid - both of whom are clever and kind and interesting and talented; both of whom I adore beyond measure or reason - I would like to cordially invite RFK Jr to go fuck himself with a rusty bucket of rabid weasels.

The 2SLGBTQ- positive kids press I founded and run, Flamingo Rampant, sent books to Broadway today for No Book Ban’s activation at John Proctor Is The Villian, giving away challenged and banned books. So glad to be there with Metatron’s Children!

Tuesday reminder that the Nazi playbook was in fact modeled on the colonization of North America (including the fact that some soldiers found it “morally exhausting” to have to individually execute innocent people and so mass incarceration and murder were “easier”?) link.springer.com/book/10.1057...

I would like to be treated like a wealthy Victorian lady and taken to a seaside retreat, fed on benzos and consommé, with all upsetting topics banned from my hearing for a few weeks, until my uterus stops wandering or whatever and I am ready to come home. Nvm a ‘digital detox’; who is booking this?

I’m not saying that I’m anxiety cleaning, but I am saying that today I steam mopped the kitchen floor and powerwashed the mats in my car, and tomorrow I have a date with the downstairs baseboards. Also this week I am getting a haircut and the dog is getting groomed, so… draw your own conclusions.

Hello, I would like to be mutuals with people who have one of these, thank you:

Sign the petition against book bans at www.bookbanpetition.us