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Since Thursday, @coyotemedia.org has published stories on: — the IOC’s new sex testing policy — a scene report from a massive geography conference — a local musician’s first solo EPs — Trans Day of Visibility and its costs Paid subscriptions make this work possible!(We also have a tip jar!)

It's Trans Day of Visibility and I wrote about how visibility without protection is a trap, and it often seems like the loudest calls for us to be visible are coming from those who have done nothing to protect us. www.coyotemedia.org/im-supposed-...

This essay is more than 12k words, and doesn't need to be. But ORB is, among other things, a permission structure to get weird and go deep with Oakland. www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/freaky-tales... Here's a couple of paragraphs from it:

The @oaklandreviewofbooks.org has a new site!

the guitar riff for Taifa Nia's "FML2020" got stuck in my head the first time i heard it like three months ago and it WOULD NOT LEAVE so that usually means I should write something www.coyotemedia.org/taifa-nia-in...

LMAO I didn't think one of my goofball slides would be the header image, thank you Rahawa

"the field of geography is split between tech nerds and communists."

God this is brilliant

For COYOTE, I wrote about hanging out with a bunch of nice geographers during a decidedly terrible time for academia.

Oh did you want 3300 words from me on today's IOC sex testing rules? An essay on the nature of evidence and why we can't seem to stop getting stuck in the same traps around sex and gender in sports? Wow lucky you!! www.coyotemedia.org/the-olympics...

if you want to know the history of this kind of policy, I made a podcast two years ago that explained why these tests make no sense, how they were already used and eventually abandoned by the IOC in the 80's and 90's, and the devastating impacts they have on real athletes: www.tested-podcast.com

Bay Area folks: You can now receive the COYOTE weekly calendar as a newsletter! @reveleth.com wrote a sweet behind-the-scenes breakdown on how they approach our alt-weekly events listing (e.g., covid-safe outings😷!) below. This newsletter is available to all subscribers, including free ones.

Today’s Scratch newsletter is a personal essay on being a Black critic at the end of arts criticism by @latriagraham.bsky.social. Come for the killer lede, stay for the dream deferred.

On how arts journalism was gutted and the consequence: “Direct-to-consumer enterprises marketed by critic-proof institutions mean there is no need for the context of aesthetics or the theory of beauty. Place and memory become victims of algorithmic flattening.” www.talkscratch.com/the-job-i-wa...

Today’s Scratch newsletter is a personal essay on being a Black critic at the end of arts criticism by @latriagraham.bsky.social. Come for the killer lede, stay for the dream deferred.

subscriptions to COYOTE have slowed down by a LOT. and yes, I’m worried, but I also know that people are generally terrified out there. I’m just glad we’re still committed to giving people the knowhow to survive. stories like this one will be free to read forever www.coyotemedia.org/i-hosted-a-m...

We're having a theme week! As part of that, we've got two sales for you: $1 for your first month of our Reader tier: aftermath.site/03-20-2026-0... OR $75 for a year of our Member tier, which gives you access to our Discord and a merch discount: aftermath.site/03-20-2026-0...

To sweeten the deal, I managed to finagle a friends & family discount code out of Bookshop.org (And yes, I consider everyone who follows me on here a friend. Unless you use it to yell at me for taking so long to write the book...in which case I consider you family!) For 15% off, use code INTREES15

Who wants to see Dead Kennedys without Jello Biafra anyway? The future of punk rock is bright, diverse, and interesting as hell — head to the East Bay’s Doll Fest this weekend to see more than 20 bands leading the way. www.coyotemedia.org/doll-fest-oa...

This is a very good, very subtle novel that manages to be about things that a lot of writers think is too mundane to touch (when was the last time you read literary fiction where the protagonist had a regular job?) and other things that are too huge to grasp, like the hyperobject of fossil capital.

Great interview with Georgia Fort, one of the Black journalists arrested for reporting in Minnesota.

Scratch got a nice little write-up in @sf.gazetteer.co today. (Thanks, @cydhayes.bsky.social!) sf.gazetteer.co/a-beloved-ma...

We’re keeping @soleilho.com’s blistering essay on Chavez, Redzepi, and the perils of centering heroes within systems that enable their abuses unpaywalled for the day. Read it, and consider supporting @coyotemedia.org however you can. www.coyotemedia.org/kill-the-her...

“These cases are, of course, different in very meaningful ways. Yet both men have been central figures in the modern food system, operating from opposite ends: Redzepi in the world of fine dining; Chavez, among the laborers producing the food that ends up in the world’s kitchens.” — @soleilho.com

I probably couldn't have sold this story anywhere. There's no news hook; no huge impact or urgency. But I believe that covering even small groups who are making the world a little bit better is worth it. If you agree, consider supporting @coyotemedia.org, the only place I could write this piece.

Probably the only reason I haven't (yet) run screaming into the night away from my job as Aftermath's money guy is how exciting I find it to connect with people bringing leftist ideas to how money can work, and finding people who can teach me things without asking me to check my values at the door

Freelancers of Bluesky, this week’s Scratch newsletter features a long talk with an anonymous author/tax preparer about how our system sets us up to feel extraordinary shame, stress, and guilt around taxes. (This post will always remain unpaywalled, because we think it’s that important.)

It is genuinely wild that we can claim: Ryan and Zinzi Coogler Alyssa Liu Delroy Lindo Zendaya Marshawn Lynch Mahershala Ali Tom Hanks Angela Davis Chelsea Peretti Boots Riley Maxine Hong Kingston Jack London Fred Korematsu Daveed Diggs Like

It's been a big year for Oakland tbh 😭🥰

Oakland, how and where are we celebrating? Someone get Barbara Lee on the phone right fucking now. #sinners

Hard agree. It also feels like a good time to re-up Aaron Bady's incisive essay on Sinners for the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org. www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/sinners-one-...

It's spring sports season and I'm here to help YOU (yes you) choose your Bay Area obsession for the next few months. We have everything from semi-pro soccer to table tennis to a brand new tackle football team. LET ME HELP YOU. I made a quiz! www.coyotemedia.org/the-ultimate...

This is outstanding. Kudos to all those involved in creating this package and to all the book authors who deserved a more just literary environment in which to publish over the last decade(s).

Scoop: Grammarly is facing a class action lawsuit over its AI "expert review" tool, which presented advice from living and dead authors without their consent. Parent company Superhuman pulled the feature earlier today following backlash. by @milesklee.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/gramma...

I swear every dystopian tech development is like "Hey, are you OK with being this much not-a-person in our eyes? How about this much? One or two? <clicking noises> OK, how about now—one or two?" like I'm at the devil's optometry office.

ok I am doing this. San Francisco residents! Wanna talk to me about your frustrations and humiliations with the rec & park website? summer camp or afterschool program signups, picnic table reservations, trail closure info… bring it on

Baby cat season is starting in the Bay Area! While it may be tempting to swoop up a litter of wild mini panthers, snuggle them like crazy, and take them to a shelter, there are a few super important things to consider first 👀 We've got the low down, in our latest from @nuala.bsky.social 🐱🐈😻🐾🐈‍⬛

Every day I read about events/atrocities/political developments that make me think "well, that's an unfathomable number," and yet I'm expected to go about my my life as though nothing has happened. The baseline level of dissonance we're intended to live with in the US is simply unreal to me.

In today’s Scratch newsletter, we’re talking $$$ as self-employed writers — income, expenses, debt, care work, insurance, day jobs, exhaustion, and the unquantifiable ways in which we feed our hearts: www.talkscratch.com/the-group-ch...

Coincidentally, this week’s Scratch newsletter is a candid discussion about how the four of us are getting by financially as freelance writers. We talk numbers, money, time, motherhood, chronic pain, and relentless exhaustion. www.talkscratch.com/the-group-ch...

If a social media platform dominated by elder millennials/Gen X isn't for this purpose, then I have no clue what it's for. One cannot lament the collapse of arts verticals and ignore the arts. Like, I can't stress this enough. Share what matters to you even if the world is burning—especially then.

People said they wanted more culture pieces on Bsky, right? For COYOTE, I interviewed the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org and @meganwachspress.bsky.social for a behind-the-scenes account of how Megan's 7,000-word feature (!) on coal in Oakland came to be—a phenomenal work of longform journalism.

Was on the Global Dispatches podcast last week with Mark Leon Goldberg, to discuss the complexities of brewing conflict in the Horn, & the vested interest many Gulf powers have. Recorded just before all hell broke loose in the Middle East. Will have a follow up addressing more recent developments.

People said they wanted more culture pieces on Bsky, right? For COYOTE, I interviewed the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org and @meganwachspress.bsky.social for a behind-the-scenes account of how Megan's 7,000-word feature (!) on coal in Oakland came to be—a phenomenal work of longform journalism.

If you're in the #tacoma area come out to Lakewood Library this evening. I'll be giving my first Humanities Washington talk of the year: How Women Won The Marathon and Changed Our View of Gender calendar.piercecountylibrary.org/event/15159700

great piece. the erosion of search has made finding old music journalism even more frustrating I use proquest through a friend's NYPL card to access a lot of mag and newspaper archives, but pdfs aren't as easy to share as links (and what if my friend moves?!?)

For what it’s worth, this is exactly why we launched Scratch. Everyone I know in the arts is exhausted from scrambling for dwindling scraps of attention, only to have that mandated entrepreneurship framed as “freeing” for artists. www.talkscratch.com