I'm looking for CONTEMPORARY (i.e. set in last 10 years) NOVELS (i.e. fiction) set in the UNITED STATES that feature political and/or cultural resistance. Thank you for suggestions!

Here's one way to make a difference in a concrete way. The trans and queer communities are constant targets of the current reign of cruelty. I'm working with an Indivisible East Bay group to gather needed food and clothing. See below.

Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal warns ICE: "No law enforcement professional wears a mask... Those that come into our communities wearing a mask to commit crime... You getting arrested". "Fake wannabe law enforcement... The criminal in the WH will not be able to keep you from going to jail".

I'm attending Indivisible's event, “Rapid Response Call: ICE Killing and Lawlessness in Minneapolis” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

Celebrating the end of 2025 with the sale of a new novel, a literary rom com about sex and death. See below!

Tomorrow! Rise up, fight back! Join me in celebrating the national parks' birthday and protesting the erasure of our multiple histories. I'll be working with a cinematographer to record your stories about why the parks are important to you. Please come! #parkrangers #nationalparks

Stand up, fight back! Join us this Saturday for an intergenerational LGBTQ+ town hall. Allies welcome. Youth and elders come together to speak out. Details in the poster. See you there.

Oakland! We're doing another LGBTG+ Town Hall! The last one brought 86 people together to talk about safety, solidarity, and strengthening alliances. It was inspiring. Join us! Details in poster.

Stand up, fight back! My take on courage in this moment: shorturl.at/BGd3o

ICE arrests are happing NOW at both San Francisco and Concord courts. Bay Resistance is calling on everyone who can to come immediately to participate in a mass peaceful sit-in. SF Court location: 100 Montgomery in San Francisco Concord Court location: 1855 Gateway Blvd in Concord

The current s*#tshow between T and M is downright Shakespearean. 🤣🤣🤣

We're taking the LGBTQ+ Town Hall to Sebastopol, in partnership with LitCrawl Sebastopol and Copperfield's Books Join us this Saturday May 17, 2:00 @Third Pig Bar (116 S Main St, Sebastopol, CA). Resist with stories! Come listen, share, and mobilize.

Nice crowd on the freeway overpass. Pat (@pattbonemullan.bsky.social) holds up the UNITE TO FIGHT banner while cohorts fly the American flag in distress mode.

Writing is "a medium of understanding suffering." -- Ocean Vuong

TODAY! Can't wait to hear everyone's ideas on safety, solidarity, and courage. Everyone welcome -- trans, lesbian, gay, bi, allies, plus. Join us for a community town hall. Time and place details in poster below.

My sister Laura made the news! She's organizing her smallish town in Oregon to amazing effects.

@maddow.msnbc.com Great signs held by Gar McVey-Russell snd Pat Mullan

This little guy, who I met on one of my trips to Antarctica with the National Science Foundation, is worried. Show him that COURAGE IS CONTAGIOUS. Tomorrow #Handsoff demo. Be there.

Cory Booker is a hero! THANK YOU for speaking loud and clear and TRUTHFULLY. 💙💙💙💙💙

I'm working with Indivisible East Bay and we're putting on a Town Hall for the LGBTQ+ community. Please feel free to distribute this poster widely. And join us on April 26!

So much shining beauty here. Can we please work hard to rid our home of the heinous, greedy haters?

American hero.

Vance looks haunted. Johnson just looks stupid.

Call and/or write your reps and senators every single day. Easy with this app: 5calls.org. Ask them to DO THEIR JOBS. If you do nothing else, please do this.

Join @indivisible.org this Saturday March 1 in Dublin, CA from 12 - 2 to protest ICE taking over the decommissioned (because of black mold and asbestos) women's prison to use for their own arrests.

Yesterday my friend Estelle Freedman released her new film at just the perfect moment. The justice movement needs art and music and books, and examples of others who've stood up with courage.

Good for these federal workers, concerned about the sabotage of a functioning, safe park, for us and for nature. www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...

Stand up, fight back! Huge crowd greeted Leader @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social last night in Oakland asking him to step up and get tougher in fighting the coup. Enormously gratifying to use our voices in community.

Speaker Hakeem Jeffries is in Oakland tomorrow, Friday Feb 21. Join me in asking him to STEP UP, LEAD, as he's been elected to do. Indivisible East Bay protest from 6:00 - 7:00 PST at 10 10th Street (Kaiser Bldg) Oakland. Instructional signage for Jeffries is welcome. I'll be there.

Huge crowd in Oakland protest today. 💥💥💥 I love my community. ⭐️💙⭐️💙⭐️

Today! National Day of Protest. Not my President Day. We need everyone in the streets. East Bay protest is near the Grand Lake Theater from 12:00 to 2:00. Peaceful show of strength.

You have questions. Mostly of the "What Can I Do to Resist This Coup?" variety. Choose Democracy has answers. Here's a really handy guide to the how/what/why of organizing... Share widely. Link here: choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/

I’m going to this today at 5:00 PT. Join us! www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...

California love: rain on redwood tree.

I want there to be a domino effect of courage. What if everyone who has a public voice used it like Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde?

You tell ‘em, Joe.

Moonset on Oregon Coast. A bit of peace and tranquility before full on facing 2025.

Hometown visit with side trip to Multnomah Falls. 🤩

Person of the year. Hands down.

Thank you Judge Juan Merchan for having courage at time when so many powerful people are kissing the ring. The felon does not have presidential immunity and the jury's verdict will not be vacated. Power to the people.

I literally just received a check from a healthcare corporation for a couple hundred $$$ with an explanation that they’d overcharged me a few months ago. Indeed they had but they flatly denied it at the time. Coincidence or is patient anger maybe giving some folks second thoughts?

How to fight back? Sign up for the free Chop Wood/Carry Water chopwoodcarrywaterdailyactions.substack.com newsletter. Super easy daily messages to send to your senators and member of congress. Constituents calling their representatives were a big part in getting rid of Gaetz. We can do this.

I’m inspired by the people of South Korea. We can fight back, too. ✊

I'm thankful for 107 days of Kamala's brains, compassion, inclusion, and hard, hard work. I'm also thank for the 48.3% of voters who supported her. And I'm thanking all of you in advance for committing to fight like hell for justice in the coming years.

It makes me sick that Morning Joe and Mika went to Mara Lago. Their job is fact-finding and truth-telling—full stop.

Happy Fall, y'all.

After the social formerly known as Twitter deleted all the posts about my novel, TELL THE REST, about a trio of queer characters who take on the Christian Right--and triumph--I jumped over here to BlueSky. Looking forward to connecting.