Attended a queer bird walk slash queer history tour of a park this morning and was apparently hit on and did not notice. I'm southern. I talk to someone if they talk to me. Unless someone says "wanna bone," I will not know it's anything other than talking to make everyone less uncomfortable

I'm in the part of October where I'm working six jobs for two weeks because capitalism

Look, if you put dinosaurs in your content, I will engage with it. This is a threat

Williamstown Theater is also a mostly male season. WTF?

Playwrights Horizons is putting out a male season of theater next year, so that's exciting and new. I'm just saying, my show That'swhatshesaid exploring this exact problem in theater isn't even a decade old.

With the prevalence of skinny tok, I feel more empowered than ever to finish this queer ya werewolf book with a fat main character.

Literally can't make sense of why this post was flagged by Instagram. It's from three years ago. My best, and most uncharitable, read is that Abdoh is Iranian, so now this post is bad?

VOTER: “But people will die!” (if you kick them of Medicaid) ERNST: “Well, we all are going to die.”

First run in over a year in the books. Take that sciatica

I'm in that phase of singledom where I'm wondering if I'll ever have a meaningful kiss again... According to every romcom, this is when the truly meaningful banging, I mean kissing, begins

"There’s still a desire for scars, stitches, burns — that mark that lovers leave — a concrete arc from our beginning to an end." Excerpt from C. “Meaks” Meaker’s “Palliative.” It appears in the Spring 2025 print edition. Order a copy today! buff.ly/wfl5kyV #writingcommunity

Listen to me read my essay "palliative" for @westtradereview.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?v=rz-e...

Want to feel way too much and like you're holding your breath because someone is just too hot? Icarus by K. Ancrum. Literal goosebumps on every page and absolutely gorgeous prose

Counting Crows has been stuck in my head for three days. Just living my best life thinking about Marjorie dreaming of horses

Men’s rights activists on Twitter took a screenshot of this and are now screaming that I am a witch.

My bit of defiance for the day was creating an AP Language Review based around the NEA Five and funding the arts... Hope I don't get fired

Current obsession: Foul is Fair by Hannah Capin us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Let’s be clear about what’s happening here: The President is using the power of his office to enrich himself and his family, offering “meme coins” and other shady crypto ventures to rake in billions in exchange for political favors. But kids shouldn’t have more than five pencils? Seriously?

Today is a four-job day! We're making that mediocre money and hoping like hell for an opportunity to sleep our way to the middle!

Or you could read ‘My Soul to Keep’ by Tananarive Due, or ‘The Pale Lady’ by Alexandre Dumas, or ‘Fledgling’ by Octavia Butler. Did George pay y’all for this? Or are you being goofy on your own?

OR you could read these Black vampire novels: The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma This Ravenous Fate by Hayley Dennings House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson. Just a thought. #booksky #blackbooksky 📚💙 📚🏳️‍🌈 📚🤎

My music taste refuses to update from high school so I spent the morning to singing along to Ben Folds Five's album Whatever & Ever Amen. Still banging.

I am now working four jobs. That's too many jobs. It's getting in the way of doing things. But it's also how I afford novelties like eating and paying rent. I would really appreciate a patron if anyone's loaded

I felt so seen

We went on a boat! We saw so many dolphins and sting rays and manatees and I've never felt more like a child

In gator country during a pink moon watching some dolphins and making fairy rings with a five year old. You can't say we don't have fun

All the plays he's written so far are great, but I'm a big fan of the this one. Nbd, but I was kinda Eric Marlin's best man and we conjure the dead on the reg

90 percent. They sent innocent people to a gulag so Trump could look like a tough guy. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I'm officially outing myself: I'm writing a queer YA novel that you're really gonna wanna read. I was made to craft the right level of absurdity, horror, rage, and unstoppable crushing imaginations put to deviant uses. Cheerleaders are involved. #gocornfields

I said I was only going to buy 5 books at awp this year. I ended up buying 16. Considering I live very much hand to mouth, this was not the wisest decision. But I'm still very happy about it today

Peterson and I found my creative nonfiction out in the wilds of #awp25 Book Fair. I'm in the new issue of @westtradereview.bsky.social (awp special release, but soon to be available to everyone plus an audio recording of me reading it) and the summer issue from 2024 under the gum tree.

Day one of #awp25 has already been so fun. Panels about disaster gays, avoiding fat phobia, navigating the personal archive, and writing with constraints. Best room by far is 411. Comfy theater chairs and the temperature is perfect

Headed to #awp25 tomorrow at an ungodly hour. But still hung up on how many books to bring. Normal travel dictates 3-4 but there will be so many books there... 2? 1 seems crazy

I don't know if it's out of sheer spite at theater, but I just started to turn a play I was writing into a hella queer young adult book instead...

I continue to disassociate from reality. Today's drug of choice is Piers Anthony's Incarnation of Immortality series. I haven't read these since high school. Still holding up!

my fellow queer & trans people: in these horrifying times, now more than EVER, it is SO important we prioritize having an unhinged amount of filthy queer sex

I re-watch the Jurrasic Park franchise a lot. I mean multiple times a year, all six films. Sometimes more than once in a month (like my birthday month). Every time I get to the new trilogy I let out a huge sigh. It had such potential to explore parenthood in a new era, but instead it just... Didn't

My dad died a couple weeks after my birthday a few years ago. I missed his call on the day, but I saved the message. It's probably the cheesiest thing I do on my birthday every year since. He wasn't the best dad, but I still miss him so it's nice to hear him sing happy birthday to me.

Jfc

Israel sure killed a lot of journalists

worth saying again these these unilateral cuts are illegal. neither trump nor musk has the authority to unilaterally slash appropriated funds.

This exhibition is incredible. Take a stroll and visit this gallery with a 130-year history of supporting female and gender expansive artists and writers. What a treat on a snowy day

Washington Post got their hands on internal documents from DOGE showing the entire plan to implement resegregation. They're going to purge minorities from government by calling them DEI. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Another free idea for the @democrats.org: Set up a website that archives pre-Trump government resources/websites and keeps them updated with new, reliable info. Every time this trash happens, point people to THAT website. Don't just whine. ACTUALLY HELP PEOPLE. You have ENORMOUS power.

Just finished recording my essay "palliative" for @westtradereview.bsky.social spring issue about cheery things like abuse and alcoholism. Very excited for this one to come out. No really. It's kind of funny sometimes

Is his worm paying? Cause it seems like there's gonna be a money problem with this current administration...

Putting people with ADHD in a *concentration* camp is bitterly ironic

New: the AP says it was blocked from an Oval Office event after being informed that it would be barred if it didn’t follow President Trump’s guidance on renaming the Gulf of Mexico

Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.