This is how you do activism. Electricify with creativity. Use the methods of fascism to critique it. Bring the ruckus.

Thank you to @kevinbertolero.bsky.social for including 2 of my poems digging into ACTUP history in this incrediblly queer lit mag @andchangepoetry.bsky.social

Says it.

all vaxxed up for the school year and rfk

Idk about you but im always hiding my masculinity behind my doe-like eyes

I love to hate this game

"aid purchased by U.S. taxpayers is simply being destroyed. The Trump administration... ordered the incineration of nearly 500 tons of food meant for children in Afghanistan and Pakistan.​​ It also intends to incinerate nearly $10 million worth of contraceptives" www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

I fixed it for you. 1. The history of cheerleading starts with males. It did not transition into a female sport until WWII, when men were being drafted in large numbers. 2. Male cheerleaders already exist at the college level, where (surprise) no one cares. Go watch "Bring It On."

I'll be reading some poems on Nantucket this weekend. Drop by the festival & say hi if you're in the area!

Wanna learn more about the Panthers’ work around disability? It wasn’t just the 504 sit-in. I have 2 chapters about them in my book Black Disability Politics which is available for purchase or free open access here from @dukepress.bsky.social: library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

#falmouthroadrace killed me this year, but it's always worth the sore legs. Thank you to all who donated!

Cutting this one out & hanging it on my fridge. Thank you, @mdbell79.bsky.social for articulating the struggle so well.

DC police are using excessive force against Black people

I just want one week of my summer to be tourist free. They are sinking this peninsula.

See you there?

bring back wall-to-wall carpeting. that shit was cozy.

finally caved & bought google storage & now i hate myself #googlewalkofshame

My manuscript is heading to the eyes of Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, and I could not be more elated about it. Happy to be in the running among these nine other incredible poets!

don't go takin the babe out with the bathwater now

"Autonomous art, on the contrary, allows the subject to experience otherness on its own terms. It opens, rather than closes, critical thought." --Justin Kaushall philosophynow.org/issues/129/C...

Jackie Reeves keepin it honest! www.capecodtimes.com/story/entert...

This is literally an $11,000 trip. $16,000 if you factor in the restaurants. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Ethnic Studies, Black Studies, Gender and Sexuality exist in contradiction to the university. Our intellectual projects demand the abolition of what it was: colonial, heteronormative, elitist, white supremacist. That is why the university AND this administration keep agreeing to erase us.

but what tree did you admire today?

Formally proposing we add the Military Industrial Complex to the DSM-VI

"We always find ourselves in the position of having to play civil libertarian to a bunch of bigots who want their constitutional right to express their hatred of us." --Ronald Gold, National Gay Task Force consultant, 1979

Jeff Probst is like the literal definition of a sociopath

Seventy feet from The magnolia blossom there is an ant. He is carrying a heavy load We should help him. --Jane Mead

That's right the women are smarter youtu.be/li4VQ8kwl-4?...

I don't care that Hulk Hogan is dead

Newly framed piece on my living room wall. This one's getting dropped off at the gallery today. Show opens August 8th at William Scott Gallery, Provincetown, MA.

just gonna keep treating bluesky like it's my live journal

really curious if david lynch knew about the terrance hayes poetic form (the golden shovel) before filming twin peaks in 2017

Soundtrack.

seriously, fuck #google. I opened this gmail account during their "never have to delete another email" wave, & now they want my money for storage. why haven't they been sued for false advertising yet?

Anne Waldman in the Cafe Review, 1999.

but what tree did you admire today?

"Liars!" m.youtube.com/watch?v=_89S...

"Nostalgia, after all, usually is memory raised to a level of kitsch." --Charles Baxter

Halfway thru a collection of poems, & I started reading the "my residency" poems & I just had to put it down.

Taking off the dust jacket half way through the novel all sensual-like.

Excellent essay in @electricliterature.com by @debwerrlein.bsky.social about the gift of longhand writing: "...if writing is a process of discovery and learning, then what discoveries did I lose by speeding up the process? What connections haven’t I made?" electricliterature.com/ai-cant-gasl...

John Ashbery www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56704/...

A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."

normalize people who still wear masks without assuming they're either immunocompromised or typhoid mary. & normalize not asking why people are wearing masks

New poem up @galileopress.bsky.social freestatereview.com/2025/07/08/r...

can we please just have more book reviews instead of these weird pieces about whether or not straight white men can still read or publish novels

Why is shit still a curse word?

Recent work email: a "community member" wants to rent her house for 3,000/month to a teacher in our district; only from Sept to June, "nonnegotiable." Do they have any clue how much we make? How hard it is to constantly move? Do they actually think they're helping us?