While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

This could be business casual if we even gave a shit

What the hell www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

some words to remember from Jen Udden & @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social at Mo*Con "This time is going to pass anyway, don't you want to spend it doing something you always wanted to?" —Jen "There is an importance to being seen. You want to surround yourself with people who see you." —Maurice 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

"My work was run through an AI detector and AI was detected....I bet it was! IT TRAINED ON MY WORK." — @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social at Mo*Con

Writing Is not about any one submission window, Or agent or award. It's not even about a specific work. Writing is a business of opportunities. One opportunity passes, more always appear. Whatever just happened, you don't know what's coming; or what you'll create in the future.

"I go into every story like a blind date, hoping that I'll fall in love." Ann VanderMeer @annvandermeer.bsky.social on acquiring stories, at Mo*Con with @scott-h-andrews.bsky.social

MoCon is underway!

Finally found out why people trash talk JFK...it's Terminal 4. I've had better experiences in multiple developing nations 💀 Seems I've been insulated from this crime against humanity by flying Jetblue in T5 near exclusively. Alas no JetBlue to IND. Never flying Delta again. They make AA look good 💀

Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm Hana, a queer disabled BIPOC illustrator for novels & games with a background in fashion design. I draw fantasy, sci-fi, mythological & historical comics & multi figure comps with all the clothing details ever✨ Accepting new work! 💻 zandikaal.carrd.co 📨 hana . sohbet @ gmail

Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm Hana, a queer disabled BIPOC illustrator for novels & games with a background in fashion design. I draw fantasy, sci-fi, mythological & historical comics & multi figure comps with all the clothing details ever✨ Accepting new work! 💻 zandikaal.carrd.co 📨 hana . sohbet @ gmail

So NJ lawmakers wrote a bill to rein in ICE. And this is what they called it. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/n...

If you missed it before, I've already articulated a lot of my thoughts about interracial romance by white writers and how Heated Rivalry is missing the mark both on the page and onscreen. romancing-the-stoned.beehiiv.com/p/why-is-a-f...

since I failed to get a reasonably located room for GenCon Writers Symposium and can't waste the spoons coming in from 20+ miles away, I'm aiming my meager writerly vacation funds elsewhere — what writer cons are you all thinking of going to this year? what's GOOD? I'm eyeing Readercon...

Trunk project rules: 1) If it's in the trunk, it's there for a reason. Do not publish until the reason has been addressed. 2) If it's not in the trash it's because there's value in it. Do not throw it away. 3) If you're worried about posthumous stuff, leave notes about Rule 1.

Thinking about this again

Believe it or not, the first Mo*Con was in 2006 making this year its 20th Anniversary! We can’t let that achievement go uncelebrated, so we’re bringing back some old friends and welcoming some new ones! Mo*Con 2026 runs April 30th (coincidentally my birthday) through May 2nd.

This. Fuck, this so often

Important shit that I’m still trying to learn.

If you're a writer, wondering why you should bother writing with the world on fire. It feels like it's not important, I need you to understand that it is. Even if it is just because it keeps you moving forward? Even if it only brings YOU joy, that gives you energy to fight & survive.

contract is signed! my sci-fi story, milt, from the bsfa's Fission #5 anthology, will be "reprinted" by @escapepod.org in audio 🎧 in January 2026. it is, incidentally, the horniest story I've ever published. gender essentialism comes here to die. ✌️

Whew, I’m not gonna lie: I’m still in recovery mode from running the GenCon Writers Symposium and I’m taking it easy this week. I haven’t processed the weekend yet and I’m shocked by how few pictures I took. But I wanted to share a few thoughts:

If you could use a short burst of joy right now, might I suggest my recent fairy-tale retelling in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social, "Finer than Silk, Brighter than Snow"? :) www.uncannymagazine.com/article/fine...

there will be GenCon photos once i am caught up on things that must be done l upon returning to a residence I'm responsible for—as opposed to the lovely respite of a vacation in a hotel where i don't have to clean, cook, stock a fridge, hang laundry....

If you think A.I. will solve your problems, you don't understand technology and you don't understand your problems.

Today is International Owl Awareness Day and I had a hoot putting together this thread of international owl phrases, starting with this one… A colloquial way of telling someone to mind their own business in Punjabi is apna ooloo sidha rukh. It means “keep your own owl straight.”

A brutal Hindi insult for someone who has vexed or wronged you (greatly) is ullu ka patta. It means “you’re a son of an owl.”

5 days of socializing at GenCon didn't drain my social battery at all amazing how feeling comfortable, welcomed, being accessibly located, and surrounded by my kind of people talking about my favorite hyperfixations can do that (also sleeping 8 hrs a night and acquiring safe foods for breakfasts)

Wrong photo!

@therisingtithes.bsky.social @nirele.bsky.social, @gryphonrose.bsky.social @hanawrites.bsky.social @arleysorg.bsky.social @kozeniewski.bsky.social @lomush.bsky.social @sandratayler.bsky.social Olivia Sailor @otherworldsofem.bsky.social Saturday night with the #gencon writers!

the photo is drunk, we are not!—with @arleysorg.bsky.social at GenCon BarCon

Always a delight when friends stop by the booth. @hanawrites.bsky.social

How do we meet & cultivate relationships with creatives who embrace resistance & diversity especially when so many industry space & cons seem to prefer keeping marginalized individuals out of sight? 🗣️📢 @arleysorg.bsky.social asking the real questions @ Diverse Writing As Resistance panel #GenCon

If you're writing a super complex villain but your hero is vanilla you're writing an anti-hero. —Jeri 'Red' Shepherd hmmmm much to think about...🤔

"What if we won" is a worldbuilding cheatcode @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social @ Afrofuturism 2.0 panel #GenCon

Write the antagonist just like the protagonist; they're just not the protagonist of *this* story. poorly paraphrased wisdom on writing antagonists from @scalzi.com at #GenCon

we are on the way to #GenCon 🗣️📢 PERIOD.

ok friends. there are 17 MARRIOTTS on the GenCon hotel page, WHICH one is the Writer's Symposium in??? asking for a friend who can't walk half the time and needs to book the correct one aka me 😮‍💨

fashionably late to the butterfly realm, yes it is I, that Hana among Hana's, the #hEDS having, #disability advocating, queer #BIPOC #SFF writing Hana who also draws things. it took me a minute, but I'm finally here! time to find all of my people again 🏃‍♀️