The video in the article clearly shows sex workers getting put in handcuffs and led away in police cars, yet they still use the grotesque euphemism of "rescue" when this happens. And many people who now scream about ICE raids accept this as being "normal" when it's anything but.

If you advertise on @tryst.link, a reminder that you can get advertising credits through a donation to the Black Sex Workers Collective via the Tryst donation matching program. The collective does so much on a global scale, and donations help people in emergency situations thebswc.org/donate/

If you advertise on @tryst.link, a reminder that you can get advertising credits through a donation to the Black Sex Workers Collective via the Tryst donation matching program. The collective does so much on a global scale, and donations help people in emergency situations thebswc.org/donate/

I’m looking for help finding an attorney in California familiar with FERPA who could help with a case of the university accidentally leaking my medical records (related to my pregnancy) to another individual

Ron Schatz spoke to curators Joe and Delsa White when visiting their ongoing "Labor & Art" exhibit at the Bost Building in Homestead, Pennsylvania. Learn more about it at LaborOnline. lawcha.org/2025/11/04/l...

I honestly don't want to have any conversation that doesn't start from accepting that hex work is morally neutral & that hex workers deserve to live free from incarceration and policing. Let's also take a minute to acknowledge that we can't even talk about it in our most-used public spaces (here)

Someone @ me when this place becomes a platform for sickos and cyberbullying ideological enemies and not just vote blue / “# poetry community” posting

“sex workers are smart sex workers are kind sex workers are talented sex workers aren’t all mentally ill” starting my own dumb whore brigade to fight for our rights too

I live here

who are some younger sex worker poets writing (at least a little bit) in relation to their labor? Every now and then I come across zoomers I haven’t heard of with publishers I haven’t heard of and I want to do pay more attention to what they’re building

Hudson Valley next week!

periodic reminder that I have a patreon called Working Notebook: poetry drafts, out of print chapbooks, and photography. subscriptions start at $1 or build your own: www.patreon.com/nikkiwallsch...

They can't even tell it like it is and this is the party that is supposed to protect us?!!! The party we're supposed to vote for and support?!

Throughout the article she speaks to creator after creator who tell her that while the work is hard, they like it and it offers them opportunities and revenue that other work doesn't. Her conclusion? This career is a bad idea.

giving myself a screen time limit on google docs so I stop wasting hours obsessing over line breaks

smolbeanery really has destroyed a generation of writers

Natalie Diaz on Mary Oliver. Lots of beauty in the way Diaz looks at place and personhood in these poems. lithub.com/natalie-diaz...

it’s giving

After years of (legitimate/health) delays, I received initial proofs with comments from my poetry publisher for the first 2 books of The Daybooks (which is 4 books long). Exciting!!! Maybe they will come out soon. I’ve kind of refocused my energy to other projects so I don’t get impatient.

This is a really fantastic piece!

“According to O'Donnell, patrol members approach a woman and politely identify themselves. ‘The usual pattern is, if she's a prostitute, she gets very angry very quickly,’ he said. ‘She'll either yell at us or walk away.’” From a 1984 article on sex workers resistance to a citizens patrol group

See you tonight!

It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.

I also wrote autotheory about one of my specialties, sex workers being bitchy online, burning bridges with managers via Twitter, social media whore friends amidst isolation && sites.bu.edu/ampersandjou...

Never shared on here but last winter I had a short story come out about a sex worker trying to get pregnant so she could abort client-fetuses and you can order the zine it’s in all proceeds going to abortion funds www.abobozine.com/product-page...

hell of a time to be promoting a book about being trans, the damage done to the body/spirit in the decades spent fighting it, and how you can’t fight city hall (Big Transgender) but here we are. utpress.utexas.edu/978147733148...

Hey Philly area writers, if you've ever wanted to work with me on cnf/essay/memoir but you haven't had the chance because I mostly teach within the academy, HERE'S YOUR CHANCE. I'm teaching for Blue Stoop this fall! Six weeks, in-person, starting 10/16. Spots are legit filling fast!

The rain is letting up here in BK…plenty of time to get over to 629 Nostrand Ave for a craft sale benefitting the people of Gaza. Got to say hi to @edidin.bsky.social @gregpak.net and the amazing @prisonculture.bsky.social Bought some neat stuff, pictures to follow.

Ok so in case yall missed the memo like I did. David Lehman, series editor of Best American Poetry is a Zionist ass. Literally feel embarrassed that I wound up in this situation. I was literally the only person of color in a room of 50+ people. It was terrifying. #poetry #bestamericanpoetry

“I have no charms. Admittedly.” A poem by Vievee Francis.

my sunglasses and I are unstoppable

“The houses are haunted by white night-gowns.” A poem by Wallace Stevens.

Scrolling through videos of naked women explaining to my partner “these are my friends ❤️”

❤️‍🔥 @cuckedtodeath.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥

“The plural of vinyl is vinyl.” A poem by David Joez Villaverde.

C’est moi

If your literary organization lost an NEA grant this week, I'd like to hear from you for a story I'm writing for the LARB. DMs are open, email is [email protected].

I found out one of my poems published in softblow years ago was taught to high schoolers. I never saw myself being read by people that young in any context. I kind of love it. sac is misspelled and my son was meant to be my first baby, but this is its own living thing I suppose.

The AP Lit kids at my school do a March Madness poetry bracket every year with 16 poems. This year "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath took first, and "The Ultrasound Shows Me an Empty Sack" by @stemkay.bsky.social took a strong second.

from an article about a bake sale hosted by Prostitutes Union of Massachusetts (PUMA) in 1976

my best friend

did you know that @periodicities.bsky.social is five years old this month? and a reminder that the site is perpetually open to submissions of previously unpublished poetry-related reviews, interviews and essays. Please send submissions as .doc with author biography to [email protected]

S*BSTACK ALERT: My Emily Dickinson , a short story ; originally published in flo. lit mag / @flolitmag.bsky.social @ualbertapress.bsky.social ; robmclennan.substack.com/p/my-emily-d...

No I’m not recycling my few good tweets from five years ago I’m transferring the portfolio piecemeal

some professional news: I live within walking distance of a 300 acre farm with berries and baby goats, the neighborhood kids like my infant son, and I forget how to write poems but that is ok for now

Vol. III, Issue 1 spotlight: Stephanie Kaylor (@stemkay.bsky.social) amalgamates the personal essay, cultural criticism, and Tweet-style provocations to demonstrate how sex workers create sites of resistance and connection on social media. Read it now at sites.bu.edu/ampersandjou...