Great turn out at @jhuaap.bsky.social’s MA in Writing reading tonight! It was an honor to cohost! #AWP26

Thanks for coming to Toronto @mxmtoon.com

Happy Trans Day of Staying in and Having a Nice Snack. If you're looking for something to do today, give money to trans people so they can eat.

the formula is to pack 4x as many books as you will actually read, right?

Happy pub day @torreypeters.bsky.social! Just picked up my copy at @greedyreads.bsky.social and I can’t wait to start reading.

new Chappell single and Stag Dance release in the same week?!

fuck this

life’s greatest joy is having a tea-spilling discord

misery loves company but you’re just not miserable enough for me

*seeing all song titles in lower case* Now THIS is shoegaze.

I now have a coral colored betta who flares at me when I wear coral, implying that he is threatened by my fabulosity

"YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE" OKAY IS THAT A PROMISE?

At 4pm EST today, @roxanegay.bsky.social and I will read some new work and discuss creative nonfiction! I’m so excited about this event series. I’m collaborating with friends and mentors like Roxane all semester. Join us via zoom: harvard.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I was feeling reckless so I played Vivaldi in reverse order of seasons.

I’m Baltimore sober. I only drink Natty Boh. That’s all I drink. I put it in my cereal. I dip my Utz crab chips in it.

If you watch nothing else today, take an hour and watch this. AOC is the best of us.

reading flights and obsessively watching every Olga tokarczuk interview

In the club shyly covering my mouth and waving at pretty ladies with a handkerchief

Almost 20 years ago, a doctor on TV was asked, "Isn't 12 a little early for a kid to be deciding to transition?" And her response was, "It's old enough for them to decide that it's not worth living anymore if they can't." That was the only argument I ever needed to hear about gender affirming care.

“Marxism is an ideology for economists, but anarchism is for poets—a rhetoric that’s thundering and denunciatory, excoriating and profane.” Ed Simon considers the life Alexander Berkman, anarchist, would-be assassin, and 19th-century Luigi Mangione.

I think I have actually found a lute teacher

bitch, i said shall we dance?

writing a d&d bard that just sings the brat album in the style of Chaucer Doth Tweet

If you went to college: 1. Career goal? 2. Initial major? 3. Did you switch majors? 4. Current occupation 1. Professor 2. Philosophy, Theater 3. Took away theater and added Classics 4. Writer for Higher Ed and I love it!

alright you wanna know how to support trans people? hire them. It's REALLY hard already for visibly trans people to get jobs, even before this shit. Support places that have trans people working front of house, and make sure owners know that's part of why you're there.

In general, as a tran, I am trying not to overestimate the risk of state-backed violence against me (though it is considerable) in the next several years and not underestimate the risk of violence from random individuals that the state mostly pretends not to see. Stay safe out there, pals.

The Hozier cover of Arctic Monkeys has just sent me down a nostalgic 2000s Brit pop rabbit hole

The fundamental truth is that none of the people screaming about DEI would have any of the money, power, or influence they do if they weren’t white men.

next D&D premise is two nobles and their servants. What the servants don’t realize is that my noble is Wooster and they are my Jeeves’

bought a Chappell Roan tape from a cassette vending machine today

Started playing Pentiment, a game where you play as a hot guy making illuminated manuscripts, and wow I love the dialogue, the art, and the backstory choices—did I mention you play as a hot guy?

Do you ever just casually walk through a town/city in a video game and just admire it?

dua lipa didn’t invent olive oil on ice cream jesus christ

This year we write like there’s a bunch of assholes out there banning books.

very tired of every transguy in a book being slight!!

Watching the Shitposter Oligarchy unspooling in real time…

Just broke down the structure of my novel and it feels way less intimidating—I really think I can do draft one in a year!

I’ve been sober over a year now and i’ve discovered that eating a fucked up meal at 4 AM is just a genuine interest of mine

Such a useful and worthwhile read, particularly with the visual breakdown of syntax in a Henry James sentence.

HOWS YOUR BOOK GOING?! HAVE YOU EVER CONSIDERED WRITING SOMETHING PEOPLE READ? Good luck in the trenches out there today. And remember, all you have to do is self publish a bestseller that becomes a movie and write the newspaper about it

making myself a piping hot cup of chamomile tea with honey… well why shouldn’t I….

should I just take a semester off and really focus on reading the books I want to learn from

The audiobook debate is remarkably narrow. Reading aloud was a group activity for centuries and I actually argue that people who struggle with classic lit should try an audiobook as it was likely that the original audience enjoyed it aloud.

This isn't a culture war. This is the only trans congresswoman, ever being bullied through the press and legislation, and having only 1 of hundreds of colleagues stand up for her. They can do more than 1 thing at a time. Defending her will not take so much effort that they can't do their jobs.

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. We love to support Baltimore Safe Haven whenever we can, and will be donating 10% of our sales through the weekend to them.

A #shelfie of my first proper bookshelf, organized by vibes and the locations that the authors write about

why am I always reading like 4 books at once, like a book for each mood?

Sitting amidst piles of unread books just posting away