In the two years following Dobbs, @pregnancyjust.bsky.social recorded more than 400 cases of pregnancy criminalization. How to do we hold people's fear of being criminally punished for abortion alongside the data? My story:

My writing career summed up in one image:

My writing career summed up in one image:

Phone Zap! Leileen Lilith Aquino, a trans woman in Maryland prison, attempted suicide after being abused by her cellmate, and the prison punished her by putting her in solitary confinement. Let's get her out! #FreeHer #FreeThemAll

International aid intercepted by Israel, Greta Thunberg has been arrested. Half the flotilla are still making their way to Gaza. Stopping aid in a humanitarian disaster is not allowed by international law. Israel is committing more war crimes.

Wow, the University of Washington's Psych 201 class does *not* play go fuckin Huskies Nazi UW students fuck off

I hope people understand just how horrifying this is as a trans person. You could just be getting in with your life, not doing anything to hurt anyone - and suddenly you find yourself dragged into a horrible legal case where the press is painting your going to the toilet as somehow predatory.

We know a lot of you out there love queer short SFF, so check out the fundraiser for a new magazine dedicated to exactly that! OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF! on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

Do you ever think about the fact that Wikipedia is the last good major website on the internet? You aren't bombarded with ads. It doesn't try to push video on you, and it doesn't redirect you to a scam site.

This is what gets me - access to public space determined not by anyone’s behaviour, but by whether they belong to a ‘bad’ minority. Pure prejudice given the force of law.

Exactly. It’s an incredibly bad precedent which assumes that one person’s discomfort should limit another’s rights, and that a group of people may be presumed inherently deviant or dangerous. bsky.app/profile/mati...

Elon just became worth half a trillion dollars and then suspended the account of the Global Flotilla where 200 citizens from all over the world were kidnapped by Israel All for trying to bring food and baby formula to starving people and children.

I don’t really read a lot of romance, so I’m gonna ask for recs: I’m looking for a lesbian cis/trans romance which is *not* about going through transition, and where it’s the trans woman who is getting pursued. POV doesn’t really matter. And yes, I did read Dulhaniyaa, right after it released. :)

genuinely insane we are at point "a person was afraid of someone who caused NO harm, so latter person needs to be segregated" rather than genuinely if YOU are so terrified of others on this level YOU are A PHOBE of some stripe and it is YOU who needs to leave. it IS bigots who need a third space imo

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.” 1/3

it is Wednesday my dudes! Run With the Hunted! Run With the Hunted is my female-led cyberpunk heist novella series 7 books out now! book 8 coming October 31! narrated by: Bristol, the self-made socialite Bits, the hacker Dolly, the violence authorizedmusings.blogspot.com/p/run-with-h...

Like, a declaration that the federal government can just decide to swipe the money that was *not merely* statutorily mandated but *already paid out to recipients* back breaks down foundational assumptions about how the government works.

I'm feeling an urge to create a big list of all the _magical_ sex/gender swap stories in existence, across books, TV, and movies. Mostly where the swap is at the heart of the story, not a bit for a laugh 😕 Then rate them on transphobia, homophobia and misogyny scales.

Jane Fonda relaunches the Committee for the First Amendment, a free speech initiative originally spearheaded by her father, Hollywood icon Henry Fonda, in response to the rise of “McCarthyism” during the 1940s.

Jane Goodall passed away and I am not sure I was ready for the news. I met her with my students when she visited here, she was an amazing human and will be missed in this world. RIP, Jane. 🖤 Here's hoping your next adventure is grand.

Since I'm spending a lot of time doing everything except what I need to be doing, here's one thing I've been meaning to do: This is the link for my upcoming book tour for Queen Demon, the sequel to Witch King, 2nd book in the Rising World. Tour starts Oct 6. us.macmillan.com/tours/martha...

Zohran Mamdani calling it a genocide on The View and getting applause.

Release day is over but it's still a good time to buy #ChoicesAnthology for stories that confront the terror people of marginalized genders feel every day as our reproductive rights are threatened or taken away, ranging from extreme body horror to tragedy to pure catharsis books2read.com/u/3JYo9Q

I would say it’s weird to be on a site where management actively hates the users, but I’ve been online since forever and it feels real familiar

Labour - on the side of only the workers who are backed by JK Rowling's transphobic cash www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...

News for my Burns Notice newsletter: I wrote about why it's such a problem that Saudi Arabia keeps throwing their money at international entertainment and sports events like the Riyadh Comedy Festival. burns-notice.ghost.io/we-do-not-ha...

I just received this statement from ICE re: Barbara Mariana Gomes Marques May in which they can't even be bothered to get her age right (she's 38.) She never received the notice to appear in 2019, and was at the final step of her green card process with her US citizen husband when she was taken.

anyway, reminder that Brando Sando is a mormon in good standing aka he tithes 10% of his income to a church that just announced they filed a brief saying that protecting trans rights infringes on their religious freedom ✌️

My wife and I joking around in Alpha-read comments on my SF WIP 😁

I just got a VERY interesting email that allies in congress were upset that so many of my readers were calling about the anti-trans provisions. I'm here to say: good. I won't let them throw our rights under the bus by cover of night. All's that to say, keep up the calls. They're hearing you.

One thing about my SF writing that readers should understand, is that I'm not a scientist. I'm an engineer. Engineers bridge scientific knowledge and people's needs with technological solutions. Expect 'nuts and bolts' in my writing because I LOVE IT so you're going to hear about it 😁

Hegseth doesn't appear to understand what I learned by reading books written by actual combat soldiers: The goal of war is to create a better peace. If you convince the other side you are irredeemable savages, how does the fighting end? The USA may learn this, to your sorrow, if you attack Canada

Aight, look, if you are a privileged person, triple if you are a cishet white(passing) male, and you wanna be an ally, you need to start getting a thicker skin and start being ok with catching a few strays from venting marginalized folks. We don't have time for that.

Also don't try to be involved in a space where you're not wanted, ally or not. If Black people only want to talk to other Black people, don't get involved. If Queer people only want to talk to other Queer people, don't get involved.

A short story.

I don’t talk about this publicly, but hegseth drives me out of my silence. I attended West Point from 1998-2000. I left, along with about 5 other young women, as a direct result of the military’s then-shameful (non) policies addressing sex harassment and assault.

Also I kept forgetting to post about this so this one is DEFINITELY not going to have any attendees, haha. But anyway! Join me Oct 2 for the launch of THE FIRST THOUSAND TREES at @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social -- the final book in the trilogy from @ecwpress.bsky.social !

One thing I find fascinating about experiencing stories from different cultures is how every culture has points that it's very direct about, and others deemed rude so they are talked around.

Oh hey interview is live! Thank you so so much to @armedwithabook.bsky.social for letting me talk excitedly about THE FIRST THOUSAND TREES -- out tomorrow from @ecwpress.bsky.social ! "Nothing stays a wasteland forever. People hit and roll, and then they get up again."

Why are we punishing Canadian academics for critiquing the legacy of someone who supported annexing Canada?! #ElbowsUp #Canada #CanadaSky #CndPoli

This is one of those cases that you can view from different perspectives. One perspective is the First Amendment and the importance of journalistic freedom. But the other perspective is that someone in the FBI leaked investigation documents to harm the target of an investigation… /1

OK, personally, I want one of those TV literary editors who's ready to rip open my wounds until I bleed my most deeply hidden poisons onto the page 🖤 #writing

IMPORTANT PSA: You will NOT see posts from non English speaking artists if your content language is set to English! Make sure it's *unset*!!! If you're following Chinese artists or whatever and wonder why their posts never show up on your feed this is why!

I grilled it some more and it admitted the quotes, which it had claimed were 'actual quotes from reviews' were fabricated. This bullshit machine is soon going to be where everyone gets their information from, and the reason so many people will lose their jobs. It's infuriating.

For context Hegseth was basically fired from every job he had, including resigning from his national guard duty because he had a Deus Vult tattoo. He got fired from all his other jobs for drinking and abusing women on the job. Heres a letter his own mother wrote to him about his treatment of women

⚡️Russian drone strike in Sumy Oblast kills entire family. The attack killed a married couple and their two sons, ages 6 and 4, in the Krasnopillia community near the Sumy Oblast border.

so Wayward has a trans masc in it

If I were a producer for the new Harry Potter TV series, with a duty of care towards the three child actors playing the leads, I’d find the way Rowling treats the leads of the last screen adaptation to be hair-raising, to put it lightly.

"Corruption is why hedge funds get to buy up all the houses in your neighborhood, driving you out of the market and then your corporate landlord ignores your calls during a gas leak." - @ossoff.bsky.social

I sure hope the ADL is proud that they stuck up for Elon Musk when he did a Nazi salute back in January.