Tonight in Brooklyn, join me at Franklin Park for the World Transsexual Forum, where I'll be in conversation with two of the writers in the book and the delightful @jeannethornton.bsky.social and Anton Solominik.

Today, I'll be doing an event in Somerville, MA with @allshewrotebks.bsky.social and Full Body Cast will perform fan favorites from Rocky Horror. Then tomorrow, I'll be back in Brooklyn and talking with @jeannethornton.bsky.social and @magsvisaggio.com Mel King and Anton Solomonik. #rockyhorror

From this morning on NPR Morning Edition, re ABSOLUTE PLEASURE (cc @margotatwell.bsky.social ) www.npr.org/2025/09/26/n...

The next stops on the ABSOLUTE PLEASURE Tour: Brooklyn, Providence, and Boston!

My contributor copies of ABSOLUTE PLEASURE arrived today from @margotatwell.bsky.social l and @feministpress.bsky.social ress - a dream come true!! Can't wait to read all these wonderful takes on one of my favorite movies

It's pub day for ABSOLUTE PLEASURE! It's such a thrill to get to share this incredible collection of essays by 25 brilliant, funny, earnest, thoughtful, talented writers with the world. #RockyHorror #RockyHorrorPictureShow

I haven't sent On the Books in a minute, but here's one that talks about launching an anthology, with bonus content about how Gay Pride Month was a little bit more Queer Wrath Month for me this year. buttondown.com/onthebooks/a...

I am reading books by trans women tonight. And then I will write about them, and publish those thoughts. They want us scared. They want to deplatform us. Fuck them, culture work still matters.

I hate how often this is relevant. 😡

#RockyHorrorPictureShow book, "Absolute Pleasure" out next week! Great title.

Absolute Pleasure is in incredible company! 🤩

ABSOLUTE PLEASURE, an anthology of trans and queer writers on The Rocky Horror Picture Show, launches next week with some great events in New York and elsewhere. I am incredibly proud of this collection and the in-person spaces and conversations we are creating. absolutepleasurebook.com

Noting that there is a very excellent launch party planned for this book at 3 Dollar Bill next week! I will be working the door for the first part; please come through and say hello 👋 🦇 👄 www.eventim.us/event/ABSOLU...

It's so exciting to see copies of Absolute Pleasure out in the world! I'm so grateful to the incredible writers, talented professionals, and generous backers who have helped make this book real! 📕💋

Hell yes. Go after all of them. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Buttondown is now very loudly advertising on their landing page that they will do the newsletter migration for you if you want off the Nazi site. They did mine, and it was painless. The only pain point I've had is how Substack handled paid subscriptions–Buttondown fixed their mess.

Amy Sherald says the Smithsonian suggested removing a painting of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from her upcoming show at the National Portrait Gallery “to avoid provoking President Trump.” Sherald: “I cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorship”

"Anything that isn't more cops on the subway and death camps for the homeless is delusional leftist nonsense!"

TODAY'S THE DAY www.agentsandbooks.com/p/todays-the...

A huge step from HHS that is at odds with science showing significant risks for young children and pregnant women — and that directly contradicts *the FDA's own publication* from last week listing pregnancy as a high-risk condition that would qualify people for this fall's Covid vaccine

Perfect, let's do it.

I'm so sick of every company that "supports artists" immediately withdrawing that support if you've ever drawn naked people, let alone smut. Nobody ever wants to fight for us, defend us. Anything bad that happens to us is always our fault. I'm so tired.

It’s so wild that when they asked me to blurb this they didn’t even know I was a Rocky Horror kiddie in my youth

Some brilliant people have said some incredibly lovely things about Absolute Pleasure! You can get a copy and some cool swag here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...

psst guys just 5 more days to Kickstart the first book in FP's all-bangers Fall 2025 season: ABSOLUTE PLEASURE by @margotatwell.bsky.social ! Contains Q+T readers reacting, fifty years on, to Rocky Horror, and it's great: if you can, please help make it come true! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...

One week left! I'd love it if you'd check this out and share it with a friend.

Strong work 🫡 @rollingstone.com

It's so hard to start up an independent publication, and here we are celebrating six months at @theflytrapmedia.com. We were able to get going thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign: Please help us keep going by joining our subscription drive! We're offering 15% off all subscriptions!

Give yourself over!

HUGE NEWS. The judge in the case where 21 state attorneys generals sued the Trump administration over dismantling the IMLS just issued an injunction in favor of the plaintiffs. This is good news & the judge further indicates that the plaintiffs have a STRONG case here. bookriot.com/the-latest-f...

I’m part of this! So excited for this to come out this fall!

I just got the advance copies of Absolute Pleasure and they look amazing! I’m even more excited about this book than I was before, if you can believe it. Click here to grab a copy and some cool merch, or find out more about the tour: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar... #rockyhorror

I love adding this one data point to economic charts. It works every time.

RHPS is a controversial film by today's queer media standards, but if you came out after the queer media boom from 15 years ago, you might not understand how important this was for older queer folks. This was a legit sanctuary for a lot of people, cis and trans alike. 🧵

ABSOLUTE PLEASURE is an anthology of queer writing on the iconic camp horror classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show, ft @sarahgailey.bsky.social @magsvisaggio.com with cover art by the talented @rosalarian.bsky.social. Preorder and nab some truly excellent merch: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

Remember how they told you to stop wearing an n95 even though it would ostracize disability communities? Even though COVID still kills & disables? It was their plan: habituate folks to preventable death & disability, teach them to abandon the sick, then dismantle public health. Stop complying:

DHL suspends business shipments of over $800 value to U.S. customers amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/04/...

it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.

(long🧵) Watching some gays & lesbians celebrate that heinous UK Court ruling against trans women has me again thinking about how little most gay people know about their own history. No, I'm not rehashing if trans people were at Stonewall (they were). I'm talking about the long arc of what it even...

Trump's team backing down in front of Harvard should embolden EVERYONE to stand up to them. Do not comply in advance. Instead say "Fuck you, make me."

Ama$on just won't stop being awful. Please support your local indie bookstore, if you have one. 📚

It was such a pleasure to get to work on this cover. RHPS is such an important piece of queer history, and I can't wait to read what's inside.

Ok I’ve had this idea for years to make a series of Rocky Horror playing card designs showing the characters at different stages of the movie and I think I just finished the first one…

On today’s See Jurassic Right, I chat with comedian @margaretcho.bsky.social about the movies that made us queer. We talk about the seductive nature of Jeff Goldblum, the power of David Bowie, why all vampires are bisexual, Rocky Horror Picture Show, and more: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

being gay was invented in the mid-1970s as viral marketing for the rocky horror picture show

Parents pearl clutching over Minecraft react vids like they never went to a Rocky Horror screening…