🌈 Solitaria Gaviota-Alaniz is a borderland baby with a queer secret, a haunted past, and a fierce desire to reclaim her power. After surviving a traumatic exorcism (yes, really), she disappears for 15 years—until NOW. 📚 PreOrder your copy NOW!

Trump is attempting to prevent Harvard University from enrolling international students in his latest attack against higher education. “It's very clear that what they want to do is run the university into the ground,” says Harvard professor Alison Frank Johnson.

bexar.org/elections for hours and locations

Wowsers! It has been a year since my retrospective exhibition, I Am Home, a Retrospective Exhibition of Anel I. Flores & Invited Artists in Queer Kinship. If you weren't able to see it, I have a virtual tour for you here: my.matterport.com/show/?m=UNKm...

🌈 Solitaria Gaviota-Alaniz is a borderland baby with a queer secret, a haunted past, and a fierce desire to reclaim her power. After surviving a traumatic exorcism (yes, really), she disappears for 15 years—until NOW. 📚 PreOrder your copy NOW!

UNVEILING! Not the book YET, but I have these gorgeous Curtains of Rain stickers of the cover art! Find me at #AWP2025 Los Angeles or go to the @jadedibispress at booth #662 Besos all, Anel #CurtainsofRain #TransAuthor #QueerAuthor Cover Design by @nicolerobertsphoto

@peoplesliteraryfestivalcc @delmarvikings @aneliflores @island_university @allsaints_cc @gnashingteethpublishing We will be reading from our new books 📚 and facilitating a workshop. I can't wait!!

La Madre de Las Aguas y Tierra by Anel I. Flores 🌹 A prayer for the migrants, the queers, the trans fam, the women, the schools, the parks.

Chris Murphy: "I think this is the most serious constitutional crisis the country has faced, certainly since Watergate. The president is attempting to seize control of power, and for corrupt purposes ... he's trying to crush his opposition ... this is a red alert moment ... our democracy is at risk"

Interestingly, in Loper Bright vs Raimondo, the conservative majority on SCOTUS ruled just last year that the judiciary can in fact overrule regulatory decisions made by the executive branch especially when those decisions are not specified by Congress.

The Transgender Studies e-book collection, available only to libraries and institutions, represents a relatively new yet vibrant area within gender, sexuality, and women’s studies focusing specifically on trans experiences and perspectives. Learn more and request a trial: https://buff.ly/3Ej7ATo

Hospitals that are cutting off care to trans people under nineteen are the very definition of "complying in advance"—some, as I report in this story, even claiming, incorrectly, that Trump has "prohibited" gender-affirming care. He has not. They are caving. More here: newrepublic.com/article/1910...

can you imagine being told to stop doing your job at nasa to get rid of all the words that make white boys mad? can you imagine being someone who says “sure, I guess”

Judge rules that Black church in DC, which won a $2.8 million default judgment against the Proud Boys, now gains control over the trademark “Proud Boys.” The far-right group is barred from selling any related merchandise or symbols without the consent of the church. Gift link:

"I am here, I am queer. Get used to it."

There are reports that Trump's immigration raids may target San Antonio. We know from history that mass deportation raids can lead to the arrest, detention, and deportation of even American citizens. First, know your legal rights (in English and Spanish below). 1/

The newly inaugurated president has announced his intention to terminate U.S. membership in the U.N.'s global health agency.

The pardons aren't just a reward for Trump's loyal foot soldiers. They're also a signal to would-be vigilantes that Trump will support people who commit violence for the MAGA cause. This could usher in waves of violence. Vehicular violence against protesters has already been normalized.

A prayer for all of us today. Keep the light on. Know your story. Know your rights. Keep one another close. Keep making art. Keep marching. We got this.

Hey new @bsky.app familia. Vamanos. 🏳️‍⚧️❤️🏳️‍🌈✊🏾✍🏾😎🏠🌱

The Darién Gap isn’t just a jungle—it’s a dangerous crossroads of survival, migration, and politics. 🌿💔

700 incarcerated firefighters are battling LA wildfires for just $26.90 a day 😳 Meanwhile, Californians just voted against ending inmate servitude. Let that sink in. 🔥💔

Yup, @jamellebouie.net has this exactly right. What these guys are celebrating/pursuing/yearning for is not masculine energy, it's *adolescent* energy. Drinking Red Bull, crushing Call of Duty, refusing to clean your room. It is indescribably pathetic. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/o...

As we prepare for a new year and a new administration, we put together a list of the trials and triumphs for the LGBTQ community in a year where transgender people and queer kids faced unprecedented political attacks

I had to ask what was in the tamales this year: an almost fifty xicana memoir

Guadalupe Garcia McCall & I chatted with the Texas Standard about our book HEARTS OF FIRE AND SNOW. www.texasstandard.org/stories/hear...