Zohran Mamdani Launches $15 Million Trans Care Investment: “New York City Is Stepping Up”

M to F Night Shyamalan

Judge Mark Pittman, who signed the case over to Judge Reed O'Connor, is who presided over the Prairieland trial in the US Northern District of Texas, where the protest occurred. O'Connor, who's had a role in several anti-trans DOJ efforts, handed down some of the sentences with Pittman yesterday.

Someone Help Josh Hawley Understand MLB’s Three-Page Rebuke to His Pride Tantrum

Wait, we thought you could “always tell”...

BTW, for folks new here, please check out this incredible anthology I co-edited featuring brilliant talent like: @samanthaallen.bsky.social, @priscadorcas.bsky.social, @jeannakadlec.bsky.social, @emmagray.bsky.social, @claireefallon.bsky.social & more! bookshop.org/a/20948/9781...

This will go well, surely.

Jesse Watters Served Pickle Cake to JD Vance Because Fudge Is “Too Gay”

Today in conservatives playing gender detective with absolutely everyone.

A Lush Pride Display of a Tiger With Top Surgery Scars Sparks Right-Wing Outrage

Huge stuff! Go @ilanaslightly.bsky.social!!!

And it's not about hockey! Puck is reclaiming their rightful place. #collectiondevelopment bookshop.org/a/4013/97816...

Just DEVOURED this one! I could not put it down and finished it in just over a day ❤️ This one was so much fun to read - a modern queer retelling of A Midsummer Night's Dream that was so amazing and hilarious. It had wonderful NB representation which I loved to see! #booksky

This Pride month, please don't forget about all the queer and trans books that came out the rest of the year (like mine, which is both queer and trans ^_^)

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If you have ever emailed a writer to let them know you enjoyed something they wrote, you are among the noblest and best and most saintly in this entire world, and I hope you sleep really well tonight.

Saw Tim Meadows in an airport and said nothing to him. That man has to think about his whole life before he boards his plane.

Went on a fantastic bookstore crawl on Thursday to get this #pride haul! Lots of exciting recent releases :)) You should check out all these authors: @planetx.bsky.social @willowcatelyn.bsky.social @blipstress.bsky.social @susanstryker.bsky.social @samanthaallen.bsky.social

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New York State's Budget Allocated $0 to New Gender-Affirming Care Resources. Advocates Want to Know Why

Here's where I'm at this Pride Month! June 4 - convo partner for Samantha Allen's new romcom PUCK, a modern queer Midsummer Night's Dream retelling Somerville, MA

For @literaryhub.bsky.social, to mark the release of PUCK, I wrote about how Shakespeare’s comedies predict reality television.

Hello! My new novel PUCK, a queer and trans retelling of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM is out today! Buy a copy now and come see me on tour! linktr.ee/readpuck

My book PUCK — a queer retelling of A Midsummer Night’s Dream that reimagines Puck as a nonbinary reality TV producer — is out next Tuesday! I would love it if you bought a copy and/or came to a tour stop! Info for everything is here: linktr.ee/readpuck

Los Angeles, Boston, Louisville, Kansas City, New York! I’m going on tour next week! RSVP to come see me using the link below: linktr.ee/readpuck

Honestly, one of the funniest tweets I've ever seen.

BREAKING: The body of Murry Foust, a missing 22-year-old trans college student at Northern Kentucky University, has been found after a weeks-long search. Authorities say there are “currently no indications of foul play.”

For my very first piece for @bloomberg.com, I wrote about reality TV, new books about it, and my theory that we are still watching it in the age of influencers because it's a fundementally social endeavor (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Lawsuit Challenging Idaho’s Bathroom Bill Dismissed After Student Plaintiff Dies by Suicide

Ginger’s!

I have some news for @alamodrafthouse.bsky.social about Val Kilmer’s role in Top Gun: Maverick.

Slain Trans UW Student Identified as Juniper Blessing: “The Most Amazing Human Being”

Not extremely well known YET because it's not out until June but @samanthaallen.bsky.social's PUCK is going to be the nonbinary chaos Midsummer Night's Dream retelling of the summer

🎶 It’s the most wonderful time of the year 🎶

For @electricliterature.com, my co-editor and I spotlit eight fascinating and/or thoroughly enjoyable books about reality TV, including those by: @emilynussbaum.bsky.social, @samanthaallen.bsky.social, @lydiaetc.bsky.social, @djlindee.bsky.social and more! electricliterature.com/8-thought-pr...

me sleeping seven hours vs. me sleeping six hours and 42 minutes

I have an essay in this and I would love if you bought it and then read my essay and then told me you liked it.

NEW: The Department of Education announced Monday it has opened a Title IX investigation into Smith College over the school’s trans-inclusive acceptance policy. The investigation marks an escalation of the Trump administration’s efforts to restrict and regulate trans people in higher education.

There are a lot of positives to the current era of creator-led online writing (anyone can have a Substack and make money from it! Be your own boss!) but the deterioration of more traditional outlets and losing that guidance and mentorship piece is a huge loss for longterm quality and creativity.

This story is so wild. I know Democratic primaries get heated but insisting that your trans opponent deadname herself (!) feels like one of those clear bright lines I’ve heard so much about.

NEW: In the Democratic primary for Michigan’s 2nd House District, former representative Frank Liberati filed a complaint alleging his opponent Joanna Whaley violated campaign law by not listing her deadname on her application for the ballot— even though Whaley has indeed legally changed her name.

In Defense of “Sock” Contrary to viral internet claims, nonbinary people still exist. But the jokes aren’t helping.

Close enough. Welcome back, Black Swan.

Dermatologist’s new patient paperwork had a “sex assigned at birth” M/F checkbox, no other sex/gender field, and then a *preferred* pronouns fill-in. Baffling. Couldn’t tell whether it was just clunky or some kind of 301-level transphobia?

If you live in Los Angeles, please join me and my coeditor and our incredible LA-based contributors for our launch party for the Bachelor anthology on May 6, 7pm, at The Hoxton in DTLA!

I will never return to Twitter cadence for your sake and mine, but I would like to post on here slightly more often. Hello, I’m Samantha! You may know me as the author of the following four books, the last of which is available for pre-order, or as the managing editor of @them.us, a gay website. 👋

Tim Heidecker Wants to Make Infowars the Premier Destination for Trans Comedy

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