For Pride month, I want to share the preface to my book “Coal of Fire,” a personal essay about gender transition, Bible translation, and the manifold ways God names our difference as belovedness. (1/2)

In our house, the cartoon series “Spidey and His Amazing Friends” is known as Spidey Babies. Baby franchises are perfect for giving nostalgic parents a way to connect with their kids in preschool and grade school.

The Migration With Dignity Lectionary is continuing at the Episcopal Migration Caucus site: a new meditation on scriptural texts in light of immigration justice every week episcopal-migration-caucus.ghost.io/mwd-lectiona... ⚓

My beloved little weirdo book Wearing The Lion is out in paperback today! Happy day to one irate Auntie Hera and one himbo Heracles. I hope y'all like found family!

We put our ballots in a drop box across the street today. Find a drop box! There are lots of them!

"Abolishing ICE, then, is the floor towards abolishing all policing and carceral systems. Abolishing ICE also means permanent, full rights for migrants and abolishing the border itself—a structuring force for all immigration, policing, and military violence." www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

This is modified from the Tin Can Knits Harvest cardigan pattern btw (I added the pockets and cables) which is a really lovely easy top-down cardigan

Speaking of knitting, it still needs sleeves and pocket linings but I’m REALLY happy with how this sweater is (finally) coming together

This is a great thread and not just relevant to preaching:

Love to arrive here this afternoon and see post after post passionately defending libraries to which of course I have to add:

"close Delaney Hall and free every person in there" is the demand, so direct that (in my experience) some people may miss it rather than accept it

a good portion of what people mean by “crime” is “visible homeless people, some of whom are behaving erratically“

Once again begging for a non-police option for routine disputes that do not merit an armed response but do require an external intervention

LRP you want to take away pardons then I get to abolish prisons. that's the exchange.

Happy release day to @shannonchakraborty.bsky.social and @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social, two wonderful fun hopeful poignant important thought-provoking pirate books out today!!!

"If you come for the romance and the heist, you’ll get them. But this book is urgent for another reason entirely. And I can’t recommend it enough." What an amazing review from Vincent Halles at Phrasemaker. This reviewer GETS IT. Thank you!! thephrasemaker.com/2026/05/08/r... #IgnoreThisBook

This is my very professional post promoting the very professional giveaway for my real book for adults about a deranged dragon whose heads can’t stop arguing with each other. Damn it, I was almost normal for a whole sentence. Anyway! Here is a giveaway!

Ok but the millennial songs are: Teenage Dream My Life would Suck Without You Toxic

This Mother's Day, at least 125,000 mothers will be separated from their minor children because of mass incarceration. Today reminds us again that people behind bars are not nameless “offenders,” but beloved family members and friends whose presence—and absence—matters. #MothersDay

two more sleeps two more sleeps buttondown.com/ada-hoffmann... #IgnoreThisBook

This Mother’s Day, nearly 150,000 mothers will spend the day apart from their children. 58% of all women in U.S. prisons are mothers. 80% of women in jails, including many who are incarcerated awaiting trial simply bc they can’t afford bail. Read: www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2023/03...

This is a new expansion of horrors, but also: this has been the case in our prisons for years and years. Secrecy breeds abuse

Metaphor for abolitionist organizing right here 🤣

I wish people could understand. I once had a client accept a guilty plea - when I had absolute evidence he had not committed the crime - because they were going to make him sit in jail until trial.

DID YOU KNOW I just launched an advice column about pet end-of-life choices, grief, mourning, and related matters? Read, subscribe, and submit questions! Please! I need validation!! Tyia

This is how school-to-prison pipelines are built. But our budgets should reflect our values. We should be investing in life-giving things like schools and housing and healthcare instead of the things of death and incarceration.

Years ago, county leaders here decided to spend millions on a prison nobody wanted. Many of us protested. We wrote letters and went to meetings. We preached sermons. They moved forward anyway. Now, millions later, they can't afford to fund our schools. www.themountaineer.com/news/schools...

"It’s sweeping, personal, and touches on many timely topics. Lovers of character-driven sf should make this a must-read." See the full starred review now up on Booklist: www.booklistonline.com/products/982... #IgnoreThisBook

The thing that fascinates me about TESCREALism is that it’s absolutely anti-existentialist. The response to it is existentialism, secular or religious!

New article that quotes me talking about how the TESCREAL ideologies have gotten us into the current mess with AI: religionnews.com/2026/05/06/i...

Criminalization is the fuel of fascism.

People refuse to believe it and most who do believe it usually shrug it off but US prisons and jails are in fact torture chambers. Conditions are HORRIFIC across the board. People are OK with this on the whole.

More striking art in the LACMA collection:

#giveaway Two ways to win IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS by @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social #thestorygraph buff.ly/tWj1nkj MOST EVERYWHERE #goodreads buff.ly/QpydExD US ONLY “[A] revelation. It hooked me from page one and never loosened its hold on me” @johnjosephadams.com @hannahnpbowman.com

In honor of #MayTheFourth, images of some pieces from the recent Future Imaginaries exhibit at the #Autry Museum. (Alt text is taken from signs at the exhibit.)

Every detained immigrant death is preventable if we simply end immigrant detention.

I am renewing my call for a new Code to govern Hollywood releases. Not like the old Code, a better Code. 1. Does this movie have a submarine? 2. If not, why not? 3. Are you sure, have you tried? 4. I will also accept claustrophobic space vessels and mineshafts

HURRAH! to paraphrase, every human being that we claw back from this system is a whole universe

Early reviews consistently say things like ‘this book fucked me up’ perfect this is going exactly as I planned, please preorder so you can be fucked up in July! (And I can feed my living cats.)

Decarceration, not millions in "reforms": theappeal.org/california-d... (Meanwhile the hostility to elder parole in CA is demonstrating why it's SO HARD to shrink the prison system. But we CAN, and we MUST, make policy changes that LET PEOPLE OUT)

This evening, as we gathered in virtual community, I reflected on how important it is to remain committed to freeing people from cages. Each release is a miracle. Decarceration is as urgent as ever, and we need new recruits to this cause. It's been an honor to be part of this sacred work.

Prisons across the country are stripping away physical mail to combat drug smuggling, severing family bonds in the process. But "mail scanning" focuses on the wrong part of the problem, failing to prevent overdoses and leaving officials aiming at a constantly shifting target.

It’s all just so cruel

This is your semi-regular reminder that you can pre-order my book if you want a deep theological dive into the church's role in creating an alternate spatiality to the exclusion, division, and violence of our carceral and punitive society:

Rep. Rashida Tlaib just introduced a bill to ban ICE from turning warehouses into concentration camps. Last week, @charmainechua.bsky.social wrote about the link between warehouses, commercial surplus, and carceral expansion: "A concealed infrastructure created by capitalists, adapted by fascists."

This is in my opinion one of the best poems in the English language. Maybe my very favorite.

Beautiful piece on a beautiful space:

What the fuck, stop funding concentration camps

The existing 6-month rule is cruel. It forces people who fled for their very lives and who have a legal right to be here into the shadow economy at great personal (and legal and immigration) risk. Extending it is obscene. This is one of those moves I used to think big business would block. 🤷‍♀️