Today is the pub day for TERRY DACTYL!!! Watch out, world...🎉🎉🎉🎉 A huge thank-you to @katieleeellison.bsky.social for a *beautiful* conversation in @thestranger.com, what a great way to welcome this book into the world... Get ready for trouble...💚💜💚💜💚💜💚

Honey Don't was great.

Nisi Shawl is one of my favorite writers, a queer elder & a BIPOC icon. I hate that the state of publishing is such that the book of their dreams would struggle to find a home, but I love that we as a community can come together to make it happen!! Give/boost as you're able? 🙏 gofund.me/3a52097a

Latest @thestranger.com with Chloe Caldwell about TRYING out of @graywolfpress.bsky.social. I did ask about the mention of the beauty brand Ilia in the book, yes. www.thestranger.com/books/2025/0...

Thanks for including Mother of Methadone on Bloomberg's top reads for July! It comes out tomorrow, wherever you buy books 🧡 @bloomberg.com @beaconpress.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I wanna see tears people!!! (In the best way). Go give $5 if you can. Repost if you can’t , or if you can!

I need everyone to see this. And for my friends outside the United States, please see how people here are standing up every day against this. We are fighting.

Lawrence Burney is the friend who is always turning you on to the best music, artists, and books before anyone else. He's put months worth of cool shit into these pages. Sample the riches on offer in this interview with @katieleeellison.bsky.social about NO SENSE IN WISHING, then try and not buy it

The latest interview, this time with Lawrence Burney about his new essay collection, NO SENSE IN WISHING, is live @thestranger.com. A cut not in the final: "It would be difficult for me to come out of the African tradition and lineage..." 1/3 www.thestranger.com/books/2025/0...

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

Book people: the following small presses have just lost funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Please consider supporting them! A Thread.

The news is very very very bad today.

This is great campaign messaging. No wonder the establishment is so shook.

And here's a round up of every interview I've done with @thestranger.com so far, including Daniel Tam-Claiborne, Melissa Febos, Vivian Blaxell, Lidia Yuknavitch, Freda Epum, and more 💕, as well as some personal updates. open.substack.com/pub/katielee...

I should share these here too, yes. @thestranger.com www.thestranger.com/books/2025/0...

We're pleased to announce that the inimitable @katieleeellison.bsky.social is joining our team as a contributing editor! Katie is an amazing writer herself and runs the fab Nonfiction for No Reason reading series. Here's an essay she published with us a few years back: mosslit.com/katie-lee-el...

Working a 9-5 is so lonely.

"A straight man's greatest fear is being understood." - Cole Escola 🙏

For federal workers who have been laid off:

When I heard myself make that lady clip clop walking down the street.

Is that book “genius” or is it just dense and bitchy?

Thank you @littlepuss.net for bringing me to @vivianblaxell.bsky.social. New interview @thestranger.com just in time for her release of WORTHY OF THE EVENT. www.thestranger.com/books/2025/0...

Recently finished @melissabroder.bsky.social's Death Valley so all I sing all-day long is Sh-Boom. Anyone else?

Editing jobs at @salonnewsroom.bsky.social!

I really loved this conversation. Please read this @thestranger.com, then read @lidiamiles.bsky.social READING THE WAVES. www.thestranger.com/books/2025/0...

Let's go! Donations to NFNR with comment "LA FIRES" gets you on the list. There are stairs at the venue. See you soon! @fredaepum.bsky.social @porochista.bsky.social @arielabergriger.bsky.social @nicoleshawanjunior.bsky.social

Tonight! 100 tickets sold, let's sell 100 more for people who need care, for community, because we're what we've got.

I see a lot of you sharing writing about abortion that isn't rooted in original reporting, so I made a starter pack to help! go.bsky.app/83DhXzb

in the second installment of my new column at @thestranger.com, I wrote about how PNB's latest rep is challenging old gender norms in ballet. it was so beautiful and I would like to see more of this! www.thestranger.com/girly-pop/20...

See you Thursday bbs! Let's raise dollars for #abortion! www.siff.net/cinema/in-th...

NEWS: In USDA, multiple people have been asked to report the names of LGBTQ employee resource group leaders to higher-ranking officials, according to interviews with workers and a document reviewed by Mother Jones. + similar in the Department of the Interior

She's live. Don't miss @fredaepum.bsky.social on @thestranger.com www.thestranger.com/books/2025/0...

Also: @fredaepum.bsky.social @porochista.bsky.social @nicoleshawanjunior.bsky.social #awp2025 #awp25

Help us raise money for Northwest Abortion Access Fund that provides services to people nationwide. Watch a film, hear local stories from BIPOC and trans writers, and build community. FEBRUARY 27 7PM @siffnews.bsky.social queen anne. Tickets: www.siff.net/cinema/in-th...

Don't miss this screening, reading, and fundraiser for abortion access on FEBRUARY 27 AT 7 @siffnews.bsky.social queen anne. Get tickets: www.siff.net/cinema/in-th...

So who wants to share their CSA links?

Seattle! See you downtown at noon in support of federal employees!

Your heart will thank you for this book. My heart thanks @lidiamiles.bsky.social for it and this self-altering conversation, coming in @thestranger.com.web.brid.gy this spring. Get READING THE WAVES so you understand why we end up talking about birds. 💙🦭🐦‍⬛🌊

Tickets available NOW at the link below. Turn out for abortion access, for the stories we need to hear in the film, and on stage, the ones we need to hear from writers that are not white cis women.

So inspiring to follow Craig's members' programme over the last few years — and Craig is especially kind in sharing what he's learned

Is anyone working in ai environmental and climate impacts and would be willing to talk to a student journalist briefly? If so, drop your contacts. 🙏

This piece from @nycjayjay.bsky.social slowed my heart-rate a little bit

FEB 27 7PM @siffnews.bsky.social queen anne. Half of ticket sales goes to the Northwest Abortion Access Fund. Tickets available soon. Save the date. www.siff.net/cinema/in-th...

This was an idle thought when I posted it, but trans folks: If you have wishlists of items you need/want for your transition, surgery/hrt fundraisers, or MA needs, drop your links here. Cis folk especially: See what you can give. Transition is expensive in the best of times, & this ain't that.

A good day to remind whoever needs reminding that trans folks have existed for thousands of years and will continue to exist for generations to come, and no speech or order will change that.

Patches and sweatshirts finally on the waaayyy am I dissociating? Shure!

hi friends, submissions are open over at @splitlipthemag.bsky.social! plz send your reviews and interviews over recently released and forthcoming literary books, would love to read your work! guidelines in the post below, & we pay our contributors! repost & share with your friends 👄✨

Tonight. First of the year. I'm so excited. ✨

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