Hi friends. I caught up with Laird's partner, Jessica M today and received permission to share this. As some of you may know, Laird is in need of a new kidney. The appropriate donor would have O blood type. If you or anyone you know may be a willing match & donor, please reach out to me.

Happy Friday from our first “Tom Thumb” popcorn cob of the season! It’s so perfect and tiny I just can’t handle it!

This summer has not been what I expected💀 Grateful nonetheless for having a loving community, a cute cat, a dog who hates the rain, a beautiful garden, and recovering quickly from viral meningitis!

I'll be reading in this amongst some phenomenal, lovely humans to support a phenomenal, lovely mag! Hope to see you there!

"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green." Happy Lottery day to you and yours.

going to just wander the streets listening to God Only Knows and crying for the forseeable future

🚨🚨 Submission Call Time! 🚨🚨 We're going to be open for submissions for ONE HOUR... late tonight/early tomorrow morning! shoutout the night owls, the early risers, but maybe most of all, the int'l peeps! this link will be live between 4am and 5am ET havehashad.submittable.com/submit/32629...

The best mail is @stanchion.bsky.social book mail! Can’t wait to dig into Issue 18!

Feeling centered by @sbfeldman.bsky.social's words of creative resistance in my inbox this morning. "As a reader, though, I have never, ever felt lost. I bet you haven’t, either." Spent time after revising my current project for me, for my survival in these times, for the relief.

For the last month, we have been watching a nest of great horned owls on our trail. The owlets are huge now, so curious and ridiculous looking. So, in case you too need to look at some owlets, here you go!

Go pre-order Jeff’s beautiful book!! Jeff is an amazing human and phenomenal writer, and also, there’s cats!!

Have a little weird one out today with @havehashad.com! Pleased as punch to get my second skull!

"Gerta lost her mother in the fifth grade and became a horse for a year." — Skyler Melnick I wanna give you more — the whole thing is so, so good; every sentence perfect and a marvel — but if that doesn't grab you, I don't know what to say. https://www.havehashad.com/88t4b

Happy World Kidney Day! Donating my kidney was one of the best things I’ve ever done. Save a life! Share your spare! It’s worth it❤️

Life has been weird. The world has been pretty bad! I recommend cocooning in a hammock, protected by a large dog.

I cannot actually believe the submission window for Issue 18 of Stanchion Magazine is still open. If you got something, send it in! StanchionZine.com/submissions

Her smile will make your day I hope

Proud of my home state: TITS OUT, AGAINST ALL KINGS

PRE-ORDER ANNOUNCEMENT @writesloud.bsky.social Hannah Grieco's captivating debut short story collection introduces us to women hungry to know who they are outside the expectations of others. Pre-order one of the most anticipated books of the summer!! www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

This order will kill kids, there's no other way to say it. It's the government forcibly taking control of the bodies of thousands of children.

Got some good sheep scratching done yesterday!

"Check on your trans frie-" No. Give them money. Hire them. Buy them a video game.

some buds act like it is so hard to love but it is so easy. you just do nothing. in the absence of all things, we just love. it is what we are built to do. just strip off everything else, all the baggage, and love is underneath

With art, we can save ourselves, then we can save each other.

‘Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity’ is available for preorder wherever fine books are sold, due out on May 27th—and these are all the folks whose work I’m honored to present: Esther Alter - Bendi Barrett - Ta-wei Chi, trans. Ariel Chu - Colin Dean - Maya Deane - Dominique Dickey [1/2]

Listen, I was shopping for N95 masks and @originalshena2.bsky.social recommended Bona Fide Masks cuz they're having a sale, but I forgot to use the discount code when I checked out. I e-mailed, explained the situation and asked if I could have the discount anyway... (1/2)

My stalwart writing companion, Little Vito, and I are on a writing roll. Trying to figure out the heart of this new project, and feel closer every day. Survival, community, commitments to each other and to the environment. Also, cats😂

A carefully written, harrowing story. To fellow survivors, if you need anything, please lmk. Trying to both sit with this and push this from my mind, as it brings up so much anger and fear and grief.

I am so in love with this cat. His first winter inside!

Scenes from this week. Not pictured: Writing the new project and spending a lot of time looking at maps of Central PA. Finding tenderness in a remarkably shitty world. Eyeing my subcutaneous fat through a hole in my abdomen. Eating fig cake.

Get KZK paid!! Kris is an amazing person and a better writer. You don’t want to miss this book.

You have a unique opportunity right now: next book club membership sold &/or pre-order of Ladies, Ladies, Ladies gets Kristen Zory King her 2nd lump sum payment ($250) for a 2nd printing weeks before the book is published. How rad to be the person who gets an author paid. www.stanchionzine.com/shop

ins and outs for queerness 2025 (aspirational, not predictive)

My recent photo library is all wound pics to send to my surgeon and to compare from day to day (and hour to hour), but I would like to share Leroy’s fluffy tail instead. Less harrowing.

GRADING IS COMPLETE! Hurrah for the end of a long semester. 5 classes taught, 1 kidney donated, 1 cat acquired, many hairs lost. The very first thing to do now is to sit down with a big cup of tea and write on this snowy afternoon❤️

Morning walk and/or gothic novel landscape. The hardest part of surgery recovery at this point is discovering all the little ways one’s body can become horrifying. I am healing well, but my wounds find new ways to be troubling every day. Don’t ever google wound dehiscence!

Very proud to publish this wonderfully written essay: www.texasobserver.org/uvalde-trans...

Feels like an apt metaphor that the snow came and went in the dark, hiding its beauty and leaving slush in the morning. Don’t know what it’s a metaphor for, but it’s certainly something. Or maybe grading and sifting through AI slop is making my brain leak out of my ears.

Happy birthday to my favorite writer in the world, Shirley Jackson, who wrote the best opening paragraph of any book ever, introducing the best protagonist ever

I’m thinking of returning to the roots of social media and just posting pictures of my pets. Good? Good.

dear cis & straight friends: if you're dismayed about increasing political & legislative attacks on trans & LGBTQ+ ppl, here's something tangible you can do: PLEASE CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES TODAY and tell them #LGBTQNotGoingBack!

Leroy is the master of the doofy candid😂

Introducing the December Trans Readathon! I’m gonna read one trans book every day this December and add them to my holiday calendar, and you’re all welcome to join me 💕 #DecemberTransReadathon

Made a starter pack of lit mags and presses that have been around a while and made their way to Bluesky.

Nobody talk to me, nobody look at me. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Did you know The Bell Jar, The Handmaid's Tale, The Feminine Mystique, and more all appeared on Sesame Street in the 90s? The @muppetwiki.bsky.social team finally created a page for my favorite little-known running gag: Prairie Dawn's Feminist Literature collection muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Prairie...

Wanted to reshare my voicemail skull from @havehashad.com today to say, my kidney is her kidney as of 8 am yesterday❤️

Made a starter pack of Identity Theory contributors. It is missing a bunch of people. Let us know if it is missing you.

When I taught this poem this semester, my students connected with it so deeply, and had a blast pulling out every sensory detail and every little turn that created home❤️

The spice level has intensified. #NWSL