"It’s not my fault that Azerbaijan sounds like an Orientalist hallucination and Soviet Russia, the oldest joke in the book." - Bela Shayevich jewishcurrents.org/belas-pilgrim

i love trans people

x is so dead. bsky is dead. fb skews too old & highschooly at the same time. ig is too millenial lol. social media is dead! long death to it! onwards with the bot march! or perhaps i just need to be consistenly posting on any platform to have engagement. i dont wanna put in that work tho lol

i miss engagement

Noemi reading TONIGHT at 7PM at Wave Archive in Tucson! Featuring Poetry Editor @dianaarterian.bsky.social, Executive Director @sargzem.bsky.social, and authors @utopiaminus.bsky.social, @raquefella.bsky.social, @jdpluecker.bsky.social, Claire Hong, and @faridmatuk.bsky.social

more anglo white ladies who take on latino last names (sometimes from their husbands, sometimes out of thin air) who slip into cosplaying latinidad ugh please stop

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong. Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

I deeply appreciate stories like these: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/21/e... [gift link]. People are in motion everywhere.

Let's look and analyze what is happening in Ecuador. All too similar to what is happening here in the US, actually. Worldwide solidarity in a dark time. (Article available here at Ojala in English & Spanish.) www.ojala.mx/es/ojala-es/...

register for wednesday's virtual reading with roque raquel salas rivera through charis books, curated by sam ace! www.crowdcast.io/c/october-me...

"No vamos a volver a los márgenes" www.youtube.com/watch?v=73jn...

My Grin Go Home / Las provincias internas from @ultramarinaedit is now for sale in Houston and online through Basket Books! Please support this wonderful independent bookstore. www.basket-books.com/item/aEcSKC9...

midwest mini-tour! a t4t reading in champaign-urbana, illinois wednesday sept 3 and normie creep in the sacred grove reading in iowa city saturday sept 6! come out come out!

this so-called "texas" and this so-called "nation" keep throwing their trash at us, but we --dead & alive-- keep making treasures & beauty 1) bday queen pic (for algorithm) 2) WLT 3) 1st review of The Every Wild in WLT, by scholar Julie Tolliver 4) translation: NO TIRES TU BASURA AQUÍ (DEAD PEOPLE)

when i was little, i learned two songs by heart that i still remember all the words to: tracy chapman's "behind the wall" and janis joplin's "mercedes benz" * still on brand lol *

it is about to be illegal in texas for me to use the public bathroom of my gender in state government buildings, public schools and universities. the tx senate and house have now passed the bill, and it is going back to the senate now for confirmation. www.texastribune.org/2025/08/28/t...

Happy to have been able to translate this small book by the Ayuujk/Mixe writer, linguist, and organizer Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil for @rupturepress. Download for free at www.rupturepress.org/ungovernabil...

"Hoy se cumple una semana de no poder ver Los atardeceres todos los días De no sentir la calidez de la tierra" - Cata “Xóchitl” Santiago Follow @freecatanow to support and stay updated! #FreeXotchil 🌼🌼🌼 #FreeThemAll GoFundMe: bit.ly/freexoch medium.com/@freecatanow...

Please sign. This is my neighborhood in the East End in Houston. chng.it/JbR9bgXLRf

more t4t, yes, and also more tea4tea plz

hugs to all the writers who do the work and pay the fees to submit their books for awards and dont get nominations or longlisted or even a rejection note * sigh *

WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

thinking about deleting this account. most of my non-US friends never came here; they jus stayed on X/tw1tter and i still get more interaction there than here. and i dont need more sosh meedz accounts. trying to simplify

jadine is my legal name

An astonishing figure in this piece: Last year, the U.S. budgeted $12.8B for new affordable housing. This country is now poised to spend $45B on immigrant detention centers. That's nearly *four times* as much on cages as on homes—in the middle of a devastating housing and homelessness crisis.

well, i submitted to creative capital round 2. i want this support so fkin bad. i've applied now 6 times since 2012. 3 times as antena and now 3 times with the unsettlements. damn trying to get $$$upport for your work is so exhausting & hard

"Grief will make you want to begin again." - @elsaulhernandez.bsky.social theoffingmag.com/insight/in-t...

2015 and still true thewalrus.ca/rise-of-the-...

really need some strategies not to lose my shit on mothers day and fathers day. so much gender gender gender oh yeah the strategy is love

still meditating on last night with autumn knight at the eldorado ballroom in houston. brought to us by solange. happy i finally got around to writing about her work last year. southwestcontemporary.com/autumn-knigh...

i love solange so much. and i one thing i love is how she is bringing mid-20th-century Black women composers like Julia Perry and Mary Lou Williams to our ears www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainmen...

all the propaganda against us has consequences www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Some wonderful writing about the recent work of my friend Catalina Schliebener Muñoz, who I've been writing in dialogue with recently. impulsemagazine.com/symposium/yo...

it's june and so far i've made 1/3 of the amount of money i made in the first half of 2024 👀 #freelancer #trans

Coverage of student walkout in support of Marcelo Gomes, the high school junior that ICE kidnapped on his way to volleyball practice Saturday morning. I'm pulling the photos out in the comments bc I want to make sure you guys can see the signs & shirts that these kids made.

Read books in between doomscrolling. Make stuff & then give it away. Watch shit that makes you laugh. Protect your neighbors. Do things that make evil people sad. Stay alive.

Help a migrant trans family in Texas while dad is in detention! We are boosting this fundraiser to see if we can raise some funds in order for Gabriela to make rent this month for herself and her baby. A complete update is on the GoFundMe. www.gofundme.com/f/help-gabri...

New in The Border Chronicle🦂 How Musk’s Starbase Could Become the Most Powerful City in Texas “If these bills get passed, there’s nothing stopping other billionaires from creating their own company towns and owning more of Texas,” said Bekah Hinojosa, a local activist in Brownsville.

A pack of all my books so far, plus a translation of Sara Uribe's poetry and an art catalogue of Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud's work with my accompanying poems. Sliding scale $40-$80. DM to order.

A pack of all my books so far, plus a translation of Sara Uribe's poetry and an art catalogue of Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud's work with my accompanying poems. Sliding scale $40-$80. DM to order.

not how are you trans, but how do you trans

legal name change in process wish me luck changing a gender marker, of course, is illegal nationally and in texas now so despite a court order, none of the agencies will care but #fuckthestate they cant stop us from transing

Legal forms of resistance and litigation strategies aren't the only ways to fight. Thinking so misrepresents the past and weakens the present. It also reveals a strong naivete about the supposed objectivity of oppressive laws. I wrote about it for @prismreports.org. prismreports.org/2025/04/29/t...

support wave: a language liberation hub before the campaign ends today! come hell or high water (and hell & high water always seem to come), our movements keep moving southernvision.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/cont...

and now they are coming for adult transition care through the ACA, ie my freelancer health care

if people are traveling for poetry or non-normy writing this fall, i have an occasional series in houston and im looking to organize a few events. i dont have funds but i have a house where u can stay. i typically pair an out-of-towner with a local. jdpluecker.com/failure-to-i...

Alice Notley passed away Monday night in Paris, where I'm writing from. This will come as a shock to many, but she was battling a number of maladies in recent months, and things had gotten difficult rapidly. Her work is out there. Please feel free to spread the word.

i miss the old days of tw1tter when people were active and engaged and dialoguing and responding and like making meaning through words together