I've never had a trans woman tell me to get back in the kitchen, or make a "joke" about how women shouldn't be allowed to vote. I've never seen trans women outside the planned parenthood calling women murderers and whores. trans women have never dogged me out for incorrectly performing femininity

Open call for #trans folks in #Baltimore. I'm working on a story about trans people who moved to Baltimore for safety reasons. Looking to highlight trans voices, but would also love to hear from parents of trans kids. If this sounds like you, DM me! #independentjournalism #indiejournalism

Super excited to share this story I wrote for #TDoR. Too often, trans people have our stories told for us. I was honored that so many trusted me to share theirs here.

If you like em dashes, you'll LOVE my book!

My award-winning short-story, "MPDGF", is officially out! Check it out in Vol. 7 of SHIFT Magazine, beginning on pg. 14: www.ringling.edu/wp-content/u... (cover art by @/pungsandogart on IG) #writingcommunity #writesky

please meet Alex the Great, a therapy bunny who works at the San Fran airport and now Giants games to help people who are overwhelmed LOOK AT HIS TINY BALLCAP. LOOK AT IT.

The law is not going to jump out the books and save us from people who are intent on destroying everything in their path and who are willing to kill us all in the process. Please understand this.

Wrapping up my line edits today and I want to assure you that every last em dash is intentional and implemented entirely by myself or my editor and we are both real living human beings as far as I am aware.

A poem for today: "Go Slow" by Langston Hughes. He puts into words something that's been on my mind lately - the double standards oppressed people are held to in their resistance. A good and necessary reminder. #poetryfortherevolution #poetry

The story of LGBT rights is a story of advances followed by setbacks followed by media with no skin in the game saying, "It's because you were too loud/asked for too much/moved too fast/got too big for your britches/didn't make your case." That never changes--but happily it's never the last word.

“how people should protest the right way” is a parlor game played by people whose experience of protest is watching the news on tv

I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, "no. get out."

as a text-based creature in an increasingly video-first world I'd like to be cherished as a sort of charismatic but doomed animal, to be fed treats in my enclosure until I meet my inevitable demise, after which my taxidermied corpse might greet visitors in a lobby somewhere

Diversity Win! Went to the grocery store without wanting to Kill Myself!

(clutching my keys like my life depends on it) may we live in interesting times… (choking on my bird flu chicken) may we LIVE in interesting times… (wincing at the leathery taste of tech billionaire boot) may we live in INTERESTING times (keeling over from the Plague) MAY WE LIVE—

change of plans. feeling like I'm just gonna come to terms with my rusty cage

Super excited to share that my short story "MPDGF" is forthcoming for publication in SHIFT Magazine's 7th issue this summer! Just got the first proof back, and it's a delight. (Cover art by Claire Oh, @/pungsandogart on IG.)

Daily reminder that it's never too late to read my short story "The Psychologist" in Grub Street 72! If you want fucked up women, literary dread, and a story that made someone in my workshop ask what "happened to me"-it's for you. (Pg.119 of PDF, ~10 min read) bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/wp.towson.ed...

said i wasn't making a bluesky, yet here i am - it gets us all in the end. death, taxes, and The Apps.