Kicking off our worldwide Pride series 🪩 We’re traveling city by city, starting in Berlin with our Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief @vmkirin.bsky.social to celebrate the spaces our team and contributors have created in celebration, resistance, and community. #WritingCommunity #PrideMonth #LitMag

My upcoming workshop hits this July ☀️ Mastering the Art of the Interview — July 7, 14 & 21 w/ HerStry For fiction writers researching lived experiences + nonfiction writers building narratives. 👇 herstryblg.com/marketplace/mastering-the-art-of-the-interview #writingcommunity

I'm kickass at interviewing. I published an award-winning book built on interviews. I've also hosted five podcasts. It’s a superpower that informs every aspect of what goes on the page. I'm teaching a 3wk workshop on interviewing for authors in July. Check it out: herstryblg.com/event-calend...

Why the U.S. drinking age experiment failed and how I would have saved it. open.substack.com/pub/scalingl...

Our quarterly FLINTA* health x Lit meet up is this weekend! Join @vmkirin.bsky.social, editor in chief of Anodyne Magazine, at the Greens in #Berlin for a coffee, conversation, and free writing. Can’t wait to see you! luma.com/s36p35cl?loc...

My keynote speech today at MoStart unpacked why #DeSci is siloed and how to get to a wider audience.

Yes, I’m saying that there is a deepening hypocrisy in #writing, and we need to deal with it fast. open.substack.com/pub/scalingl...

AI was trained on proper grammar via stolen classic books. So when you say writing sounds like AI you’re saying it sounds like it uses proper writing mechanics that you know nothing about. #writingcommunity

Vinyl #music isn’t just better to listen to, it’s better FOR you. I think I have some compelling reasons why. open.substack.com/pub/scalingl...

“We are a 'high-tech, low-culture' society, wielding god-like tools with social structures stuck in the Roman Era.” My new #AI essay is a strong call for cultural development. www.phiand.ai/p/its-time-f...

Don’t get lost writing when you have a message to share with the world. Let’s roadmap it (for free). the-visibility-experiment.heysummit.com?ac=G7t2lcNu

You prep for natural disasters. Why not prep for emotional ones? luma.com/67sigwmo

Read the full essay about wielding anger and hope in tandem: wagingnonviolence.org/2026/03/bono...

Would you want out of this crazy condo building? I sure did, but they still charge me dues. open.substack.com/pub/scalingl...

Made myself a pair of leather spats to cover a seam issue in my leather boots. #leatherwork #craft

Believe in #nonviolence? So does Bono. My new essay explains why. wagingnonviolence.org/2026/03/bono...

I can’t teach you how to stop the chaos of the world, but I can show you how to stay sane while it all happens. Join me in my new #workshop series “Staying Sane in the Unending Enshittification” and get tools for resiliency that actually work. luma.com/67sigwmo

I know I could ask AI the question, but I asked YOU the question because that’s how friendship works. It nurtures our relationship to discuss random things and I want deeper friends not deeper tech. 💜

If you’re in the #writingcommunity, you’ll want to check out this workshop.

Updated outline for my “move abroad” book. Would you read it? What aspect sparks the most curiosity? #usa #writingcommunity

Happy world #Anthropology day. I see Anthropology not as the opportunity to study minority cultures, but it’s the opportunity to better understand the world and to tear down ethnocentrism. That is why I became an anthropologist.

My favorite band in the world just dropped an album with a slay of a statement. Yessssss. #u2

How are those 2026 writing goals going? If you’re getting stuck, let me know. I’m obsessed with seeing writers become authors who wield the written word like a sword (yes I’m making that reference 😜). Schedule a complimentary call here: veronicakirin.com/editing/

My new guide for leaving the USA is live. open.substack.com/pub/scalingl...

Just got my first publisher rejection of the year. 💪🏻 #writingcommunity

My goal was to send 150 pitches in 2026. I’m already at 48. Time to adjust my plans. 😅 #writingcommunity

So you’re telling me that the same men who own companies that fight tooth and nail against safety and environmental regulations were found in the Epstein files? Shocking.

Hands down my favorite writing music. I try to listen to something different each morning but, honestly, the #wavetale game soundtrack is the one I return to most. What’s yours? #writingcommunity

My latest piece — a narrative essay about reproductive rights — was just published in @unborderedmag.bsky.social !!!!!! Have a look (pg 15): www.unborderedmag.com/issues

In other news I’ve spent two months pitching freelance in Web3 (the weird niche I’ve carved for myself) and gotten no replies so starting today I’m pitching as a man. This will either lead to actual interviews or a solid feminist essay. Stay tuned. ✊🏼

Just finished typing my first novel (manuscript was written pencil and paper). It’s 30,689 words. A nice little queer dystopian sci-fi Novella shaping up — we’ll see how much more gets added after more edits and beta readers. 😅 #writingcommunity

Navigate change without losing your shit. I’m speaking for free at the Mother of all Menopause Summits next month. My talk will provide tools for navigating all kinds of change, including perimenopause and menopause. Save your free seat here: motherofallmenopausesummits.com/lp1?am_id=ve...

Dunno who needs this message of peace today. Take ten minutes with this song to tap back into beauty. youtu.be/YsgP8LkEopM?...

Uhm. Exqueeze me? open.substack.com/pub/underthe...

There are only two options for stopping abuse with this much power. open.substack.com/pub/scalingl...

This is how abuse works. The abuser takes and hits and takes and hits until met with force equal to or greater than its own. I’m terrified of that moment, of how many beautiful, innocent, good people will be lost. As a social scientist, I know it’s coming. #minneapolis

Pssttt have you seen the new Ground Work Academy yet? Now is the time to look — I’m offering 10% off any course or guidebook until the end of January. Just use code XFNQ8MN-JAN on checkout. 💜 vmkirin.gumroad.com

My magazine is open for subs and we want YOU to show the world why health equity matters goddammit. Give us your harshest critique, your slay of words on page, your flourish of colors and shapes. We’re ready. #writingcommunity #art

Hey #writingcommunity — I want to reference a doc in my research but it’s never been translated to English. I have a translator but no fund. What do we do? This doc is of importance to French history and freedom post-WWII if that helps. Thanks!

Tom Johnson is selling t-shirts now! If you’ve never come across this cozy channel, you’re in for a treat. We can’t wait to get our shirts and support him. youtube.com/@johnsonrest...

I’m so deep into #conformitygate and eating it up with a giant spoon. #strangerthings

Looking for a way to get to (and write from) Europe? This scholarship might be your ticket. ijnet.org/en/opportuni...

Just got my first rejection of the year. #writingcommunity

"Peace President." [Cartoon by Jesse Duquette]

Returning to my desk after a two-week holiday break and it's DUSTY. Mission accomplished. Happy new year!

I think it’s a win that I’ve been showering every day of winter break. 😅🛁

We’re in between the years, now. Time to do the Ground Work of 2026. open.substack.com/pub/scalingl...

The next #deadpool film needs to take place 50 years from now when everyone he knows and loves is dying and he’s still looking young and fine. How much more irreverent does he become? Does he become besties w/ Cable? 🥹👉🏻👈🏻

Who doesn’t want to learn from Octavia Butler and @philippullmanreal.bsky.social? Let’s talk predicting the future, paradigm shifts, and agency. #writingcommunity open.substack.com/pub/scalingl...

Thank you so much for sharing my essay with your readers! #writingcommunity #holidays