If you change your sex hard enough you end up running a small press and getting birthday cards from two different Blakes

May 27, save the date DC!!! All the learned transsexuals will be there 🧐🍷 @submorstua.bsky.social

May’s free (virtual) workshop: THE GENRE SELF with Isle McElroy Sunday, May 17 at 6 PM EST Virtual | Registration here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-genre-...

could i interest you in siobhan fredericks' "jean genet obviously has no idea about transvestites" review of our lady of the flowers from 1963?

Ok I want this to be the year I read my first Genet and Pynchon but don’t know where to start with either; suggestions welcome!

Have we considered that bloodletting was less of serious medical practice and more of like, a pervert thing? lol

A kid at work told me they’re an “animal researcher” and that their favorite animal is SIPHONOPHORES??? Perfect answer, almost started crying on the spot

Luke Sutherland and Aris Cumara:

April's workshop is coming up QUICK, and it's a good one... WRITING THE TRANS EROTIC with Lucie Fielding ( @sexbeyondbinaries.bsky.social ) Sunday, April 5 at 1 PM EST Rhizome DC | 6950 Maple St NW, Washington, DC 20012 *** 18 + ONLY ***

If you’ve been on our webstore recently, you may have noticed something: our first book, Issue 00 is available again! lilacperil.bigcartel.com/product/issu...

Loved working on this story with @ruecodey.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥 I’m super proud of the issue the smoke + mold team put together. smokeandmold.net/issue-13-spr...

My latest short story, “Kraken,” is finally out from smoke and mold. It’s gross, it’s sad, it’s basically tentacle porn, and it’s the best short story I’ve written so far. Check it out here: smokeandmold.net/issue-13-spr...

This happening in dc is extra funny, a city where one could easily meet 42 trans people at the Petworth farmer’s market alone

Why do gay guys make that face. You know the ine

Another day at the Candy Darling factory

NEW: In Minneapolis, @cameronoakes.bsky.social and Sam Donndelinger report, ICE’s Operation Metro Surge is preventing Latino patients from accessing HIV care. This story was produced in collaboration with @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social, an investigative LGBTQ-focused nonprofit news publication.

I have never needed a 2XL t-shirt with a specific image on it more in my life

Lorraine Schneider, 1967.

MARCH WORKSHOP! We’ll be writing IN-PERSON with Benny Peterson on Sunday, March 15 at Rhizome DC 🧠🧠🧠

I am reading at this!

Here is everywhere I’ll be at AWP! It’s my first one :)

AI filmmaking is peeing. It’s pooping. It’s throwing up. It’s a new kind of liquid coming out. It’s hated by the establishment. It’s what goes in the toilet. It’s wet. It’s what’s in the bathroom.

I’m excited to have a reprint in this :)

SUBMISSIONS CLOSE TOMORROW 2/7 AT 11:59 PM EST 📣📣📣

Their argument is: rich white people are allowed to do whatever they want, and that includes pedo islands or rounding up the rest in camps. There is no contradiction, no hypocrisy, no argument that will sway them. The ideology is: power is moral

How many people outside of DC realize that we’re still being occupied by the National Guard? Or, to put a finer point on it, care?

Omg my ILL request finally came in all the way from Wichita and it’s signed 😱

In 2026 I am going to start calling people feckless and wretched

Pickle Puss Armstrong, you will always be famous

finally some good news

Starting a reading thread for the year :) 1. Nobody Move - Denis Johnson

REMINDER! We are open for submissions until Feb. 7 for our next anthology, IDOLS. See our previous posts for more prompts, ideas, and manifestations about the theme 🥀

Submissions are OPEN for Issue 02: IDOLS! Send your best work on saints, celebrities, heroes, and fixations to [email protected] until February 7 Full details in original post (linked below)

It's your birthday, Duane.

Favorite books, films, and albums of the year in no particular order :)

I saw Happiness (1998) alone at AFI this year. Someone in the back laughed so hard at ….let’s just say a certain scene starring Dylan Baker…. that everyone else in the theater became palpably upset. You could cut the discomfort with a knife

This will be fun :) dew drop is the best bar in the city baby

Vanity plate idea: TRAUMA

Yes… ha ha ha… YES!

🕯️conjuring your submissions🕯️

In addition, I am honored to announce our two nominees for the 2025 Indie Press of the Year award. Congratulations to @littlepuss.net and @lilacperil.bsky.social, two indie trans presses who showcased excellence and innovation in transfeminine publishing in 2025.

A deer sleeping outside my bedroom window this morning 🤍

I’m speaking at this wonderful event at GMU on Thursday <3 watershedlit.gmu.edu/events/17561

Thinking about Them

I let myself be queeny around other ftms in a way that often feels locked up around other people—that is something I really love about us, f*ggots of our own making keeping each other company

🥲 this means a lot to me actually

It’s been a hard few months and it’s felt like I haven’t had the energy to celebrate the book properly, but a reading like this makes me really fucking proud of what @submorstua.bsky.social and I made 🖤 lilacperil.bigcartel.com/product/issu...

After three straight months of research and reading, I have FINALLY reached the last book for the 2025 Start Here page 😭🙏 It's @lilacperil.bsky.social's second short story collection, let's bring this thing home!!