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!!

Page One. @theguardian.com #ICE

Once again asking! Small press especially welcome. This is for a series of mini reviews in the spring issue of a journal

I have a short little essay out now in Seventh Wave Magazine about thylacines and writing 🦴 the art is a collage I made a few years ago! theseventhwave.org/insights-on-...

People in the know - what trans horror is coming out in 2026? Besides Persona

The person doing acoustic covers at the dog Halloween parade did not sing the little “awooo” during She Wolf. I’m seeing red

I’m taking away the word performative until we can all behave ourselves

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

This is in one week :) free and virtual!

Prisons and jails ban more books than all public schools and libraries combined. Throughout the country individual prisons and entire states are implementing more draconian and non-sensical prison book bans, with little public knowledge or outcry.

Evil nonbinary person named Nestle

@bannedbooksweek.bsky.social starts today! Prisons ban more books than all public schools and libraries combined. All week books donated to us from our partners will be matched. See our @mahoganybooks.bsky.social @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social and @peoplesbooktakoma.com wishlists - linktr.ee/dcbtpp

Our auction raised $500, split between Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid and Alice Correia Barbosa’s legal fund 🥳 massive thanks to everyone who bid, and especially to our contributors who donated their work

(Marketing for the uti pain meds I took without realizing they contain lactose) You can’t feel dick pain when you’re dead!

I’ve been so stressed all week, but I just found out the auction I planned extremely last minute raised $500 for our migrant neighbors 🥳🥳