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 🥳🥳

A little more than a day left!

I’m losing my mind over this transition in an episode of the Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau

I am bravely asking:: defector.com/why-not-have...

Check out our auction :)

One of these has peanuts and the other one doesn’t. Guess who’s been micro-dosing poison for weeks 🤪

Tonight!!!

A really good sign that I’ve been replaced by a clone is if I ever publish a heartwarming tale of found family

banning trans people from joining the military, buying guns, and getting married would be pretty cool if it was like an initial rollout program for the rest of the country and not a calculated effort to invent a precarious class of second rate citizens

Once at an old job someone called to viscously complain because children were drawing on the sidewalk outside the library. I had to explain that 1) we had given them the chalk 2) it would simply wash off with the rain

I think celebrating trans art in DC feels even more essential right now. I hope to see you all in Lost City Books next weekend!

‼️ALERT‼️ Active checkpoint on Georgia Ave and Dahlia St. MPD and other unidentified officers seen stopping cars at 10:55 am August 30. 1/2

"dark academia" do you mean middle school

I know that the percentage of dyke climbers is high, but we need to admit as a community that Adrianne Lenker is not gym music

Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.