Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

Williams was a photographer for Jet magazine. He took the photo himself. The OG selfie. Iconic. Orangeburg, South Carolina, 1956

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

We're excited to introduce one of our newest faculty members for our new creative non-fiction track: Alex Marzano-Lesnevich! Please join us in welcoming @alexmlwrites.bsky.social to Warren Wilson, and learn more about their work here: www.warrenwilsonmfa.org/newfaculty-2...

So yesterday I learned about Ava Cordero, a transgender woman who, in 2007, sued Jeffrey Epstein alleging he sexually abused her when she was 16. Her lawsuit was filed in 2007 while Epstein was negotiating a plea deal in Florida for abusing other girls, but her claims were mocked and dismissed

Wow Chicago! #HandsOff #FiftyFiftyOne (🎥 Marco Foster)

Massive crowd at Boston’s city hall plaza for the #HandsOff protest against Trump and Musk

Portland, ME showed up. #HandsOff

Augusta, Maine

100,000+ people marched at the #HandsOff rally in New York!

Absolutely incredible turn out at MN State Capitol! #HandsOff

Salt Lake City showed up

Wow. #HandsOff rally in St. Paul, Minnesota is massive!

Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING #handsoff

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

"Don’t mess with Trans Kids" Banner spotted in San Antonio, TX for International day of trans visibility 2025

now a poem!! gut-wrenching & experimental!! published by @splitthisrock.bsky.social, tonee mae moll’s burning haibun melts from a prose piece into verse lines into a perfectly packaged haiku. it’s an untamed celebration of transness, & u should read it now!!! www.splitthisrock.org/poetry-datab...

two poems from the magnificent @yanyiii.com’s book, the year of blue water!! we first found his work when combing through the yale younger poets prize backlist, & we truly understand why he won in 2018 🫢 these poems r incredibly vulnerable & sincere granta.com/two-poems-ya...

it’s trans visibility day!! to celebrate, us worm interns here at earworms magazine will be sharing some of our fav works from trans writers! to start off, @alexmlwrites.bsky.social’s 2019 essay, “body language” harpers.org/archive/2019...

If an Army private accidentally texted the details of a classified military operation to a reporter, let alone transmitted any classified information to anyone who was unauthorized over an unsecured device, they’d be charged and likely spend time in Leavenworth. But it’s Hegseth, so probably not.

the best people!!! www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

For folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

BAD ROMANCE #AWP Offsite - readings for the filthy bent & heartbroken. 💦 dream line up: @rykaaoki.bsky.social @charliejane.bsky.social @clementgoldberg.bsky.social @adelebarclay.bsky.social @alexmlwrites.bsky.social

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

Sometimes a moment has you pass through a portal. Coming out as trans was a long process for me, but it was also something that happened on one particular day. For the new @bloomsburybooks.bsky.social @dinahlenney.bsky.social anthology SNAPSHOTS, I wrote about it. Thank you, Dinah & Lit Hub.

Our friends at @versobooks.bsky.social have launched a new virtual reading group focusing on the work and ideas of the late Fredric Jameson.

It's a weird time to have been offline for a month and a half, first navigating the health consequences of an accident for me, and then, now and ongoing, a devastating health crisis for my father. Hi, everyone. I expect I'll be away for at least the next few months, but I'm so grateful you're here.

@turnandwork.com Thanks for reading & sharing! So glad you loved TFOAB, too.

The Shortlist for February 14: links to some short-form creative writing I loved this week. Nonfiction by @alexmlwrites.bsky.social & @emilyraustin.bsky.social in @literaryhub.bsky.social & Anne P. Beatty in CRAFT. (...cont'd)

Away from social media (/most things, but you can reach me by email and I will get back to you eventually) recovering from an injury. Love to you all.

BIG CHIEF is on Debutiful’s Most Anticipated Debuts of 2025. Very happy to see it here! (And right next to THE ORIGINAL DAUGHTER by @jemmawei.bsky.social!)

Not gonna reshare that article about the publisher looking to "disrupt" the industry, but one consequence of the low pay throughout is that book people rarely have start up money. So the people who CAN experiment with the industry usually aren't actually book people. And often that really shows.

This is really bad. www.siouxlandproud.com/news/south-d...

From Laila Al-Arian’s Twitter, yesterday: “Just found out 7 more members of my mother’s extended family (Shaldan) were killed in an Israeli bombing of their home in Gaza City. Killed after 14 months of bombing, displacement, starvation. More than 200 members of the family have been killed.”

on loving and living as hard as you can when being who you are is illegal: russia's foremost lesbian poet who kept fucking everyone & writing about it through the revolution, civil war & rise of stalin

No matter where you are in your trans-ness, if you are feeling despair, I cannot recommend enough engaging with the writings and histories of our elders who lived our lives before the 21st Century. It is both not as dark as you think and tougher than you think. And it will give you something.

🧵 BREAKING: The U.S. House has just passed HR 9495, a bill that dramatically expands the Treasury’s power to revoke tax-exempt status from nonprofits it deems to be “supporting terrorism.” Here’s what this means for Palestinian rights organizations and free speech in the U.S.

The worst strip club on the outskirts of New Orleans in the 1990s had better personnel policy than congress today.

woke up & put on a sweatshirt to go sit at my writing desk & m stuck a pin on me 🥰

I never get over how small these numbers are. Look how easy it is to help out your favorite authors! (And your local bookstores!)

It is little known, but the first book burnings in Nazi Germany didn’t target Jewish writers. It was the burning of the library of the Institute of Sexual Research, which was a safe home for trans people. It is no accident that fascists today walk that same dark path by targeting trans people. /5

Please welcome—and support—the trans poet librarian @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social who is raising funds for his legal fight for accountability with his employer.

Imma need some of you to think about thriving out of spite. I had big plans for 2025 and I’m definitely not gonna pre-derail them for likes of Elin and Tromp. I’m getting more involved. Loving harder. Writing hornier. Having more fun. I’m gonna be so kind to my neighbors, bitch.

this is like something a character in Animal Farm would say, and every 6th grader in the classroom would understand why it's wrong www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...

I am finding it quite unbearable to watch Sarah McBride bear the grotesque attack of her colleagues with so much grace. I know it is what we have been taught to expect of trailblazers, but I am increasingly struggling to accept this.

Call your senators if you haven’t and urge them to support Senator Sanders’s effort here.

🧵 With all the movement over to this app, I wanted to take a minute to share a few of my (and my amazing co-authors) most recent (from 2024) publications on #Palestine, some peer-reviewed articles (all open access) and some shorter policy briefs and pieces for popular media.