I'm thrilled that @electricliterature.com has published this gorgeous story from the anthology WE WILL RISE AGAIN, which I co-edited with @older.bsky.social and @drkarenlord.bsky.social ... you can pre-order the anthology now, or pick it up at your local bookstore after it drops on 12/2!

some other familiar grocery store names that are brands for producer-owned agricultural co-ops: Blue Diamond Bob's Red Mill Land O'Lakes Tillamook Welch's

Ryan Coogler said part of his influence for making Sinners was a childhood love for the Disney movie “Luck of the Irish” and let me tell you…he is so real for that.

Tonight at 9pm ET, 8pm CT, the Shakespeare in the Park production of Twelfth Night starring Lupita Nyong'o, Sandra Oh, Peter Dinklage, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and directed by Saheem Ali will be on PBS Great Performances. You can stream at pbs.org/gperf or on the PBS app.

Sssssooooo... yeah. (Wow!) 😳🤗

The reason why most women my age couldn't care less if Bill Clinton goes down with the ship is that we were teens & young women when the Anita Hill and Monica Lewinsky scandals happened. It's rotten to the core. All the way down. Your "lost" era is not ours.

Tickets are now available for previews of Pride, the theatre production based on the hit film about Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners, at Sherman Theatre

I think about this a lot (in terms of art, as well), because I’m in the position of being a queer elder when I didn’t have any of my own.

I prepared a very colorful July for next year 🏖️☀️ Want to see who Izzy is sharing drinks with, along with tons of more gorgeous art? You'll just have to head over yearofbelongingcalendar.bigcartel.com and get your copy of our Izzy 2026 charity calendar! Follow us 👉 @yearofbelonging.bsky.social

📯BEHOLD📯 Five more days to grab @yearofbelonging.bsky.social our Izzy-centric charity calendar filled with super talented artists! A perfect Christmas gift for your loved ones, for sure 😌 Enjoy this silly lil preview of my S. Valentine themed piece and grab your copy here (link in the thread)👇🏻

Hi!! I got TWO bookstore events this week: Monday at Parentheses Books in Harrisonburg, VA: www.parenthesesbooks.com/events Wednesday at Little District Books in Washington DC: littledistrictbooks.com/products/les... Please come hang out, and please tell your peeps! I don't wanna be lonely...

“Why are men afraid of women?” “If your strength is only the other's weakness, you live in fear,” Ged said. “Yes; but women seem to fear their own strength, to be afraid of themselves.” “Are they ever taught to trust themselves?” Ged asked “No,” she said.

I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one

steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back

My favorite example is The Princess Bride. Underperformed at the box office and became a beloved classic because of VHS rentals.

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures

Re my last repost about terrible people and the arts: deeply suspicious that this massive push to outsource artmaking to AI is based primarily in resentment of not being successful in the arts. (And by “success,” I mean anything—having a good workshop, painting something you feel proud of, etc.)

years ago an emmy-winning comedy writer posted this in a DM group and I’ve thought about it literally every day since (anonymized and shared with permission)

For fuck’s sake.

So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.

So uh. I've spent the last five years working on a book about grief, mourning, who is allowed to grieve and how, and where we go from here, and... you can now preorder it!

last repost: putting that on a sandwich board and getting the loudest, most obnoxious handbell I can find

THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

It cannot be remembered enough that these were the same people who got worked up about drag brunches

in tribute to @charliebrowntc.bsky.social , a king among cats, let us have a thread of Great Departed Cats, to show the angels that are now greeting him. this is my baby Fez, who left us in 2022. one time some butter fell off the counter onto his side and Sandal chased him for like twenty minutes.

I was not prepared for how the end of What Went Wrong’s episode on The Shawshank Redemption would make me cry. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

It’s the last week of preorders for @yearofbelonging.bsky.social! If you purchase a calendar, here’s a little preview of what will greet you on April 1st. Preorder here through Nov. 19: yearofbelongingcalendar.bigcartel.com

“Pope Leo XIV, 70, was a big fan of the anarchic 1980 Hollywood classic, a Vatican-produced documentary has revealed. He dressed up as one of the brothers while a seminarian, donning dark glasses and a fedora hat years before he switched to a mitre and papal robes.” www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

It’s the last week of preorders for @yearofbelonging.bsky.social! If you purchase a calendar, here’s a little preview of what will greet you on April 1st. Preorder here through Nov. 19: yearofbelongingcalendar.bigcartel.com

Get to know your mutuals. List 10 random things that you like. Local folklore Speakeasies Smoky Mountains Extremely local ads Restoration of art, heirlooms, books, etc Bookbinding Print ephemera (zines, ghost signs, etc) Old Hollywood practical effects Katharine Hepburn Monsters/monstrosity

Washington DC! I will be doing an event next Weds (11/19) for Lessons in Magic and Disaster. It's at As You Are, a wonderful queer space, and hosted by Little District Books. I would consider it a huge personal kindness if you spread the word. littledistrictbooks.com/products/les...

Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender.

The artists for this calendar are amazing at depicting affection. Like @lostinthebabylon.bsky.social A Year of Belonging, a calendar for charity. Pre-order through November 19! yearofbelongingcalendar.bigcartel.com (Showing off some of their OTHER artworks here.)

“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”

Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.

Sharing this Delish article about the pasta recall because it has information about listeria I didn’t know www.delish.com/food-news/a6...

So turns out my Shakespeare Top 10 is a Top 7 because I haven’t read everything and have no particularly strong feelings about a bunch of the comedies. In no order after no. 1: 1. Twelfth Night 2. The Tempest 3. Hamlet 4. Othello 5. A Midsummer Night’s Dream 6. Henry V 7. Cymbeline

It's healthy to give ourselves a mental health break 💓 Unplug from the bustle and into an audiobook and let your body rest, even if for only a few minutes.

Also in case its not being mentioned in your feed, there is still a remaining vote for this and Somehow they didn't anticipate the outrage, so there's apparently some hesitation now. If those were your senators, call them and don't stop. I will also be calling even though they arent mine

That's me!!! I'm so happy to participate, and I hope y'all will like my contribution to the calendar 🥰

Jumpcut to April 2022 Cap going “I TOLD Y’ALL THERE WAS SEXUAL TENSION” and ultimately, due to these two human disasters, finding the best little online community.

Sending love to everyone whose health care has been jeopardized by the Democratic cave-in. These Democratic elites will not be part of the solution. We must proceed with that understanding.

Durbin on this list while Chicago is experiencing increasingly horrific violence from ICE is so appalling, words fail me.

look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry

I wasn’t going to do anything with the Mamdani slogan generator but then UD made a very funny one, so I thought heck, why not add my favorite Frenchie quote from Our Flag Means Death?

MONDAY!!!! NYC!!! Some amazing authors will be sharing their work and I will also burble into a microphone in a manner that may be pleasing

This all the way to the bone marrow. Find things that bring you joy and cling to them like the life preserver they are in the stormy seas of our present moment in history.