the thing about gender is I don't have a favorite color, and this seems to anger a lot of people. I've had people tell me they know my favorite color even though I don't know it. (That's not an allegory; that exact thing has happened.) But I don't have a favorite, nor is my favorite "no colors"

最終日に見れてよかったです！ありがとうございます😊 thank you for sharing your amazing artwork, looking forward to seeing it again!

Got my copies of Love on the Horizon! My editor TJ @ferenteeny.bsky.social did an amazing job as always 🥰

This World Is Not Yours by @kashinggiwa.bsky.social in the SFF section at Kinokuniya Shinjuku bookstore! Happy to see it here in Tokyo <3

I did voice work for this Pokemon Sleep & Pokemon GO Plus + announcement video - first ever job with Pokemon! Childhood lae who loved playing the games & collecting the cards would've been in disbelief (I think my first card was Paras 🍄) #voiceactor www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJB_...

beestung is now open for new work by two-spirit, genderqueer, and non-binary writers! we're usually only open for a few days or so! beestungmag.com/about/

東京の桜 #bloomscrolling

Cooked some veggie soup with potato and white beans #veganfood

Now that I'm back from the US and not in fear about being detained at customs for my political beliefs, I helped create a charity album for Palestine! 'Composers for Palestine' is a collection of beautiful indie video game music. Enjoy, donate and share! RT's appreciated tinyurl.com/yeyw4yta

My narration is in this episode of Hometown Stories on NHK World, featuring origami artist Fuse Tomoko! www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...

Can’t wait to read!! 🤩

ALOCASIA is now accepting previously unpublished creative writing for an all-Indigenous issue to be published this summer. ALOCASIA publishes writing about plants by queer writers. Our honorarium is $50 per contributor. Deadline: May 31. More details: alocasia.org/about-send-w...

After endless ER surgeries & tests, finally have my first reparative surgery on May 1. My health has left me unable to regularly work, my student loans are about to default, etc. (aren't we all going thru it). In case you have dollars to spare: ko-fi.com/justinaoba Anything appreciated, thx

8. “At Firefly Moon Thrift Shop” by @laeastra.com I’m a big fan of how lae can take huge worlds and distill them into gentle, intimate moments—this one takes so much interstellar world-building and concentrates it into a small shop with a parka for sale. www.radonjournal.com/issue7/at-fi...

I’ve been working as a freelance voice artist in Tokyo for many years now. I recently did the singing for a track called “Driven By Hope” in Phantasy Star Online 2! (Lyrics - Akari Kaeda Music - Hideaki Kobayashi) PSO2:NGS ダークファルス・ヴァエル戦の曲に歌手として参加させていただきました。 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RR9...

Hi, here’s me as Xiang from @kashinggiwa.bsky.social’s book, The Splinter in the Sky!

Looking forward to this book! An essay I love by @rabblerouses.bsky.social is in it <3 @electriclit.bsky.social

i recently did narration work for this documentary about a support group & community safe space in japan for filipino women. as someone who has migrated a few times, their stories were really moving, as well as the perspectives of their kids born & raised here. www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...

finally deleted insta from my phone, feels liberating 🙌 (though i already hadn’t felt motivated to post creative things or work things there for quite a while)

Can I cosplay as Xiang? 😆

“…poems flourish and die in the span of their own short breaths, requiring us to bring their imaginative short-circuits back into life through our own fleeting encounters, over and over again.” <3

Still thankful to the very lovely @heartlines-spec.com for making space and time for my little story, Blue Sunset. www.heartlines-spec.com/blue-sunset-...

Beautiful writing by @bpladek.bsky.social “She diminished, enfolded by green, until he was left alone in the dream’s fairy no-place: its ideal of a meadow, which did not exist but lived only in the mind as a language for loving real meadows, a door into their endless summer, a way through.” ☀️🍃

“Starfire Songs” - a piece for The Account, from earlier this year. theaccountmagazine.com/article/astr...

“We have been here before. We will survive again.” by @rabblerouses.bsky.social rabblerouse.substack.com/p/we-have-be...

lil prose poem from the criminally underrated Black Stone / White Stone blackstoneonawhitestone.wordpress.com/making-the-m...

new poem from Asmaa Dwaima syzygyworkshop.org/life's-ropes

Enjoying Halloween? 👻 The「Urban Myth Dissolution Center」 playable demo period has been extended beyond #SteamNextFest to November 7th, 12 AM JST! Give it a shot in Arabic while you still can (㇏(•̀ᢍ•́)ノ) store.steampowered.com/app/3269890/... #GlobalToshikaiFriends 🦌

Been away from poetry and writing for a while. Just read this poem by one of my favorite writers, and wow breathtaking!! Really needed this 🌲☀️ @justinaoba.bsky.social @anmlymag.bsky.social anmly.org/ap38/justin-...

Thinking about this lae astra piece 🐰 syzygyworkshop.org/rabbit-girl-...

Lucky to have Hamza Salha's photo and poem about the moon in Gaza on Slow Orbit, my workshop's publication space. "[O]ne day, for sure, things will be better." syzygyworkshop.org/the-moon-in-...

ANMLY is seeking poets and translators who work in African, Indigenous, and East Asian languages who might be interested in reading for an online poetry event in March 2025! Email us at [email protected] for more details 💜 Please note, we'll be streaming in EST!

Haven’t opened bluesky in ages, but hello! Thank you so much @identitytheory.bsky.social @justinaoba.bsky.social for publishing my poem “heliotropic travelers”! www.identitytheory.com/heliotropic-...

"At Firefly Moon Thrift Shop" By @laeastra.com Read now: bit.ly/3SRKZBu Author Site: laeastra.com #scifi #scifiwriter #anarchist #anarchistpoetry

So happy to be a part of this issue! Thank you for having me, @thefuturefire.bsky.social ! futurefire.net/2024.69/fict...

Thank you so much @sarahclark.bsky.social for having my words in this issue of @alocasiamag.bsky.social ! 🌱✨ can't wait to read all the queer planty goodness!

Very thrilled to share our new issue!! www.justfemmeanddandy.com/volume-06

Today marks 6 months of being a birder (defined as going to places specifically to look at birds). It has been the most wonderful addition to my life. I’ve seen 418 species in that window, most for the first time. Here’s the most recent—a scissor-tailed flycatcher, or That Bird from Wingspan. 🪶

BIPOC writers! the @apparitionlit.com MERCURIAL issue (which i am guest editing) is currently OPEN!!! we'd love to read your stories and have them in this absolutely amazing call! the submissions window is linked in the next post. here's a blog post of what we're looking for!

As a long-time invertebrate appreciator, I’ve just read my first @aptshadow.bsky.social book, Children of Time, and could not be more delighted. Incredible, inspiring worldbuilding and storytelling. I can’t wait to read more.

Hello #poetry submissions open @identitytheory.bsky.social TOMORROW (Mar 1)!! Please submit! 😍🫳

this week's dispatch: extimateothers.com/2024/02/13/d...

I really enjoyed diving into the universe of The Splinter in the Sky by @kashinggiwa.bsky.social ! Wonderful characters, beautiful writing, queerness as an inherent part of society, plant-based food, lots of tea 💚 thank you for sharing your stories with the world, Kemi! I can’t wait to read more. :)

Vol 2.1 of @thesprawl.bsky.social is out! Excited to read through this volume, and grateful to be a part of it :) thank you so much Mahaila and Libby! www.thesprawlmag.ca/vol-2-1

Hey folks!! We have exciting news to share, in just a couple weeks are next volume of the Sprawl Mag will be free to read on our website.

The Universe expands once again with the Range, featuring @taracampbell.bsky.social, @willerickson.bsky.social, @addisonzeller.bsky.social, Mandira Pattnaik, Marina Ramil, Shannan Mann, and Lesh Karan. Thank you to everyone who's explored with us over the last year. astrolabe.ooo