Pop culture looks different in some pretty substantive and drastic ways if Kanye West never interrupts Taylor Swift at the 2009 VMAs, I’m so serious

Me, for the last week: you know, I get it, but a truly gobsmacking percentage of trans art has sadness and pain as loci Also me: [drafts a poem that ends with “I AM JUST A DEAD MOM”]

It is summer 2014, and there is handwringing over the "right" was to protest an obvious social wrong It is summer 2020, and there is handwringing over the "right" way to protest an obvious social wrong It is summer 2025, and there is handwringing over th

Yes, of course I'm all in on HONEY DON'T! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzr6...

Nice restaurants love to have a dessert called like “Milk and Cereal” or “Donuts and Coffee” and it’s their little take on what if those things cost nineteen dollars.

Keeping all my ready-to-read poems in one Google doc was a smart idea until I started tweaking them for submissions/the fuck of it, and now I have to track down what goes where for their most recent versions

Living as a woman who truly has it all by hitting up two separate book clubs tonight

Also holy shit the new Arcade Fire song is terrible, fuck Win and fuck that band lmao

It is very funny to be Mad about this article. SG clearly gave Arcade Fire the “fuck this band” special: an early, deliberate mention and linking of the allegations, a bored and factual news brief, and then throwing the band to the commentariat to flambé them

This gets at something I've been thinking about, esp. w/r/t some Christian Boomers I know. They'll tell me to my face that doing me the courtesy of referring to me as I've asked them to is an infringement on their core beliefs & natural law, then be confused I'm not thrilled to break bread with them

A thing that I find incredibly interesting is the world is full of people who genuinely believe they have a *right* to be liked and for people to be obsequious towards them. I have seen it from a wide range of people, and it never ceases to amaze me. No one *has* to be your friend!

Did Elon finally forget to pay the light bill at Twitter?

The Substance is Egg Cinema bc this is absolutely how I look at myself in the mirror on injection day

Today, Trayvon Martin should be celebrating his 30th birthday. He should be surrounded by friends and family. Trayvon deserved to see 30. Happy heavenly birthday 🕊️

Everything they say about adult Catholic converts applies to JD Vance, and then you gotta add a 2.5x multiplier on top of it because he entered the faith at St. fucking Gertrude

Kidz Bop has a rendention of “Good Luck, Babe!” which 1. Lol, but 2. Honestly? Still a pretty cutting bridge!

We're launching the newsletter here by sharing that I wrote belatedly about Taylor Swift starkissed-and-unburned.ghost.io/the-tortured...

Exciting shit afoot next week, screenshot kinda related

We picked a book club book back in November, and set a Jan date in December to give everyone time to read it well in advance And yet here I am, a week away

I love when a pod’s been on long enough where the cohosts are comfortable to let slip whatever actually insane habits they have, like Shea Serrano buying new socks every month

DnD world where clerics/faith are reworked to be rooted in a non-Christian religion so that neither the players nor DMs enter any church plot with a countdown until the reveal of The Church is Bad, Actually, or at least without feeling guilty about it

Where's the Disney duty of care to a trans teenager? I bet she weighed up the cons of being so publicly out as a trans girl with the benefits of bringing representation & hope to trans kids. Now Disney pulls the representation while doubling the publicity & hate she will receive. Cowards

Went to a show with pole dancing last night. Pole’s fun to watch—you see someone perform these astonishing physical feats set to the worst trap remix of Dance of the Sugar Plums on Earth

Still doing they/them jury duty at work but had a coworker slip up and autocorrect out of “she” YESSSSS

One less understood thing about trans care is that there's not a one-stop shop for your needs. Generally, you end up with a team that includes a PCP, a therapist, and various surgeons and other docs. This is how medicine works, but it's often treated as a conspiracy when it comes to trans people.

Haven't seen a movie in like ten days, I may actually be dying

I kinda get Sue in The Substance walking around the apartment in them tiny fits, I’m kinda feeling myself rn and am cooking in an oversized hoodie and boyshorts

Wearing a chunky sweater and have a big wine glass like that one lady who does the family holiday tiktoks

Going out on Thanksgiving Eve for the first time in my 33 years, if I don’t see chaos tonight

Target rolling back the rainbow vomit Pride collection this June just to drop this Very Fucking Trans sweater in November is so fucking funny

Man idk, Thanksgiving this year seems like it's got a little extra dip on the chip; bunch of folks I know are dealing with particularly suboptimal family situations (including ya girl)

There's obviously a lot of stuff in this wider space that I loved from this year (Mannequin Pussy, Foxing, Cassandra Jenkins, Half Waif, Cloud Nothings), but it's never felt less urgent to stay up on the indie rock horse race.

Great read that got me thinking about how I feel kinda checked out on institutional indie rock this year and how much of it has the vibe of “party that doesn’t know it ended a half hour ago.” Probably hard for young artists to feel inspired rn

Turns out the magic to unlocking your confidence on the dance floor as a transfemme is just imagine that you dancing is a scene in an A24 movie

This nigga Kendrick went to therapy and got worse.

God, this Kendrick album's so good. Super early telling, but it may overtake DAMN. as his most replayable record?

Jack's leveled off into a high-floor producer whose only weakness seems to be that he won't push an artist when they sometimes need it. The only thing to hate on these days is how thoroughly fucking *cooked* he and Taylor are as collaborators.

I miss the "you're weird" line of attack so much, because bathroom bans are, among many other things, fucking weird! You're legislators! There are so many bigger fish to fry than where 0.6% of the population pisses in public, you lunatics

Man I love playing Hades

I should probably share my #poetry collection on here, even if it was written under a name now on life support. The majority of these were written on the doorstep of starting a medical transition bookshop.org/p/books/poem...

I don’t care that it’s a basic bitch thought, I love making tea in autumn. Love having boiling water, love a little steam off a mug, love a mug warming my hands. A joy every time

Kinda struggling to write a piece for an event Wednesday. One of the hardest things I’ve encountered over the last buncha months is a self-consciousness or pleaser tendency that comes up when I face the page

Conclave makes selecting a new pope look like the TCA press tour, which makes me think I would crush being a cardinal in the Catholic-- (An aide rushes in from offstage and whispers in my ear.) Friends, it would seem several things prevent me from becoming a cardinal in the Catholic Church.

Dying that even Nerds has left Twitter

Mailed off my gender marker update and had a friend of mine have a legal name change approved. Dire circumstances, but beautiful results?

Deed by torrin a greathouse is probably one of my favorite poetry collections I’ve read this year. And also the best example I’ve come across of poetry’s capacity to be horny?

Lotta bigger shit going on right now, but: Brat hasn't been tarnished as a listen post-election and still knocks pretty hard

Fuckin’ Geoff, man

DST ending and getting an extra hour of sleep…I’ve had Christmases hit less

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,308,842! Yeah, suck it other 8,692,158 people!