Interesting to see into a different lit bubble - unlike Ela I see lots of trans women writing all the heck kinds of things that are not degradation kink or wish-fulfillment, but I still resonated w/ parts of this analysis

best dream: ran into Fiona Apple and Ingrid Michaelson at AA and convinced them to start an x-ennial boygeniusalike with me and they only let me sing on the vocoder-heavy tunes I wrote but they were very polite about it and also artistically correct. woke myself up by singing in my sleep too loud

My first time being a co-author on a poster! (This work is basically asking: what's the right way to measure how different factors affect inequity? The specific example is what we can say about how different kinds of Medicare affect racial disparities in health outcomes.)

new words issue no. 8 opens for submissions on march 16! get ready to submit your work! please share.

Pre-orders for our next anthology IDOLS are open NOW!!! Cover art and contributor list TBA lilacperil.bigcartel.com/product/issu...

book dragon with a crush on me. even full-grown

New Eleanor Eli Moss book!!! She's one of my favorite contemporary trans poets: www.lulu.com/shop/eleanor...

Reading now: Embodied Exegesis from @neonhemlock.bsky.social and edited by @robotleblanc.bsky.social Started it yesterday and it’s already just so good and mind-bending

[Barry Manilow Potter] grew up and became a pop star and got together with Ron at the Copacabana, like the song, only with a happy ending and much weirder Voldemort. Her name was Vola. She was a noseless showgirl. – The Book of Love, Kelly Link

Next Friday in Somerville, MA! Come see me, @esther-alter.bsky.social and @tbjacobs.bsky.social talk about cyberpunk, food, and the future of queer literature! Side Quest Books, Friday March 20th, 7:30pm It's ticketed ($5), so you should go buy a ticket here: www.eventbrite.com/e/indie-spec...

come on out Thursday!

i have a zine!!! dm if you want one

NEW VIDEO youtu.be/uiGIbdrQjbI?...

This two-anthology set has a REALLY nice lineup and I came across it only on Kickstarter, not in Any of my social media. Seriously - Iasmin Omar Ata! Day Al-Mohamed! Safia Elhillo! Randa Jarrar! Fatimah Asghar! Backed & you should take a look too - www.kickstarter.com/projects/mus...

Now also available on YouTube 💖 youtu.be/ztQJ7XGuPhc

save a book - read a cowgirl

poetry

Okay, so I actually made a batch of muffins before midnight tonight, because I have to get up early in the morning tomorrow (today), but then I stayed up til 2 am making this list anyway. I heartily recommend each and every one of these for your #TransRightsReadathon TBR.

Hello! I am a trans journalist looking to speak with trans kids and parents of trans kids across the US who have been impacted by the clinic closures---please get in touch or share!

FYI for fellow narrative designers/game writers: the studio in question is Sentona Games and it’s my understanding they are currently interviewing to replace me. Be very careful with them. They were very nice to me and easy to work with right up until I needed the money I was promised.

Welcome back to another year of the Trans Rights Readathon! This year’s readathon will take place from March 17 to March 31. If you want to officially sign up, fill out the form on our 🕸️site to join the fun! #TransRightsReadathon #trr26 #TransBooks

Monthly Trans Creators Boost! - Share your fiction, essays, poetry, fanfic, thinkpieces, and other writing below. - Go into the replies and look for works to read and share. - Follow new creators and make your feed brighter! NSFW and erotica welcome. #TransSky #WriteSky

we also have another SURPRISE call opening this month. more info at fifthwheelpress.com/way-downstream 👀

The wait is over. ✨ Our first ever online exclusives issue is now available on our website. We wanted to showcase queer art that punts the constraints imposed on queer bodies out into the stratosphere and plays with the rules of print media like a jump rope. 🔗 www.foglifterjournal.com/oe-issue-11

Where did that morning go— which was on its way? Those caravans that were about to come— what happened to them? —Nasir Kazmi

I know things are hard rn but you gotta keep hop-hop-hopping around looking for your apple mom. I promise you someday you can goes to a fairy, a real one, with legs. she will blows air on you and you can fly. there is someone out there that needs to hear you say I love you twenty-sixty times.

I AM NOT BI, I AM STRAIGHT AND GAY, AND YOU ALL ARE GETTING "DOUBLE-FISTING" WRONG

Book-friends, if you trust my taste at all: do NOT skip this one, holy cow.

And everything in this post is still true! #MSWL

Welp. Seems like it's a good day to highlight trans books. I'll do this off and on all day, no idea how long the thread will eventually be. And if you need any trans book recommendations, post in here and I'll point you toward people who might know if I don't since I mostly do romantasy.

Dang it would be so cool if I could write my books without feeling like I'm in a race against death itself

Threeasel....

the @jeannethornton.bsky.social magic - who was that squirrelly girl whose epistolary LiveJournal I used to read? oohh no, that was just Gala from Summer Fun that said that

Also very much looking forward to this - I’ve got two of Aube’s chapbooks and have seen her read irl. She very cool

one of my all time faves

“WOLFCANNON reimagines myth and memory through a lens that's both devastatingly intimate and ecologically attuned. ” - Megan Kaminski WOLFCANNON CJ Selwyn kithbooks.com/shop/p/wolfcannon

"pre-transition" is too clinical and linear, I'm gonna start calling mine "pants jail"

Sooo... I know I just released a new book 30 days ago. But... check out what's coming from Neon Hemlock at the end of April. I just posted a sample chapter at my patreon if you want a taste: www.patreon.com/post...

Get ready for The Spring of Galaxy & Dreamer! April 29: JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERGALACTIC, by me, @nicoleamaines.bsky.social. Travis Moore & @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social! May 5: Teenage Galaxy & Dreamer in GALAXY: AS THE WORLD FALLS DOWN by me, @ryehickman.bsky.social & @longtalljodie.com!

I've got a little poetry chapbook for sale today from the amazing Dancing Girl Press in Chicago. They were one of my favorite local presses when I was a baby poet and it's cool to work with them! dulcetshop.myshopify.com/products/nor...

I would describe my writing as me doing my best to assemble a car from whatever I found around the house

flaming topiary; agape apologia; snuffbait chuuni hagiography; allopregnanolated poemprose; manna for animals who have considered political autoimmolation; blood; cries for cries for help

Welcome to issue 11! It shaped up to be thick with liberatory gestures – on disability, fatness, Blackness, youth, and more. Creatives across/against genre and medium tackle pressing issues of disposibility and resistance. manyworlds.place/issue-11/ Some highlights:

Call for Submissions: QUEER MYTHOLOGIES: a celebration of spirituality, folklore, and queer cosmologies. 📌 foglifter.submittable.com

a pretty thing to carry us from my dear bandmate Alex Fam: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je3w...

“Are you a fan of romantasy? Do you like it when things get weird? Well, buckle in, cuties.” @them.us, 10 most anticipated LGBTQ+ books of 2026 Preorder @blipstress.bsky.social's upcoming PLASTIC, PRISM, VOID now and find out just how weird things can get 🫨 www.littlepuss.net/shop/p/ppv-p...

"But oh, that song! It lifts me not into rapture over the Valentine sky— this is not about transcendence— but into the slow work of the rabbit outside..." yes, yes, the rabbit work is how we save each other 💜

Open to submissions of short stories for What Elegant Stars: Queer Tales of Impossible Style until April 15th, 2026. 8¢/word. <6,000 words. Simsub ok, no multiple submissions, original stories only. www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

Anxious & horny documentation of thin-veil moments machined into obsessive patterns.

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