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've been loving finding out that Ursula K. Le Guin, author of so many of my moral and literary touchstones, was much stupider on the internet

2 weird little poems in minor lits today that i'm quite proud of, both loosely about/around these erotic systems & structures of reading & the read, sexing-as-reading. i'm writing my current manuscript around what these poems have seeded & were seeded by. i want you to read 🌊

NEWS NEWS NEWS! beestung's Pleasure Issue is open for an extra few days for Black and Indigenous writers and writers of color! We deserve a little breathing room, and we're getting it Deadline: 6/20 Pay: $20 Guest editor: brilliant & savvy & looking forward to reading you up & down Theme: 🥵🫦🩲🍆🍑🎇

#Booksky One of the terrific books in the Pride StoryBundle this year is EMBODIED EXEGESIS edited by Ann LeBlanc and published by @neonhemlock.bsky.social. Trans femme cyberpunk featuring stories by Ryka Aoki, Hailey Piper, Anya DeNiro and more! storybundle.com/pride

This was an incredibly useful experience with an extremely cool group! (A bunch of whom I'd admired before we met in the workshop!) I'd never had everybody *get* my aims like this and have such helpful feedback. *Highly* recommend applying to this, do watch for the next round!

book ruled. book that made me go "damn this is a BOOK book." always thoughtful about what it's talking about. worthwhile to the slowest "ok everyone let's explain oppression to the bisexual guy from Planet Bisexual" tangent. cameron reed i'll follow you anywehre

RELEASING TOMORROW

yesssssss! Boston friends, come see FRESHLY-MINTED LAMBDA WINNER Milo Todd read @ T4T at the Model next month, July 9th! (t4treadings.com)

this one rewired my brain; gorgeous book, well-earned win!

amen!

Hi y'all! Popping back onto this site for the first time in a year (!) to say I'm running a class on the Queer Grotesque for the second summer in a row. Wednesdays, July 1st through 29th, 8 PM EST, sliding scale. More information below and at tinyurl.com/queergrotesque. I'd love to see you there ❤️‍🔥

Rest in power, Emi Koyama. Emi's activism and writing had a profound impact on the trans movement over the past 30+ years. After coining the term transfeminism in the early 1990s, she spearheaded many feminist, trans, disability, decrim, AAPI, and intersex groups.

english lit and culture studies people from the last 10 years, favorite standalone articles, or book intros/chapters, that open new ways of reading / new areas of study / new paradigms and thus usefully show new grads range in the field?

I created this short-form promotional video for TikTok and elsewhere, but I thought you busted oldheads might also enjoy it.

1/60 WHO INVENTED THE AFTERLIFE AND WHY? “Carrot and stick. Dying and returning cycles. Yearning for justice. Hard-wired into us?” The carnival moves from town to town. The dead are always hiring. jtierney.net#who-invented...

I am a sissy. I always was. — Ursula K. Le Guin

this has been fruitful but I'm greedy for more. to clarify: you don't need to have any particular stake in lit or trans community to be a valuable part of this learning process. never published? excellent. been through it and have thoughts? amazing, i want them.

If you’re new here and wondering if I have another story you can read, I am VERY proud of this one. reactormag.com/this-is-not-...

i adore this book, i recommend it. extravagantly generous, wide-awake, beautiful, ugly. "holy fuck" and "oh god, no" both things i said aloud while reading.

ONE FROM THE VAULTS RETURNS! For a special Tenth Anniversary season! Ten brand new episodes of the original trans history podcast. In our first episode, we chart the life of tarot master, sci fi writer, and 70s trans activist Rachel Pollack! Please share! m.soundcloud.com/onefromtheva...

okay look I do not regret saying any of these things I stand by all of them

Hello hello and welcome to the shortlist announcement thread for the #2026IgnyteAwards, recognizing outstanding contributions to SFFH and its community in 2025! We are grateful to be supported this year by sponsors @bcsmagazine.bsky.social , @edmontonin2030.bsky.social, & @laworldcon.bsky.social

‼️ Congratulations to @jenniferhudak.bsky.social on winning the inaugural Nebula Award for Poem! We also thank you for trusting Strange Horizons with your work! In case anyone missed it, they can read this award-winning poem at this link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

Made myself a cheat sheet for plastic prism void. Honestly i can’t remember the last time i did this for any kind of book, let alone a novel. Brava Also i definitely know how to spell hydrangea

reading Plastic, Prism, Void while having ink drummed into my skin by my sis was the move

I'm interested in talking to trans feminine poets about barriers to access in publishing & how we might be able to help bridge the gap through policy change, programming, writing support. participants will be paid $25. if you'd be open to talking via zoom/email, drop me a line at [email protected]

I am a sissy. I always was. — Ursula K. Le Guin

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

I LOVE LIVING IN BOSTON!! read this review, read Plastic, Prism, Void (ideally by buying it from your local indie like the lovely people at PSB), fall in love-annoyance with the "fae English major Doctor Who trying to sort out her feelings for a Gundam pilot and making it everyone else’s problem"

today brings us poetry by @selizabeth.bsky.social ko-fi.com/s/355705ee1a

I built myself as I wished, according to my heart.

"She’s twenty-something, and she said, ‘Don’t you dare call me auntie,’ so I call her Junko. She took me to Disneyland and the Tokyo Skytree. She used to have a boyfriend, and he lived with her, but then he moved out..." —Sharni Wilson translates Tamaki Senomoto anmly.org/ap42/sharni-...

“Saying I love you in my mother tongue  is impossible. My mother never loved me  in words. She gave up a continent  for me, its contents traded for a feathered hope of better.” - @ella-b-winters.bsky.social voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/w...

threeasel at the printers 🏃‍♀️

today we have a one-act play by @davering.bsky.social! ko-fi.com/s/24d9524fe5

Poets & scholars! Is there a vocab word for this style / school / register? - frequent imperative "See" "Listen" "Look" - lampshades language's imprecision: "I am trying to say" "I mean" - pivotal proclamations: "so we beat on, boats against the current"-esque - formal, rarely speech-like (1/5)

So much of everything is dumb baffle —Kaveh Akbar, "My Kingdom for a Murmur of Fanfare"

Yessss. We all have bods that rock differently. —Critical Role C4E27

new kith releases Another double text K Angel Grief Is Not Shelf Stable Jamez Terry The Death of The Cult Classic K. Blair ( @kblair.bsky.social ) kithbooks.com

Poets & scholars! Is there a vocab word for this style / school / register? - frequent imperative "See" "Listen" "Look" - lampshades language's imprecision: "I am trying to say" "I mean" - pivotal proclamations: "so we beat on, boats against the current"-esque - formal, rarely speech-like (1/5)

"i feel it in my anime wind blowing through an alpine tennis resort overcome with wildflowers AGAIN, and the poem isn’t even halfway over yet so what if my blood is the wind" this one, the Minecraft poem... an icon fr thespinoff.co.nz/books/01-06-...

I LOVE THIS FORM, signature restraint + heart from @edithkrone.bsky.social in HAD pairs nicely with another deer poem of hers in @manyworlds.place:

for #smallpoemsunday, from my debut chapbook THE REST IS UP TO YOU, LOVE cc @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

You do not have to be anything. This is not an anthem for the world. This life is a hard life and It crushes people But it’s also weird and full of heat Crocodiles asleep in their red tent of hunger. — Hera Lindsay Bird, "Wild Geese by Mary Oliver by Hera Lindsay Bird"

"Acccccch, why are you doing this to me!?" "Well, we're recording this and so..." - Critical Role C4E27

What happens when publishers begin avoiding LGBTQ+ stories before a book is ever challenged? This article explores how years of censorship efforts are creating a chilling effect across the publishing industry, making it harder for queer voices & stories to reach readers bookriot.com/queer-books-...

I would like to say a huge CONGRATULATIONS to @blipstress.bsky.social whose amazing and beautiful book Plastic, Prism, Void just cracked the Indie top 40!

Congratulations to @esther-alter.bsky.social, whose Escape Pod original story "Magical Girl Antifa War Machine" was just now recognized as a Notable Story by Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2026! If you haven't read it, you totally should!

one more day to vote for hello sunshine! please i want to get as many awards as possible so i can stick it to my publisher