Morning pep talk

Lakewood is one of my favorite modern horror novels. Can't wait for this.

If my girl @lillywachowski.bsky.social is steering something, you can bet it has the goods. Now, more than ever, we need a cinema by and for the queers.

at this point I believe imperialism is not just a systemic evil that must be destroyed at all costs, but an existential threat to all humanity. we can have empires or a future but not both.

i ❣️ bodily autonomy

Missed a week with my 8th graders due to the storm, so one last Black History Month poem as a bridge into Women's History Month. This one is by Lucille Clifton, which has a line I think about often: "come celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me and has failed."

I went through and added up the total paid rents through our adopt-a-rent program, and it is 329 families for $463,217. All peer-to-peer, no fundraising. Just neighbors helping each other out. If you want to adopt a family, and can afford to give $500 or more, signal me at asiniiwiikwe.72

It’s Women in Horror Month!! In 2024 I was featured on @talestoterrify.bsky.social for this month with my story “Swirls and Eddies.” It was my first podcasted story. Link if you want to give it a listen: talestoterrify.com/episodes/634...

Every trans person in America is more courageous than its soldiers. Every person of colour who is forced to navigate life in a country that treats them with open hostility is more courageous. Everyone in Minneapolis and beyond, refusing to allow armed goons to destroy their communities, is braver.

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

With a little help from his Sinners co-star Miles Caton, the near-nonagenarian legend gives the Tiny Desk a history lesson in the blues. n.pr/4tPjN7o

Today we honor Paula D. Ashe! www.uncomfortablydark.com/post/02-26-2...

just want to add to this-- calling is VERY easy. I have not called a single rep that had a live person answering the phone. you dont have anything to be nervous about!~ you might feel it cathartic actually. historically I am super super phone-averse but it's genuinely so easy and takes 2 minutes.

here's how things have been going lately. Thanks @mcsweeneys.net and Amanda Uhle and Rita Bullwinkel for giving me a chance to think out loud a little

as long as folks are enthusiastically donating to state level trans orgs today, figured I'd reup this list the @them.us team and I put together a few years back: www.them.us/story/orgs-f... (some info may be outdated, but use this as a jumping-off point!)

I’d really like to see this particular fund- for the neighborhood where Renee Good was murdered and ICE goons abducted many- infused with funds. 🌻🌻🌻

MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. GO DONATE. tcpipeline.org

One for sorrow, Two for mirth, Three for a funeral, Four for a birth, Five for silver, Six for gold, Seven for a secret not to be told, Eight for heaven, Nine for hell, Ten, beware: it's the devil himself. (Have you read my story "One for Sorrow" yet?) www.blanketgravitymag.com/oneforsorrow

Thinking about THE GREEN KNIGHT recently

get weirder 🫵

good evening chat

My publisher @haymarketbooks.org is offering some of my books at 40% for Black History Month: www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/103-ha...

It’s day 84 of the ICE occupation of MN. These 12 weeks have changed us forever. Minnesotans have found a new way to navigate the world- based deeply in our care for our neighbors. Read Kelly Hayes interview with some of the dedicated organizers:

We had $18k in rent requests come in just today (so far). We’re anticipating needs at our neighborhood school to be over $100k again this month, but this time donations are WAY down. We don’t have enough money to cover everyone. Please help us keep our neighbors w/ young kids from being evicted!

Does anyone have any nonfiction recommendations about the history of gender in theater (kabuki, troupes in Shakespeare's day, etc. where women were banned from performing)? Finding a renewed fascination in this and want to know more.

It feels sometimes, like people forget how brutal evictions really are. In Minnesota, you only get a 14 day notice before a potential eviction. Your eviction follows you which makes it almost impossible to find housing again and there are very few social safety nets for being unhoused

Keep Minnesota Housed, friends! Visit keepMNhoused.com today to adopt a rent or donate to a rent fund to help families affected by ICE stay in their homes. #keepMNhoused

Is there a technology the left is excited about?" It's called the clamshell e-reader from It Follows, and I've been waiting for it since 2014

she should have been allowed to kill one guy per season

i often think about this review

It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea

Jesus Christ this is amazing strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Got convinced to watch Knight of the Seven Kingdoms despite my initial indifference and it is very good but unfortunately 90% of my thoughts boil down to wanting Lyonel Baratheon carnally... I can't resist a man in antlers

Gave her a rival...or a wifey...

I've said this before, but it makes me insane that in an age of human civilization when the ultra-rich have hoarded over half of all wealth, the go-to visual shorthand for depictions of gluttony is still "fat"

It’s not a withdrawal until ICE is abolished. I have neighbors everywhere.

Everything the House passes is called some shit like the PROTECT Act and it makes it illegal to vote or have a bank account if you can't prove that you're genetically Christian.

$10 for over 1000 items on itch.io supporting the ILCM which provides free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees in Minnesota and North Dakota

Quick ink practice #knight

One thing I see a lot in various writing spaces that rarely gets talked about is the absolute contempt some genre writers (and readers) have for litfic writers, born entirely of the imagined contempt litfic writers must have for them. Nevermind that there are plenty of people who do both, ofc.

Anyone in Minnesota will tell you that this matches the eye test. They are simply grabbing anyone who's not white. Full stop. There is no other strategy to this at all. It's a racist, heinous federal occupation. Dismantle the agencies. Prosecute everyone involved. Redistribute all the funding.

It bears repeating that Tom Homan is a fucking psycho and Greg Bovino's exile means functionally nothing when it comes to what's happening on the ground in Minnesota.

Behind on my reading, for obvious reasons, but in the last couple days I finished OUT by Natsuo Kirino and THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR by Anne Rivers Siddon. OUT is sticky and alienating and fascinating to grapple with; THND is a barn-burner. Off to a good start on my reading list for 2026.

SO beyond excited to be in this incredible issue! <3 <3 <3

i know i've been pretty quiet but here's the result of my January: a totally handmade, fully-functional marionette created for a local winter-themed puppet show. she's called the Winter Maw & she'll eat you alive, just like real winter

ok I will stop fiddling with this now

Ive watched this about 100 times. This is why the internet was invented. Right here. Peak content.