AHHHHH YESSSSSSS

deepest of deep breaths feeling nervous about this one, friends! I've written about the mainstreaming of pull-to-publish, its impact on fandom, and what it means for an increasingly corporate and IP-driven creative landscape.

"Imagining is not a solitary project or an individual action; it’s a collective practice. We have to struggle for different visions of society together. We need different words, alternate ways of thinking and of being." ❤️‍🔥 @prisonculture.bsky.social prisonculture.substack.com/p/abolition-...

rereading Possession for the first time in many years which was a great decision but i can't stop thinking about how absolutely nobody would be allowed to get away with this book now (lament)

"revolutions are built on failure. We fail, over and over again, until one day we win. It’s our tenacity and endurance that sets us apart from our enemies." ❤️‍🔥 margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/revolution...

October 4 - Join the NYC Public Library Action Network (NYC PLAN) for a People’s Assembly about our city libraries. If you’re in NYC and care about public libraries, sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/nyc-public...

made a new zine! if u want one: 1. donate $5 or more to: --sameer project chuffed.org/project/1132... --healing our homeland healingourhomeland.org --or palmetto state abortion fund palmettostateabortionfund.com (honor system! i trust u) 2. dm me yr mailing address by september 25 2025

made a new zine! if u want one: 1. donate $5 or more to: --sameer project chuffed.org/project/1132... --healing our homeland healingourhomeland.org --or palmetto state abortion fund palmettostateabortionfund.com (honor system! i trust u) 2. dm me yr mailing address by september 25 2025

New byline! For Stop Caring, I spoke with @jeannethornton.bsky.social about her novel A/S/L and its roots in the ZZT community

FAT BEAR JUNIOR BRACKET OPENS TODAY FOR VOTING THIS IS NOT A DRILL explore.org/fat-bear-week

time to revisit the greatest movie about creepy tech bros ever made

this is gonna be amazing ! !!!!!!!!

Introducing COYOTE: A worker-owned Bay Area media collective. Our stories will be public for the first two weeks. Read ‘em and subscribe! www.coyotemedia.org

While it’s still September 10 & Mary Oliver’s birthday—she would have been 90—I thought I’d share this thing I wrote on the day she died, in January of 2019

summer isn't over until i stop googling "robin finck 1990s" for the year

For @newyorker.com I wrote about the censorship of trans art. I spoke to many of my favorite artists from Puppies Puppies to Creighton Baxter, thought about strategic opacity, Amy Sherald, and whether or not we have had great trans artists. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

proof of life

Full list of zines as of 9/2: California, Chicago, Colorado, DC Metro, Florida, Indianapolis, Maryland, Massachusetts, North Carolina Triangle Area, NYC, Philly, Pittsburgh, Portland OR, Rhode Island, St. Louis Metro Area, Washington State, Wisconsin Zine request form in the drive folder.

there is good in this world u just have to know where to look

absolutely furious to be on the other side of the world from this!!!!! if u are in NY u better go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OH! The Giant Dark is $3 on Bookshop right now and you should probably just go buy it (thank you @amiwithani.bsky.social for pointing this out!)

sarvat is a genius and Strange Girls is a truly delicious treat feat. In Love with Best Friend, Bad Writer Behavior, Not Set in 90s But Still Has 90s Vibes U Know What I Mean. get on this one u will not be sorry !!!!!!!

does the new york times take you seriously and is your publisher paying to nominate you for a national book award? congratulations you write literary fiction. sprayed edges and viral on booktok is the best you can hope for? great you write genre

did mushrooms with Theseus and he's just been staring at his ship for like two hours

telling my kids this was sunn o)))

I wrote a book about fascism, the trap of poverty, and how little we care about the military. One editor called it depressing. Another said it needed a hero. Recorded published it as an audio original and a few people have asked for it as an ebook. Here you go, all ten of you: a.co/d/21lgHYP

morning

a great interview with an absolute icon! really don't think it's an exaggeration to say that hothead saved my life circa 1999 & i am so delighted that she is readily accessible once again!

this is a lovely @charliejane.bsky.social essay on AS Byatt's all-time banger Possession lithub.com/charlie-jane...

tamara santibañez on the fascist underpinnings of conservative tattoo removal + the radical praxis of embracing your poorly tattooed meatsack of a self tamarasantibanez.substack.com/p/baptism-by...

"There are no metaphors in Gaza. There is only what is gone and what remains—this life between shadows, and the memory of another light." jewishcurrents.org/the-betrayal...

"Since his near-death experience, he claims the archangels have been his guiding light and steered him on his new mission: saving ancient trees and by extension, the planet." what if the starfish story but for planting saplings, via @biographic.bsky.social reasonstobecheerful.world/detroit-sequ...

"Like the Biblical Cain, we may be cursed to wander, and, like the Qur’anic Cain, we have reparations to make. But the inevitability of crisis does not trivialize moral response; it is the precondition for moral action." ‍Yaseen Hashmi for @acaciamag.bsky.social www.acaciamag.com/issue-03/pla...

So many of you wrote asking for a primer on how to push back against ICE's presence where you live! So this week's Tuesday post skips the usual history lesson. Instead, I talked to Oliver Merino of the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, who offered a lot of specifics on how to take action near you.

hajar press is consistently publishing some of the most beautiful radical & visionary writing out there !!!! cannot recommend We, the Heartbroken and Experiments in Imagining Otherwise enough!!!!

wrote u a letter about starfish sarahmccarry.substack.com/p/starfish

wrote u a letter about starfish sarahmccarry.substack.com/p/starfish

My wife is in Vogue shitting on your AI-generated "art" 💜 www.vogue.com/article/matt...

The war on Gaza is genocidal now, it was genocidal in October 2023, it will be genocidal tomorrow. There was no time when it was a just war with noble aims

hajar press is consistently publishing some of the most beautiful radical & visionary writing out there !!!! cannot recommend We, the Heartbroken and Experiments in Imagining Otherwise enough!!!!

went outside (recommended)

"They have identified me with the Palestinian cause, being married to a Palestinian and given my sympathies with Palestinians. [...] If I am there in the Palestinians’ name, I take it as a badge of honor. I am not sorry." www.acaciamag.com/web/badar-kh...

"Everyone using citizenship or innocence as a ward against mistreatment, I think to myself, has not learned one thing about American prisons or policing—not learned one thing about America." @charoshane.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥https://meantforyou.beehiiv.com/p/my-fellow-americans

beautiful piece on a beautiful project. the catnip garden cracked me right open(via @prisonculture.bsky.social) civileats.com/2025/06/18/i...

In addition to supporting the Sameer Project, here are a few other calls to action from our partners and friends we'd like to share, amid the ongoing created starvation, shooting and killing of Palestinians in Gaza:

Healing Our Homeland is also a palestinian-women-led org doing mutual aid work in the gaza strip healingourhomeland.org/what-we-do/

If it feels overwhelming to choose individuals to help in Gaza while not being able to help others, I am a regular donor to the Sameer Project and really vouch for the on the ground mutual aid work they have been doing.

everyone knows that literary fiction is ACTUALLY all/mostly about professors encouraging their hand-selected group of wealthy, reclusive greek students to recreate bacchanals and dismember farmers in the woods of vermont