I'm up to chapter twelve in my historical queer romance set in the early years of the Aztec Empire! If you haven't check out my Patreon, now's a good time.

Revolutionary Nahuatl for 9/28/25 Zan māuhqueh moxāyacatiah inic quinānazqueh in chipāhuaqueh. Only cowards wear masks to violently seize the innocent.

So basically Peacemaker stepped into our dimension a couple of years down the road, at the rate MAGA is infesting everything.

Sci-fi fans when Murderbot can hack itself and any network, controlling information and systems: "DUDE! So bad-ass." Sci-fi fans when Wendy from ALIEN: EARTH does the same thing: "STUPID! Another Mary Sue." JFC.

Checking in with the Texas Education Agency whether it's going to investigate teachers who make fun of the illness and death of liberals and progressives ... or wheter that only applies to their MAGA puppet masters. [J/K obviously TEA is just as fascist as the rest of the villains.]

Module 3 of Basic Classical Nahuatl Level 2 has just rolled out! If you've been considering furthering your understanding of this vital Indigenous language group, now's a great time to jump in. nahuatl.thinkific.com/courses/bcn2

Wait ... was Ch@rlie K*rk the result of a transporter accident that blended all the bad elements of Captain Kirk and Charlie X's personalities?

My first boardbook! Drops October 7, 2025, so get one for the little Spanish-speaking reader in your life.

Anybody else getting these LLM-generated emails trying to convince you to let some random person do a better job at marketing your book than your actual publisher has? No, lucindajsexton [at] gmail [dot] com, I will stick with LQ, Lee and Low, Bloomsbury, and PRH's PR teams, thanks!

Revolutionary Nahuatl for September 16, 2025 Aic titocāhuazqueh. We will never be silent. _______________________ Aic = never ti- = first person plural subject prefix (we) to- = first person plural reflexive prefix (ourselves) cāhua = silence -zqueh = plural future

the overall reaction to charlie kirk’s demise (online and in the media) treating him as a tragic loss when he was a repugnant white supremacist — and the pearlclutching over anyone who says as much — shows how and why this country is so much further to the right than we’re made to believe it is

Revolutionary Nahuatl for September 11, 2025 Cānin mach in tlapōhualli? Where the hell is the list? _____________________ cānin - where mach - intensifier showing doubt / frustration in - the tlapōhualli - list, enumeration, counting / recounting of people or things

It is weird that the assassination of essentially a celebrity influencer is a bigger deal than the shooting of two top state legislators + their spouses

democrat melissa hortman was literally politically assassinated in her fucking home less than 3 months ago and now everyone wants to comment on how bad it’ll be now like ok

Yes, we get it: you abhor gun violence. Yay. Good for you. [So tired of everyone clarifying this point for all their followers on the off chance someone thinks otherwise.]

Revolutionary Nahuatl for September 10, 2025 Nō īhuān mochin ahtlācah. Likewise for all inhuman bastards. ___________________________________ Nō īhuān - likewise mochin - all ahtlācah - individuals without humanity

Malia joins her cousins Ivan and Dante at their Aunt Lucy's house. It'll be fun! Hang out, go down to the water park! Until they cross 13th Street, that is. Then they might go a bit batty. This fun story by @davidbowles.us and Shane Clester features cool creatures and spooky but helpful characters.

If you're not reading my adult novels set in the early decades of the Aztec Empire, now's a good time to check out my Patreon!

The second module of Basic Classical Nahuatl Level 2 is now live! If you're considering the course, it's great time to check it out.

The longlist for the 2025 National Book Awards in the Young People's Literature category has been announced.

As a professor in Texas who teaches about having teens use critical lenses when they are reading contemporary MG and YA novels or canonical literature, I know it's just a matter of time before something like this happens to me. But I refuse to not center the minds and needs of all young people.

Latinos make up 20 percent of the US population. The Supreme Court has just declared that masked MAGA secret police can snatch any of us up and demand we prove our legal status. Republicans want to carry out ethnic cleansing of as many of us as they can. Pero ni a tiros nos van a sacar.

"but we can't support trans rights, it's unpopular!" just a reminder that US approval for marriage between black and white people at the start of the civil rights movement was 4%, reaching a whopping 20% by the end of the movement it's 95% now you don't wait for popularity for a rights movement

Immigrants are a social good, anti-immigrant propaganda is basically all lies, and any approach to the "problem" that doesn't start form those two points is worthless

Basic Classical Nahuatl Level 2 is now live! A new class drops each Wednesday by 5 pm. Thirteen self-paced modules in total. 520 days of access to the course and the professor (nehhuātl, yours truly).

Chapter 6 of AMID THE FLOATING GARDENS is up on my Patreon! Xochimilco in 1432, in the spring. A beautiful time and place for romance to bloom.

Y'all REALLY need to pre-order Latin American Shared Stories, edited by @vlatinalondon.bsky.social ... Tons of amazing stories by some of the very best Latine voices, including my own Mesoamerican Sword and Sorcery tale, "Whispering Shards."

A stupid meme is making the rounds again, claiming the Nahuatl word for avocado, "ahuacatl," means "testicle." FFS, no it, doesn't. Not any more than "nut" or "ball" does. Those are METAPHORICAL USES. Quit othering / ridiculing Indigenous languages. @magnuspharao.bsky.social explained this: 1/

Chapter 5 of my novel AMONG THE FLOATING GARDENS is up! Political intrigue, family dynamics, and slowburn Sapphic romance in the year 1432, in the city of Xochimilco, recently annexed by the Aztec Empire. Check it out!

Revolutionary Nahuatl for August 26, 2025. Ma momayahui in tlanehnequini! Down with the tyrant! _____________________ Ma = may it be that momayahui = falls to the ground from a great height in = the tlanehnequini = tyrant

"The Supreme Court won't allow X to happen! They've already said that the Constitution blah, blah, blah." Motherf*ckers, have you not been paying attention for the past decade? They will back his play. Every f*cking time. We cannot depend on the government to protect us. Not a single branch.

Chapter 4 of AMONG THE FLOATING GARDENS is up on my Patreon page! Xochimilico in 1432, just two years after annexation by the Aztec Empire. Scribes, weavers, merchants ... and a sweet-to-spicy slow-burn Sapphic romance. Come check out the first book in my Lakeside Loves universe!

This was such a fun start to this story! Anahuac feels very real.

My oldest daughter's dog, her companion for more than 13 years, passed away yesterday. I wrote my daughter a poem of grief & joy: In ihcuac ilamatiz ihuan contocaz inan itah tonatiuh ompa cihuatlampa, quinamiquiz inahuac Apanohuayan— ichichitzin yolcualtzin mocecencauhqui inic quichiyaz iyollo. 1/

Since 15th-century Xochimilco is one of the main settings for my new historical romances, I thought I'd share some basic facts about the fascinating Nahua city-state and kingdom.

The first three chapters of my sapphic historical romance set in the early years of the Aztec Empire are now up on my Patreon! Read the first for free and then keep going, two chapters a week, for just three bucks a month. www.patreon.com/collection/1...

I was this many days old when I learned @davidbowles.us has a free basic classical Nahuatl course ... don't mind if I do nahuatl.thinkific.com/courses/free...

At last! I am releasing a follow-up to my popular course Basic Classical Nahuatl 101, called ... Basic Classical Nahuatl Level 2! 😜 The on-line class consists of 13 self-paced modules covering intermediate-level vocabulary & sentence structure. Feel free to preview! Hopefully you'll want more.

Read chapter 1 of my queer historical romance, AMID THE FLOATING GARDENS, for free! This slow-burn love story follows Eya, a passionate court scribe in Xochimilco in 1432, as she fights to clear the name of Yoliz, a widowed weaver falsely accused of murder, for whom she falls head over heels.

Just got out of the #Ghost concert in Austin. I was down in the pit, near the stage, and let me tell you: screaming the lyrics “the disobedience that holds us together” (from “He Is”) with several hundred others with fists in the air was pretty freaking amazing.

Read chapter one of AMID THE FLOATING GARDENS for free! This slow-burn love story follows Eya, a passionate court scribe in Xochimilco in 1432, as she fights to clear the name of Yoliz, a widowed weaver falsely accused of murder, for whom she falls head over heels.

Here's a post in which I explain what inspired me to craft these queer historical romances.

Early 1400s. Queer love. Aztec Empire. Support Lakeside Loves for spicy, deeply researched historical romances set in Indigenous Anahuac—months before they’re published—plus exclusive novellas you can’t read anywhere else. patreon.com/AeronZaldivar

“Out There Somewhere” by Orbital is 23 minutes long.

The more I write historical fiction / historical romance set in what's now Central Mexico during the 1400s, the more I think about the misconceptions about the Nahuas (in the "Aztec Empire" and surrounding nations) that have been embraced by the general public. Here are some of the biggest: 1/

🔥 “You see me? Look here. Bye.” 🔥 Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. just torched Trump’s rigged redistricting scheme and walked out with Texas Democrats to stop a racist, power-hungry map designed to silence voters. “We didn’t start this fight—Donald Trump did.” Now they’re fighting back. Stand with them.

I'm going to launch a Latine romance imprint, focusing mostly on queer stories, but also special straight ones. It will be called NEKISSOH— —Nahuatl for "desirable" or "desired." Among our publications will be the queer historical romances I'm writing as Aeron Zaldívar. More details soon!

The time for compromise has long since passed.

Alan Cumming on bathroom bills: "Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."