That is a great introductory song!
Did you see they made an Occupy song? It came out after all the others.
princemyshkins.com/songs/ourdem...

Have we ever talked about both loving the work of The Prince Myshkins? They were a fundamental part of my undergrad experience. It hits hard how much of that song, and all their work, is still relevant.

A small fish with a red belly on a ruler show it as slightly more than 1" long.

Baby salmon!!

"The Klamath Tribes’ Ambodat Department (Fisheries Department, meaning “from the water”) is proud to announce the first documented observation of naturally reproduced c’iyaal’s (Chinook salmon) in tributaries of Upper Klamath Lake in over a century."

klamathtribes.org/the-klamath-...

"I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship. We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting. The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.

The Gender Discard Party, 2020 to now For the past few years I’ve been hosting Gender Discard Parties, and I’ve made a guide for how you can host your own. They are a great way to share stories and ideas about gender and ho…

The PDF of the Gender Discard Party zine is now live on my site. Feel free to download and share!

I really want people to check in with the organizations that have been pushing back on surveillance for 10+ years.

Just to be blunt, there are a lot of folks who realized yesterday that surveillance is bad and many are suggesting well-intentioned but misguided strategies for fighting it

talk to us

A hand holds a gnome cast in ice against a bright window.

Made an ice gnome the only kind of ICE I want around.

this week's post is something i've been working on for a long time, and is a little guide to living the good life. Or it's early aughts punk nostalgia. Or it's my response to tradwife culture.

margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/the-punk-r...

An elderly cartoon witch. She is a wrinkled old Chinese woman with a crooked back, long white hair and a gnarled wooden cane. She wears a long, loose robe with an ornately embroidered vest on top, and a wide-brimmed brown hat. Her clothes are in shades of cream, brown and blue. On her cane hangs a jade-green tea pot, and from it swirls a mass of steam that wraps around her.

#TeaWitches 2025 edition. #art

Day 19: Pu'erh

I've only tried one variety of pu'erh, but the one I have smells and tastes so much like sun-warmed hay that every time I drink it I get launched back into being a 12 year old horse-nerd. It's a neat experience.

It's a good day to reshare this letter to trans teens

Calendar graphic with heading BSTOX FINAL CLOSING SALE on top. Center text reads: Come through to help us offset the debts of the store *and* benefit a prisoner solidarity org. 12/13, 12/20, 12/27, 12-5 PM, 116 Suffolk Street. Masks required. This text is flanked by an exclamation point outline on the left, art of a megaphone held up on the right, and the Bluestockings logo underneath.

Passing this on from folks who are not on Bluesky: If you're in NYC, Bluestockings is having a final closing sale.

Come celebrate and grieve the closing of the store, and the sunset of Bluestockings Cooperative.

Books, appliances, merchandise, furniture-- everything is going.
Masks are required!

What is happening to my friend Kyle's books is no small part of what inspired me to join my local library board of trustees. We need more of us in this fight.

Commissioners vote 3-2 to dismiss Library Board of Trustees <p>How the Library Board voted to handle a controversial children's book led to a majority decision by commissioners to dismiss the whole board.</p>

A library's entire board of trustees was fired and replaced because they refused to ban one of my books. It's so terrible. www.randolphhub.com/article/news...

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Paging @margaret.bsky.social

The Room of Lost Steps - Rusoff Agency

TIL that Tolkien's grandson wrote a novel set during the Spanish Civil War
rusoffagency.com/fiction/the-...

Update 3: Something new is about to happen... · The World That Is Coming Inside You The point where the vastness of above and the vastness ofbelow meet in the flash of fireunder the feathers of a bird, each tiny point of contactswimming up to meetthis mouth, these lips, how precious ...

Everything is happening so fast – our neighbor was taken by agents – they’re invalidating passports – I can’t afford my health insurance – everyone’s pretending there’s a ceasefire and people are still being massacred – and the poetry is insistent on my attention. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lty...

A prayer for those who seek to rule us: I pray that your tools turn in your hands, that all your plans collapse in ruin and that everything slips from your grasp. I pray you witness our simple joy at your failure.

Let this remind you that they will all die eventually. Hold each other close and hang on.

my name is Oz
and wen the stone
is broke to bits
and all alone
i lie in sand
it stretches bare
you read my words
you pls despair

US tells airlines to disregard ‘X’ sex markers on passports and input ‘M’ or ‘F’ Customs and Border Protection implemented rule this week, sending Americans with ‘X’ marker into panic

I was interviewed for this Guardian piece about the new passport gender markers policy www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The World That Is Coming Inside You The debut poetry collection by Andy Izenson, a T4T love letter to the living cosmos

MY BOOK SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT

PREORDER MY BOOK NOW

www.kickstarter.com/projects/lty...

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

Dear young artist,
I've been doing this for forty years and here's the one piece of advice I have for you: be out in your work. Be as weird as you ever hope to be right from the start. That's what we need right now, and you'll get to meet the people who crave your weirdness.
Love ya, Auntie

I’m thrilled that Seven Stories Press is giving you a Pride gift: an absolutely free e-book of my shiny new edition of Hello Cruel World. Hurry, cuz the offer is only good thru June 25th. Click here, and it’s yours. www.sevenstories.com/blogs/381-fr...

Our kids are depending on us to tell them the story they need to hear. Don't let your panic override that responsibility.

That we show them that we are trans adults and we almost invariably didn't have gender affirming care before puberty and we are loved and beautiful and happy. The story of trans joy and trans beloved community NEEDS to be louder than the story of trans suicidality today.

It is really important right now that we make sure our trans young people hear other stories than that. They hear "there is a future for you" & "there is community for you" & "you don't have to pass to be loved" & "not having access to gender affirming care before puberty IS NOT A DEATH SENTENCE."

Not having access to gender affirming care before puberty is not a death sentence BUT if we all uncritically repeat the fear that it is, the young people will take their cue from us on how freaked out to be, and they will believe that all they can do in response to Skrmetti is die.