Take that break! The AWP tsunami is so real!! Loved seeing you ❤️

thx! I’d love to include this in a piece on LGBT books I’m writing for Electric Lit. Can you clarify?

Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.

Orange Rabbit sleeping surrounded by stalks of romaine

Orange rabbit chowing down

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003

when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

Thank you

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.

I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

San Francisco’s Ocean Beach!

Boys at bootcamp: two sides of American masculinity When a trans-genderqueer author’s nephew joined the US Army, they wondered whether their closeness would endure

"Boys at Bootcamp" is about my connection w my nephew--who recently joined the Army--& our evolving relationship as I've transitioned. Couldn't find a home for us boys in the U.S. so we kicked down the back door. THX @theobserveruk.bsky.social! tinyurl.com/BOYS-AT-BOOT... @evanurquhart.bsky.social

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing.

You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.

That is all.

Two best aunts with leather bling caps

Aunt Judy & friend having their most leather daddy Xmas and not even knowing it

Wondering if you’re looking for only hard journalism or essay as well?

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

The Epstein stuff is always so amazing to me because it's like "yes he was a sex criminal but if you can get past that, he was also an avowed eugenicist"

The Annihilating Impact of a Mother’s Silence - Electric Literature Jeannie Vanasco’s new memoir intimately explores how isolating the silent treatment can be

"While silence can be a powerful tool, if you’re repeatedly using it to punish a loved one, you’re alienating them when you actually want a closer relationship." (@aliontas.bsky.social)

Honestly, not mad at how the Baltimore Museum of Art is trolling DC Union Station w these Amy Sherald ads

Get them, honey

Damn, I hate it when things that happen mean nothing :-(

@ambersparks.bsky.social same except maybe my version is the space between train cars while the train is going through a tunnel

Philly, come out to Eshani Surya's launch of RAVISHING! @eshanisurya.bsky.social

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Several states (including California, Michigan, Oregon, and Wisconsin) have announced that they’ve begun processing full food stamp payments. Thank you to those states for stepping up to support families in need!

“The proverbial is mysterious.”—Luisa Costa Gomes @ Disquiet

“Something happens. Then it happens again. Then it happens again. That’s drama.”—Bruna Dantas Lobato @ Disquiet @brunadantas.bsky.social

“Authenticity is a whittling of the truth.”—Lauren Christensen @ Disquiet on what to leave in & out of creative nonfiction

“If you want to see the flaws in your work, just look at it in translation.”—Patricia Portela @disquiet international conference in Lisbon

How can we support

“I’m still part of the family, it’s there I live to the exclusion of everywhere
else. It’s in its aridity, it’s terrible harshness, it’s malignance that I’m most deeply sure of myself, at the heart of my essential certainty, the certainty that later on I’ll be a writer.”-Duras

@ A Public Space

They’ve bombed abortion clinics, killed doctors, sentenced women to death over unwanted pregnancies, killed trans and queer people for asking for rights. There’s literally no kind of political violence that I’ve not seen come from the right in this country, and it’s never engaged with seriously.

Sign saying Philly loves immigrants with LOVE in style of Love Park sign.

PHILLY ❤️ IMMIGRANTS!

No Kings! No Despots! Democracy only!