thank you to everyone who tagged me in this momentous news & also to probably cursed oxyrhynchus mummy for the validation, congrats on your taste

[sweating nervously in wrote my undergrad thesis 11 years ago on the Catalogue of Ships, working on a poetry project about it right now, had at least 5 friends text me about this news] wow, yeah, what a weird part of the Iliad to be buried with

Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’ Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.

“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”

www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

Anathema: Spec from the Margins Support the relaunch of our Ignyte and British Fantasy Award-nominated magazine dedicated to the work of queer writers of color!

And… Anathema’s Kickstarter is live! Please read, donate & share to increase our reach! We’re excited to bring more speculative fiction, poetry and nonfiction by queer writers of color into the world!

Our fundraiser is scheduled to run through the end of May:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ana...

The cover of Living Fossils: poems by Loren Maria Guay.

A tortoiseshell cat sitting in loaf mode near a copy of Living Fossils. She looks unimpressed.

this trans day of visibility we deserve liberation & not just visibility, but it's also a great day to check out LIVING FOSSILS, my new, very trans book of poems about weird creatures & survival in the face of empire 🏳️‍⚧️

www.tamupress.com/book/9781680...

Writing Faculty Push for the Right to Refuse AI

Reporting in @insidehighered.com on the CCCC Resolution on Academic Freedom and Upholding Students' and Teachers' Right to Refuse Generative AI in the Writing Classroom that was passed at the #4c26 Annual Business Meeting.

We need reparations for ICE victims.

Anything short of that is setting the stage for a massive wealth grab from people of color that will re-entrench racial disparities for generations.

A tortoiseshell cat in loaf mode looking deeply unimpressed at a poetry chapbook titled Living Fossils

A black and white cat sitting on top of the poetry collection Living Fossils. He can't read, but it makes a great bed.

the best thing about a new poetry collection is that it can double as an inexpensive cat bed and/or object of scorn

happy official pub day to LIVING FOSSILS, out now from Texas Review Press 📖

www.tamupress.com/book/9781680...

About: The Trans Rights Readathon is an annual call to action to readers and book lovers in support of Trans Day of Visibility (TDOV) on March 31st. How to participate: read and uplift books written by and/or featuring trans, nonbinary, 2Spirit, and gender-nonconforming authors and characters. Donate and fundraise for trans aid organizations in your community.

#TransRightsReadathon begins soon. It's a decentralized event, which means you don't have to sign up or do anything in particular, you just have to love trans people and trans books. Here's what I'm doing this year 🧵

@trreadathon.bsky.social

I am going to link to organizations that I know for sure are helping trans Kansans. This thread will develop slowly as I either know people or will vet them.

At this point we have not heard from anyone being helped via relocation resources. These exist, but I assume they are overwhelmed.

On the record as profoundly and violently sick of this shit

Author holding a just-unboxed physical copy of their poetry collection, Living Fossils: Poems.

highly recommend holding your real life poems in your real life hands instead of paying attention to the agonies

if you like poems about weird creatures & queer/trans survival, LIVING FOSSILS is out March 10 (!!)
www.tamupress.com/book/9781680...

Cool Stuff for 2026! I’ve wanted to include more speculative poetry in my roundups, so I’m excited to announce that MicroVerse will have four dedicated poetry editions in 2026. And the best part is the guest editors wh…

MicroVerse will have 4 dedicated poetry editions in 2026! Look for poetry recs from guest editors Marisca Pichette, Loren Maria Guay, Angela Liu, and Ai Jiang!

I'm grateful to these fantastic poets!!

@marisca.bsky.social @nightgleaming.bsky.social @angelaliu.bsky.social @aijiang.bsky.social

Conflicting info about whether Pretti was murdered by ICE or CBP makes it clear that ICE is not single "rogue agency"

ICE, CBP and ALL policing & borders must be abolished. This isn't just one agency; its an entire infrastructure of carceral control, illegalization & criminalization, and fascism.

oh no, are publishers getting squeamish about buying queer books right now for some impossible-to-guess reason??

sounds like our books need to get even more queer, relentlessly queer, battle-axe queer, cackling queer

And we said abolish ICE too. ICE is not inevitable, its existence is not settled —even as it fortifies the settler state. Historically speaking, that ain’t certain either.

Today you should give Latin Americans the dignity of rage, and not expect people to feel grateful for your passive indignation

Available for pre-order now, coming Feb 2026. Promo of Living Fossils by Loren Maria Guay, poems. Winner of the 2025 Robert Phillips Chapbook Prize. Published with TRP: the University Press of SHSU.

& of course the big news I'll repeat until everyone gets sick of it: my debut poetry chapbook LIVING FOSSILS will be out feb 2026 @ texas review press, open for pre-orders now! (also at bookshop, waterstones, etc.).

www.tamupress.com/book/9781680...

this year I published one prose poem "Exhibition Notes: Portrait of Arapaima at the All-Night Diner" at the fabulous @beestung.bsky.social that was also nominated for the pushcart, best microfiction, and best small fictions (aaah)

beestungmag.com/issue24/one-...

Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway, You Dreamed of Empires by Alvaro Enrigue, Private Rites by Julia Armfield, Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman, The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus by Tony Harrison, Woodwoorm by Layla Martinez, Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay, Of Cattle and Men by Ana Paula Maia

2025 eligibility post: like many of us I was Eligible for having a nervous breakdown & yet I did not do that, wow! however I also did not publish any fiction. here are some books (& one play) by other people I enjoyed reading very much instead

Dear bluskeeters!

I'm doing research with a friend.
If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection.

Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share

Protect Trans Care Now As wave after wave of extreme measures to criminalize and strip trans people of rights and safety continue, tell Congress to act.

Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that bans gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18, and threatens any medical professional providing this care to youth with 10 years in prison.

Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.

Judge: residents must move out, ICE-raided South Shore building is uninhabitable • The TRiiBE The tenants of the property at 7500 S. South Shore Drive are ordered to leave the property by Friday.

UPDATE — For those who want to help, there’s now a way to donate directly to the 7500 South Shore Tenants Union to help with emergency relocation costs as residents “vacate in one of the snowiest winters in Chicago’s history.”

Details in our story.

thetriibe.com/2025/12/judg...

We shed as we pick up, like travelers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by piece, or be written again in another language. Ancient cures for diseases will reveal themselves once more. Mathematical discoveries glimpsed and lost to view will have their time again. You do not suppose, my lady, that if all Archimedes had been hiding in the great library of Alexandria, we would be at a loss for corkscrew?

Arcadia.

Promo post for upcoming book: LIVING FOSSILS, poems by Loren Maria Guay. Available for pre-order now, coming Feb. 2026 from TRP. Winner of the 2025 Robert Phillips Chapbook Prize.

thrilled to announce that my debut poetry collection LIVING FOSSILS is now available for pre-order from TRP! tell your cats, tell your friends, support queer/trans literature and art [coelacanth emoji when]

www.tamupress.com/book/9781680...

Floral and yellow background with the information in the post

Huge congratulations and good luck to beestung's 2026 Best Microfiction nominees!

em roth
nat raum
Loren Maria Guay
Yufan Lu
sterling-elizabeth arcadia

Read their work at beestungmag.com

A Year of Refusal Maggie Fernandes, University of ArkansasMegan McIntyre, University of ArkansasJennifer Sano-Franchini, West Virginia University Photo by Francis Glenn Marciano on Pexels.com It’s been about a year …

A new post on Refusing GenAI in Writing Studies from @jsanofranchini.bsky.social, @rcmeg.bsky.social, and me: "A Year of Refusal"

refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/a...

Thanks to Rex for spotting this one! Necropolis contains 5 stories about strange, decaying cities and is now available for purchase at Hexagon's patreon!
@alexfox.bsky.social @omersarae.bsky.social @nightgleaming.bsky.social @improbablerex.bsky.social and Victoria!
cover art by @warls.bsky.social

fact: transphobia is for losers

Detroit Institute of Arts Cultural Workers United

workers at Detroit Institute of Arts are announcing a wall-to-wall union drive for all staff at the museum. DIA is an amazing museum with a ton of incredible exhibits.

if you could sign the petition, that may help motivate museum leadership to voluntarily recognize the union.

diaworkersunited.org