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Waiting for freelance payments & attempting to pay the rest of the bills due this month. If you have anything to spare, I’d be so grateful. 🫶🏻

Vaccine Makers Curtail Research and Cut Jobs

Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. want us all to die — and are doing everything in their power to make sure that happens sooner rather than later. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/h...

Got a pansy tattoo! Happy Friday the 13th!

REVIEW: Uncanny Valley Girls - Zefyr Lisowski | Hippocampus Magazine "As a trans, disabled, and mentally ill woman, Zefyr Lisowski shares how she only saw girls like her being punished." -- from our review of Uncanny Valley Girls

So happy to report that my review of @zefrrr.bsky.social ‘s incredible Uncanny Valley Girls: Essays on Horror, Survival, and Love is out now!

Much thanks to @hippocampusmag.bsky.social for giving it a (haunted) home! www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/02/revi...

Yay!!

The Pride flag at the Stonewall Monument is re-raised!

New Yorkers won’t let Donald Trump erase LGBTQ+ history, or trample the rights of our LGBTQ+ neighbors.

REVIEW: Uncanny Valley Girls - Zefyr Lisowski | Hippocampus Magazine "As a trans, disabled, and mentally ill woman, Zefyr Lisowski shares how she only saw girls like her being punished." -- from our review of Uncanny Valley Girls

So happy to report that my review of @zefrrr.bsky.social ‘s incredible Uncanny Valley Girls: Essays on Horror, Survival, and Love is out now!

Much thanks to @hippocampusmag.bsky.social for giving it a (haunted) home! www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/02/revi...

With the WP book section closing and other publishing news, I think literary people really need to adopt a punk rock mindset. It's DIY or die these days.

Nonfiction Writers! Looking for a summer workshop? I’m excited to be one of the nonfiction faculty at this year’s McCormack Writing Center’s Oregon Summer workshop (formerly Tin House). mccormackwritingcenter.org/oregon-summe...
Where else have I facilitated workshops? ⬇️

They stole his Spidey backpack.

Seeing the Paranormal Activity stage play in DC tonight. #ghostnerd

Shouldn’t matter if they “followed the rules” or not, they are people. This is a 5 year old boy. How can 🧊 and our government, including democrats, live with themselves for letting all of this to continue to happen?! @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

In Theory, Darling by Marcos Gonsalez: 9780807008003 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books A love letter to queer of color theory and how it has helped the author to discover himself, reclaim identities, celebrate queer joy, and work towards liberation Marcos Gonsalez found his greatest so...

In Theory, Darling, my ode to queer of color theory, comes out in paperback this May!

I’ve started using the term “ethnic cleansing campaign” to describe the ICE occupation here in Minnesota. This is deliberate because the reality on the ground is that, at a given moment, any non-white person can be kidnapped by masked federal paramilitaries regardless of their constitutional rights.

We literally don’t need ICE for anything

no we must keep denouncing and shaming these agents. Make their lives hell.

So sorry. Hugs

I’m reading this right now and it’s SO good!

The sheer number of videos of the shooting is horrific, but in the vein of what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying, it proves how many people cared enough to show up where ICE was and record them. It wasn't just one or two legal observers, and when Good was shot, they didn't abandon her.

Impeach the Motherfucker

Impeach the Motherfucker
Convict the Motherfucker
Remove the Motherfucker

“It’s healthy to take a break sometimes to be a fan and remember the larger legacy you’re a part of,” writes @otroedgargomez.bsky.social, author of Alligator Tears (Crown). Read on: at.pw.org/WRGomez

Speculative Nonfiction: Four Lessons on Story, Memory, Speculation, and Invention with Carmen Maria Machado - StoryStudio Chicago In this course, bestselling author Carmen Maria Machado will present four lessons on Speculative Nonfiction -- exploring the possibilities of this space, brainstorming ideas, and working on a series…

nbd, just a Speculative Nonfiction class with the ONE AND ONLY Carmen Maria Machado. 🤩

This four-session online class starts Feb. 25. More good news: Each session is recorded, so when you register, if you miss a live lecture, you can watch on your own time.

Register now: buff.ly/PLEKu35

#writers

You only have 4 more days to see ZODIAC KILLER PROJECT at the Music Box!

The winner of the NEXT Innovator Award at the Sundance Film Festival is playing through this Thursday December 11th.

Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...

While movie theaters struggle, Chicago’s historic Music Box is adding a third screen The Music Box Theatre is adding a third 100-seat theater and expanding to Minneapolis as the new owner of the Heights Theater.

"While movie theaters struggle, Chicago's historic Music Box is adding a third screen" -- @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/02/m...

never gay enough!!

BREAKING: We filed a class action lawsuit to stop all Texas public schools from displaying the Ten Commandments in their classrooms.

Judges have blocked our prior plaintiffs' schools from enforcing a Texas law mandating these unconstitutional displays. We're asking the courts to block it statewide.

Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Casey Weldon.

Oh hey lots of holiday bargains are lighting up my email and social media.

Just a reminder to shop small this weekend. Visit your indie bookstore.

The billionaires have enough.

Corpses, Fools, and Monsters is an incredible book! Highly recommend getting yourself a copy!