Picnic and Friends Spring 2026 Launch party poster Time: May 7, 7pm Location: Singers Bar, 30 Kosciusko St, Brooklyn NY Readings from Anton Solomonik, Benedict Nguyen, Harron Walker, and live comics by Mattie Lubchansky

At long last! we'll be celebrating Picnic's second issue at Singers in Brooklyn on May 7 at 7pm. Come for readings from the new issue and friends of the rag, leave with a copy of the hottest trans literature magazine in New York city 🧺📚🏖️

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

dreamt I had a pet bird and it only ate papaya. every day I would take it to the market and we would pick out a new papaya together

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.

I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

April 7 EMERGENCY RALLY TONIGHT "A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT." -DONALD TRUMP STOP THE WAR ON IRAN 6PM AT THE WHITE HOUSE DC ANYERS AGAINST TRUMP LPS NIAC AFLARE CODE PINK DOELALISME PSL ACTION ORPS PALESTINIAN YOUTH MOVEMENT الشباب الفلسطيني FRS'O DC APOWEL ACTION 1 " 169 Liked by mac_dsa and others niacouncil TONIGHT DC! Join us at the White House to stop Trump's war on Iran! 2 hours ago

Rally at the White House tonight

I have a father and mother in law in Iran. I have a sister in law. A niece. She's 14. She likes silly pink headbands and purses and dresses, just like kids her age all over the world. There are 93 million people like her in Iran. People who do all the normal mundane life things as the rest of us.

More than 20 years ago. Same as it ever was.

The United States is behaving in a way that is indistinguishable from how an advanced Third Reich would had it emerged victorious from World War 2, and nearly every leader in the developed world is now abandoning their duty to confront it, having acclaimed and legitimated it every step of the way.

SNL UK is absolutely putting its American counterpart to shame dear lord

When we talk about what the NYT is up to now, it’s actually helpful to be attentive to the fact that they have *always* done shit like this

Vessel with rodents! Vessel with rodents! Vessel with rodents!

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.

It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

This rules

keeping the safety of the Artemis II crew in my well wishes

On top of the broader strategic issues Imani raises here, portraying this as the law being struck down risks giving false impressions to victims of conversion practices that they have no recourse and to perpetrators that they have impunity.

A redbud tree fills the frame, the blossoms a flaming brilliant magenta

The world is on fire but there are still redbud trees.

On Surviving Trans Genocide As fascists openly call for trans people to be institutionalized, forcibly detransitioned, and labeled as terrorists, we must remember how trans existence is undefeatable, and how trans people will fi...

Additionally, a piece we keep coming back to is @mady.cat's powerful reminder of trans survival in the face of genocide.

Worth a read, especially lately.

i'm glad i'm not a lawyer so i don't have to pretend banning child torture and speech are in any way related

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you.

If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can.

Everyone give this a share after.

the waiting and uncertainty is so hard

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Happy Trans Day of Having a Nice Snack! Fill this out and post/send it anywhere you like (if you're trans), and don't forget to buy a snack for someone else if you can (that's for everyone).

Sending love today and every day — we WILL win and we WILL have treats along the way. xoxoxo.

The AMA said surgeries should “generally be deferred to adulthood.” (The generally established guidance)

The NYT characterized this as the AMA having “backed limitations on gender-related surgical treatments.”

What the NYT wrote is different than what AMA said. Full stop. 1/2

It's really wild that guys like Edsall will argue that it's imperative that Democrats support enacting *new laws* to create new restrictions and regulate something that can, should, and has been handled on a local/organizational level up until this point.

I’m at ICE HQ

Cover of Picnic 2, featuring a beautiful woman reading the first issue of Picnic on the beach. Cover lines read: Jesi Gaston, Anton Solomonik, Sloane Murphy, Willem Helf, Leah Tigers, Davey Davis, Chala June

PICNIC MAG IS BACK! Just in time for things to heat up, we have a steamy, sensual new collection of fiction, essays, and poetry from your favorite NYC transexual literary magazine and culture rag

The latest 5-4 Podcast @fivefourpod.bsky.social on Dames & Moore v Regan is truly helpful for understanding the ways in which we (Americans) have been fucking with Iran for decades. Strongly recommend giving it a listen

NYU Faculty Strike as Union and University Reach Impasse on Wages More than 900 non-tenure track NYU professors went on strike on Monday morning, as students returned from spring break.

Approximately 950 non-tenure track faculty at New York University walked off the job on Monday, after their union and the university failed to reach agreement on raises and better job security.

www.thecity.nyc/2026/03/23/n...

Holy shit we might have a cure for sickle cell anemia

Happy birthday!