I'm sorry, I'm just so mad. "The Iran fiasco." They bombed five hundred fucking schools and three hundred medical centers.

Image of 5 book covers representing the 2026 finalists for the Lammy Award in Transgender Poetry.

The 2026 finalists in Transgender Poetry are:
a body more tolerable by @jayesimpson.bsky.social @arsenalpulp.bsky.social
Algarabía - The Song of Cenex, Natural Son of the Isle Alarabíyya by Roque Raquel Salas Rivera.
#Lammys2026

The cover of a body more tolerable, with two illustrated wolves locked in combat against a red background

A photo of author jaye simpson

#Sirens26 #Bookmas Day 21: For everyone who needs to cry or scream or howl

a body more tolerable, a searing collection by writer, activist, and drag queen jaye simpson (@jayesimpson.bsky.social). Told through faerie tales, simpson's poetry keens: with grief, with rage, with tenderness, with love

Photo through the windshield of a car showing an armored police vehicle driving on Nicollet

This is Minneapolis:

-drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents
-go to brunch with your wife
-get a text from neighbors who don’t have enough food & can’t leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt
-get groceries as helicopters roar overhead
-deliver food & this vehicle passes you

fantastic year!

The Shortlist:

- Sage by @yaffasutopia.bsky.social

- Perverts by Kay Gabriel

- Local Woman by jzl jmz

- Glitch Girl! by Rainie Let

- a body more tolerable by @jayesimpson.bsky.social

Three books: Cuckoo, Manhunt, and Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin

Need more queer and trans horror for the spooky season? We've got you covered!

Stop into the shop or come by our Boozy Book Fair this Saturday at Beermiscuous for our favorite horror by LGBTQ+ authors and artists! (and a whole lot more!)

i need movies to be more realistic. half these slobs need to be missing teeth and dying of dysentery

“when will i see you again?”
“time moves quickly”

oh stfu

why is there feathers in her hair? OH WAIT ITS CUZ ELVES AND NATIVES ARE ATTUNED WITH NATURRRRRREEEEEE

arya looking real native american pretendian at the end

like the acting is so bad in this movie and cringey and like ignored the important parts of the books?

the eragon movie was flop and i suspect we’ll get an amazon prime series that’ll be canceled after 2 seasons. apple tv should do it cuz they tend not to cancel things right away

like also i can’t wait to go to the museums tomorrow before my event at Thin Air in Manitoba! my first official official out of town literary festival !

it’s the era of nostalgia and my fave childhood series can’t return (Guardians of Ga’Hoole) because i think kathryn lasky killed the gd world with an earthquake that killed all the silly owls

favourite and formative fantasy/horror that’s not immediately in the mainstream?

i’m thinking like… a tad niche perhaps!

felt like a lil spell, like we got magically married or something

your boyfriend ever collect your tears from you crying (from another break up) and then drink them and then tell you that he will never ever leave you?

here’s the thing… T4T intimacy!

I get to do drag again this week for the first time since November!!!! And you know what? Persephone Estradiol is ready to cause some chaos!

Really enjoyed discussing embryo dumpling horror with the great Gretchen Felker-Martin and Kayte Terry

being able to have my partners meet my parents feels like quite the MOMENTOUS occasion and i’m going to be sitting in that for a long long long time.

i think a lot about how i share my heart. i love to, it’s so sacred and magical. for a foster kid to peel back those layers and let others peer in. what delight in getting to be undone by another, over and over again.

i have to have some chats soon about some stuff but polyamory is about communication and sharing hearts so there will always be bumbles and bumps. but i loved the journey and the trip. there was so so so much magic!

i had all three of my current partners come visit my parents this weekend and it had some ups and some downs and it was enlightening and ended in many lessons. but hey! milestone!

i’m doing writerly things lately.

signing contracts. writing things.

finished poetry book 3, writing my memoir and working on some short stories…

more chaos and i will be a happy darling in doing it all

i want to read this review so bad.

“diva is persisting”

Author jaye simpson

The cover of a body more tolerable, with two illustrated wolves locked in combat against a red background

Day 1, #Pride Book 1: a body more tolerable, a searing poetry collection by Oji-Cree-Saulteaux Indigiqueer writer, activist, and drag queen jaye simpson (@jayesimpson.bsky.social). Told through faerie tales and myths, simpson's poetry keens: with grief, with rage, with tenderness, with love.

i can’t post anything unserious anymore because some of you will think i’m mentally unwell but that’s how i cope my gooooooooood