benefit the trans community, means the message gets diluted and we end up uplifting authors who either don't consider themselves trans or who have no meaningful connection to the community

www.autostraddle.com/7-new-trans-... this article by @nicanstett.bsky.social besides being an excellent reading list articulates my frustration with #transrightsreadathon; a collective unwillingness to define what we MEAN by a "trans book", and in what way the campaign is actually meant to

New pride flags just dropped

Gilead refuses to sell groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to MSF Blocking humanitarian organizations from accessing a medical breakthrough puts vulnerable people across the world in danger.

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir.

The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell.

Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/

www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

As an OC native I feel duty bound to point out that LA->SD can be more like 5 hours on an average weekday so basically #russellbrandwasrighr

lighthousebookshop.com/events/arian... 🔥🌹🔥🌹🔥 queer poetry event at @lighthousebks.bsky.social for THE ROSE by Ariana Reines 16 April! 🌹🔥🌹🔥🌹

The meme of Bernie in his jacket in winter, saying "I am once again asking for you to support Small Wonders"

Hey, did you know we're doing a subscription drive right now? It's true! Subscribe now, and get access to the subscriber's corner on our shiny discord, stories and poems in your inbox on the regular, and the joy of supporting poetry and short fiction!

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Newsflash everything is political
And if you can afford to say you don't write political, it means you're in the segment of the population society and politics cater to
It's not a source of pride, but an indicator you can afford to remain oblivious because everything is in sync for you

Katherine Rundell · Consider the Greenland Shark I am glad not to be a Greenland shark; I don’t have enough thoughts to fill five hundred years. But I find the very...

Consider the Greenland Shark www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... 💕💕💕

» Pacing as Moral Choice

Pacing as Moral Choice
I loved this article about where and how writers invest reader attention, and its implications to power dynamics! By Sabyasachi Roy at @authorspublish.com authorspublish.com/pacing-as-mo...

Feeble argument

The failure of so many ppl (notably tech bros and not aspiring writers) to understand that "Being A Writer" can't be extricated from the actual fucking work of writing. Baffling.

Eating pasta salad in the bath to cope with fascism. Hbu?

Hey eating three normal sized apples in a frenzy also sounds reasonable to me!

More than 1,000 people being held by ICE in Kentucky jails, analysis finds • Kentucky Lantern The number of ICE detainees in Kentucky jails has more than doubled, according to an analysis by the League of Women Voters of Kentucky.

"The number of ICE detainees in Kentucky jails has more than doubled, and almost three-fourths of them have no criminal record or pending charges, according to an analysis by the League of Women Voters of Kentucky."

kentuckylantern.com/2026/03/16/m...

Hypes me up?

Haha yeah I get influenced too. Sometimes that's a good thing but I really need to find the voice of this project and not anyone else's! Luckily I have a huge backlog of nf/poetry

Artist Ilana Halperin wears a red anorak and crouches to place a small pan into a sulphuric spring in Iceland

An ornate hanging artwork made from wood encrusted in minerals from the Blue Lagoon, Iceland

A glass box containing a black lava bomb wrapped in orange sellotape

I loved my chat with queer feminist artist Ilana Halperin who shares a birthday with an Icelandic volcano. We spoke agates, geological time, elderly parents, boiling milk on sulphuric springs, lava bombs…
I wrote a short piece for @thelistuk.bsky.social @fruitmarket.bsky.social

shorturl.at/8JDol

#Writers, do you read fiction while working on a novel? On the advice of @catrionaward.bsky.social I've decided to try stopping reading novels/short fiction until I have a proper draft of the thing I'm working on. Do you do this and do you feel it makes a difference?

Lit for Queer Liberation 2026 Silent auction 'Lit for Queer Liberation 2026' hosted online at 32auctions.

And it's the first day of the Queer Liberation Network Fundraising Auction today! Tons of signed books, calls with agents, manuscript critiques and more! Including the illustrated edition of Murderbot, hardcover Witch King & Queen Demon, mass market Raksura:

www.32auctions.com/organization...

If u ignore my ailing monstera in the bg 😅😅😅

A lovely photo of So Mayer's book BAD LANGUAGE on a mostly wooden background of table and mantlepiece

Meant to attach a lovely photo of the book and of course forgot 🤦‍♂️

Come see me and @suchmayer.bsky.social TONIGHT in #Edinburgh @argonautbooks.bsky.social discussing BAD LANGUAGE - the politics power and radical potential of language!! 👄✊️

Growing up in the online world: a national consultation We are consulting on further measures to prepare children for the future in an age of rapid technological change. This includes potential age restrictions on social media and other services such as ga...

Morning all, please consider filling this in. I want my kids safe online but I'm against age verification generally and especially for VPNs. better to enforce against the companies creating an environment of harm, radicalisation and enshittification I would think, yes?

www.gov.uk/government/c...

Well the new Gorillaz album is a delight

Come join us in Edinburgh! I can't wait to get nerdy 🤪 what a treat to yap about language who it is for and what it does to us

Right back at you pal!! 💕💕💕

One of the most shocking things i noticed visiting the states (CA, even!) last month was a shocking level of casual or unexamined anti-muslim sentiment from like "average" people i met or spoke to. It was like we were back in 2002.

Wheeeee :^D

I can never read slush if I'm the least bit fatigued lol 😑