Steven Blum

academia being bitchy

A night they can't remember, at one of the country's most popular LGBTQ+ bars Many maintain that The Abbey in West Hollywood is the site of the most disorienting experience of their lives.

Last year I investigated druggings at the world’s most famous gay bar with reporter Kate Sosin.

Today the piece was nominated for an award by @nlgjaofficial.bsky.social.

You can read it here: 19thnews.org/2024/01/inve...

working on a novel and i think i'm overusing diarrhea as a plot catalyst / accelerant. it just feels so real to me!

Main benefit to living in the U.S. is seeing movies first. Can’t think of anything else.

People should be 1,900% more obsessed with Lorrie Moore

if you'd like a slice of what hazily resembles bread but is actually a collection of sawdust, boiled and pressed, ezekial is for you my friend.

I’m reading Joan Didion and it’s true what they say: all the characters have migraines

Watching The Pitt to relax!!!!

RHOBH is horrible this season but I would watch a follow-up documentary on Kathy Hilton’s skincare routine if it was directed by Aronofsky.

Really thought more gays would revolt after the poppers ban. Where are the riots??

If you encounter me chowing down on a sandwich from Subway, something in my life has gone horribly wrong

Issues of free speech aside, I can’t think of a worse scenario for U.S. Jews than a white supremacist admin making the arbitration of antisemitism their raison d’etre.

Sitting on the beach on a gorgeous day letting the little styrofoam balls fly into my eyes and mouth

I’m just so happy for Bowen Yang, who I am also vicariously living through.

Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'.

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

what a fucking embarrassment to humanity

Gotta get used to linking arms with people you can't stand EXCEPT they don't want authoritarian government, if we want to get out of this mess

If you want to put me to sleep, start talking about genealogy

Every time I open Twitter I see something that adds to my therapist’s billable hours

I don’t understand rooting for your city’s sports team but I DO understand rooting for your city’s Opera House! Go São João!

Abracadabra and Doechii’s Grammy performance are the only good things that have happened this year, no? Struggling to think of literally anything else!

Bad times, good headline

What if it reaches this point for me

Has anyone ever called them “Repubes”? Feel like that could move the needle..

My poor elderly chihuahua keeps eating his own ass and then choking on the hairs :/

AI That Can Tell When You're Having a Gay Crisis No more scrolling dick pics till 5am

i wrote about a listening device that can call for help when you're having a gay crisis :) open.substack.com/pub/stevenbl...

An underrated virtue of all other presidents was that you could forget about them for weeks at a time

"had to dive under the table next to me at this coffee shop to attach my plug to an outlet. extremely awkward: guy next to me thought he was about to get a blowjob. then i actually gave him one." — how most gays on twitter sound these days

Trans kids go missing at alarming rates. The Trump administration is making it harder to find them  | Xtra Magazine OPINION: The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children complying with Trump’s executive order will stop them from finding missing trans children

For my @xtramagazine.com column, I wrote about Trump's EO about sex and gender does not match with how people actually live their lives. Missing and exploited trans kids will pay the price. xtramagazine.com/power/identi...