Mae McCall

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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

People posting about how they’ve never seen em dashes used before the rise of ChatGPT are really great at telling folks they’ve never read a book before.

If you are at World Con, please consider masking in public in the days after as covid takes about 3-5 days on average to appear on a test.
If you consider yourself someone who cares about disabled people, children, and just your fellow human, mask up to protect others just in case.

I humbly nominate the stolen hothouse moment in this category.

You think I'm a thief. I'm not a thief. But I will absolutely steal the thing for you.

And then the ICE CREAM SPOON in his pocket🍨

I’m gonna repost this every time a new person tries to say em dashes are a tell for ai

yes yes yes

😂 Perfection.

Boats at their moorings. A beautiful blue sky. A scenic rocky shore. It is a photo that brings me peace, the kind of peace I wish for all of you.

I hate, with everything that is in me, exactly how little I can do to protect people I care about in this current world.

I wish you all safe, cared for, supported and loved.

Listen, if you haven't poured the powder from the bottom corner of a party size bag of Doritos straight into your mouth at 5am while trying to add another 500 words of crap to a paper, you have not lived.

#NoKings #SanFrancisco

This searchable map of No Kings marches to join on Saturday is impressively crowded:

www.nokings.org#map

Illustration of Zendaya wearing a white suit

Illustration of Janelle Monae wearing a half black and half red suit set

some quick met gala doodles

Betty should know that I just finished Death at Morning House by the most excellent @maureenjohnsonbooks.com !

Janelle Monae in an oversized zoot suit style in red, black, and white. It's actually really hard to describe, there are vertical lines running down one side and not the other, the colors are in blocks, she's got a red, black, and white tie on, and it looks like her hands are in gloves? She looks amazing.

OMG

A rectangular gray gravestone, inscribed with Whitin Badger, 1906-1992, Dwight Cooke 1908-1992, and underneath the line "THE UNICORN WAITS IN A DARKENING WOOD"

Hey, who wants something nice?

So I was on tour this month, and when I was doing my event for the Princeton University Library and the Princeton Public Library, I ended up at the graveyard, where I found this gravestone:

Rose Hill Farm + Oblong Books! A hand holds a sticker that says CHASING THAT SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR HIGH.

i can't fix the world but i CAN put on a grown-up book fair that raises money to help fight book bans across the US, so that's what i'm doing.

if you're in the hudson valley on friday, may 2 and want to come to a beautiful farm with food trucks... i got you: www.oblongbooks.com/event/book-f...

It’s National Library Week.

Consider volunteering, advocating for, or visiting and using its resources, ensuring this vital community hub continues to thrive!

#nationallibraryweek
#library #books #read #love

Please share!!! This is getting ridiculous—they just can’t accept a loss. Please help spread the word to North Carolina. The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that over 60,000 votes cast in last year’s closely contested state Supreme Court race must be verified and recounted.

Alt text: A bold graphic reads “HANDS OFF! LIBRARIES” in large, capitalized white and black text, with a red slash through the “O” in “OFF.” Below, a red banner displays the URL: HANDSOFF2025.COM. The design conveys a strong message of advocacy to protect libraries.

I was particularly sad last night about *everything*, and I stayed up past my bedtime with Pocket & Drool and slept better than I have in weeks. You are a light, don't forget that.

The very FIRST amendment? The first one you swear to preserve, protect, and defend when you take the oath of office? Here it is:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;

As a professor of English, allow me to try, humbly and with the proper respect, to offer an appropriate response to the President’s address:

Fuck you, you fucked-up fuck, and fuck all the fuckers who willingly fuck with you, especially. You can all fuck all the way off, and then fuck off some more.

Official promotional teapot, donated by david jenkins. Includes a personalized note

Taika's Act of Grace, donated by david jenkins. Includes a personalized note

Go wild, friends.

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(thanks @david-jenkins.bsky.social!)

From a puddle of happy tears, I am honored to share that THE CURSE OF EELGRASS BOG is officially a Bram Stoker Award finalist!!!!!! Truly, truly, I cannot overstate how much this means to me. Thank you to everyone who has supported my weird little bog girls <3