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I’m teaching a FREE writing workshop this Thurs 10/16 at 4pm est!

Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#writing #writingworkshop #writingclass

Is “remember when” the lowest form of writing? Hear me out

"While I love creating new memories foremost, I equally love reminiscing on old memories. I attribute this to being a personal essayist and memoirist because ultimately, memory (or “remember when”-ing) is what informs my writing."

YouTube video by elliot sang again The death of the American entertainment industry

This is an Elliot sang stan account!

Recommended Checkout out this list on Bookshop

bookshop.org is having an anti-Prime day sale, here’s a list of some recommended books <3

happy Mean Girls day to all who celebrate

Pancake Skank - Film and Storytelling | Seed&Spark Pancake Skank is an acerbic, surreal sci-fi comedy about what it means to be a true friend. The world’s a mess—so let’s make something f*cksticks and heartfelt together. Join the team and fund the fun...

Hi, friends! I’m raising money for my next film, PANCAKE SKANK. It’s a fucksticks sci-fi friendship comedy we’re working hard on.

If you want comps, it’s Scott Pilgrim meets Sorry to Bother You meets Streets of Fire.

We’re raising money to pay our stellar team. Join us!

pancakeskank.com

My Mom Used My Hair To Inflict Pain. Years Later, The Simplest Ritual Helped Me Heal. "I internalized what she thought of my hair. I hadn’t left the house with my natural hair texture in years."

. @huffpost.com published my essay about how braiding my girlfriend’s hair helped me reclaim my femininity as an androgynous transgender person 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🫶🏻

My Mom Used My Hair To Inflict Pain. Years Later, The Simplest Ritual Helped Me Heal. "I internalized what she thought of my hair. I hadn’t left the house with my natural hair texture in years."

"By the time I was 13, my hair became brittle. My mom didn’t need to do my hair anymore, because I did it myself. I internalized what she thought of my hair, the very physical feature I inherited from her that I once cherished."

Read more in @huffpost.com.

Assata Shakur, Black Liberation Army Member and Political Exile, Dies at 78 Convicted in the 1973 killing of a New Jersey state trooper, she escaped prison and spent decades in exile. To U.S. officials she was a wanted terrorist; to supporters, a symbol of resistance.

rip Assata Shakur

My Mom Used My Hair To Inflict Pain. Years Later, The Simplest Ritual Helped Me Heal. "I internalized what she thought of my hair. I hadn’t left the house with my natural hair texture in years."

"I internalized what she thought of my hair. I hadn’t left the house with my natural hair texture in years."

My Mom Used My Hair To Inflict Pain. Years Later, The Simplest Ritual Helped Me Heal. "I internalized what she thought of my hair. I hadn’t left the house with my natural hair texture in years."

. @huffpost.com published my essay about how braiding my girlfriend’s hair helped me reclaim my femininity as an androgynous transgender person 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🫶🏻

YouTube video by Elliot Sang Your Special Interests Are Cool, Actually

Elliot Sang is my favorite video essayist m.youtube.com/watch?v=xN2h...

ICE has stopped reporting number of trans people in custody Advocates say the lack of data hampers efforts to ensure people’s safety as the Trump administration ramps up immigration detentions

Despite a 2021 requirement, immigration officials have stopped reporting the number of transgender people in their custody, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports. Advocates warn that the decision hampers efforts to ensure queer people’s safety in the nation’s escalating immigration detention regime.

What a cool story! Can't wait to read!

Haha happy to help. I'll check in again when you're QM opens :)

Hi! I see on your MSWL that submissions should be emailed, but I see on the Headwater submission guidelines they only accept via QueryManager - so is QueryManager to best place to query you?

Stop calling - we're good!

the amount of times I type bluesky.com into my browser... I hope their stationary business is doing well

YouTube video by elliot sang again You are not non-violent

I really love Elliot Sang's term "performative pacifism" to describe the way people are selective in how they express pacifism/extend empathy for

🚨 PHONE ZAP! 🚨

Renee Skye McDaniel, a trans woman at north branch prison in MD, is facing serious safety threats.

Call the warden + demand her safety be prioritized!

Scripts + tips in post - let’s show she’s not alone <3

#ProtectTransWomen #FreeThemAll

Data from May 2025 showing that in states like California and Massachusetts, which have sanctuary policies limiting collaboration with federal immigration authorities, field operations have been the source of the majority of ICE arrests. In Florida and Texas, where state and local officials have enthusiastically collaborated with federal authorities, most ICE arrests have taken place in local jails.

Sanctuary cities, counties, and states are not immune from ICE's arrest & deportation agenda – but these policies DO make a difference in limiting the criminalization of immigration:

A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers An initiative aimed at boosting Democrats online offers influencers up to $8,000 a month to push the party line. All they have to do is keep it secret—and agree to restrictions on their content.

Wait Blue MAGA so-called influencers have giant group chats where they discuss taking dark money and organize to sabotage legit criticism of the party?

No never, that’s not why I had to create a Blue MAGA bots moderation list. 🤣
www.wired.com/story/dark-m...

YouTube video by Verse & Vision The Myth of the Tortured Artist

great video

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJz-...

this what I call my “accidentally abolitionist” shirt

How the Criminalization of Testosterone Attacks Gender Variant People Testosterone's Schedule III status adds to myriad ways that trans and gender variant people are surveilled, abused and criminalized.

a new friend of mine, who I met this summer, read this viral
@filtermag.bsky.social article of mine years ago when it came out (!) long before we met

BREAKING: money gives you shelter!

excited for my first read-through of @mskellymhayes.bsky.social's new book, READ THIS WHEN THINGS FALL APART for @prismreports.org!

love seeing familiar names like @micahh.bsky.social, @bcmerchant.bsky.social, @mayaschenwar.bsky.social and more in there

I somehow forgot to mention how much it costs to message my friend, which is 10 cents per 1500 characters.

I sent a draft of this essay essay to her, which she encouraged me to publish, and it cost about 30 or 40 cents.

How I communicate with an incarcerated online friend What a pen pal behind bars taught me about the internet

I wrote about what a pen pal behind bars taught me about the internet and how we communicate.

#transbehindbars #prisonabolition #prisonmail

Pride Month Interview | Friends of Black and Pink Chicago Get more from Friends of Black and Pink Chicago on Patreon

"I feel like in this day and age, trans women, trans men, and LGBTQIA people, they need to be a little more bolder and they need to be more expressive and not allow people to take advantage of them, or to make them feel belittled or low."

-Strawberry Hampton, an incarcerated Black trans woman