Roma Panganiban

On that note:

Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.

Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.

Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

Thinking about becoming less informed

I know this ink was made by squashing kittens and baby pandas in a coal-fired crusher, but I only use it to write poems about flowers.

if you’re cis and you don’t get it this is LITERAL TORTURE

it will result in dead trans people

and with their other goal of making us “sexually explicit” for existing

you see the pipeline right?

we exist -> we’re jailed for it -> we’re tortured and die

WE NEED YOU TO STOP THIS

the war is unpopular but it's also illegal but it also doesn't serve any purpose but it also undermines diplomacy but it also is set to produce the opposite outcome as intended but it also already has hundreds dead and threatens more but it also will not make anything better for anyone but it also

"American innovation" now refers to making a kind of atrocity cronut by combining insider trading with war crimes.

it is a foregone conclusion that yelling at the tiger will not produce any positive results. the fact that people are yelling at the democrats is actually a positive sign: it means they still believe there is a sliver of a chance they will wake up and become an opposition party

my problem with these takes, is it's like imagine if you were being attacked by a tiger at the zoo, and the zookeeper was over there kinda halfheartedly going "hey. come on now. get off him" and you went HEY WHAT THE FUCK! and the zookeeper went "uh don't oyu think you should be angry at the tiger?"

“direct your anger at trump not the democrats” buddy you are severely underestimating the amount of anger i have available to me

Trump's contribution to American politics is showing that pretense isn't necessary. You don't have to shake your head somberly when you do evil, you can say you're doing it because you want to. Why bother with PR when no one can stop you?

Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here.

Americans do not want this. They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change. They want relief from the affordability crisis. They want peace.

Live updates: U.S., Israel strike Iran as Trump calls for regime change; Tehran retaliates The U.S. launched “major combat operations in Iran,” President Donald Trump said, promising to destroy its missiles and give rise to a change in government.

Breaking news: Iran fired missiles at Israel and at least seven Arab states following strikes by the U.S. and Israel.

The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Kuwait confirmed hits, while Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan and Qatar said they intercepted missiles.

@literaryhub.bsky.social for sure

"We have to side with our country during wartime!"

Actually no, we don't. That's just government imperialist propaganda.

The only thing it feels worthwhile for me to say right now is pay attention to whether your feelings & the information you’re absorbing are paralyzing you or prompting you to meaningful action, whatever that is. Paralysis helps no one but the enemy.

I will never get used to the disdain our country holds for brown and Black children.

From Palestine to Iran to Sudan, we normalize the destruction of schools and hospitals and daycares. We reduce children to death tolls and their futures to rubble with no consequence or second thought.

it’s all just video games to them, they don’t believe anyone who lives in the Middle East counts as real people

they’re just making things go boom, watching it on TV, and high fiving

Preventing war with war

not once have I ever needed a text message or email summarized in my entire fucking life

The interior of a literary agency featuring a letter board that reads, "Never in life have I *blushed*, Russians do not do this"; an open cooler and two cans of Modelo; and images of Ilya and Shane from Heated Rivalry (screen adaptation) printed and taped to various surfaces

Lotta things wrong with NYC publishing, but at least we get to have sponsored Heated Rivalry-themed parties and call them "networking events"

I know it’s difficult right now, but I insist that you seek and enjoy beautiful things, even if it seems frivolous or irresponsible in the face of overwhelming horror. I want you to feed yourself artistically, spiritually, and literally, because you can’t Do The Work when you’re starving.

10 hour study with me at Columbia showing lunch

Her in the library

DHS illegally arrested me please help Text against image of her knees

Columbia student detained today is a day-in-the-life influencer with 100K followers. Her stories right now go from her studying for a Genetics exam in a nicely edited "ten hour study with me at Columbia" video, to a photo of her knees with the caption "dhs illegally arrested me please help"

In 1938, the German Reich invalidated all German Jewish passports.

They must surrender them, after which their ID will mark them as a Jew.

In 2026, the state of Kansas invalidated all correct trans drivers licenses.

They must surrender them, after which their ID will mark them as trans.

MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now.

They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.

GO DONATE.

tcpipeline.org

If you are outraged about what Kansas is doing to trans people— criminalizing their very right to exist, seizing drivers licenses overnight and saying if they drive thereafter it’s a crime, which puts them into the PIC under their gender assigned at birth where rape is routine—I BEG YOU

I think the fact that your brain can and does invent that kind of thing is in itself a thing you should feel good about!

democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly

"People don't want to work anymore," "kids these days are too soft to do physical labor"—or maybe all it takes is reasonable compensation and dignified conditions! A functioning society costs so much less than people assume; those in power just have to be willing to allocate resources accordingly.

I'm not entirely sure how they did it, but they've completely cleared the streets around my office in Midtown #NYC.

They paid a lot of people good wages to do the job effectively, thank you for coming to my socialism talk