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Was there any part of you that stopped to think, wow, it’s a little weird to have an intellectual leader in conversation with me and to spend much of the time trying to get him to concede that we should throw trans folks under the next bus that comes to the stop or…

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Technical-style drawing with an isometric view of industrial buildings on a square plot of land, surrounded by a crevasse on all sides, enmeshed with tree roots. A wonky forest with striped antelopes forms a desolate stronghold around the complex.

Kick back, fix yourself a warm drink, and enjoy our SEPTEMBER ISSUE. 🍁

WORDS by Max Wheeler, JR Fenn, Kimaya Diggs, & Michal ‘MJ’ Jones
ART by Valerie Marshall
AND Benjamin Selesnick reviews Katie Lynn Johnston
PLUS Matthew Groff reviews Gabe Montesanti

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i clicked thinking i was about to read about the ethical perils of surrogacy and instead spent 30 horrified minutes learning why silicon valley needs to die

adoption day at family court was as good as family court vibes get, just as it was the other 3 times we did this. appreciated that my 3 big kids came along for support! they were all celebrating very sweetly.

did my last second parent adoption experience today for our fourth kid.
it’s been weird each time but today was a level up in weirdness bc my wife was adopting her biological child (i carried and in our state have auto parentage, she does not.) the judge said “i’m sorry you had to come here today.”

“Study?” Wow.

"Sitting with the pictures and someone else’s grief, you have to look away."

Ella Harrigan's MAL À LA TÊTE grapples with grief, missing buttons, and headaches. Be sure to check out this latest memoir piece from our June Issue: buff.ly/FA8M96J

read about this in jeff chang’s can’t stop, won’t stop like 20 years ago

A Bisexual Chicana Finds Her Voice in “Like Happiness” - Electric Literature Author Ursula Villarreal-Moura talks about her literary touchstones and finding an identity outside of white heteronormative culture

Ursula Villarreal-Moura on guiding her novel’s protagonist towards a queerer, browner, freer destiny.

Hey Mike! Life got in the way of sending a pitch in time. Do you know yet if this is going to be a recurring call? Would love to polish it up and give it a go next time :)

Sally Rooney could be arrested under Terrorism Act after pledging royalties to Palestine Action The bestselling novelist promised to financially support the group proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the British government

Much respect to Sally Rooney.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

it’s me! with an essay from my ~new book~

yes, a cyclist can kill a pedestrian. saying bicycles are as unsafe as cars is like saying knives are as unsafe as guns, just false.

me, a white trans guy with a red beard, wearing a bright yellow crop top that says trans athletes belong here

new favorite shirt dropped

I play Monopoly like 3x a year with my kids (who love it) and it truly makes me feel like i should be sainted for my sacrifice on those nights

i am a simpleton who has a hard time learning games. i only truly like trouble and scrabble.

i love trouble so so much

Gazans Are Dying of Starvation

My overwhelming memory from Hebrew school is being young and seeing images of ancestors starving in the camps. “Never again” was our religion. Here is the paper of record today. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...

it feels like it’s about current administration and court bullshit but also about academic texts but i don’t know what they actually are so can’t really engage, which is rough. writing for the public does i think necessitate a little step-stool building for a general audience

without wading into the content of the current Trans Discourse essay, i just want to say i think academics writing for a general audience should actually quote/cite/gesture towards the things they’re arguing with/against so ppl from outside their discipline can do further thinking and reading.

editing a memoir is so so weird amirite

A copy of my book, I Wander the Earth, Hungry for Semen, peeking out from beneath a sculpture/bench. The sculpture looks like a bird but has four fingered hands.

In the foreground: my book, I Wander the Earth, Hungry for Semen. In the background: Leonora Carrington’s sculpture, Cocodrilo, in Mexico City.

Some folks have started receiving their preorders of I Wander the Earth, Hungry for Semen, and I’ve loved seeing your photos and messages. Thank you for sharing them with me! If you haven’t picked up a copy yet and would like to, it’s still available through @carrionbloombooks.bsky.social.

time to turn that pro con list into a food celebrity essay

The first yes, haven’t seen the latter two around so will check them out!

Worried my 9yo is about to enter intense slump after tearing through B.B. Alston’s Amari series and Veronica Roth’s Divergent series. Any recs for what she should dig into next?

hi friends, I’m looking for volunteers to read for the Micro department @theoffingmag.bsky.social! no experience needed, but if you love short writing & can spare a few hours a week reading, plz apply/share! plz send a letter of interest & resume to daniel@theoffingmag.com

hope to hear from you! 🌊✨

A headline of an article by Caroline Kitchener in the NYT called “The MTV Reality TV Star in Trump’s Cabinet Who Wants You To Have More Kids”

I honestly think what these freaks truly get off on is watching women toil (and quite literally labor) endlessly for them in intimate proximity. Saying that as someone who has four children, more than any of my friends.

Screenshot of AP news front page with a bullet point reading "What to know: What caused the crash? That's unclear. An aviation safety expert told the AP that it's too early to know much about the cause of the crash, but it appeared to be very surprising at first glance."

Using AI to do bullet points makes your news coverage look stupid and grotesque

jj peña, Dina Relles, Jenny Boully, Nicole Walker, Diane Seuss