Erin Gough 🏳️‍🌈🍉

I finally told my cats they were adopted

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

Safe Arts and Entertainment For ALL We’re urgently calling on our Arts and Entertainment industry to make shows safe and accessible for everyone.  Getting infected with Covid can have dire and incurable consequences for anyone, bu...

Please sign ✍️: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa... 😷 🎭 🤟

The sick soft butch who did: How confronting a racist in my neighborhood helped me claim my Long COVID identity - The Sick Times The last thing I thought before I smashed, face first, into the New York City sidewalk, was, Dang, my wife's going to want me to start taking my cane with me everywhere I go. But mostly, I was worried...

We are not alone “It’s always the cripples and the dykes,” Smashing story by @heatherhogan.bsky.social thesicktimes.org/2025/03/18/t...

Really beaut collection of quotes, resources, n tidings on steady resistance, activism, care, and just keeping on r n 👇 #solidarity

"Science fiction lends itself readily to imaginative subversion of any status quo. Bureaucrats and politicians, who can't afford to cultivate their imaginations, tend to assume it's all ray-guns and nonsense, good for children."

- Ursula K. Le Guin (2012)

[Anthology idea: Ray-guns and Nonsense]

Legends in Canberra protested at the NGA today

English artist Vanessa Bell’s book cover designs for (her sister) Virginia Woolf’s texts (1920s-30s) #womensart

Hi fellow Deaf and Disabled folks working in the arts in this place. Please sign n share 🖤

There is no revolution without disabled people #DisabilityJustice

“Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We'll need writers who can remember freedom—poets, visionaries—realists of a larger reality.” — URSULA K. LE GUIN via Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s THE FUTURE IS DISABLED

Ursula K. Le Guin via
@thellpsx.bsky.social’s THE FUTURE IS DISABLED.

Pulled from a library book as I spend a week restoring my metaphorical muscle

Protect Trans Youth National Day of Action Join the National Day of Action Join us to demand the Queensland government reinstate care for trans youth, and make gender-affirming care accessible and affordable for everyone who needs it.The banni...

Saturday join the National Day of Action. This fight belongs to all of us. Find a rally near you: transjustice.org.au/youth/

Anyone looking to ban a book from a school should have to prove they read it by presenting a book report to the school committee.

It Was Worth the Wait Severance season two delivers answers. But its greatest pleasure is returning to this world and finding it still exists.

Everything @kvanaren.bsky.social says here is 100 percent correct. What a fucking show.

www.vulture.com/article/seve...

Weatherglass Prize for a novella (rare in this day and age), with the wonderful Ali Smith as judge.

International.

Please share:

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It’s a tiny apple

Fund The Arts And I Don’t Just Mean Opera You Cowards

When the only open door is a prison door

Friday essay: ‘A future of dust’ – Jeff Sparrow on Gaza and why, in evil times, writers have a responsibility to take sides Paradoxically, the very scale of the crisis in Gaza makes worthwhile even the tiniest gesture of solidarity.

Such a powerful essay by Jeff Sparrow:

theconversation.com/friday-essay...

i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same

Cover reveal for THE NIGHTMARE SEQUENCE (April 2025), a collection of poems by me and art by Safdar Ahmed responding to the genocide in Gaza. All our royalties are being donated to Palestinian charities and relief efforts 🙏🏽💜

Extremely important to emphasize this. Indie bookstores are growing and can actually thrive...if we support them.

This is incredible.

Something I wasn’t prepared for is how much *audacity* it takes to be an author—or even an artist—in publishing. You gotta be ready to pitch yourself to anyone at any time, arrange & set up your own events, build your own hype, all while burying your insecurities. It’s a shockingly extroverted job.

This is your annual reminder that Carol is a Christmas movie.

Where is the humanity?

The war on Christmas will be fought at Nakatomi Lahren Plaza.