Evie

Don't care if history has its eyes on you, I want its claws in you, too

I actually do not think having political power and failing to wield it to protect others is less evil than having political power and wielding it to do harm. Both are very bad!!

Desperately crowdfunding for my spinal fusion surgery came with the added bonus of all my old friends learning I'm trans w/o my having to witness them realizing it

just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters

The Democratic Party Needs to Learn from Zohran Mamdani's Guts and Backbone Zohran Mamdani did something different, and it made all the difference.

I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-)

he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit

Lefty pundits who claim progressive economic policies can't coexist with what's dismissed as identity politics, take note of what happened tonight.

Today I asked the nurse who removed my stitches where I should go to pay, and she said “heaven.” What a special mix of socialism and Catholicism Croatia is!!!

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

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The book cover for Derrick Austin's third book of poetry, This Elegance. A detail from a weaving by Diedrick Brackens. A kneeling silhouette poses against a yellow moon. The silhouette holds a long red candle in one hand and balances one small red candle on his head and two small candles on his other arm and one yellow candle on the heel of his foot.

My third book, This Elegance, is out from @boa-editions.bsky.social in May 2026.

Cover design by Sandy Knight with art by Diedrick Brackens.

Available to preorder now 🙏🏿

Just last week, literally pressed every nurse I could at the Croatian ER to tell me why my collar was called a Philadelphia collar

Donate to Support Evie’s Urgent Spinal Surgery & Recovery, organized by Megan Atkinson Evie broke her neck in Croatia! Help her navigate her spinal fracture c… Megan Atkinson needs your support for Support Evie’s Urgent Spinal Surgery & Recovery

I fell down the stairs + broke my neck in Croatia!

I need spinal surgery asap!

My sister organized a GoFundMe!

#ProtectTheDolls from not being able to pay for spinal surgery!

If you don't have $ to spare, sharing widely would be just as appreciated <3

www.gofundme.com/f/support-ev...

if you're trans you have to stay alive. i do make the rules

Publix asked to be the sole sponsor to an event showcasing black authors in Jacksonville Florida. Last minute, they pulled their sponsorship because of the "volatile" climate. The week of. Fuck Publix. I'm adding them to the boycott list for my household. They do nothing for local community.

Double plus ungood

Tweet from Tanisha long with pictures of Assata “Assata Shakur joins the ancestors a free woman. She did not die bound by the carceral system and she did not pass away living in a land that never respected or accepted her. Assata taught us that liberation can not be bargained for, it must be taken. Rest Free, Assata.”

assata was the best of us. a revolutionary who was determined to be free by any means necessary. our north star forever and always. assata taught us that we will win our liberation and that the most important thing in the world for us is to struggle. rest in power assata shakur

Completely outlandish (to suggest that Democrats would ever stand their ground for the sake of trans people)

HELL YEAH!!!

Talap is my coach's coach. He is out of detention TODAY!!!!!!

It is illuminating, watching arts orgs continue hiring as though nothing is changing.

Yes, you must relocate to our tiny town in a deep red state!

No, we don't have salary details!

Translation: Our only strategy for an America that intentionally immiserates trans ppl (+others) is to participate.

"Who would have predicted this?"

- Black women did.
- Trans people did.
- The *entire* disability community did.
- The anarchists did.
- Post-Evangelicals did.

"Well why didn't I hear them."

You did. But you disregarded us as "extremists" and "alarmists". And you are still calling us that.

BEING PAID,—what will compare with it?

Do whatever you can for Lubna's family, if it's sharing, donating, whatever it is, help them get to safety. Every life saved is a whole world saved.

The table of folks next to me at this cafe has tried to complete a toast "To abstract art!" four very failed times and knocked three glasses of water over in the process. The table almost tipped over.

11 N.Y. Officials Arrested Trying to Access ICE Detention Cells

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n...

"Garden-variety transphobia is sadly unremarkable" is surely intended to help build the argument that Kirk wasn't merely bigoted but remarkably so. I get it.

But notice that no other common form of bigotry receives such a qualification, leaving transphobia singularly diminished in terms of urgency.

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For those who missed it, here's my obituary for Charlie Kirk, a man who made the world worse every day he drew breath.

www.patreon.com/posts/on-vio...

A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.

State Terrorism Charges Against Luigi Mangione Are Dismissed

“Two state terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione, the defendant in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive last year, were dismissed…including one that had accused him of first-degree murder.”

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www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/n...