Alex Gino

Eeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!

LUCE Immigrant Justice Network of MA

I signed up with the LUCE Immigrant Justice Network in Massachusetts, but there's probably something near you. They're also looking for hotline staffers, esp. multilingual folk. Now is the time to develop the networks. OK, it's past the time, but now is the best we've got.
www.lucemass.org

I just signed up for an ICE verifier training. It's a great match for me as a white US citizen with a flexible schedule who hates ICE. Verifiers follow up on sightings. Either it's not ICE and people can go about their day or it is ICE and they know they're being watched. Is it a match for you too?

And just to bring home the point, after she did that, she got into conversation with it and started asking it silly questions until she realized she was being sucked in and it is unsafe. Cat, I farted. (In French: Chat, j'ai pété.)

The most OOOOOF story I have heard about it is my disabled friend who fed it her doctor's notes and had it reference only medical journals or some such, and ended up with a really useful and digestible summary of her symptoms and prognosis. It *could* be an access tool. But instead it is evil.

🚨BREAKING: Cal State LA just moved classes online and let faculty work remotely, not for a storm, not for COVID, but because ICE is in the area.

Let that sink in, an entire university is treating immigration enforcement like a public health crisis.

Water makes it better.

I've painted the first coat of chalkboard paint onto my wall and wildly vacillating between "I am a genius" and "oh boy this is going to be hell to paint over."

Chris Makes a Friend From the award-winning author of MELISSA, a sweet and tart story about unexpected friendship and family reconciliation.THIS IS NOT THE SUMMER CHRIS HAD PLANNED...Chris does not want to be spending the...

Hey folks! I have a new book Nov 4 and tbqh, I'm rather proud of it. CHRIS MAKES A FRIEND is a story of a bookish kid stuck with an annoying little sister for a summer in rural Mass.

Pre-order: highfivebooks.org/products/chr...

And listen to me talk about it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw7L...

Whatever doesn't kill you makes your life worse.

Shut up and shut down are synonyms.

Writing is not a science. It's barely an art. It's mostly ineffable hocus pocus and grammar.

Hey! Are you a librarian? Thank you!!!!!!!!!
Otherwise, go thank a librarian!!!

Micropoem:

It still hurts?
You're still doing it.

An antidote to facism is more community.

Knowing this happened is heartening.

And if you *are* an author, join AABB classic:
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com

Toxicologist here! This will improve the health of zero Americans. Current synthetic food dyes are not causing health problems, and are often times used because they are actually safer than natural food dyes. Reminder that guns are the #1 cause of death of children but we are going to ban food dyes.

Just gutted myself by writing a poem. How's your day going?

Just to be clear, it was written by Xander Ready.

Remember when media would hyperbolize the weather - everything was a cyclobombnadopocalypse? I sure wish they'd do that for fascism and emerging dictatorships.

So someone told you supporting Harry Potter is anti-trans So, someone told you that supporting Harry Potter is anti-trans, and you either asked for more information or decided to argue about it…

shardsofblue.medium.com/so-someone-t...

Judge orders Colorado's Elizabeth School District to place 19 banned books back on its library shelves by this weekend A federal judge has refused a request from the Elizabeth School District to put a hold on her ruling that mandates the restoration of 19 different books to its school library shelves.

A CO district was sued for removing books from libraries. The district lost, and when the judge denied the hold on the ruling and said the books had to go back by Sunday, they said, "it may take some time...as they threw them out." A law firm will donate the books.
www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...

Dental hygienist asked about my job.
Me: I'm a writer.
DH: Oh! Are you a ghostwriter?

People,I just want you to know I didn't get up and hover around going 'scary ghost.' Where's my trophy?

Wowzers!

I don't know who this 90s TMBG reference is for - it's certainly not my kid readers - but I just named a pet store in my WIP The Cage And Aquarium and I have rarely been prouder of myself.

And I have those things now
possibility and community
both queer as can be

It turns out
if more is that much better,
they what they called enough
really wasn’t [4/4]

I am not a vine
and I do not want the best of what I make
torn from me
and pulverized
to be consumed
for someone
else’s
pleasure

My purpose
- if I have one at all -
- which I genuinely doubt -
is to grow my leaves up into possibility
and my roots down into community [3/4]

But I am queer beyond their knowledge
I curve and I bend
I don’t do anything straight

Thinking they are clever
they point to the grape vine
barely hanging on to the cliff
one missed rainfall from death
Look how it grows the sweetest fruits
that turn into the best wine [2/4]

A defiant poem in upsetting times for my queerfolk and otherfolk:

Distressed Agriculture

If enough isn’t enough
more won’t be better
I heard growing up
that I had everything I needed
and some of what I wanted
as defined by
everything the straights needed
and some of what they wanted [1/4]