Brooke

I work in publishing, I can answer this! It sold 668 copies in the first week (747 if you count pre-pub sales) and 3,721 copies lifetime.

I would try searching New York Puzzle Company, Peter Pauper Press, Ravensburger, Galison, and Laurence King. I've sold all of those brands at bookstores and they're good. Good luck!

In the early 00's, Scarleteen was my resource for factual sex ed. I grew up in Georgia and the only sex ed we got in (public!) school was abstinence-only and full of misinformation. I can't even remember how I came across the site, but it was invaluable. Let's keep it going for the next generation!

If SNAP serves ~1 in 8

Every person in the US - each person in your household - must donate an entire day's worth of food per week to compensate. If you know 3 people who do not donate, you'd need to donate 12 meals/week

Point: do everything you can; also PUSH bc there is only 1 realistic solution

😂 yeah, I think we're good

I would like to mention again that menstrual products are covered by FSA funds. fsastore.com - so if you find yourself with money left on the table by the end of the year, consider using those funds and donate the products [pantries, homeless shelters etc...]

Kate it's so exhausting

I love my neighborhood 💜

In such company you can find gaiety, humor, intellectual challenge, artistic temperaments, perseverance against odds, honor, comradeship, and love. Friendships can be deep, and loyalty can be unswerving. In the gay life you can be yourself and form friendships with those who know what you are and who accept you and love you, not despite this or in ignorance of it. The group life is not a thing of shame, a den of iniquity. It is a circle of protection, a necessary part of a minority society. By shunning it, you shut yourself off from one of the most rewarding parts of being gay, but not from the fact of being gay. The Homosexual In America by Donald Webster Cory

... I say that it is time to open the closet door and let in the fresh air and the sunshine; it is time to doff and to discard the secrecy, the disguise, and the camouflage; it is time to hold up your heads and to look the world squarely in the eye as the homosexuals that you are, confident of your equality, confident in the knowledge that as objects of prejudice and victims of discrimination you are right and they are wrong, and confident of the rightness of what you are and of the goodness of what you do; it is time to live your homosexuality fully, joyously, openly, and proudly, assured that morally, socially, physically, psychologically, emotionally, and in every other way: Gay is good. It is. The Same Sex: An Appraisal of Homosexuality by Frank Kameny

Happy National Coming Out Day, folks.

Chat is it a good sign that it took national reporters an entire month to finally pay attention to the third largest metro in the country being invaded

Also me! WE'RE IN THE AIR HOW IS THAT NOT AMAZING

I guess I shouldn't be *surprised* but it is making my head spin that the feds have shot two people, with live rounds, killing one of them, in Chicagoland in recent weeks, and in both cases they were very clearly found to be lying about what happened, and essentially nothing is happening about it.

I have A Lot of opinions about it, none good.

here's my take: I think humans are really fucking good. inherently. I think we are amazingly kind and giving. and everything about the world we live in is an attempt to stop us from being that. I think our societies step in to stop us from being good. I think our culture punishes us. but we ARE good

You are all so important.

Chicago is showing up in so many ways. Find your lane and invite people to join you. If your thing doesn't suit them, help them figure out what does. I love and believe in this city, and you should, too.

Cruising crackdown in Penn Station bathroom puts at least 20 men in ICE custody State and city laws prohibit local police departments from turning people over to ICE. That restriction does not apply to the federally run Amtrak Police Department.

What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color

Every queer press org should be picking up this story

Just started The Fort Bragg Cartel.

right now, we have no clue how many people ice has kidnapped in chicagoland under "operation midway blitz."

masked feds are snatching people from their cars, from gas stations, from sidewalks. loved ones don't hear anything—sometimes for days.

this is what it means to "disappear" people.

Reporters on the ground in Chicago are screaming to be heard over the false narrative that Pritzker defeated Trump there. PLEASE listen to them.

I don't know if it's my favorite but it's definitely up there.

We are a group of journalists across newsrooms in Chicago, collecting video related to use of force, stop & frisk, and traffic stops conducted by federal agents and the National Guard.

Reporters from across newsrooms in Chicago are collaborating to collect visual evidence of federal agents detaining people & using force in Chicago.

Send videos to tinyurl.com/chicagojourn..., or get in touch via email chicagojournalists@protonmail.com.

As a resident of Chicago, I am BEGGING people to verify things before posting them.

It's going to be particularly important in this moment ❤️

“I asked ChatGPT.”

Well I went to the doctor. I went to the mountains. I looked to the children. I drank from the fountains.

The best of the best, curated by the best! Pre-order today!

Why this matters: the biggest immediate threat to our communities right now remains the alphabet boys, who have *already* told us their plan to unleash Border Patrol. And while JB can conceivably put up a fight against the TX Guard coming, no local elected can stop the feds.

Please understand this.

She was a regular customer at the bookstore where I worked and we sold SO MANY copies of her book. I loved talking to her and I hope she is found safe.

and a happy james dobson is dead day and congratulations to all who need it for outliving that fucker

graphic of a gold star written "has never even opened ChatGPT"

Omg!!! Please read it out loud to each other and then yell at me about how amazing it is.