Mackenzie McGee

Just a note for everyone outside the Twin Cities:

Yes, ICE is still here harassing and kidnapping our neighbors

the best time to stand up for us was years ago when we told you where this was all heading

until cis people decide to stop this,
it’s gonna continue

you see where this is heading

the second best time to stand up for us is NOW

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

Meet OKD’s Pushcart Prize nominees! Read the nominated pieces in the thread below.

So glad you liked it!

Ahh thanks! 💖

I have a new story out! And I'm so proud of it! I hope you like it as much as I do ✨🎺🥤

Thanks to @stevexisxok.bsky.social for one of the most encouraging, enlightening editorial processes I've experienced. I can't recommend submitting to OKD enough!

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

Beaker on the cover of Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen.

album covers but with muppets: thread

2025 AAUP Faculty in the South Survey The Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP] and its partners in states across the South have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on higher education. To as...

The 2025 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are a professor in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, or Texas it's for you. Ends 8/29 at 5pm Eastern forms.gle/v7T3BH2w9LXs...

I know lots of you have strong opinions on this topic, so I hope this will be of interest:

"You are being asked to participate in a survey of romance authors and readers that is being conducted by Prof. Bridget Kies in the Film Studies and Production program at Oakland University."

This link is an excellent resource for all the ways we can contact payment providers to complain about the removal of queer and adult games, comics, books and media from all our platforms. Tell these companies to stop censoring queer and adult content. It makes no sense! Enough is enough!

Oh what a Goddamn shitty business we've taken on, being writers! Oh what shit! What shit!

What It’s Like to Be a Student Who Hates ChatGPT “Everyone is using it”—almost everyone.

you've heard about the college kids who can't do anything without ChatGPT's help—but what about the students who oppose generative A.I. for myriad reasons and refuse to rely on it as a shortcut? well, I found and spoke with a few of them here: slate.com/life/2025/07...

What is going on at Columbia? Ellen Shrecker, esteemed historian of McCarthyism and higher ed, and Nina Berman, documentary photographer extraordinaire, answer clearly.

Trans couple starts fundraiser to buy local bookstore SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The current owners of Outside of a Dog Books and Games, decided to sell their bookstore and move out of state because of the current anti-trans laws in the state. A local…

Support a trans couple in South Dakota who are trying to promote literature and inclusion in a very difficult cultural climate.

www.keloland.com/news/local-n...

The Necessary Sex Scene: Intimacy as Craft in N.K. Jemisin's The Fifth Season - Reactor What place do sex scenes have in contemporary SFF?

"Is the sex scene relevant? Does it move the plot forward?"

Does it matter?

Tiffany Fritz discusses two key moments N.K. Jemisin's The Fifth Season–and how blending intimacy and narrative builds a story more honest, emotional, and true to the themes of her work:

reactormag.com/the-necessar...

National Bail Fund Network — Community Justice Exchange

Before we begin, some housekeeping:
Salute to the community in LA standing on business this weekend to protect their people from state violence and abduction. If you've got it to give, please consider pitching in on a bail fund: www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/nbfn-dire...

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Hey, #academic friends: My institution, U. of Kansas, is hiring an Asst. Prof. of African American #writing. Link below. Our department is very collegial, and I'd be happy to talk to anyone with questions or direct them to a higher-up. Come work with us! (Please circulate!)

Tell ‘um like it is Sourdough Jack!

A book drawn by a child, showing a swaddled baby in a bed captioned “When I was a baby, I was evil”

I’m visiting the Lawrence Public Library and found what is possibly the strongest opener for any book ever

4 pictures from Cher's iconic TV special in which she played all 12 parts of West Side Story. From left to right: Cher as Anita, Cher as a gang member, Cher as Maria, and Cher as Tony.

This is how it feels to put "writer / educator / etc. / etc." in a bio

Which of your fave journals & indie presses have made their way over to the other side? Boost them here?