Luke :)

Treating Gaza’s Collective Trauma In Gaza, where displaced children play a game called “air strike” and act out death, the lack of mental-health resources has become another emergency.

"In November 2024, a report by the Community Training Center for Crisis Management found that ninety-six per cent of children living through this war feel that their death is imminent, and nearly half said that they want to die."

@lilacperil.bsky.social works the same 😋

A red book with an angel sketch. It reads: Lilac Peril. TABOO, issue 01. Edited by Luke Sutherland and Andrea Morgan.

A long list of contributors on the back of a red book

A book open to the short story “how to make friends” by hyunji

A book open to text and a black and white image of graffiti that reads “art is for god!”

The proof is in ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

TABOO is currently being printed by the worker-owned Radix Co-Op, and we couldn’t be more excited!!!

Pre-order now: lilacperil.bigcartel.com/product/issu...

Extinct, massive frog genus Beelzebufo staring down a much smaller theropod

Give it up for BEELZEBUFO!!

YouTube video by scorpiopede Tribute to anomalocaris

Men only want one thing and it’s tribute to anomalocaris youtu.be/6YsNRnZRgg8?...

We work really hard to host literary events for trans writers that are fun and free, and this is the most ambitious thing we’ve tried. Hope to see some of you there <3

yaaaay :)

Ugh so sorry this is the worst

AI Refusal in Libraries: A Starter Guide - ACRLog This week I was on a panel at the Generative AI in Libraries (GAIL) virtual conference. Along with my fellow panelists Andrea Baer and Emily Zerrenner, I joined moderator Sarah Appedu to discuss the c...

Anyway acrlog.org/2025/06/11/a...

AND YET every library conference or training list in the last year has had talks on how ai is good or at most “complicated” when it’s very transparently MAKING OUR JOBS HARDER in addition to all the other horrors

I’ve experienced this multiple times as a library worker in both academic and public settings. Someone comes in like “Why can’t I find this citation, why can’t I find this book?” because it doesn’t exist babe!!!!

You’re the second person to recommend it to me! I’ll move it up on my to-read

Riverby Books in Fredericksburg!

Books laid flat on a floral carpet. She of the Mountains by Vivek Shraya, Low Life by Lucy Sante, Perfume by Patrick Süskind, On the Calculation of Volume 1 by Solvej Balle, The Nature Book by Tom Comitta, Unusual Fragments: Japanese Stories, and The Fifth Wound by Aurora Mattia.

Incredibly fortuitous used bookstore haul including a stunning foil edition of the fifth wound :)

crawling

get u this book!!

i have a lil something in it titled FLASHBANG 📸💥

Exactly this. With Lilac, we’d ask “why doesn’t every city have trans lit culture like NY?” At the same time we’d meet astonishing trans writers who thought themselves unpublishable. The work has really just been demonstrating that the culture already exists; all we’re doing is printing it on paper

alongside publications like DC’s Lilac Peril and Seattle’s TRANSplants, Picnic proves that we don’t need to wait for the approval of cis-run institutions to make literature at the highest level. i can think of nothing more important right now for a trans writer to do

Rooting in the Rot Saskia Nislow on decay, the bodily limits of horror, and the unconscious dialogue between clay and language Interview by Luke Sutherland for smoke and mold Root Rot by Saskia Nislow, from Creature …

Really thrilled to have interviewed Saskia Nislow on their nasty little book Root Rot, out now! Such a fab convo on body horror, spirals, and the autonomy of children (in our writing and in our lives) 🍄 smokeandmold.net/interviews/s...

Stephen *IRA oops… also Lawlor twice ;)

Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch, Sabrina Imbler, Stephen Ora, Hal Schrieve, Thomas Page McBee, John Elizabeth Stintzi, Rafael Frumkin… and many friends whose books I hope will one day publish :)

Just authors: Julian K Jarboe, Zeyn Joukhadar, Callum Angus, Andrea Lawlor, Jordy Rosenberg, Andrea Abi-Karam, Andrea Lawlor, Charlie J Stephens, Emrys Donaldson, Tom Cho, Davey Davis, Isaac Fellman, Lee Mandelo, Kyle Lukoff, Kacen Callender, Dominque Dickey, Briar Ripley Page, Anton Solomonik…

My name on this list, I might faint

I swear you must have a phd in posting

I love these two stories and the way they twist and mutate each other when put in direct conversation—don’t miss out on sick transsexual pervert shit (complimentary)

Who isn’t, these days?

DEMYSTIFICATION AND HERMETIC STATE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT THE... Readers Fair CELEBRATING DIY CULTURE AND INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING. Featuring 25+ vendors, workshops, and curated programming. JULY 5TH at THE LINE HOTEL 11-7PM

We’re pumped to table at the wonderful Readers Fair next weekend! 11 am - 7 pm at The Line Hotel in AdMo. Long live local diy print culture 📖🫡

That’s me :)

god is testing the integrity of my lifelong “I will never live in new york” principle

Yes!! I have always dreamed of a trans lit fest