Vanessa Micale

Resources to Power Your Criminal Justice Reporting We’ve compiled guidance on key issues for anyone covering the legal system — from styles and standards to FOIA requests.

We’ve compiled guidance on key issues for anyone reporting on the legal system — from styles and standards to FOIA requests.

Boca del Lobo We orbit violence—the gravity of it, your extraterrestrial hand in mine.

“Boca del Lobo,” is out now in Guernica. My essay is about violence, migration, music, this moment, the Other, and each other. ✨🌹Deep thanks to Shze-Hui Toja & the Guernica team including Youmna Melhem Chamieh, & to artist Eileen Jimenez.
www.guernicamag.com/boca-del-lobo/

Trans kids are kids — they deserve to grow up without constant political attacks on their lives and medical care.

Know Your Rights — RAICES A collection of resources from RAICES' peers and collaborators nationwide to help inform and educate you on our Constitutional rights. When we know our rights, when can defend them – together.

I heard a new-to-me word, “de-documented,” in a RAICES update. A word to describe the undoing of legal protections for people with documents. A different word than undocumented. My heart is with immigrants, trans people and communities impacted by this violence.
raicestexas.org/kyr

Tell Congress: No Troops on Our Streets President Trump has deployed thousands of National Guard and federal troops into our communities in response to Angelenos protesting the dangerous and cruel ICE raids across LA. Tell Congress: No troo...

President Trump is suppressing protests for immigrants' rights with active duty military.

Tell Congress to step in NOW to protect our First Amendment rights and keep military troops out of our communities.

Low-Risk Flier On bureaucracy, and confronting my inner fascist

I wrote about my recent experience being pulled aside and questioned in the Detroit airport, my history of being "additionally screened" while traveling, getting my Global Entry, and how bureaucracy puts me in perilous contact with my inner fascist johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/low-risk-f...

Save the date for Tuesday, May 20 at 7:00 p.m. PT✨
I will be in conversation with Caro De Robertis for their new book: “So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color.” I am stunned, uplifted and grateful for this book. ❤️‍🔥 🌹 ✨ ⛓️ Link in bio

Thanks for sharing ♥️♥️♥️

The sick soft butch who did: How confronting a racist in my neighborhood helped me claim my Long COVID identity - The Sick Times The last thing I thought before I smashed, face first, into the New York City sidewalk, was, Dang, my wife's going to want me to start taking my cane with me everywhere I go. But mostly, I was worried...

Don't miss @heatherhogan.bsky.social's latest essay about Long COVID for @thesicktimes.bsky.social.

It's heartbreaking, hilarious, and beaming with disability pride 😷🦇

thesicktimes.org/2025/03/18/t...

A cartoon image from Alice in Wonderland of cards, painting the roses red. Above the meme it says “actual footage of 2025 USA.”

A list of the words discouraged by federal agencies

English-only and forbidden words recalls the “painting the roses red” scene from Alice in Wonderland. Language is sacred. We exist, irregardless of legibility & permissions.

@melissaferrerand.bsky.social @kebpoet.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥🌹❤️‍🔥

On March 13, 5 p.m. PT I'll be reading at a virtual event fundraiser for Trans Lifeline and TransLatin@ Coalition, organized by poets Kay E. Bancroft and Melissa Ferrer Civil. Registration details in the Linktree in bio. Donations and loving presence welcome!

Me politely doing taxes right now. ✨💀✨Thinking of all the beautiful babes & radical beings— the dissonance & dissociation of following societal rules as those in power act like monster trucks doing wheelies on this sacred Earth.

Happen To Notice: Drawing Shapes, Playing in Waves

On oceanic play, drawing shapes, theta waves, and my relationship to my phone p.s. lots of resources at the end as always ✨https://poderosa-voz.kit.com/posts/happen-to-notice-drawing-shapes-playing-in-waves

Happen To Notice: We Don’t Have to Wait For Permission

From my micro-newsletter on how we don’t have to wait for permission to show up for ourselves and each other. ❤️‍🔥💐❤️ poderosa-voz.kit.com/posts/happen...

It’s an exhausting time to be an empath, have high pattern recognition, high justice sensitivity, and/or have an everyday heart. We can be heartbroken and show up for each other. Seek nourishment and connection.🫀🧿❤️‍🔥💔

When the library hold books start arriving in real time, because my past self was a lil’ ambitious about how many books I can read at once. Anyone else ever feel guilty when you leave them on the hold shelf, and don’t go pick them up? 😅 📚❤️

We’ve Seen This Playbook Before—We’re Done Playing Along We’ve seen this playbook before. First, it was “critical race theory.” Then, “wokeness.” Now, it’s “DEI.” The words change, but the intent never does. This isn’t about policy—it’s about power. More sp...

From Lumos Transforms: “But we don’t need another great leader. We need leaderfulness—a movement of people who recognize their own power and take action, no matter how small those actions may seem.”❤️‍🔥💐💗 @lumostransforms.bsky.social ✨
lumostransforms.com/weve-seen-th...

I'm staring into camera, soft look, guitar in hand, silk green lining on baseball cap rim.

Hi! I’m a multidisciplinary writer and performer. I've been a singer-songwriter and poet forever. I’m working on creative nonfiction and fiction projects. I have a newsletter on somatics and creativity. Let’s go! In peace, Vanessa (she, they)