My home state showed up and showed out at the polls. Sic semper tyrannis! 🌊

Donate to our NewsMatch campaign today and support nonprofit news – Matter News A letter from our editor as we kick off our year-end fundraising campaign, where your donations to Matter News are doubled through the end of December.

Your donations to Matter News are doubled through the end of the year.

Here's a letter from our editor as we kick off our biggest fundraising campaign yet.

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“The real horror comes not from the specter of witches among us, but from the fact that people who can become pregnant have found themselves transported back to the 15th century…”

Excerpted from @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social’s GRAPHIC RAGE: COMICS ON GENDER, JUSTICE, AND LIFE AS A WOMAN IN AMERICA. 🌙

If SNAP benefits vanished tomorrow, feeding 42 million Americans for a month would cost about $7.8 billion.That’s less than 1% of the combined net worth of the three richest men in the U.S. A reminder of how obscene inequality has become and how easily hunger could be solved if we chose to.

Diane Keaton, Miss Major, D'Angelo... Who gets to live a "long" life in America?

“And then it came, the realization that—at least in my mind—79 years old was so young for a famous rich white woman in America like Diane Keaton and that 78 years old was practically a miracle for a black trans woman like Miss Major.”

Ever wonder what it would be like to attend a wedding with an ex? I wrote 100 words about it for Five Minutes. Thanks for the opportunity, @fiveminutelit.bsky.social ! ✨

Transforming Pain into Purpose: An Interview with Heather Marie Cline - Mud Season Review The title “A Way Out of Nowhere” references your mother physically leaving your stepfather but also invokes larger themes like breaking cycles. How did you choose this title, and what does it mean to ...

Last month, I interviewed Heather Marie Cline about memoir writing, cycle breaking, and storytelling as reclamation. Read it here and check out @hmcline.bsky.social ‘s gorgeous essay in Issue #79 of Mud Season Review!

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Residents express fear, uncertainty as Kaleidoscope prepares to end youth housing program – Matter News Kaleidoscope Youth Center announced in mid-September that it would be closing its housing program for queer youth after the Ohio Department of Health declined to renew the Columbus-based nonprofit’s g...

“If there’s a legislative agenda we should have, it should be to eradicate houselessness in our city,” Upchurch said. “And I don’t understand why we don’t have that bigger, shared vision of liberation in our community.”

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Thank you so much, Belinda! 💜

LOOK AT THE MOON!!!!!!!!!

Trans youth react to Nationwide Children’s Hospital ending gender-affirming care – Matter News A Republican-led crackdown on trans healthcare is impacting local hospitals and both minor and adult patients, driving some towards community-based alternatives for care.

“There aren’t a lot of legal alternatives for minors who need HRT [or] even just hormone blockers.” Embi also lamented the loss of access to therapy and mental health support in the absence of THRIVE. “It’s going to be a huge loss for a lot of trans youth across Central Ohio.”

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Mud Season Review is open for submissions from 10/1-10/31! Send us your best art, fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. To review the full guidelines, please visit mudseasonreview.com/submit.

SmokeLong Workshop Celebration — September 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly Each month we celebrate our current and previous workshop participants’ publications reported to us through Submittable (The SmokeLong Workshop Prize). Each of the publications below, with the excepti...

Our workshop participants slay us! More than 30 publications reported to us in September! We couldn't be prouder. Congratulations, trousers! www.smokelong.com/smokelong-wo...

Issue #79 marks 10 years of Mud Season Review! 🎉 Featuring artwork by Jennifer Follman, poetry by Eli Karren, fiction by Summer Hammond, creative Nonfiction by Heather Marie Cline, and letters from MSR co-founders Rebecca Starks and Danielle Thierry.

Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.

As always, support your local station. They need it more than you know. And, if you can swing it, adopt a station in another state: adoptastation.org

Jennifer Bryant: SHELTER • Cleaver Magazine Writing by Jennifer Bryant has appeared in The Sun, Ms., BUST, Anodyne Mag, and elsewhere. She is an editor at MUTHA Magazine.

So excited that my little flash essay found a home in issue #51 of Cleaver Magazine! This issue is incredible - it’s an honor to be in such good company.

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Targeted Ohio State professors on the damaging impact of Turning Point's ‘professor watchlist’ – Matter News TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk, who in the days since his assassination has been lauded in conservative circles as a staunch defender of free speech, spent much of his career working to reshape higher edu...

“There are campuses where professors are being fired for statements made in classes. And there’s this sense of am I being recorded? Are people signing up for classes simply to antagonize? And all of that does feel even more amplified now, especially in the aftermath of this killing.”

UCROSS WELCOMES FALL 2025 FELLOWS Today, Ucross Foundation, the acclaimed artist residency program, announced its Fall 2025 Fellows. From August to early December, 65 writers, visual artists, composers, choreographers, and...

Being a 2025 Ucross Foundation Fellow in Literature is a dream come true. See you soon, Wyoming!

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Come hang with us in Brooklyn on Wednesday! Details at the link. 🔗

One of the things we do right in Ohio (despite the current administration attempts to change that) is have an amazing system of libraries.

A blue and white book cover with “The People’s Project” in black ink.

Loved this beautiful event last night at the Columbus Metropolitan Library for The People’s Project! I could listen to @theferocity.bsky.social & @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social in conversation all day. ✨

If reading this makes you want to help and you’re in a position to donate time or money, please consider supporting reproductive rights & justice orgs like @ppaohio.bsky.social, @abortionfundofohio.bsky.social, and Faith Choice Ohio, who are doing work on the ground to support access. ✨

Three years after the end of Roe, prochoice orgs are still fighting to keep abortion legal and accessible across Ohio. I spoke with a few of them for Matter News. ⬇️

A Permission to Cruelty: The impact of Trump’s executive orders on the unhoused – Matter News An executive order issued in July could affect everything from the types of programs available to the unhoused to how those experiencing homelessness are treated in their own communities.

An executive order issued by Trump in July could affect everything from the types of programs available to the unhoused to how those experiencing homelessness are treated in their own communities.

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This country is doing everything to kids EXCEPT protecting them from gun violence.

So excited for the Columbus event!

Issue #8: "Rebel Girls" by Jen Bryant September 2025, RESISTANCE

Thrilled to have a piece about teenage rebellion in the Riot Grrrl era up at IN A FLASH today. Check it out!

As someone who grew up in Jerry Falwell’s town and lived just three miles from the Liberty Godparent Home during my own teen pregnancy, T.J. Raphael’s Liberty Lost podcast really resonated with me. So grateful for the opportunity to work on this story - please give it a read! #libertylost