Alex Marzano-Lesnevich

Pages of the NY Post from 2007 featuring Ava Cordero under the headlines "GENDER BENDER SHOCKER" and "S(HE) HAS A HISTORY"

So yesterday I learned about Ava Cordero, a transgender woman who, in 2007, sued Jeffrey Epstein alleging he sexually abused her when she was 16. Her lawsuit was filed in 2007 while Epstein was negotiating a plea deal in Florida for abusing other girls, but her claims were mocked and dismissed

Wow Chicago!

#HandsOff #FiftyFiftyOne

(🎥 Marco Foster)

Massive crowd at Boston’s city hall plaza for the #HandsOff protest against Trump and Musk

Portland, ME showed up. #HandsOff

Augusta, Maine

100,000+ people marched at the #HandsOff rally in New York!

Absolutely incredible turn out at MN State Capitol! #HandsOff

Salt Lake City showed up

Massive crowd at Hands Off rally in St. Paul, Minnesota

Wow. #HandsOff rally in St. Paul, Minnesota is massive!

Portland OR Hands Off Rally

Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING
#handsoff

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

"Don’t mess with Trans Kids"
Banner spotted in San Antonio, TX for International day of trans visibility 2025

Burning Haibun as Portrait: 9 months on HRT, Georgia on MS Word | Poetry Database | Split This Rock

now a poem!! gut-wrenching & experimental!! published by @splitthisrock.bsky.social, tonee mae moll’s burning haibun melts from a prose piece into verse lines into a perfectly packaged haiku. it’s an untamed celebration of transness, & u should read it now!!! www.splitthisrock.org/poetry-datab...

Two Poems ‘It murmurs beneath the crust of the ground, or a person who serves as the ground you stand on.’

two poems from the magnificent @yanyiii.com’s book, the year of blue water!! we first found his work when combing through the yale younger poets prize backlist, & we truly understand why he won in 2018 🫢 these poems r incredibly vulnerable & sincere granta.com/two-poems-ya...

Thank you, @earwormsmag.bsky.social! 🪱💜

Body Language, by Alex Marzano-Lesnevich How to tell a genderqueer story

it’s trans visibility day!! to celebrate, us worm interns here at earworms magazine will be sharing some of our fav works from trans writers! to start off, @alexmlwrites.bsky.social’s 2019 essay, “body language”

harpers.org/archive/2019...

If an Army private accidentally texted the details of a classified military operation to a reporter, let alone transmitted any classified information to anyone who was unauthorized over an unsecured device, they’d be charged and likely spend time in Leavenworth.

But it’s Hegseth, so probably not.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

the best people!!!

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

For folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.

More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.

I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

Background photo is of a pink vibrator discarded on a dirty sidewalk near a bus shelter. Readers: Adèle Barclay Alex Marzano-Lesnevich Amber Dawn Brandi Bird Britt McGillivray Charlie Jane Anders Clement Goldberg Dora Prieto Nisa Malli Ryka Aoki Thurs Mar 27, 7 pm North Figueroa Bookshop 6040 N Figueroa St

BAD ROMANCE #AWP Offsite - readings for the filthy bent & heartbroken.
💦 dream line up: @rykaaoki.bsky.social @charliejane.bsky.social @clementgoldberg.bsky.social @adelebarclay.bsky.social @alexmlwrites.bsky.social

A square canvas. Only the top corner is filled with Harings distinctive figures, rendered in Lavender, the rest is blank.

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990.
One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.
#LGBTplusHistoryMonth

Sometimes a moment has you pass through a portal. Coming out as trans was a long process for me, but it was also something that happened on one particular day. For the new @bloomsburybooks.bsky.social @dinahlenney.bsky.social anthology SNAPSHOTS, I wrote about it. Thank you, Dinah & Lit Hub.

Late capitalism got you down? Join this (free!) Fredric Jameson study group. Attention fellow travelers, would-be radicals, curious culture vultures, and ABD English scholars! Our friends at Verso Books—the publishing imprint behind such titans of theory as Edward Said, Mik…

Our friends at @versobooks.bsky.social have launched a new virtual reading group focusing on the work and ideas of the late Fredric Jameson.

It's a weird time to have been offline for a month and a half, first navigating the health consequences of an accident for me, and then, now and ongoing, a devastating health crisis for my father. Hi, everyone. I expect I'll be away for at least the next few months, but I'm so grateful you're here.

@turnandwork.com Thanks for reading & sharing! So glad you loved TFOAB, too.

The Shortlist: February 14, 2025 - turn and work Creative nonfiction by Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, Emily Austen and Anne P. Beatty. Short fiction by Dana Wall, Frances Gapper, and Elvira Navarro.

The Shortlist for February 14: links to some short-form creative writing I loved this week.

Nonfiction by @alexmlwrites.bsky.social & @emilyraustin.bsky.social in @literaryhub.bsky.social & Anne P. Beatty in CRAFT.

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Away from social media (/most things, but you can reach me by email and I will get back to you eventually) recovering from an injury. Love to you all.