Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
@alexmlwrites.bsky.social
THE FACT OF A BODY: A Murder & A Memoir / US Artists & NEA (RIP) fellow / work in Best Amer Essays, NYTimes, Harper’s, etc / next up: a 🏳️⚧️ work of haunted 👻 nonfiction, BOTH & NEITHER, forthcoming from Doubleday & internationally
Thank you, @whitingfoundation.bsky.social. Deeply grateful for this support & honored to be alongside my fellow honorees. Now to finish the book! Coming to you soon, @doubledaybooks.bsky.social.
Congratulations to @alexmlwrites.bsky.social, recipient of a 2025 Whiting Nonfiction Grant for Works-in-Progress for BOTH AND NEITHER! Read more about their work here: www.whiting.org/content/alex...
December 10, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Thank you, @whitingfoundation.bsky.social. Deeply grateful for this support & honored to be alongside my fellow honorees. Now to finish the book! Coming to you soon, @doubledaybooks.bsky.social.
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?
September 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?
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Williams was a photographer for Jet magazine. He took the photo himself. The OG selfie. Iconic.
Orangeburg, South Carolina, 1956
Orangeburg, South Carolina, 1956
September 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Williams was a photographer for Jet magazine. He took the photo himself. The OG selfie. Iconic.
Orangeburg, South Carolina, 1956
Orangeburg, South Carolina, 1956
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It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
September 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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We're excited to introduce one of our newest faculty members for our new creative non-fiction track: Alex Marzano-Lesnevich! Please join us in welcoming @alexmlwrites.bsky.social to Warren Wilson, and learn more about their work here: www.warrenwilsonmfa.org/newfaculty-2...
August 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
We're excited to introduce one of our newest faculty members for our new creative non-fiction track: Alex Marzano-Lesnevich! Please join us in welcoming @alexmlwrites.bsky.social to Warren Wilson, and learn more about their work here: www.warrenwilsonmfa.org/newfaculty-2...
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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
July 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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
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April 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Salt Lake City showed up
April 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Salt Lake City showed up
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This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.
April 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.
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"Don’t mess with Trans Kids"
Banner spotted in San Antonio, TX for International day of trans visibility 2025
Banner spotted in San Antonio, TX for International day of trans visibility 2025
April 1, 2025 at 2:38 AM
"Don’t mess with Trans Kids"
Banner spotted in San Antonio, TX for International day of trans visibility 2025
Banner spotted in San Antonio, TX for International day of trans visibility 2025
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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...
Burning Haibun as Portrait: 9 months on HRT, Georgia on MS Word | Poetry Database | Split This Rock
www.splitthisrock.org
March 31, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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...
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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...
Two Poems
‘It murmurs beneath the crust of the ground, or a person who serves as the ground you stand on.’
granta.com
April 1, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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...
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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...
harpers.org/archive/2019...
Body Language, by Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
How to tell a genderqueer story
harpers.org
March 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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...
harpers.org/archive/2019...
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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.
But it’s Hegseth, so probably not.
March 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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.
But it’s Hegseth, so probably not.
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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.
March 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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.