I'm teaching an in-person course on conflict transformation and depolarization in activist communities in Toronto in January! Would love to see activists, leaders, organizers come join. Sliding scale spots available :)

I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...

DHS is repelling from helicopters into apartment buildings to raid them and zip tie children in the middle of the night while saying "fuck them kids." They're shooting at people on the streets and lying about it.

This is a hostile occupying force that is a threat to everyone's safety.

For my newsletter, I wrote about how wantonly illegal and unconstitutional ICE is, how it must come to a stop now, how it's up to all of us to stop it, and how we will need to develop a way so the federal government can never do this to us again.

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No literally this is the thing: the Right has completely captured the media apparatus in an era where that doesn't matter, no matter how much regime loyalist content they put out everyone fucking hates them

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Hey love 💜 I'm so happy to hear from you. I love that you like The Poem. That made me tear up to read. It feels truer than ever these days...

For the last edition of my column DANGEROUS SPACE with @xtramagazine.com I wrote about why it's time for queer communities to say goodbye to cancel culture as we resist the accelerating crackdown on our rights.

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ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday

Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere

If you have any national platform at all

Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us

I don’t think people truly understand the ascendency of fascism in this country right now. This is an abhorrent, but not surprising, proposal given the rhetoric and actions of the Trump regime and its far right supporters.

a question I often find myself asking these days: "are these the moves of a movement that feels that it's winning or one desperately afraid that it's about to lose everything?"

This is how they ensure political opponents can't escape when they start rounding them up.

If you're in a position to leave, you should do so now before they close the door.

theintercept.com/2025/09/13/m...

NEW: A timeline of how false “transgender ideology” claims spread in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing. By @hencarnell.bsky.social, @msjpauly.bsky.social, and me:

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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In case you were wondering why the incorrect rumor of “trans activist” and “fascist symbols” on ammo started, it’s because arrows and initials are common ways manufacturers stamp ammo.

Including “TRN” the ironsight and a direction broad arrow:

Why not

So how many anonymous attempts to take down trans women, famous and otherwise, in the last month do we have at this point? Enough that it’s reasonable to suggest something dangerous is happening?

“He was asking what he had done wrong for this to happen to him and if the teachers don’t like him,” said his mother Anne.

Jake said he was planning to avoid using the toilet at school by limiting the amount he drinks
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NEW: With a new first-time translation from Jamie Berrout, I'm delighted to share this 2023 interview with Mariposas Negras cofounder Laura Glover, originally printed in the zine Trans y Fugas.

Mariposas Negras is a transfemme sex worker collective on the front lines of Mexican trans activism 🇲🇽

they’re kidnapping trans women and forcing them to choose between male detention centers, where theyll be tortured, sexually abused and forcibly detransitioned, and leaving her whole life behind via self-deportation. but please go on with your “reasonable concerns” about trans rights

I wrote about revolutionary love, non-dual thinking, and spiritual activism without spiritual bypassing

Since the AI discourse is evergreen:

You are losing far more than you gain with AI writing. You are losing your ability to create, to imagine. You are losing valuable skill experience that could improve your work down the line. You are losing community. You are losing marketing opportunities.

Mass revolt from queer authors in the UK after a major LGBTQ+ writing prize longlisted a self-proclaimed TERF.

11 authors and 2 judges have withdrawn from the Polari Prize. One of those withdrawals, that of June Thomas, is newly confirmed by our reporter, @evanurquhart.bsky.social.

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Crazy making that every day we wake up to more information about millions of ppl being violently slaughtered while the most powerful Empire in the world openly shifts to dictatorial fascism & also there is LITERAL SMOKE FROM THE WORLD BURNING filling the sky & we still have to answer emails

The Animorphs are such a classic and incredibly prescient of the hellscape we now live in.