You'd be forgiven for missing that Sinéad O'Connor passed away as a Muslima named Shuhada' Sadaqat, as almost all posted photos are from before her reverting & there's entire big media obituaries not using her chosen name even once.

Innalillahi wa inna ilayhi rajioon, Shuhada'.

For a lot of us, losing Twitter isn’t really about losing ties to the company itself. It’s losing 10+ years of real, asynchronous communities, professional development, the ability to get gigs and clients, the ability to promo/share your art on an extremely broad scale. The loss of that has impact.

I read my queer parent piece at Tin House yesterday, in my mother’s shirt from the 70s. The shirt says “Get Thy Shit Together”. Girl, that’s how it fucking FELT. #thsw

Thanks again to Brian Gresko for kind thoughts on my early draft from their essay course at The Writing Co-lab!

Happy Pub Day to Ruth Madievsky! When we spoke about her novel for Electric Literature, she told me the ending came from an unpublished short story that helped form the novel’s spine. “And I’m so glad that piece got summarily rejected because…”

First post throat clearing.