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New book, TOUCHING THE ART!!! Also: THE FREEZER DOOR, BETWEEN CERTAIN DEATH AND A POSSIBLE FUTURE, SKETCHTASY, THE END OF SAN FRANCISCO +++
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Look at this gorgeous thing that just arrived!!!!🌺 Yes, it's an actual hardback copy of TOUCHING THE ART, doesn't it look amazing?!!!⚡⚡⚡Out November 7 from
@softskull
, get ready... Book tour kickoff October 15
@iheartsam
, preorder now from
@ElliottBayBooks
or your fav indie🌹
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How embarrassing to live in a country where calling for a ceasefire has become a radical act. A ceasefire. This is how far the center has moved to the right. All this country knows is war. The violence never ends.
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Why do people keep saying that *after* Roe v. Wade, the Republicans are "coming for LGBTQ rights," as if abortion access isn't already crucial to queer lives.
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When they say they're worried that Monkeypox will spread to the "general population," I can't help thinking that this removes anyone who is already impacted from humanity.
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Does anyone else feel exhausted, devastated & destroyed every time there's a discussion about who should or shouldn't have the vaccine, rather than how we could all have access if vaccines weren't patented, & the technology & production expertise was made globally accessible?
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So depressed by these commentators talking about the “radicalization” of police officers into white supremacist ideology instead of talking about the inherent white supremacist ideology of police forces from their inception.
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Reminder: the first pride parade was not called a pride parade. It was called a gay liberation march. Switching from liberation to pride is obviously part of the dreadful consumerist dead end where we now find ourselves.
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Um, this is from a full-page ad in the Seattle Times, in case you were wondering what landlords like to do with their money
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Third year of this pandemic, and I'm thinking again about the devastation of structural abandonment, not just in who it kills and who it leaves vulnerable, but also in the ways this callousness has infiltrated the rhetoric of care.
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I was about to say that I keep sobbing for no reason at all, but actually I know the reason. It’s the way that the tragic governmental response to Monkeypox compounds the trauma of the tragic governmental response to COVID & the ongoing trauma of growing up with the AIDS crisis.
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So the 92nd Street Y in New York just canceled a reading by Viet Than Nguyen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, for signing an open letter criticizing Israel’s assault on Gaza. For signing an open letter!! Can you imagine what is happening to writers with less clout?
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The unintended irony of "RECALL the only city council member who actually supports social justice" and "WE BELIEVE Black Lives Matter..." in front of the same white picket fence is so Seattle it hurts.
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The amount of dissociation required just to go about daily experience, negotiating a world that does not care, does not want to care, and how this infiltrates our everyday experiences, how it degrades our relationships and the possibilities for connection.
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That moment at the beginning of the pandemic where we had the opportunity to redefine communal care, I feel haunted by that moment because of what happened instead.
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Everyone knows about the authoritarian in the White House, but we also need to be watching the authoritarian tendencies of all these so-called liberal mayors, as they unleash the full repressive power of the police on people protesting police brutality, over and over and over.
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How the nihilistic rhetoric of choice, as in choose your risks & forget about everyone else, or choose to protect yourself, in spite of everyone else, how this has become so normalized that the notion of communal care, everpresent at the beginning of this pandemic, has vanished.
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Three years ago, at the beginning of this pandemic, the rhetoric was all about taking care of one another, and while this was a desperate and frightening time at least there was this possibility.
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What is this dystopian mess where they make you wait in line for hours to receive the Monkeypox vaccine, "while supplies last"? Ten hours outside a bathhouse in Berkeley, five hours in a hospital hallway in Seattle, is this supposed to be penance for our evil ways?
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Of course there are those who still fight for communal care and create these possibilities against the odds, but it's almost hard to imagine that 3 years ago this was a widespread cultural position, which makes the squandering of this opportunity all the more brutal now.
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Okay, I'll say it: I don't know if I'll ever recover from the trauma of this pandemic. The ongoing trauma. The layers and layers and layers of trauma.
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And, even from the narrow standpoint of electoral politics, it's quite obvious that the right wing is already on the attack against trans and queer lives, so I'm not sure about this "after Roe v. Wade" part of the equation. It's all happening right now.
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Just another day of wondering how many lives could have been saved if the CDC kept the mask mandate in place.
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Imagine a city that decides to lock the public bathrooms in parks while opening bars, restaurants and the axe-throwing store, while claiming that public bathrooms are locked for public health! Seattle dystopia never ends.
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The rush to abandon anyone in the way of the mass delusion of normalcy, which is of course what normalcy always is.
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What if we had gatherings every day where we stood with strangers on rooftops and stared at the sky? This is the world I want to live in.
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Every time someone says "gay marriage is next," they smother the potential for an intersectional queer analysis that refuses borders and bans, demolishes propriety, and creates space for autonomy and self-determination for everyone.
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Wow. Everything about this case. These kids had the courage to speak about their father sexually abusing them, and even though Child/Family Services acknowledged the abuse the court still wants to send them back to live with him.🔥ABOLISH THE WHOLE SYSTEM & FREE THESE KIDS🔥
I wrote about 2 kids who have barricaded themselves in a bedroom for the last month to defy family court orders forcing them back into the custody of their father, despite DCFS findings that the father sexually abused them 🧵
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Not afraid to say that I’m still afraid of getting COVID is what I wrote at first, but then I realized that actually I am kind of afraid to say that—so much pressure to crush everyone in the way of the BACK TO NORMAL brutality, including ourselves.
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The 92nd Street Y is a major Jewish cultural institution, & one of the premier literary venues in the country. Every author w/ a conscience is now signing an open letter criticizing the genocidal policies of the Israeli government. Will the 92nd Street Y cancel all their events?
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Shouldn’t it be required that all coverage about police brutality at protests at least mentions that these are protests against police brutality? The cops barely even pretend that they aren’t racist thugs, except when their PR team steps in to clean up after the carnage.
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Whenever someone says "gay marriage is next," it's hard not to to be reminded of the initial goals of gay liberation to end police control over queer bodies & lives, and refuse the tyranny of church, state, & nuclear family, rather than fighting to become a part of them.
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Andrew Sullivan’s latest racist nonsense reminds us how horrible he has always been. Since he will never change, wouldn’t it be great to hold the liberal media that made him into a pundit accountable for propping up self-hating gay conservatives instead of queer left critiques?
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Honey I am SOBBING SO HARD I can hardly believe this... YESSSSSSSSSS it's a rave review for THE FREEZER DOOR in the
@nytimes
book review!!! Thank you to
@Kristen_Arnett
for engaging so deeply with the book, this is more than I could have dreamed of...
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Instead of normalizing everyday brutality, what if we had normalized communal care?
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Honestly I'm feeling speechless about Gaza. I don't know if I have anything useful to say, except to repeat that the genocidal policies of the Israeli government would only be possible with US support. Billions and billions and billions of dollars of military aid, for decades.
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Who needs Amazon when you can have an independent bookstore like Politics & Prose hiring an aggressive anti-union right-wing law firm to prevent their workers from unionizing. With friends like these...
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Why are they using tear gas? Why? Why is this allowed? Anywhere. George Floyd was murdered by the cops while gasping I CAN’T BREATHE. So now police departments across the country are using tear gas and pepper spray on protesters so no one can breathe.
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Pfizer is in NYC, Moderna in Boston—why aren’t there mass protests calling for breaking the patents & sharing the technology? These companies keep people from getting the vaccine, which keeps people vulnerable & afraid, does this also help to shelter these companies from protest?
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"I want acts and accounts of care as shared and distributed risk, as mass refusals of the unbearable life, as total rejections of the dead future."
--
@hystericalblkns
, ORDINARY NOTES
@fsgbooks
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One day I'd like to live in a country that I don't hate as much as this one, and, strangely, I'd like that to be this country.
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The commodification of “pride” has reached new levels this year w/the branded 50th anniversary of Stonewall, but there might be a silver lining because people not usually attuned to the hypocrisy of rainbow capitalism are noticing. But, are they making the necessary connections?
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We knew back to normal was going to be terrible, but did it have to be this terrible.
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Everyone talks about waiting in line, or about where they can jump the line, but not about how this is all completely artificial, all in service of corporate profit at any cost. The cost is our lives. And this is always the case, when they control everything.
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Denial as a mark of strength, a way to say that you are helping the nation in its quest to ignore the deaths of millions, to further the harm, the chronic devastation, the never-ending callousness, the corporate profiteering, the selfishness branded as pleasure.
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Break the patents. Share the technology and production expertise. Fund the distribution. That’s really all we need for universal access to these vaccines, right? But we have none of this.
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It’s almost hard to believe, but after months of trying, I finally got the Novavax vaccine as a COVID booster. I say it’s almost hard to believe because, even though it’s approved and paid for by the federal government, it’s almost impossible to access, at least in my experience.
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Two days ago I saw an ad for PrEP featuring two naked men in an embrace, and the slogan “Love Fearlessly,” and I’m still thinking about how much I hate it. Reminder: SEX IS NOT THE SAME THING AS LOVE, I can’t believe I even have to say this.
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Just a few of the beautiful old houses on Capitol Hill in Seattle that are about to be torn down to make way for more unnecessary overpriced garbage.
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People are making all sorts of strange comparisons between HIV, COVID, and Monkeypox, but if there's one thing they all have in common it's TRAUMA compounded by governmental neglect, and honey I'm feeling it now.
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When I say loneliness, I mean grief. When I say grief, I mean survival. When I say survival, I mean loneliness.
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Yes, this is the kind of love we love to see... Thank you to the Lifelong Thrift Store for continuing to require masks during this ongoing pandemic. 💗💗
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🌟🌟COVER REVEAL!!!!!🌟🌟Yes, look at the stunning cover for TOUCHING THE ART, out on November 7 from
@SoftSkull
—watch out, world!!! And, you can now preorder from your local indie bookstore!!💥Never too early to send over media requests, thanks for all your support!!!💫💫💫
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ANNOUNCING... Here is the call for submissions for my new anthology, Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis... Please forward widely!
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Reminder: SEXUAL MISCONDUCT means nothing. If you're talking about abuse, name it, say RAPE or SEXUAL ASSAULT or SEXUAL HARASSMENT, etc. "Sexual misconduct" is far too vague, and ends up damaging the possibilities for actual accountability even as it establishes a punitive regime
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"If policing is a process of capitalist order-making, abolition is the creative practice of building new communal and non-coercive institutions at all levels of society."
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@dreanyc123
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@prisonculture
, NO MORE POLICE
@thenewpress
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"Abolitionists are called dreamers, but it is the promise of reform that works as a fantasy.
Letting go of our relentless and misguided fixation on reform opens up dramatic new possibilities."💥
@prisonculture
&
@dreanyc123
, NO MORE POLICE
@thenewpress
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I'm so thrilled to announce that my next book, TOUCHING THE ART, will be published by
@softskull
in 2023!! Watch out, world... 🎉🎉🎉💥💥💥
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As a survivor of childhood sexual abuse (and of rape as an adult) who has made this a part of all my work, I’m trying to think what it is about the sudden national conversation on sexual violence that feels silencing.
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This is what solidarity looks like!🌟New School students occupy the University Center “until the administration resumes pay, full health-care protection, and retirement benefits to all striking employees and a fair contract is reached with part-time faculty.”🌟
The students of
@TheNewSchool
already had my total devotion for standing with part-time faculty on the picket line, and now they’ve given me the perfect kicker for my last-day-of-class “goodbye & thank you & what are we all doing here anyway” lesson plan.
#strikeonTNS
♥️✊
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Reminder: straight acceptance is not what queers need. We need liberation from all straight values and norms. So do straight people.
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BIG NEWS!!!!! My next anthology, Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis will be published by
@Arsenalpulp
in Fall 2021!! And, not only that, but you still have time to submit... Feel free to forward the call far and wide!
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Yes, now that Monkeypox vaccine eligibility has expanded in Seattle you have to wait 5 hours in the hallway of a medical building to be eligible—hundreds of vulnerable people waiting in a hallway in the midst of the ongoing COVID pandemic, are they trying to make everyone sick?
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Is every Little Free Library really a contest for who can display the worst books ever written? Just curious.
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Stop saying ban private prisons. Start saying ban all prisons.
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When I talked to the health department, they said they would definitely not recommend waiting in line, unless you’ve been exposed to Monkeypox. So they’re telling people who have been exposed to wait in line for hours in a barely ventilated hallway? What is going on here.
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Whenever someone quotes the Human Rights Campaign as saying that Amy Coney Barrett is an “absolute threat to LGBTQ rights,” they should be required to say that the Human Rights Campaign is an absolute threat to LGBTQ rights.
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So, for example, when someone critiques the corporatization of pride by saying that rainbows are nice and all, but are there any LGBT people in the boardrooms of these companies, this is not a substantive critique of rainbow capitalism, it *is* rainbow capitalism.
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Myriam Gurba (
@lesbrains
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@LBSchools
for punishing her for her bravery, & thanks to
@latimes
for reporting!
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I want to go to the celebration where everyone is burning the US flag, not waving it.
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Yes, the moon is invincible to cell phone photography, no matter how hard you try she looks like nothing on that screen, no, the moon is not a fan of social media, she says look, honey, look at me, look, look at one another, look.
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How many dystopias can you fit into one dystopia, the possibilities are endless.
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Does the devastating reality of this pandemic shelter the vaccine profiteers? They rake in the profits, we remain vulnerable and afraid. Is this part of their financial plan?
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Meanwhile, across the border in British Columbia, the Monkeypox vaccine has been available to anyone within the broadly defined risk group, by appointment, for a month. It’s a 10-minute appt, and then you’re done. So someone’s doing it right, but not on this side of the border.
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Yikes,
@FryeArtMuseum
, what is this nonsense?!! The gender-neutral restrooms are temporarily discontinued while looking into "best practices"?!? Spoiler alert: the best practice is that all restrooms should be gender-neutral! That's it, that's all you need to know.
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Reminder: in any scandal involving a work of fiction published in the New Yorker, the real scandal is why does the New Yorker still have so much power over literature?
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Because there’s no reason for queers—or anyone else—to be in corporate boardrooms, unless we are occupying them to force structural change, torching them, or redistributing the resources.
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So thrilled that my essay, “Writing on Your Terms,” originally written as a craft talk for
@Tin_House
Summer Workshop, is now in print
@lithub
!! “When we write on our own terms… we write against the canonical imperative, & instead write... toward change"
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There’s nothing like the sound of helicopters in the morning to make you hate your city. The sound of displacement. The sound of surveillance. The sound of police brutality. The sound of hideous, pointless, endless violence directed at protesters, at people trying to survive.
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HUGE NEWS: I’m so honored to be a finalist for the
@PENamerica
PEN/Jean Stein Book Award for a "work of any genre for its originality, merit, & impact, which has broken new ground by reshaping the boundaries of its form & signaling strong potential for lasting influence," oh my!!
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@sethasfishman
My Bloody Valentine, Loveless
or
Cocteau Twins, Heaven or Las Vegas
or wait
Joy Division, "She's Lost Control Again"
but also
Throbbing Gristle
or maybe
Aphex Twin?
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When COVID vaccine was rolled out, I went to a huge stadium w/plenty of ventilation & physical distancing & the whole process took about 15 minutes, plus the wait time to make sure you didn’t have an allergic reaction. Hundreds of people were vaccinated at a time, thousands a day
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OH, I FINALLY GOT IT. REAGAN "STARTED A NATIONAL CONVERSATION" ABOUT AIDS BY LETTING 150,000 PEOPLE DIE. THAT'S QUITE A CONVERSATION STARTER
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It is always worse than embarrassing when Jewish institutions bow down to Zionism. But right now the deadly impact of this collusion plays out right before our eyes.
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I'M SORRY, BUT DOES THE IOWA WRITERS WORKSHOP TEACH PEOPLE TO WRITE "TOOK HIM IN MY MOUTH" INSTEAD OF "COCKSUCKING"?
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With Monkeypox, most cities don’t even have that many vaccines, total. And they’re making people go through this awful process that excludes so many who aren't able to wait in line, or don't want to risk exposure, especially people who may be the most vulnerable.
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Is there anything more tragic that people responding to homophobia by saying no one would CHOOSE to be gay, I mean really.
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This drunk fag is yelling NOT ALL COCKSUCKERS ARE LEFTISTS, and, while he may not know it, this is a very succinct summation of one key problem in my life.
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So simple and direct, the beginning of this chapter in NO MORE POLICE by
@prisonculture
&
@dreanyc123
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Oh, my, look at this... Yes, it's the cover for my new anthology, BETWEEN CERTAIN DEATH AND A POSSIBLE FUTURE: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis, out October 5 & available for preorder from
@Arsenalpulp
now!! Or, preorder a signed copy here:
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Reminder: gay marriage was always an exclusionary agenda based on access to tax breaks and inheritance rights for the few rather than basic needs like housing and healthcare for everyone.
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The necessity of claiming a Jewishness against the genocidal policies of the Israeli government, funded by the US, which perpetuates genocide on behalf of all Jews. I'm finding it hard to articulate this beyond tears, but never have I felt more Jewish than in this feeling.
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The notion that you can’t talk about your pain because someone else’s pain might be worse, I think this is another way we fail one another. Because how do we get through it if we can’t talk about it all. I mean how do we get through it together.
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I've decided to think of the moment when I put on a mask before stepping inside a public space as a glamorous gesture, like hello, I've arrived. I mean I know it's about care, and what could be more glamorous than care.
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If I could change anything about the publishing industry it would be everything, but seriously, if I could change one simple thing about the publishing industry it would be to end the "no response means no" mentality, and make people at least get back to you to say no thanks.
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When someone writes the next obituary for Seattle (or Capitol Hill), please feature the new security station & plexiglass security perimeter at the Broadway Market QFC when you enter, it's amazing that this place once felt like a neighborhood grocery store, amazing.
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