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Donate Now | Sustain the Fight for LGBTQ+ Liberation with a Monthly Donation by Lambda Literary

And finally, Lambda Literary. Whew. The org I gave my mind, body, and soul to during a global pandemic. The org that keeps on ticking. LL lifts up queer creativity, expression & community in ways unlike any other org and I’ll always be grateful for it. secure.givelively.org/donate/lambd...

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The best way to support Lambda Literary's work in securing a future for LGBTQ+ stories is by making a monthly donation!For nearly four decades, Lambda Literary has bee...

DONATE — Segue Foundation

Segue Foundation. James Sherry has been publishing and programming avant-garde poets for 50 years. James published two of my books and is continuously expanding the notion of what experimental means. www.seguefoundation.com/donate

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Support FE | Fonograf Editions

Fonograf Editions—the relative new comer at just 10 years old. All volunteer-run (shout out to Jeff Alessandrelli) with an idiosyncratic list and bright future. fonografeditions.com/support/

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25th Anniversary Campaign – Litmus Press

Next: Litmus Press. Tracy Grinnell and co publish avant-garde feminist work AND keep those legacies alive by stewarding lists of historic presses, including Leslie Scalapino’s O Books, which published my first two books. litmuspress.org/25th-anniver...

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First up: Small Press Traffic. 50 years of programming and now an archive. They hosted my first poetry reading in SF and decades later I served on their board. Led by the wonderful Maxe Crandall, SPT is rad, queer, and scrappy. www.smallpresstraffic.org/support

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October is my birthday month and I’ve considered what lit orgs I’m supporting this year and why. 🧵

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Surely this is something @mayor.nyc.gov could fix with a phone call.

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I hate that I have to re-up this today. as I detail in this piece, abandoning trans rights is not only immoral, but it's also BAD POLITICS for Dems, as it will turn away their own pro-LGBTQ base without winning over a single new voter: www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

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Trans rights aren’t tanking the Democrats.

Julia Serano responds in a forum on “How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism.”

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Trans people have fought and suffered and borne the brunt of the depravity of fascist excess (along with immigrants and Black people), and it looks like the most we can hope for is a decade or more fighting Democrats to restore rights we had in every state in the union as recently as 2020.

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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Mt Sinai has violated the Hippocratic Oath and sacrificed the health of Trans and Gender Nonconforming youth by capitulating to the Trump admin. A coalition of TGNCNB and LGBTQIA+ activists, and allies will stand up for our youth against @mountsinainyc.bsky.social . JOIN US!

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New Kings Democrats @newkingsdems.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Update on the legal challenge to Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn’s Brooklyn Democratic Party power grab: 🧵

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

What horseshit. She embraced gay people at the height of the AIDS crisis, embraced trans people at the height of the war against them, supported Black communities and artists, and wrote the most pro-worker's rights feminist pop song of all time. Neutral my ass

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Sue Landers @slanders.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Sending you love. It’s such a hard loss!

Sue Landers @slanders.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Pamela: A Novel (Pamela Lu), The Pink Institution (Selah Saterstrom)

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13/07/2026

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This is huge! The Trump administration is abandoning its plan to withhold Medicaid funding from hospitals that provide gender affirming care to trans youth under 19. www.npr.org/2026/07/13/n...

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Trump's HHS abandons threat to withhold Medicare and Medicaid funding over trans care

NPR has learned that the Department of Health and Human Services will not be finalizing its most aggressive attempt to end gender-affirming care for youth nationally.

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Whew, yeah, so this day has got me thinking about the archives of American mythology, state power, and the generosity of archivists and poets!

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I processed all my Franklin Court/1976 feelings in what became one of the poems in the book (excerpt shown here) with lines still crack me up, “IT WAS 1976 IN PHILADELPHIA AND WE WERE ALL BENJAMIN FRANKLIN”

Excerpt from a poem with the text: Let's call this my earliest memory.
The experience was a museum under a ghost house, a skeleton, where Franklin's house
had stood before it was razed.
The ghost house, the skeleton in the shape of a house for which few records remained, intended to remind visitors
of the limits of historical knowledge.
They said it was no use
trying to reproduce Franklin's house.
The records were too few, they were outnumbered by memories.
So let's create a museum instead, underground and accessible via a ramp, a red ramp to invoke a colonial road, which would allow visitors to descend into the foundation of what had been Franklin's house. And a hall of mirrors.
Mirrors adorned with neon lights spelling out
Franklin's various selves. Mirrors and their neon lights designed to inspire visitors to reflect on our own various selves.
IT WAS 1976 IN PHT ADELPHIA AND WE WERE ALL BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Around 2013, while writing my Philly-inspired book Franklinstein, they renovated the old museum. An archivist there was kind enough to show me remains of the original exhibits. The phones had been thrown out (sob!), but the mechanical figures survived in a storage closet alongside…police riot gear.

Figurines of revolutionary war era characters in cardboard boxes with riot gear shields in the background.

Best part was that the museum stayed exactly like this for DECADES: a time capsule. The images in this thread are from a visit in the aughts.

The phones were the shit. You'd have to dial the full number—including area and country codes then wait out the corresponding rotary clicks (higher numbers take longer than lower ones), wait for them to pick up—to hear a recorded message from a famous person saying something about Franklin.

Closeup on a bank of princess phones in little podiums on a red carpet.

The museum was as much a celebration of 70s tech as it was of Franklin: There was a hall of mirrors, animatronic dioramas of the Constitutional Convention, and a room full of Princess phones.

A mirrored room with neon lights spelling out words associated with Ben Franklin: citizen, inventor, diplomat, scientist, etc. The words are slightly out of focus because they blinked in and off to display others. The mirrors were supposed to help you see yourself as/in Franklin.

Animatronic figures on a parquet floor that is a rendering of the Constitutional Convention. Recessed into the floor you would have to peek over a ledge to see/hear them move and speak to show different scenes from the event.

A glorious bank of princess phones facing a board listing numbers to call to hear quotations about Franklin

My dad took me to the brand-new “Benjamin Franklin Underground Experience,” an underground museum at Franklin Court, beneath the "Ghost House"—a skeletal frame marking the footprint of Franklin's demolished home.

A white frame of a house representing the shape/location of Ben Franklin’s house in Philadelphia. Called the “ghost house” by its architect that simultaneously renders what is both there and not.

Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Please indulge my Gen X Bicentennial nostalgia. As a child in Philadelphia in 1976, the 200th bday was a big deal. 🧵

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Fence Books author Amanda Deutch will read from new york ironweed—with poets Sandra Doller & @slanders.bsky.social!—at Unnameable Books next Friday, July 10th. 🎟️ (Sandra Doller has poems in FENCE No. 43!) 🍃 🌞 Friday, July 10th at 7 PM 📍 Unnameable Books, 615 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

This is what the moderates got us.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Anyway there is no "middle." There are just actual policy positions and POWER.

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Sue Landers @slanders.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

THE NEW YORK WINNING STREAK CONTINUES

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/06/2026

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I've spent the last two months putting together this exhaustive analysis of the New York Times coverage of trans people. It covers 3,242 articles over 12 years. In 2022, the NYT shifted towards a hostile stance towards trans people in their framing. www.thedissident.news/exclusive-ho...

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Exclusive: How The New York Times Changed Its Coverage of Trans People

An exhaustive analysis of over 3,242 articles by the New York Times covering transgender issues from 2014-2026 revealed a stark shift towards hostile framing in 2022. In January 2015, the New York Ti...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

All 3 NYC Library Systems now have asks that people send a letter to the City Council calling for increased funding. In some uninformed quarters, people are claiming that our public libraries are "fully funded" when in actuality they are slated for lower funding than last year in real dollars.

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NYC Public Library Action Network @nycplan.org · 17/06/2026

Are you a writer, author, or scholar based in NYC? New York City deserves the kind of writers and thinkers that only consistently well-funded public libraries can ensure. Help us call on the Mayor and City Council to fund our library systems with our open letter: forms.gle/SvQYwiyiHqXT...

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Open letter from NYC based writers, authors, and scholars to the Mayor re: public library budget

NYC Public Library Action Network is asking writers, authors, and scholars based in New York City’s five boroughs to sign on to an open letter to Mayor Mamdani asking him to fulfill the promise he mad...

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Sue Landers @slanders.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

“You’re allowed to think about the worst possible scenario. But you gotta go out there and do something about it.” —Jalen Brunson

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 08/06/2026

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1. There has been a major new federal rule proposed governing ALL federal grants. A federal grant recipient will be deemed ineligible if the recipient advances "gender ideology," or denies that "sex is binary." This includes hospitals, schools, nonprofits. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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"Fascism"—New Federal Rule Would Require Federal Funding Recipients To Deny Trans People Exist

The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

These fascist attacks on the privacy of young people receiving gender-affirming care should be alarming to all of us. It really is a moment of “First, they came for the trans kids.” (1/3)

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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

A grand jury in *Texas* is issuing a *criminal subpoena* to a *New York hospital* for *patient records* This is a full-on, escalatory assault on the privacy and civil rights of all Americans from right-wing radical bigots who see the law as their plaything. They won’t stop here.

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Sue Landers @slanders.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Came here to second this one!

Sue Landers @slanders.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Lovely moment on the train as a busker with a sweet baritone sings Unforgettable. As a woman gives him money, she chokes up, saying it reminds her of her father. The singer pauses to tell her to let the tears flow, the good water is cleansing. Keep being you, NYC.

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Sue Landers @slanders.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

“Either whey, what used to be a private practice of mine has gone public.” Same, man, same.

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Sue Landers @slanders.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Consider What to Carry Into the Future—esp good if you’re into poetics of place, hybrid forms, ecopoetics, and/or mass transit/city nerd stuff.

A book of poems with a subway station on cover sits on a parquet floor.

Sue Landers @slanders.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

You were terrific. Looking forward to getting my copy this week! Congrats!!!