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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 10/01/2026

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

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Alex Marzano-Lesnevich @alexmlwrites.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Thank you! So honored to be among the recipients. I've admired the work the grant has funded for a long time.

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Whiting Foundation @whitingfoundation.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

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...

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UBC Creative Writing @ubccrwr.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Alex Marzano-Lesnevich for receiving a $40,000 USD Whiting Nonfiction Grant for Works-in-Progress for their book "Both and Neither." Learn more: creativewriting.ubc.ca/news/marzano... @alexmlwrites.bsky.social @whitingfoundation.bsky.social @arts.ubc.ca

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Alex Marzano-Lesnevich @alexmlwrites.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

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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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

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".

Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

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Alex Marzano-Lesnevich @alexmlwrites.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Thrilling news!!! Congratulations, Joy!

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

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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MFA Program for Writers @warrenwilsonmfa.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

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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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

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

Pages of the NY Post from 2007 featuring Ava Cordero under the headlines "GENDER BENDER SHOCKER" and "S(HE) HAS A HISTORY"

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Wow Chicago! #HandsOff #FiftyFiftyOne (🎥 Marco Foster)

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Massive crowd at Boston’s city hall plaza for the #HandsOff protest against Trump and Musk

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Portland, ME showed up. #HandsOff

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Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Augusta, Maine

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/04/2025

100,000+ people marched at the #HandsOff rally in New York!

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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Absolutely incredible turn out at MN State Capitol! #HandsOff

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Army Dude (RET) @armyvetdude.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Salt Lake City showed up

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/04/2025

Wow. #HandsOff rally in St. Paul, Minnesota is massive!

Massive crowd at Hands Off rally in St. Paul, Minnesota

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 05/04/2025

Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING #handsoff

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Nate Blouin @nateforutah.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/04/2025

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

"Don’t mess with Trans Kids" Banner spotted in San Antonio, TX for International day of trans visibility 2025

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earworms magazine (SUBS OPEN UNTIL 11/5) @earwormsmag.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

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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Burning Haibun as Portrait: 9 months on HRT, Georgia on MS Word | Poetry Database | Split This Rock

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earworms magazine (SUBS OPEN UNTIL 11/5) @earwormsmag.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

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 murmurs beneath the crust of the ground, or a person who serves as the ground you stand on.’

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earworms magazine (SUBS OPEN UNTIL 11/5) @earwormsmag.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

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...

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Body Language, by Alex Marzano-Lesnevich

How to tell a genderqueer story

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

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.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

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.

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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 22/03/2025

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

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Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

BAD ROMANCE #AWP Offsite - readings for the filthy bent & heartbroken. 💦 dream line up: @rykaaoki.bsky.social @charliejane.bsky.social @clementgoldberg.bsky.social @adelebarclay.bsky.social @alexmlwrites.bsky.social

Background photo is of a pink vibrator discarded on a dirty sidewalk near a bus shelter.

Readers:
Adèle Barclay
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
Amber Dawn
Brandi Bird
Britt McGillivray
Charlie Jane Anders
Clement Goldberg
Dora Prieto
Nisa Malli
Ryka Aoki

Thurs Mar 27, 7 pm

North Figueroa Bookshop
6040 N Figueroa St

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

A square canvas. Only the top corner is filled with Harings distinctive figures, rendered in Lavender, the rest is blank.

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Alex Marzano-Lesnevich @alexmlwrites.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Sometimes a moment has you pass through a portal. Coming out as trans was a long process for me, but it was also something that happened on one particular day. For the new @bloomsburybooks.bsky.social @dinahlenney.bsky.social anthology SNAPSHOTS, I wrote about it. Thank you, Dinah & Lit Hub.

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Alex Marzano-Lesnevich @alexmlwrites.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

It's a weird time to have been offline for a month and a half, first navigating the health consequences of an accident for me, and then, now and ongoing, a devastating health crisis for my father. Hi, everyone. I expect I'll be away for at least the next few months, but I'm so grateful you're here.

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Alex Marzano-Lesnevich @alexmlwrites.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

@turnandwork.com Thanks for reading & sharing! So glad you loved TFOAB, too.

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Alex Marzano-Lesnevich @alexmlwrites.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Away from social media (/most things, but you can reach me by email and I will get back to you eventually) recovering from an injury. Love to you all.

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Jon Hickey @jonvhickey.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

BIG CHIEF is on Debutiful’s Most Anticipated Debuts of 2025. Very happy to see it here! (And right next to THE ORIGINAL DAUGHTER by @jemmawei.bsky.social!)

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Not gonna reshare that article about the publisher looking to "disrupt" the industry, but one consequence of the low pay throughout is that book people rarely have start up money. So the people who CAN experiment with the industry usually aren't actually book people. And often that really shows.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/11/2024

From Laila Al-Arian’s Twitter, yesterday: “Just found out 7 more members of my mother’s extended family (Shaldan) were killed in an Israeli bombing of their home in Gaza City. Killed after 14 months of bombing, displacement, starvation. More than 200 members of the family have been killed.”

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

on loving and living as hard as you can when being who you are is illegal: russia's foremost lesbian poet who kept fucking everyone & writing about it through the revolution, civil war & rise of stalin

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Casey Plett @caseyplett.com · 21/11/2024

No matter where you are in your trans-ness, if you are feeling despair, I cannot recommend enough engaging with the writings and histories of our elders who lived our lives before the 21st Century. It is both not as dark as you think and tougher than you think. And it will give you something.

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 21/11/2024

🧵 BREAKING: The U.S. House has just passed HR 9495, a bill that dramatically expands the Treasury’s power to revoke tax-exempt status from nonprofits it deems to be “supporting terrorism.” Here’s what this means for Palestinian rights organizations and free speech in the U.S.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The worst strip club on the outskirts of New Orleans in the 1990s had better personnel policy than congress today.

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