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Michael Lee Bross @nocturnalmask.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Jackson-Fletcher Publishing is open to submissions for our new annual protest anthology, "Burn the Map". For all voices shouting outrage over the current political climate in the US, submit your poems, short fictions, essays, photography or graphic art for consideration. tinyurl.com/BurnTheMap

Jackson-Fletcher Publishing House. Burn the Map. Annual Anthology

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Astrid Dean @divineadvantage.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is currently on diaplay at the Pima County Library main branch in downtown #Tucson! #Punk #PunkLives #PunkIsNotDead #OrginizeDefyResist #ACAB #FeministPunk #PeoplePower

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Punk's not dead – it's undead! @transfixmagazine.bsky.social Issue 11 is out now and I'm so honored to share that it includes my short story, "Punk's Undead," alongside some more super rad trans writing and art! 🏳️‍⚧️🤘🔥 Pay what you want for your copy here: ko-fi.com/s/f4ee705f4d

Screenshot of Transfix Magazine Issue 11, page 5, which has "Punk's Undead" in scrawled capital letters, "by Lane Smith" in a handwritten font, text of the short story, and a graphic of coiled barbed wire.

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Capricorn Iscariot @deaconblues1979.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

When some people say they like every genre they mean everything but like black metal but when I say I like every genre I mean everything but whatever Ed Sheeran is.

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I wrote my short story "Punk's Undead" for the @bonabooks.bsky.social Wrath Month anthology call & they super generously took the time to give me feedback on why the ending didn't work for them. I completely rewrote the ending & the story will appear in @transfixmagazine.bsky.social this fall! 🎉 👻 🏳️‍⚧️

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That Immigrant Witch 🏳️‍🌈🇹🇷🇻🇪 @elhoimleafar.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Such a good book, loving it chapter by chapter. #tarot #tarotsky #booksky #witchsky @leftlanesmith.bsky.social

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Friends to lovers is great, but unreciprocated crush to friends is also great! Exes to friends is great! I love being friends with people who have already seen the worst, most embarrassing parts of me and still like me anyway.

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

All this yelling outside today! It's the Leo Sun/Sag Moon energy, right? So, I was leaving my house again & a guy is idling outside in his truck with the window down hollaring something that I couldn't hear above the car & lawnmower noise. All I could make out was "LGBTQ!" Hostile or friendly, idk.

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Dude stuck his head ALL the way out the window to yell at me as he drove by, and I swear what I heard was "Mister Sir, those legs are fantastic!" That doesn't really sound like something anyone would say, but I'm going to go about my day as if he had! 😂

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The single most common thing I hear about myself from others is that something I said or did was "incredibly kind" – but they always sound VERY surprised when they say it, so I never feel like I can claim "kind" as a word that people would use to describe me. 😅

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Ease my mind about why all the fluffy-tailed animals in my neighborhood (squirrels & foxes) no longer have fluffy tails. Is it disease, environmental toxin, climate? I called the MD Dept of Natural Resources & left a message but I kinda suspect no one will care until there's an acute human problem.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 20/07/2026

Under a regime where trans women have been made the sin-eaters for men's violence, where our rights and dignity and healthcare have been stripped from us due to fearmongering about the supposed threat we pose to women, our allies call bog-standard straight men secret gays and trannies. Fuck off.

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Kharnzarro @kharnzarro.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

it was so fucking telling seeing all our straight cis "allies" basically use lindsey grahams death to make a bunch of incredibly homophobic and bigoted joke and then continue with andrew tate because he *checks notes* wore a "feminine" outfit

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I asked how They see me, and Tarot just described the shirt I have on 💀😂

Photo of Lane wearing a black and purple tie dye shirt with a graphic of skeletons dancing around a globe in pink and blue that says "Transphobia Has No Place In This World" while holding up The World card from the Blood Moon Tarot by Sam Guay which has a black and purple swirled background and a person holding a roumd shell with pink and blue spiraling out from it.

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Proud to share my buddy Mike was part of making this protest poetry anthology happen & includes his own work! Mike & I were first friends in our early 20s before either of us was political, just some nerds hanging out. 🤓 It's beautiful when friends can change & stay aligned. Support if you can! 🔥

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The "it's gender affieming care!" response to Hegseth's plans to boost testosterone in the military bothers me. Feels like it perpetuates the false idea that T makes people more aggressive & violent, hurting trans people. And if soldiers are tried for war crimes they'll plead that they were drugged.

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

What Stephen Miller calls abnormal and "deformed" are all just signs of valuing & expressing autonomy, from blue hair, tattoos & piercings to leftist t-shirts & gender nonconforming styles to gender affirming medical decisions like hormones & surgeries. Body autonomy itself is the threat to them.

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I'm also in the middle of a personal Hermit card year and 12H profection year, so there's a ton going on quietly under the surface – but deep, beautiful things are happening, from which new work will emerge in public.... eventually 😅

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I'm a writer who has my Mercury in detriment in the 12th house. That hasn't meant I find writing difficult, but it is often private. My chart ruler is in Virgo, the sign where Mercury is exalted, in the 9th house. Writing and publishing in service to my spirituality is my Mercury's redemption.

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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

yes trans/LGBT-specific panels are great and needed, but we can talk about all aspects of this industry! and we have perspectives cis creators don’t perspectives that *general* panel audiences really need to hear and i’m so sad that we’re still being siloed off like this

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Althaea Sebastiani @althaeasebastiani.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Also, HUGE shoutout to @leftlanesmith.bsky.social who sees me in ways that I cannot see myself. 😅💜💜💜💜

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Althaea Sebastiani @althaeasebastiani.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Casual reminder that today is the LAST DAY to get any of my courses! These courses *will not* be coming back in a different format. #WitchSky #PaganSky Here is what one of my students has to say about my work:

Graphic shows a forest floor, dried leaves covered by soft ferns and low growing plants. Over top this image is white text that reads, “Althaea is one of the few people I've ever known who meets my highest standards of integrity and is someone I trust both as a practitioner and a teacher, equally. Too many witches either won't touch the teeth and claws of witchcraft, or they have a fabricated ‘edginess’ that is mainly aesthetic, but Althaea's craft and teaching has real depth, supported by her experience, skill, and relationships (more than human, and human). No less impressive than her power and competence are her incredible compassion and commitment to equity and accessibility. I am so profoundly honored to have learned from her. Lane Smith, Feral Witchcraft.”

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Integrity is everything and @bonabooks.bsky.social handled this as well as could possibly be expected. As a writer who didn't make the cut for this anthology, it's disheartening to know how competition with AI is going, so I love that they replaced the 2 AI stories with 3 by real queer writers. ❤️‍🔥

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

When I step out of the room that has a little window AC unit, I am shocked the house hasn't just combusted into flames. Holy fuck. High was 104° & heat index of 116° in my area of Baltimore at the peak today. 🥵

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It's International Zine Month! Zines are not a crime! Free Des & all the Prairieland defendants! Support your favorite DIY no-AI zinesters! Tell me your faves!

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Transitioning from Pride to Wrath Month 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🖤😈🔥 Saturday night I had a great time at Nighthaven, a kinky queer dance party, at Mobtown Ballroom ❤️‍🔥

Photo of Lane dressed in a black fishnet top with a black binder and slutty short shorts with a trans flag seatbelt belt (from my IG Stories with the caption: "Someone called me 'charming,' if you can believe it! 👑 [crown emoji]).

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Stoked to announce that I have an essay titled "Horny for Our Disobedience" 😈 featured in issue 13 "The Power We Choose" of ANARKISS - The Counterculture Zine! Available in a couple weeks, pre-order now from anarkisszine.com! #kinky #queer #trans #anarchist #writer

Instagram post from anarkiss_zine listing 76 contributors to Issue 13, including Lane Smith

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Full Moon's coming on the exact degree ♏️ of my rising sign ♑️, let's gooooo! 🌕

Photo of an almost full yellow moon behind branches that add definition to its face while a pigeon is caught flapping mid takeoff in the foreground

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 24/06/2026

the DOJ's counterterrorism messaging named "Antifa", "Anarchists" and "pro-trans extremists" as major threats. nearly a third of the 22 Prairieland defendants are trans. Autumn Hill and Meagan Morris, sentenced to 50 yrs each, have been held in men's prisons, even denied hormones in the last year.

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‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison

Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Happy/Kickass Pride, y'all! Will you consider adding 78 Acts of Liberation to your seasonal reading rec list or ask for it to be put in your local bookstore, library, or infoshop display? I'm a transgender author & everything I write is informed by my radical queerness! Please share, thank you! 💖🔥🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Title in blue/purple/pink gradient: Read/Display for Pride Month! Image of 78 Acts of Liberation: Tarot to Transform Our World by Lane Smith. Text is in black block print letter evoking protest posters in front of a stencil design yellow sun with rainbow rays. In white chalklike lettering on the black background around the book are points about why it should be included in Pride displays: • Homage to transgender Tarot ancestor, Rachel Pollack
• Stonewall history section (Fool)
• ACT-UP history section (Death)
• Section on kink, which belongs at Pride! (Moon)
• Section on shared struggle for body autonomy by birthing people, trans people & sex workers (Strength)
• Intersections of queerness with race, class & disability
and arrows pointing out Transgender author and Rainbow protest poster cover design

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Join me in supporting Shaniqua! (I would love it if she came to Baltimore, a lot of trans folks feel, and are, safer here!) 💜

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I loved Massive Attack and Tom Waits in college and I was excited to listen to the song they collaborated on that dropped today, an antiwar song called "Boots on the Ground." I have to say, you may not want to listen to it if you're impacted by U.S. state violence.

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Autocorrect is the automatic weapon of "the pen is mightier than the sword." I turned off both autocorrect & predictive text on my phone & it is painfully slow & frustrating to have to type every individual letter correctly & in order. The extra time ensures that it's what I want to say & no more.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Remember how you felt about people defending their neighbors in Chicago, Minneapolis, and other cities around the US? Extend that empathy a bit further, to people Trump is calling animals. It may hurt to stop and think about how much you have in common with those people. That's okay. Let it.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

It's not just Iran whose surrender is being demanded. It's yours. Your hope. Your belief in yourself and our collective potential. Your empathy. They want to crush those things. They want you to believe their will is inevitable. They want you to surrender.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

One of the upsides of refusal is that saying "no" to evil and screaming "fuck you, this is wrong, and I will push back any way I can" doesn't necessitate having all the answers.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

They want you to become listless and hopeless. They know that's easier for many of us than inhabiting uncertainty. I get it. I don't do well with uncertainty. But I'm gonna stay here, in this ugly, messy uncertainty—grieving, refusing, denouncing, and trying to figure out what to do next.

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Addy Bross 🌈 they/xe @aebrossbooks.com · 31/03/2026

Looking for a read w/dual POV between an autistic cis woman & a trans woman, written by a trans enby who decided mixing cyberpunk & Snow White would be a great way to explore found family & anti-capitalism? Universal Book Link: books2read.com/CyberSnow Itch(.)io: aebrossbooks.itch.io/cybersnow

Marketing image of a paperback, ebook, and phone with an ebook on it. The cover is a backdrop of skyscrapers in dark blue and pink. A silhouette of a woman stands looking up at them. Text with computer patterns reads "CyberSnow by A.E. Bross"

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I haven't been shopping there but I haven't fully deleted my account yet and amazon keeps repeatedly sending me emails saying "We found Dolls you might like" and look, sorry, it's not that special – I like ALL of them. 🏳️‍⚧️

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I thought I was going to have to find the black market for jelly beans in this town, but finally after four grocery and dollar stores, I was able to grab the last bag from the drugstore. Go figure.

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Crow Girl Anja @crowgirlanja.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

And to the cis folks reading this, it's Buy A Trans Person A Pizza Day in honor of Mira Bellwether, who died because all her visibility didn't translate into getting her material needs met. I'm @AnjaIsAGirl on Venmo, @sitouh on PayPal, and any money you send will go to feeding a trans woman.

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