samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026all of late night comedy made fun of tub's speech bc of the furry pilot bit, while obtusely ignoring the massive 'transgenderism is a mental illness' sign beside him + his calls to build state mental institutions & his assertion that trans ppl are violent threats to society. history syncopates 🙄 100
Reposted by samantha sappUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026“Where do you get your ideas from, Ms Le Guin?” From forgetting Dostoyevsky and reading road signs backwards, naturally. Where else? 18323
samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I just read these out to my wife with no context and she thought this was a satire piece I was pitching to @mcsweeneys.net 020
samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 19/08/2026the kind of excellent analysis you get from intelligent people writing about a topic/situation, instead of a professional pundit who has made a particular ideology/perspective their 'beat' & so central to their income it has fused with their identity & distorts everything they see & write 020
samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 17/08/2026querying a novel is a form of ritualistic torture and humiliation that should be outlawed. i would rather slit the throat of a goat and have the sybils augur my novel's worthiness by reading its tangled intestines. 020
Reposted by samantha sappKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Just remembered I’ve this on my calendar for the better part of a decade. Happy Dying Smart House day to all who celebrate. 93822135
samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 02/08/2026the school shooter song was playing at the fertility clinic today 000
samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 08/07/2026hello, yes, i am running for senate. yes, my beard is blue but i didn't know what that meant when i dyed it. yes, my basement is full of skeletons but it's not like you have the key. no, i don't see why it would be a bad idea for me to run. yes, you are trapped in my death closet with me now. 0121
samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 14/06/2026The King demands blood sport on the palace grounds in celebration of His birthday. 010
Reposted by samantha sappRacket @racketmn.com · 12/05/2026Want 2 free tickets to see modern jazz supergroup Artemis this Wed. (tomorrow!) at the Dakota? Hit repost for a chance to win! 2126
samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 28/04/2026minneapolis is persephone's city: half the year it is the most beautiful garden in the world. the other half it is the underworld lol 040
samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 28/01/2026over time, i have become slightly nostalgic for my old job teaching middle school. substitute teaching has been a great way to brutally disabuse myself from that deluded nostalgia. god save the teachers. 031
Reposted by samantha sappem cassel @biketrouble.bsky.social · 24/01/2026once again i am asking literally anyone in a position of power to do literally anything so that our neighbors stop getting fucking murdered in the street 2238451076
Reposted by samantha sapp🪦👻Lady Cryptsty👻🪦 @ladychristyk.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Emergency response vigil organized by @miracmn.bsky.social tonight. 10749394
samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 02/01/2026thrilled my very weird essay "Epistolary Fragments for Florida" found a home in the lovely FL-based journal sinking city! :) sinkingcity.as.miami.edu/epistolary-f...sinkingcity.as.miami.eduEpistolary Fragments for Florida – sinking cityDear nice older folks from Ohio who live in my home, 120
samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 03/12/2025conspicuous reading is good actually and everyone should do more of it 110
samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 24/11/2025just finished Motherland (a feminist history of russia) by @juliaioffe.bsky.social. a wicked cool blending of historical writing, family memoir, and journalism that at times shifts the lens of history onto overlooked, "ordinary" ppl, who are more interesting to read about anyway. highly recommend!! 110
samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 18/11/2025new essay in Black Fox Lit Mag: "Brittany" !! :) "My wife is reading the New Testament to our dog, Beau, in French so that his soul can be saved. He is a Brittany Spaniel, but not the kind from France..." link: blackfoxlitmag.com/current-issu... #essay #writingcommunityblackfoxlitmag.comCurrent Issue 110
samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 27/10/2025bleak. fascinating. a car crash u can't look away from. also, rip the titular connotation of jennifer egan's 2010 masterpiece, "A Visit from...": harpers.org/archive/2025...harpers.orgThe Goon Squad, by Daniel KolitzLoneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless masturbation 010
samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 02/10/2025interesting how ppl embracing "trad" lifestyles in search of fulfillment will inevitably find it as empty as the "hedonism" or "modernity" or ~queerness~ they blame their discontent on. life is weird and ppl in the past didn't have it figured out either! self-imposed suffering isn't a virtue tho lol 020
samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 17/09/2025extremely bleak to have liberal pundits chastise frightened minority groups with "but guys we have to learn to live with each other, including reactionaries" while elected reactionaries tell minority groups "actually you shouldn't get to live." the asymmetry is almost artistic in its absurdity 414248
samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Splitsville (2025) is a really good movie, actually. my favorite comedy since Booksmart (2019) even though they are wildly different vibes. there was something very shakespeare-like about the plot and humor. totally rec 010
Reposted by samantha sappMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 24/07/2025"Anne gave Diana Barry a tumbler of liquid. Diana drank the entire tumbler. It was filled with grappa. Diana got very drunk until she was red in the cheeks, like Anne’s ugly hair. She stumbled home and vomited in the garden."buff.lyAnne Lived in Gables. They Were Green. by Ernest HemingwayMatthew Cuthbert was a silent man. He drove a buggy. Mrs. Rachel Lynde, a loud, fat woman, watched him drive by. - - -Matthew saw an ugly girl with... 05910
samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Cool short story for anyone bored of scrolling: "Cake" by Laura van den Berg (whose novel "State of Paradise" is one of the best FL books, period). Shout out to the Baffler @thebaffler.com too which is a seriously cool journal!! thebaffler.com/stories/cake...thebaffler.comCake | Laura van den BergRita has exorcised her mother’s superstitions, but that hasn’t kept her from developing her own. 051
samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Check out the new issue of MoonPark Review for my latest micro piece, “Late Stage Capitalism” ☺️ !!! “I saw all of him through the air-tight window of his car. He was sitting hunch-backed as he suckled the plastic, protruding tit of his Starbucks drink…” moonparkreview.com/issue-32-sum...moonparkreview.com 030
samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 13/06/2025C. P. Cavafy, 1898: Waiting for the Barbarians "What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? / The barbarians are due here today. Why isn’t anything going on in the senate? ... What’s the point of senators making laws now? / Once the barbarians are here, they’ll do the legislating..." #poetrypoetryfoundation.orgWaiting for the BarbariansBecause the barbarians are coming today. Because the barbarians are coming today and the emperor’s waiting to receive their leader. Because the barbarians are coming today and things like that dazzle ... 030
Reposted by samantha sappJames Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 03/06/2025They're literally doing the meme 138149563198
samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 25/05/2025I used to teach in his town. A lot of good people there. A lot of not good people too 🫠 192
samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 11/05/2025No shock that people from as wide as Sam Kriss (pic) to @juliaserano.bsky.social have been dunking on Helen Lewis lately…amazed @theatlantic.com continues to publish pieces from her that contain blatant inaccuracies and weird snark. Where’s the editing?? I canceled my sub lol 020
samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 22/04/2025kinda funny how miserable the ppl in power & ultra rich are. goes to show that what our economic and civil systems reward is fucked. ironic too we’re facing all this heartache and fascism on their behalf when it won’t make them happy either. like a toxic family member ruining things for everyone 010
samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 05/04/2025imo we take to the streets to scream in protest precisely bc we know it doesn’t change anything—it’s the most basic action we have left in a moment where so many other ways to push change have been eroded or sold away. see y’all out there again soon 🩵 140
samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 01/04/2025She's a hero. Hopefully her courage helps people understand that interning us in men's prisons is how they plan to *end* us. In FL prisons they already humiliate, de-transition, and put trans women in the path of physical and sexual violence. There is no need for camps when the state has prisons. 020
samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 01/04/2025An old, long short story of mine that finally found a home :) carminamagazine.com/a-mothers-la...carminamagazine.comA Mother's Lament by Samantha Sapp | March 2025 | Carmina Magazine 000
Reposted by samantha sappClaudia Koerner @claudiakoerner.bsky.social · 03/03/2025can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book 317422288472
Reposted by samantha sappCNN @cnn.com · 17/02/2025A Black transgender woman's testimony helped ratify the 14th Amendment. Then her identity was attacked. Some see parallels to today's climate.cnn.comShe was the first transgender woman to testify before Congress. Then conservatives began attacking her identity | CNNFrances Thompson’s testimony in 1866 came at a critical time, as the nation weighed whether to expand equal constitutional protections to newly freed Black Americans. But it also came at a great perso... 27949249
samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Tomorrow I will go for a walk in the bitter, frozen woods. I will curl up with a book, tea, and my cats. I will not go online. I will ignore the tea leaves of what every action and headline might portend. I will live in the beautiful, ephemeral bliss of the winter dark for one last day. 🩵 020
samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 27/11/2024This piece was difficult to write. I used to think I wouldn't be a "trans" writer because I thought we'd evolved into a moment where that distinction didn't matter. But I am not the quiet, meek girl I once was, and I will not stay silent in the face of cruelty. www.cincinnati.com/story/opinio...cincinnati.comSoon I'll occupy the men's room stall next to you. Thank the Ohio Legislature | OpinionTrans people can’t just stop being trans, and bills like this force us to live our lives even louder. 4184
samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Unserious person doing unserious things (with serious consequences)…this is America 🙃 www.washingtonian.com/2024/02/08/i...washingtonian.comInside Nancy Mace’s Apparently Bottomless Quest for Attention -“She’s not a real legislator," one ex-staffer says. "She’s just using her office to get on TV.” 030
samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 21/11/2024I've always been anti-social media, but in this moment it feels right to seek connection :) I'm a two-bit wannabe writer of no real importance (yet), but if you're interested, check out this CNF essay (which is not my *best* but is my best *published*) www.mounthopemagazine.com/elegy-for-tw...mounthopemagazine.comElegy for Two Sakura | Mount Hope 160