Hi everyone. I'm going to share a new #introduction.
I'm a #nonbinary (they/them) movement journalist in my 40s, currently based in Central #Texas. From 2022 until today's layoffs, I was Digital Editor at the @TexasObserver. I've been a writer, journalist and editor since at least 2011, when I got my start on the primordial political blog Firedoglake. My involvement with the Occupy Wall Street movement helped make me a journo and I've always worn my bias on my sleeve.
In November of 2022, I launched @TexasObserver, helping the Observer become one of the first publications to run its own server on the #fediverse. We quickly amassed well over 15,000 followers as a result of our engaged presence here.
Featured story: "The conservative campaign to harass the libs out of academia has already sent a chill through #Texas’ world-class public universities, making professors and administrators so fearful of setting off the lunatics in charge at the Capitol that they censor themselves—in scholarship or in their communications with students and the public."
🤖 I have a lot of love for technology, machines, science fiction, and all things robotics. I plan to keep dorky tech talk sequestered to @Sinegrave
🎮 Here, I plan on talking about more dorky fictional things, like video games and movies and books and TTRPGs. Undoubtably, there's going to be some overlap across my Fedi presences.
📖 Still, this is where I plan to focus more on #writing, #essays, #articles, and the like as it pertains to both #sff and #journalism, the latter of which I also study and hold a degree in. If anyone is looking for a writer, let me know!
“We have always been here. We just haven’t always felt safe coming out. But there’s no turning back the clock. We’re going to win our liberation today or tomorrow.”
Why keep the peace this #Thanksgiving? ”Sometimes we have a duty to condemn injustice in close quarters and call #racism by its name,” writes Editor in Chief @gabrielarana.
I think we really need to have honest conversations about what it's like to have #cats as pets. It'll help prepare people, especially those who are inexperienced with cats, about the realities of #cat ownership.
‘Bantering with Bandits’: Annie Zaidi’s searing truths about Indian preoccupations and peculiarities
This book of essays by @anniezaidi creates a space where the personal and the political fuse to paint an often uncomfortable picture of our sociopolitical reality.
"It strikes me, and may strike you, as a bit crazy to come out as #transgender in an essay like this. I’m publicly revealing myself to be a member of a marginalized community in the midst of a moral panic targeting our very existence."
"Le Dragon de Brume" is glad to announce the publication of "On some stars, flowers & places in Middle-earth" -- a small collection of essays on JRR Tolkien's Middle-earth.
Beside a regular print edition, the PDF is also made available and the sources are even provided.
"Masks are made of different kinds of material: cardboard, velvet, flesh, the Word. The carnal mask and the verbal mask are worn in all seasons.“ — #ClaudeCahun
This quote is the theme for Issue 6 of #ExistOtherwise#LitJournal, which is available for you to read at
My first book is coming out in January from WW Norton, it's a collection of essays about the intersections of science and everyday life called TRANSIENT AND STRANGE....if anyone would like to preorder, Barnes and Noble is having a 25% off sale on not-yet-published books between 9/6 and 9/8...Use code PREORDER25 at checkout. #BNPreorder25 #books#science#essays#writing
I've organized all 78 of the videos I've produced so far on the works and thought of Ursula K Leguin into one playlist. The vast majority of them are on her Earthsea novels and stories, and cover all the series' main characters, ideas, and plot points!
Hi it's #FollowFriday and I want to follow any #LitJournal that publishes #poetry and/or #FlashFiction and/or #essays and everybody who shares those genres!! Recently found a couple awesome folks who do and I would love to follow more.
In 2022, there were just 42,000 nuns in America and the majority were elderly. For The Baffler, Lauren Fadiman spent some time with Benedictine sisters and explored the history and decline of religious life. "There was a time when the convent was the closest a woman could get to both the Lord and women’s lib," she writes. "The vow of chastity lifted the burdens of early marriage, bad sex, and potentially lethal childbirth; the habit released women from the obligations of beauty; and the requisite knowledge of Latin and a wide range of religious texts required that nuns be well-educated."