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Maddy Grey-Heron
@mghwrites.bsky.social
they/them | English PhD student | 📝: Puerto Del Sol, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Door Is A Jar, and elsewhere
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Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is
January 23, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Graywolf is my favorite press ever. Coffee House is a close second. Love love love Minneapolis presses
Dear #BookSky Minneapolis has an absolutely incredible literary culture. In fact, three of the most important small presses call the city home; Coffeehouse Press, Graywolf, and Milkweed. There are also a ton of great bookstores in the Twin Cities. So here's the assignment...
January 23, 2026 at 3:40 AM
Me, experiencing a midwest winter: Maybe I should move to the south.

Me, experiencing a southern summer: No, I think I should stay where it gets cold.

Me, back in the Midwest again: Maybe I should move—
January 19, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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January 16, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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January 9, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Well that takes care of that lolol
Jeffrey R. Holland if I ever see you in person it’s ON SIGHT
I love writing nonfiction about terrible people, doing more research about them, and then realizing they’re even more terrible than I thought
December 31, 2025 at 11:54 PM
1. Angry trans books are the fucking best
2. I’m gonna need a special edition of this one
3. Andrew Joseph White I just know we’d be friends
December 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I just want a tall transmasc asexual, HOW HARD COULD IT BE
November 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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As someone who was subjected to conversion therapy, it doesn’t work. It won’t work. It’s torture. I was hooked up to an IV and made to vomit watching gay porn for two hours per week. I was prayed over. Bibles and the Book of Mormon were shoved in my face.
October 7, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Had an identity crisis over the fact that I have spent my entire adult life on college campuses 🤯
September 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
That man just got “handled” the way he’s been calling for trans people to be “handled” for YEARS
September 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
no that’s MY emotional support 2000-2010 TV show full of homoerotic subtext
September 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Coffee run with the babiest baby
September 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Confirmed this morning that my hair is, officially, going gray 😭
September 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Jeffrey R. Holland if I ever see you in person it’s ON SIGHT
I love writing nonfiction about terrible people, doing more research about them, and then realizing they’re even more terrible than I thought
August 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I love writing nonfiction about terrible people, doing more research about them, and then realizing they’re even more terrible than I thought
August 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Giving myself progressively more fucked-up haircuts is gender, babyyyy
August 12, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I’m glad no one told me Taylor Swift’s “my tears ricochet” has the line “I can go anywhere I want / anywhere I want just not home” bc that would’ve killed 2020 me
July 18, 2025 at 3:55 AM
This is insane.
Devastating letter from our friends at the NEA Literature office
May 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Today’s read.

#translit
May 3, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Two of my “pronouns don’t matter” students walked out of my banned books lecture after we started talking about how Nazi Germany burned the Institute of Sexology’s books
April 9, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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If you're trying to forecast anything about this administration there has been only one reliable principle since the beginning and that's "It will be worse than you think"
April 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
listening to a journalism podcast and realizing how glad I am that I’ll never have to do that again lolllll
April 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I’m pretty sure I know where I’ll be going for a PhD but there’s five schools that just never got back to me 🙃
April 2, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Teaching as a queer and nonbinary person is insane because what do you mean one of my students came up to me after class to tell me he hated my course because we talk about gay people and literature.

….it’s a literature class and I’m gay lmaoooo
April 2, 2025 at 12:28 AM