Steven Blum
@stevenblum.bsky.social
Gay / writer
www.steven-blum.net
www.steven-blum.net
academia being bitchy
June 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
academia being bitchy
Last year I investigated druggings at the world’s most famous gay bar with reporter Kate Sosin.
Today the piece was nominated for an award by @nlgjaofficial.bsky.social.
You can read it here: 19thnews.org/2024/01/inve...
Today the piece was nominated for an award by @nlgjaofficial.bsky.social.
You can read it here: 19thnews.org/2024/01/inve...
A night they can't remember, at one of the country's most popular LGBTQ+ bars
Many maintain that The Abbey in West Hollywood is the site of the most disorienting experience of their lives.
19thnews.org
May 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Last year I investigated druggings at the world’s most famous gay bar with reporter Kate Sosin.
Today the piece was nominated for an award by @nlgjaofficial.bsky.social.
You can read it here: 19thnews.org/2024/01/inve...
Today the piece was nominated for an award by @nlgjaofficial.bsky.social.
You can read it here: 19thnews.org/2024/01/inve...
working on a novel and i think i'm overusing diarrhea as a plot catalyst / accelerant. it just feels so real to me!
May 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
working on a novel and i think i'm overusing diarrhea as a plot catalyst / accelerant. it just feels so real to me!
Main benefit to living in the U.S. is seeing movies first. Can’t think of anything else.
May 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Main benefit to living in the U.S. is seeing movies first. Can’t think of anything else.
People should be 1,900% more obsessed with Lorrie Moore
May 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
People should be 1,900% more obsessed with Lorrie Moore
if you'd like a slice of what hazily resembles bread but is actually a collection of sawdust, boiled and pressed, ezekial is for you my friend.
May 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
if you'd like a slice of what hazily resembles bread but is actually a collection of sawdust, boiled and pressed, ezekial is for you my friend.
I’m reading Joan Didion and it’s true what they say: all the characters have migraines
April 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I’m reading Joan Didion and it’s true what they say: all the characters have migraines
Watching The Pitt to relax!!!!
April 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Watching The Pitt to relax!!!!
RHOBH is horrible this season but I would watch a follow-up documentary on Kathy Hilton’s skincare routine if it was directed by Aronofsky.
March 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM
RHOBH is horrible this season but I would watch a follow-up documentary on Kathy Hilton’s skincare routine if it was directed by Aronofsky.
Really thought more gays would revolt after the poppers ban. Where are the riots??
March 29, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Really thought more gays would revolt after the poppers ban. Where are the riots??
If you encounter me chowing down on a sandwich from Subway, something in my life has gone horribly wrong
March 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If you encounter me chowing down on a sandwich from Subway, something in my life has gone horribly wrong
Issues of free speech aside, I can’t think of a worse scenario for U.S. Jews than a white supremacist admin making the arbitration of antisemitism their raison d’etre.
March 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Issues of free speech aside, I can’t think of a worse scenario for U.S. Jews than a white supremacist admin making the arbitration of antisemitism their raison d’etre.
Sitting on the beach on a gorgeous day letting the little styrofoam balls fly into my eyes and mouth
March 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Sitting on the beach on a gorgeous day letting the little styrofoam balls fly into my eyes and mouth
I’m just so happy for Bowen Yang, who I am also vicariously living through.
March 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I’m just so happy for Bowen Yang, who I am also vicariously living through.
Reposted by Steven Blum
“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”
Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher
Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'.
www.thepinknews.com
December 18, 2024 at 8:04 PM
“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”
what a fucking embarrassment to humanity
February 28, 2025 at 10:26 PM
what a fucking embarrassment to humanity
Reposted by Steven Blum
Gotta get used to linking arms with people you can't stand EXCEPT they don't want authoritarian government, if we want to get out of this mess
February 26, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Gotta get used to linking arms with people you can't stand EXCEPT they don't want authoritarian government, if we want to get out of this mess
If you want to put me to sleep, start talking about genealogy
February 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
If you want to put me to sleep, start talking about genealogy
Every time I open Twitter I see something that adds to my therapist’s billable hours
February 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Every time I open Twitter I see something that adds to my therapist’s billable hours
I don’t understand rooting for your city’s sports team but I DO understand rooting for your city’s Opera House! Go São João!
February 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I don’t understand rooting for your city’s sports team but I DO understand rooting for your city’s Opera House! Go São João!
Abracadabra and Doechii’s Grammy performance are the only good things that have happened this year, no? Struggling to think of literally anything else!
February 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Abracadabra and Doechii’s Grammy performance are the only good things that have happened this year, no? Struggling to think of literally anything else!
Bad times, good headline
February 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Bad times, good headline
What if it reaches this point for me
February 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
What if it reaches this point for me
Has anyone ever called them “Repubes”? Feel like that could move the needle..
February 13, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Has anyone ever called them “Repubes”? Feel like that could move the needle..
My poor elderly chihuahua keeps eating his own ass and then choking on the hairs :/
February 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
My poor elderly chihuahua keeps eating his own ass and then choking on the hairs :/