(everyone who complains about not enough men/masculinity in literary fiction should be forced to read no fewer than five (5) books by trans men before they are allowed to publish any more opinions)

*Bastard OUT of Carolina. Also the 2 Kathy Acker books I’ve read feel like they changed me even though I didn’t understand them… they just rewired my brain somehow and now she lives in the wires lurking and judging my writing for being too conventional

“Bastard of Carolina” left me sobbing in a bathroom stall at work and I’ve never been able to articulate why a book that left me with such rage at the world was also one of the most meaningful reading experiences of my life

And now that I have your attention, please help my girlfriend deal with a Kafkaesque clusterfuck of transmisogyny.

www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

this is in reaction to puberty being delayed, not experienced, but like still: "I felt... alienated not just from my own recalcitrant glabrous little body but in a way from the whole elemental exterior... I began, very quietly, to resent my physical place in the great schema." 🤷‍♂️

wait I should have promised feet behind the paywall... self-promotion is so difficult 😔

*this one is for paid subscribers, sorry! the nun pic of me is free at least? sorry it's not feet?

I have noticed this as well. It makes me feel like we didn’t see the same movie

this movie is about many things but the biggest thing for me was how white supremacist fascists are doomed to fail in the face of latinos drinking modelo

I keep drafting and deleting posts because idk what else I can really say, but that it's so bad, and it's been getting worse my whole life, and I have all this rage and nowhere to put it