Holy smokes! Thank you @people.com for naming SO MANY STARS among the best nonfiction reads for the summer and calling it “absolutely essential Pride Month reading” 😮😭

Here’s to trans joy and connection, love and safety, stories that carry truths and shape the future 🙌🏼🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Can’t wait for this panel at #BABF2025 on Sunday, celebrating trans & genderqueer & BIPOC history and FUTURES. 🙌🏼🏳️‍⚧️

Three visionary elders from the book will join me onstage, with Nayomi Munaweera as moderator.

Happy pub day to SO MANY STARS—I’m wildly grateful for the chance to bring these voices into the world. I hope they bring you solace, insight, joy, good company, a chance to see the world anew. 🌟

On Mother’s Day and every day, this genderqueer parent is here to say: young queer and trans folks deserve to be cherished. Nurturing can come from many places. I’m grateful to @people.com for running this excerpt of SO MANY STARS in which trans & enby elders of color share words for youth.

SO MANY STARS book you starts next week, with California events in San Francisco, Santa Cruz, and LA — in conversation with incredible writers about trans & queer & BIPOC joy, resistance, legacies, revolutions, ongoing movement building, & more. Join us; we will celebrate and conspire. 🌟🌟🌟

Next Thursday—I’ll be in conversation with the great @sarahschulman.bsky.social about her essential new book THE FANTASY AND NECESSITY OF SOLIDARITY. At @citylightsbooks.bsky.social ✨ Join us if you can!

Good people—in six weeks, I’m going on book tour!

I’ll be in conversation with some incredible writers, about the beauty & power of trans & genderqueer & BIPOC voices, legacies, & futures. I would love to see you.

It’s Trans Day of Visibility and I am grateful AF:

🌟 to be my whole gender & fully alive

🌟 for these narrators of my upcoming oral history book, who are absolute icons

🌟 for all the beautiful trans & genderqueer folks in the world

🌟 for all the allies who cherish & fight for us, thank you

An *incredible* honor to receive this award 1) curated by indie booksellers (!) and 2) named for the late great Octavia E. Butler (!!). To receive this for such a trans & genderqueer & feminist novel, as our communities fight for survival, means more than I can say. Thank you. Gracias. Venceremos 💜🏳️‍⚧️

Books as medicine. Books as resistance. The galleys of SO MANY STARS have arrived and the love & gratitude I feel for the trans BIPOC elders whose voices are gathered here is boundless. Their voices nourish me so much & I hope they’ll nourish you too. ❤️🏳️‍⚧️

And The Mary Sue

And Book Riot:

It means so much to me to see SO MANY STARS in these Most Anticipated lists—a reminder, in the midst of the horror, of how many of us are still out here working and loving and championing the future we want to see. From Ms. Magazine:

Hi—I’m new here! I’ve written six novels & my next book, a trans BIPOC oral history, drops May 2025. Gathering these stories has been one of the greatest honors of my life. I can’t begin to express how these elders’ voices have inspired & sustained me. I hope they can inspire & sustain you too. 💜🏳️‍⚧️