Don't miss today's conversation with Omar El Akkad, about a book I'll surely be thinking alongside for a long time. A map, a guide, a thinking through & a breakup letter with the American dream.
Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
@aaknopf.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk @textpublishing.bsky.social

Expect Canada’s likely future PM to follow the example set south of the border

Wrote about some of the bad stuff for the @thestar.com this weekend.

Thanks so much for asking me to do this @debdundas.bsky.social.

Look out for each other, friends, it's raining out there.

seems bad

Reflections on writing my book, and a link to preorder ✨ joellekidd.substack.com/p/my-book-is...

sincerely: transitioning was the greatest decision I've ever made, and if you want to do it, you should. tell some people you trust. find a doctor. be the person that makes you happiest. it's hard but I've never regretted it. I am who I was always meant to be.

*enduring the most harrowing experience of my life* this’ll make a great personal essay in the 2nd person once i dissociate from it

my mum’s been asking for a bound collection of my stories for a while now so I handbound this for her christmas gift

i don’t think you should have to work a desk job until after your brain is done developing. what do you mean i’m 24 in admin. i can feel my neuroplasticity declining between emails

Former Amazon worker here; do not cross this picket line. Don't do it. Don't even order from them (unless absolutely necessary). They're a disgusting company to work for and the reason for my knee problems that required years of physical therapy.

Fuck Amazon. We stand with the workers! 👊🏻✨

The effort to undermine the Maori treaty is led by David Seymour, who has ties to the Atlas Network and who used to work at a Canadian think tank that has called the discovery of graves of Indigenous children at a residential school a "hoax."

I wrote about it: drilled.media/news/trfst-f...

ok… i’ve been persuaded to give this app another shot

thank you to the Ex-Puritan for publishing my first essay! here is my personal arboreal history, told through trees i have loved 🌳 ex-puritan.ca/heartwood

You read old Bechdel comics and you're like oh right, gay people have lived through decades of nightmarish American policy and been horny idiots no matter what happens

every time i try my hand at a new genre i think …who gave me the right? who am i to write a play? a personal essay? god forbid an ekphrastic poem…

maybe i’ll escape twitter this way