Thank you! 🩵🩷🩵

Thank you AWP Neema Avashia Carter Sickels Jamie Lyn Smith …erschronicle.mydigitalpublication.com/february-2024/…

So excited to have this up at AWP with these brilliant writers. Thank you, James Tate Hill !

if you're a writer with a significant following, you should be regularly recommending books. Barbara wrote the intro for LANDINGS but the press hits move units. Recommend books on your social media and in interviews if they'll let you. 1000 times more effective than blurbing imo.

Y’all! Apply to be in this writing workshop with the amazing DOROTHY ALLISON! And I’ll be there too, teaching craft!. Applications are open!!!!

BREAKING: With more than 700,000 signatures submitted, the Ohio Secretary of State announced that a constitutional amendment to protect reproductive freedom has enough valid signatures to qualify for the ballot this fall.

We have a right to abortion care and we will vote for it.

“Carter does it slowly, carefully, and in messy, human terms”—thank you, Willie!!!🩷💜🩵

Today's face of Christian Fascism: Lorie Smith the amateur web designer who decided her rights were being trampled by the mere possibility of having to design a website for a same-sex couple--even though no one had ever asked her to do that.

So many people already hold the anxiety of being turned away. From stores. From hotels. From hospitals. It becomes ingrained and shapes the contours of life. Validating it reinforces the most insidious forces at play in the supremacies that have defined this country.

I need folks who are not LGBTQ to understand that today's ruling is not just about a website. It is a clear sign that Obergefell (same sex marriage) and Bostock (LGBTQ employment protections) are in danger of being overturned. This is a devastating ruling. Please understand that.

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Love seeing Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr. getting the recognition he deserves for his lgbtq activism and poetry! Check out his debut book of poems Gay Poems for Red States.

“His friends, his lovers, grew up navigating the world as boys growing into men. For Evan, it would always be different. Sometimes, it was a foreign world, this world of men, but most of the time it felt right.”

Carter Sickels from the archives.
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Thank you, Willie! I hope you enjoy it.

Last night United Airlines delayed and delayed my flight, then cancelled it, along with many flights at Newark Liberty International Airport. No hotel voucher. People sleeping on floor. Lines hours long. High chaos. And, morning flight already delayed!

#BookOfTheDay 'The Prettiest Star' by Carter Sickels. A portrait of a family in the center of the AIDS crisis, this novel shares a unique story about the politics & fragility of the body, sex & shame, & the bounds of family & redemption. zurl.co/BqlO

'My gender, my name, my pronoun, my body—I believed I couldn’t change any of this. I was thirty-five years old. My ship had sailed. Except here I was. Changing my life.'

This #TBT , we revisit 'Rescued' by Carter Sickels from Issue 23 of Cutleaf. cutleafjournal.com/nonfiction/res…

Happy pub day, Julia Franks / JuliaFranks.bsky.social !

#PrideMonth read! ❤️🏳️‍🌈💜

Love to see this little book of mine still going. Thank you!