I've decided that this issue and the thoughts I have about it incense me so deeply that I couldn't wait. My long essay about AI as a reminder of a deeper issue with publishing's biases is now free a few days earlier than planned.

An Essay: 'beyond the margin-frame' | Brandon O'Brien

As I've been working on the other essay about LLMs in fiction, I've found myself considering the last few months of AI-related literary scan

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"'AI is adverse to the idea of learning. An educational institution should be focused more on teaching us than making us ready for a job. I’m not measuring my success on a billionaire’s mindset. I want education for the sake of education. I want to learn.’” ht: Dagmar Monett

As Colorado universities align with ChatGPT, student AI resisters take a stand against the ‘plagiarism machine’

“The majority of my participants flat out don’t think AI has a place in education,” said Mirakle Wright, a CU graduate student who is studying resistance to artificial intelligence.

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Hexagon’s Year Five Anthology is now available to all subscribers! 🧡 For as low as $1, you could be enjoying everything Hexagon published in its fifth year, marvelling at fantastic cover art, and gasping for air as you drown in never before seen concept art.

happy there will come soft rains day to all those who partake

NCTE has just summarily killed a 77-year-old organization that has shaped how writing is understood, taught, and learned, in higher education in particular. No member involvement. No transparency. No process to speak of. With friends and fellow educators like these, I guess who needs enemies.

Kendall Gerdes 📚🐦‍⬛@kendalljoy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Here it is, folks. @ncte.org Executive Committee votes to "de-charter its special topics conference CCCC," i.e., to shitcan the Cs. mailchi.mp/ncte/ncte-up...

Book mail! Eager to dig into this poetry collection by Loren Maria Guay! LIVING FOSSILS poetry by @nightgleaming.bsky.social !!

6 days left and we are 70% funded—toss a coin, spread the word, help us reach the finish line!

khōréō magazine@khoreo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Our Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡 With your help, we can keep funding our work, expand to regular author interviews, raise our artist pay, & more! Support us at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

It was an honor & a joy to curate my favorite speculative poem recs from the last few months for Myna & MicroVerse; check them out & send love to the poets & magazines! Extra kudos to the poetry editors & first readers doing the behind-the-scenes work. 💙

Myna Chang@mynachang.bsky.social · 3mo ago

POETRY recs from the wonderful Loren Maria Guay!! @nightgleaming.bsky.social

Devoured @nightgleaming.bsky.social's "Living Fossils" tonight. Picked it up twice at the bookstore and finally could not resist its call. Love love love the language, the use of natural phenomena and geologic time as a lens for the human and deeply personal. Gorgeous. Loved every page.

This pride month, if you’re not plugged in, please take a moment to think about what you specifically can do to support trans kids under attack. I get asked all the time about steps people can take, so I hope at least one person takes this to heart. I’ll be adding throughout June. A thread.🧵

Happy Pride Month. If you know a young person (age 13-26) in the US who is getting their access to queer library books restricted because of local small-minded folks, please refer them to the Books Unbanned program. More people should know about it. #pride booksunbanned.com/card

"For queer authors of color and other multiply marginalized people, the pressure is even more intense."

Freedom to Read Project@freedomreadproject.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What happens when publishers begin avoiding LGBTQ+ stories before a book is ever challenged? This article explores how years of censorship efforts are creating a chilling effect across the publishing industry, making it harder for queer voices & stories to reach readers bookriot.com/queer-books-...

Today @dairinstitute.bsky.social is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work. labor.dair-institute.org

[sweating nervously in wrote my undergrad thesis 11 years ago on the Catalogue of Ships, working on a poetry project about it right now, had at least 5 friends text me about this news] wow, yeah, what a weird part of the Iliad to be buried with

Alexandra Sills@belovedofoizys.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Imagine being buried with what people will assume is your *favourite* passage of the Iliad, and it's the Catalogue of bloody Ships... Still, this is undeniably cool, even if it isn't Book 6 or 24

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded. “This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.” www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’

Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.

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And… Anathema’s Kickstarter is live! Please read, donate & share to increase our reach! We’re excited to bring more speculative fiction, poetry and nonfiction by queer writers of color into the world! Our fundraiser is scheduled to run through the end of May: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ana...

Anathema: Spec from the Margins

Support the relaunch of our Ignyte and British Fantasy Award-nominated magazine dedicated to the work of queer writers of color!

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Reporting in @insidehighered.com on the CCCC Resolution on Academic Freedom and Upholding Students' and Teachers' Right to Refuse Generative AI in the Writing Classroom that was passed at the #4c26 Annual Business Meeting.

We need reparations for ICE victims. Anything short of that is setting the stage for a massive wealth grab from people of color that will re-entrench racial disparities for generations.

Tampa Bay Times@tampabaytimes.bsky.social · 7mo ago

2 months in immigration jail, $25,000 in legal fees: ‘Our new reality’

the best thing about a new poetry collection is that it can double as an inexpensive cat bed and/or object of scorn happy official pub day to LIVING FOSSILS, out now from Texas Review Press 📖 www.tamupress.com/book/9781680...

#TransRightsReadathon begins soon. It's a decentralized event, which means you don't have to sign up or do anything in particular, you just have to love trans people and trans books. Here's what I'm doing this year 🧵 @trreadathon.bsky.social

I am going to link to organizations that I know for sure are helping trans Kansans. This thread will develop slowly as I either know people or will vet them. At this point we have not heard from anyone being helped via relocation resources. These exist, but I assume they are overwhelmed.

On the record as profoundly and violently sick of this shit

highly recommend holding your real life poems in your real life hands instead of paying attention to the agonies if you like poems about weird creatures & queer/trans survival, LIVING FOSSILS is out March 10 (!!) www.tamupress.com/book/9781680...

MicroVerse will have 4 dedicated poetry editions in 2026! Look for poetry recs from guest editors Marisca Pichette, Loren Maria Guay, Angela Liu, and Ai Jiang! I'm grateful to these fantastic poets!! @marisca.bsky.social @nightgleaming.bsky.social @angelaliu.bsky.social @aijiang.bsky.social

Cool Stuff for 2026!

I’ve wanted to include more speculative poetry in my roundups, so I’m excited to announce that MicroVerse will have four dedicated poetry editions in 2026. And the best part is the guest editors wh…

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Conflicting info about whether Pretti was murdered by ICE or CBP makes it clear that ICE is not single "rogue agency" ICE, CBP and ALL policing & borders must be abolished. This isn't just one agency; its an entire infrastructure of carceral control, illegalization & criminalization, and fascism.

oh no, are publishers getting squeamish about buying queer books right now for some impossible-to-guess reason?? sounds like our books need to get even more queer, relentlessly queer, battle-axe queer, cackling queer

And we said abolish ICE too. ICE is not inevitable, its existence is not settled —even as it fortifies the settler state. Historically speaking, that ain’t certain either.

Today you should give Latin Americans the dignity of rage, and not expect people to feel grateful for your passive indignation

2025 eligibility post: like many of us I was Eligible for having a nervous breakdown & yet I did not do that, wow! however I also did not publish any fiction. here are some books (& one play) by other people I enjoyed reading very much instead

Dear bluskeeters! I'm doing research with a friend. If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection. Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share