ALOCASIA #21 is here w/ more queer planty writing as fall goes fallow and we begin to refreeze w/ Chella Courington, Tyler Lemley, Shon Mapp, Lawrence Schimel, Chloe Lim, Jax NTP, Kite Marsh, Cassandra Urquhart, Sumitra Singam, and Mary Beth Becker ALOCASIA.org

The Light Bill Incubator Microgrant from @sundresspub.bsky.social will award $500 to one Black and/or Indigenous writer with a chapbook in progress to support the completion of said project. Let's go, Indigenous Peoples Day!

Sundress Publications Open for Microgrant Applications for Black and/or Indigenous Writers - Sundress Publications

Sundress Publications is open for submissions for grant applications from Black and/or Indigenous identifying writers with a chapbook in progress. All eligible authors are welcome to submit during our...

sundresspublications.com

ANMLY wants to read your folio pitches! Want to guest edit a folio for ANMLY? Have a great idea for us? Get in touch! We want to work with you! More: anmly.org/calls/

Do you have any idea what #prisoners make inside and how they mange to cover their expenses? Read this fascinating article by Richard "Corey" Fox, Nathan Gray and Chastyn Hicks @prisonjournalism.bsky.social

What a Monthly Budget Looks Like in Prison

Take a look at three monthly budgets from people inside different U.S. prisons.

prisonjournalismproject.org

final day!

ANMLY@anmlymag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

4 days left for our call for queer and trans writers and artists exploring poetry on desire and devotion that revels in excess. We’re seeking previously-unpublished poetry, multimedia poetry, audio, and video. No AI. Deadline: August 28th More: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🚨BREAKING 🦠 On Friday, the US CDC arbitrarily shifted higher COVlD levels into lower categories depicted with cooler colors. Much of what was Very High is now "High." What was High is now "Moderate" or "Low." Low is "Very Low." 1/

The immigrant advocacy/rapid response group Hijos de Migrantes has released its report on ICE abductions across Chicagoland for July 2026. HdM estimates ICE took 102 people in July. This is fewer than the estimated 139 people taken in June, though HdM cautions its figures are likely an undercount.

So happy to have found a bootleg Spelling Bee that works as elegantly as the original! No need to keep paying the NYT for this! spellsbee.com

@anmlymag.bsky.social seeks new work in all genres! The editors are especially interested in receiving “translation and creative nonfiction, as well as work from marginalized writers, and work from writers outside of the US.” Submit by August 1: www.clmp.org/members/open...

Madison police kill man in broad daylight in front of witnesses wisconsinexaminer.com/briefs/madis...

Madison police kill man in broad daylight in front of witnesses • Wisconsin Examiner

A Madison police officer shot a man several times, killing him during an arrest for allegedly casing cars in the Willy Street neighborhood.

wisconsinexaminer.com

Sami Schalk@drsamischalk.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Police murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.

millionexperiments.com/projects/bttf - I love the work BTTF does. #Map4Youth which I launched on Twitter in 2019 was their first "grant" when they were just starting. It was $2500.

Black Trans Travel Fund

The Black Trans Travel Fund is a grassroots, Black Trans-led Collective, providing Black transgender women with financial and material resources needed to remove barriers to self-determining and acces...

millionexperiments.com

The 13th annual international Gender Census 2026 is now open until at least 13th August 2026! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy. #LGBTQ

☀️ As The Sick Times approaches our 3-year anniversary, we’re shifting from a startup to a more sustainable newsroom, in it for the long haul. And we’re marking that shift with a summer sustainability fundraiser. 🌱 2 weeks, 200 new Supporters? Help us grow? the-sick-times.fundjournalism.org/donate/

If you are looking for a way to help the folks in Minneapolis, a member of the National Lawyer's Guild passed along this fundraiser for legal costs for those arrested yesterday: chuffed.org/project/1865... You can also donate directly to the NLG: www.paypal.com/donate?token...

Legal Defense Fund for MN Anti-ICE Organizers

On the morning of June 16th 2026, fifteen anti-ICE organizers were arrested in aggressive raids across the Twin Cities.

chuffed.org

ANMLY is now open for new work! We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation! > anmly.submittable.com *Fee waivers available* Check out our latest issue to see what we're into! > anmly.org/ap42

ANMLY Submission Manager

**ANNOUNCEMENT: Fees will be waived for all Black and Indigenous writers, and writers of Palestinian descent, to support those most targeted by state violence. Email editor [at] anomalouspress [dot] o...

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Just a little PSA- Neil Gaiman has reactivated his Bluesky account. Because he deactivated before a lot of people could unfollow him, and/or because Bluesky doesn’t remove you from a person’s followers when you block them, a LOT of you are still publicly listed as following him. You should check.

Finally, some good news: workers at Hachette are unionizing, and you can sign an open letter of support. This is the way! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Sign onto our open letter in solidarity with Hachette Workers Coalition!

To the management at Hachette Book Group, We are authors, publishing professionals, readers, and union supporters, and we are proud to express our full support for the Hachette Workers Coalition (HWC...

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ALOCASIA #18 is here w/ queer planty writing as spring sings! w/ Daniel Cartwright-Chaouki, nawa angel alviar horton, Logan Elizabeth Craig, Jodie Whitchurch, Matty Layne Glasgow, Shantell Powell, Shantal Jeewon Kim, KB, Blue Đào Nguyễn, & Gospel Chinedu ALOCASIA.org

We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

A 13-year-old girl tried to take her life by cutting her wrists with a plastic knife from the cafeteria after guards took away drawing materials, and was put into isolation without seeing a doctor. The teen was deported to Colombia after nearly two months in confinement

Worms in food, poor medical care, lights on 24/7: Families tell of life in Texas detention center

When ICE officers in Minneapolis detained a 5-year-old boy and his father last month and sent them to a Texas detention center, many Americans were alarmed.

apnews.com

We have been raising the alarm about detainees dying in DHS custody, but there must also be accountability for these release related deaths. Justice for Daphy, for Nurul and every disabled person caught in this deadly machinery of ethnic cleansing. migrantinsider.com/p/the-loneso...

The Lonesome Death of Daphy Michel

Watch now | Haitian Woman, 31, Dies Alone at Pittsburgh Bus Stop Days After ICE Released Her Far From Home to Die.

migrantinsider.com

This is LA. While CBP’s large, highly-visible terror campaign moves from city-to-city, ICE’s more clandestine operations continue daily all across America. The scope of what is happening nationally, on a daily basis, is difficult to truly comprehend.

Joey Scott@joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 9mo ago

ICE took the flower man in Echo Park 40 minutes ago. He’s at this corner every day. I’ve bought flowers from the man and woman here for anniversaries and birthdays. Lemmy loves to smell them whenever we walk by in the mornings. I was just at the street corner 15 minutes before it happened. Fuck.

Three years today. The cops are already killing protesters—it's not a line we haven't crossed, it's a thing already happening—but lots of people never heard about or paid attention to this one. So it goes

Jonathan Stegall@jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 10mo ago

If you don't remember Tortuguita's story, one place that I think told some of it well was the Bitter Southerner: bittersoutherner.com/feature/2023...

The national response to Minneapolis has me revisiting the killing of Silverio González Villegas by ICE in Franklin Park, IL. I reported on it last fall. Worth remembering. southsideweekly.com/a-tragic-hom...

A Tragic Homecoming

After nearly two decades in Chicago, Silverio Villegas González returned to Michoacán in a coffin. His death at the hands of federal agents left two families divided by borders, shattered with grief, ...

southsideweekly.com

NYT is reporting at least 80 Venezuelan’s dead after this American attack. No breakdown on how many were civilians. That’s in addition to the 115 people the US military has recently killed in boats.

Steve Held@peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 10mo ago

has anyone asked how many people US troops killed today?

Everything is infuriating and the people in charge are irrevocably evil.

Do *you* want to own *the cutest tea towels* in the world? Check out Rogers Park Free Store’s Silent Auction!

Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.