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Read / Write / Study Group: Languaging / Trans (Fall 2026) -- Grupo para Leer / Escribir / Estudiar: Lenguar / Trans

Facilitated by / Facilitado por Jadine (JD) Pluecker La versión en español se encuentra allá abajo. This Fall 2026, I will lead a twelve-week bilingual English & Spanish group to Read/Write/Study tog...

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Coming soon, the fall 2026 edition of the Read / Write / Study Group! Focusing once again on Languaging / Trans. We will be bilingual again this year: Grupo para Leer / Escribir / Estudiar: Lenguar / Trans. DM if you have any questions. Register here: forms.gle/qLCr9Q5go6Rt...

"The performance, readings, and experiences come together and ask us to be together. But this being-together takes some time—and this notion of time, as Pluecker teaches us, drawing from Lorenzo Thomas, “is a shifting liquid.” - Jered Mabaquiao asapjournal.com/node/communi...

Communities of Liquid Care and Poetic Embodiments: Upon Review in the Works of JD Pleucker, Mariposa Tejada, M. Miranda Maloney, and Stalina Villarreal - ASAP/Review

If the body is a container full of thoughts, feeling, and affective resonances, then what can we make of the ways that time demands our senses spill out of, and into, us? What does it mean…

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"Vomit out the truths about the shameful, racist, bloody apocalypse that keeps killing and killing and killing. Such poetry will, paradoxically, make it a tiny bit easier to really and actually live." - Daniel Borzutzky, 2014 www.poetryfoundation.org/featured-blo...

"How then do we preserve the visceral singularity of experience — which is essential to honoring the dignity of those who lived through extraordinary circumstance — while also preserving the “reciprocal relationship between cause and effect”?" - Lina Mounzer themarkaz.org/controlled-d...

Controlled Demolition: an Epistolary Review

Author Ammiel Alcalay defies categorization in his latest book (in fact four), producing a work that is both timely and timeless.

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Mexico will request criminal charges over 17 Mexicans who died in ICE custody or during immigration enforcement operations by the Trump administration, officials said Thursday. https://to.pbs.org/44FPvsF

Mexico to seek criminal charges over deaths linked to ICE after fatal shooting of Houston man

Mexican Foreign Minister Roberto Velasco's announcement Thursday morning further escalated tensions with the United States, as Mexico's government has sharply criticized the treatment of its citizens ...

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keep an eye on the u.s. south, uf

shawn@mulchy.bsky.social · last mo.

there's (rightfully) been a lot of attention paid to la, chicago, minneapolis, and dc, but the the joint federal-local task force in memphis is uniquely horrifying in ways not seen in other cities. this is at least the fourth person shot during the task force's monthslong occupation.

"It’s going to be hard to have a revolution—major change in our nation and in the world, because every citizen now is tied into this system by their heartstrings—literally… Change is going to have to come from some new direction." - Red Jordan Arobateau nightboat.org/book/time-al...

Time Also Will Make It Interesting: Selected Journals – Nightboat Books

The selected journals of trans, mixed-race artist and dyke erotica writer Red Jordan Arobateau.

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seems like most community events these days have AI posters and flyers and they are so awful

"If you really want to be my friend – don’t make a labor of it." - Pat Parker, "For the white person who wants to know how to be my friend" aaregistry.org/poem/for-the...

In May 2026, the White House released an official page, 'Aliens', that was disgusting, dehumanizing propaganda. It also loads terribly slowly & barely works. But the data behind it is a useful record of ICE's arrests from January 2025 to May 2026. heat.resistmap.com

delta i love you "As a whole, this movie wasn’t giving. This movie WAS giving exactly what needed to be given to its target audience—cis hetero girls who want a gay bestie to crack a hand-fan and take them to bottomless brunch.” www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/go-o...

Delta Work Goes Off on STOP! THAT! TRAIN!

The Emmy-winning drag queen tells us what she really thinks about the latest movie to come out of the RuPaul's Drag RacE universe.

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Queer Poem-A-Day is a curated series showcasing one queer poet each weekday, connecting readers to queer poems. www.queerpoems.com

Queer Poem-A-Day | Substack

Queer Poem-A-Day is a curated series showcasing one queer poet each weekday, connecting readers to queer poems. Click to read Queer Poem-A-Day, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

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"The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out." - James Baldwin in his essay "Nothing Personal"

"You call people what people ask you to call them." - Andrea Roberts @FreeBlackTX placesjournal.org/article/mapp...

Stewarding Black Worlds

Scholars of Black placekeeping discuss ways of mapping Black-founded towns, focusing on the cultural landscapes through which residents and diasporic communities sustain themselves.

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A new poem—titled "Backwards, Now"—is out! Thx to Infrarrealista Review (@infrarrealistas)! IR is such an amazing journal, dedicated to publishing underrepresented Texan voices, with a non-exclusive focus on Latinx writers. So thankful for all they do. infrarrealistas.org/backwards-now/

Backwards, Now - Infrarrealista Review

The old mesquite will fall in the future or no

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The fight in the Texas borderlands continues. Stop the walls. www.tpr.org/border-immig...

Zapata County landowners say border wall contractors bulldozed property before agreements were signed

Landowners say contractors began clearing land near San Ygnacio before signing right-of-entry agreements or going through condemnation proceedings. CBP says it has the necessary access rights.

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Grin Go Home / Las provincias internas ya está disponible en 11 países, gracias a @Ultramarinos_ed! Ahora puedes comprarlo desde tu país con envío local: España: tienda.tiendaultramarina.com México: mexico.tiendaultramarina.com USA: usa.tiendaultramarina.com jdpluecker.com/grin-go-home...

May a thousand translator notes bloom....

"This isn’t education reform. It’s a franchise being handed to our children without a vote.” www.propublica.org/article/texa...

Texas State Takeover of Local School Districts Expands, Raising Concerns

Since 2020, the state education agency has taken over eight school districts — four in just the past few months — and installed leaders linked to Houston’s controversial superintendent, Mike Miles. At...

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most of the morning is spent opening tabs and most of the afternoon is for closing them

mencantó esta peli. ¿la vieron ya? muy intensa eso sí, así que prepárense antes

A POET | Official Trailer | In Theaters January 30

YouTube video by 1-2 Special

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"What matters is how the people in a relationship experience what goes on inside it. I’m not interested in suggesting how much one person should do for another, how much to give and how much to take..." - Lily Meyersohn www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/tak...

Take Care, but Not Too Much — Parapraxis

The Invention of Codependency Lily Meyersohn

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Poet/translator/performance artist Stine An @stine.bsky.social is reading my book Grin Go Home and recommending it on Lit Hub and I couldn't be happier. Thanks to Editorial Ultramarina for publishing the book in Spain and distributing it worldwide :) lithub.com/the-annotate...

The Annotated Nightstand: What Stine An is Reading Now, and Next

The poet Stine An, who is at the very least a finalist for best author/translator photo, is the translator of the recent poetry collection Winter Night Rabbit Worries by Yoo Heekyung. An received b…

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ok transfem lit where all the characters are transfem and wild and chaotic and partying and living in a big metro area is cool and all but damn not all of us live this way

"Anyone concerned w/ the fate of higher education should not treat entire states or regions as lost causes... No one should allow themselves to think their geographic position is an indicator of their moral worth. Moral distance is not moral superiority." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

How Not to Talk About Colleagues in Texas, Florida (opinion)

We’re not fighting a lost cause.

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so many payment platforms now for freelance clients: payment works, bill dot com, melio, ramp, etc etc etc like just mail me a check its easier lol

We need a just transition out of these unsustainable industries. “Without lots and lots of rain, industry will be forced to shut down...If the industry shuts down, who stays in Corpus without a job? Without industry, what other businesses could exist?" www.kut.org/energy-envir...

Corpus Christi plans to declare a 'water emergency.' What does that mean?

City leaders intend to make unprecedented cuts to water use in September, but they aren’t sure exactly how.

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love this video by @sistabonobo so much www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ESJ...

WV #1: Disappointment, with Autumn Knight

YouTube video by Artist Relief

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I’m ready to return to New Orleans, sister city on this Gulf of Mexico, for the New Orleans Poetry Festival! Catch me at these events jadinepluecker.com/blog/2026/4/...

Off to the New Orleans Poetry Festival! — Jadine (JD) Pluecker

I’m ready to return to New Orleans, sister city on this Gulf of Mexico, for the PNew Orleans Poetry Festival ! Catch me at these events or on the street: Friday, April 17 - 1pm Lagniappe Reading w A...

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