Sue Landers
@slanders.bsky.social
Poet, pedestrian. My book WHAT TO CARRY INTO THE FUTURE (Roof, 2025) emerged from riding every NYC subway end-to-end. A love letter to the city, it charts joy amidst catastrophe. suelanders.com (she/her)
This is huge! The Trump administration is abandoning its plan to withhold Medicaid funding from hospitals that provide gender affirming care to trans youth under 19. www.npr.org/2026/07/13/n...
Trump's HHS abandons threat to withhold Medicare and Medicaid funding over trans care
NPR has learned that the Department of Health and Human Services will not be finalizing its most aggressive attempt to end gender-affirming care for youth nationally.
npr.org
Please indulge my Gen X Bicentennial nostalgia. As a child in Philadelphia in 1976, the 200th bday was a big deal. 🧵
Fence Books author Amanda Deutch will read from new york ironweed—with poets Sandra Doller & @slanders.bsky.social!—at Unnameable Books next Friday, July 10th. 🎟️ (Sandra Doller has poems in FENCE No. 43!) 🍃 🌞 Friday, July 10th at 7 PM 📍 Unnameable Books, 615 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238
Anyway there is no "middle." There are just actual policy positions and POWER.
THE NEW YORK WINNING STREAK CONTINUES
The City Reporter@thecityreporter.nyc · last mo.BREAKING: The Rent Guidelines Board on Thursday approved 0% rent increases for about 1 million rent-stabilized apartments, delivering on one of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s signature campaign promises. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/25/r...
I've spent the last two months putting together this exhaustive analysis of the New York Times coverage of trans people. It covers 3,242 articles over 12 years. In 2022, the NYT shifted towards a hostile stance towards trans people in their framing. www.thedissident.news/exclusive-ho...
Exclusive: How The New York Times Changed Its Coverage of Trans People
An exhaustive analysis of over 3,242 articles by the New York Times covering transgender issues from 2014-2026 revealed a stark shift towards hostile framing in 2022. In January 2015, the New York Ti...
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All 3 NYC Library Systems now have asks that people send a letter to the City Council calling for increased funding. In some uninformed quarters, people are claiming that our public libraries are "fully funded" when in actuality they are slated for lower funding than last year in real dollars.
Are you a writer, author, or scholar based in NYC? New York City deserves the kind of writers and thinkers that only consistently well-funded public libraries can ensure. Help us call on the Mayor and City Council to fund our library systems with our open letter: forms.gle/SvQYwiyiHqXT...
Open letter from NYC based writers, authors, and scholars to the Mayor re: public library budget
NYC Public Library Action Network is asking writers, authors, and scholars based in New York City’s five boroughs to sign on to an open letter to Mayor Mamdani asking him to fulfill the promise he mad...
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“You’re allowed to think about the worst possible scenario. But you gotta go out there and do something about it.” —Jalen Brunson
1. There has been a major new federal rule proposed governing ALL federal grants. A federal grant recipient will be deemed ineligible if the recipient advances "gender ideology," or denies that "sex is binary." This includes hospitals, schools, nonprofits. Subscribe to support our journalism.
"Fascism"—New Federal Rule Would Require Federal Funding Recipients To Deny Trans People Exist
The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.
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These fascist attacks on the privacy of young people receiving gender-affirming care should be alarming to all of us. It really is a moment of “First, they came for the trans kids.” (1/3)
Christopher Street Project@christopherstreet.bsky.social · 3mo agoNYU Langone has a moral and legal obligation to stand up to this power grab and hold the line to protect their patients.
A grand jury in *Texas* is issuing a *criminal subpoena* to a *New York hospital* for *patient records* This is a full-on, escalatory assault on the privacy and civil rights of all Americans from right-wing radical bigots who see the law as their plaything. They won’t stop here.
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 3mo ago🚨🚨🚨 DOJ sent a grand jury subpoena from the Northern District of Texas to NYU Langone for all patient records of trans youth. DOJ is engaged in forum and judge shopping in Texas in a blatantly unlawful bid to shut down gender affirming care in blue states. nyulangone.org/public-notic...
We now have 11 out of 51 City Council members supporting @nycplan.org's demand to benchmark public library funding at 0.5% of the city expense budget. We're over 20%. nycplan.org/scorecards/l... - Is your CM on this list? If not, you can help us to get them on record. Call script on our website.
Library Funding Stances by City Council Members
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Lovely moment on the train as a busker with a sweet baritone sings Unforgettable. As a woman gives him money, she chokes up, saying it reminds her of her father. The singer pauses to tell her to let the tears flow, the good water is cleansing. Keep being you, NYC.
“Either whey, what used to be a private practice of mine has gone public.” Same, man, same.
JP@jpbrammer.bsky.social · 4mo agoIn my latest for Playboy, I wrote about meat, masculinity, and "boy kibble," the trend of men eating a pack of unseasoned ground beef for dinner. I argue it's the perfect meal to illustrate the isolation and nihilism in our ultra-capitalist system www.playboy.com/read/lifesty...
@ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app laying out why we will all love her new novel, Year of the Mer—incl. mermaid factions, monstrous leaders, hyper-competency, a prologue that is meant to be read, chicks with problems, and def not romantasy.
Is he stealing from the rich or giving them too much stuff? Hard to know I guess. If only there was some way to think about the last set of complaints in relationship to the new ones.
Waldo Jaquith@waldo.net · 4mo agoBoy, what a terrible headline. We *need* the wealthy to participate in public services. If only poor people ride the bus, then rich people won't wield their power in support of public transit or, worse, will wield their power *against* it.
The Bureau needs our help! Here’s an easy ask this morning for those who can chip in! www.gofundme.com/f/save-manha...
Donate to Save Manhattan's Last Queer Bookstore!, organized by Jules Wernersbach
Hive Mind Books Needs Your Help to Save the Last Queer Bookstore in Man… Jules Wernersbach needs your support for Save Manhattan's Last Queer Bookstore!
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The Bureau of General Services has been good to us; be good to them and help save Manhattan's last queer bookstore please! www.gofundme.com/f/save-manha...
Donate to Save Manhattan's Last Queer Bookstore!, organized by Jules Wernersbach
Hive Mind Books Needs Your Help to Save the Last Queer Bookstore in Man… Jules Wernersbach needs your support for Save Manhattan's Last Queer Bookstore!
gofundme.com
Also if you live in NYC, a low lift thing you can do to support adequate funding for our libraries is to make a copy of these half sheets and drop them off in public places in your communities. Also share with co-workers, family members, etc.. drive.google.com/file/d/1Cm2L...
NYCPlan-Flyer-Letter-WebsiteCorrected.pdf
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“The train does not care where you come from or where you are going. The train does not care who sleeps in your bunk. The train only cares about one thing: The next stop.” @samanthaallen.bsky.social in a glorious ode to trains in Them www.them.us/story/amtrak...
The Train Doesn’t Care What Gender You Are
Let's Get Boarding Trains Quickly. An ode to the queerest mode of transportation.
them.us
Poetry, its readers, and its practitioners, have always been and continuously will be, alive and well.
M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray.bsky.social · 4mo agoWhat's something that experts/practitioners in your field universally agree upon, but that remains a "hot take" among the general public?
In case anyone needed a reminder about not watching any trailers today.
Julia Serano@juliaserano.bsky.social · 4mo agoif Anita Bryant was still alive and promoting Florida orange juice, you couldn't pay me enough to drink it. how is Harry Potter any different? here is a timeline of JK Rowling's transphobia: web.archive.org/web/20241225... & here is where her HP money is going: www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowl...
Feeling seen this rainy Monday morning by a group of preschoolers discovering worms on the sidewalk screaming, “Not dead!”
I analyzed over 10 years of anti-trans legislation. Over 330 bills have passed, with ~300 of them in just the last 5 years. There is no precedent in American history for so many bills to target one particular minority group like this in such a short timeframe. www.thedissident.news/the-ratchet/
The Ratchet
In 2015, state legislatures across the United States considered 75 anti-LGBTQ bills, of which 27 targeted gender identity.1 In 2025, that total reached 1,059—with 851 of the current-session bills targ...
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The ICE Warehouse Tracker now has two new data layers — ERO Field Offices and Sub-Offices/Hold Rooms. Some sites overlap. Best viewed on laptop/desktop. tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...
