Luke :)

Cover of the body riddle by Sam K Mackinnon

11. The Body Riddle - Sam K Mackinnon

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Too Afraid to Leave Home: ICE’s Toll on Latino HIV Care Operation Metro Surge is leading some Latinos to delay or cancel HIV prevention or treatment appointments.

NEW: In Minneapolis, @cameronoakes.bsky.social and Sam Donndelinger report, ICE’s Operation Metro Surge is preventing Latino patients from accessing HIV care. This story was produced in collaboration with @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social, an investigative LGBTQ-focused nonprofit news publication.

Shadow the Hedgehog and Bobby Hill witb shotguns

I have never needed a 2XL t-shirt with a specific image on it more in my life

Art: "War is not healthy for children and other living things."

Lorraine Schneider, 1967.

Book cover for girls against god by Jenny Hval

10. Girls Against God - Jenny Hval

A graphic with a yellow background and a drawing of an anatomical heart. The text reads: Lilac Peril presents CREATING CHARACTERS FROM THE BODY Rhizome DC Sunday, March 15 at 11:00 AM a free trans writing workshop with BENNY PETERSON

A graphic with a yellow background and an anatomical drawing of a brain slice. The text reads: Workshop topic: CREATING CHARACTERS FROM THE BODY In fiction, we talk about very vivid characters as feeling "embodied" - through some mysterious creative alchemy, these words on a page take on a form that feels corporeal. As writers, how do we create characters that feel so real we can almost touch them, hear them, smell them? And what can we learn from our own experiences being a body in the world that we can then translate into an imaginary character's bodily experiences? In this workshop, we will read and discuss some examples of character-development to understand how writers create embodied characters. Well also do some somatic exercises to help us think about what physical reality actually "feels" like in our own bodies and how we can evoke that sensation through words. And we'll do some writing exercises to work on conveying that felt reality on the page. It will help to have a character in mind for this workshop- either one you've already written about, or one you're hoping to write about. But there will also be space for creating a character during the workshop, if you don't have one already in mind.

MARCH WORKSHOP!

We’ll be writing IN-PERSON with Benny Peterson on Sunday, March 15 at Rhizome DC 🧠🧠🧠

I am reading at this!

A graphic with a white background and illustrations of octopus and tentacles and stuff. The text reads: Luke at AWP with Lilac Peril Book Fair - Booth T110 Thurs, Mar 5 - Sat, Mar 7 | 9 AM - 5 PM Panel - Trans Publishers, Then & Now Thurs, Mar 5 at 10:35 AM | Room 326 Offsite - Baltimore's Big Trans and 'Hon'-Binary Reading Thurs, Mar 5 at 7:00 PM | The Club Car 12 W NAve, Baltimore MD 21201 Solo Offsite - Slutty Reading Sat, Mar 7 at 7:00 PM | Creative Alliance 3134 Eastern Ave, Baltimore, MD 21224

Here is everywhere I’ll be at AWP! It’s my first one :)

AI filmmaking and storytelling is punk rock. It’s hip hop. It’s counterculture. It’s a new type of creativity. It’s a new medium. It’s hated by the mainstream film and art establishment. It resists ideology. It ignores gate keeping. It’s uncomfortable. It’s scary. It’s viral. It’s accessible. It’s refreshing. It’s welcoming. It’s here.

AI filmmaking is peeing. It’s pooping. It’s throwing up. It’s a new kind of liquid coming out. It’s hated by the establishment. It’s what goes in the toilet. It’s wet. It’s what’s in the bathroom.

The sluts by Dennis cooper

9. The Sluts - Dennis Cooper

This is all speculation, but it helps mentally I think. I’ve been on t almost 4 years and my beard only really starting filling in the last year 🤷‍♂️

I struggle with this sometimes. A reframing I’ve used is that first puberty also affects people at different speeds—for some people it hit overnight like a truck, for others it was more of a slow burn. I was kinda in the latter category, so maybe it makes sense that second puberty is slow too?

I’m excited to have a reprint in this :)

A young deer lays in the grass. Their fur is piebald, brown with white splotches that look like snow

I’m so obsessed with this diva

First visit since the snow storm, and just LOOK at this beautiful piebald baby 🤩

It was my first Calvino and I enjoyed it quite a bit, but audio was definitely the wrong format. The repetitive structure made it too easy to zone out 😓 I’d love to reread it in print!

The book “Moldy Strawberries” by Caio Fernando Abreu on a quilt

8. Moldy Strawberries - Caio Fernando Abreu

Screenshot of the audiobook “Invisible Cities” by Italo Calvino

7. Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino

SUBMISSIONS CLOSE TOMORROW 2/7 AT 11:59 PM EST 📣📣📣

Their argument is: rich white people are allowed to do whatever they want, and that includes pedo islands or rounding up the rest in camps.

There is no contradiction, no hypocrisy, no argument that will sway them. The ideology is: power is moral

How many people outside of DC realize that we’re still being occupied by the National Guard? Or, to put a finer point on it, care?

The ILL system is honestly one of the most incredible parts of libraries. You can get a niche book published by a gay small press in 1989 signed by one of your idols (lol) and it’s FREE

The title page of the 1989 edition of Idols by Dennis Cooper, signed by Cooper

Omg my ILL request finally came in all the way from Wichita and it’s signed 😱

The Bathysphere Book by Brad Fox

6. The Bathysphere Book - Brad Fox

Sometimes you come across a book that seems designed in a lab to appeal specifically to you

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“Meander, Spiral, Explode” by Jane Alison leaning against a window. There’s snow outside.

5. Meander, Spiral, Explode - Jane Allison

In 2026 I am going to start calling people feckless and wretched

No amount of intention / attention ever feels enough when listening to Vashti… she is simply too good

Girlmode - Magdalene Visaggio and Paulina Ganucheau

4. Girlmode - Magdalene Visaggio & Paulina Ganucheau

Very sweet! Will keep this rec in my back pocket for teens at work