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Luke :) @lukejsuth.bsky.social · 2d

This is in one week :) free and virtual!

Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 2d

The workshop is virtual and free and that means 🫵YOU🫵 can attend www.eventbrite.com/e/trans-writ...

workshop topic
HOW TO "KILL LIES:"
WRITING AGAINST
RECEIVED LANGUAGE
Nico Walker, the infamous bankrobber-turned-novelist,
once wrote in BookForum, "Any writer worth a fuck should be in the business of killing lies." This generative writing workshop will consider the clichés, disinformation, and reductive language that plague minority writers specifically and employ them as writing prompts. We will begin by looking at some remarkable lie-killers across identity groups and history (potential writers include Torrey Peters, Andrea Long Chu, Imogen Binnie, Kay Gabriel, Leslie Feinberg, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Ralph Ellison, Claudia Rankine, Danez Smith, Charles Yu, Mosab Abu Toha, and Nafissa Thompson-Spires) and finish with a writing exercise in which we, as trans artists, write directly against and past the language wrongly applied
to us.
Sat, October 18 at 2 PM EST
Virtual, registration in bio

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DC Books to Prisons @dcbookstoprisons.bsky.social · 2d

Prisons and jails ban more books than all public schools and libraries combined. Throughout the country individual prisons and entire states are implementing more draconian and non-sensical prison book bans, with little public knowledge or outcry.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 5d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Luke :) @lukejsuth.bsky.social · 5d

Evil nonbinary person named Nestle

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DC Books to Prisons @dcbookstoprisons.bsky.social · 8d

@bannedbooksweek.bsky.social starts today! Prisons ban more books than all public schools and libraries combined. All week books donated to us from our partners will be matched. See our @mahoganybooks.bsky.social @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social and @peoplesbooktakoma.com wishlists - linktr.ee/dcbtpp

A red book on a yellow background with the words Banned Books Bookdrive October 5-11 All books donated from our partner bookstores will be matched with cash! linktr.ee/dcbtp

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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 9d

Our auction raised $500, split between Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid and Alice Correia Barbosa’s legal fund 🥳 massive thanks to everyone who bid, and especially to our contributors who donated their work

A picture of Lilac Peril’s book TABOO with text above it that reads “$500 raised to defend migrant rights in DC”

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Luke :) @lukejsuth.bsky.social · 10d

Should I treat this problem with a true classic? Benydryl: you can’t tell you’re dying when you’re asleep!

Luke :) @lukejsuth.bsky.social · 10d

(Marketing for the uti pain meds I took without realizing they contain lactose) You can’t feel dick pain when you’re dead!

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Luke :) @lukejsuth.bsky.social · 17d

I’ve been so stressed all week, but I just found out the auction I planned extremely last minute raised $500 for our migrant neighbors 🥳🥳

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 26d

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 26d

A little more than a day left!

Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · Sep 10

Our launch events are a wrap! We still have plenty of auction items that you can bid on for the next week. All money goes to migrant mutual aid in DC auctria.events/migrantsolid...

Home page of the Lilac Peril auction for migrant rights in Washington DC

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Luke :) @lukejsuth.bsky.social · 28d

I’m losing my mind over this transition in an episode of the Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau

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Luke :) @lukejsuth.bsky.social · Sep 13

Grass in particular is criminally under read imo, just one of the best essayists around www.theoperatingsystem.org/oa_library/h...

Hall Of Waters – The Operating System and Liminal Lab

www.theoperatingsystem.org

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Luke :) @lukejsuth.bsky.social · Sep 13

Hall of Waters, Camellia Berry Grass. Changed my life lol. I think you know this one, but Supervillianz by Alicia Goranson. It won the Lammy so this is on me, but I only recently came across Neotenica by Joon Oluchi Lee

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · Sep 12

I am bravely asking::
defector.com/why-not-have...

Why Not Have A Rod Of Teeth On Your Forehead For Sex Reasons? | Defector

If you are human, you might believe that teeth belong in the mouth. If you are a fish, you already know better. You know that teeth belong in the skin, too. These teeth are fittingly called dermal den...

defector.com

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Luke :) @lukejsuth.bsky.social · Sep 10

Check out our auction :)

Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · Sep 10

Our launch events are a wrap! We still have plenty of auction items that you can bid on for the next week. All money goes to migrant mutual aid in DC auctria.events/migrantsolid...

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Luke :) @lukejsuth.bsky.social · Sep 10

My health has been bad for probably a lot of reasons but this didn’t help!!!!!

Luke :) @lukejsuth.bsky.social · Sep 10

One of these has peanuts and the other one doesn’t. Guess who’s been micro-dosing poison for weeks 🤪

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Luke :) @lukejsuth.bsky.social · Sep 7

Tonight!!!

Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · Aug 22

TABOO is almost here 😈 celebrate with us on Sunday, September 7 at Lost City Books for an evening of readings from contributors and other literary perversions

A black and white illustration of an angel holding a sword, along with the text:

HARK! Lilac Peril & Lost City Books presents the TABOO LAUNCH PARTY. Celebrate the launch of Lilac Peril's Issue 01: TABOO, a collection of 30+ trans contributors writing on the margins. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 FROM 5 - 7 PM at

Lost City Books
2467 18th St NW,
Washington, DC 20009

readings * refreshments * perversions

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Luke :) @lukejsuth.bsky.social · Sep 4

A really good sign that I’ve been replaced by a clone is if I ever publish a heartwarming tale of found family

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Leah Tigers @leahtigers.bsky.social · Sep 4

banning trans people from joining the military, buying guns, and getting married would be pretty cool if it was like an initial rollout program for the rest of the country and not a calculated effort to invent a precarious class of second rate citizens

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Luke :) @lukejsuth.bsky.social · Aug 30

That made her more mad, if I recall! Some people truly orient their entire lives against pleasure

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Luke :) @lukejsuth.bsky.social · Aug 30

Once at an old job someone called to viscously complain because children were drawing on the sidewalk outside the library. I had to explain that 1) we had given them the chalk 2) it would simply wash off with the rain

Jason Garcia @jasongarcia.bsky.social · Aug 30

The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · Aug 30

I think celebrating trans art in DC feels even more essential right now. I hope to see you all in Lost City Books next weekend!

Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · Aug 22

TABOO is almost here 😈 celebrate with us on Sunday, September 7 at Lost City Books for an evening of readings from contributors and other literary perversions

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Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid @dcmigrantmutualaid.org · Aug 30

‼️ALERT‼️
Active checkpoint on Georgia Ave and Dahlia St. MPD and other unidentified officers seen stopping cars at 10:55 am August 30. 1/2

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