Day & Night For It
They brandished torches—the tiki kind you can buy at any big-box store for backyard barbecue—the kind that hold a well of flammable oil. They shouted… More
Primahood: Magenta
"Tyler Cohen is a pro at tackling the sticky subjects of gender identity, sexuality, motherhood, and what it means to be a girl." More
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Now banned: School board in Hillsborough FL voted today to ban "This Book is Gay". This is after 2 committees reviewed it and voted to keep it in schools. Here's what Juno Dawson told us @PENamerica about efforts to ban the book last fall. /1 https://twitter.com/PinkNews/status/1640834900684333056?t=Nq5SySk-nlbsC-x3UE6VbA&s=19
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BREAK OUT March 29 at @TheHookMpls! Join us to celebrate the best in prison writing—award-winning works include C. Fausto, Davi, Elizabeth, and Zeke, with special guests Dallas, and poets Roy Guzmán, and Gwen Westerman, Minnesota Poet Laureate https://thehookmpls.com/event/breakout-prisonwritingawards2022/