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1 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Hey #IamNonbinary and I write this book about gender & climate change & ghosts, and if you're scrolling the hashtag looking for something good to read--why not this? Also it's a short lil novella, everyone reads it in one sitting. You'll love it. Yay for nonbinary people.
Gah and I forgot the alt text, sorry. It's a graphic of the cover of my book DEPART, DEPART! and also my headshot and the publisher, Stelliform Press's logo, and then some quotes about how great the book is that I'll link to: stelliform.press/index.php/prai…
And here's some links where you can buy it!
From the publisher: stelliform.press/index.php/sim-…

From Bookshop: bookshop.org/books/depart-d…

From Amazon: amazon.com/Depart-Sim-Ker…
And of course there are many typos in that top post, but good news, I had a great editor at @StelliformPress and there are not typos in the book, I swear!

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24 Sep
A major media outlet only just paid me for an article I wrote over 2 months ago, and only after exchanging over 30 emails with their editors and accounts payable department. I spent 2x as long trying to get paid as I did writing the article. Not the first time this has happened.
My first job in journalism was writing a series of music and culture articles for the Houston Chronicle’s youth culture blog—called 29-95–which folded, and I never got paid for those. I only followed up about 5 times before giving up because I was 22 and didn’t know better.
Earlier this year it took me about 6 months to get paid for another article. It seems like outlets either PayPal you right away, or you have to take a part-time job hounding them for your couple-hundred dollars they owe. Is this just a me problem or systemic?
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1 Sep
STOP TELLING TEXANS TO MOVE! You cannot throw away your HOME and FAMILY and COMMUNITY and SUPPORT SYSTEMS like you’re upgrading an iPhone! There are profound financial, legal, and ethical reasons why people cannot, cannot, ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY cannot move! My god, the privilege!
Not to mention—this is not just a Texan issue! The Supreme Court has signaled they will no longer even make an effort to uphold Roe V Wade. So you’re looking at very soon, all the red states—the majority of states—following suit and getting even bolder, going after birth control
And the few blue states where abortion *may* remain legal (barring greater consolidation of federal GOP-fascist power)? Surprise, surprise, they’re the most expensive states. Is Ver-fucking-mont going to open its arms to the impoverished masses of the south? Yeah I thought not.
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31 Aug
In the panic after Trump won, my spouse and I talked about where to draw lines--what would trigger us to move--out of Texas or even the US. One of mine was the end of legal abortion. Tomorrow, that line will be crossed. But there's no way we can move now. We're stuck in Gilead.
I am, once again, going to share the short story that sums up how I feel about all this.

TW's for all kinds of repro horrors magazine.metaphorosis.com/story/2019/the…
Y’all it is not helpful, when someone says, “Terrible things are happening here, and I CANNOT move,” to reply, “Well why don’t you just move?”
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21 Aug
Some Gulf-Coast-dweller advice for folks in the path of Henri 🧵
-Have a go-back packed w/important documents & electronics wrapped in plastic
-Move precious things & books & stuff that’ll be destroyed by water to high shelves or to a 2nd floor if you have one
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-If you have a car and street-park, move your car up into a high parking garage or to a higher street before the storm hits if you can
-Plan for your power, water & gas to be out for days (here we always plan for a week)
-Adults need 1gallon/person/day of drinking water
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-Have a few days of food thats both nonperishable & doesn’t need to be cooked. PB&Js are good, trail mix, snacks, spaghetti-o’s, jerky, etc.
-If you’re a drinker, some drinks can really help calm the nerves during the storm. But don’t get wasted, in case it goes bad for your area
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20 Jul
"One reason we find the fantasy of outer space colonization so irresistible is the prospect of starting fresh. Our global society is enormously complicated, with baked-in bigotries and illogical ways of doing things that seem impossible to untangle here on Earth.🧵
On another planet, we assume we could start over and get it right. Realistically, though, there’s no leaving our messiness behind, no matter how many light-years away we travel. I can’t think of a better illustration for this than the fact that the moon is already a toilet /
When people think of what astronauts left behind on the moon, they might picture Buzz Aldrin planting an American flag. But I picture all the literal shit we left up there. Because NASA, unlike any respectable hiker, didn’t value “packing out waste”. /
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3 Jul
Some folks in the comments seem to think a moon/Mars colony is possible. Not in our lifetimes, friends. NASA has been planning the Artemis mission for years, and will continue planning it for years more, and that's going to send astronauts to the moon for a week. ONE week.
Artemis is also not fully funded yet by congress and is enormously technically difficult, so it's not even a given that it's going to happen. So no, no moon Maralago or Mars Maralago either. It's much easier to keep people alive in low earth orbit than farther away.
Also, cancer. Without an atmosphere protecting them, astronauts are exposed to far more radiation than on earth. The longer you're up there, the more likely it is you develop cancer. At this point, I don't think I need to tell you how far away we are from space hospitals.
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