Alex Marzano-Lesnevich

BOOK NEWS. Many thanks to say and give, but above all, thanks to give to to the gloriously fierce trancestors who made this possible. This book (this life) has a lineage. This book will be about that lineage. /1

Thank you, @WhitingFdn. Deeply grateful for this support and honored to be alongside my fellow recipients. Now to finish the book!

Philly queer and book folks! I have an event for my queer yearning novel A SHARP ENDLESS NEED tonight June 26, 7 pm at The Head and the Hand—come hang 😈 theheadandthehand.com/events/sharpen…

Let women speak. When polled, the most trans-supportive subgroup in the c!s LGB population is consistently butches. They know what it's like to be misgendered, stigmatized, & disbelieved. We owe appreciation to the butches at Edinburgh Pride this year for this their great shirts

1/ Sharing my story with the NYTimes was not an easy decision. My north star goal is always liberation and a free Palestine. That led me to decide to participate in this article despite my concerns. nytimes.com/2025/06/06/mag…

1/ Yesterday in the NYTimes, a student (mis)quoted from memory something I said in class on October 12, 2023. That quote suggested that I do not support Palestinian resistance. While I’m not disputing that student’s memory, the Times didn’t include what I actually said🧵

At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

i don’t want to say too much online (lol) but i’m not a citizen, and i have family and many friends who are not citizens, and i’m scared for us. existing in the US has felt traumatic and precarious and scary from the beginning, but this is a bad time.

Following its deliberations on Wednesday, April 9, the Hodler Prize Committee is proud to announce that the Hodler Prize 002 has been awarded equally to Alice Notley for her poetry memoir "Being Reflected Upon" and to Jonathan Coryn @Corjn for his video game "Player Non Player".

This ever-evolving prize would not be possible without the energy and intellectual input of our committee: @HUObrist , Alice Bucknell, @averroys , Precious Okoyomon, @MarkAlizart , @alexmlwrites , @harikunzru , Peter Harness, and @toluogunlesi .

👀 You have got to be kidding me. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Within an hour of starting interviews, I had the names of a 10-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl who had died because of decisions by wealthy men in Washington. The visit that moved me the most was to a remote area that used to have no health care, where women routinely died in childbirth. Then a US-funded maternity clinic opened through @UNFPA in December, and not one woman has died since. I showed up, and people mistakenly thought I was responsible for the clinic. One new mom wanted to name her baby for me, and the village elders thanked me and hailed America's generosity. What they didn't know was that Trump/Musk had cut all funding for UNFPA and that as a result the maternity clinic will close this month, and women will once again be bleeding to death in the dust. Here's a giftlink to my report from ground level about what the shutdown of USAID means: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

📷 "Afterward, the knowledge that gender was like borders, slippery and permeable and only sometimes marked, invented and policed with violence, a collective fever dream." Beautiful essay by @alexmlwrites reprinted in @lithub lithub.com/snapshot-of-a-…

Two new job postings at the UVic Trans Archives! 🎉 Two-year contracts at $75k/year, both Jan 2025 starts. Victoria is one of the safest places in the world for trans people, too. Would love to see another trans woman get one of these! 💗 Deadlines are November 13th & 15th.

RIP Dorothy Allison. I taught with her at @Tin_House & she was full of warmth and ferocity - w/ a Janis Joplin howl to her voice. '"Fiction never exceeds the reach of the writer's courage. The best fiction comes from the place where the terror hides, the edge of our worst stuff."

all i can say is live. you have to live. if you’re trans, queer, a woman, bipoc, disabled, an immigrant: you must live. we have to support each other. we have to be visible and loud if and when we can. and above all else we have to live

Some immediate steps I believe that all trans people should take: - Get your passport. Today. It takes time to come in and this will likely be shut down under Trump. - Update every ID your state allows you to. - Make sure you have a supply of medication in case of disruption

Sylvia Plath (from the Unabridged Journals):

Don't blame Muslims; or Jill stein; or Biden for dropping out; or for Kamala not going left enough. It's patriarchy. It's racism. And it's neoliberalism behind it all to pit us against each other until only the plutocrats thrive.