Your hold is ready! (1.30.26)

Hi everyone. It’s been a month.

In lieu of a January update from me, I’d like to use this space to share some ways to help our comrades in Minneapolis and beyond fight fascism.

• Immigrant Law Center of MN

• Fundraiser whose goal has not been reached for Adelina Olivarez Cardona, a woman detained by ICE.  

• Fundraiser whose goal has not been reached for Arturo Sanchez Chinos (kidnapped by ICE this month) and his family, including his two-year-old child.

• Fundraiser (goal not yet reached) for Keith Porter z”l’s family. Porter was murdered by an ICE agent.

• Support the work of a Minneapolis community member delivering groceries to immigrant families.

• North Minneapolis Mutual Aid

• Help a Minneapolis community member targeted by ICE make rent (very close to its goal!!)

• Fundraiser for personal needs and legal fees to bring Viviana’s dad home from ICE custody.

• Support Maine families facing ICE crisis

• Maine Solidarity Fund

• Project Relief Maine

  Beyond those I have just highlighted, check out Stand with Minnesota for a comprehensive list of ways to help those in MN.

Send me a donation receipt (any amount) for any of the above linked places (or one local to you) and I’ll send you a PDF of Failure to Comply for free. And remember, the only good ICE officer is a…. well, you know.

Housekeeping:

If you want to read about transMad queercrip nonsense as aesthetic and praxis, check out Differential Diagnosis, which is now available for pre-order on Northwestern University Press’s website and on Bookshop. Be sure to request it from your favorite indie bookstore, add it on Goodreads and Storygraph, and email me if you’re interested in a review copy.

Also: manywor(l)ds closes for submissions on 1/31.

Now, onto the recommendations.

Today’s Recs:

Books & Manga:

• Dolan Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand

• Renee Gladman, The Ravikians

• Aki Horoyama, tr. Airco, Stardust Family

• Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall

• Margo Lanagan, Tender Morsels

• Jeff Vandermeer, Shriek: An Afterword

• Nagabe, tr. Adrienne Beck, Siúil, a Rún: The Girl From the Other Side, Vol. 1

Listening:

• Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven (2000)

• Kittie, Spit (2000)

• - - -_- -_, The Heart Pumps Kool Aid (2021)

Poetry & Prose & In-Between:

• Naomi Kritzer, The Year Without Sunshine (2023)

• Trish Salah, Two Poems (2025)

• Olivia Elias, tr. Jérémy Rober, Hunting Game (2025)

Essays and Articles:

• Tia Glista, SI SI SI SI SI: On Fascist Passions in Mussolini’s Italy (2026)

• The Drey Dossier, The Who TF Is In My Head series (2025)

• Colin Warren, Meet the Alaska Student Arrested for Eating an AI Art Exhibit (2026)

My Recent Work:

• Speculative Syllabi: Imagining Pedagogies of Madness and Hope, with Helen Rottier, in the International Mad Studies Journal.

• Two pieces and Introduction in ANMLY, Autistic Protest Poetry.

• Okay…a little unfocused, but hopefully you can make something of this? in Disability Archives Lab.

• Access Fictions: Clarity, Violence, and the Promise of transMad Opacity in Transgender Studies Quarterly.

• (Junk) Journalling Toward Connection in Rooted in Rights

• In a dream |m| asks if I believe in mercy in Passages North

• Goodbye Forever Party (print) in Filling Station

• You May Feel Odd or Different All Day in The Offing

• Every Trans Suicide is State-Sanctioned Murder in Protean Magazine

• Three Micros in X-RAY Lit

• Loving Renee Back in The Rumpus

• Find my chapbooks on my website and my Goodreads author page! Contact me for PDF requests.