Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥

You're killing it now, bro! 🔥

If I could write my next book just for you specifically, I would 😉 I'm still going to write nonfiction, and it might be a good stretch for me to get a bit more personal & creative with it. 💙

No worries, I still greatly appreciate the share! 💜

I know it's information overload and emotional overwhelm. We're all feeling it. But I have to believe it's a creative opportunity to write differently rather than accepting that this burnout is a long-term or permanent thing. ❤️

Soooooo good!!

I love that it actually feels pretty similar but more queer! I had such a fantastic time, did you?

Oh that's wonderful, thank you so much! 🙏🏻💖 It has done quite well, I'm very pleased, and happy people are still finding it!

Thank you so much, I have received a lot of very positive responses about it and I feel confident it won't disappoint! ❤️

Oh hey this came up in my feed just as I've finally gotten to the point where I am familiar with the imagery and interpretations of a lot of the most popular decks, and looking to expand in more radical directions. Just bought "78 Acts of Liberation" and I can't wait to read it!

Oh rad, I'm so glad, thank you!

Aw, thank you! It's a book and not a deck. It includes a critical history of Tarot, focusing on the often overlooked race and class dimensions of its development & practice. And sort of uses Tarot as a mnemonic device for recalling lessons from social movements & my experiences as an organizer. ❤️🖤

Oh I always have and always will but writing for publication is something else, haha 😅 Much love to you, and l'll be getting a copy of your new book for me and one for my bestie 🌌💙

This exact thing has stalled my writing in the worst way over the last year. I'm trying to evolve what it means for me to write nonfiction in a world where people don't want to read it; I think it can go in a creative direction that people will want to read & will be good for me, but damn 😮‍💨

Say no more, I'm in! 🖤

🥰 Whatcha working on, is it a secret? 👀

☺️ Thank you! 💞

But last night my date introduced me to a friend of theirs, and when I introduced myself to the person their friend was with, they were like "I know, I have your book." 😱

And I felt like pretty hot shit for a minute there! 🔥🕺🏼💅

I always preferred the "slums" of sci fi and fantasy, and my nonfiction niche is similarly lacking in respectability, which I fucking love. 🔥 Aaaand... I still kinda want to sit with the cool kids, lol.

I'm having a little bit of FOMO about the fact that there's a huge national writer's event in my city that I can't afford to go to #AWP, and I only got childcare for one free off-site event (last night). I also have some weird mixed feelings about not being a "Literary" writer.

The queerest of the queer in Baltimore packed the place (and I hadn't been to this joint since it used to be The Windup Space and it felt like home) - just absolutely the hottest group of people imaginable 🏳️‍⚧️❤️‍🔥

Last night's all-trans/NB offsite #AWP reading was amaaaazing! No doubt in my mind it was THE place to be - the pieces read were horny and weird, tender and freaky, violent and funny and emotional - seriously, nobody does it like trans women, much respect!! ❤️‍🔥🏳️‍⚧️❤️‍🔥🏳️‍⚧️❤️‍🔥

Oooh, drag house dynasties are the thing that's been missing from fantasy fiction, and like most queer people I enjoy a story with a mother you're allowed to hate – this looks good! 🔥

The antiwar movement needed to be bigger and more militant between Vietnam and 9/11 for us not to be in the hole that allowed the Patriot Act, DHS, Blackwater, JSOC & ICE to make our work infinitely harder and put us in the even deeper hole we're in now.

When I was a wide-eyed 23-yo at my first protest, immediately after 9/11, it felt really unfair that the elder speakers were so frustrated, saying "where have you been?" I was brand new. But now I get it. They weren't talking to me, specifically. The antiwar movement NEEDED to be bigger, sooner.

Mercury retrograde: the perfect time to randomly find - and deal with - those final notices in your unopened mail from a few months ago 🫠

It's snowing now and it's gonna be 74° on Sunday, happy spring.

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When every side is condemnable and condemning everything isn't enough, we can't afford to allow our creativity to atrophy – we need it to survive and build beyond this.

Why Is Taylor Sheridan Writing a Prison Survival Guide? I have questions.

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