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lizzhuerta.bsky.social
Author of The Lost Dreamer & worker who likes to watch the sun rise.
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We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.

submitted 7 days ago • 801 comments

If I have any credibility or goodwill among you, please please please read this. REVIVING THE FEDERAL DEATH PENALTY AND LIFTING THE MORATORIUM ON FEDERAL EXECUTIONS, applying to “aliens, who traverse our borders and remain in the United States without legal status.” www.justice.gov/ag/media/138...

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.

submitted 20 days ago • 32 comments

follow up: TRANS FOLKS, DONT GIVR THE GOVERNMENT YOUR PASSPORT! they are holding ANY passport that’s trying to get a gender marker change/update, ARENT letting you renew if they know you’re trying to, and they are HOLDING PASSPORTS THAT REQUEST A GENDER MARKER CHANGE. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT22nUxY5/

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

Spiritually and emotionally revisiting my dystopic short story “The Wall.” It feels more prescient now than it did when I wrote it in 2017. The story isn’t online but it’s in a great collection “A People’s Future of the United States” edited by @johnjosephadams.com & @victorlavalle.bsky.social

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Sunrise with #border2fire My phone buzzed with evacuation alerts from 1-5am. Not in the evacuation zone but it’s still too close

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

A small selection of diverse fantasy book recs so you can get a feel for the vibes here! (Tagging the authors in the comments) @skylight.social #booksky #authorsky #readdiverse

submitted 35 days ago • 10 comments

I was there until the last moment. So deeply bummed.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

My world is small these days as I live with/care for my dying dad. TikTok is where I connect, laugh, play every day. I have friends there. I learn so much. It brings joy and levity to a pretty hard season of life and I’m devastated it’s being taken away. Millions of us will be in grief, and rage.

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

Dad's having terrifying choking episodes several times a day and my cortisol levels have me wrecked. ALS is the cruelest disease. We start in-home hospice next week; I'm deeply sad and ready for help. Pissed off dying Mexican dad choking and screaming chingada madre is a lot. It all is.

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

Caretaking a terminally ill, cranky, stubborn dad, both of us with ADHD, is the loneliest, isolating and heartbreaking season. He requires 24 hour care. Parents made too much money to qualify for help/don’t have enough to pay for professional help. I moved in in April. I love my parents so much

submitted 59 days ago • 2 comments

Someone posted this in a group for ALS caregivers and I ugly cried so hard watching it I gave myself a headache.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

My Mexican abuela, Lengua de Víbora, has been in/out of the hospital for months. She’s asked to return to her ranchito because that’s where she wants to die. My tías are taking her tomorrow. Today we’re cracking up, talking our sacred love language of story and sass. I hope it isn’t our last time.

submitted 88 days ago • 3 comments

Doctors tell us dad is miracle, and he is, and the miracle is 27/7 love in action. Grateful today and daily, and fuck ALS. #themostmexicandadintheworld #fuckALS

submitted 89 days ago • 2 comments

This audiobook was so well narrated and thrilling that my dad and sister drove over 24 hours from San Diego to New Orleans without stopping because they couldn’t stop listening. They were supposed to overnight in Texas but agreed to keep going because they were so enthralled.

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

Just launched my latest project. You can probably guess the inspiration, but read all about it at igg.me/at/protest2025.

submitted 98 days ago • 8 comments

My childhood library has had the same pencil machine since the early eighties and I still get a lil giddy when I get a library pencil.

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

I created a Latinx Speculative Fiction Starter Pack! Feel free to share widely and recommend any names I may be forgetting! Much love! go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi

submitted 102 days ago • 54 comments

full moon, low tide vibes

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

This is STIRRING.

submitted 103 days ago • 23 comments

The bar I’m to won’t play election coverage so we’re watching Mary Poppins?

submitted 112 days ago • 2 comments

Wish I could do NaNoWriMo but don’t currently have the space. Instead, I’m doing a daily short fiction writing challenge, new fiction every day of Nov. Posting the prompt on TikTok in the morning then posting what I wrote in the eve. Come play along if you want, I’m lizzhuertawrites over there.

submitted 480 days ago • 0 comments

How you know your local Home Depot serves a very Mexican neighborhood. 🕯️💀🕯️ Not that long ago we’d have to cross into Tijuana to get our cempasúchils.

submitted 482 days ago • 0 comments

These days my whole life is about spending time with the most Mexican dad in the world. His ALS is progressing and it’s breaking my heart and also allowing some deep magic to flow into our story. Grateful.

submitted 491 days ago • 1 comment