Author of "78 Acts of Liberation: Tarot to Transform Our World" (2024) Macmillan/ St. Martins Essentials/Sounds True Tarot & Politics zine editor • they/he 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 Bi Trans GenX Anarchist in Baltimore City www.mxlanesmith.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/leftlanesmith.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/leftlanesmith.bsky.social/post/3msqfxrj3dc2sI wrote my short story "Punk's Undead" for the @bonabooks.bsky.social Wrath Month anthology call & they super generously took the time to give me feedback on why the ending didn't work for them. I completely rewrote the ending & the story will appear in @transfixmagazine.bsky.social this fall! 🎉 👻 🏳️‍⚧️10 Aug 2026 15:26 +0000at://did:plc:2fe4ww7sslhndyf3rgqzy5ei/app.bsky.feed.post/3msqfxrj3dc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/leftlanesmith.bsky.social/post/3mrq4tf7tbc2pSteve Lacy's "doom" from his new album is my jam right now.28 Jul 2026 19:18 +0000at://did:plc:2fe4ww7sslhndyf3rgqzy5ei/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrq4tf7tbc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/leftlanesmith.bsky.social/post/3mrnxvsujuk2tFriends to lovers is great, but unreciprocated crush to friends is also great! Exes to friends is great! I love being friends with people who have already seen the worst, most embarrassing parts of me and still like me anyway.27 Jul 2026 22:44 +0000at://did:plc:2fe4ww7sslhndyf3rgqzy5ei/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrnxvsujuk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/leftlanesmith.bsky.social/post/3mridhnsufk23All this yelling outside today! It's the Leo Sun/Sag Moon energy, right? So, I was leaving my house again & a guy is idling outside in his truck with the window down hollaring something that I couldn't hear above the car & lawnmower noise. All I could make out was "LGBTQ!" Hostile or friendly, idk.25 Jul 2026 16:55 +0000at://did:plc:2fe4ww7sslhndyf3rgqzy5ei/app.bsky.feed.post/3mridhnsufk23https://bsky.app/profile/leftlanesmith.bsky.social/post/3mriboa7zxs27Dude stuck his head ALL the way out the window to yell at me as he drove by, and I swear what I heard was "Mister Sir, those legs are fantastic!" That doesn't really sound like something anyone would say, but I'm going to go about my day as if he had! 😂25 Jul 2026 16:23 +0000at://did:plc:2fe4ww7sslhndyf3rgqzy5ei/app.bsky.feed.post/3mriboa7zxs27https://bsky.app/profile/leftlanesmith.bsky.social/post/3mraz54he622bThe single most common thing I hear about myself from others is that something I said or did was "incredibly kind" – but they always sound VERY surprised when they say it, so I never feel like I can claim "kind" as a word that people would use to describe me. 😅22 Jul 2026 19:01 +0000at://did:plc:2fe4ww7sslhndyf3rgqzy5ei/app.bsky.feed.post/3mraz54he622bhttps://bsky.app/profile/leftlanesmith.bsky.social/post/3mr6nj65nvk2lEven mangey they are still so sweet 🥹 [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Jul 2026 20:28 +0000at://did:plc:2fe4ww7sslhndyf3rgqzy5ei/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr6nj65nvk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/leftlanesmith.bsky.social/post/3mr63il2cb225Ease my mind about why all the fluffy-tailed animals in my neighborhood (squirrels & foxes) no longer have fluffy tails. Is it disease, environmental toxin, climate? I called the MD Dept of Natural Resources & left a message but I kinda suspect no one will care until there's an acute human problem.21 Jul 2026 15:06 +0000at://did:plc:2fe4ww7sslhndyf3rgqzy5ei/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr63il2cb225https://bsky.app/profile/leftlanesmith.bsky.social/post/3mqzuesfgnc2dI asked how They see me, and Tarot just described the shirt I have on 💀😂19 Jul 2026 22:48 +0000at://did:plc:2fe4ww7sslhndyf3rgqzy5ei/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqzuesfgnc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/leftlanesmith.bsky.social/post/3mqw6vpf3jk2pProud to share my buddy Mike was part of making this protest poetry anthology happen & includes his own work! Mike & I were first friends in our early 20s before either of us was political, just some nerds hanging out. 🤓 It's beautiful when friends can change & stay aligned. Support if you can! 🔥 [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Jul 2026 11:45 +0000at://did:plc:2fe4ww7sslhndyf3rgqzy5ei/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqw6vpf3jk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/leftlanesmith.bsky.social/post/3mqwfsg3tds2dThe "it's gender affieming care!" response to Hegseth's plans to boost testosterone in the military bothers me. Feels like it perpetuates the false idea that T makes people more aggressive & violent, hurting trans people. And if soldiers are tried for war crimes they'll plead that they were drugged.18 Jul 2026 13:49 +0000at://did:plc:2fe4ww7sslhndyf3rgqzy5ei/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqwfsg3tds2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/leftlanesmith.bsky.social/post/3mqweix6gp222What Stephen Miller calls abnormal and "deformed" are all just signs of valuing & expressing autonomy, from blue hair, tattoos & piercings to leftist t-shirts & gender nonconforming styles to gender affirming medical decisions like hormones & surgeries. Body autonomy itself is the threat to them.18 Jul 2026 13:26 +0000at://did:plc:2fe4ww7sslhndyf3rgqzy5ei/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqweix6gp222https://bsky.app/profile/leftlanesmith.bsky.social/post/3mqw6vpf3jk2pProud to share my buddy Mike was part of making this protest poetry anthology happen & includes his own work! Mike & I were first friends in our early 20s before either of us was political, just some nerds hanging out. 🤓 It's beautiful when friends can change & stay aligned. Support if you can! 🔥 [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Jul 2026 11:45 +0000at://did:plc:2fe4ww7sslhndyf3rgqzy5ei/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqw6vpf3jk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/leftlanesmith.bsky.social/post/3mqutef5tms2vThe sun like the lit end of a cigarette ashing all over us.17 Jul 2026 22:46 +0000at://did:plc:2fe4ww7sslhndyf3rgqzy5ei/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqutef5tms2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/leftlanesmith.bsky.social/post/3mqmilzo5ks2bI'm also in the middle of a personal Hermit card year and 12H profection year, so there's a ton going on quietly under the surface – but deep, beautiful things are happening, from which new work will emerge in public.... eventually 😅14 Jul 2026 15:12 +0000at://did:plc:2fe4ww7sslhndyf3rgqzy5ei/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqmilzo5ks2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/leftlanesmith.bsky.social/post/3mqmdsfyedk22I'm a writer who has my Mercury in detriment in the 12th house. That hasn't meant I find writing difficult, but it is often private. My chart ruler is in Virgo, the sign where Mercury is exalted, in the 9th house. Writing and publishing in service to my spirituality is my Mercury's redemption.14 Jul 2026 13:46 +0000at://did:plc:2fe4ww7sslhndyf3rgqzy5ei/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqmdsfyedk22https://bsky.app/profile/leftlanesmith.bsky.social/post/3mq3j6zbvz22sIntegrity is everything and @bonabooks.bsky.social handled this as well as could possibly be expected. As a writer who didn't make the cut for this anthology, it's disheartening to know how competition with AI is going, so I love that they replaced the 2 AI stories with 3 by real queer writers. ❤️‍🔥 [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Jul 2026 21:08 +0000at://did:plc:2fe4ww7sslhndyf3rgqzy5ei/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq3j6zbvz22shttps://bsky.app/profile/leftlanesmith.bsky.social/post/3mpp2fxz4422cWhen I step out of the room that has a little window AC unit, I am shocked the house hasn't just combusted into flames. Holy fuck. High was 104° & heat index of 116° in my area of Baltimore at the peak today. 🥵02 Jul 2026 22:11 +0000at://did:plc:2fe4ww7sslhndyf3rgqzy5ei/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpp2fxz4422chttps://bsky.app/profile/leftlanesmith.bsky.social/post/3mplt3anras27It's International Zine Month! Zines are not a crime! Free Des & all the Prairieland defendants! Support your favorite DIY no-AI zinesters! Tell me your faves! [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Jul 2026 15:22 +0000at://did:plc:2fe4ww7sslhndyf3rgqzy5ei/app.bsky.feed.post/3mplt3anras27https://bsky.app/profile/leftlanesmith.bsky.social/post/3mpjunwct4k2qTransitioning from Pride to Wrath Month 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🖤😈🔥 Saturday night I had a great time at Nighthaven, a kinky queer dance party, at Mobtown Ballroom ❤️‍🔥30 Jun 2026 20:45 +0000at://did:plc:2fe4ww7sslhndyf3rgqzy5ei/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpjunwct4k2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/leftlanesmith.bsky.social/post/3mpjtzypb2k2qStoked to announce that I have an essay titled "Horny for Our Disobedience" 😈 featured in issue 13 "The Power We Choose" of ANARKISS - The Counterculture Zine! Available in a couple weeks, pre-order now from anarkisszine.com! #kinky #queer #trans #anarchist #writer30 Jun 2026 20:34 +0000at://did:plc:2fe4ww7sslhndyf3rgqzy5ei/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpjtzypb2k2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/leftlanesmith.bsky.social/post/3mpfc3hmy2223Full Moon's coming on the exact degree ♏️ of my rising sign ♑️, let's gooooo! 🌕29 Jun 2026 01:02 +0000at://did:plc:2fe4ww7sslhndyf3rgqzy5ei/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpfc3hmy2223