Qstack News 03/25/26
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🚨News & Announcements
Skylar Lyralen Kaye, fae/they’s new Nonbinary Memoir—Bachelorx—comes out on April 1st (preorders available HERE) with a review by The Rewilded Anthropologist, our Caroline Osella (they/them):
“A sixty-something sober nonbinary social justice artist goes online dating, after leaving a 35-year nearly sexless marriage? And recounts it as a story told by the different parts of the self? Skylar Lyralen Kaye, an award-winning writer, weaves tangled tales of attraction, disappointment - and, of course sexual desire … This books tells the stories - Hot stuff, tough stuff, fun stuff: it’s all here.”
Read more in this article on Fringe Mag:
New nonbinary memoir ‘Bachelorx’ explores queer love, dating, and neurodiversity
Qstack friend and adorable sorceress Jenna Newell Hiott of Spirit Connections is offering an At Home with Magic Pack to interested parties—we don’t know about you, but we’ve got Big Need for Sanctuary at the mo, and we grabbed ours with both hands - Link HERE. 🌟✨💞✨🌟
“At Home with Magic invites you to explore the relationship between Magic and home, transforming your living space into a sanctuary of Spirit. Whether you see home as a physical place or an inner sense of rootedness, this pack helps you weave Magic into both. Through rituals, protective blessings, and creative practices, you’ll learn how to partner with house spirits, create sacred spaces, and bring intentional magic into every room.”
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Qstack Digest 03/11/26
The Stuff of Living
This is one of those pieces that could make you laugh out loud, weep, or both. Anyone who’s confronted the conundrum of what to do with decades-worth of their aging parents’ clutter will likely feel seen by this post. Mal Pronouns manages to capture both the gallows humor of the purported “golden years” and the tenderness of the slow goodbye to declining parents (and their stuff).
I Didn't Change My Documents to Deceive Anyone
Another great post by Nyle Biondi of Queer Resilience, in which he handily debunks the rhetoric about trans people updating their identification documents to deceive for nefarious purposes. Updating documents is, for many trans people, a matter of safety and survival ... and it increases safety for everyone.
A Homestead Waking Up
We enjoyed this post from Jenna Woginrich of Cold Antler Farm as an antidote to the oppressively heavy news. It's a delightful, beautifully written reflection on how spring snuck up on Jenna's small farm this past week.
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