Tell Christina about books!! Though I've heard they will also accept pastries and Bad Bunny fancams
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Tell Christina about books!! Though I've heard they will also accept pastries and Bad Bunny fancams
because I keep forgetting to mention it: LITERALLY ANYONE can nominate books for this prize! yes! that means you! you have until march 31st!
This kind of thing has been standard policing since Marsha P Johnson's dead body was found in the Hudson River following an argument with some transphobes and was immediately ruled a suicide and left uninvestigated by police
So true.
You do what marketing tells you! I’ll just be the carnival barker friend out here like “WELL ACTUALLY…”
@ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app talking about the smile she fought for is a great reminder that you can help give her a reason to use it.
Pre-Order her re-examination (it is so incisive “retelling” doesn’t capture it) of the myths surrounding The Little Mermaid here:
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We bombed Iran?! | I need to pay that bill | Kansas antitrans ID law!! | Don’t forget Hugo noms | do we still have Venezuela’s president? | *an email re: book promotion* | I can’t pay this bill | cutting funds to MN?? | I need to check on my friends | timeline fights about doomerism | taxes | REPEAT
As the elected government officials pop on here to rationalize their enthusiastic complicity in the bombing of children, a reminder that this fun labeler identifying who is funding them exists.
bsky.app/profile/us-g...
Welp. I made it a few solid “positive book posts” before my inner monologue reverted back to “fuck everything but especially us.”
Reposting for the afternoon crowd because I must. Remember: Pre-orders are a writer’s lifeblood!!
Less than one week left to back THE COOKOUT anthology of speculative fiction from the African Diaspora. Only 250 to go until we open public submissions (paying at least 10 cents per word), and just over 1k to go until we're funded. You can push us over the top! #authors #readers #speculativefiction
Yay!!! It is upon us!!
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Hahahahaha that’s actually how I feel!
Eek! Huge thanks to @reactorsff.bsky.social revealing the new cover today! Can’t wait for you all to see what terrible things I have in store for you in October!
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Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.
Cis liberals: when you go along with the hemming and hawing about "it's just sports" and "well it's just waiting a little longer" this is what you're enabling. "It's just a couple more steps down the road, what's the harm?" is how you get to the end of the road!
So there's a black girl scout troop trying to raise money to to to Europe but they aren't close to their goal as of yet. Please share this and buy some cookies if you can
digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/reagan...
Yes! Yeeeeeeeesssss!!!!
White background with black text, reading: With endless gratitude, to every Toni Morrison: the last one, the next one, and the ones that have not yet been born. The house is beautiful. Don't let it keep you.
There is no writer or thinker I wanted to be more than Toni Morrison. In honor of her special day, I’d like to share the dedication for my upcoming novel, The Unhaunting, which resides heavily and happily in the shadow of her Beloved:
if not choo choo why choo choo shaped bsky.app/profile/cost...
The #Sirens26 faculty are a-maaaaaa-zing! You won't want to miss their keynotes! @kellybarnhill.bsky.social @notquitehydepark.bsky.social @sarahgailey.bsky.social Jewelle Gomez @laylaazmigoushey.bsky.social @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social @dianapho.bsky.social @lilliamr.bsky.social
EVERYBODY NOMINATE ALEX, NOMINATE THEM SO HARD IT'S VISIBLE FROM SPACE
I can't say enough about Alex's presence in the SFF community, their generous and thoughtful reviewing, and the work they do to uplift marginalized creators.
The Clarion West logo and text that reads: Six-Week Workshop Applications Are Open: Applications Close February 13 at Noon Pacific Time.
If you're still thinking about applying for the 2026 Six-Week Workshop, applications close on Friday, February 13 at 12:00 PM PT (Noon!).
The 2026 workshop is virtual with instructors @taracampbell.bsky.social, @indrapramitdas.bsky.social, David Thomas Moore, and @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social!
Reminder that I will be at #Sirens26 talking about everything from black robots to unchecked capitalism and racism in the publishing landscape. IT WILL BE MORE FUN THAN I AM MAKING IT SOUND. @sirensconference.org
very excited to have my response included in the latest Boston Review forum against Democratic moderation! here it is, my best argument for why Dems shouldn't "moderate" on transgender rights & LGBTQ issues more generally (as they are inextricably linked): www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
(The last time I brought this up in public the person offered Domhall Gleeson as a counter example…which illustrated rather than countered the point. I will consider an argument for Barry Keoghan, though I am less familiar with his face).
I will add that we’ve also lost the art of nonconforming features, imperfect teeth, and forfeiting hairlines.
Hollywood has always had the hot/polished Sidney Poitier, Lauren Bacall, Jolie/Pitt, etc types, but - as someone raised on TCM - the ratio of gloss to grit among the under 45s feels off.
So many leaks of cabal of "legacy" media editors, their billionaires, men angry about sex and Me Too, mediocre "meritocracy" tech bros, "intellectual" racists, far-right
"senior staff writer at Vice’s women’s vertical sent Yiannopoulos an article by Lindy West asking “please mock this fat feminist”
OK folks, let's get this started. Think back to pandemic year 2020. Think of SFF books from that year which "include positive explorations of gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered characters, themes, or issues." A broad citation!
Here's my initial longlist from racking my brain. What've I missed?