Grace Byron

Fashion as Armor Grace Byron on Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

I wrote about CBK and Love Story for SSENSE

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ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

Grace Byron - HERCULINE

Went on Beyond the Zero!

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The Endless Hypocrisy of Bari Weiss She claims to be a free speech champion. But as her actions at CBS News keep showing, she seems to think free speech should run only in a rightward direction.

Wrote about someone whose ethics bother me and also runs CBS News. (And possibly more soon)

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✨ Em Staff Pick! ✨ Love queer horror? Check out Herculine by Grace Byron! Manhunt meets Lord of the Flies in this horror debut! Cults, demons, ex-girfirends and the rural Midwest. This is a fever dream you won't forget!"

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You Can Just Do Things | Patrick Blanchfield As ever, the horrors Trump embodies implicate more than just his singular odious person. His “habit of abusing power to force his will upon an uncooperative world”—in David Frum’s formulation over the...

Is it really such a shock that a man who’s bragged about sexual assault doesn’t give a shit about the tedious rituals of manufacturing consent from a populace he despises before getting violent? If you’re President Trump, you can just do things. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

My writing and reporting has appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, and elsewhere. I take privacy very seriously and we can talk on Signal if you DM me first. It's fine to use a pseudonym or speak anonymously.

If someone DMs me first, we can also move to Signal, yes.

My angle is and has always been for trans rights and autonomy and showcase the ingenuity and joys alongside the challenges trans people face. I'm reporting for The Verge. My work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, and elsewhere.

Hi there! I'm so sorry to hear that. I'd definitely love to chat with you if you want to DM me. I'm a trans journalist and my work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, and elsewhere. I take autonomy and privacy very seriously.

Thank you Mattie <3

Willow, thank you so much

If they're interested feel free to DM me here or have them DM here!

Gretchen!! <3333

Hello! I am a trans journalist looking to speak with trans kids and parents of trans kids across the US who have been impacted by the clinic closures---please get in touch or share!

Photo of the book "Herculine" by Grace Byron. A devilish femme figure in black in an inferno of green fire

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One week from tonight! Come bask in the literary brilliance of Aria Aber, @emotrophywife.bsky.social , Rebecca Novack, and Issa Quincy. With your trusty hosts @temim.bsky.social and @briangresko.bsky.social & books provided by @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social !

Is the Cis Literary World Okay? - Public Books Contemporary trans literature is thriving in a highly freewheeling manner… How revealing, then, that David Brooks recently suggested that literary fiction has been declining in quality.

New at PB: Sophie Lewis (@reproutopia.bsky.social) reviews Davey Davis‘s “Casanova 20” (@catapultbooks.bsky.social) and Grace Byron’s “Herculine,” two novels that—however different—both “quietly exalt real friends above other conceptualizations of love.”

I'm most grateful to Ben - and to Megan Cummins at @publicbooks.bsky.social - for publishing my thoughts on @daveydavis.bsky.social and @emotrophywife.bsky.social

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David Brooks laments that literary fiction has been declining in quality, because of its supposed progressivism and "a general loss in confidence and audacity across Western culture." To this, @reproutopia.bsky.social @publicbooks.bsky.social simply asks: "Is the cissexual literary world okay?"

Smuggling Healthcare On hospitals, bodily autonomy, MAHA, and faith

on hospitals and MAHA! consider supporting me on substack

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I am teaching a class on Ursula K Le Guin online through McNally Jackson!

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Melanianoma On the FLOTUS's new movie

I saw Melania and wrote about it

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Cover for Tim Lebbon's COLDBROOK. A zombie-esque figure standing in a field in front of woods. A fog is coming in, and it's all very dreary.

Book cover for Stephen Graham Jones' STATES OF GRACE. It features a face made up of different people (and one animal!). The strips are a mixture of young and old (and a lion?). The top is just a glimpse of a forehead with black hair. Then there's more hair, but it's in black and white and almost looks like it was drawn with a pencil. Next strip, you see gray hair on the sides of a heavily wrinked forehead, and the beginning of some dark eyebrows. A painting of someone's eyes follows, then an old picture of the top of a nose, followed by the bottom nose of a lion. Beneath that are lips from a painting and the next strip contains the chin. The neck strip shows a spiked necklace tight around it. Book cover for Stephen Graham Jones' STATES OF GRACE. It features a face made up of different people (and one animal!). The strips are a mixture of young and old (and a lion?). The top is just a glimpse of a forehead with black hair. Then there's more hair, but it's in black and white and almost looks like it was drawn with a pencil. Next strip, you see gray hair on the sides of a heavily wrinked forehead, and the beginning of some dark eyebrows. A painting of someone's eyes follows, then an old picture of the top of a nose, followed by the bottom nose of a lion. Beneath that are lips from a painting and the next strip contains the chin. The neck strip shows a spiked necklace tight around it.

Cover for J.H. Markert's MISTER LULLABY, featuring a child in a very bright yellow rain coat and green boots. They are walking on railroad tracks into a tunnel.

Cove for Grace Byron's HERCULINE. It has green flames covering the novel, with a head rising from them in the center.

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The news has moved on, but the people of Gaza are still struggling. Please give what you can to help my friend Sama'a survive.

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ICE vs. Everyone | Erin West What we’re doing now is this: The trainings have evolved into street medic workshops on protecting yourself from chemical weapons and lessons on digital security; there’s a meet-up to sew reinforced u...

“Minneapolis learned a lot from the George Floyd protests and it shows. Well before Kristi Noem announced DHS operations in Minnesota, the neighborhood got ready.” New: a dispatch on mutual aid in South Minneapolis.
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Main Character Syndrome as Politics On dark woke politics, ICE, Bari Weiss, and the crossroads of liberalism

wrote a short piece on dark woke, ICE, and Bari Weiss

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People have removed police tape, now surrounding the crime scene with branches and sticks.

sentence from the book herculine: Somehow there wasn't a top shortage at Herculine even though everyone looked like a bottom to me. I poured a

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