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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 2h

Quick shoutout to Julie Phillips's bio James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon, which I refer to whenever I teach Tiptree's fiction. It's really useful work that happens to come from outside of SF studies.
(I may or may not have told my class that Alice B. Sheldon had that shit on)

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AJ Fitzwater 🏳️‍⚧️ @ajfitzwater.bsky.social · 1d

i want the forest and the sky and the soil to remember me

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TransLash Media @translash.org · 1d

We honor the legacy of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a fierce protector of our collective freedom. Our hearts are with her loved ones and all who carry her vision forward.

"We will honor Miss Major forever." - @imarajones.bsky.social

An illustration of Miss Major surrounded by candles with blue background and a famous quote of hers written in gold. The quote reads“I don’t need their permission to exist; I exist in spite of them. I want you to train and teach and love on and create families within my community and gender non-conforming people, so that we can understand that we have a culture, we have a history, we have a reason to be here. We have a purpose. We’re entitled to be loved, and seek happiness, and share that with the people that we care about.” -Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

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AJ Fitzwater 🏳️‍⚧️ @ajfitzwater.bsky.social · 1d

WANT.

Brandon O’Brien, low on Action Points @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 1d

Braincrack:

there should be a single unified non-blog place online to get a list (and a calendar view) of every upcoming SFF novel & novella release in a year. Something you can just set reminders for the week before, and when it's on preorder, so you can keep up with every pub without hassle.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

What I learned from Miss Major was persistence and also keeping a sense of humor. I was lucky to see her work in various organizing meetings over the years. She was a model of how to be a good elder. Truly grateful for everything she did to make the world better. Time for the rest of us to continue.

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 1d

Rest in Power Miss Major. We all owe you so much. Thank you for everything.

Trans leader Miss Major Griffin-Gracy dies

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender woman and longtime activist who once lived in the Bay Area, died October 13.

www.ebar.com

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Wole Talabi @wtalabi.bsky.social · 2d

Genres aren't real. They are mental projections we impose on stories to simplify the way talk about and sell them but stories come unshaped from deep within us and writers shouldn't feel constrained by or even respect genres at all. The story comes first.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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AJ Fitzwater 🏳️‍⚧️ @ajfitzwater.bsky.social · 2d

ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

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Marty Cahill @mcflycahill90.bsky.social · 2d

With many authors treating writing as their second job, they should not need a third job as social media influencer and become a walking brand in order to have, yknow, a chance at a career.

Also bring back the midlist.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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JK✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 3d

Everyone collectively dreaming, in their own ways, of a life that's not 90% scams and violence.

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AJ Fitzwater 🏳️‍⚧️ @ajfitzwater.bsky.social · 3d

God, 30STM first albums were absolute bangers, and I can't listen to them anymore.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 4d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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AJ Fitzwater 🏳️‍⚧️ @ajfitzwater.bsky.social · 4d

Unfort it looks like we got a VFF member for our mayor 😒

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AJ Fitzwater 🏳️‍⚧️ @ajfitzwater.bsky.social · 4d

Goths and punks against climate change 🥵

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AJ Fitzwater 🏳️‍⚧️ @ajfitzwater.bsky.social · 6d

You're asking fash to confront their hypocrisy, so that's a big old no.

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Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social · 10d

We're running a sale on the website. Get 25% off your order with promo code Molly at checkout. One of the books we have in stock is The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper by @ajfitzwater.bsky.social. It's LGBT+ fantasy.
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The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper, by A.J. Fitzwater

Dapper. Lesbian. Capybara. Pirate. Cinrak the Dapper is a keeper of secrets, a righter of wrongs, the saltiest capybara on the sea and a rider of both falling stars and a great glass whale. Join her, ...

carpelibrumbaltimore.com

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AJ Fitzwater 🏳️‍⚧️ @ajfitzwater.bsky.social · 12d

Congrats!

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AJ Fitzwater 🏳️‍⚧️ @ajfitzwater.bsky.social · 14d

"[T]he fact that so many people in our world (friends, neighbors, family) seem unwilling or unable to process what we think should be reality-shattering information gets pretty demoralizing."

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 14d

20 years after Serenity, @thenerdypriest.bsky.social wrestles with a core premise of science fiction stories. When the world is at stake, is "getting out the truth" really enough?

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Serenity and the Myth of "Getting Out the Signal" - Reactor

We want to believe that knowledge will change the world for the better, but it's not always that simple.

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AJ Fitzwater 🏳️‍⚧️ @ajfitzwater.bsky.social · 15d

I want these stories too and plan to write them in my next novel.

Unfortunately, most media can't resist redeeming the old woman through a makeover, fuckability, or giving her a man.

I will do none of those things. Elder women and queers deserve an expansive existence.

Archangel Roxy 🏳️‍⚧️ @roxynychus.bsky.social · 15d

Remember that trend of post-apocalyptic media about grizzled old men finding a young girl and rediscovering purpose in life by becoming her protector/adoptive father, ie Logan, The Last of Us? They should bring that back but with grizzled old women. Give us the badass apocalypse mom stories.

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ThirtyHelens🔞 @thirtyhelens.bsky.social · 16d

If you're an lgbtq news outlet, your job is not, contrary to what you might think, giving every queer person alive a heart attack every morning

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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 16d

an otherside kickstarter bumpersticker that reads: "honk if you love materially supporting 2slgbtquia+ art in the face of censorship and relentless hostility"

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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 16d

WE'RE LIVE! AND WE ARE SO EXCITED! Back now to support a new magazine of speculative fiction by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists! Snag some amazing rewards, including discounted subscriptions! Support queer art! And help us SMASH DAY ONE!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

OTHERSIDE Kickstarter art. Text says OTHERSIDE Kickstarter LIVE NOW! over our purple and banner art with the Wanderer, a small figure on floating rocks, on the right.

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 18d

Make your queer stuff, do your queer stuff, but also save some queer stuff. It’s history.

What we’re doing now? Someday people like us are going to look back at all we vibrantly, unabashedly, vibrantly did for ourselves, despite everything thrown at us, and it’s going to give people hope.

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AJ Fitzwater 🏳️‍⚧️ @ajfitzwater.bsky.social · 18d

Can someone throw dildos at Peters and Seymour, or something, please.

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 19d

every trans person I've spoken to is feeling the Drag Down right now. not everybody has fallen into despair but we're all feeling it creeping in around the edges, doing our best to fight it. things are bad. if you know a trans person, look after them.

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