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Julie Kliegman

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Writer, editor. MIND GAME (2024), about how athletes navigate mental health. FINDING RENÉE RICHARDS (2026), a biography. Nonbinary ace. They/them. www.juliekliegman.com

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Julie Kliegman @juliekliegman.com · Jul 15

📖🎾 I am thrilled to share the news that my second book is in the works! FINDING RENÉE is a biography of Renée Richards, a transgender woman who successfully sued for her right to compete in the 1977 U.S. Open. 🎾📖

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Sports journalist and author of MIND GAME Julie Kliegman's FINDING RENEE, the first-ever biography of the tennis legend and transgender pioneer Renee Richards, who successfully sued for her right to compete in the women's draw of the 1977 U.S. Open, based on interviews with Richards herself and those in her orbit and drawing on archival footage and never-before-seen material, to Maya Alpert at Harper One, in a pre-empt, for publication in June 2026, by Iris Blasi at Arc Literary Management (world).

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Julie Kliegman @juliekliegman.com · 4h

I bet I’ll say more about this tomorrow, either here or in my newsletter (subscribe below!), but like, it’s been a year and a half since MIND GAME came out in hardcover, and the questions and issues surrounding mental health care in elite athletes are more relevant than ever

Mental Notes

This is a way to keep up to speed on Julie Kliegman’s projects and book updates. They write about mental health in sports, transgender athletes, asexuality, and other fun and not-so-fun things.

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Julie Kliegman @juliekliegman.com · 5h

If you preorder/order MIND GAME (in hardcover *or* paperback) you can also DM me your address if you want me to mail you a signed bookplate to stick in it. I love doing this for people!

Julie Kliegman @juliekliegman.com · 5h

If you preorder/order from @astoriabookshop.bsky.social (they ship! they're rad!) you can get a ~~signed copy~~ I would be so jazzed to walk there and sign yours!! www.astoriabookshop.com/item/W_UG3G-...

Mind Game by Julie Kliegman | Astoria Bookshop

A deep look into how even the best athletes struggle with and persevere through mental illness.In growing numbers, athletes are speaking up about their struggles with mental illness-including high-pro...

www.astoriabookshop.com

Julie Kliegman @juliekliegman.com · 5h

MIND GAME paperback out tomorrow! Which means TODAY is your last chance to feel smug about having preordered and supported me even *more*. Please consider snagging your copy today

Mind Game

A deep look into how even the best athletes struggle with and persevere through mental illness.In growing numbers, athletes are speaking up about their struggle…

www.bloomsbury.com

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Julie Kliegman @juliekliegman.com · 9h

I posted before reading, but as expected this is so fucking funny, plz get on it

Julie Kliegman @juliekliegman.com · 9h

lol ok

We love you but we do not pay for book reviews at this time. Reviews run online only.

Julie Kliegman @juliekliegman.com · 10h

have never clicked something so fast

Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 10h

Could not be more excited to be in @defector.com talking about SMiZE&DREAM HOT MAMA Hot Ice Cream defector.com/tyra-banks-p...

Tyra Banks Please Explain What The Hell You Mean By “Hot Ice Cream” | Defector

Tyra Banks’s eyes are wild. Or maybe they were just always that way, her piercing green-gray irises one of many reminders that right, before she was a TV host and an MLM kingpin and a meme, she was a ...

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Julie Kliegman @juliekliegman.com · 10h

Oh hell yes let’s fucking go

Julie Kliegman @juliekliegman.com · 12h

CONGRATS!

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

I wrote about trans visibility in a time of rising transphobia for @theverge.com www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

How trans visibility became a trap

People who have documented their lives online are discovering the dark side of digital permanence.

www.theverge.com

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Julie Kliegman @juliekliegman.com · 2d

Right on the dot to show my respect for the time of everyone who made an effort to be there. But I also don’t make a big deal of anything when students walk in late — life happens

Julie Kliegman @juliekliegman.com · 3d

pumpkins give me the ick

Julie Kliegman @juliekliegman.com · 3d

Long Story Short: good show imo

Julie Kliegman @juliekliegman.com · 4d

Ooooh I’m looking forward to reading

Julie Kliegman @juliekliegman.com · 4d

Don’t heap endless praise onto the coach who is said to have discriminated against a pregnant lady challenge level: impossible

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Julie Kliegman @juliekliegman.com · 4d

FINDING RENÉE RICHARDS (August 2026)

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 4d

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

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Julie Kliegman @juliekliegman.com · 6d

MIND GAME is coming out in paperback so soon, and for the New Yorkers among us I’ll be at Wilka’s, the new women’s sports bar in Manhattan! Oct. 21, baybee. Come hang!!!

Catch me at the new women’s sports bar

Mind Game is launching in paperback.

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Julie Kliegman @juliekliegman.com · 5d

I’m so tired lol

Julie Kliegman @juliekliegman.com · 5d

Sorry, we’re doing WHAT now?

Men Are Betting on WNBA Players' Menstrual Cycles

Some sports gamblers are trying to predict WNBA players’ performance—and the outcomes of games—based on the athletes’ periods. One betting content creator has dubbed it “blood money."

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Julie Kliegman @juliekliegman.com · 6d

MIND GAME is coming out in paperback so soon, and for the New Yorkers among us I’ll be at Wilka’s, the new women’s sports bar in Manhattan! Oct. 21, baybee. Come hang!!!

Catch me at the new women’s sports bar

Mind Game is launching in paperback.

juliekliegman.com

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Julie Kliegman @juliekliegman.com · 6d

lol Frankie this is such a good idea

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Julie Kliegman @juliekliegman.com · 7d

Lol I found my literary agent on Twitter too. She emailed me after I tweeted about having narrowly escaped signing with an agent who revealed themself to be extremely racist

Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 7d

I signed with my agent because I tweeted the idea for a novel. He saw it, was already aware of my work, and thought it was a good time to get in touch. I used to regularly get pitches accepted because of tweets, and editors would often DM to ask "hey if you're serious about _____ lets talk."

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 7d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Patrick Sauer @pjsauer.bsky.social · 7d

Tix link @squawkinsports.bsky.social Live XV!

As seen on @todayshow.com!

11/6 OG Bloggers:
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Mark your 1/15/26 calendar for Trans Writers:
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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 8d

Could someone cool please start a press. There are so many great hires rattling around out there right now. I KNOW some of you are out here having secret money

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 8d

A vast majority of Texas outlets’ coverage of queer life in the focuses on our disenfranchisement, but queer people in Texas aren’t always victims of a tragedy. Often we’re the hero, the performer, the jokester, the observer. We want to tell those stories too.

www.journalismjobs.com/job-listing/...

JournalismJobs.com - Job Listing - Queer Texas Culture & Newsletter Writer

JournalismJobs.com has journalism and media job listings with digital media, newspapers, tv stations, radio stations, magazines, nonprofits, and academia.

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