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Sara Solara

@sarasolara.bsky.social

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YA SFF author writing multiracial autistic girls who do gay crime. 🇵🇸 🇨🇴 🏳️‍🌈 #ActuallyAutistic ∞ Palestine will be free 🍉 she/her Rep: Becca Podos, Neighborhood Literary Short story in THYME TRAVELLERS (Fernwood) https://www.sarasolara.com/

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Sara Solara @sarasolara.bsky.social · Jul 6

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I write YA SFF about quiet autistic girls who learn how to fight like hell when their worlds cave in.

🌈💖 YA anti-capitalist fantasy with magic, gay crime, and sapphic yearning

🌈❤️‍🔥 YA anti-imperialist space resistance starring sisters who defend each other at all costs

Purple space and stars background with white text reading: Sara Solara, YA sci-fi and fantasy author

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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 2d

The beloved Saleh Al-Jafarawi has been murdered. We are absolutely devastated. For 2 years he reported on the genocide of his people, just for him to be murdered during the ‘ceasefire’

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 2d

The deployment of tear gas throughout the Chicago area is a growing health concern. ICE is deploying tear gas in residential neighborhoods, near children, playgrounds, stores, etc. What are the health implications on our communities?

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 1d

an Indigenous Peoples Day reminder that borders are bullshit and every Indigenous person from across the Americas deserves to be in the US more than every person of European origin

fuck borders, fuck ICE, land back.

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Suyi @suyidavies.com · 2d

Holy shit, what????

The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 2d

The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Novella? LOST ARK DREAMING by @suyidavies.com

2025 Winner Outstanding Novella: LOST ARK DREAMING by Suyi Davies Okungbowa

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Sara Solara @sarasolara.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations!!! ❤️‍🔥

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations @genni.bsky.social on winning the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Creative Nonfiction for AFRO-CENTERED FUTURISMS IN OUR SPECULATIVE FICTION

2025 Winner Outstanding Creative Nonfiction for AFRO-CENTERED FUTURISMS IN OUR SPECULATIVE FICTION edited by Eugen Bacon

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Sara Solara @sarasolara.bsky.social · 2d

It's heartening to see THYME TRAVELLERS win an Ignyte Award ✨❤️

I was honored to contribute a queer, mystical short story to this anthology alongside many incredible Palestinian speculative fiction writers I deeply admire, edited by @soniasulaiman.bsky.social in all her brilliance 🌿

The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations @soniasulaiman.bsky.social on winning the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works for THYME TRAVELERS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PALESTINIAN SPECULATIVE FICTION

2025 Winner Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works - THYME TRAVELLERS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PALESTINIAN SPECULATIVE FICTION edited by Sonia Sulaiman

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Sonia is an Ignyte and Ember Award winner! @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t know what to say except that the Ignytes mean so much to me, are so important for the community. I’m incredibly honoured to say this is my first win, and a win for all the contributors.

Thank you all! 🍉

The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations @soniasulaiman.bsky.social on winning the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works for THYME TRAVELERS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PALESTINIAN SPECULATIVE FICTION

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Sonia is an Ignyte and Ember Award winner! @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 2d

I didn’t know what to say before, with Thyme Travellers winning just now. All I have to say is please continue to support Palestinians loudly and without apology.

So much love to you all!

The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 2d

The Ember Award for Unsung Contributions to Genre goes to @soniasulaiman.bsky.social
#2025IgnyteAwards

2025 Winner The Ember Award: Sonia Sulaiman

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Cynthia “Cina” Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 3d

Please support Latino businesses if you’re in Chicago. Our small businesses are so important to our communities, and given everything happening they can use your help to support their employees and our neighborhoods.

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 2d

If you don’t see the link between ICE and the IDF, you haven’t been paying attention. We are being asked to accept a world where whole communities are made disposable and marked for disappearance. If we accept that for anyone, no one is safe anywhere.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

ICE hit our area hard again today. I spent the morning and afternoon on patrol, and then came home for Understory, the emotional and spiritual support group for activists I co-facilitate. @tanuja.bsky.social was going to cover for me, but I decided I needed to be there, for my sake. I was right.

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 4d

Seeing pictures of an abandoned tamale cart in Pilsen where ICE took a tamale street vendor. Those photos of left behind carts are so haunting. Community members disappeared. Not just vendors but people who have long standing relationships with the community and people.

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 7d

2 years of genocide. I mourn the dead, and I mourn the living. None of us will ever be the same, none of us should ever be the same.

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Common Notions Press @commonnotions.bsky.social · 7d

Happy pub day to LETTERS FROM A LIVING UTOPIA!!

@yaffasutopia.bsky.social

www.commonnotions.org/letters-from-a-living-utopia

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mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social · Aug 20

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Massacres are currently unfolding in northern Gaza and in eastern neighborhoods of Gaza City, such as Zaytoun, Sabra, and Shuja’iyya, yet there are no journalists on the ground and no media coverage from these areas.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · Aug 19

I don't think people are concerned enough about the fact that the majority of people in the world have objected to this genocide for nearly 2 years and nobody in power cares one bit. They're conditioning us to do what we're told. This isn't just about Palestinians. Just wait until the next pandemic

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · Aug 11

I feel like I’m leading two parallel lives. In one, I’m fine. I’m leading a comfortable bourgeois life, I’m healthy, I have food and shelter. In the other, I’m watching the worst horrors, I can barely breathe, I’m screaming into the void, and nothing seems to help. Unbearable.

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Remi Kanazi @remikanazi.bsky.social · Aug 12

Israel has been murdering Palestinian truth tellers for 8 decades. The journalist, the poet, the novelist, the academic, the organizer, the doctor. The goal has always been to bomb and shoot its way into Palestinian silence. It has never achieved victory. It never will.

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Sara Solara @sarasolara.bsky.social · Aug 2

I never imagined we would be here in this worst stage of the genocide, as Israel starves our loved ones in Gaza. 💔

Keep finding new ways to fight. Disrupt every war criminal and genocide profiteer, and donate to direct aid projects like Grassroots Gaza and Water Is Life Gaza.

Sara Solara @sarasolara.bsky.social · Aug 2

Banging the pots loud 🥄🥄🥄

A dear friend gifted me this spoon during my wife's surgery a couple months into the current genocide. Now it has found a noisy new purpose 🔥 🥄

A pot with a big metal soup spoon against a sidewalk background, held next to a keffiyeh

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · Aug 1

Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.

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This morning, Israeli forces raided and demolished the Seed Multiplication Unit of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees' (UAWC) national seed bank in Hebron.

Using bulldozers and heavy machinery, the Israeli army destroyed the storage warehouses and infrastructure where essential equipment, seed materials, and tools for indigenous seed reproduction were kept.

This is not just an attack on a building-its an attack on Palestinian food sovereignty, biodiversity and cultural memory.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · Jul 30

Democratic Congressman @repbillfoster.bsky.social repeatedly voted to fund and arm Netanyahu even as he commits genocide, refuses to even acknowledge the famine he helped fund, & is now having police remove people protesting at his town hall.

Bill Foster: Scientist, Businessman, Genocide Enabler

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Deena 🇵🇸 دينا @deenahelm.bsky.social · Jul 29

She's Publisher's Marketplace official! ♥️🇵🇸

If you're interested in book about a haunted house that fights back against its occupiers - and the three generations of Palestinian women who are bound to it - then look out September 2026 from Tor Nightfire and Orbit UK!

A screenshot from Publisher’s Marketplace that states:

Deena Helm's OUR CUT OF SALT, an upmarket horror in which three generations of Palestinian women converge in their ancestral haunted home and must learn what the price of the past truly is, exploring generational trauma, grief, and the horrors of the Israeli occupation, to Kristin Temple at Nightfire, in a significant deal, at auction, in a two-book deal, for publication in September 2026, by Alex Brown at Mad Woman Literary Agency (NA).
Rights also to Nadia Saward at Orbit UK, by Anna Carmichael at Abner Stein, on behalf of Taryn Fagerness Agency and Mad Woman Literary.
Translation: Taryn Fagerness

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Remi Kanazi @remikanazi.bsky.social · Jul 26

There is no two sides

There’s occupier & occupied

Genocide enforcer & genocide victims

Only one side is mass starving refugees in concentration camps

Only one side is enforcing apartheid & blockade

Only one side is demolishing homes & torturing prisoners

That side is Israel

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