Julie Wernersbach
@juliewbach.bsky.social
Owner of Hive Mind Books, a queer indie bookstore in Bushwick. Writer. Bookseller. Debut novel WORK TO DO coming from University of Iowa Press 2026.
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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On this Trans Day of Remembrance we're thinking of Faltas by Celilia Gentili. Faltas is a radical act of self-making and self-redemption. The book felt like the beginning of something special, but was not to be.
Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Town Who Isn't My Rapist
In these hilarious and heartbreaking letters, Cecilia Gentili reinvents the trans memoir, putting the confession squarely between the writer and her enemies, paramours and friends. Writing to childhood figures such as her rapist's daughter, her father's mistress, her best friend, and her mother, Gentili probes deeply into the bitter cruelty, buried secrets, and delicious gossip of a small town. Is she here for revenge, or forgiveness? Both And more A story of sex, theft, murder, motherhood, and outrageous fashion choices, Faltas is a beautiful, messy meditation on what it takes to heal, or even grow.
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November 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
On this Trans Day of Remembrance we're thinking of Faltas by Celilia Gentili. Faltas is a radical act of self-making and self-redemption. The book felt like the beginning of something special, but was not to be.
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1/ I’d like to share what’s happened since Sept. 30, the night of the most dramatic raid of the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago. Under the cover of darkness, 37 immigrants were taken from an apartment complex …🧵
November 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
1/ I’d like to share what’s happened since Sept. 30, the night of the most dramatic raid of the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago. Under the cover of darkness, 37 immigrants were taken from an apartment complex …🧵
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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October 28, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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I guess it was to be expected but we are there now that Mamdani seems poised to win: unrestrained Islamophobia pure racism
And scaremongering.
And scaremongering.
October 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I guess it was to be expected but we are there now that Mamdani seems poised to win: unrestrained Islamophobia pure racism
And scaremongering.
And scaremongering.
The hater insta ads “warning” me about Zohran in my feed today are so embarrassing. What wild, racist desperation.
October 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The hater insta ads “warning” me about Zohran in my feed today are so embarrassing. What wild, racist desperation.
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Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
October 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
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"No bookstore that PW has reached out to has been as adversely impacted as @loyaltybooks.bsky.social, which specializes in diverse and intersectional literature ... Sales are down 65% since August 11."
you can shop at Loyalty at loyaltybookstores.com or through Bookshop bookshop.org/shop/loyalty
you can shop at Loyalty at loyaltybookstores.com or through Bookshop bookshop.org/shop/loyalty
Washington D.C. Indies Contend With Police and Military Presence
The Trump administration’s military takeover in Washington, D.C., last month is impacting sales and foot traffic to various degrees at indie bookstores across the city.
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September 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
"No bookstore that PW has reached out to has been as adversely impacted as @loyaltybooks.bsky.social, which specializes in diverse and intersectional literature ... Sales are down 65% since August 11."
you can shop at Loyalty at loyaltybookstores.com or through Bookshop bookshop.org/shop/loyalty
you can shop at Loyalty at loyaltybookstores.com or through Bookshop bookshop.org/shop/loyalty
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It is easy to feel this way but I truly think, for trans writers at least, writing books now is urgent. Write good books about your friends, get them printed, get them widely distributed, get them in the world. There has never before been an opportunity like the one we currently possess to do this.
is there anything more pointless right now that writing a book? feels that way to me
August 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
It is easy to feel this way but I truly think, for trans writers at least, writing books now is urgent. Write good books about your friends, get them printed, get them widely distributed, get them in the world. There has never before been an opportunity like the one we currently possess to do this.
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Less than two years ago, an Israeli airstrike on a hospital in Gaza city merited a multi-day news cycle, with international outrage forcing Israel to issue denials and launch an absurd but ultimately successful attempt to muddy the waters with dubious theories about Gazans bombing themselves.
August 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Less than two years ago, an Israeli airstrike on a hospital in Gaza city merited a multi-day news cycle, with international outrage forcing Israel to issue denials and launch an absurd but ultimately successful attempt to muddy the waters with dubious theories about Gazans bombing themselves.
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Texas House Democrats offer a brief response to Gov. Greg Abbott's threat of arrest and expulsion: "Come and take it."
August 4, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Texas House Democrats offer a brief response to Gov. Greg Abbott's threat of arrest and expulsion: "Come and take it."
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An update: We still have no rep in Congress (same with two other Dem-held districts in GOP states) & instead of an election the Governor is holding a special legislative session to redraw the districts. The proposed map will give the GOP 5 additional seats.
www.texastribune.org/2025/07/30/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/07/30/t...
July 31, 2025 at 1:46 PM
An update: We still have no rep in Congress (same with two other Dem-held districts in GOP states) & instead of an election the Governor is holding a special legislative session to redraw the districts. The proposed map will give the GOP 5 additional seats.
www.texastribune.org/2025/07/30/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/07/30/t...
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Hey if you are or have been a participant/attendee/admirer of the Portland Book Festival or other Literary Arts programming please consider signing on to this divestment ask!! lithub.com/an-open-lett...
An Open Letter to the Portland Book Festival
We, the undersigned writers & literary organizations, many of whom have been a part of the Literary Arts ecosystem in some way—whether the Portland Book Festival, as finalists or winners of the…
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July 29, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Hey if you are or have been a participant/attendee/admirer of the Portland Book Festival or other Literary Arts programming please consider signing on to this divestment ask!! lithub.com/an-open-lett...
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From our NPR producer in Gaza Anas Baba and @emilyzfeng.bsky.social
Hidaya Al-Motawaq's son is a year and a half old and weighs less than 10 pounds. Doctors warn of permanent damage to children's health due to chronic malnutrition from Israel's earlier blockade.
His name is Mohammad Al-Motawaq. He is 18 months old. And he is starving in Gaza
Hidaya Al-Motawaq's son is a year and a half old and weighs less than 10 pounds. Doctors warn of permanent damage to children's health due to chronic malnutrition from Israel's earlier blockade.
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July 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
From our NPR producer in Gaza Anas Baba and @emilyzfeng.bsky.social
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I truly intended this just as an email and not a public thing but fuck it we ball. The New York Times is not alone in its culpability but it is deeply culpable and its near-monopoly status in our blighted American media ecosystem allows it to do what it does.
July 25, 2025 at 6:37 AM
I truly intended this just as an email and not a public thing but fuck it we ball. The New York Times is not alone in its culpability but it is deeply culpable and its near-monopoly status in our blighted American media ecosystem allows it to do what it does.
there is a new billy joel documentary???!!! this is why i engage with the internet. this is my breaking news.
NPR critic @lindaholmes.bsky.social has been a Billy Joel fan since the '80s. HBO's new two-part documentary still taught her something new about his life — and provided a chance to consider the role of his music in her own.
I didn't know I needed the new Billy Joel documentary
NPR critic Linda Holmes has been a Billy Joel fan since the '80s. HBO's new two-part documentary still taught her something new about his life — and provided a chance to consider the role of his music in her own.
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July 25, 2025 at 1:36 AM
there is a new billy joel documentary???!!! this is why i engage with the internet. this is my breaking news.
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This is a horrific abdication of their responsibilities to students, alums, faculty, staff, to themselves, their peers.
Columbia University has handed over its undergraduate admissions process to Donald Trump and his MAGA allies, who will now decide at their sole discretion whether the university has admitted enough white people. It's no longer an independent institution.
July 24, 2025 at 11:36 AM
This is a horrific abdication of their responsibilities to students, alums, faculty, staff, to themselves, their peers.
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Concentration camp jobs posted on Indeed. I wonder if they’ll start advertising that the uniforms are being made by Hugo Boss:
www.indeed.com/cmp/Critical...
www.indeed.com/cmp/Critical...
July 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Concentration camp jobs posted on Indeed. I wonder if they’ll start advertising that the uniforms are being made by Hugo Boss:
www.indeed.com/cmp/Critical...
www.indeed.com/cmp/Critical...
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Cheeky little reminder as we head towards another "Prime Day" and as I see more authors continuing to push Amazon links.... STOP LINKING TO AMAZON!
Why it’s the right time to stop linking to your book on Amazon.
Stop linking to Amazon already!
Folks, the time has come to stop linking to Amazon. For good. If you’re reading this site, you likely already knew this in your heart. And I’m actually not here to give you the litany o…
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July 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Cheeky little reminder as we head towards another "Prime Day" and as I see more authors continuing to push Amazon links.... STOP LINKING TO AMAZON!
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“While life in Gaza is being obliterated and the West Bank is under escalating assault, the present report shows why the genocide carried out by Israel continues: because it is lucrative for many.”
July 1, 2025 at 11:02 AM
“While life in Gaza is being obliterated and the West Bank is under escalating assault, the present report shows why the genocide carried out by Israel continues: because it is lucrative for many.”
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Happy birthday to the prophetess Octavia Butler. We live in the times she foretold. From her notebooks.
June 22, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Happy birthday to the prophetess Octavia Butler. We live in the times she foretold. From her notebooks.