Kyra Freestar
@kyrafreestar.bsky.social
Editing social science and social science fiction since 2005.
Following dragons, dictionaries, and disability justice.
Hope is a decision.
Find me at Bridge Creek Editing | Academic Editing Circle | Mightier (she/they)
Following dragons, dictionaries, and disability justice.
Hope is a decision.
Find me at Bridge Creek Editing | Academic Editing Circle | Mightier (she/they)
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While at Worldcon in Seattle in August, I saw a woman walk by wearing a gray T-shirt with just four words on it:
"I have friends everywhere."
It's something I'd been thinking about for a while. We—all—have friends everywhere. So let’s talk about THAT.
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"I have friends everywhere."
It's something I'd been thinking about for a while. We—all—have friends everywhere. So let’s talk about THAT.
bridgecreekediting.com/we-have-frie...
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"[S]eeking safety is not a crime."
"[A]bout 40 people gathered Monday [..] protesting the arrests of Utahns who went there for appointments like a green card interview and left in the custody of immigration agents."
#Utah #USA #Protest #Deportation #EthnicCleansing #Courts
"[A]bout 40 people gathered Monday [..] protesting the arrests of Utahns who went there for appointments like a green card interview and left in the custody of immigration agents."
#Utah #USA #Protest #Deportation #EthnicCleansing #Courts
Protesters call for feds to stop arresting immigrants at green card appointments
More than 2,000 people nationwide have been detained this year at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offices.
utahnewsdispatch.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"[S]eeking safety is not a crime."
"[A]bout 40 people gathered Monday [..] protesting the arrests of Utahns who went there for appointments like a green card interview and left in the custody of immigration agents."
#Utah #USA #Protest #Deportation #EthnicCleansing #Courts
"[A]bout 40 people gathered Monday [..] protesting the arrests of Utahns who went there for appointments like a green card interview and left in the custody of immigration agents."
#Utah #USA #Protest #Deportation #EthnicCleansing #Courts
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Your tax dollars at work www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
DHS inks contract to create its own fleet of Boeing 737s for deportations
The agency will spend nearly $140 million to buy the planes, funding that comes from a massive budget increase for immigration enforcement approved by Congress.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Your tax dollars at work www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Minnesota, you fuckin' go 💕
Minnesotans face off against ICE as they target Somalis.
December 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Minnesota, you fuckin' go 💕
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ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Why should all the (fiction/memoir) writing folks read this?
Because "sex scenes are craft" and "romance...is streets ahead of other genres in its ability to write interesting, sexy, compassionate sex scenes."
Thank you @readingtheend.bsky.social.
Because "sex scenes are craft" and "romance...is streets ahead of other genres in its ability to write interesting, sexy, compassionate sex scenes."
Thank you @readingtheend.bsky.social.
First, I need all my writing folks to read this:
good morning, I have noticed that some of the critical responses to the Crave show Heated Rivalry have been, let's say, incomplete
sex scenes are craft! goddammit!
sex scenes are craft! goddammit!
December 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Why should all the (fiction/memoir) writing folks read this?
Because "sex scenes are craft" and "romance...is streets ahead of other genres in its ability to write interesting, sexy, compassionate sex scenes."
Thank you @readingtheend.bsky.social.
Because "sex scenes are craft" and "romance...is streets ahead of other genres in its ability to write interesting, sexy, compassionate sex scenes."
Thank you @readingtheend.bsky.social.
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Olivia is so good at highlighting some of the best romances from a variety of voices with a vast array of vibes, from deadly serious to hilarious to touching, and if you want to try the genre or discover great gems, her recs will never steer you wrong!
My #RomanceColumn best romances list for the NYT is live today! It’s impossible to pick just a few books from so many, but as the song says, impossible things are happening every day, so let’s get to it! (Gift link)
#Romancelandia #booksky
#Romancelandia #booksky
The Best Romance Novels of 2025
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Olivia is so good at highlighting some of the best romances from a variety of voices with a vast array of vibes, from deadly serious to hilarious to touching, and if you want to try the genre or discover great gems, her recs will never steer you wrong!
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♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”
December 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”
Book 1 of a #SFF series I copyedited is free on ebook **today only** — in which a found family of black marketeers has a very unexpected cross-galaxy prize dropped into their lap.
DOUBLE EDGED by @jkwak.bsky.social
Get it here: books2read.com/doubleedged
DOUBLE EDGED by @jkwak.bsky.social
Get it here: books2read.com/doubleedged
December 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Book 1 of a #SFF series I copyedited is free on ebook **today only** — in which a found family of black marketeers has a very unexpected cross-galaxy prize dropped into their lap.
DOUBLE EDGED by @jkwak.bsky.social
Get it here: books2read.com/doubleedged
DOUBLE EDGED by @jkwak.bsky.social
Get it here: books2read.com/doubleedged
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In bookstores today! It's "We Will Rise Again," a book of hard-won hope in this dark season. I co-edited it with the wondrous @older.bsky.social and @drkarenlord.bsky.social -- it's an anthology of speculative stories and essays about protest and resistance! www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
December 2, 2025 at 5:51 PM
In bookstores today! It's "We Will Rise Again," a book of hard-won hope in this dark season. I co-edited it with the wondrous @older.bsky.social and @drkarenlord.bsky.social -- it's an anthology of speculative stories and essays about protest and resistance! www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
I copyedited all @kwakjessie.bsky.social's SF novels (so far). I bought a few sets in paperback to send out for holiday gifts this year. And the one that's always been my secret favorite—if I admit to having a favorite—is free to download right now ... so.
#SFFLove dl.bookfunnel.com/c388r7r1ck
#SFFLove dl.bookfunnel.com/c388r7r1ck
He's in over his head. And the one man he needs to trust the most is the one he's been contracted to kill.
Manu Juric's quick wit and knack for creating unexpected explosions has taken him a long way in the hit man business. At least, until he signs on to a job that might just be out of his league: taking ...
dl.bookfunnel.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I copyedited all @kwakjessie.bsky.social's SF novels (so far). I bought a few sets in paperback to send out for holiday gifts this year. And the one that's always been my secret favorite—if I admit to having a favorite—is free to download right now ... so.
#SFFLove dl.bookfunnel.com/c388r7r1ck
#SFFLove dl.bookfunnel.com/c388r7r1ck
Started the morning reading poetry from my friend's new collection. One stanza for my day:
Wood is light being a tree.
Till something gives
In the wood — the fire gets out.
(By S.J. Hodson in "New Songs of Innocence")
Wood is light being a tree.
Till something gives
In the wood — the fire gets out.
(By S.J. Hodson in "New Songs of Innocence")
December 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Started the morning reading poetry from my friend's new collection. One stanza for my day:
Wood is light being a tree.
Till something gives
In the wood — the fire gets out.
(By S.J. Hodson in "New Songs of Innocence")
Wood is light being a tree.
Till something gives
In the wood — the fire gets out.
(By S.J. Hodson in "New Songs of Innocence")
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HUUUUGE Black bear caught on our garden cam in our backyard in Jersey the other night.
December 2, 2025 at 3:33 AM
HUUUUGE Black bear caught on our garden cam in our backyard in Jersey the other night.
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This week Trump's ICE fascists illegally kidnapped & deported a 19-year-old girl to Honduras despite a court order to keep her in the USA—while Trump himself pardoned Juan Orlando Hernandez, convicted of running Honduras "like a narco-state" & accepted millions in bribes from drug traffickers. smh.
November 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
This week Trump's ICE fascists illegally kidnapped & deported a 19-year-old girl to Honduras despite a court order to keep her in the USA—while Trump himself pardoned Juan Orlando Hernandez, convicted of running Honduras "like a narco-state" & accepted millions in bribes from drug traffickers. smh.
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ICE fascists:
•Detained Indigenous American actor Elaine Miles, claiming her "papers look fake"
•Arrested wife of Navy Vet AT HER Green card Interview
•Arrested & kidnapped Brazilian immigrant & mother of Leavitt's nephew
•Arrested, kidnapped,& deported to Honduras a 19-year-old student here legally
•Detained Indigenous American actor Elaine Miles, claiming her "papers look fake"
•Arrested wife of Navy Vet AT HER Green card Interview
•Arrested & kidnapped Brazilian immigrant & mother of Leavitt's nephew
•Arrested, kidnapped,& deported to Honduras a 19-year-old student here legally
November 29, 2025 at 9:45 PM
ICE fascists:
•Detained Indigenous American actor Elaine Miles, claiming her "papers look fake"
•Arrested wife of Navy Vet AT HER Green card Interview
•Arrested & kidnapped Brazilian immigrant & mother of Leavitt's nephew
•Arrested, kidnapped,& deported to Honduras a 19-year-old student here legally
•Detained Indigenous American actor Elaine Miles, claiming her "papers look fake"
•Arrested wife of Navy Vet AT HER Green card Interview
•Arrested & kidnapped Brazilian immigrant & mother of Leavitt's nephew
•Arrested, kidnapped,& deported to Honduras a 19-year-old student here legally
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November 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
November 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes or characters.
Tennessee public libraries close for Trump-inspired book purge
One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes or...
popular.info
November 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM
One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes or characters.
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This is next week, 12/2! For the release of the amazing anthology "We Will Rise Again," come hang out with activists and authors @booksmith.bsky.social to talk about hope, storytelling, and resistance.
Bay Area friends! Where do we find the hope that fuels our resistance and protests? In stories! On Dec. 2, come out to @booksmith.bsky.social for an unforgettable evening with speculative fiction authors and activists, celebrating our new anthology "We Will Rise Again"! booksmith.com/event/WWRA1125
November 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
This is next week, 12/2! For the release of the amazing anthology "We Will Rise Again," come hang out with activists and authors @booksmith.bsky.social to talk about hope, storytelling, and resistance.
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"Federal agents busted into an East Elmhurst apartment early last Thursday morning and pointed guns at a woman and her four children, according to video."
"[D]ragged Jennifer by her hair and pointed an assault rifle at her 13-year-old daughter."
#NewYork #USA #Housing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
"[D]ragged Jennifer by her hair and pointed an assault rifle at her 13-year-old daughter."
#NewYork #USA #Housing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
On Camera, Fed Agents Point Guns at Mother and Four Kids in Queens
The agents came looking for a relative who no longer lived in the apartment, the shellshocked mother told THE CITY. Days later, her children are terrified to leave their parents' sides.
www.thecity.nyc
November 20, 2025 at 1:10 AM
"Federal agents busted into an East Elmhurst apartment early last Thursday morning and pointed guns at a woman and her four children, according to video."
"[D]ragged Jennifer by her hair and pointed an assault rifle at her 13-year-old daughter."
#NewYork #USA #Housing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
"[D]ragged Jennifer by her hair and pointed an assault rifle at her 13-year-old daughter."
#NewYork #USA #Housing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
Yesssssssssss.
✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
November 17, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Yesssssssssss.
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Rest in Power, Alice Wong.
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Rest in Power, Alice Wong.
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Every American must read this. Every one of us. To remind us to fight harder against this evil, criminal, corrupt administration.
November 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Every American must read this. Every one of us. To remind us to fight harder against this evil, criminal, corrupt administration.
This is someone who was reading fantasy when I was reading fantasy. Great thread.
The thread *does* say, but I want to highlight:
I read A LOT of fantasy and science fiction written by women in the 1980s and 1990s. Let's not forget this exists. You can still find it — and you should! #SFFLove
The thread *does* say, but I want to highlight:
I read A LOT of fantasy and science fiction written by women in the 1980s and 1990s. Let's not forget this exists. You can still find it — and you should! #SFFLove
5) We are due for a critical reassessment of the 1970s-1990s sword & sorcery boom.
There was a ton of S&S that was published during the peak paperback fantasy period which has been almost forgotten today. Who remembers Jean Lorrah's SAVAGE EMPIRE?
There was a ton of S&S that was published during the peak paperback fantasy period which has been almost forgotten today. Who remembers Jean Lorrah's SAVAGE EMPIRE?
November 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
This is someone who was reading fantasy when I was reading fantasy. Great thread.
The thread *does* say, but I want to highlight:
I read A LOT of fantasy and science fiction written by women in the 1980s and 1990s. Let's not forget this exists. You can still find it — and you should! #SFFLove
The thread *does* say, but I want to highlight:
I read A LOT of fantasy and science fiction written by women in the 1980s and 1990s. Let's not forget this exists. You can still find it — and you should! #SFFLove
Excellent use of a red pen.
There — I fixed the analysis so it is actually accurate to what happened when 8 Senate Dems caved instead of keeping up the righteous fight to deliver lower health care costs for Americans.
November 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Excellent use of a red pen.
#Seattle, check that your vote is counted.
I checked mine and my dad's to be sure they were accepted. Easy to do.
I checked mine and my dad's to be sure they were accepted. Easy to do.
There are 1,700 ballots that need signature confirmation. That is enough to change the election.
Go. Check. Your. Ballot.
komonews.com/news/local/s...
Go. Check. Your. Ballot.
komonews.com/news/local/s...
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 AM
#Seattle, check that your vote is counted.
I checked mine and my dad's to be sure they were accepted. Easy to do.
I checked mine and my dad's to be sure they were accepted. Easy to do.