Sonia Sulaiman
@soniasulaiman.bsky.social
I write stories inspired by Palestinian folklore. Ignyte and Ember Award winning, Pushcart, Palestine Book, & Lammy noms. BNW and Locus finalist. (she/her) Clarion West '25
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Sonia Sulaiman
@soniasulaiman.bsky.social
· Dec 17
For the many new followers. Hi, I..
* write fantasy inspired by Palestinian folklore
*have been nominated for a few awards
* am spiritually fruity
* am aroace
* curate a reading list of Palestinian spec fic
soniasulaiman.com
* write fantasy inspired by Palestinian folklore
*have been nominated for a few awards
* am spiritually fruity
* am aroace
* curate a reading list of Palestinian spec fic
soniasulaiman.com
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Being on ODSP stinks it is legislated poverty. Any assistance you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your time and consideration. Please support me if you can:
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#ODSPPoverty #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest
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December 15, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Being on ODSP stinks it is legislated poverty. Any assistance you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your time and consideration. Please support me if you can:
💸 e-transfer: [email protected]
☕ ko-fi.com/sharpieguy/g...
#ODSPPoverty #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest
💸 e-transfer: [email protected]
☕ ko-fi.com/sharpieguy/g...
#ODSPPoverty #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest
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December Goal: 165/1000 CAD
I'm disabled & queer, living in extreme poverty. I'm in URGENT need of food, hygiene, medication, clothing, etc.
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I'm disabled & queer, living in extreme poverty. I'm in URGENT need of food, hygiene, medication, clothing, etc.
Donate: ko-fi.com/qpthepurples...
Wishes: throne.com/qp_and_valia...
💕 💸 #HelpSky #MutualAid #HelpFolksLive2025 #DisabledCrowdfund #Disabled #Poverty
Support QuyetPawz
Support QuyetPawz
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December 15, 2025 at 9:50 AM
December Goal: 165/1000 CAD
I'm disabled & queer, living in extreme poverty. I'm in URGENT need of food, hygiene, medication, clothing, etc.
Donate: ko-fi.com/qpthepurples...
Wishes: throne.com/qp_and_valia...
💕 💸 #HelpSky #MutualAid #HelpFolksLive2025 #DisabledCrowdfund #Disabled #Poverty
I'm disabled & queer, living in extreme poverty. I'm in URGENT need of food, hygiene, medication, clothing, etc.
Donate: ko-fi.com/qpthepurples...
Wishes: throne.com/qp_and_valia...
💕 💸 #HelpSky #MutualAid #HelpFolksLive2025 #DisabledCrowdfund #Disabled #Poverty
I have some bandwidth to talk about how the Utopia workshop affected my writing in particular. If I can’t breathe, how can I sing?
The workshop exercises were embodied ones, and I appreciated the connection of the body with the process of growing into a future that sees us all liberated.
The workshop exercises were embodied ones, and I appreciated the connection of the body with the process of growing into a future that sees us all liberated.
December 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I have some bandwidth to talk about how the Utopia workshop affected my writing in particular. If I can’t breathe, how can I sing?
The workshop exercises were embodied ones, and I appreciated the connection of the body with the process of growing into a future that sees us all liberated.
The workshop exercises were embodied ones, and I appreciated the connection of the body with the process of growing into a future that sees us all liberated.
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There are many reason why I decided to open a bookshop.
Here's one:
I am a 54 year old trans immigrant.
Getting any job would be difficult. Getting a good one would be near impossible.
So I'm opening my own shop and hiring myself.
Here's one:
I am a 54 year old trans immigrant.
Getting any job would be difficult. Getting a good one would be near impossible.
So I'm opening my own shop and hiring myself.
December 15, 2025 at 12:03 PM
There are many reason why I decided to open a bookshop.
Here's one:
I am a 54 year old trans immigrant.
Getting any job would be difficult. Getting a good one would be near impossible.
So I'm opening my own shop and hiring myself.
Here's one:
I am a 54 year old trans immigrant.
Getting any job would be difficult. Getting a good one would be near impossible.
So I'm opening my own shop and hiring myself.
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Hey, I also didn’t achieve all the things this year and that’s totally okay.
It’s almost another year to set even more unrealistic goals!
It’s almost another year to set even more unrealistic goals!
December 15, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Hey, I also didn’t achieve all the things this year and that’s totally okay.
It’s almost another year to set even more unrealistic goals!
It’s almost another year to set even more unrealistic goals!
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An Israeli attack on her shelter caused the amputation of both of Nibal’s hands, forcing her to lose the thing she held most dear: the ability to hold her young daughter. Her story is one of hundreds of amputee women in Gaza. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/the-...
The genocide in Gaza cost this Palestinian woman her hands. She lost so much more than her limbs.
An Israeli attack on her shelter caused the amputation of both of Nibal’s hands, forcing her to lose the thing she held most dear: the ability to hold her young daughter. Her story is one of hundreds…
mondoweiss.net
December 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
An Israeli attack on her shelter caused the amputation of both of Nibal’s hands, forcing her to lose the thing she held most dear: the ability to hold her young daughter. Her story is one of hundreds of amputee women in Gaza. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/the-...
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I'll add to the alt text that there is a literal demon behind Happy Holidays Lady and her angry cat.
Also, the sun behind Aryan Santa appears to be a donut.
Anyway, happy holidays.
Also, the sun behind Aryan Santa appears to be a donut.
Anyway, happy holidays.
I've only ever seen people get upset that people say "happy holidays"
December 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I'll add to the alt text that there is a literal demon behind Happy Holidays Lady and her angry cat.
Also, the sun behind Aryan Santa appears to be a donut.
Anyway, happy holidays.
Also, the sun behind Aryan Santa appears to be a donut.
Anyway, happy holidays.
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December 15, 2025 at 9:50 AM
December 15 2025 #MutualAidThread!
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‘…can ideological fantasy be challenged, and perhaps ruptured, through the imaginative power of fiction itself?’
On ‘Fighting Ideological Fantasy with Fiction’
Several authors who contributed short stories to the collection spoke about their thoughts on the collapse of time, historical continuities and the notion of fighting ideological fantasy with fiction.
Several authors who contributed short stories to the collection spoke about their thoughts on the collapse of time, historical continuities and the notion of fighting ideological fantasy with fiction.
On ‘Fighting Ideological Fantasy with Fiction’
Several authors who contributed short stories to the collection spoke about their thoughts on the collapse of time, historical continuities and the notion of fighting ideological fantasy with fiction.
arablit.org
December 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
‘…can ideological fantasy be challenged, and perhaps ruptured, through the imaginative power of fiction itself?’
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Farrah and Muhanad have a lot of integrity and upon finding out that a scammer was trying to trick other Gazans by saying he promoted their campaign (when he didn’t) they decided to change the URL so he couldn’t do that- so this is their new link to their fundraiser now.
August 31, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Farrah and Muhanad have a lot of integrity and upon finding out that a scammer was trying to trick other Gazans by saying he promoted their campaign (when he didn’t) they decided to change the URL so he couldn’t do that- so this is their new link to their fundraiser now.
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My family’s home collapsed due to strong winds and the storm, and some of our family members are trapped. We are living in real fear, and my children are in danger.
We need your help to move to a safe place.
Your support today could save our lives
@mommunism.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/SamaasFamily
We need your help to move to a safe place.
Your support today could save our lives
@mommunism.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/SamaasFamily
December 15, 2025 at 6:42 AM
My family’s home collapsed due to strong winds and the storm, and some of our family members are trapped. We are living in real fear, and my children are in danger.
We need your help to move to a safe place.
Your support today could save our lives
@mommunism.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/SamaasFamily
We need your help to move to a safe place.
Your support today could save our lives
@mommunism.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/SamaasFamily
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Mannnnnnn
Me every day.
This bitch peri has hands.
This bitch peri has hands.
December 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Mannnnnnn
I’m coming down with something. Here’s hoping whatever it is doesn’t stay long. 🙏
December 15, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I’m coming down with something. Here’s hoping whatever it is doesn’t stay long. 🙏
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I’m starting to think about the February list for the Night Market Book Club read. I want to have a short list of novellas. For this purpose, a novella is a prose fiction piece 300 pages or less.
What are some of your favourites, and why?
What are some of your favourites, and why?
December 15, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I’m starting to think about the February list for the Night Market Book Club read. I want to have a short list of novellas. For this purpose, a novella is a prose fiction piece 300 pages or less.
What are some of your favourites, and why?
What are some of your favourites, and why?
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I’m starting to think about the February list for the Night Market Book Club read. I want to have a short list of novellas. For this purpose, a novella is a prose fiction piece 300 pages or less.
What are some of your favourites, and why?
What are some of your favourites, and why?
December 15, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I’m starting to think about the February list for the Night Market Book Club read. I want to have a short list of novellas. For this purpose, a novella is a prose fiction piece 300 pages or less.
What are some of your favourites, and why?
What are some of your favourites, and why?
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it is completely reasonable to not be excited about right to die being legislated during a fascist regime that is constantly doing eugenics, actually
December 14, 2025 at 11:04 PM
it is completely reasonable to not be excited about right to die being legislated during a fascist regime that is constantly doing eugenics, actually
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So wait, who took *this* guy's picture??? Was there an infinitude of photographers up skyscrapers under construction taking pictures of photographers taking pictures of photographers [... repeat until infinity...] taking iconic shots of workers???
There's a good chance it was this guy, William Leftwich.
December 14, 2025 at 11:13 PM
So wait, who took *this* guy's picture??? Was there an infinitude of photographers up skyscrapers under construction taking pictures of photographers taking pictures of photographers [... repeat until infinity...] taking iconic shots of workers???
It is really refreshing to experience how maximalist our ancestors in the countryside were. In so I’ve seen, the driving force behind materials was to get the best. The finest colours, the best Syrian silk. And they had special embroidered gowns just for gardening in!
I finally tried doing some OG tatreez, the kind Palestinians were doing before the Nakba. Not pearl cotton from DMC but hand spun silk. I’m neither good at spinning nor embroidery but it’s interesting to see how it turned out.
December 14, 2025 at 10:43 PM
It is really refreshing to experience how maximalist our ancestors in the countryside were. In so I’ve seen, the driving force behind materials was to get the best. The finest colours, the best Syrian silk. And they had special embroidered gowns just for gardening in!
I know you were waiting for me to talk about how the organizing to Utopia workshop went today. I had a great time. I wrote a lot and it was surprising just how gently the words came. I’m still processing it all, and perhaps I’ll share some of what I wrote. For now, I’m just grateful.
December 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I know you were waiting for me to talk about how the organizing to Utopia workshop went today. I had a great time. I wrote a lot and it was surprising just how gently the words came. I’m still processing it all, and perhaps I’ll share some of what I wrote. For now, I’m just grateful.
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I finally tried doing some OG tatreez, the kind Palestinians were doing before the Nakba. Not pearl cotton from DMC but hand spun silk. I’m neither good at spinning nor embroidery but it’s interesting to see how it turned out.
December 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I finally tried doing some OG tatreez, the kind Palestinians were doing before the Nakba. Not pearl cotton from DMC but hand spun silk. I’m neither good at spinning nor embroidery but it’s interesting to see how it turned out.
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Not only are LLMs speedrunning a post-truth world where actual heroes who stop violent crimes get erased, but they have already contributed to convincing people to commit violent crimes.
Love yourself too much to let yourself be poisoned.
Love yourself too much to let yourself be poisoned.
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Not only are LLMs speedrunning a post-truth world where actual heroes who stop violent crimes get erased, but they have already contributed to convincing people to commit violent crimes.
Love yourself too much to let yourself be poisoned.
Love yourself too much to let yourself be poisoned.
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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Hamza. Hamza was a barber who had opened his own shop before the war began. He lost his home and shop and most tragically his younger brother. He’s been trying to rebuild and to help his orphaned nieces and nephews Huda, 5, Tala, 3 and Sham, 1
December 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Hamza. Hamza was a barber who had opened his own shop before the war began. He lost his home and shop and most tragically his younger brother. He’s been trying to rebuild and to help his orphaned nieces and nephews Huda, 5, Tala, 3 and Sham, 1
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One more day folks!
Send us your queer speculative flash fiction!
Send us your queer speculative flash fiction!
December 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
One more day folks!
Send us your queer speculative flash fiction!
Send us your queer speculative flash fiction!
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Winter has hit Gaza City hard, and my friend Sama'a relies on our help to keep her children clothed and fed. Please give what you can to help.
tinyurl.com/SamaasFamily
tinyurl.com/SamaasFamily
December 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Winter has hit Gaza City hard, and my friend Sama'a relies on our help to keep her children clothed and fed. Please give what you can to help.
tinyurl.com/SamaasFamily
tinyurl.com/SamaasFamily