Claire Dederer
@clairedederer.bsky.social
Author of MONSTERS: A FAN'S DILEMMA, a New York Times Notable Book and a national bestseller. Named a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, Fresh Air, The Washington Post, Esquire, Kirkus, Vulture, Electric Lit & more.
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“Taking back language is about a power struggle.” @clairedederer.bsky.social talks to Jodi-Ann Burey about speechwriting, authenticity, and adapting a TED Talk into a book.
Jodi-Ann Burey on Speechwriting, Authenticity, and Adapting Her TED Talk into a Book
I first met Jodi-Ann Burey at a book launch in Seattle a couple of years ago. A mutual friend introduced the two of us and mentioned that Jodi-Ann was working on a book based on her viral TEDx talk…
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November 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
“Taking back language is about a power struggle.” @clairedederer.bsky.social talks to Jodi-Ann Burey about speechwriting, authenticity, and adapting a TED Talk into a book.
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LOS ANGELES PEOPLE, YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS:
Please join us as the 2025 Chowdhury Prize in Literature is presented to @clairedederer.bsky.social.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
📷 Wednesday, November 12, 7:30 PM
📷 Bovard Auditorium (USC).
RSVP Link: visionsandvoices.usc.edu/events/50710...
Please join us as the 2025 Chowdhury Prize in Literature is presented to @clairedederer.bsky.social.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
📷 Wednesday, November 12, 7:30 PM
📷 Bovard Auditorium (USC).
RSVP Link: visionsandvoices.usc.edu/events/50710...
October 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
LOS ANGELES PEOPLE, YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS:
Please join us as the 2025 Chowdhury Prize in Literature is presented to @clairedederer.bsky.social.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
📷 Wednesday, November 12, 7:30 PM
📷 Bovard Auditorium (USC).
RSVP Link: visionsandvoices.usc.edu/events/50710...
Please join us as the 2025 Chowdhury Prize in Literature is presented to @clairedederer.bsky.social.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
📷 Wednesday, November 12, 7:30 PM
📷 Bovard Auditorium (USC).
RSVP Link: visionsandvoices.usc.edu/events/50710...
Proud to be an initiating signatory to this letter
Over 300 writers, scholars, and public intellectuals have pledged to not contribute to the New York Times’ Opinion section until it takes “accountability for its biased coverage and commits to truthfully and ethically reporting on the U.S.-Israeli war on Gaza.”
300+ pledge to boycott the New York Times’ op-ed page over their anti-Palestinian bias.
Over 300 writers, scholars, and public intellectuals have pledged to not contribute to the New York Times’ Opinion section until three demands have been met. The demands address the anti-Palestinia…
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October 28, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Proud to be an initiating signatory to this letter
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We are delighted to announce that @clairedederer.bsky.social will receive the 2025 Chowdhury Prize in Literature and will accept the prize during an onstage event at USC on November 12, 2025.
Please come and celebrate Claire and her incisive, brilliant work.
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Please come and celebrate Claire and her incisive, brilliant work.
open.substack.com/pub/airlight...
Announcing the 2025 Chowdhury Prize in Literature
The $15,000 prize is awarded annually to authors with a body of work behind them, but also with significant potential. Previous recipients include Christos Ikonomou, Victoria Chang, and Hari Kunzru.
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October 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
We are delighted to announce that @clairedederer.bsky.social will receive the 2025 Chowdhury Prize in Literature and will accept the prize during an onstage event at USC on November 12, 2025.
Please come and celebrate Claire and her incisive, brilliant work.
open.substack.com/pub/airlight...
Please come and celebrate Claire and her incisive, brilliant work.
open.substack.com/pub/airlight...
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Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
September 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
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30 Sleights for the Modern Transsexual, Leo Leventhal's debut collection of linked short stories, is a house of cards collapsing in slow motion. Learn the secrets of coin tricks, riverboat gambling, and killing your past self; everything you need to survive the cutthroat world of trans stage magic.
June 27, 2025 at 11:32 PM
30 Sleights for the Modern Transsexual, Leo Leventhal's debut collection of linked short stories, is a house of cards collapsing in slow motion. Learn the secrets of coin tricks, riverboat gambling, and killing your past self; everything you need to survive the cutthroat world of trans stage magic.
Evergreen: if you are inviting a writer (or any artist) to participate in an event, for gods sake state upfront
a) whether or not it’s a paid gig and
b) how much it pays.
a) whether or not it’s a paid gig and
b) how much it pays.
June 26, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Evergreen: if you are inviting a writer (or any artist) to participate in an event, for gods sake state upfront
a) whether or not it’s a paid gig and
b) how much it pays.
a) whether or not it’s a paid gig and
b) how much it pays.
No one in any of my text threads knows how to process something good happening
We’ve devolved into “I love you”s
We’ve devolved into “I love you”s
June 25, 2025 at 2:48 AM
No one in any of my text threads knows how to process something good happening
We’ve devolved into “I love you”s
We’ve devolved into “I love you”s
A thing people might not know is that my kid works for Seven Stories Press. Very proud of said kid for making this happen:
In the wake of the execrable Skrmetti ruling, Seven Stories is making Kate Bornstein's wonderful ebook for teens FREE.
Please share & please read & please stay alive!
In the wake of the execrable Skrmetti ruling, Seven Stories is making Kate Bornstein's wonderful ebook for teens FREE.
Please share & please read & please stay alive!
FREE eBOOK: HELLO CRUEL WORLD by Kate Bornstein, because trans rights are human rights 🧵 www.sevenstories.com/blogs/381-fr...
June 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
A thing people might not know is that my kid works for Seven Stories Press. Very proud of said kid for making this happen:
In the wake of the execrable Skrmetti ruling, Seven Stories is making Kate Bornstein's wonderful ebook for teens FREE.
Please share & please read & please stay alive!
In the wake of the execrable Skrmetti ruling, Seven Stories is making Kate Bornstein's wonderful ebook for teens FREE.
Please share & please read & please stay alive!
Memoirists take note! Any chance to learn from/with Ashley is golden
You can still sign up for @smashfizzle.bsky.social's @storystudiochicago.bsky.social class which starts TONIGHT (June 18)! Her four classes on memoir are open-enrollment but also recorded, so if you're not able to attend one of the sessions, you can always catch up later🧵
June 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Memoirists take note! Any chance to learn from/with Ashley is golden
My dear friend here in Seattle resigned from her high-level job at the Office for Civil Rights because she was disgusted by what she was being forced to do. Yesterday security was FLOWN TO SEATTLE to take her badge.
Once again: none of this is about efficiency. It's about contempt.
Once again: none of this is about efficiency. It's about contempt.
April 3, 2025 at 7:50 PM
My dear friend here in Seattle resigned from her high-level job at the Office for Civil Rights because she was disgusted by what she was being forced to do. Yesterday security was FLOWN TO SEATTLE to take her badge.
Once again: none of this is about efficiency. It's about contempt.
Once again: none of this is about efficiency. It's about contempt.
Anytime you hear someone use the word “natal” you know you’re dealing with a real sicko
February 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Anytime you hear someone use the word “natal” you know you’re dealing with a real sicko
even now, at this hour, discreet old dowagers were shooting out in their motor cars on errands of mystery
February 19, 2025 at 1:16 AM
even now, at this hour, discreet old dowagers were shooting out in their motor cars on errands of mystery
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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
"Human authored" is the most AI-generated-sounding shit ever
At this point, they’re just fucking with us 🫠
Books written by humans are getting their own certification
Making it easier to avoid AI-generated slop.
www.theverge.com
January 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
"Human authored" is the most AI-generated-sounding shit ever
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All the blue states need to band together and reject this. New York, California, Washington, Illinois, and Massachusetts lead the way. Protect schools, support teachers, defend students (*especially trans students*), and fund quality education. There is no compromise with this fascist bullshit.
January 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
All the blue states need to band together and reject this. New York, California, Washington, Illinois, and Massachusetts lead the way. Protect schools, support teachers, defend students (*especially trans students*), and fund quality education. There is no compromise with this fascist bullshit.
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the state legislature is wild because a corporate lobbyist will slide you a ‘good little bill’ to fund youth apprenticeship opportunities in your district, then you read the draft and it’s forced enrollment in 24-hour labor camps starting age seven
January 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
the state legislature is wild because a corporate lobbyist will slide you a ‘good little bill’ to fund youth apprenticeship opportunities in your district, then you read the draft and it’s forced enrollment in 24-hour labor camps starting age seven
Amazing public service: the Stranger's guide to the documents trans people need to change now, with guidelines as to when and how to do it.
www.thestranger.com/queer/2025/0...
www.thestranger.com/queer/2025/0...
UPDATED: Documents Trans People Should Change Now, How to Do It, And What They Can Change Later
The Stranger's thorough guide to every document you should update now, and how to do it.
www.thestranger.com
January 21, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Amazing public service: the Stranger's guide to the documents trans people need to change now, with guidelines as to when and how to do it.
www.thestranger.com/queer/2025/0...
www.thestranger.com/queer/2025/0...
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I will never stop being mad about how the media has treated the anti-trans movement as a group of ordinary people with legitimate concerns rather than the obvious frothing bigots they are.
ABC White House correspondent just released ANOTHER anti-trans EO expected that we did not cover in our piece this morning:
A federal ban on funding to programs that acknowledge and affirm transgender people.
A federal ban on funding to programs that acknowledge and affirm transgender people.
January 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I will never stop being mad about how the media has treated the anti-trans movement as a group of ordinary people with legitimate concerns rather than the obvious frothing bigots they are.
Me facing the day today
January 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Me facing the day today
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The staggeringly prescient essay 'The Fire Boom' by the late US urban geographer Mike Davis on the frontier of LA suburbia with the chapporal fire risk is reproduced here by @versobooks.bsky.social
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The Fire Boom | Mike Davis
In this excerpt from Mike Davis's classic book Ecology of Fear (originally published in 1998), he explores the tinderbox of the wealthy "Los Angeles frontiers" and the massive public resources dedicat...
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January 16, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The staggeringly prescient essay 'The Fire Boom' by the late US urban geographer Mike Davis on the frontier of LA suburbia with the chapporal fire risk is reproduced here by @versobooks.bsky.social
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
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Sure wish my book would become obsolete
January 15, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Sure wish my book would become obsolete
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JUST PUBLISHED: It has been the honor of my career to co-author "Queer, HIV+ and Running Out of Medication in Gaza" with Afeef Nessouli @theintercept.com —a story about Palestine, AIDS, genocide, and an extraordinary survivor named E.S. Please read & share. theintercept.com/2025/01/13/i...
Queer, HIV-Positive, and Running Out of Medication in Gaza
A year in Palestine, living in fear of not just genocide — but AIDS.
theintercept.com
January 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
JUST PUBLISHED: It has been the honor of my career to co-author "Queer, HIV+ and Running Out of Medication in Gaza" with Afeef Nessouli @theintercept.com —a story about Palestine, AIDS, genocide, and an extraordinary survivor named E.S. Please read & share. theintercept.com/2025/01/13/i...
My Dinner with Andre was the first podcast
January 9, 2025 at 7:09 AM
My Dinner with Andre was the first podcast