Hesse Phillips
@hessephillips.com
🏳️🌈 Historical fiction | Queer history | Theatre history | Early modernist | USian in Spain.
Debut novel LIGHTBORNE out now.
Rep: Brianlangan.bsky.social.
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Debut novel LIGHTBORNE out now.
Rep: Brianlangan.bsky.social.
More at hessephillips.com
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Hesse Phillips
@hessephillips.com
· Feb 27
Coming to the UK 6th March 2025, the gorgeous new trade paperback edition of #Lightborne, from @atlanticbooks.bsky.social
"A stunning debut on queer love, betrayal and survival in Elizabethan England. Perfect for fans of Hilary Mantel and Maggie O'Farrell." uk.bookshop.org/p/books/ligh...
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"A stunning debut on queer love, betrayal and survival in Elizabethan England. Perfect for fans of Hilary Mantel and Maggie O'Farrell." uk.bookshop.org/p/books/ligh...
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I have vivid memories of showing this to a class of undergrads in "Gay & Lesbian Film & Theatre" and just watching them all slowly turn into the 80s Maxell Cassette guy over the course of the movie.
We've had a few monochrome sketches in a row, so here's some bright, colourful, camp dopamine hits from the film "Pink Narcissus", by James Bidgood, 1963, screened at the Hammer Museum at UCLA in March 2025 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
November 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
I have vivid memories of showing this to a class of undergrads in "Gay & Lesbian Film & Theatre" and just watching them all slowly turn into the 80s Maxell Cassette guy over the course of the movie.
"All lesbians are TERFs" is propaganda designed to divide the strongest allies in the spectrum of queer identities - don't fall for it.
A day without lesbians is like a day without sunshine 🌞 (IYKYK)
A day without lesbians is like a day without sunshine 🌞 (IYKYK)
Reminder that lesbians have a more positive view of trans people than trans people do
November 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"All lesbians are TERFs" is propaganda designed to divide the strongest allies in the spectrum of queer identities - don't fall for it.
A day without lesbians is like a day without sunshine 🌞 (IYKYK)
A day without lesbians is like a day without sunshine 🌞 (IYKYK)
Me from now until Saturday (bc we celebrate on Saturday).
November 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Me from now until Saturday (bc we celebrate on Saturday).
Ahhhh! My friend @todd-milo.bsky.social incredible debut novel THE LILAC PEOPLE is in the Goodreads Reader's Choice Awards!! Go forth Goodreaders, and vote for this beautiful book about the fall of the Weimar dream and trans survival in Nazi era Berlin!
Last Chance! Vote in the Final Round of the 2025 Goodreads Choice Awards!
It all comes down to this. Pick your favorite books of the year in the Goodreads Choice Awards.
www.goodreads.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Ahhhh! My friend @todd-milo.bsky.social incredible debut novel THE LILAC PEOPLE is in the Goodreads Reader's Choice Awards!! Go forth Goodreaders, and vote for this beautiful book about the fall of the Weimar dream and trans survival in Nazi era Berlin!
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folks, the library is RIGHT THERE
Someone just replied "I'll never be the type of person who is upset people are reading books for free"
They continue to think we should be honoured they have graced us with their theft.
They continue to think we should be honoured they have graced us with their theft.
November 25, 2025 at 4:31 AM
folks, the library is RIGHT THERE
✨️MANIFESTING✨️
PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
✨️MANIFESTING✨️
You can also take *off* one accessory, which in my case is boobs.
My friend just fuckin showed up with a corncob pipe & that’s when it hit me that we are all in our 40s which means we get one new accessory slot
November 24, 2025 at 9:55 AM
You can also take *off* one accessory, which in my case is boobs.
Doing yard-work and honestly I could use some friendly zombies who will tell me to take a break and drink some water before my dumb ass passes out.
(This is a spoilery Pluribus reference. Sorry.)
(This is a spoilery Pluribus reference. Sorry.)
November 24, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Doing yard-work and honestly I could use some friendly zombies who will tell me to take a break and drink some water before my dumb ass passes out.
(This is a spoilery Pluribus reference. Sorry.)
(This is a spoilery Pluribus reference. Sorry.)
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Call me picky if you will, but I'm going to say that the Israeli government's sustained attacks class as more than "testing the cease-fire"
BREAKING: At least 24 people are dead and 54 wounded after Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, testing the ceasefire that began in October, officials say.
Israel launches strikes in Gaza ceasefire's latest test as hospitals say 20 killed
Israel's military says it has launched new airstrikes against Hamas militants in Gaza, testing the ceasefire that began on October 10.
bit.ly
November 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Call me picky if you will, but I'm going to say that the Israeli government's sustained attacks class as more than "testing the cease-fire"
This was the first thing I had to see when I fired up the old Bluesky this morning, so now you have to see it too.
Also me, every morning, looking at the internet just before the last Americans finally stop melting down and go to bed:
Also me, every morning, looking at the internet just before the last Americans finally stop melting down and go to bed:
November 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
This was the first thing I had to see when I fired up the old Bluesky this morning, so now you have to see it too.
Also me, every morning, looking at the internet just before the last Americans finally stop melting down and go to bed:
Also me, every morning, looking at the internet just before the last Americans finally stop melting down and go to bed:
When I first moved here, I was shocked at the sheer amount of Francoist graffiti: "Franco come back" and "We lived better under Franco." Now I'm sad to say it barely registers. Those who remember the horrors are dying. We built highways over the mass graves, and it's like none of it ever happened.
Excellent from @gilestremlett
"Even today, Franco serves as a warning that outward mediocrity is no barrier to the ruthlessly ambitious." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"Even today, Franco serves as a warning that outward mediocrity is no barrier to the ruthlessly ambitious." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Spain has too rosy a view of Franco’s regime. Let’s remind ourselves of its horrors | Giles Tremlett
Little is taught about the murderous, incompetent dictatorship – and now almost one in five young people say Franco was good for the country, says historian Giles Tremlett
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:58 AM
When I first moved here, I was shocked at the sheer amount of Francoist graffiti: "Franco come back" and "We lived better under Franco." Now I'm sad to say it barely registers. Those who remember the horrors are dying. We built highways over the mass graves, and it's like none of it ever happened.
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Isn't weird how Americans seem to view the "Invisible Hand of the Free Market" AND the "Very Visible Hand of the Armed Forces" as entities that exist independent of humans, as if people aren't in charge of anything, and what happens because of either is this sort of ever present emergent behavior
November 21, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Isn't weird how Americans seem to view the "Invisible Hand of the Free Market" AND the "Very Visible Hand of the Armed Forces" as entities that exist independent of humans, as if people aren't in charge of anything, and what happens because of either is this sort of ever present emergent behavior
Personal experience has led me to conclude there are 2 kinds of shorts-in-winter guys. The first kind are gentle wizardy types who collect board games, and the second kind are straight-up monsters who should be locked away for the public good. I've yet to meet any other variety.
if we had cracked down on the shorts-in-winter guys, we could have nipped this whole fetterman situation in the bud.
November 20, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Personal experience has led me to conclude there are 2 kinds of shorts-in-winter guys. The first kind are gentle wizardy types who collect board games, and the second kind are straight-up monsters who should be locked away for the public good. I've yet to meet any other variety.
TRANSGENDER DAY OF I'M STILL HERE BITCHES
TRANSGENDER DAY OF OUTLIVING THE DIRTBAGS
TRANSGENDER DAY OF ICE-COLD BEER/ VENGEANCE
TRANSGENDER DAY OF AM I MAKING YOU JEALOUS
TRANSGENDER DAY OF PURE UNADULTERATED JOY
TRANSGENDER DAY OF NOT TODAY SATAN
TRANSGENDER DAY OF NO FORGIVENESS
TRANSGENDER DAY OF OUTLIVING THE DIRTBAGS
TRANSGENDER DAY OF ICE-COLD BEER/ VENGEANCE
TRANSGENDER DAY OF AM I MAKING YOU JEALOUS
TRANSGENDER DAY OF PURE UNADULTERATED JOY
TRANSGENDER DAY OF NOT TODAY SATAN
TRANSGENDER DAY OF NO FORGIVENESS
November 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
TRANSGENDER DAY OF I'M STILL HERE BITCHES
TRANSGENDER DAY OF OUTLIVING THE DIRTBAGS
TRANSGENDER DAY OF ICE-COLD BEER/ VENGEANCE
TRANSGENDER DAY OF AM I MAKING YOU JEALOUS
TRANSGENDER DAY OF PURE UNADULTERATED JOY
TRANSGENDER DAY OF NOT TODAY SATAN
TRANSGENDER DAY OF NO FORGIVENESS
TRANSGENDER DAY OF OUTLIVING THE DIRTBAGS
TRANSGENDER DAY OF ICE-COLD BEER/ VENGEANCE
TRANSGENDER DAY OF AM I MAKING YOU JEALOUS
TRANSGENDER DAY OF PURE UNADULTERATED JOY
TRANSGENDER DAY OF NOT TODAY SATAN
TRANSGENDER DAY OF NO FORGIVENESS
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the thing is that the EHRC and Govt are shit out of luck (after several years of actively supporting bigots campaigning for exactly this)
The SC made a ruling and now they have to implement guidance and policy based on it. There is absolutely no way to do this that doesn't fuck trans people over.
The SC made a ruling and now they have to implement guidance and policy based on it. There is absolutely no way to do this that doesn't fuck trans people over.
The UK is considering a policy that would effectively segregate trans people from society. It would bar trans people from "single sex spaces" even when they use the facility of their sex assigned at birth.
This is a full on policy of segregation without even the benefit of separate facilities.
This is a full on policy of segregation without even the benefit of separate facilities.
November 20, 2025 at 7:47 AM
the thing is that the EHRC and Govt are shit out of luck (after several years of actively supporting bigots campaigning for exactly this)
The SC made a ruling and now they have to implement guidance and policy based on it. There is absolutely no way to do this that doesn't fuck trans people over.
The SC made a ruling and now they have to implement guidance and policy based on it. There is absolutely no way to do this that doesn't fuck trans people over.
Without downloading any new pics describe your gender.
November 20, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Without downloading any new pics describe your gender.
"You should hire me because I sort of remember how to use Excel, I'm a self-starter, and I am the living embodiment of Santa Teresa de Avila, reformer of the Carmelites and patron saint of Spain."
My favorite ever letter of recommendation is one Ficino wrote in the late 1500s, recommending a pupil for a secretary job with King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, in which he says the young man is “the reincarnation of Saint Thomas Aquinas.”
It’s letter-of-recommendation season again, when universities ask me to rate a 21 year old student’s ability to “see the big picture of life” while I eat leftover pasta in a Tupperware…
November 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
"You should hire me because I sort of remember how to use Excel, I'm a self-starter, and I am the living embodiment of Santa Teresa de Avila, reformer of the Carmelites and patron saint of Spain."
It's my dad's birthday this weekend and I have gone ALL OUT on his present this year. He's not on here but he has ways so I'm not giving details, but it's such a great gift that I wish I could give one to every single last one of you. Yes even if you annoyed me once. Everybody deserves this.
November 18, 2025 at 7:44 PM
It's my dad's birthday this weekend and I have gone ALL OUT on his present this year. He's not on here but he has ways so I'm not giving details, but it's such a great gift that I wish I could give one to every single last one of you. Yes even if you annoyed me once. Everybody deserves this.
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It has always been so obvious that the backlash to MeToo isn’t about whether the abuse is happening but whether people are allowed to want it to stop
November 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
It has always been so obvious that the backlash to MeToo isn’t about whether the abuse is happening but whether people are allowed to want it to stop
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So excited to see the cover of SWALLOWTAIL, the newest thriller by @emilyrosswrites.bsky.social at the top of @crimereads.bsky.social new list of books to watch this week! Go Emily. It's a phenomenal book! #thrillerbooks
crimereads.com/10-new-books...
crimereads.com/10-new-books...
10 New Books Coming Out This Week
Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Gilly MacMillan, The Burning Library (William Morrow) “Macmillan’s…compelling blend of academic intrigue, histo…
crimereads.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
So excited to see the cover of SWALLOWTAIL, the newest thriller by @emilyrosswrites.bsky.social at the top of @crimereads.bsky.social new list of books to watch this week! Go Emily. It's a phenomenal book! #thrillerbooks
crimereads.com/10-new-books...
crimereads.com/10-new-books...
Tina Belcher's zombie-themed erotic friend-fiction certainly seems to be making an impression on the American literary landscape these days.
Wait, who are we talking about?
Wait, who are we talking about?
florid horse girl middle school erotic fanfic celebrating a guy who looks like walking meatloaf and had a worm in his brain is simply beyond my tolerances, friends
November 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Tina Belcher's zombie-themed erotic friend-fiction certainly seems to be making an impression on the American literary landscape these days.
Wait, who are we talking about?
Wait, who are we talking about?
OMG y'all, this makes the giant dork that I am so happy. Apparently The Kit Marlowe Project have put up a little page for LIGHTBORNE, which I only just found out about by looking at my website traffic. I don't think they're on here, but thanks, KMP!
Lightborne – The Kit Marlowe Project
kitmarlowe.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:39 AM
OMG y'all, this makes the giant dork that I am so happy. Apparently The Kit Marlowe Project have put up a little page for LIGHTBORNE, which I only just found out about by looking at my website traffic. I don't think they're on here, but thanks, KMP!
Last night I accidentally referred to this place as "Doomsky," as in, "oh, I've just been scrolling Doomsky all afternoon."
I neither have nor want to have enough followers to make this a thing but it really should be a thing, no?
I neither have nor want to have enough followers to make this a thing but it really should be a thing, no?
November 17, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Last night I accidentally referred to this place as "Doomsky," as in, "oh, I've just been scrolling Doomsky all afternoon."
I neither have nor want to have enough followers to make this a thing but it really should be a thing, no?
I neither have nor want to have enough followers to make this a thing but it really should be a thing, no?
Imagine that we are all, physically, inside a big tent, and we invite in some people who start beating up others and trying to push them out. Do we keep them around? Fuck no, we kick them the hell out.
What you're asking for is a collapsed tent full of angry people, bud, & you're gonna get it.
What you're asking for is a collapsed tent full of angry people, bud, & you're gonna get it.
Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 17, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Imagine that we are all, physically, inside a big tent, and we invite in some people who start beating up others and trying to push them out. Do we keep them around? Fuck no, we kick them the hell out.
What you're asking for is a collapsed tent full of angry people, bud, & you're gonna get it.
What you're asking for is a collapsed tent full of angry people, bud, & you're gonna get it.