Lee Mandelo
@leemandelo.bsky.social
phd in gender studies - writer of books (gay southern gothic Summer Sons + t4t appalachian historical The Woods All Black + anthology Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity)- he/him
Afternoon reading: Good and Evil and Other Stories by Samantha Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell
November 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Afternoon reading: Good and Evil and Other Stories by Samantha Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell
Hey so ‘Burnout Syndrome’—the new Nuchy Anucha Boonyawatana series starring Off and Gun, about artistic labor and burnout and desire—started airing today and
November 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Hey so ‘Burnout Syndrome’—the new Nuchy Anucha Boonyawatana series starring Off and Gun, about artistic labor and burnout and desire—started airing today and
Truly one of my absolute favorites
November 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Truly one of my absolute favorites
The satisfaction I feel time any time I convince another friend to finally watch ‘3 Will Be Free’ (2019, dir. Jojo Tichakorn Phukhaotong)… exquisite
Seriously though: it’s got one of the only bisexual throuple relationships I’ve ever seen onscreen, and it’s available streaming on YT now
Seriously though: it’s got one of the only bisexual throuple relationships I’ve ever seen onscreen, and it’s available streaming on YT now
November 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
The satisfaction I feel time any time I convince another friend to finally watch ‘3 Will Be Free’ (2019, dir. Jojo Tichakorn Phukhaotong)… exquisite
Seriously though: it’s got one of the only bisexual throuple relationships I’ve ever seen onscreen, and it’s available streaming on YT now
Seriously though: it’s got one of the only bisexual throuple relationships I’ve ever seen onscreen, and it’s available streaming on YT now
An update from the team at @erewhonbooks.bsky.social!
While yesterday’s all-retailer ebook sale for Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity only lasted for 24 hours, the $3.99 price will continue to be available until Nov. 30th on Kindle. Apologies for the confusion, everyone 🖤
While yesterday’s all-retailer ebook sale for Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity only lasted for 24 hours, the $3.99 price will continue to be available until Nov. 30th on Kindle. Apologies for the confusion, everyone 🖤
November 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
An update from the team at @erewhonbooks.bsky.social!
While yesterday’s all-retailer ebook sale for Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity only lasted for 24 hours, the $3.99 price will continue to be available until Nov. 30th on Kindle. Apologies for the confusion, everyone 🖤
While yesterday’s all-retailer ebook sale for Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity only lasted for 24 hours, the $3.99 price will continue to be available until Nov. 30th on Kindle. Apologies for the confusion, everyone 🖤
Today’s afternoon read is @clclark.bsky.social’s “Fate’s Bane” ✨
November 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Today’s afternoon read is @clclark.bsky.social’s “Fate’s Bane” ✨
Awards-eligibility posting time!
✨Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity (@erewhonbooks.bsky.social) — Anthology and Queer SF categories
✨Also, I’m eligible for Best Editor Short Form categories & all stories in the anthology are eligible for short fiction nominations
✨Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity (@erewhonbooks.bsky.social) — Anthology and Queer SF categories
✨Also, I’m eligible for Best Editor Short Form categories & all stories in the anthology are eligible for short fiction nominations
November 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Awards-eligibility posting time!
✨Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity (@erewhonbooks.bsky.social) — Anthology and Queer SF categories
✨Also, I’m eligible for Best Editor Short Form categories & all stories in the anthology are eligible for short fiction nominations
✨Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity (@erewhonbooks.bsky.social) — Anthology and Queer SF categories
✨Also, I’m eligible for Best Editor Short Form categories & all stories in the anthology are eligible for short fiction nominations
Finished reading Red Star Hustle tonight! Just the gay-as-fuck vibe I needed 😤
November 18, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Finished reading Red Star Hustle tonight! Just the gay-as-fuck vibe I needed 😤
Whoops, I forgot to add the last slide: the José Esteban Muñoz epigraph that opens the anthology and sets the tone for the pieces inside 🖤
![Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity
"The future is queerness's domain. [...]
Some will say that all we have are the pleasures of this moment, but we must never settle for that minimal transport; we must dream and enact new and better pleasures, other ways of being in the world, and ultimately new worlds.
Queerness is a longing that propels us onward, beyond romances of the negative and toiling in the present. Queerness is that thing that lets us feel that this world is not enough, that indeed something is missing."
—José Esteban Muñoz, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:szpg4dlgc7naaiaptcdwiah7/bafkreieck7eb5dsfuqezgkbnat2yfhbtmbh2njw6kyitwgbqeguch2bmqi@jpeg)
November 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Whoops, I forgot to add the last slide: the José Esteban Muñoz epigraph that opens the anthology and sets the tone for the pieces inside 🖤
For #transawarenessweek, a bump for Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity!
Featuring contributors from across the globe, including both familiar and fresh voices, it gathers 22 speculative stories about queer and trans futures—and I hope at least one of them will hit for you 🖤
Featuring contributors from across the globe, including both familiar and fresh voices, it gathers 22 speculative stories about queer and trans futures—and I hope at least one of them will hit for you 🖤
November 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
For #transawarenessweek, a bump for Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity!
Featuring contributors from across the globe, including both familiar and fresh voices, it gathers 22 speculative stories about queer and trans futures—and I hope at least one of them will hit for you 🖤
Featuring contributors from across the globe, including both familiar and fresh voices, it gathers 22 speculative stories about queer and trans futures—and I hope at least one of them will hit for you 🖤
Another cool thing today: a package arrived with a selection of Philippine sff books, curated by @charlesatan.bsky.social!! Can’t wait to dig in
November 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Another cool thing today: a package arrived with a selection of Philippine sff books, curated by @charlesatan.bsky.social!! Can’t wait to dig in
All of this to say: what an exquisite fuckin’ book!
And also I sent this text to a friend partway through. The sentiment stands,
And also I sent this text to a friend partway through. The sentiment stands,
November 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
All of this to say: what an exquisite fuckin’ book!
And also I sent this text to a friend partway through. The sentiment stands,
And also I sent this text to a friend partway through. The sentiment stands,
‘The Everlasting’ hits the bullseye of historically-inflected critique of empire that’s also inextricable from a commitment to futurity—very much in the José Esteban Muñoz sense!—and resistance.
Like, this bit from near the end hit so powerfully after seeing Owen and Una’s stories evolve:
Like, this bit from near the end hit so powerfully after seeing Owen and Una’s stories evolve:
November 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
‘The Everlasting’ hits the bullseye of historically-inflected critique of empire that’s also inextricable from a commitment to futurity—very much in the José Esteban Muñoz sense!—and resistance.
Like, this bit from near the end hit so powerfully after seeing Owen and Una’s stories evolve:
Like, this bit from near the end hit so powerfully after seeing Owen and Una’s stories evolve:
Truly is there any bigger joy than reading a friend’s smart, nuanced, passionate book and being suffused with love and pride and critical hope? I think not
Also: I cried a lot!
Also: I cried a lot!
November 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Truly is there any bigger joy than reading a friend’s smart, nuanced, passionate book and being suffused with love and pride and critical hope? I think not
Also: I cried a lot!
Also: I cried a lot!
Over lunch today I described the new supernatural/murder-mystery show Goddess Bless You From Death to @eliaseells.bsky.social, but more importantly, shared some compelling screencaps from the most recent ep
Some of y’all might also appreciate ‘em
Some of y’all might also appreciate ‘em
November 13, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Over lunch today I described the new supernatural/murder-mystery show Goddess Bless You From Death to @eliaseells.bsky.social, but more importantly, shared some compelling screencaps from the most recent ep
Some of y’all might also appreciate ‘em
Some of y’all might also appreciate ‘em
I grinned so big opening this magazine
November 8, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I grinned so big opening this magazine
Sometimes a bunch of friends have books come out all at once, so I must stack my riches for display! Also, everyone should totally grab their own copies of these beauties from @clclark.bsky.social @tashasuri.bsky.social @alixeharrow.bsky.social and @sentencebender.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Sometimes a bunch of friends have books come out all at once, so I must stack my riches for display! Also, everyone should totally grab their own copies of these beauties from @clclark.bsky.social @tashasuri.bsky.social @alixeharrow.bsky.social and @sentencebender.bsky.social
On a better note, my package from Sibling Rivalry Press arrived!!
November 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
On a better note, my package from Sibling Rivalry Press arrived!!
‘Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity’ came out from @erewhonbooks.bsky.social this past summer, and I (of course) think the contributors all did some excellent work! Original stories from some familiar names and new folks both, from more than six countries.
November 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
‘Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity’ came out from @erewhonbooks.bsky.social this past summer, and I (of course) think the contributors all did some excellent work! Original stories from some familiar names and new folks both, from more than six countries.
A packed weekend!! Friends visited, so we checked out Carmichael’s and Butcher Cabin Books in between some great meals, and then as soon as I dropped them off at the airport I booked it up to Bloomington to meet @alixeharrow.bsky.social at Morgenstern’s 🖤
November 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
A packed weekend!! Friends visited, so we checked out Carmichael’s and Butcher Cabin Books in between some great meals, and then as soon as I dropped them off at the airport I booked it up to Bloomington to meet @alixeharrow.bsky.social at Morgenstern’s 🖤
Today is the last day of queer history month, which also happens to be Halloween… so what better time is there to read The Woods All Black?
An historical Appalachian gothic about queer-trans bodily autonomy and resistance ft. bash-back revenge, monsterfucking—
An historical Appalachian gothic about queer-trans bodily autonomy and resistance ft. bash-back revenge, monsterfucking—
October 31, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Today is the last day of queer history month, which also happens to be Halloween… so what better time is there to read The Woods All Black?
An historical Appalachian gothic about queer-trans bodily autonomy and resistance ft. bash-back revenge, monsterfucking—
An historical Appalachian gothic about queer-trans bodily autonomy and resistance ft. bash-back revenge, monsterfucking—
I do so love a gothic in full splendor,
October 31, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I do so love a gothic in full splendor,
Purchases from the Duke UP 50% off sale—which is still ongoing, y’know 👀
October 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Purchases from the Duke UP 50% off sale—which is still ongoing, y’know 👀
This afternoon: pink milk (I bought a whole bottle of sala syrup which for better or worse means I can make it whenever I want—) and some seasonally appropriate reading
October 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This afternoon: pink milk (I bought a whole bottle of sala syrup which for better or worse means I can make it whenever I want—) and some seasonally appropriate reading
Me too this week 👀
October 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Me too this week 👀