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Elle Grenier @elleoftheball.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

✨Let’s go, girls✨ I’m beyond thrilled to announce my next book, coming out this spring with @harpercollins.bsky.social BOTTLE BLONDE is a YA rom-com love letter to community, high school musical theatre, 2000s chick flicks and the magic of being true to yourself.

A light pink theatre curtain fills the background of the graphic in front of a sparkly bubblegum pink backdrop. In the middle of the screen, in a red marquee sign clipart, is the following deal announcement from Bookshelf:

Aly Day at HarperCollins has acquired BOTTLE BLONDE by Elle Grenier (THIS WRETCHED BEAUTY) at auction. A YA rom-com following a determined theater nerd who is sure the key to living out her picture-perfect senior year is landing her dream part as Elle Woods in Legally Blonde the Musical; obviously she’ll need to nail her audition, but first she needs to come out as a trans girl. Publication is set for May 2027; Alexandra Levick negotiated the two-book six-figure deal for North American rights.

A second marquee sign features the following text:
BOTTLE BLONDE by Elle Grenier
A HarperCollins production
Out May 18th 2027

The same background as the last graphic. This time, the marquee sign features the following summary:

Amelia knows she was born to be a leading lady. But there’s just one thing: only one other person knows she’s a girl.

With only three and a half months until graduation, Amelia is determined to make her senior year dreams come true. And the key to living out her picture-perfect high school fantasy is landing the part of Elle Woods in Legally Blonde: The Musical. It would give Amelia the chance to play opposite her longtime crush—sensitive, mega-talented basketball star, Travis dos Santos. Travis, who always laughs at her jokes and makes space for her thoughts. Travis, who has started to look at her a bit differently.

But if she wants a real shot at her dream role, she has to come out as a trans girl.

Amelia is closer than ever to turning her main-character daydreams into reality, if only she could prove herself to the rest of the school. But finding her happily-ever-after might be more complicated than she thought—and her vibrant imagination might just carry her away this time.

A take on the meme featuring a dark, gloomy beach house next to a pink, Barbie-like beach house. Above each house are the following titles (left to right): This Wretched Beauty (2026) / Bottle Blonde (2027)

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Kendra, normal version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The myth underlying this is that trans people (trans women specifically) were ever "invisible." We were objects of fascination, scorn, mockery, and fetishizing long before 2014 (for about the entire history of mass media really). What really broke a lot of brains was the idea we deserved dignity

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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The Permanent People's Tribunal concluded that Canada's ongoing policies amount to genocide against Indigenous peoples. The judge noted the primary driver of these policies is Canada's acts to seize Indigenous lands, territories and resources. (1/3)

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Elle Grenier @elleoftheball.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

J. Jonah Jameson? More like Gay Jonah Jameson am I right folks??

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Member of @authorsabb.bsky.social @jerroldconnors.bsky.social came through in the best way and assembled this for us all! Know thine shitty bills!

Three poop colored circles in a Venn diagram, 8705: mandates teaching propagandistic US history, HR 7661: will banned undefined "sexually oriented" materials, HR 2616 will mandate teachers to put trans and nb students. ALL 3 will ban books. ALL THREE are transphobic bs.

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Titan Books @titanbooks.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Have you picked up a copy of THIS WRETCHED BEAUTY by @elleoftheball.bsky.social yet? A gloriously gothic trans retelling of The Picture of Dorian Gray set in the smoky underworld of 1860s London! 🪞 ✨ tinyurl.com/2nybm4zd

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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

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Tell the FCC that LGBTQ Stories Don’t Need a Warning Label | GLAAD

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is targeting LGBTQ stories. They are trying to control what you see on television. This government overreach is dangerous...

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Elle Grenier @elleoftheball.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Confirmed: the trad playlist stays ON during the next series

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Elle Grenier @elleoftheball.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This game can’t possibly good for my heart what the actual hell is going on

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Elle Grenier @elleoftheball.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Must every Habs/Sabree game start like this 🙃

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

final score of this game is gonna be like 31 - 28

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Wolfy D. Lucca 🌗🐺 @spookalucca.tv · 14/05/2026

Canadians, tell your MPs to vote NO on bill C22. There's a one-click option to do so in the thread!

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 12/05/2026

i think if billionaires wanted to receive more respect and deference from the population at large they wouldn't say shit like this

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Elle Grenier @elleoftheball.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Finished drafting the chapter that’s been giving me trouble AND reached a new best in Pokémon Champions today If the Habs win and Victoire boots Britta Curl from finals contention tonight on top of that I may actually become Too Powerful™️

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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 07/05/2026

🚨THE CAT IS FINALLY OUT OF THE BAG🚨 my second book has a name - RISEBALL - and a home - dutton! - and an editor - the inimitable @andrewkarre.bsky.social !! it will be bookshelves in summer 2027!!!!! i cannot wait for you all to meet amy and josie, the horrible nightmare sisters of my dreams

Andrew Karre at Dutton Children's Books has acquired, at auction, Riseball by Stonewall Award-winning author Victoria Zeller (One of the Boys), a contemporary YA novel about estranged sisters who must play on the same softball team after one of them comes out as transgender. Publication is scheduled for summer 2027; Jordan Hamessley at JABberwocky Literary Agency brokered the deal for North American English rights.

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Macmillan Children's School & Library Marketing @mackidssl.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

It's Teacher Appreciation Week! To help uplift and celebrate educators, we asked @elleoftheball.bsky.social to tell us about teachers in her life that she'd like to thank 📚❤️ Check out Elle's Dorian Gray remix, THIS WRETCHED BEAUTY, here: tinyurl.com/3s9dphbt #TeacherAppreciationWeek

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Elle Grenier @elleoftheball.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

My request for Montréal tonight is simple: Please shoot more than nine times this game. I can’t do another game like that, not after Victoire’s triple overtime last night

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Elle Grenier @elleoftheball.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Minnesota v Colorado is going to be THAT series of round 2, huh

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Friendly Neighborhood Transsexual @icanfly42.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Big Hockey doesn't want you to know that taking shots in the second period isn't necessary

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Elle Grenier @elleoftheball.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

This might be the most stressful 1-0 lead I’ve ever seen what the HELL

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

We should never forgive our government for its response to Israel's genocide in Palestine. Oh, whoops, I mean the "challenging circumstances" Israel put Palestine through, my bad

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Elle Grenier @elleoftheball.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Wishing the Habs a very Buffalo game 4 tonight

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Elle Grenier @elleoftheball.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

No better way to start the day than to watch Boston start off 0-2

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Elle Grenier @elleoftheball.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Getting home just in time for Habs overtime has to be a good sign* *Please I’m emotionally involved now

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Elle Grenier @elleoftheball.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

SLAFKOVSKY HAT TRICK are you KIDDING ME

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Everyone pony the fuck fpr the librarian who just got sacked for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from the kids' section of the library.

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Katie, LLTID (little lady till i die) @katieandcatburger.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Oh are attacks on trans women hurting all women? Is it because trans women are women and attacks on women hurt women? Every time cis ppl say this shit we hear you saying "real" women, although your desire to maintain us as non-subjects against all evidence is ironically deep proof of our womanhood

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Avi Lewis is Jewish and was standing alongside MP Leah Gazan (daughter of a Dutch Holocaust survivor) yet because they're all anti-Zionist the pro Israel lobby attacks are coming in day 1

@CIJAinfo
In response to the election of Avi Lewis as the leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP), Rachel Chertkoff, Senior Vice President, Community Engagement, and Richard Marceau Senior Vice-President, Strategic Initiatives and General Counsel, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, issued the following statement:

“Today, the New Democratic Party elected Avi Lewis as its leader. We are left with a deep sense of sadness.

“Rachel’s uncle ran for a provincial arm of the NDP in 1963. He believed, as so many Canadian Jews of his generation did, that the democratic left was a natural home for a community that had faced persecution. It is hard to imagine that he would recognize the party today.

"The two of us, along with other concerned Jewish and allied activists, have spent years at the table with NDP leaders, staff, and members. We engaged in good faith and made the case that protecting Jewish Canadians from hatred is not partisan, but foundational. The hope we had that these leaders could bring themselves back from the brink is now exhausted.

“This weekend’s convention was a stark reminder of how far the party has drifted from its roots as the voice of Canada’s working class and trade union movement. Canadian Jews helped build that movement. Today, many are made to feel they no longer belong in it.
At a time when antisemitism has reached a crisis, the NDP has become a hostile place for the vast majority of Jewish Canadians who want to fight for progressive values. 94 per centof Jewish Canadians support the existence of the State of Israel yet have been pushed out.
“Avi Lewis is himself Jewish, and we respect his family’s history in this party. But Jewish identity is not a shield against accountability. When a leader declares that Zionism is inseparable from ethnic cleansing, he is not engaging in legitimate policy critique. He is telling Jewish Canadians that a core part of their identity is illegitimate. That is exclusion.

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Avi Lewis: "When Israel commits a genocide in Gaza, we call them out. When the US and Israel start an illegal and reprehensible war against Iran that sets the world on fire, we say Canada should have absolutely no role in it whatsoever."

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

In shock at the grocery store? In tears looking at your bills? “It’s because the wealth of this country is being hoovered up by a corporate elite who are extracting it from you every single day,” Avi Lewis says. “It’s immoral. It’s unreasonable. It’s un-Canadian. And we cannot let it stand.”

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Elle Grenier @elleoftheball.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Updating a friend on my first Disco Elysium playthrough very normally:

A blue text message bubble saying “gay thoughts unlocked” in all caps

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Nicole Guenther Discenza @ndiscenza1.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

"I’m grateful to have someone articulate so clearly how AI will not in any way shape or form save educators time or exertion. In fact, all AI will do is require that we work more, harder, and on the parts of our job that shouldn’t even be our job."

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Elle Grenier @elleoftheball.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Fixing the male loneliness crisis with one word: unions.

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Alex Larkspur 💛📚🌻 @applesncinnamon.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Trans Rights Readthon is March 17-31! 🏳️‍⚧️📖 I have a goal to read six books for the readathon! For each book I finish, I'll donate $5 to Trans Lifeline! If you need some recs for your readathon, I have a few for you! 🩵🩷🤍

Over a trans flag, a title reads "Trans Rights Readathon Goals"
There are six books:
1. The Lilac People by Milo Todd
2. The In-Between Bookstore by
3. Simplicity by Mattie Lucansky
4. Magica Riot: Full Bloom by Kara Buchanan
5. A Gentleman's Gentleman by TJ Alexander
6. Did I Leave Feminism? by Jude Ellison S. Doyle

Over a trans flag, the title "Trans Rights Readathon RECS"
There are six books:
1. Volatile Memory by Seth Haddon
2. Night in the Vampire Castle
3. Silver Blood by T.L. Morgan
4. Before Gender by Eli Erlick
5. Trans History
6. Sister Thrush by Dani Finn

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

We changed BIG when the consequences were a lot LESS than what we’re facing from the #ClimateCrisis. Don’t let anyone tell you we CAN’T change.

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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

#TransRightsReadathon begins soon. It's a decentralized event, which means you don't have to sign up or do anything in particular, you just have to love trans people and trans books. Here's what I'm doing this year 🧵 @trreadathon.bsky.social

About: The Trans Rights Readathon is an annual call to action to readers and book lovers in support of Trans Day of Visibility (TDOV) on March 31st. How to participate: read and uplift books written by and/or featuring trans, nonbinary, 2Spirit, and gender-nonconforming authors and characters. Donate and fundraise for trans aid organizations in your community.

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 04/03/2026

1/ This is utterly incoherent. What Canadians need to hear from our Prime Minister right now is simple: call for a ceasefire and immediately withdraw your misguided support for Trump and Netanyahu’s illegal war. www.instagram.com/reel/DVcJjIP...

Thumbnail of an Instagram reel. It has a photo of Mark Carney speaking at a podium, edited to appear in front of smoke plumes amid a city. The text reads: "I'm all for international law 'theoretically'".

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 28/02/2026

8/ Freedom will not come from military intervention by outside powers, it can only come from the Iranian people. War is not the way.

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 28/02/2026

6/ We remember the disastrous outcomes of previous U.S.-led wars of regime change in the Middle East, including in Iraq. They led to hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths, sectarian conflict, and a world that is less safe, not more.

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Elle Grenier @elleoftheball.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The Canadian government is not only complicit but an active cheerleader in this We are not above this. We should be. That’s all.

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