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Mike Chen @mikechenwriter.bsky.social · 3h

Every time I see him pop up on TV or on socials, I thought "did we all forget he's a terrible person?" But Michael Jackson is still celebrated, so yeah, we do forget.

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Jen Brown ✨ @jenbrownwrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In an effort to scream more about the stuff I’m loving lately, YALL SHOULD READ THIS!!! I devoured it in 1.5 days. 😮‍💨

Brown hand holding up a book called DIE FOR ME by Shirlene Obuobi. The cover features a dark skinned black woman with dreads being embraced romantically by a lighter skinned, shaven head man kissing her neck. At the kiss site, glowing red veins spread across her skin.

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Rahawa Haile @rahawahaile.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am trying to wrap my mind around the fact that, for the most part, the only books-related posts that get real traction on Bluesky involve the shittiest, most rage-inducing garbage and people. This isn't true for film or music. It feels like there's a real void here, and I hate it.

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Caitlin McGlade @caitmcglade.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I, the only data reporter at the Charlotte Observer, am among the McClatchy layoffs in the bloodbath today. The HR person asked me not to talk about it! AMA. Anyway, here’s a link to one of my most important stories this year. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...

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A Black teen found hanged near Charlotte church was a suicide, police say. Questions remain

In May, 16-year-old Juliana Nzita was found dead in a Charlotte churchyard. CMPD called it a suicide. Her family isn’t so sure.

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Mia Tsai says buy her books @itsamia.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

i need folks who are passionately against ai writing and art/sharing ai writing and art to ALSO be passionately against ai music. like it's gotta be the same energy, you understand? don't share a post from someone saying they won't use ai art for promo while ai music plays.

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Vita Ayala @definitelyvita.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A.I. destroys fundamental human deep curiosity and takes away the (very good for you) discomfort of failing and problem solving. This is like those trees they tried to grow in a protective bubble--they grew fast at first but the roots were shallow and weak from lack of wind stress so they died.

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Jen Brown ✨ @jenbrownwrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

how's fall semester going, you ask? welp. it's 8pm on a tuesday and i'm going to the corner store for candy & beer. that's dinner tonight. 🥴

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Jen Brown ✨ @jenbrownwrites.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

😮‍💨 bars up and down this thread. Particularly this.

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

they want to sit and feel that there's going to be a positive outcome, they want to watch how a marginalized person infiltrates this very sophisticated machine and tears it down from within and then is rewarded with power themeselves. How do you meet the moment when the moment is not marketable?

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"Nothing here about the second class categorisations of the colonised, overt racism, of how the colon themselves, indeed the metropole, is fundamentally structured to create extraction from the outside to the inside. No." I have a sci fi novella for you. It's exactly this. What this is asking for

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

tell Christina about your book or else

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Jen Brown ✨ @jenbrownwrites.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I regret to inform everyone that my partner has turned me into a spider sympathizer—but there have been Unexpected Consequences. Namely: trying, and failing, to relocate the Biggest Spider I’ve Ever Seen last night. It flattened itself into a crevice between my cabinets and I lost it forever. 🥲

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Jen Brown ✨ @jenbrownwrites.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

the dilemma of beginning a new novel *knowing* that the immaculate vibey version in your mind won't ever fully align with what gets onto the page. (especially in that first draft.) it's such a trip.

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P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The notion of zombies trace back to when African slaves were brutally disciplined and worked to death. It was rumored that some got rendered “soul lost,” so they would toil without rest or protest. Thus within Haitian culture, zombies were victims, robbed of independent will by cruel masters.

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‘Black Zombie’ Review: An Engaging Doc on How the Flesh-Eating Hordes of Screen Fame Obscured Painful Real-Life History

Maya Annik Bedward’s documentary 'Black Zombie' looks at nearly a century of zombie cinema through the lens of cultural appropriation.

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Macy 🌼✨ @macydaisy.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Happy steam summer sale, y’all.

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P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

1/ Happy Juneteenth! How a Texas emancipation commemoration spread across the US is an amazing story. But Juneteenth wasn’t the first Black Freedom Day in America—or the only one of its day. So, let’s talk about em’. Pictured: Martha Yates Jones and Pinkie V Yates, Houston Juneteenth, 1908 | HPL

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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Fraudsters are AI-mincing books and republishing them onto Amazon. This was done to The Isle in the Silver Sea - I assume in the hope people would accidentally click on it. It's been removed, but this is a warning of something to look out for, to my fellow authors.

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Cecily W. @skeskali.ca · 01/06/2026

Happy Pride Month!

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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

For Pride, you can preorder my & @cypayseur.bsky.social's favorite queer speculative stories of 2025! There have been many discussions lately about how queer publishing in the US is being squeezed from all directions. Pls support this ONGOING series & make sure it *remains* ongoing 💕 It matters!

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We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2025 edited by Bogi Takács & Charles Payseur (Pre-Order) — neon hemlock

We’re Here 2025 is edited by Bogi Takács & series editor Charles Payseur of Quick Sip Reviews . An 8” x 5” book. ~275 pages. To be published Fall 2026. We’re Here 2025 includes the f...

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Emma Osborne 🍉 @redscribe.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

A sapphic romance with a fat person??? SIGN ME UP

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Jen Brown ✨ @jenbrownwrites.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

HI. HELLO. I HAVE NEWS. 👀 Thrilled to share that I'm now represented by @knifewitch.bsky.social at @kiagency.bsky.social! My adult fantasy novel, "A Vengeance, Most Tender," feat Black sapphic necromancers, is in wonderful hands. 🙌🏾

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close ups of skulls, stacked on top of each other. superimposed text reads: signed novel, A Vengeance, Most Tender.

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

We are delighted to welcome the Bid to Bring Worldcon to Edmonton in 2030 as a sponsor of the 2026 Ignyte Awards! @edmontonin2030.bsky.social

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about THE MYSTERY OF THE BITTEN PEACH by Cecilia Tan. A queer time travel adventure of sapphic longing, Chinese immortals, and Artist4Magician Old Man Yaoi, this novella utterly charms. Our drink is a mocktail: The Dragon's Daughter.

[Image desc: THE MYSTERY OF THE BITTEN PEACH by Cecilia Tan alongside a pale yellow amber drink in a cut crystal glass on a garden table flanked by yellow coreopsis flowers.]

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

We're preparing the 2026 Shortlist for announcement and the open voting period on June 8! There are currently 2 ways to support: General Donations (for which you receive our thanks): ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/support/ Sponsorship (for which we might send you stuff): donorbox.org/sponsor-the-...

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support - The Ignyte Awards

We live in immensely difficult times and hope our supporters are utilizing their discretionary income to prioritize giving to causes which aid in our collective survival and the dismantling of oppress...

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

_Your Body Is a Fever Dream_ This is not my work alone (although I have a story in it) An anthology of queer cosmic horror from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social which will raise money for trans charities (a companion volume to their award-winning YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY)

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YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM - anthology (print + eBook) *preorder*

This is a preorder. This book is expected to ship on or before October 6, 2026. The spiritual sequel to 2022's wildly successful and acclaimed YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY is here! It takes forty trans ...

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Lark “Tornado” Morgan Lu @larkmorganlu.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Below are some projects I love that are accepting money at this time and the costs of their products.

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Lark “Tornado” Morgan Lu @larkmorganlu.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Baffling Magazine has for years been producing the queer fiction I didn’t know I was starving for. A patreon subscription starts at 3 USD monthly. www.patreon.com/neonhemlock

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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 21/05/2026

FIYAH the magazine's hiatus does not impact the operations of the Ignyte Awards or a future convention. We are operating on some shared infrastructure, though, so expenses related to being fully hosted independently will be taken into account in a future crowdfunding/sponsorship cycle.

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DaVaun Sanders @davaun.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Our stories are powerful and worthy and deserve a platform. I'm confident that this magazine can return stronger than ever under new leadership, and barring that, new pathways will emerge to share our work with the world. Black writers, we need your stories. Keep writing. Keep going!

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Jen Brown ✨ @jenbrownwrites.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

DaVaun was my first editor; one of the first folks who saw something in my work. FIYAH brought me into community with many beloved Black SFF authors/kinfolk. But its editors & staff deserve to run the mag with appropriate financial backing. Point, blank, period.

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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

FIYAH is going on hiatus. More here:

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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 21/05/2026

You have to support the projects you love with money. I am sorry we do not live in a world where that is not the truth.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 20/05/2026

Cannot stress enough that WE did not make this a problem. Trans people just want to mind our own business. REPUBLICANS made it a problem and liberals went along with it. You didn’t have to do this.

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Jen Brown ✨ @jenbrownwrites.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Quickly approaching 100 hours in Fields of Mistria. Cannot express how much I love this game. It brings such silly joy to pet my bunny rabbits, ducks, cows, horses, alpaca, and chickens+ my house cat (who goes outside to fetch wood for us during the day!). And the towniesssss! 🥹

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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

THE CITY WE BECAME is the NYPL's first "Big Summer Book Club" pick! All summer long, UNLIMITED borrows of the ebook or audiobook for any NYPL cardholder! And for a finale, a NEW STORY in the Great Cities world will be performed at the Delacorte Theater in Aug! www.nypl.org/summer/2026/...

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Jen Brown ✨ @jenbrownwrites.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

In other words: tell us your prose reads like a disembodied camera dictating tedious physical mannerisms, sans interiority, without telling us that.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

:( :( :( more like cantvas

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Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com · 07/05/2026

Ok ok ok here we go! Cover reveal for my next novel: THE FIST OF MEMORY. Check out that lovely dynamic design. And look at those amazing quotes by the incredibly generous @aptshadow.bsky.social and @annaleen.bsky.social to whom I am greatly indebted! Get the book y'all! buff.ly/X3CHaZk

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The Fist of Memory - Astra Publishing House

“Absolutely masterful.” —Annalee Newitz “A unique meeting of big concepts and elegantly-crafted action.” —Adrian Tchaikovsky A strange alien spacecraft suddenly appears in the sky in this electrifying...

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Anathema Magazine @anathemamagazine.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

We're officially at the 30-day mark of our Kickstarter campaign! Thanks to everyone who has supported us so far ✨ We must reach our goal of $5,000 or Kickstarter returns every dollar. Let's give queer writers of color the home they deserve. Back us today 💜 #SFF #Queer #bipoc #qtpoc #anathema

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🏴🚩 Trans Kafka (any pronouns) 🍉🍉🍉 IS A REAL HUMAN PERSON! @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

As a trans CSA survivor, I cannot emphasize enough how infuriating, dehumanizing, and devastating it is to watch the majority of society around me get so agitated about the hypothetical bogeyman of the "pedophile" (aka queer person) while intentionally ignoring the actual pedophiles in their midst.

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Jasmine W. @mythjae.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I CAN FINALLY YELL ABOUT THIS BOOK!!! Skeletons!! Legendary swords that are maybe past their prime! Absolutely garbage wizard ethics! Witches and ghosts and experimental beasts! I also need everyone to look at this absolutely killer art team. I will NOT be shutting up about this anytime soon!!

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

While L.D. Lewis’ new novel takes inspiration from both Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid, and the 1989 Disney adaptation, this reimagining “is very much its own thing. And what a glorious thing it is.” @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social reviews Year of the Mer! reactormag.com/book-review-...

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Under the Sea of Feminine Rage: Year of the Mer by L.D. Lewis - Reactor

Alex Brown reviews "a bloody, merciless fantasy reimagining of a classic story."

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Eden Royce @edenroyce.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

It’s been six months since the publication of PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE! This Southern Gothic historical fic novella chronicling coming of age, putting duty to the dead before the constraints of living family, and the strange, yet beautiful magic of funeral rituals has had a wonderful reception.

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