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Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

"Part of what was so interesting about my characters and the Hills was that they did come to believe what they’d experienced despite there being no physical evidence." @jenstjude.bsky.social's interview with @ilanaslightly.bsky.social is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/09/26/a...

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A Little Bit More Ourselves: A Conversation with Ilana Masad - Chicago Review of Books

An interview with Ilana Masad on her new novel, "Beings"

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 01/06/2025

If you're a transfeminine author who's trying to fundraise for basic needs, gender affirming care, or to leave the United States, either drop your link in the replies or DM me. I have a mutual aid plan that I'm gonna be working on this week.

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Jude St. Jen @jenstjude.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I’m a boy mom in the sense that I’m kind of a boy and kind of a mom

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Jude St. Jen @jenstjude.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Picking out candy like hey do you have anything that’s so sour it’ll make my mouth bleed

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Not to follow this up with "buy my book," but researching very recent trans history -- the '80s and '90s -- for my novel helped inform my thinking on both our present and on my book, so, anyway, it is ABOUT THIS, so, yes, buy my book, or request it at your library! bookshop.org/p/books/wood...

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Woodworking

Check out Woodworking - "Big-hearted and hilarious, an ode to authenticity and a must-read in our current times." --Shelby Van Pelt, New York Times bestselling author of Remarkably Bri...

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Sandra Proudman @sandraproudman.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

✨Please help me spread the word as I try to raise $15K for families ASAP I will be doing a 50-page YA SFF intensive limited to 20 authors this summer for #KidLit4Ceasefire fundraising. It will be epic!!!✨ www.32auctions.com/organization...

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Full Manuscript Critique - MG or YA

Auction item 'Full Manuscript Critique - MG or YA' hosted online at 32auctions.

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Jude St. Jen @jenstjude.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Writing even contemporary YA sends me all the way back to my younger years. Why am I obsessively listening to Hanson? Sending pics of my favorite 2011 Bruins player to my friend? Surfing the To Write Love On Her Arms online shop?

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Jude St. Jen @jenstjude.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

A little disturbed by how much time/energy I gave the Catholic Chuch today.

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 07/05/2025

Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday plans to sign an executive order to restrict the mass collection and sharing of autism-related data for Illinois residents, in response to the country’s top health secretary’s rhetoric around the cause of autism.

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In response to RFK Jr., Pritzker to sign first in nation executive order protecting autism data

The governor's office said the executive order is in response to rising concerns about efforts to create federal autism registries or databases without legal safeguards or accountability.

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Jude St. Jen @jenstjude.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Whenever I go to the pharmacy I feel a little starstruck meeting someone who was good at chemistry cuz woo boy I was not

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Jude St. Jen @jenstjude.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I'm so mad at M*sk and B*zos for making space (the coolest thing ever) so deeply uncool

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Jude St. Jen @jenstjude.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Me to my kid: Z, you’re so funny and cool and smart, I remember when you were just born and we were wondering who you’d somebody be Z: I want to be an ogre

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Jude St. Jen @jenstjude.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Was just looking for something in my older Google Drive when I stumbled upon a spreadsheet labeled "Things That Made Me Gay" and the only things on it were Taylor Hanson, '90s sports movie tomboys, and a girl in a backwards hat in an American Girl Doll Commercial.

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Jude St. Jen @jenstjude.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I’m so happy for people who like sandals in any form but they fill me with fear and sensory panic and dissonance. And other normal things.

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Cassandra Newbould @cassnewbould.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I'm very excited to share the first blurb for CLIMATE OF CHAOS by the indomitable Jen St. Jude @jenstjude.bsky.social. If you haven't had the chance to read Jen's deeply emotional and moving YA about mental health, love and hope at the end of the world, IF TOMORROW DOESN'T COME, I highly suggest it.

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Jude St. Jen @jenstjude.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Just want to say nearly all my favorite people are autistic. If you’re hurting, I love you (and always).

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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Some stuff you can do for trans women right now today instead of/in addition to making posts about how trans people are valid: 1. Hire them 2. Donate to their gfms 3. Boost their work 4. Involve them in the conversation about what is happening worldwide to trans rights (looking @ u podcasts)

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Jude St. Jen @jenstjude.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Drummers are the goalies of music in that they're kinda just quirky little guys hiding in the back, holding it all down

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14/04/2025

My latest piece, written for the Kettering Foundation. I urge organizations, nonprofits, and companies to end the cycle of over compliance with Trump threats, and show how doing so ushers in fascism. Some lessons from what we have seen in the trans community. kettering.org/do-not-compl...

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Do Not Comply: A Lesson from the Last Three Months of Anti-Trans Attacks

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Jude St. Jen @jenstjude.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

It happened to me: I just dreamed I had to go back to finish a semester of high school. Worse: I was late to the first day and couldn’t figure out my schedule. Worst of all: I’d signed up?? To do stand up?? At the all-school assembly?? My mind has no mercy.

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Jude St. Jen @jenstjude.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Y’all Black Mirror is my favorite show ever but I’m sick and my kid is double sick and no one has slept in 3 nights so I am going to be so behind on this one 😭

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Andrew Joseph White 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

MY WIFE’S SHORT STORY COLLECTION IS OUT 🦴🐍✨🌺💀 If you like Mortuary Barbies, organized crime run by mean queers or the fae, Viktor from Arcane, REPO!, and the intricacies of millennial anxiety via a giant gay snake, there's a story in here for you. Happy release day @allyscottauthor.bsky.social!

A white hand holding a copy of YOU ARE NOT YOUR BONES & Lesser Misfortunes by Alice Scott against a background of green grass and a wooden fence. The cover is a portrait of a long-haired, bearded man in front of a window, the moonlight showing a skeleton across his skin. The color scheme is gold, purple, pink, and black.

Text reading:

"Stas, what did you do?"

"I told you," Stas said, looking up at his sister with a perfectly calm expression. He'd find out later that his eyes also glowed, the normally brown irises ringed in purple light, reflective and catlike in the dark. The fire had gone out in the time since Tatiana left and, without the crackle in the hearth, the library was as quiet as the grave.

"I chose myself this time."

Spite; Or More Human in the grave

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Jude St. Jen @jenstjude.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Thunder feels so much louder and closer than it used to and I can’t decide if it’s because I’m an adult who’s responsible for things or because it’s the Midwest.

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Jude St. Jen @jenstjude.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Voted local, looked like a Boy Scout

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Jude St. Jen @jenstjude.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I've been spinning Chappell's comments on parenthood in my mind for days because they 1) are valid observations! And her perception/reality. No notes. 2) challenge the VERY mainstream expectation that we should have children, and that having children is the only path to a fulfilling/worthy life.

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Jude St. Jen @jenstjude.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Happy (or some other emotion) #tdov, y'all. I love you; visible or invisible or somehow both at once.

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We Need Diverse Books @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

9 newly released or soon to be released young adult books containing trans rep:

Pastel pink and blue graphic displaying nine newly released or soon to be released young adult books containing trans rep. The titles shown are as follows: “This Feast of a Life” by Cynthia So, “We are Villains” by Kacen Callender, “Chaos King” by Kacen Callender (April 8th), “The Duke Steals Hearts & Other Body Parts” by Elias Cold (May 13th), “One of the Boys” by Victoria Zeller (May 13th), “In Case You Read This” by Edward Underhill (May 20th), “And They Were Roommates” by Page Powars (May 27th), “Devils Like Us” by L.T. Thompson (June 3rd), and “Love, Misha” by Askel Aden (June 10th). In the upper left-hand and lower right-hand corners are wavy ribbons designed in the colors of the trans flag.

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Andrew Simon @simongandrew.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead.
No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience.
Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.

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Jude St. Jen @jenstjude.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

It’s probably more than a little tacky to publicly post that I was 💫 officially💫 diagnosed with adhd today. But it feels really validating because I’ve known for so long. And things have always been so hard and this is probably a tiny, small part of why. But still.

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Jude St. Jen @jenstjude.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

So weird to be a depressed activist because it’s like nothing matters at all! and everything matters so much!

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Jude St. Jen @jenstjude.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I have to say I went to Olive Garden over the weekend for the first time in years and there was a shockingly small amount of olives on the menu

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Jude St. Jen @jenstjude.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

🏠 🏳️‍⚧️ 🕛🏳️‍🌈🐶 💫

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Jude St. Jen @jenstjude.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Writing for me is just telling myself over and over "don't make the love interest smell like a tree, don't make the love interest smell like a tree, don't--"

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Jude St. Jen @jenstjude.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Love is Blind is genius in that it lets men treat women the way they often/usually do while dating, then subjects them to the very public court of opinion, and then asks them to answer for their behavior live on air with the Lacheys. With receipts. Good stuff.

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Jude St. Jen @jenstjude.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Also my onion today resembled a beautiful sea creature, just thought you should know

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Jude St. Jen @jenstjude.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Had a rough week with a very sick dog she’s finally on the mend

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 28/02/2025

Don't buy shit, write your book

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Justine Pucella Winans @justinepwinans.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Excited/emotional to receive ARCs for my upcoming MG horror. There is a cat character in this book that might look familiar. I miss Kana all the time, but loved giving her another home in this book. My team at Bloomsbury made a gorgeous dedication page. Can't wait to share this one with the world.

An advanced reading copy of a book, A LITTLE TOO HAUNTED by Justine Pucella Winans (cover: a young girl in red hoodie holding a flashlight out within a blue-green ghost-filled house). The book is in front of a green glow lantern, purple Pusheen Halloween lights, and cat skeleton toy.

A book dedication that reads: for my sweet Kana, thank you for choosing me as your first home. I hope you like this second one I built just for you. Under text is a picture of a gray tabby kitten looking up.

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Jude St. Jen @jenstjude.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I know romantasy is hot but when the tides INEVITABLY change to weird depresso queers I will be unstoppable

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Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

A huge congrats to our very own @rachellayown.bsky.social! Mark you calendars for her debut novel "How We See the Gray," coming from @nupress.bsky.social in Spring 2026!

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Jude St. Jen @jenstjude.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

My toddler's friends don't know she has a lesbian parent but there are signs (she's headed to a birthday party with a present wrapped using duct tape)

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Jude St. Jen @jenstjude.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

There are so many hard things about writing any POV, but 1st person is such a tricky beast. We are always lying to ourselves, censoring our thoughts, denying our truths. You can't just tell the story. You also have to tell the many stories the character is telling themselves.

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J.R. Dawson @jrdawson.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

ARCS HAVE ARRIVED! My sapphic Orpheus reimagining is here in my hands and feels like a real book! @torbooks.bsky.social @zenoagency.bsky.social

Arcs of The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World

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Jude St. Jen @jenstjude.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I know everyone is (rightfully) making fun of the Love Is Blind men for being blander than a BRAT diet but I must admit I basically share their wardrobe.

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Jude St. Jen @jenstjude.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I think I've met more lasting friends via The Chicago Sky than any other space in Chicago and that kinda rules. The WNBA does feel like a community.

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Hugh Ryan @hughryan.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Trans people were on the front lines at Stonewall. Don't let Trump, Musk, or a bunch of Vichy gays and TERFs tell you otherwise. My latest for Slate on what happened to the Stonewall monument website, why autocrats always destroy history, and where it can lead slate.com/news-and-pol...

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The Trump Administration Just Deleted Part of American History. If They Get Away With It, We Could Be Headed to a Very Dark Place.

This is far more serious than the loss of a few letters.

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