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Jessy Randall

@jessyrandall.bsky.social
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Libraries, poetry comics, speculative writing, The Path of Most Resistance and Mathematics for Ladies: Poems on Women in Science (both Gold SF / MIT), guest editor of Snakeskin bit.ly/JessyRandall

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GoldSF @goldsf.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
✨ @otherwiseaward.org Honor's mention for "The Path of Most Resistance: Poems on Women in Science", by @jessyrandall.bsky.social, illustrated by #KristinDiVona ✨ A clever & compelling conversation that expresses a diverse array of women’s voices & identities, & asserts their right to be celebrated.
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Announcing the 2025 Otherwise Award winner! « Otherwise Award
The Otherwise Award is pleased to announce one winner for the 2025 Award: Luminous, by Silvia Park. We’re also announcing an Honor List and a Long List.
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Jessy Randall @jessyrandall.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
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Jessy Randall @jessyrandall.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
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Mrs. Magalina Hoopensteimer Wallenheimer Hogan Bogan’s Wedding Toast
We thought it was a miracle, though not a very useful one, and she got to be on TV
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Goldsmiths Press @goldsmithspress.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The Path of Most Resistance: Poems on Women in Science is out now. The full video of Jessy reading a selection of poems from this collection is up on our YouTube channel! @goldsf.bsky.social @jessyrandall.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC60...
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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
We have a new display in the library vitrines of Future Fantasteek! #23 – You Love Libraries – When All the Books Are Gone by @jacbat.bsky.social & @jessyrandall.bsky.social Find out more about their project at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/ff23libraries/ Pics by Shaun Oaten at Bower Ashton Library.
Detail of the cover of a zine -Future Fantasteek! #23 – You Love Libraries – When All the Books Are GoneA vitrine displaying pages from the zine Future Fantasteek! #23 – You Love Libraries – When All the Books Are Gone
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Jessy Randall @jessyrandall.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Which of these books would you be more likely to read? You Don't Even Have a Rabbit: Stories or Remedial Kissing Class and Other Stories
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Her Maths Story @hermathsstory.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
@jessyrandall.bsky.social writes poems about #HistoricalWomeninSTEM–“Maybe not the most effective form of resistance, but the project staved off my feelings of helplessness & hopelessness“ ➡️hermathsstory.eu/poetry-as-lens-two-historical-women-mathematicians @goldsf.bsky.socia @mitpress.bsky.social
The picture shows the Her Maths Story logo on top, below is a painted picture in black and white of Nina Bari. Below the picture it says „Poetry as Lens: Two Historical Women Mathematicians by Jessy Randall“.
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Just numbering and getting another batch ready to post. If you want one for your library or library zine collection, message me 📚
Future Fantasteek no.23Future Fantasteek no.23 All About libraries
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Gavin, Small Beer (closed due to long covid), &c. @gavingrant.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
"I first met Snith in kissing class." "Remedial Kissing Class" by @jessyrandall.bsky.social
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Jessy Randall @jessyrandall.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
@kathygiuffre.bsky.social , book stylist
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 15/06/2025
If you love speculative fiction, then you owe a huge debt to @strangehorizons.bsky.social -- a magazine that successfully brought SFF short fiction online and expanded our ideas of what genre can do. It launched my career and many others. And it's still amazing. www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...
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Strange Horizons 2026
A free weekly speculative fiction magazine with a global perspective.
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Trevor Owens @tjowens.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Just read Mathematics for Ladies by @jessyrandall.bsky.social — a brilliant collection of poems on women in science. AIP has oral histories with several of the women featured in the poems. Thread incoming with links.
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Jessy Randall @jessyrandall.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
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Jac Bat @jacbat.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Future Fantasteek! No.23 We have some FREE copies for libraries/special collections DM me if you’d like this zine for your library. You can read here: lnkd.in/eas-aqE9 a gift to libraries for all that libraries do. Words Jessy Randall, illustrated by me. @jessyrandall.bsky.social #zines
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Jessy Randall @jessyrandall.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
"Wonderful, imaginative, lively, angry in a good way" -- Nancy Hopkins (MIT) www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777553...
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The Path of Most Resistance by Jessy Randall: 9781915983275 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Poems about historical women in STEM fields. Women have always worked in technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine. Sometimes they made important discoveries and breakthroughs; sometimes the...
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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Oh my LORD, I am only 12% through this so far and I officially want EVERYONE to read this poetry collection. I think it might be my favourite 2025 poetry read. The prose is so precise and well researched. There's... almost nothing else out there like this. Please add this to your TBRs! #Booksky💙📚
Cover art for Jessy Randall's The Path of Most Resistance: Poems on Women in Science (illustrated by Kristin DiVona)
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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
How do you first establish how devastating the death toll on childbirth was, then have it echo through in the minds and work of too damn many women who married and gave birth thereafter? Ouch! (but in the good way) #Booksky💙📚
Text reads: Trota of Salerno (ca. 11th-12th century)

I’m glad labour is easier now,
and more mothers survive.

In my time, bodies were different.
We inhabited them only briefly.
What mattered was the eternal soul.
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Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Beautiful books! Coming soon from @goldsf.bsky.social @jessyrandall.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978191598327...
The Path of Most Resistance by Jessy Randall
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Jessy Randall @jessyrandall.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
a story about a woman who pretends to be a time traveler in order to break up with her soon-to-be-ex-boyfriend. www.spacesquid.com/funny-storie...
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Funny stories & weird tales - The Most Amazing Thing Has Happened
Need funny stories 4 brainhole? Free scifi weird tales? Maybe some weed scifi-horror? Read "The Most Amazing Thing Has Happened!"
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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Experiencing @jessyrandall.bsky.social's poetry comic expositionreview.com/issues/vol-v... and getting her POEMS ON WOMEN IN SCIENCE in our @bookshop-org.bsky.social: bookshop.org/p/books/math.... #ExpoContributor #ExpoReview #comics #poetry @goldsf.bsky.social
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I Keep Looking for You - Exposition Review
by ARTARIANICA Comic       Artists’ Statement Contextualized by a search for interpersonal connection, I Keep Looking for You appraises fluctuations of memory, desire, and voyeurism. Flickering light ...
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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
There are only 6 hours left in 2024 (in my time zone) and I *know* some of you are still trying to meet annual targets around making enough submissions. You have a few more hours to send poems to Snakeskin! In the body of an email! To @jessyrandall.bsky.social
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Jessy Randall @jessyrandall.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Deadline is today! Send science fiction poems! snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/plans.htm
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SNAKESKIN:
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 19/12/2024
Don't forget: it's almost time to stop writing 2024 on forms and instead drawing a picture of a skull with blood pouring from its eye sockets
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Jessy Randall @jessyrandall.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Making magnets for the new book! @goldsf.bsky.social
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GoldSF @goldsf.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Paul March-Russell with #JonathanThornton on #thefantasyhive for a guest post about Gold SF and our mission 💛 fantasy-hive.co.uk/2024/11/why-...
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Why Feminists Are Reinventing The Future – Again – GUEST POST by Paul March-Russell (GOLD SF)
Today we're joined by writer, editor, and co-founder of Gold SF Paul March-Russell, who's here to tell us about the incredible feminist SF they're currently publishing!
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GoldSF @goldsf.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Working on a #manuscript? ✍️ We’d love to hear from you! GoldSF is now open for #submissions We are looking for fresh&exciting intersectional #feministSF, & especially keen to see formally experimental novels. Initial submissions c.15k words, full ms (if requested) max 80k. Deadline: 20th Jan 2024
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Jessy Randall @jessyrandall.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
GIVE ME YOUR POEMS POMES POMPOMS PEEMES POMIES PEPLUMS PLUMS I’m guest-editing a speculative poems issue of the online lit mag Snakeskin. Send up to five unpublished science fiction poems to jessyrandall@yahoo.com by Jan 1, 2025.
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Jessy Randall @jessyrandall.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Best books I read this year. A Haunting on the Hill Wylding Hall Burnam Wood Julia Idlewild Land of Milk and Honey The Mars House The Half Life of Valery K. The Kingdoms The Bright Sword A Guest in the House The Ministry of Time Slow Dance The God of the Woods What are yours?
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Jessy Randall @jessyrandall.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I’m guest-editing a speculative poems issue of Snakeskin, snakeskinpoetry.co.uk. Send up to five unpublished poems to jessyrandall@yahoo.com by Jan 1, 2025.
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Katie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
petition to bring back slightly deranged fish balloons to the Macy's Day Parade (From the 1928 parade: "The goldfish balloon was led from Harlem to Herald Square by King Neptune and a group of twenty pirates")
A black and white photo of a fish balloon in a parade
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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
For your evening reading - a wonderful poem by Jessy Randall featuring Ellen Swallow addressing the women scientists of today from across the void of a century and a quarter. I love it, and think you will too!
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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
after 25 years I finally figured out the formula for writing a good poem: you just say what you want to say, cut all the boring stuff, thwack it with a thesaurus, then you grow wings out of your back, oh no they’re bat wings, oh god will your loved ones still love you, time to fly to the moon
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Jessy Randall @jessyrandall.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
from pleiadespress.org/books/how-to...
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Jessy Randall @jessyrandall.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
www.escapeintolife.com/poetry/jessy... #womeninstem
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Jessy Randall @jessyrandall.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
mobiusmagazine.com/poetry/almir... #womeninstem
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Jessy Randall @jessyrandall.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2024/10/26/f...
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Eunoia Review @eunoiareview.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
Friendship Maps: Suzie eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2024/10/26/f...
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GoldSF @goldsf.bsky.social · 23/02/2024
A wickedly funny, feminist take on the lives and work of women who resisted their parents, their governments, the rules and conventions of their times, and sometimes situations as insidious as a lack of a women's bathroom in a college science building. #MathematicsForLadies #WomenInSTEM
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Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
Gold SF is looking for submissions! Intersectional feminist sf!
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GoldSF @goldsf.bsky.social · 07/05/2024
“When poet Jessy Randall started researching the lives of female scientists, she became angry. The team at Lost Women of Science can certainly relate. Female scientists rarely got the recognition they deserved.” Listen here: www.lostwomenofscience.org/conversation... #MathematicsForLadies
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