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K. Meera (they/them) @kmeera.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Thrilled to be a part of this issue, thrilled to vaguely fictionalize the IOGL, thrilled to be writing alongside these amazing, talented writers, and amazingly talented editor @noumenon.bsky.social Just honestly massively thrilled 🌊 Read “Blue-Hole Bully Boy” here: mythaxis.co.uk/issue-47/blu...
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Blue-Hole Bully Boy
K. Meera's story is all voice - a deceptive claim? Of course, because there's also thrumming family tension, a vividly sketched community pressured to breaking point, and a liminal unexplainability at...
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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 wrote a book called echolalia echolalia 🎃 @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
it pisses me off when niche inter-community conflicts and conversations become viral and multiply marginalized people are exposed to public ridicule from a hostile public and in a deepening fascist social climate
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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Out soon (by which I mean next month) from HarperCollins India. This is the cover, designed by the amazing Ramnika Sehrawat
Cover for Samit Basus new novel. A wolf-headed suit-clad man lounges on a couch. Bright red background
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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
#DVpit is returning in 2026 on Bluesky! A bluesky pitch event for creators from marginalized communities to pitch their unagented projects to agents and editors! #DVpit will be on Bluesky on Wednesday, September 30, 2026! go to dvpit.carrd.co for more info and stay tuned for more announcements!
#DVPit 2026 a bluesky pitch event for creators from marginalized communities
Wednesday, September 30th 2026 on bluesky
follow us for more: @dvpit.bsky.social
or go to dvpit.carrd.co for more info
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
You can share & donate to help Sophie and the rest of the LGBTGIA+ community in the Gorom refugee camp in South Sudan. They're survivors of violent persecution, & urgently need help affording necessities including healthcare, food, and clean water:
chuffed.org
Help Trans and LGBTQ+ Refugees at Gorom Refugee Camp
Hello everyone,
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I find that no one quite beats British politicians when it comes to pure hatred of disabled people--its a TOUGH competition, globally, Indians, Canadians, Americans, but the British cadre just do their hating with such vim and vigor
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K. Meera (they/them) @kmeera.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I unfortunately don’t have any $ to spare BUT I have a number of essay and grammar slides if you need them!
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K. Meera (they/them) @kmeera.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Help out a fellow teacher! #clearthelist
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K. Meera (they/them) @kmeera.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
🎉🎉🎉
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K. Meera (they/them) @kmeera.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Anyway all this to say I’m glad I know what I can do, I’m glad to not feel hopeless and terrible about myself re:labor, I hope I learn to rest because I don’t actually need to work as hard as I used to when I didn’t have my meds, and I really really fucking hope that I don’t do this again
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K. Meera (they/them) @kmeera.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
But still forgetting rest lmao. So I’m tired all the time but also getting everything done and because I haven’t yet uncoupled productivity and my internal metrics for myself of goodness, tired means I’ve been good and being good means feeling terrible
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K. Meera (they/them) @kmeera.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
And I’m working like 60? Hours a week when I’d previously barely been able to do the “standard” 40 because no executive dysfunction meant being actually able to sign up for things that I wanted to do and following through on applications and then actually scheduling my days to fit
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K. Meera (they/them) @kmeera.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I think the problem with being medicated for me is realizing oh shit it wasn’t more vitamins it was actually being medicated for my adhd and suddenly a whole world of possibility opened up. This doesn’t sound like a problem until smash cut to like five months later
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K. Meera (they/them) @kmeera.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
So genuinely beautiful and immediately knew who to send this to. Uggggh so beautiful
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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukmanragas.com · 29/07/2026
I had one out in Tasavvur tasavvurnama.com/moonwife/
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Moonwife - Tasavvur
Moonwife is a South Asian Speculative Fiction story written by Rukman Ragas for the Summer 2026 edition of Tasavvur magazine.
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K. Meera (they/them) @kmeera.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Should note that it’s a paid opportunity! You’ll unfortunately have to be in PST time (or be able to swing a PST time) but I’m happy to throw in an honorarium in the event that you can’t but would still love to
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K. Meera (they/them) @kmeera.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I already have my reading list for this summer but prepping for next summer: if any of you have a story that you’d love to have discussed by a bunch of lil nerds + are open to speaking to them pls lmk. Pref for QTBIPOC!! #writing #teaching #teachingartist
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K. Meera (they/them) @kmeera.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I’m teaching high schoolers this summer and giving them a bunch of weird fiction to look at and it’s been overwhelmingly positive. These kids go into all of this like you know what let’s lock in and crack this thing and it’s pretty fun to see
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
'the documentation of this violence might work against the state. These images can break our assumptions of those frequently painted as suspect simply for resisting far more ruthless state excesses. Think of the military raining pellets on young Kashmiris in 2016; opening fire on Manipuris...'
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Before We Move On From Jantar Mantar, Remember the Past Decade of Student Resistance
From Rohith Vemula and Occupy UGC to the JNU 'sedition' case, the Jamia attack and Umar Khalid's imprisonment, the past decade shows why the student movement cannot afford to become a single-issue str...
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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 22/07/2026
This Publishers Weekly article from Jan. goes into more detail. It's not that they are TRYING to sell our work for training, it's that those companies are placing orders with booksellers and distributors. Most sellers aren't giving us the option Ingram is. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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Ingram Lets Publishers Opt Out of Book Sales to Tech Firms
In a note sent last week to client publishers, Ingram Content Group warned of the “growing trend” of AI companies purchasing and scanning print books to train their large language models, and said pub...
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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukmanragas.com · 20/07/2026
Still looking for my secondary world fantasy to sweep me off my feet, so if you have one, please send it to Otherside? I like stories that feel brutal and sharp, beautiful prose, and audacious worldbuilding. Above all, I'm looking for ambition rather than stories that play within an existing canon
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Shreya Ila Anasuya - THE POISON PALACE @thresholdrose.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
'Prominent social activist Sonam Wangchuk has been on an indefinite hunger strike in the Indian capital of Delhi for more than two weeks amid growing concern over his deteriorating health.' www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/s...
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Why Indian activist Sonam Wangchuk is on hunger strike and what happens next
Renowned climate activist joined student-led protest over alleged examination irregularities, but his worsening health has become a growing concern
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
A good example of Kwame Ture's point that 'In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience.' He's asking for the most basic shit possible--the resignation of a minister who has failed in his duties. The regime won't even give that inch. They don't give a shit.
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Patrick Ziselberger @ziselberger.com · 13/07/2026
This is just to say I have placed Senator McConnell in the icebox and who you were probably saving for elections Forgive me he was so dead so stiff and so cold
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 16/07/2026
no longer on a beach; soon to be found in a library vajra.me/2026/07/15/i...
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I’m just back from the beach; the salt is still in my beard.
Coming up: first author talk in Colombo!
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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
But the point of that film is that powers by themselves don't make you hero. And simply using AI to create something doesn't make you a writer or artist. Tech bros know this, so they want to change how we see the entire creative process. They want people to question real writers and artists. 5/
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Reckoning @reckoningmag.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Today, in place of a new piece of writing from IT WAS PARADISE, our special issue on war and conflict in environmental justice, here's a word of explanation from publisher @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social as to why we felt we had to remove a poem from the issue: reckoning.press/ai/
Cover art by Mónica Robles Corzo for Reckoning: It Was Paradise, a special issue on war, conflict, and environmental justice, featuring a monstrous antlered head with burning red eyes and a warhead emerging from its fanged mouth.The letters "AI" in a red circle with a line through them
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Fahmidan Group @fahmidangroup.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
From lyrical essays to experimental poetry, Fahmidan Journal welcomes writing that expands literary possibilities. Submit now: fahmidanjournal.submittable.com/submit%E2%81...
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K. Meera (they/them) @kmeera.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I think yesterday was the first time I’d been in a room with only QTBIPOC folx and I don’t think I’ve ever been happier
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com · 05/07/2026
Using Handwritten Letters for Interviews, Sourcing - Nieman Storyboard niemanstoryboard.org/2024/12/19/j...
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Using Handwritten Letters for Interviews, Sourcing - Nieman Storyboard
Journalists can find value in the old-school approach of handwritten letters to gain interviews and thank sources
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com · 04/07/2026
The Exchange Between Martin Delany and Frederick Douglass omowalebooks.wordpress.com/2020/12/11/t...
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The Exchange Between Martin Delany and Frederick Douglass
The following document is an exchange between Martin Delany and Frederick Douglass which took place in the pages of Douglass’ newspaper. The exchange centered on the differences that the two …
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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
It’s Disability Pride Month. Fascists are enacting a blatant eugenicist project worldwide. You can disrupt it. You can defy fascists, do community care, keep resistance efforts healthy, & shield marginalized groups from disproportionate harm. How? Wear an n95 in public. Give/get mutual aid:
maskbloc.org
Worldwide Mask Bloc Directory – Find your local Mask Bloc
MaskBloc.org lists active Mask Blocs around the world. Free high-quality masks, COVID-19 tests and other equipment for your community. Mutual Aid & We Keep Us Safe.
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com · 30/06/2026
Jenny Jackson, Teddy Wayne, Paul Tremblay, and more: 16 new books out today! lithub.com/jenny-jackso...
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Jenny Jackson, Teddy Wayne, Paul Tremblay, and more: 16 new books out today!
As we go easing into the holiday weekend, there’s a smaller batch of releases: though the ones that are here, are ones that count. Jenny Jackson’s next hotly anticipated novel, The Sham…
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K. Meera (they/them) @kmeera.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
my general issues in life can be boiled down to have biriyani tastes but no biriyani skills
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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Submissions cap update: lots of slots left! Fiction is 47% full (70/150), poetry is 21% full (21/100). If you haven’t sent Jess and Angel a story and/or poem yet… you still have time to write something dark + weird + messy + risky + deeply, deeply fucked up (complimentary) just for them 👀
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K. Meera (they/them) @kmeera.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Basically all this is very exciting and teaching gives me the will to live. I hope I get to teach forever. I hope I get to see all my kids off to their futures. I hope they write back and tell me what they’re up to. I hope they live well and make joyously and keep on becoming.
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K. Meera (they/them) @kmeera.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Also: is this even the right sentiment? Am I giving in to the capitalistic eternal growth mindset as a teacher? How do I not do that?
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K. Meera (they/them) @kmeera.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Where do we go from here? What can I do to support you better? What do I have to know? What do I have to learn? How can I find people for you to work with once our learning relationship together plateaus for you as it often does because students outgrow their teachers?
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K. Meera (they/them) @kmeera.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
It makes me so goddamn hopeful for the future of art and also simultaneously stresses x excites me bc I got to up my game here like…
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K. Meera (they/them) @kmeera.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Like…some of these kids are already writing in thoughtful, lush ways that were completely unimaginable to me and which I only encountered and was able to borrow and emulate once I got around other writers and it’s so immensely exciting to see the next generation BECOME
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K. Meera (they/them) @kmeera.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
One of my favorite things about working with young writers is going “HOLY SHIT YOU WROTE THIS???????”
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 17/06/2026
I have emails to send and also two really unavoidable phone calls so of course I had to make a poster
a poster for a movie that does not exist, 'the folkening.' apparently an official selection at the summerisle film festival and a runner-up at venice. the background is some vague shrubs and a suggestion of sea in the background, with a very yellow filter on it. blurbs from the LA times and guardian are "i finally understand what it means to be folkened to death. simply outstanding" and "inconceivably terrifying -- like being at the bottom of a treacle mine."
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K. Meera (they/them) @kmeera.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
genuinely Quinta Brunson gives me so much joy i grew up with this woman give her all her flowers
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K. Meera (they/them) @kmeera.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The only benefit of not being in an LDR is that my ex and I don’t have to split five hundred bucks to fly to Michigan. The downside is that I only get cat pictures now and not cat :(
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Effie Seiberg is a spooky Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
A year or so ago I spent several hundred bucks on a version of MS Word from 2019 explicitly so that it would not update and give be subscription nonsense or AI bullshit. It updated and broke everything. Now I can't create or edit documents and I'm out a whole bunch of money.
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dirt of the looming dawn @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 13/06/2026
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ correction for registration; not dot com, but dot org! TOMORROW AT 7PM EST ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ springwrites.org/events/zoom-...
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Zoom – May & June – Spring Writes
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K. Meera (they/them) @kmeera.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I wish I had any hours left in me for this godddd would be awesome to read some kickass shit
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Hazie @hazie.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Slowly dying of Long Covid, a direct result of my covid infection in March 2020 before vaccines were available. It has been an excruciating few years that will end in early death or homelessness. Covid is still circulating, still disabling & more often than we like to admit, still ending lives.
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Queer Gold 🌈🏳️‍⚧️🙌🏾 (she/they) @queergold.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I represent the 9th ward of the Oakland conglomerate of transgender mice. As their designated consigliere, we are advocating for the rights of all animals to be trans and free.
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K. Meera (they/them) @kmeera.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
the inner child in me screams that this is highway robbery but i douse them in weed and anti anxiety meds and sometimes it even works
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