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Lee Mandelo

@leemandelo.bsky.social
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phd in gender studies - writer of books (Summer Sons, Feed Them Silence, The Woods All Black, and anthology Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity)- he/him

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 09/10/2026
Age verification laws that require users to possess a current passport, driver’s license, or similar to prove identity exclude critical populations. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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When No ID Means No Internet: Age Verification and the Right to
Age verification proposals are often presented as a simple tradeoff: sacrifice a little privacy to better safeguard children online. But that framing overlooks a more fundamental question. What
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Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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radelgirl is weaving fortunes @radelgirl.vanadiel.network · 08/10/2026
"Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. You will never again be able to open a newspaper and read about that treacherous, prevaricating, murderous scumbag sitting down for a nice chat with Charlie Rose or attending some black-tie affair for a new glossy magazine without choking. Witness what Henry did in Cambodia – the fruits of his genius for statesmanship – and you will never understand why he’s not sitting in the dock at The Hague next to Milošević."
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radelgirl is weaving fortunes @radelgirl.vanadiel.network · 08/10/2026
Whenever people make memes with this image, i wonder if they remember what the original context it. It kind of bothers me when people use it for flippant fandom bullshit.
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David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com · 09/10/2026
I am especially amused by the people who say ‘this reads like an early draft,’ never having read an early draft of anything in their lives, and with no concept of the editorial and publishing process that a book goes through. Brainworms!
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Idk y'all I think the secret police that violently terrorizes our neighbors and doesn't bother following any laws nor vetting the people they hire for mental health problems and histories of violence, and that recruits with nazi iconography may be bad actually
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
a big part of ossoff's rhetorical success is it doesnt contain the compromise and caveats that are a baked-in part of democratic party rhetoric. theres no pretending that his opponent is just misguided or will be pulled back from the edge by "the good republicans." ossoff is saying "fuck this guy"
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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It's sad to see how the venerable magazines Analog, Asimov's, and F&SF have been made into venues no professional can be associated with. The publisher seems to just be an aspiring hedge fund.
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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 07/10/2026
this october instead of donating to us, THE DEADLANDS we're asking you to please considering donating to help our #1 editor in chief @ecatherine.com with the bills stemming from her ongoing hospital stay. no coin fundraiser only fundraising Elise 🖤🖤 pls join us + spread the word
gofundme.com
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Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Also, how he explores his relationships to women and femmes and effeminacy and what it means to *be* a fag in this world, gender-wise, across his career... something more people could benefit from thinking about,
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Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Happy new Troye Sivan day!! His work has been important to me for years and years now: how unabashedly gay and yearning and horny and intimate and playful and self-reflective it is at turns youtu.be/fYaF00OZ69U
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Troye Sivan - FF (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by TroyeSivanVEVO
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Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 08/10/2026
Changing online policy and social media platform moderation has drastically impacted the work of queer and trans indie webcomic artists. In a new comic, @bellhasabat.bsky.social and @raspberryhazel.bsky.social explore how they’re navigating this brave new world. xtramagazine.com/culture/onli...
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Online censorship is crushing indie webcomics | Xtra Magazine
From social media platforms to payment processors, new restrictions are making it harder for webcomic artists to exist
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"But what's causing it is unclear" pal, I think it's pretty fucking clear
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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I know I am about as biased as possible on this but go to an indie bookstore. An indie bookstore's vibes are the opposite of...all of this. You'll be surrounded by memories, stories, brave visions of the future that don't ignore our barbarous present. Your brain can be quiet AND full. Seriously.
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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Some thoughts about what happens when those who have been othered gain power. Do those who have been othered repeat the same power mechanisms that were impressed on them? (1/2)
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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I talked about what I consider complex joy — and why I believe that is more useful for our times than simple joy — with Chapter House Journal. Full interview link: chjournal.com/chapter-hous... Full interview link also in bio.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Anand is the best (and I'm doing an event with him at, yes, @cityartssf.bsky.social Thursday, for his new book Man in the Mirror). Couldn't agree more that cities are refuges or places of last resort for people kicked out of rural/suburban/pseudo-idyllic America.
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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
His marks in publishing will only accept the "it just works" of his scam so long as his fake-ass garbage machine creates the racist outcome they've been longing for
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angel💀 @sabattons.com · 07/10/2026
and in the case of erotic fiction, feel free to remind others that using sexually-hostile or threatening language and demanding disclosure of sexual trauma or assuming things about real people's sexual preferences and proclivities is a form of (real) sexual harassment against a (real) person. peace.
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angel💀 @sabattons.com · 07/10/2026
the best responses to a stranger casting moral aspersions in an attempt to publicly humiliate you are, 1. ignoring the person entirely, 2. explaining that you refuse to engage in the conversation and bidding them an honest good day, and 3. "kiss my ass."
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angel💀 @sabattons.com · 07/10/2026
one of the best decisions you can make as an artist is to stop talking about your artwork from a position of defending it. the artists statement should be a tool of pride, community, and conversation, not an appeal to those who had no interest in (or ability to) understand it in the first place.
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Jennifer Szalai @jenszalai.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It was a short call, Carlberg said: All the poet would say was she
was "in Iceland," where she was
"listening to the wind."
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is the state of things in India for Bengali Muslims; people who've lived in Bengal (the Indian state) their entire lives being denied their right to vote & then being shoved into concentration camps on 'suspicion' of being from Bangladesh (the country).
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Deleted in SIR, four Bengal men now locked at Chhattisgarh detention centre for over a month
Four Bengal men detained in Chhattisgarh for over a month after SIR deletions fight legal battle back home amid concerns of citizenship and tribunal delays.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There are so many people, so many, that love film and want to dedicate their whole lives to making films, in front of the camera, behind it, in editing suites and casting rooms and makeup trailers. And that these locusts can come in and just devour the industry, take it from us all, is devastating.
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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
First I hear about this, wishing Elise quick healing. Please spread the word and help if you can.
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 07/10/2026
that kind of discovery requires a different world of in-depth reviews and critical essays in a sphere of independent magazines and bloggers &c. in the absence of a robust bookish internet of this kind, what you get is books that vanish into the dark and can at best hope to be "rediscovered" some day
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 07/10/2026
IKR I'd absorbed it long before I started writing books myself, that the kind of books I wanted to read would simply never be discoverable via ratings-based bookish platforms—they represent a mode of collective reading out of scope for these apps
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The wealthy spent decades burning every single physical anthropological place a teen could exist in, and now billionaire pedophiles are desperately setting fire to the Internet to accomplish the same thing out of virulent transphobia.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The reason young people vibe with liminal horror is that the wealthy have spent the last half century destroying all anthropological spaces they can exist in, leaving *only* non-places en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-place
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Non-place - Wikipedia
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Hope Mullinax @hopemullinax.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hien is out here making me cry on a Tuesday morning. The new OJST is all about the importance of preserving queer art, especially with the rise of AI. Only humans can tell human stories.
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Democrats aren't abandoning trans people! Maybe just one or two..." Here's every Democrat who's either voted to strip human rights away from trans people and/or has campaigned on anti-trans propaganda in the last year.
Amy Acton
Jamie Ager
Colin Allred
Angela Alsobrooks
Tammy Baldwin
Beau Bayh
Xavier Becerra
Richard Blumenthal
Lisa Blunt Rochester
Sherrod Brown
Chris Coons
Catherine Cortez Masto
Henry Cuellar
Don Davis
Dick Durbin
John Fetterman
Cleo Fields
Shomari Figures
Aaron Ford
Ruben Gallego
Sarah Trone Garriott
Blake Gendebien
Lauren Gillen
Kirsten Gillibrand
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
Vicente Gonzalez
Adam Gray
Maggie Hassan
Martin Heinrich
John Hickenlooper
Mazie Hirono
Jeffrey Hulum III
Ben Ray Lujan
Tim Kaine
Marcy Kaptur
Mark Kelly
Angus King
Amy Klobuchar
Susie Lee
John Mannion
Seth Moulton 
Gavin Newsom 
Jon Ossoff
Mary Peltolta
Gary Peters
Bobby Pulido
Jack Reed
Jacky Rosen
Rob Sand
Kim Schrier
Chuck Schumer 
Terri Sewell
Jeanne Shaheen
Elissa Slotkin
Tom Suozzi
James Talarico 
Josh Turek
Eugene Vindman
Mark Warner
Raphael Warnock
Sheldon Whitehouse
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger
The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition
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Ginny @vbruth.com · 06/10/2026
If you want to hold THE CITIZEN OF EASTPORT in your own two hands (a thing I personally never get tired of doing), today's a great day to get it, with Bookshop's Anti-Prime day free shipping! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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The Citizen of Eastport
Schemes, secrets, and queer desire collide in this story of intrigue set in a gritty, noir-inspired future.Vi runs a bar, and that's all she does. Once she dreamed of fighting for justice alongside he...
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ghoul thing @davevriser.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
♡ EAT UP ♡ ♡ ORDER YOUR COPY NOW ♡
The beautiful cover of Your Body Is A Fever Dream next to a fork and knife.A cut out paper fish skeleton over my piece, a little horrormance rpg called "Eat or Get Eaten, Baby"
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Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
tis the season!
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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 06/10/2026
🌟Shortlisted for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction🌟 In Notes from a Regicide—a multilayered history of two generations of trans characters in the distant future—Isaac Fellman’s intimate narrative twines around art, revolution, disability, love, history, and change.
A copy of Notes from a Regicide sits on a black shelf next to a small vase containing a pink-yellow flower and some greenery."If you’re a mystic, you see things happening on earth, and recognize that they reflect things that are happening in heaven or hell. Or you can just recognize that inside every person are all the problems of all people. You can see the sickness of a country in the sickness of a family. We all have other people inside of us, so unbearably. If I could tell people one thing I’ve learned in my life, it’s that." from Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman
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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
RELEASE DAY! YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM, featuring New Weird Cosmic Horror from 30+ trans & gender nonconforming creators, is OUT NOW WHEREVER BOOKS ARE SOLD. Direct from us: store.tenebrouspress.com Prcoeeds benefit the Trans Doe Task Force & Trans Legal Services Network. Hail the Weird🖤☠️🏳️‍⚧️
Cover art by Mx Morgan G Robles, a swan alights on a cosmic sea, flanked by the colors of the trans flag.
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Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's anti-prime day at Bookshop, so if you wanted to pick up some past/present/future queer stories... why not pair 'Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity' with 'The Woods All Black?' bookshop.org/p/books/ampl...
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Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity
Revolutionary and visionary, these twenty-two speculative stories edited by Lambda, Nebula and Hugo finalist Lee Mandelo explore the vast potentialities of our queer and trans futures. USA Today Bests...
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Think about how thoroughly entwined Epstein was with prestige academic institutions, how there was a very good chance your professor or dean was like one hop away at most from someone constantly chatting with him. *Right up til his death*, over a decade after his 2008 conviction.
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Here’s an excerpt from my new (prose!) book. It’s from the opening essay, which addresses 兔儿神/the Rabbit God, a queer deity from my home province of Fujian. But really it's a prose poem, an ars poetica, a manifesto. In Cahoots with the Rabbit God is out on Dec. 1. Preorder now: tinyurl.com/4mc6vnjf
DEAR RABBIT GOD,

I don't believe in suffering for one's art. I believe in frolicking for one's art. I believe in eating well for one's art. I believe in farting for one's art. I believe in making beautiful friends for one's art. And making plans with one's friends for one's art, I believe in this utterly. Especially when those friends hold you accountable to making your art, revising your thought, practicing your politics. I believe that my gaysian life is integral to my art and I believe that difference should be embraced, not shunned, not simplified. I believe that poems that love earthly difference alongside or even more than spiritual transcendence are better poems. I believe in falling wildly in love for one's art and for no reason at all. I believe in orgasming for one's art.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What is the middle ground between "trans people must be eradicated for the good of the nation" and "I don't want to be eradicated"? Half eradicated and half kept for experiments? Been trying to convince these people I'm human for 15 years with no success. Don't break bread with Nazis. No point.
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Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
At least the boots have crossover appeal
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Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Packing outfits for a trip that includes contest judging and social appearances at the KY leather weekend *and* being a guest for the Midwest Gothic & Horror Lit Fest is... interesting,
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ShipScrewUnscrewer @shipscrewunscrewer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
New Study on the impact of anti-trans views on trans* mental health: The team surveyed 807 trans and gender-diverse people aged 16 and over, some of whom described the stigma they encountered online or in traditional media as "relentless", "omnipresent" and "inescapable".
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Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Michael/the Distortion stabbing Jon in ep. 47 "The New Door": hot
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's easier to think that people are cutting off their family because of social contagion or viral therapy trends than it is to accept that families are very often places of pain and domination where escape is the only alternative to lifelong misery or death.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I think people get nervous and scared when they see liberation in process, because it pushes them toward thinking about their own suffering AND their own complicity in or silence about the suffering of others.
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