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m.a. hoak

@mahoak.bsky.social
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✍️ Writer 🌿 Plant fiend 😈 🤕 Collector of Rare Medical Maladies Interests: horror studies, embodied hauntology, illness in media, disability studies, neurodivergence, folklore, and intersectional feminism. 👻🦇🩸🪦 ♿️

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Katherine Applegate @kaaauthor.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
We need all hands on deck to stop H.R. 7661, the federal book banning bill. Your voice matters. Congressional offices track every call—we CAN make a difference. I hope you’ll join me in speaking out. There's a script you can follow here: action.everylibrary.org/callhr7661 @authorsabb.bsky.social
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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n... Periodic sincere reminder: there is no bottom.
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Army base used for WWII Japanese internment now nation's largest ICE detention center
Stewards of Japanese American history are calling out the use of Fort Bliss to detain immigrants.
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Donkey @marshmallowpie.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
www.newsweek.com/florida-loca... Or just everyone in broad daylight, unashamed and defiant 💖
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Florida locals defy Ron DeSantis by restoring Pulse rainbow crosswalk
People took matters into their own hands after the commemorative crosswalk was removed, and drew it back onto the ground.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
People need to start understanding that cruelty is the point. They aren't even satisfied with LGBTQ+ being killed, they have to erase any solidarity the world might have with the victims
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m.a. hoak @mahoak.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Former fundies with dysfunctional families trying to keep a straight face upon hearing that James Dobson’s kicked it. #sorrynotsorry #popthebubbly #byebyebye
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
With the death of anti-LGBTQ Christian Nationalist, James Dobson, the VIP section of Hell is now full. Fellow bigots, please make other arrangements.
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
The next target of book banners? Romance books. The where, when, how, and why of romance books being the next step in the process of dismantling literacy and institutions of democracy. bookriot.com/the-next-boo...
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The Next Book Ban Target? Romance: Book Censorship News, August 22, 2025
Where and how romance books will become the next targets of book banners. That, plus this week's roundup of book censorship news.
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m.a. hoak @mahoak.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Anyone else having daily panic attacks as our country giddily freefalls into totalitarianism while piloting martial law in D.C.? Or watching the meteoric rise of right-wing, populist parties in Europe and realizing that, even if we need to flee the US, no one abroad will welcome us? No? Just me?
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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 18/08/2025
this is just to say i have eaten the bones that were in the boneyard and which you were probably saving for necromancy forgive me they were delicious so ossified and so crunchy and also i am not sorry and i will do it again 🫶
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
How about that? A victory for people who actually read.
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"None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban Bill
In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.
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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
ICYMI! PLEASE REPOST! Poets! Uncanny Magazine is OPEN to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26! Poetry Editor Betsy Aoki can't wait to read your poems!!! buff.ly/9AyStcb
Space Unicorn!
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m.a. hoak @mahoak.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Playing around with a short story idea. 😊⚔️🏰☠️💔 #AmWriting #fantasy #horror
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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
We have 20 MINUTES left!! KEEP IT ROLLING, YOU MAGNIFICENT SPACE UNICORNS!!!
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Patrick Samphire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Another UBI trial finds the same as all the others. We really don't need anymore trials at this point.
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m.a. hoak @mahoak.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Realizing sickness horror like “The Stand” and really hits different post-Covid.
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Disco Barrington 🏳️‍⚧️ Author @discobooks.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Fantasy book recs for Disability Pride Month! To my fellow disabled and chronically ill folks, I love you and you deserve the world 💜 📚💙 #disabilityhistorymonth
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Kristy Strange @strangescholar.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
My new YouTube video titled “How to Become an Independent Researcher” is now live! In this video I share what I learnt during the 3.5 years I spent as an independent researcher in-between completing my Masters degree and starting my PhD. youtu.be/9Z49U_DlhmU?...
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How to Become an Independent Researcher
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Horror Lex is hiring! In search of a part-time, paid clerical assistant to help us maintain the database. Love horror films? Got mad search skills? Obsessive about punctuation? We love that. Details on the blog: horrorlex.com/blog/horror-...
A cartoon illustration of a werewolf dressed as a college professor, using a quill pen to write a letter.
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Noor Lovelace @noorlovelace.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Friendly reminder if Medicaid gets cut I will very literally, not hypothetically, die. That’s just a fact. And there are millions of others just like me. We’re not just numbers, we’re not just political topics, we’re not just plot points and percentages. We are very real. Please remember that.
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PseudoPod 🎙️ @pseudopod.org · 16/06/2025
Do you want deep ones seeping into this time and space, because this is how you get deep ones seeping into this time space? 🐜 🐜 🐜
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m.a. hoak @mahoak.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Honored and proud to have signed my first song for the Asheville Choral Society. “Ain’t No Grave” by Paul Caldwell and Sean Ivory. #AshevilleStrong #Choir #AshevilleChoralSociety #ASL #DEIAB
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m.a. hoak @mahoak.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Quadruple dark chocolate and orange cake with ganache and mousse. Made from scratch. She is beauty. She is grace. Imma stuff her in my face! #homebaker #happybirthdaytome
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
The Library of Congress is a research library. The Congressional Research Service researches for Congress. Scholars & researchers apply for passes to research. NO children’s section. Even the general public has very limited access.
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NewsCurrentNow @newscurrentnow.com · 09/05/2025
This will NEVER get old‼️🤣🤣🤣
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SubRosa )✿( Magick (chat to book a reading) @subrosamagick.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
"It was generally believed that witches could assume the shape of a hare. A hare of twenty years was supposed to become a witch, and a witch of eighty turns into a hare again." Folklore of Wales (1909) via Mark Rees #WitchyWednesday
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After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 06/05/2025
This is going to be a blow to some litmags.
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m.a. hoak @mahoak.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
@noxterran.bsky.social @delphinese.bsky.social Happy belated anniversary! Hope you guys had a great day!
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m.a. hoak @mahoak.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
“…And for that man there was a grave, And from that grave there grew a tree… In Sumerisle, Sumerisle, Sumerisle, Sumerisle, Sumerisle Wood…” Happy May Day, ya’ll. 😈 #IfYouKnowYouKnow #MayDay #Beltane #FolkHorror
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FolkloreThursday @folklorethursday.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
The next hosted #FolkloreThursday is 8th May - our theme will be the folklore of plants, flowers and herbs!
A leafy plant - mandrake - with a bulb and red berries stands in a garden, while a dog sniffs a bowl on the ground, with a figure nearby.
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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Don’t be surprised if the next marginalized community the far right decides to target and demonized is the disabled community. The normalization of the ‘R-word,’ acceptance pronatalist eugenics, and the proposal there should be a registry of people on the autism spectrum. “Lebensunwertes leben.”
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Jonathan Lenore Kastin @someofourstars.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
The Florida Freedom to Read Project has been battling book bans in the Sunshine State for years, largely without support. Now they need our financial help to keep fighting the good fight. Please donate if you can! www.fftrp.org/donate
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Preacher from the Black Lagoon @revpoppop.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I’m just trying to vibe and these MFs just keep preventing me from doing that.
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Books in the Freezer Podcast @booksinthefreezer.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
New episode! @natcassidy.bsky.social is back to talk about "the daddy issues of it all" this week. Listen to us cover father-shaped grief, fear, Criterion Closet picks, horror dads and more
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
New Horror Studies! Get a horror-comedy genre breakdown, the link between folk horror & Victorian anthropology, Lovecraftian lit, bad transplants of ANTIVIRAL and POSSESSOR & MIDNIGHT MASS'S meaningful vampires. @dawnkeetley.bsky.social @theprofrog.bsky.social intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...
On the left, the cover of Horror Studies journal, featuring a large photo of a woman in white walking into a dark forest.On the right, a promotional image for the film ANTIVIRAL in which a pale White man holds up a scary-looking silver hypodermic needle and glowers while a White woman lies unconsciousness or asleep behind him.
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JonneyO @jonneyo.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Absolute must watch and share. Understand these people aren't incompetent and they are following a plan. Do not obey in advance youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?...
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This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED
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CNN @cnn.com · 11/04/2025
A German experiment has found that people are likely to continue working full-time even if they receive no-strings-attached universal basic income payments.
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German experiment gave people a basic monthly income – the effect on their work ethic was surprising | CNN
A German experiment has found that people are likely to continue working full-time even if they receive no-strings-attached universal basic income payments.
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sickorax @ripeteeth.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
times are hard, so here is my blessing: may you be gripped by an obsessive and breathless hyperfixation for a new fandom with a wealth of wonderful fics
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Get this: Commerce is slashing $ to Princeton's world-renowned climate research b/c modeling changes to Earth systems is "contributing to a phenomenon known as 'climate anxiety,' which has increased significantly among America’s youth." No research, no problem! www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...
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Ending Cooperative Agreements’ Funding to Princeton University
On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced that nearly $4 million in funding is ending to Princeton University after a detailed, careful, and thorough review of the...
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Megan G @megan-ji.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Me waking up to the latest news headlines each morning
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a woman is saying `` this is the bad place ! ''
Alt: Eleanor from The Good Place tv show saying “this is the bad place!”
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
In this week's Writing While Disabled, Farah Mendlesohn and hosts Kristy Anne Cox and Kate Johnston discuss hearing, dyslexia, ADHD adjustments, and what fandom should be doing better for accessibility at conventions. Listen, watch and read the transcript at the link to the latest issue in our bio!
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Category is: Appalachian horror recs 🙂🌹🪦
The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo; Wake The Bones by Elizabeth Kilcoyne; The Twisted Ones by T Kingfisher; John the Balladeer by Manly Wade Wellman; Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White; The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Being disabled is far more like a job than it is a vacation. You work to accommodate your chronic illness 24/7. There’s no breaks. There’s no days off. There’s no one you can complain to if things become too much. You’re fighting ableism, the healthcare system AND your body all at once.
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Nadine Matheson @nadinematheson.com · 03/04/2025
Today is a day of protest against META stealing our work to train AI. “If You Don’t Stand for Something, You’ll Fall for Anything“. Join the @societyofauthors.bsky.social authors as they march to Meta’s offices. The meeting point is Granary Square, London N1C 4DQ at 12.45pm. #makeitfair
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
NEW journal! HORROR issue! OPEN access! Scaffold Journal's "The Power of Horror Compels You: Exploring Historical & Modern Genre Conventions" has essays on Filipino horror, Leatherface, Halloween franchise, CARRIE, Covid-19, more. @drfolettolucas.bsky.social ojs.library.carleton.ca/index.php/J-...
The cover of issue 2.1 of Scaffold: Journal for the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture, titled "The Power of Horror Compels You." It has a grey-toned drawing of a brick building, St Patrick's Building Art Gallery at Carleton University, with some of the windows open.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
An FDA worker confirms what I've seen out there. CDC's entire FOIA office is gone. The FDA's communications and web office were cut. "The FDA as we know it is gone."
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Kaz @kazlefay.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
When I see Cory Booker up there, I think about seniors & disabled & financially disadvantaged folks who can’t stand in line for hours to advocate for themselves. Cory is putting his body on the line to stand up for those who can’t. That’s how Congress is supposed to use the power of the people.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Longest speaking filibuster ever was 24 hours, 18 minutes by Strom Thurmond in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. In a few hours, that record will be shattered by Sen. Cory Booker, a Black man, laying out the case for saving democracy from an aspiring despot.
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m.a. hoak @mahoak.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Submitted my proposal for “Otherworldly Entertainment: A Conference on Horror, Magic, Gothic, and the Occult in Video Games”! Will it be accepted? Who knows. But I’m having so much fun doing academic research and writing again. ❤️👩‍💻🦇🩸🧟‍♀️🪦 #HorrorStudies #MediaStudies #VideoGames #NerdAlert
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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 01/04/2025
deadlands fiction submission OPEN for SPECIAL ISSUE 💀💀💀 edited by @vajra.me NO JOKE, VERY REAL submit your greatest death stories here: psychopomp.com/the-deadland...
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The Deadlands Guidelines - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
This is the dead landThis is cactus landHere the stone imagesAre raised, here they receiveThe supplication of a dead man's handUnder the twinkle of a fading
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