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Margot Atwell @margotatwell.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I've just launched this queer publishing event series with @hivemindbookstore.bsky.social and it's been really great so far! I'm looking for panelists for upcoming events. Please reach out or share this with folks who might be interested. Next event is April 20, link up soon! #queerpublishing

Seeking panelists for Publishing Queer

This event series at Hive Mind Books in Brooklyn brings together some of the most interesting, talented, knowledgeable people involved in publishing trans and queer writing and art to share their wisdom, hosted by writer and publishing veteran Margot Atwell, with a social hour afterwards.

Upcoming topics: literary agents, literary magazines, short stories, essays, romance, horror and more.

Reach out if you’re interested or know someone who might be!

margotatwell.com/publishingqueer

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

✨ WHAT ELEGANT STARS is now funding ✨ satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

This is why you need to be reading books and writing your own emails, by the way. When you outsource your thinking abilities, you risk turning your brain into soup. Heavy dependence on AI has already been linked with severe cognitive decline. What you don’t use, you will lose.

Headline in today's Guardian that reads "Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40 percent, study finds. Cognitive health in later life is 'strongly influenced' by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers."

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Ellen Kushner @ellenkushner.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

NYC! 🏳️‍🌈Thursday at 4pm 🏳️‍🌈

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Tell your friends. Even if the only florist you can find nearby is in the Kroger produce section. There is a person putting those arrangements together and they WILL work with you and you WILL get better results with a pro who’s given a free hand

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.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

what are you doing!

a screenshot of two tumblr posts. the first:

aralintheobsessive
Jan 16
if you want butterflies, you need to live with
caterpillars.
iam not being metaphorical, i work in a garden center,
stop buying plants 'to bring in the bees and butterflies
and then immediately poisoning every caterpillar that
dares to consume a single leaf
you will not get butterflies if you kill all the things that
turn into butterflies! what are you doing!

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below it, a response from afroartinc:

As a poet, I also want my viewers to take this rather
beautiful allegory into account.

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 06/02/2026

Writing this story made me happy in a dark time. I talked to half a dozen people who started queer bookstores in their communities, and what I heard gave me hope. These aren't just bookstores — they're a lifeline for people who have no place else to go.

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Margot Atwell @margotatwell.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I was so honored that ABSOLUTE PLEASURE was included on this list, with a lovely review from @jennyhayes.bsky.social.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/11/2025

And remember, the main thing the profit motive gets you is…

Private equity takeover of hospitals led to rise in Medicare emergency patient
deaths, says study Study found seven more deaths per 10,000 patients in
private equity hospitals' versus non-private equity hospitals

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 31/10/2025

“There’s absolutely more need, but less food. It’s bad.” The shutdown is pushing federal workers to food banks, just as SNAP is set to expire.

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The shutdown is pushing federal workers to food banks—just as SNAP is set to expire

"There's absolutely more need, but less food. It's bad."

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Margot Atwell @margotatwell.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

It was fun talking to Jenn for the Turn the Page Podcast 🎃👻🦇💜💋

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Mutual aid is resistance. Build community, share joy, feed kids, save lives.

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

While thinking about the No Kings protests, I realized something. Trump isn't acting like a king. He's acting like a CEO. This isn't a monarchy, this is late stage capitalism. America is being treated as a business acquisition. He's stripping it for parts before dumping it like a fucking Toys R Us.

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 17/10/2025

On Tuesday, October 21st—Ursula's birthday—we'll announce the recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! Join Theo Downes-Le Guin and guest host Ebon Moss-Bachrach on YouTube for a live announcement at 9 am PDT. The announcement will happen here: www.youtube.com/@ursula.k.le...

The eight books shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction are in a stack, with a note on top that reads "Prize winner announcement 10.21.25 9 am PDT." The books are North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher; Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins; The City in Glass by Nghi Vo; The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy; The West Passage by Jared Pechaček; Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera; Archangels of Funk by Andrea Hairston; and Blackheart Man by Nalo Hopkinson.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 11/10/2025

Tens of millions of people have died from Covid. Every country should have responded with record investments in public health infrastructure. Instead the US government is putting us all at greater risk of more catastrophes by firing hundreds of top scientists whose job is to prevent outbreaks.

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 16/09/2025

Hey, I know books are expensive and money is tight right now. But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library! It's easy! Check your library's website.

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Margot Atwell @margotatwell.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Tonight in Brooklyn, join me at Franklin Park for the World Transsexual Forum, where I'll be in conversation with two of the writers in the book and the delightful @jeannethornton.bsky.social and Anton Solominik.

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Margot Atwell @margotatwell.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Today, I'll be doing an event in Somerville, MA with @allshewrotebks.bsky.social and Full Body Cast will perform fan favorites from Rocky Horror. Then tomorrow, I'll be back in Brooklyn and talking with @jeannethornton.bsky.social and @magsvisaggio.com Mel King and Anton Solomonik. #rockyhorror

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

From this morning on NPR Morning Edition, re ABSOLUTE PLEASURE (cc @margotatwell.bsky.social ) www.npr.org/2025/09/26/n...

From the NPR Morning edition transcript, ABSOLUTE PLEASURE editor Margot Atwell talking about seeing Frank-N-Furter for the first time: "suddenly I realized the world was a lot bigger and a lot weirder than I had ever known... Rocky Horror was my first experience with queer joy on a screen."

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Margot Atwell @margotatwell.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

The next stops on the ABSOLUTE PLEASURE Tour: Brooklyn, Providence, and Boston!

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Benjamin Larned 🍉 @rotbacchus.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

My contributor copies of ABSOLUTE PLEASURE arrived today from @margotatwell.bsky.social l and @feministpress.bsky.social ress - a dream come true!! Can't wait to read all these wonderful takes on one of my favorite movies

Me, a bearded white man, holding a copy of Absolute Pleasure

The title page to my essay "Who Lives in the Old Dark House?"

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Margot Atwell @margotatwell.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

It's pub day for ABSOLUTE PLEASURE! It's such a thrill to get to share this incredible collection of essays by 25 brilliant, funny, earnest, thoughtful, talented writers with the world. #RockyHorror #RockyHorrorPictureShow

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Margot Atwell @margotatwell.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

I haven't sent On the Books in a minute, but here's one that talks about launching an anthology, with bonus content about how Gay Pride Month was a little bit more Queer Wrath Month for me this year. buttondown.com/onthebooks/a...

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Launching a book: Absolute Pleasure

The last time I launched a book with my name on the cover (Derby Life) was ten years ago. Since then, I’ve been involved in launching dozens of books (or...

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 12/09/2025

I am reading books by trans women tonight. And then I will write about them, and publish those thoughts. They want us scared. They want to deplatform us. Fuck them, culture work still matters.

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Margot Atwell @margotatwell.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I hate how often this is relevant. 😡

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Angry Algonquin @angryalgonquin.com · 12/09/2025

#RockyHorrorPictureShow book, "Absolute Pleasure" out next week! Great title.

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Margot Atwell @margotatwell.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Absolute Pleasure is in incredible company! 🤩

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Margot Atwell @margotatwell.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

ABSOLUTE PLEASURE, an anthology of trans and queer writers on The Rocky Horror Picture Show, launches next week with some great events in New York and elsewhere. I am incredibly proud of this collection and the in-person spaces and conversations we are creating. absolutepleasurebook.com

Margot, a white femme person with rainbow hair, holds a copy of ABSOLUTE PLEASURE in front of bookshelves at Hive Mind Books

An illustration of a Frank-N-Stein-like figure in a gold corset against a red background, with Book Tour at the top. The text from the flyer is readable at absolutepleasurebook.com

A flyer about the book launch at Hive Mind Books. Tickets and info at hivemindbooks.com

A flyer about the ABSOLUTE PLEASURE launch party at 3 Dollar Bill on 9/18. Tickets and info at 3DollarBillBK.com

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Noting that there is a very excellent launch party planned for this book at 3 Dollar Bill next week! I will be working the door for the first part; please come through and say hello 👋 🦇 👄 www.eventim.us/event/ABSOLU...

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Buy Tickets to ABSOLUTE PLEASURE LAUNCH PARTY 50 YEARS OF ROCKY HORROR in Brooklyn on Sep 18, 2025

The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the beloved queer cult classic film, turns 50 this month. NYC has a special place in Rocky Horror history: it’s where t

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Margot Atwell @margotatwell.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

It's so exciting to see copies of Absolute Pleasure out in the world! I'm so grateful to the incredible writers, talented professionals, and generous backers who have helped make this book real! 📕💋

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Buttondown is now very loudly advertising on their landing page that they will do the newsletter migration for you if you want off the Nazi site. They did mine, and it was painless. The only pain point I've had is how Substack handled paid subscriptions–Buttondown fixed their mess.

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Amy Sherald says the Smithsonian suggested removing a painting of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from her upcoming show at the National Portrait Gallery “to avoid provoking President Trump.” Sherald: “I cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorship”

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Amy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

"Anything that isn't more cops on the subway and death camps for the homeless is delusional leftist nonsense!"

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

TODAY'S THE DAY www.agentsandbooks.com/p/todays-the...

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

A huge step from HHS that is at odds with science showing significant risks for young children and pregnant women — and that directly contradicts *the FDA's own publication* from last week listing pregnancy as a high-risk condition that would qualify people for this fall's Covid vaccine

A tweet from HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.:

Today, the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women has been removed from @CDCgov recommended immunization schedule. Bottom line: it's common sense and it's good science. We are now one step closer to realizing @POTUS's promise to Make America Healthy Again.

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I'm so sick of every company that "supports artists" immediately withdrawing that support if you've ever drawn naked people, let alone smut. Nobody ever wants to fight for us, defend us. Anything bad that happens to us is always our fault. I'm so tired.

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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 20/05/2025

It’s so wild that when they asked me to blurb this they didn’t even know I was a Rocky Horror kiddie in my youth

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Margot Atwell @margotatwell.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Some brilliant people have said some incredibly lovely things about Absolute Pleasure! You can get a copy and some cool swag here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...

In white text against a black and gold star background: "A book that examines Rocky Horror's legacy in all its queer, defiant, transgressive, flawed, chaotic glory." -From the introduction to Absolute Pleasure by Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House and Her Body and Other Parties

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

psst guys just 5 more days to Kickstart the first book in FP's all-bangers Fall 2025 season: ABSOLUTE PLEASURE by @margotatwell.bsky.social ! Contains Q+T readers reacting, fifty years on, to Rocky Horror, and it's great: if you can, please help make it come true! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...

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Absolute Pleasure: Queer Perspectives on Rocky Horror

A super queer anthology featuring Sarah Gailey, Grace Lavery, Magdalene Visaggio, and Carmen Maria Machado

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Margot Atwell @margotatwell.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

One week left! I'd love it if you'd check this out and share it with a friend.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 07/05/2025

It's so hard to start up an independent publication, and here we are celebrating six months at @theflytrapmedia.com. We were able to get going thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign: Please help us keep going by joining our subscription drive! We're offering 15% off all subscriptions!

theflytrap.beehiiv.com

The Flytrap

Bringing Back the Feminist Blog

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Michael @unprovoked.net · 01/05/2025

Give yourself over!

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

HUGE NEWS. The judge in the case where 21 state attorneys generals sued the Trump administration over dismantling the IMLS just issued an injunction in favor of the plaintiffs. This is good news & the judge further indicates that the plaintiffs have a STRONG case here. bookriot.com/the-latest-f...

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The Latest from the Institute of Museum and Library Services

A temporary restraining order halts further dismantling of the only federal agency for libraries, but the 2026 federal budget calls for eliminating the IMLS completely.

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