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Nadia Daniels-Moehle (she/her)

@nadiacdm.bsky.social
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Interdisciplinary writer-artist, all about critical/monster theory and situated perception. Resident 🏳️‍🌈 📖 🪱 www.itsallsomonstrous.com

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Nadia Daniels-Moehle (she/her) @nadiacdm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's that time of year. The time in my hemisphere when the dim light, cool breezes, and burgeoning smell of rot in the woods make us sigh, "ah yes, spooky season is upon us." The countdown begins... 31 days until #Halloween | 32 days until #DíadeMuertos
Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's Monster, photographed taking a tea break during the filming of Frankenstein. Universal Pictures / Universal Studios, 1931
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Nadia Daniels-Moehle (she/her) @nadiacdm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
When I say I study monster theory, I get questions. So here's a living purpose statement about my work and monsters. Featuring some of @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social , @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social and #JackHalberstam 's monster scholarship. www.itsallsomonstrous.com/why-monsters...
itsallsomonstrous.com
Why monsters? A living purpose statement.
In which I explore monstrosity, questions, and tiny prehistoric teeth.
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Nadia Daniels-Moehle (she/her) @nadiacdm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Summertime is for gothic fiction. Read @silviamg.bsky.social's Daughter of Doctor Moreau for the #hybrids and a delicious plot. Read The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe for @ssag.bsky.social and the plot holes. #LatinxHorror #GothicFiction
Book cover with a woman with honey skin and a green dress in a doorway surrounded by pink walls covered in green vines. The title reads "The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia"Book cover with a painting of a ship near a glacier on the top half with the text "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe"
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Nadia Daniels-Moehle (she/her) @nadiacdm.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Just finished my first @chucktingle.bsky.social, Camp Damascus. Frigid #demons, memory, --I called Rose's #Autism --, flies 🪰, and combating conversion therapy with flame throwers. I've been tingled, I loved every second. #lgbtqhorror #sapphicromance
Book cover: a mouth opens with mayflies spilling out, in front are camp cabins, one lit by a blur light. The title reads "Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle"
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Nadia Daniels-Moehle (she/her) @nadiacdm.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Light From Uncommon Starts is best experienced on a shady beach with doughnuts. #Sci-fi, The Queen of Hell, being a trans woman, #sapphic romance, baked goods. What more could I ask for. Thanks for making this story with the world @rykaaoki.bsky.social #lgbtqReads #SpeculativeLit
A hand propping up the book "Light from Uncommon Starts" by Ryka Aoki with a chocolate glazed doughnut on top. Behind is sand and cedar trees.
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Nadia Daniels-Moehle (she/her) @nadiacdm.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
#ScienceWriting #BlackWomeninHorror #QueerNature my latest non-fic reads have been fabulous. Forest Euphoria by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian = nature is inherently queer Searching for Sycorax: Black Women's Hauntings of Contemporary Horror by Kinitra D. Brooks = my reading/watch list doubled.
Book cover with a creative illustration of a woman reading "Searching for Sycorax: Black Women's Hauntings of Contemporary Horror by Kinitra D.  Brooks"Book cover with gold illustrations entwined with a snake, blackbird and mushroom reading "Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kiashian"
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Nick Walker @dr-nicky.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I had this great joke about Penelope written down, but I left it at home.
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Nadia Daniels-Moehle (she/her) @nadiacdm.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
June is for #AfricanFuturism and #Vampires Re-read Fledgling by #OctaviaButler, one of my favorite vampire conceptualizations to date. Zoomed through She Who Knows by @nnedi.bsky.social, *gets the next book out from the library*
Book cover reading "multiple award-winning author of Parable of The talents and Kindred Octavia E. Butler Fledgling" There is a gold sticker reading "new york times bestselling author" and a quote about the book from washington post. Most of the cover is white that turns into a singed dress that meets a Black girl's feet walking down stone steps.Book cover reads "Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-Winning Author Nnedi Okorafor She Who Knows" The background is a gold and white cover with a Black woman looking to the left in profile with a headdress that looks like a stone creature with horns looking the opposite direction of her.
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Nadia Daniels-Moehle (she/her) @nadiacdm.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
June reads included… Somewhere Beyond the Sea, by TJ Klune — I laughed, I cried... *moves to Marsyas Island* The Queer Art of Failure, by Jack Halberstam — #LowTheory for the win. #QueerTheory #yaFiction #LGBTQ+Fiction
Book cover reading "Somewhere Beyond the Sea by New York Times Bestselling Author TJ Klune, the sequil to the House In the Cerulean Sea" The background is a house on a cliff above the sea with a phoenix fling up from it. Book cover reading "The Queer Art of Failure by Judith Halberstam" however the author has changed his name to Jack since publication. Failure is dangling precariously.
In the foreground is a photograph of a shriveled dead baby bird.
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Nadia Daniels-Moehle (she/her) @nadiacdm.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
As seen by the aggressive squirrels outside the @sfrareview.bsky.social 2026 conference. Took a break under an oak tree because trad learning environments are #disabling for by bodymind. Felt like a Rocky Horror Picture Show virgin with this "first time attendee" ribbon. #IYKYK
selfie of poster, a woman with dark short hair, black rimmed glasses, black eyeliner, silver hoops, a white button up shirt with a black band across the chest and a backpack strap slung over her shoulder. She's making an awkward face because she isn't comfortable taking selfies and never knows what to do with her face. Her name tag has a "first time attendee" blue ribbon on it. Behind her is the canopy of an oak tree with blue sky peeking through it.
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Nadia Daniels-Moehle (she/her) @nadiacdm.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Two viruses and many migraines later, spring read catch-up pt. 3 Of Gods and Monster by @barbaratruelove.bsky.social - jam packed with #monsters No Gods, No Monsters by @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social - found out about this one from @monsterandchild.bsky.social, again more monsters. More please.
Book cover reading "Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove" with a small spaceship shooting out psychedelic colors behind the text. Behind all of this is a mouth with fangs on a black background.Book title with white text reading "No Gods, No Monsters A Novel by Cadwell Turnbull". The background is black with golden line drawings of a snake, pocket knife, fish, and large cat, small blue dots surround the drawings.
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Nadia Daniels-Moehle (she/her) @nadiacdm.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Two viruses and many migraines later, catching up on my spring reads pt. 2 Japanese Ghost Stories, by Hiroko Yoda et al. - What can I say? I like ghosts 👻 The House in the Cerulean Sea, by TJ Klune - This book fed something deep in my soul. Go read it. #yafiction #ghosts #queerfiction #yokai
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Nadia Daniels-Moehle (she/her) @nadiacdm.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Felt particularly dyke-y today, guess it must be #PrideMonth Kicked the month off by reading @jackhalberstam.bsky.social's The Art of Queer Failure and listening to TJ Klune's Somewhere Beyond The Sea. #QueerBookworms #QueerTheory #It'sFineIfICallMyselfADykeBecauseIAmOne #YAFiction
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Nadia Daniels-Moehle (she/her) @nadiacdm.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Two viruses and many migraines later, catching up on my spring reads pt. 1 Neuroqueer Heresies, by @dr-nicky.bsky.social. A delight. Read it. What Feasts at Night, by @tkingfisher.com. Yay, more #gothicqueerhorror! #neuroqueer #actuallyautistic
Purple and blue boo cover with a brain/butterfly at center. Text reads "neuroqueer heresies: notes on the neurodiversity paradigm, autistic empowerment, and postnormal possibilities. Nick Walker"A book cover with a rotting horse on a red background the text reads "what feasts at night. T. Kingfisher. Usa today bestselling author of what moves the dead"
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Nadia Daniels-Moehle (she/her) @nadiacdm.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
As wars rage on, and our rights grow ever wobbly... reading fiction helps, a little. You Weren't Meant to Be Human, by @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social (trans, #Autistic, Midwestern, #bodyhorror: I was sat 🪰🪱). The Rose Field, by Philip Pullman (too much info, not enough time type finale, oh well).
Black book cover with the white text "You Weren't Meant to Be Human" with worms threading through the words. And red text reading Andrew Joseph WhiteA title in red "The Rose Filed: The Book of Dust Volume Three" by Phillip Pullman. With a Linotype print-inspired image of a desert and sky in yellows, oranges, and reds with two figures on camels.
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Nadia Daniels-Moehle (she/her) @nadiacdm.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
My first reads of February: What Moves the Dead, by T. Kingfisher (#queer House of Usher retelling yes please). Out There Screaming, ed. Jordan Peele (#blackhorror short stories and favorite fiction read so far). Anyone else sleep better when you read #horror before bed? Just me?
Title and author's name in white text "What Moves The Dead by T. Kingfisher" with a painting of a dead rabbit with red and pink fungi growing out of it. The book has a black background.Title text "Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror" in white text with "Edited by Jordan Peele" in black text. The cover is of crumpled aluminum foil with holes for eyes and a mouth gouged out, the eyes and mouth have red background and the text is in the mouth.
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Nadia Daniels-Moehle (she/her) @nadiacdm.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Rounded out January with Black #speculativefiction and #queertheory. Babel-17, Samuel R. Delaney (Imagery, queer themes, language as perception.) Queer Phenomenology, Sara Ahmed (Yet another reason why I love her work.) These books = soothing the heart and brain in these heinous times.
Green cover with red text reading "Babel-17". Cream text reads "Samuel R. Delany" and "Think galactic--or your world is lost!". Below the text is a woman's head, she had dark hair and eyes, with planets, machinery and a humanoid figure behind her.Title of book cover "Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others" by Sara Ahmed. The cover features a large table and chair in a field with tiny person next to it.
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Nadia Daniels-Moehle (she/her) @nadiacdm.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
2026 reads starting off strong and very sapphic with: “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence” by Adrienne Rich #comphet #LesbianReads and Herculine by @emotrophywife.bsky.social, a swirling #QueerHorror tale, read for demons and babes. #WhatAreYouReading?
Book cover: hot pink background with black text reading "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence by Adrienne Rich"Book cover: a figure of a feminine head rendered in black ink is surfacing from green flames, two demon horns float above her head. The title reads "Herculine a novel Grace Byron"
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Nadia Daniels-Moehle (she/her) @nadiacdm.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Spent last night watching @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social talk monsters, and—no Borgs involved—assimilated some of my besties into fans. Thank you for your sharing your work and middle of the night time with us. #ThisIsWhyIStudyMonsters #Trekkie #HumansAMonstrousHistory @sonjadedm.bsky.social
A laptop showing Dr. Surekha Davies (on the right side of the screen) talking about her book Humans A Monstrous History (a red cover with a mirror in the center surrounded by various monsters' black figures). In the foreground, a black sketchbook and large, clear mug of tea. The laptop is sitting on a light wooden table.
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Nadia Daniels-Moehle (she/her) @nadiacdm.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
A good meme is worth a 1,000-word critical explanation. <3 for sharing @sonjadedm.bsky.social, I rarely feel so seen. #CriticalTheory #IntersectionalFeminism #It'sHuntingSeason;SaveTheDeer
A meme showing a deer with small antlers at night reading "I'm rarely a hater but when I hate, my hate comes from a place of ethics, nuance, and critical analysis"
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Nadia Daniels-Moehle (she/her) @nadiacdm.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Let's yap about... monsters, speculative fiction/horror/afrofuturism, open/commons, critical philosophies, everything LGBTQ+, #endo, disabilities, intersectional feminism, the non-human world, culture, books, pluriversal futures, and anything nerdy… You start: what’s the last thing you read?
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