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Nicole Zelniker

@nicolezelniker.bsky.social
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🌈Author, spoonie, queer icon 📚Repped by Daniele Hunter 🇵🇸None of us are free until all of us are free

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Nicole Zelniker @nicolezelniker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This month, buy my books from Habibti Bookshop and all the author and bookstore proceeds will go to the Gaza Soup Kitchen. Habibti is a mobile book truck based in NC with an online presence. You can shop their site at their Bookshop 🔗 on my page. Happy October, and free Palestine🍂🇵🇸
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Nicole Zelniker @nicolezelniker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This month, buy my books from Habibti Bookshop and all the author and bookstore proceeds will go to the Gaza Soup Kitchen. Habibti is a mobile book truck based in NC with an online presence. You can shop their site at their Bookshop 🔗 on my page. Happy October, and free Palestine🍂🇵🇸
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Nicole Zelniker @nicolezelniker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
CW: S*xual assa*lt I love how five of the Cornell Seven had to write an essay as their only punishment for literally gang r*ping a girl FOR SEVEN HOURS but god forbid I post a video about how this is an indictment on American patriarchy😒
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
BREAKING: DOJ asks SCOTUS to erase trans people from the law in case over trans care in prison. Solicitor General John Sauer made the alarming, all-encompassing argument — previously covered at Law Dork — to the Supreme Court on Monday morning. Today, at Law Dork:
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Breaking: DOJ asks SCOTUS to erase trans people from the law in case over trans care in prison
Solicitor General John Sauer made the alarming, all-encompassing argument — previously covered at Law Dork — to the Supreme Court on Monday morning.
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DD Ward ..."Interim Pirate Queen" @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is a post about Cornell University.
Ever notice how the girl code revolves around things like protecting other girls from men stalking them on the street and bro code revolves around things like keeping side chicks a secret and not telling a guy's girlfriend he cheated on her?
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 27/09/2026
Run, don't walk, to vote.nyc/page/register-vote. Register to vote by October 24 so that you can vote on faster, more efficient government.
vote.nyc
Register to Vote | NYC Board of Elections
You can register to vote online, in-person, or by mail.
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E.M. Anderson | author & schism enthusiast too hot for Bluesky @elizmanderson.com · 27/09/2026
please buy my books! they're queer! they're fantasy! they star older characters bc I am nothing if not a grumpy old man at heart! THE KEEPER OF LONELY SPIRITS: bookshop.org/p/books/the-... THE LORD OF THE WOOD: bookshop.org/p/books/the-... #LateNightWrite
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The Keeper of Lonely Spirits
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 BY LIBRARY JOURNAL AND REACTOR "Anderson writes a curmudgeonly immortal protagonist and a (literally) haunting story full of heart; a delightful novel." --Library Journal sta...
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Nicole Zelniker @nicolezelniker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One of my favorite relationship archetypes in books is "person who thinks they're too much" x "person who thinks they aren't enough." Not just for romantic relationships, but for friendships, or siblings, or enemies. There's just so much there. And I will include it in as many projects as possible.
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Nicole Zelniker @nicolezelniker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I miiiight be doing something cool with some of these authors soon — and also imagine Etaf Rum’s books here. My copy of Evil Eye is currently being pushed onto a friend so we can discuss. ANYWAY, it’s not a giveaway, BUT proceeds from this *will* be going to Gaza. More on Oct. 1!
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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 22/09/2026
Got notified an artist was located, hired, and paid for work through HireHumanArtists.com and I couldn't be more thrilled Pls hire more artists through here!!! Support human made! #hha
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Looking for an artist for your next project? Our human artist directory is full of over 400 artists who have pledged not to use gen AI.
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Nicole Zelniker @nicolezelniker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Happy Bi Visibility Day! I'm bi! I'm visible! I have some books to share! Happy day!
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Nicole Zelniker @nicolezelniker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"They are smart enough to know that their approach risks becoming recruiting fodder for the worst antisemites ... But they are willing to risk it, because ... they are singularly focused on framing support for Palestine as the most pressing form of antisemitism." slate.com/news-and-pol...
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The Jewish Leaders Celebrating Macklemore’s Dismissal From Ed Sheeran’s Tour Have Lost the Plot on Antisemitism
The leaders of many Jewish organizations need to understand what their constituents think about Israel.
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Nicole Zelniker @nicolezelniker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Y’all I genuinely can’t wait to share this book with you✨
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Sonido Reyes @sonidoreyes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Happy book birthday to meeee 🎵🎶 To Our Untamed Core is OUT NOW! This book is incredibly special to me. It’s my first book with a trans protagonist, and my first book releasing with my new name. It’s terrifying and so so special. I am so grateful to finally be able to share this one with all of you💛
A selfie of Sonido Reyes with two braids in their hair smiling and holding their book, To our Untamed Core
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Deena 🇵🇸 دينا @deenahelm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
She’s out today :)
A photo of Deena holding a copy of the US edition of Our Cut of Salt. Behind her is a bookshelf with copies of the novel, both UK and US editions.
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Nicole Zelniker @nicolezelniker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Did I have an obscene amounts of P!nk on my playlists? Yes. Did I go through and delete all her music, including from the playlist for the book that's named for her song? Also yes. If you want to help Gaza, I have a bunch of 🔗s to various fundraisers on my page. Free Palestine, now and always🇵🇸
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Allison Stalberg @stalbergwrites.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It's time to uplift Latine books and add them to the TBR! Here are ones I've read and enjoyed in various genres and age groups. I'd love to hear other folk's recommendations! #booksky
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Nicole Zelniker @nicolezelniker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Finally made it out to Habibti to hang out, drink some matcha, vandalize my books, and talk about Macklemore📚 Thanks for having me y’all, and thanks to bestie Leah for being my personal photographer for me and my book babies!
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Barry Yeoman @barryyeoman.com · 18/09/2026
Durham NC holds itself up as a pro-immigrant jurisdiction. But its magistrates and judges repeatedly refer people facing low-level criminal charges to ICE when they're not required to—even for offenses as minor as a single trespassing charge. @twitterlessabe.bsky.social @indyweek.bsky.social #ncpol
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Durham Judicial Officials Are Unnecessarily Putting People on ICE's Radar for Low-Level Crimes
Durham judicial officials flagged people for citizenship checks when they didn’t need to, landing some in ICE custody, INDY found.
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Nicole Zelniker @nicolezelniker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Quiz taken! I'm 69% Temo, 57% Ollin, and 36% Socoyote, which honestly tracks for me, I think. Has anyone else entered the schmivaway yet? I can't wait for y'all to be able to read this incredibly special book in less than a week!
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
For @motherjones.com, I looked into how Meta could be using disabled people to promote its Meta glasses to the masses. As one expert told me, “companies have used accessibility...as a Trojan horse for a tool that poses significant privacy and security threats.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Is Meta using disabled people to promote its glasses?
AI glasses are a double-edged sword for disabled people, who face unique risks from surveillance.
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Nicole Zelniker @nicolezelniker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hi! I wrote a fun and not-at-all horrifying short story about female rage! Check it out below! www.theslashmedia.com/the-maze/
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The Maze
Written By: Nicole Zelniker There are no missing posters on the walls of the bar, no indication that girls vanish from here without a trace.
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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
for real tho, this is how you do it - 100% maximum respect
quote from Macklemore in a Variety article - "The victims are the Palestinian people.
The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence.
More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that."
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Nicole Zelniker @nicolezelniker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
For ALL I KNOW SO FAR bc I haven't talked about its comps recently: 📚I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST by @masondeaver.bsky.social 📚IN BETWEEN DAYS by @dancingofpens.bsky.social 📚SPIKES, DICE, & OTHER VARIABLES by @harperkinsley.bsky.social 📚THE GREAT COOL RANCH DORITO IN THE SKY by @joshgalarza.bsky.social
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 16/09/2026
Zionists: Palestinians would throw you off a roof The Jerusalem Post: the enemies of Judaism are either "gay or Islamist"
If world media – political Left and Right, Christians and Muslims – are all focused on the Jewish people, it must mean that internally, we possess something worth focusing on. 

So what are we missing?

Our various enemies, whether gay or Islamist, strangely all have a uniting north star, be that “globalize the intifada” or “take down the capitalist system.” Whatever it may be, it is clear that hatred and resentment are extremely unifying.
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Nicole Zelniker @nicolezelniker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Please feel free to follow me! I love that you're here! But follow Palestinian creatives, too! Here are some of my fave books by Palestinian authors. For nonfiction & poetry, check out Nada Samih-Rotondo, Ahmed Tamimi, Dena Takruri, Naomi Shihab Nye, Diya Abdo, & @yaffasutopia.bsky.social📚
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Nicole Zelniker @nicolezelniker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If more people with platforms were willing to speak out the way Macklemore does, maybe it wouldn’t be so controversial. None of us are free until all of us are free, and that’s includes Gaza. Free Palestine, now and always.
For my fellow American Jews and the people who love us, antisemitism is real and dangerous and you can feel scared about it, AND we are also not the ones currently being bombed and genocide. In fact, it is happening right now in our name. Both things can be true.

If more people with platforms were willing to speak out the way Macklemore does, maybe it wouldn’t be so controversial. None of us are free until all of us are free, and that’s includes Gaza.

Free Palestine, now and always.
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Nicole Zelniker @nicolezelniker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Everyone go read Espíritu RIGHT NOW📚
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
He cooked Ed Sheeran on IG
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Ed was in a fucked up position. He knew it. His typical apolitical stance was being challenged in a way it never had been before. He told me that the words
"Free Palestine" and the image of the Palestinian flag were hurtful to a lot of people he spoke with. I told him that if those words were more offensive than tens of thousands of Palestinian children being killed by Israel, then there was a fundamental disconnect between where those people stood and where I stood. But he couldn't get past his public facing, "I don't take sides."
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Disability Bookshelf @disabilitybooks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We've added new titles to our young adult's Bookshelf that deal with Fibromyalgia. For more information see www.disabilitybookshelf.com/invisible-di... #booksondisability #disabilitywriters #DisabilityBookshelf #fibromyalgia ##chronicillness @nicolezelniker.bsky.social #booksky
Book covers
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/09/2026
No candidate, regardless of party, will ever get my vote if they call me a "biological man" and advocate for laws targeting my community. Its that simple.
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Nicole Zelniker @nicolezelniker.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"We will survive this together or not at all." You can tell I write super chill, fun, not-at-all emotionally devastating books🫠
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Nicole Zelniker @nicolezelniker.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
[insert something vulnerable about Shoshana and LJ and Ben healing my inner child or something] Do I still live in NY? No. Did I fly in anyway to see this show and hang with bestie? Obviously. Perfect performance, no notes, Ali hit ✨that✨ note in Secret Comes Out and I think I ascended, etc.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Whatever your reason for hanging on, if your mental health is bad, is good enough. Is your sole reason that you need to outlive someone as a hater? Good enough reason.
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Nicole Zelniker @nicolezelniker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Author dream of being in a Madeline Dyer anthology unlocked✨ B&N sale runs through Friday, and for folks who want and have the means to support an indie bookstore, I’ve got the Bookshop link in my bio. I genuinely can’t wait to share this with you all.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 09/09/2026
Note that the Flock worker specifically told Milton, Georgia police, *without prompting*, that he would only use his first name because he didn't "want them to hear [his] full name on the 911 call when they get it." This level of information asymmetry is dangerous for journalism and democracy
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Nicole Zelniker @nicolezelniker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I tell my agent all the time that being chronically ill is basically just body horror🥰
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 08/09/2026
I think the biggest mindfuck about the genocide in Palestine is that we're not even talking about a thin veneer of plausible deniability. The Israeli government is just composed of a group of proud right wing racists bragging about their various war crimes in the Israeli press on a daily basis,
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Nicole Zelniker @nicolezelniker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I was so psyched when the @inkedingraypress.bsky.social team asked me to blurb this book, and then even MORE psyched when I read the book bc it’s so good y’all. I hope you’re so proud of yourself @harperkinsley.bsky.social. I truly can’t overstate how special this book is💜
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Disco Barrington 🏳️‍⚧️ Author @discobooks.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
If you’re in the US, you can buy my queer, trans, dystopian book from Casa Luna Books, an online bookstore focusing on diverse voices: casa-luna-books.myshopify.com/products/thi... You can also get it from Pocket Dimension Books in Arkansas, or preorder it on Bookshop.org!
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This Is How The World Ends : Disco Barrington
Run the race. Or die. Britain is at war, isolated by a digital blockade. Dissidents run a deadly race for the public's entertainment, while the flood-ravaged country falls apart. The Cartwright family...
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Jesús Rodríguez @jesusrodriguez.work · 06/09/2026
I wrote about Daysi González, a strategist who consults for the DCCC and has helped elect AOC and Gallego. She's never been undocumented, but is now preparing to go back to El Salvador if Trump doesn't extend TPS this week. How will Washington—and her clients—react? www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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A Political Operative on the Verge of Self-Deportation
Daysi González, who works to elect Democrats, is gearing up to leave the U.S. as soon as this month. She wants her own party to pay attention.
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Nicole Zelniker @nicolezelniker.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"Nicole, why did you write a book that made me cry" well first of all I probably made myself cry too so jot that down📚
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Nicole Zelniker @nicolezelniker.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Anyone ever make themselves almost cry while writing? No? Just me?
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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I wonder if enough media people respond like this we might be able to move some kinda needle somewhere
an email that reads: 
I understand you are doing as your job requires, but please never
email me again about anything Harry Potter. This PR enables deadly
transphobia and I want no part of it.

Cheers
Ash
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Nicole Zelniker @nicolezelniker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
OUR CUT OF SALT by @deenahelm.bsky.social is a wonderful book that comes out this month and I took the opportunity to write about sensitivity reading. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Reflections: OUR CUT OF SALT, sensitivity reading, and writing with care
Reflections on sensitivity reading, both as a sensitivity reader and a writer.
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Nicole Zelniker @nicolezelniker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gay, disabled twenty-something has a lot of feelings. Bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/we-a...
WE ARE MADE OF SCARS & STARLIGHT by Nicole Zelniker.
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Nicole Zelniker @nicolezelniker.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I’m just a writer, pitching my very Jewish, very queer intergenerational trauma novel that takes place over 100+ years to the void✨
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Nicole Zelniker @nicolezelniker.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Congrats to @noellemonet.bsky.social and @jasminesmithwrites.bsky.social on your dual witchy debuts, and thank you to Bright Side Books & Wine for hosting another amazing event❤️
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Eden Robins @edenrobins.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Please buy my books so I can buy more books, thank you for your attention to this crucial matter
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Mitch McConnell can get 75 days off as a US Senator, but women can’t get maternity leave. Welcome to America.
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