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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Books on Anarchism that aren’t by Epstein’s besty, Noam Chomsky

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I did a little back-of-the-envelope math yesterday, when I posted a video to three sites, two that are heavily censoring my kind of content, and one that promises never to do that. The results shocked even me. UpScrolled is the Bluesky of video apps!

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Genocide Bad is a PW Best Book of 2025!

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Gaza City faces invasion. Every $3k raised in this fund goes directly to a family so they can arrange transportation south and the purchase of a tent. If you read GENOCIDE BAD, you’ll want to know that baby Elena is one of these families. Please donate & share widely: chuffed.org/project/gaza...

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

We’re back!!! After a summer hiatus, Saffana Monajed & I will be live-streaming this Sunday, exposing the rhetoric elites use to sell us our own death, doom, and destruction. Join us as we pick apart the manipulation behind the headlines: lu.ma/ebdxjrau

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Monday, 7PM, IG LIVE, I’ll be chatting with the magnificent hala.n.alyan about writing, parenting, and bringing children and books into a world on fire, and discussing her new, achingly beautiful memoir I’LL TELL YOU WHEN I’M HOME.

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE was spotlighted by TJ Klune in the New York Times today

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

GENOCIDE BAD is a NYT and USA Today Bestseller!!! In 40 years of publishing, indie press @interlinkbooks.bsky.social, the only Palestinian-owned press in the US, has faced severe censorship and hate. I am so honored to have worked with them on this book!

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

GENOCIDE BAD is a USA Today Bestseller!!! This is huge win for our indie press book! Thank you @hannahmoushabeck.bsky.social for dreaming up this book, and @interlinkbooks.bsky.social for trusting me to write it. And thank you to all of you who’ve supported its release and made it a bestseller!!!

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Tickets are still available for GENOCIDE BAD book tour events in Amherst, Boston, and Brooklyn! get tickets: sites.google.com/interlinkboo...

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

It’s pub day!!! GENOCIDE BAD is now available at bookstores worldwide, and I love getting tagged in y’all’s posts! Join me and the book’s editor, @hannahmoushabeck.bsky.social tonight for a virtual launch event at 6PM ET. Get tickets: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

My book asserts that genocide...is bad. Josh's book, on the other hand, asserts that "tolerance "and "multiculturalism" are bad, and genocide is justified in defense of Western Civ--that genocidal, ecocidal death cult enslaving the global masses all so Elon can be the world's first trillionaire 3/🧵

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

The top new releases right now in "History of Judaism" are both books written by Texan Jews: Me and Josh Hammer. And weirdly, both of us have a similar central argument, though we're coming from totally opposite ends of the political and zionist/anti-Zionist spectrum. 1/🧵

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Massachusetts & New York, I’m coming to your neck of the woods for a lil book tour (and to sign a whole bunch of preorders). Get tickets here: sites.google.com/interlinkboo...

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Ayyyy I would love to come on and talk about my forthcoming book, GENOCIDE BAD with you, Amanda! It’s being published by @interlinkbooks.bsky.social the US’s only Palestinian-owned press

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

So I'm sorry to announce that we've had to push back GENOCIDE BAD's on-sale date from March 11 to April 22 for the paperback. The special-edition hardcover will come a few weeks later, but we're sending everyone who pre-orders one a free e-book on April 22 to make it right! /4

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨Book Update for GENOCIDE BAD🚨 This book has many haters, one of them is Yisrael Medad of the Jerusalem Post, who smeared it as "lies, misrepresentations, and insidious insanity," --an assessment he shared before I'd even finished the final draft! Just based on the metadata! 1/🧵

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

His book is currently the 78th bestselling book on Jewish History on Amzn, very respectable—top 100. But you know what book is currently the #1 bestseller? G3NOCIDE BAD, An anti-Zionist book written by one of the “radical left enablers” he targets in his work. 4/

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Alan Dershowitz has been on TV my whole life, pitched to the US public as an authority figure who gets to speak for all Jews. He’s also literally Israel’s lawyer, defending them against charges of G3nocide to the ICC. He’s an internationally renowned celebrity worth $25mil… 3/

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I currently find myself in this position with Alan Dershowitz. We’re both Jewish authors. We’ve both written books on the current situation in Gaza. Both books are shelved as Jewish history, and his comes out next week and mine in a few months. 2/

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

The day after its announcement, indie-book GENOCIDE BAD is now the top-selling book in History of Judaism, Middle Eastern Politics, and Israel & Palestine History. That’s like…a STORY. But I haven’t gotten any press requests yet. 🤔 Do you cover a publishing beat? Let’s talk!

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

It is actually maybe a huge deal that the #1 bestselling book on Jewish history today, from the largest retailer in the world, was GENOCIDE BAD, written by an anti-Zionist Jewish author, for a tiny, indie Palestinian-owned press, and we outsold every Zionist book on Judaism ever written.

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

GENOCIDE BAD is the #1 book in "History of Judaism" right now. I wonder how Zionists are going to feel when they read the subtitle and realize this is a book that draws comparisons between Jewish and Palestinian history, written by a Jewish author, for a Palestinian-owned publisher....

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Y'all I am blown away!!! In the first 24 hours, GENOCIDE BAD got over 700 preorders through Interlink Books' site alone! International folks are asking how to preorder it outside of Am*zon, so I've started compiling a list of bookstores outside the US that can help 1/

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

My latest book is GENOCIDE BAD: NOTES ON PALESTINE, JEWISH HISTORY, AND COLLECTIVE LIBERATION, coming out March 11th with Interlink, the only Palestinian-owned publisher in the US. It has been the greatest honor of my life to work on this book with Hannah Moushabeck as an editor. 🧵

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

In the 1st 24 hours, we’ve raised $3,500 for 🍉! I’m giving away 5 of my 1st edition copies of THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE between now and 3/21! To enter: -Be a U.S. resident -Donate >$6 to a Gaza-supporting org or mutual aid fund -Email screenshot to T4Gaza[at]gmail[dot]com

The front and back covers of THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE by Sim Kern, showing a link smashing a robot dog, another punk smashing an electric guitar saying “enough is enough” and a burning cop car

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 16/03/2024

Folks are being very sweet about crediting me for creating the #TransRightsReadathon last year, even tho I’m on parental leave from content creation right now. But don’t forget I’m also a trans author who writes trans-as-hell books when you’re building your TBR. 🏳️‍⚧️❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

Books by Sim Kern for the Trans Rights Readathon, featuring the cover of DEPART, DEPART! (Quiet horror, all trans cast of characters, how to survive a dybbuk, a hurricane, & other Texans), REAL SUGAR IS HARD TO FIND (scifi fantasy and horror short stories, all kinds of trans rep, stories progress from nightmare dystopias to queer solarpunk utopias), THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE (alt timeline scifi, trans romance, trans punk band fight to save their warehouse from demolition & spark a revolution)

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

Whats up, it’s me and all the full-length books I read while researching my historical queer Ba’al Shem novel.

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

One week from today, I talk to Rashid Khalidi, author of THE HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR ON PALESTINE about Palestinian history and bookish social media. To say I’m honored & overwhelmed by the invite is a massive understatement, but I will do my best! librarianswithpalestine.org/author-meets...

Author meets Booktok: Rashid Khalidi and Sim Kern on THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR ON PALESTINE, librarians and archivists with Palestine, Dec 4, 7am Los Angeles, 10am New York, 3Pm London, 5pm Jerusalem, 6pm Nairobi, with pictures of the authors and the cover of the book

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE audiobook is less than $3.50 right now on @librofm.bsky.social! Support indie booksellers! www.awin1.com/cread.php?aw...

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

IG Live for Palestine tonight. I’ll be hosting Hala Alyan & Hannah Moushabeck as they read from their work & we discuss ways USians can raise their voices against the genocide in Palestine. 8 et/7 ct. @/sim_bookstagrams_badly on IG

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

I’ll take this kind of thing over a star from Kirkus, any day.

Screenshot of text message “my best friend Mack just told me they read the best book that helped them cope with life and queerness and the end of the world…and it’s Sims book. OMG! Could you bring a copy today when you come?!”

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

I’d you live in Brooklyn, Boston, Austin, or Houston, I have an event coming up at a bookstore near you. And if you don’t, catch me at the virtual event at Charis Books & More!

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

Proof! This is HoustonISD’s “high performance culture” under Mike Miles. God forbid human teachers write their own lesson plans, when the mandatory, scripted lessons are written by such expert educators as… ChatGPT. I’d be lmao if it wasn’t all so tragic.

A “demonstration of learning” end of class quiz with a reading passage that cites chatgpt as the source

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

To clarify: fk Amazon. The only reason I got an orange banner is because this book became a USA Today bestseller, and that happened 100% because of INDIE BOOKSELLERS who have been championing this for months. So if you're picking up a copy, plz get it indie if you AT ALL can! ❤️❤️❤️

Amazon screenshot showing THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE as a #1 New Release in LGBTQ+ scifi

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Hello, yes, that’s my book with the orange banner, the #1 New Release in LGBTQ+ Scifi, which we all know is THE COOLEST FREAKING GENRE CATEGORY EVER!!!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?! 🫨🫨🫨

Screenshot of Amazon page for THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE w/orange banner calling it the #1 New Release in LGBTQ+ Scifi

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

Things publishing professionals have told me “won’t sell.” -scifi -clifi -political fic -trans romance -esp. with neopronouns -indie press books Guess what anarcho-communist scifi clifi polemic, feat. a trans LI who uses neopronouns, out with an indie press, just became a USA TODAY BESTSELLER?!? 🖕😘

Front and back cover of THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE, featuring various punks up to no good against a red background

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

Yoooo THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE is officially a bestseller, hitting the @USATODAY bestseller list at #86, our little indie press book!!! It is NOT easy for an anarcho-communist alt-timeline trans romance scifi novel to hit that list. Yr pal Sim is now a bestselling author!!!!

Screenshot of USA Today bestsellers list, focusing on THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE listed at #86

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

Last night’s book launch of THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE at Brazos Bookstore was truly magical. My editor flew in to surprise me! @okosunreads.bsky.social was a brilliant, funny conversation partner and brought a phenomenal cake! And I felt so loved & supported by community & comrades. ❤️❤️🌹🌹

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

Do you want to read a book that makes you stay up all night reading it, sobbing your eyes out?!? Like that SOUNDS unpleasant!!! idk….oh god, what have I done?!?

Graphic says “A Pattern emerges” and has texts and tweets from four people: Ehigbor Okosun, Nicky Drayden, Phoebe Cramer, and Laura all saying they stayed up all night reading THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE crying

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

Just saying… a clear pattern is emerging here.

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE is an Indie Next pick!!!! Thank you to @shanajeanh.bsky.social of All She Wrote Books for nominating: “Sim Kern’s masterpiece burns with righteous fury.”

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 05/09/2023

The audacity of this clownery!!! Houston mayoral candidate John Whitmire LIED on Facebook, claiming to have earned the endorsement of the Houston Federation of Teachers, when he sure as shit hasn’t! 🤡🤡🤡 As if our teachers aren’t going through enough?!?!

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

Thank you to @goodreads for featuring THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE in your September new releases newsletter!!! Also wow this book is really coming out in two weeks, huh?!? 😳😳🤯🤯

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 14/08/2023

BOOK PEOPLE! If you haven’t heard #ReadForMaui is running August 14-28th and already 100 bookish content creators have signed up to fundraise for Maui Relief I’m giving away my last 6 ARCs of THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE to fundraise for Maui Mutual Aid Fund. Entry guidelines threaded below! (US only)

Author with short brown hair and freckles (sim Kern) smiling creepily over a stack of red books —THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 11/07/2023

😃Rebecca Solnit shared my thread!!! 🥴Rebecca Solnit misgendered the ever living fuck outta me

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Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social · 09/07/2023

2nd half of the playlist, featuring an extended dark night of the soul

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