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Stefani Cox

@stefanicox.bsky.social
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Omnivorous bookworm and SFFH writer/poet. Words at LeVar Burton Reads, Strange Horizons, The Rumpus, and others. Colorado by way of California. linktr.ee/stefanicox

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Stefani Cox @stefanicox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It was such a pleasure to be a beta reader for my partner, Vishnu Sridharan, on their just-released paper on abolition feminism and policing! Glad I got to see this piece evolve and that it's now out in the world under open access. Highly recommend:
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Abolition Feminism and the Practice of Policing - Criminal Law and Philosophy
In November of 2021, more than a year after the public execution of George Floyd by local police officers, Minneapolis voters rejected an amendment to its city charter (‘Question 2’) to abolish its po...
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Stefani Cox @stefanicox.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Honored to have my story "Fyrewall" cited in Akhim Alexis' thoughtful article and research on climate futurisms in L.A. and the Caribbean ☀️ And very glad to see the visionary @nalohop.bsky.social's work there as well! @uscwrigley.usc.edu
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Imagining Otherwise: Reading and Writing for a Livable Future and Reimagining the Caribbean Climate Catastrophe through Short Fiction - Wrigley Institute for Environment and Sustainability
Creating a more sustainable and environmentally just future for our planet and all who live on it
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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
ICYMI 🌱🌟 the second anthology in our ECO series is available for preorder NOW! 24 new stories exploring humanity's relationship with the natural world, told through the lens of the fantastic 🌬️🍄📚 ECO25 is available for 30% until release day, November 17th! www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
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Jeané D. Ridges @jdridges.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
khōréō publishes what's not just evocative and genre expanding but showcases the rich breadth of diasporic spec fic--stories we're all better for being out in the world. And 🫶🏾 to the crew who commits and cares about how it gets done.
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Aishatu Ado @aishatuado.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Big news 🎊 My chapbook BLACK BOX FLIGHT RECORDER is now available for pre-order after winning the 2025 Button Poetry Chapbook Contest out of 1,000+ submissions. 🏆 Interested in experimental poetry, Afrofuturism? Pre-order here and share the link with your network: buttonpoetry.com/product/blac...
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Stefani Cox @stefanicox.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I'm a complete book nerd, this made my day.
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Stefani Cox @stefanicox.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I just got Virtual Cottage 2 and am really enjoying the little upgrades from the original like customizing your character and room, multiple settings, a journal, and group options. Super cute and helpful productivity aid. @duandigames.bsky.social
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Stefani Cox @stefanicox.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I’ve fallen into a few mini book clubs lately with family and friends, and it’s been such a lovely way to stay in touch / have new topics of conversation. Highly recommend! Also, shoutout to StoryGraph’s Buddy Reads feature for making it more fun.
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Stefani Cox @stefanicox.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Are there any text-to-speech tools that don't use your writing to train their AI/software? I'm guessing not really.
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SinnamonS @sinnamonscouture.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Black-owned bookstores in the U.S. now have their own directory for the first time ever, launched by the nonprofit National Association of Black Bookstores www.nab2.org
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National Association of Black Bookstores
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Stefani Cox @stefanicox.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Wow, Stardew Valley is a decade old? So wild what an influence it’s had on the rise of cozy gaming.
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Stefani Cox @stefanicox.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
You don’t get your official Old-Ass Parent badge in the mail until you’re trying to ease a child into bed and you accidentally wake them up with some part of your body cracking very loudly.
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Stefani Cox @stefanicox.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Might complete my auntie transformation and start carrying a tube of lotion around with me everywhere. In my defense though, it’s like -5% humidity where I live.
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Stefani Cox @stefanicox.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Both of my sisters were Girl Scouts, I know these cookie boxes used to be way bigger. Still got my Thin Mints though.
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Stefani Cox @stefanicox.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
I just got invited to my first mom’s group, which feels sort of like being tapped for a very uncool secret society 😂
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Stefani Cox @stefanicox.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Was there ever any follow up on Curling Baby? I feel not enough.
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Stefani Cox @stefanicox.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
I realized today that it had been over a year since I last backed up my WIP, so paying it forward as your periodic reminder from the universe to save your project.
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Stefani Cox @stefanicox.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Soul-weary.
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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 09/02/2026
This halftime show is so much fun, bro. Like imagine not being able to enjoy this
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Robert Daniels @812filmreviews.com · 09/02/2026
These Super Bowl commercials are recession indicators
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Stefani Cox @stefanicox.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I know this dip recipe didn’t just tell me to grate a zucchini — how about I chop it into small pieces and we call it a day.
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Stefani Cox @stefanicox.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Somehow my baby has made it halfway round the sun already 💖 It’s cliché to call it the hardest, most beautiful endeavor I’ve ever chosen, but what about parenting isn’t a cliché? Constantly stunned, honored, and in love with being his mother. (And let’s be real, also heinously exhausted lol.)
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Stefani Cox @stefanicox.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Every four years I try to remember the difference between pair skating and ice dancing, and I always end up having to look it up.
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Stefani Cox @stefanicox.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
My (non-Black) spouse was talking about something unrelated to me and said, “I just generally think Black women are right about everything.” And I was all, You beautiful, sanity-saving human, you.
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Organically inclusive reader? Fan of speculative fiction? Want to judge the 2026 Ignyte Awards? Judges compose our longlist before we open up to public voting. Applications are currently open thru 2/14. ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/wanna-judge/
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Wanna Judge? - The Ignyte Awards
For the 2026 cycle, we are opening up our longlist judging cohort to folks who may be a good fit (interested, available, organically well-read in a diverse and inclusive titles in sffh whether profess...
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Stefani Cox @stefanicox.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Why does the Messages app not have an Olympic rings emoji? Grave oversight.
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 04/02/2026
You will have to man the plane yourself though the publisher will not be paying for it nor piloting it
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 04/02/2026
We don't need book reviews. What if we skywrite the best lines from our books in the air? Everybody gets one loop-de-loop in the airplane
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Nicole 🐸🌿 @munespice.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
just make the thing 🎨 🎶 ✍️ 💃
Spice the frog is on the ground painting a green picture of a frog. Words say: make the art you want to make
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(Self) Regulators, mount up! @bankuei.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
A key point of why misogynoir kicks in so hard for media examples where a Black woman is portrayed as beautiful & desirable is because any situation in which folks are depicted as to be cherished, not just consumed/used, indicates a level of humanity assigned to them. Antiblackness abhors that.
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Nilah "Nine Jobs" Magruder @nilahmagruder.com · 30/01/2026
here's what you do you just fold it in
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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Catherine O’Hara didn’t steal scenes she just showed up and ownership automatically defaulted to her
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Stefani Cox @stefanicox.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Currently on the send kid to daycare > kid gets sick > adults get sick > kid goes back to daycare to pick up more germs adventure, and I get why this is a parenting crucible.
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Stefani Cox @stefanicox.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Changed the HVAC system filters for the first time, so I’m basically Rosie the Riveter now.
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Stefani Cox @stefanicox.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This has been a cuddle the loved ones extra tight kind of day for me.
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Stefani Cox @stefanicox.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I love it when you’re on the second or third or fourth book by an author and you can just tell how much more fully she’s stepped into her writing self since the debut. It’s honestly one of my favorite experiences as a reader.
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Stefani Cox @stefanicox.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
It’s good I’m not in politics 😂 I would just be genuinely confused all the time at why figureheads seem so convinced they are the only ones doing something. Like, the other stakeholders on the ground have been in that room over there for ages openly working on this.
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Stefani Cox @stefanicox.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Every time I catch part of a wintery football game, I remember why I only ever played sports that get cancelled for rain and darkness and other wimpy reasons, let alone freezing snow.
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Stefani Cox @stefanicox.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Probably a super long shot, but I don't suppose anyone has a tattoo artist/spot they love and want to recommend in the Denver/Boulder area?
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Stefani Cox @stefanicox.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Trying to understand how it’s possible that was all only the first full week of 2026.
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Stefani Cox @stefanicox.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
So deeply appreciative of anyone trying in times like this. If online activism is a part of that for you, wonderful, make waves. But also validating those who for mental health, safety, or other reasons choose to have those big conversations and do the hard work in less public, more direct venues.
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Stefani Cox @stefanicox.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Some reads I enjoyed last year! I'm glad I mixed in a lot of cozy books to even out the heavy ones. (Mood readers represent.) #booksky
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My favorite reads of 2025
Books, books, books.
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Nicole Glover @nicole-glover.com · 06/01/2026
Kicking off 2026 with my latest: www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
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Ignyte Award-Nominated Writer/Editor LP Kindred @lpkindred.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Dear bluskeeters! I'm doing research with a friend. If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection. Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share
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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Photos from today's rainy walk (thread): Rose. #bloomscrolling #photography #flowers #FlowerReport #PNW #rose
A pink rose, still mostly closed, atop a deep red stem with red and green leaves. The flower, stem, and leaves are all dotted with water droplets. Grey background, darker near the edges of the image and brighter behind the rose.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 04/01/2026
Welcome to January in Colorado, where it's sunny and *checks notes* 64 degrees
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Stefani Cox @stefanicox.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
The color gold plays a big role in my WIP, so claiming this as good writing energy.
Says “Your 2026 word” on top and “golden” in the middle. Merriam-Webster logo top left.
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Stefani Cox @stefanicox.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Baby’s new +/- list from first ever travel: Likes *Back-of-seat tray tables — 8/10, fun to move up and down, less so for the person whose chair it is *Bumpy plane landings — 11/10, shriek-laughter worthy Dislikes *Bag drop — 0/10, diaper blowout zone, watching mom and dad wrangle luggage is boring
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