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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

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Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

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Lisa Brideau @lisabrideau.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

The book signing event is a two for one deal: me and another Dartmouth High alumni, Rose Sutherland @sutherrose.bsky.social - fun fact, we had the same creative writing teacher! Come hang out with us both 1-3pm on Sat. Oct 11 at Indigo (Chapters) Dartmouth at MicMacMall

event poster with photos of Rose Sutherland (white woman with long very curly brown hair) and Lisa Brideau (white woman with short straight brown hair) and their books: A Sweet Sting of Salt and Adrift.

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Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Some pretty book covers✨

Here's a pretty color cover collage with books l've read & enjoyed:
America's Most Gothic Honeysuckle & Bone
The Woman in the Mirror
The Ghost Woods
The Girl From Rawblood
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TBR:
A Sweet Sting of Salt
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
The Thirteenth Child
How to Fake a Haunting

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Evening you gather back all that dazzling dawn has put asunder: you gather a lamb gather a kid gather a child to its mother

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Eros the melter of limbs (now again) stirs me— sweetbitter unmanageable creature who steals in

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

far more sweetsounding than a lyre golder than gold

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Kelly Jarvis @kellyjarviswriter.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Celebrate Selkie Saturday with a copy of Rose Sutherland’s Selkie tale “A Sweet Sting of Salt” ❤️🦭 www.fairytalemagazine.com/post/summer-... www.fairytalemagazine.com/post/review-... kellyjarviswriter.com/f/selkies-in... #selkiesaturday #selkies #folklore #bookreview #bookrecommendations #books

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Rose Sutherland🌈 @sutherrose.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

There's a lot going on in my world right now, but one of the best things is I can finally share that I'm now being represented by the utterly wonderful Maggie Cooper at Aevitas Creative Management, and planning to dig back into revisions on DAISY, THE DEAD MAN, & THE WHORE NEXT DOOR soon!

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

A different org, but you can also donate directly to the Gaza Soup Kitchen right here.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

If we're doing groceries and take-out discourse, here's my take: Man-made famines are crimes against humanity. If you can help the World Central Kitchen in Gaza, please do. Donate dollars. Call your reps. Share their story in your communities to invite help.

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Running the Goat Books @runningthegoat.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

We just got some great new books in our Tors Cove shop! Stop by 10:30-5, daily (except Wednesdays) or find them all online at www.runningthegoat.com

Three novels. They are A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose Sutherland; The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier; and The Women of Troy by Pat Baker

Two books in a mystery series by Kate Hilton and Elizabeth Renzetti. They are Bury the Lead; and Widows and Orphans.

Two non-ficiton books. They are Summers in Squid Tickle by Robert FInch; and The Place of Tides by James Rebanks.

A picture book. It is Penguins and other seabirds by Matt Sewell.

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Dia VanGunten / Writer @pinkzombierose.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

When it’s veering into weirdness at breakneck speed, mmhm that’s the good stuff.

IT'S
NOT ART
UNLESS
IT HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BE A
DISASTER

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 10/07/2025

“We’re all tired of queers, right?” is the sum total of this panel description, whistling to dogs through a fig leaf of “strong women,” & I think it’s disgusting & irresponsible & reprehensible. It’s bad panel-writing, it’s bad ethics, it’s the stupidest shit, & Seattle deserved better than this.

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Rose Sutherland🌈 @sutherrose.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

WOW. WOW. What a steaming load of hot, bigoted garbage

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Rose Sutherland🌈 @sutherrose.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

IT IS NOT "RETOOLING" OR "ACCOMODATION" TO INCLUDE WHAT WAS ALWAYS THERE AND HAS BEEN DELIBERATELY EXCLUDED FROM HISTORY IN AN ATTEMPT TO ERASE US. Frankly, the only challenge I have in writing queer history is how many people seem to be allergic to the word historical.

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R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

i signed this! thank you to the organizers 🫧 writers with published books & people who work in publishing, including agents, librarians, booksellers, illustrators, & more, y’all can also sign the letter here: lithub.com/against-ai-a...

Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Publishers

“We want our publishers to stand with us. To make a pledge that they will never release books that were created by machines.”

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Emory 🩶 @emory-f8.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Did you know? In the Victorian era, Oscar Wilde became the editor of an extremely progressive magazine called The Woman's World. It was one of the first magazines to feature articles that focused on what women think, rather than just what they wear. #Victorian #history

It shows the hardback cover of The Woman's World magazine, edited by Oscar Wilde and illustrated in 1889.

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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Our statement in response to the Supreme Court ruling in Mahmoud v Taylor. Image thread with alt text. 1/4

Today's Supreme Court decision, though couched in the language of freedom and inclusivity, is a tragic failure for both the right to read and the rights of LGBTQIA+ people. Authors Against Book Bans stands firmly and fiercely against the decision and its rationale. To allow parents to "object" to the presence of positive books about the lives and rights of LGBTQIA+ people is to allow them to "object" to the existence of LGBTQIA+ students, parents, educators, and others in the wider community. You cannot “opt out” of reality, no matter what today’s majority opinion states. These books belong on shelves and these stories belong in classrooms and curricula.

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Rose Sutherland🌈 @sutherrose.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

The part of me that came of age in NYC is so happy for the city I used to call home ❤️

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 25/06/2025

NYC YOU DID IT YOU DID THE THING I'M SO FUCKING HAPPY FOR MY FRIENDS!!!!!

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Rose Sutherland🌈 @sutherrose.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

The book I’m querying which is less "doomed by the narrative" than "doomed by the title" Is it fate? Or all the unhinged things you did along the way?

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Nancy Cooper Frank @ncooperfrank.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

“Jonathan’s death should be a national story, a source of collective mourning, a call to arms. But instead, most major media outlets barely mention it. And if they do, they strip it of context, of the racial, historical, spiritual truth of what happened.”

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Anyway it's pride and there are lots of queer writers who put out work that isn't best selling! Buy a gay book by an unpopular irrelevant queer today!!!

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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

This is evil.

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Antlers Teeth Claws @gravewriter71.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Judy. Blume. Pay attention to this bigotry. This is exactly the playbook Rs want to enact nationwide: declare anything they don't like "porn" (including anything about queer/trans folx or BIPOC history/themes) and then ban it, fine anyone who stocks the books, and worse. FL peeps, fight this!

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Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Rainbow TBR for you! 🌈I'm currently reading Sour Cherry & Meet Me At The Surface-full list of books & descriptions in the alt text! @haileypiperfights.bsky.social @ericlarocca.bsky.social @nassos.bsky.social @sutherrose.bsky.social #BitterKarella @titanbooks.bsky.social @sagapressbooks.bsky.social

Just a little rainbow 🌈 tbr:
🍒 I am currently immersive-reading Sour Cherry. Which means I’m doing the audiobook & physical book at the same time. I love doing this. More than 50% into it!
🔥Burnt Sparrow- just got this in the mail yesterday! Thank you to my peeps at @titanbooks
💛A Game in Yellow- horror + sexy psychological thriller!
🌿Herculine- an all-trans-girl commune is not what it appears to be. 👀
🧜🏽‍♀️ A Sweet Sting of Salt- gothic, sapphic, reimagining of the folktale, The Selkie Wife
😈A Spectral Hue- I already read this but I’m recommending it for your TBR, “a novel about art & obsession & ghosts with memorable queer, Black characters
🌚Moonflow- psychedelic trip into the heart of an eldritch wood and the horrors of (cis)terhood
🌺Other Terrors- an inclusive anthology. The TOC is 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 SGJ, Jennifer McMahon, Tananarive Due, SA Cosby & mor
🪱 Meet Me at the Surface- currently reading this folk horror story set in a remote Cornish village

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Rose Sutherland🌈 @sutherrose.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Just throwing it out there that A Sweet Sting Of Salt checks off this space in Jae's 2025 Sapphic Book Bingo

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

well that feels like an omen, push that thing back out to sea, it probably contains Mumm-Ra the Everliving or some shit

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ScotlandYardCSI @scotlandyardcsi.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

"Amid a wave of political hostility, the Getty Center uses #photography to tell stories queer resistance & love" "This #exhibition shows how LGBTQ+ people have used the camera to record their lives since the invention of photography" www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/30/a... #PrideMonth #QueerLens

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Amid a wave of political hostility, the Getty Center uses photography to tell stories queer resistance and love

This double exhibition shows how LGBTQ+ people have used the camera to record their lives since the invention of photography

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 30/05/2025

It’s a good day to push back against one of the many cruel and ignorant things someone in your area is trying to make happen. Doesn’t matter which one! Every little bit helps!

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Emory 🩶 @emory-f8.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Did you know? In the Victorian era, workhouse inmates were provided with very meager meals. For those accused of committing infractions, portion reduction was often used as a form of punishment. Many children and elderly inmates slowly starved under the guise of correction. #Victorian #history

It shows Oliver Twist holding an empty bowl. It's from the famous scene of him asking for more food.

From Oliver Twist (1948)

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Do. Not. Disturb. The. Mysterious. Ancient. Rune-inscribed. Skull-adorned. Ring. Found. In. The. Idyllic. Countryside. Seriously, there's a whole book about this. And movies. Long ones!

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Rose Sutherland🌈 @sutherrose.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Today I used a stand up paddle board for the first time in my life in related news I also went sea-swimming for the first time since January first, and this time was a lot less on purpose 😂

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Rose Sutherland🌈 @sutherrose.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Diving back into the query trenches first thing this morning, in this, the year of our dumpster fire 2025, is feeling like a lot but by god I am doing it

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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!

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J.M. Frey @jmfrey.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

What do you get when you mix a grumpy barista, a shy dragon, and a kitchen-fire meet awkward? A contemporary romantasy with the best dragon-roasted coffee in town. NINE-TENTHS is now available for pre-order on Kindle! Book drops 06/30, and releases wide and in paperback on 09/30 amzn.to/4m642oR

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Agatha Andrews @agathaandrews.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Today I welcome mermaid aficionado and longtime friend, @authordmniccoli.bsky.social to discuss mermaid book! She created a fun mermaid quiz, and we discuss the rise in mermaid fiction since our last episode. We also give several book recommendations (listed in alt text.) I hope you enjoy!

Book Recommendations in graphic for the new Mermaids episode of She Wore Black

- UPON A STARLIT TIDE by Kell Woods
- THE WOMAN IN THE WAVES by Camille Booker
- A MAGIC DEEP AND DROWNING by Hester Fox
- PROVIDENCE GIRLS by Morgan Dante
- A SWEET STING OF SALT by Rose Sutherland
- DAUGHTER OF THE MERCIFUL DEEP by Leslye Penelope
- THE CAPTIVE MERMAN'S PROMISE by Zoey Castile
- THE RAKE by Kass O'Shire
- THE SIRENS by Emilia Hart
- OCEAN BLEEDS SALTY by Azalea Crowley
- TREACHERY OF WATER by Angela J. Ford
pe you enoy!

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Deathless Aphrodite of the spangled mind, child of Zeus, who twists lures, I beg you do not break with hard pains, O lady, my heart

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J.M. Frey @jmfrey.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT "Nine-Tenths" Releasing June 30th ☕🐉

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Rose Sutherland🌈 @sutherrose.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Today's news: I've parted ways with my agent, and will be seeking new representation for my next book—DAISY, THE DEAD MAN, & THE WHORE NEXT DOOR is a twisty sapphic historical set in 1880's Halifax that comps to Sarah Waters' FINGERSMITH.

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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

My take on the whole "is it okay that readers skip prologues?" discourse is that the government is trying to kill me and all of my friends.

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LGBTQ History @lgbtqhistory.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Frederick Park (right) and Ernest Boulton as Fanny and Stella, 1869. Arrested on this day in 1870.

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Rose Sutherland🌈 @sutherrose.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Being an eldest sister writing an eldest sister character involves a certain amount of dropping in casual sibling on sibling violence for comic relief... and then removing it because *she*, at least, has to take the high road for the sake of the narrative. Which, I mean. Is awfully damn on the nose.

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Rose Sutherland🌈 @sutherrose.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

today is an excellent day to complete one more task that's been weighing on my mind for months that I had to get a dozen ducks in a row first to accomplish

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Rose Sutherland🌈 @sutherrose.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I'm floored. I just found out that A Sweet Sting Of Salt has been shortlisted for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer's Prize! What an amazing surprise, I am beyond thrilled—and honoured— to find my book in such incredible company!

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Rose Sutherland🌈 @sutherrose.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Just a proud Canadian out here thriving, heading to vote liberal in the advance polls bright and early in the morning and totally cool if I have to wait because of *unprecedented voter turnout* because that is great to hear 🇨🇦

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Rose Sutherland🌈 @sutherrose.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Today in seaside living: Spotted a huge wooden beam floating in the bay. Thought for a second about how I have very limited funds but am planning to build a home somehow—then went down to the shore and managed to haul it in, and up past the high tide line. Now it's MY huge wooden beam. 💪

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