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Sylvie Althoff

@sylvie-althoff.bsky.social
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Writer, teacher, jazz banjoist. Work appearing in Harper's Bazaar, Escape Pod, Lesbians in Space, Small Wonders, Solarpunk. “Trivial Matters” coming 2027 from Android Press. Say no to AI. Stay alive, stay free. 🏳️‍⚧️🚲🍃 www.sylviealthoff.com/writing

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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Rights were removed, children have faced humiliation and segregation. My daughter has been out of school since July, as have so many supported trans kids. Sport as leisure is already a no-go. We can’t use our local swimming pool without stress. Public bathrooms are a potential source of aggression.
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Leaving the UK with a heavy heart
Today, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have look…
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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Student, after hearing a classmate share a story about a parent having to destroy an opossum in the front yard: "He lived a good life, and he died a good death."
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Charles (Cy) Payseur @cypayseur.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - AUGUST 2026🏳️‍🌈 I round up over 10 stories by @elijah.mea.rs @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social @mariness.bsky.social @thelialao.bsky.social @ellisnyeland.bsky.social @chpearcewrites.bsky.social @tinaconnolly.bsky.social & MORE!!! www.patreon.com/quicksiprevi...
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Some Queer Short SFF - August 2026 | Charles Payseur
Hi all! The year continues to be a difficult for me personally but I’m still happy to be able to help spread the news about some recent quee
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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Rewatching TNG, because everything is scary and some comfort is needed to stay alive. I must say, as a culture I think we hate on season 1 entirely too much and season 2 entirely not enough.
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They Call Me Doctor Mae @dr-maeforrest.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We're all just playing roles, creating personas, sketching out a character. You get to design it how you want to. You can change it how you want to, as well. Simplicity and clarity does not always mean a lack of depth. Sometimes, it just makes it deeper.
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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Got chills listening to my story "Hot Teeth" in the brand-spankin'-new audiobook version of Lesbians in Space! @maryrobinettekowal.com brings an incredible performance of my goofy lil' queer heist, and you'd be doing yourself a favor by giving it a listen. www.audible.com/pd/Lesbians-...
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Lesbians in Space
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Peanut butter and chocolate. Cheese and wine. Sex and rock n' roll. History is full of great pairings. Get ready for your new favorite: Lesbians and Space! Join a host of intrepid explorers heading to the outer reaches of the galaxy, exploring planets, s...
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
A mocked up FBI wanted poster with six variations of Bugs Bunny dressed as hilarious women

Left to right:
Classic housewife bugs bunny in a peach dress with French curls and a blue bonnet 

Sexy snow bunny bugs bunny in a form fitting yellow ski suit & red lipstick 

Classy rocket bra bugs bunny in a pink blouse and a choker and red heels and a blue skirt 

Green nightgown bugs bunny looking alluring 

Cavewoman bugs bunny in an orange tattered one piece slip making a come hither expression 

Flapper bugs bunny in a red dance outfit and a big bowler hat
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Saoirse “Ghost of a Victorian Child” Stone 🏳️‍⚧️ @saoirsestone.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
When accused of being pro-trans, the only moral, smart answer is to say “hell fucking yes I am.” You can do that in a fucking red state, and it’ll still be the right choice. That’s the moment we’re in. If you don’t understand that, then you’re morally vacuous and you lack political acumen.
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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Goddamn is this a weird town (approving)
A hand-drawn advertisement proclaiming “It’s always ‘leg’ day at Dillons, 5 legs for $5”. Ad depicts an alarmed-looking chicken with long, statuesque human legs, flanked by question marks.
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You can’t have it both ways. You can’t be “It’s simple math, vote blue no matter who, grow up” and ALSO believe you are fighting fascism by making calculations as to who’s expendable. The world we’re in now demands more from us. More from everyone.
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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"She is sad. Is there a way to be happy? She doesn't know. But she will not give up!" Child you may NOT make me cry in class, you stop it RIGHT NOW
A child's illustrated one-page story. Text contains numerous errors in spelling and spacing, but may be read as: "She is sad. Is there a way to be happy? She doesn't know. But she will not give up!" Illustration depicts a snail with a frowny face looking out the periscope of the submarine in which she is apparently imprisoned with a small butterfly.
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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Visit from an elegant lady!
A photo of a large praying mantis perched on a wooden fence. You'll have to take the photographer's word that it was large, as there is not really anything included for scale. Maybe like the width of a medium-sized human hand?
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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As Nazis are in the news (unfortunately evergreen sentence beginning), now's as good as time as any to read my story "Bubbe Hates You," in which the wrathful ghost of a Jewish grandmother wakes to completely wreck some Nazis just like the ones we see in daily life!
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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
‘Stop blaming trans people for all of this! Blame the cisgender politicians and consultants who are ignoring, discarding, and demonizing us. Call them divisive, as they are the ones who are attempting to divide our current anti-MAGA coalition in the name of (misguided) political expediency.’
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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"When Obama said he supported civil unions in the run-up to the 2008 and 2012 elections, he was offering gay people a slower pace of progress. When Democrats today triangulate on transgender rights, they are offering us a slower pace of decline." this hit me in the fucking gut
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RJ 🌹🐺 @shoren18.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
R Candidates: I promise to punch trans people as often as possible. They’re Other. D Candidates: I accept that framing but promise to punch trans people less. Trans people I know: Is there an option where I never get punched for being trans? R: *laughs hysterically* D: No 🫶 See ya at the polls!
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
👇 THIS right here. Talarico, Turek, et al ARE THE ONES WHO CHOSE THOSE POSITIONS. if you're afraid those decisions may alienate pro-trans/LGBTQ+ voters, THEN BLAME THEM, NOT US!
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Leezus H. Christ 🏳️‍⚧️ @langhuck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
oh my god that is the worst possible answer in the universe
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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The second-best time to transition is now. I very narrowly avoided picking the WORST time to transition. www.sylviealthoff.com/blog/let-me-...
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Let Me Bloom — Sylvie Althoff
The second-best time to transition is right now. What about the worst time to transition?
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026
In 2016 people revolted against North Carolina bathroom bill. 10 years later and the country is up in arms over 15 athletes and there are Democrats who are insisting that this is a real concern. It is not. I won't pretend that it is. I won't say nice things about people who are pretending that it is
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Beyond sick of Democrats excusing or just openly spouting anti-trans bigotry. It's getting really bad as campaign season escalates. You ain't the damn resistance if you're collaborating with major parts of fascism. There's other words for that.
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𝙱𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚅𝚊𝚖𝚙𝚒𝚛𝚎 𝚂𝚕𝚊𝚢𝚎𝚛 @bethyvampireslayer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I particularly enjoy Democrats who are in the comments trying to convince us that having rabidly anti-trans democrats in office in those states will be better for trans people than the rabidly anti-trans republicans in those states. Our necks don't care what foot is pressing the boot down upon it.
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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Five musicals to get to know me: 1. Calamity Jane (1953, Doris Day) 2. Little Shop of Horrors 3. Hadestown 4. Singin' in the Rain 5. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
My story "Sin Crouches at the Entrance" has a lovely new home at the newly renovated The Daily Tomorrow! Check it out if you're into weird alien robots, motherhood, and/or Jewish arcana! Heck, check it out even if you're not! www.thedailytomorrow.com/stories/sin-...
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Sin Crouches at the Entrance — Part 1 | The Daily Tomorrow
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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Ms. Althoff! That kid was talking about weapons!" I pull the child aside at recess, he looks real nervous. Explains that he was just singing a song. I ask what song, expecting something I've never heard of, and this tiny boy timidly goes: "Whoop! Whoop! That's the sound of da police!"
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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
What would you call recommended listening for someone going to a Peaches show this week with a shockingly narrow knowledge of her oeuvre?
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Mike Chen @mikechenwriter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day
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Rom Quotes Karl Marx: Workers of the World Unite
Alt: Rom Quotes Karl Marx: Workers of the World Unite
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isaac 🫃🏻 @androgynyfiend.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
doesn't it make you crazy how the anti-trans hysteria was manufactured and bankrolled by billionaires and public consensus on the issue increasingly reflects this fact and yet public officials keep up this gaslighting charade and are like wow the Left TM is losing because of these goddamn trannies
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Dem centrists, to voters: we have normal beliefs about trans people, just like our esteemed colleagues across the aisle Voters, looking at the collection of billionaire pedophiles, failsons, rapists, Nazis, thieves, and freaks across the aisle: yeah sure buddy
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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I write silly queer SF stories and people keep publishing them. I play 100-year-old jazz tunes and '80s pop songs on a banjo and people keep dancing and cheering. Clearly there's no stopping me.
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DD Ward ..."Interim Pirate Queen" @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
its so scary to put yourself out there but a SINGLE message saying "hi i loved what you made it touched me in some way" makes it all worth it 10000% 

daily reminder that if you like something someone made tell! them! tell them tell them tell them TELL THEM
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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
🏳️‍⚧️ Huh. This feels like something y'all should be preordering, reposting, & generally losing your minds over🖤☠️ YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM, companion to our beloved YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY 40~ 🏳️‍⚧️+GNC creators deliver the best Weird Cosmic Horror of the year. Out Oct 6. Get: store.tenebrouspress.com
Publisher holding a test print of YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
what the fuck is this horseshit do any other minority groups get dubbed an "issue" and then the public gets polled whether we should be allowed to exist? and this is an old survey, repackaged for what reason? just sensationalism and evil. shame, @sahilkapur.bsky.social ...
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marina grlica 🌱 @dovesplants.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
see you space cowboy tim curry
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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Don’t wanna put evil into the world but rule of threes, right? If I were, say, John Waters, I’d be sleeping with the lights on tonight.
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 26/08/2026
The best way to honor the two who have left us recently, imo, is to keep being as gay as possible
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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
More adventures in child art. Child, I thank you for the special attention paid to my rosy cheeks, balloon sleeves, and cinched waist (?).
A child’s portrait of author and second grade teacher Sylvie Althoff, done by a seven-year-old in the medium of markers on construction paper.
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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Stay alive. Fight back. And don’t listen to their scary stories about how powerful they are; they’re just as bogus as their stories about the made-up trans menace. We outnumber them, and unlike them, we know what it’s like to show up for love. They don’t stand a fucking chance against us.
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A Trans Person Peed Here — Sylvie Althoff
Siobhán Kirschstein was reprimanded by her employer for using the women’s bathroom. She had violated SB 244, a law designed to erase trans people from public life. But Siobhán didn’t erase herself; sh...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/08/2026
If you’re not potty trained by now you don’t get to be in the pool with the rest of us and we’re not gonna have a civilized debate about it while the water fills up with your filth.
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⚡⚡MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE⚡⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
2.34% of all Americans are trans, according to US government census data. This number absolutely POLEAXES me, and from what I can see in the source data, the number is completely and totally legitimate and based on a colossal datapool of almost 2.5 MILLION respondents. Let's dig in.
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Bloody Marla 🏳️‍⚧️ 10/450 💜❤️ @desperatemarlas.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Boycott the NYT
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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
They set up a board at school for teachers to post a photo of themselves when we were our students' age. Supposed to be a fun guessing game, match the cute kid photos with your coworkers. Still can't decide if I'm going to participate.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 19/08/2026
Becoming inured to human suffering isn't a sign of wisdom. It's a sign of surrender. I don't pretend we can fix it all at once. But I'd rather support trying, even if it takes generations, than accept suffering as a fact of life.
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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Just hit 100 rejections for 2026. Slower than last year for two reasons: haven’t written any short fiction since February (working on a novel), and lots more acceptances than I’m used to.
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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I’m not sure why they’d bother to make a Beatles biopic when the perfect one already exists.
A still from the comedy film “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story” featuring various comedians portraying comedy versions of the Beatles (in India).
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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Am I surprised that there's a Kylie Minogue/New Order mashup in the world called "Can't Get Blue Monday Out of My Head"? No, I am not. Am I surprised that it's very good, and is also available on my local karaoke platform? Also no. Ah, but did I choose to sing it at karaoke? Yes, I did.
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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Up anxious in the middle of the night, picked up “The Once and Future King” to try to calm down. Hit this little gem: “The best thing for being sad is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails.”
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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
“Rowdy” Roddy the Ruin Is that anything?
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Emoria - Aftertaste OUT NOW @emoria.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Every time I spend a bunch of time around only trans women, the idea that we are somehow this blight that must be obliterated through law and social ostracization becomes so patently ludicrous. We’re literally the sweetest, kindest, silliest people on the planet. Hating us is so fucking stupid.
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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Story acceptance! What a lovely way to start a day! 10/10, highly recommended
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