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Founder of SmallStack Library and GenderWild Press, independent book publishers and super friendly places to be a new author. Find me at transfriend.substack.com and smallstack.substack.com.

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 11/08/2026
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jul ErinReed The Compliance Crew strikes!! In coordinated action, yellow-clad trans-masc Kansans used women’s rooms at zoos, libraries, museums, etc. as req. by law in coordinated action Cops called to Dodge City water park where 3 used women's room. You GO guys.
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Police Called on Trans Men Using Women's Restroom As Required By Kansas Law
“As a trans man, I have the immense privilege of blending in. But these laws force me to choose between safety and obeying the law.”
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I keep thinking about the Noem letter demanding voter records from Minnesota - sent literally hours after Pretti was murdered - because they clearly saw the threat of more murders as leverage against the state
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TransFriend @transfriend.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The item that never comes up is how to deal with ICE illegally entering your property anyway. If they break the door in, do you stay silent? If they search your home, do you stay silent? I appreciate that we're helping one another understand the law, but ICE doesn't follow laws.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
McBride: Look, people are clutching their pearls at this guy yelling something at the president. They are more offended by a worker standing up to the president and calling him out for his hypocrisy than they are by the president trying to cover up for a human trafficking ring
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Small Robin Press @smallrobinpress.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Just putting a little reminder out that we are still open for cover art submissions!
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Small Robin Press @smallrobinpress.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Listen up, friends--we need cover art! Are you the one who will design the cover of our next anthology? Submissions are completely free, and the selected art will be paid $150 at publication. #artists #coverart #indiepress
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Connor [REDACTED] @connorredacted.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Donald's existence is an argument for abortion.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/12/2025
It's not surprising that a rapist's presidential administration is removing standards intended to prevent rape. www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...
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DOJ orders prison inspectors to stop considering LGBTQ safety standards
A memo obtained by NPR shows the Justice Department is telling inspectors to stop evaluating prisons using standards designed to protect trans and other LGBTQ community members from sexual violence.
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The Blogging Goth @theblogginggoth.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
On this day in 1983, #siouxsieandthebanshees released "Nocturne" - their live double album featuring material from 1981's Juju and 1982's A Kiss in the Dreamhouse as well as their newest song, "Dear Prudence". #RobertSmith of #TheCure was on guitars for this recording.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I think it’s time to put this one back out into the ether, friends Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
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The Antisemitism Post (tm)
Gotta get the history to know where the tropes live in the discourse today.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Waters: This is an important press conference that is being held to let you know what we're all doing: resisting this lowdown dirty no good filthy president
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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 25/11/2025
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 21/11/2025
21 Nov 2025 -- Alabama Public Library Service votes to move all books in teens and children's sections with any content on “transgender procedures, gender ideology or the concept of more than two biological genders” and move them to adult sections. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
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Alabama board votes to remove books about being transgender from public library youth sections | CNN
The board overseeing Alabama public libraries on Thursday voted to remove books that discuss being transgender from the teen and children’s sections of all public libraries in the state.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 21/11/2025
Statement from Rep. Crockett on Threat at D.C. Office
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 14/11/2025
Starbucks’ CEO makes 6,666x what the average @sbworkersunited.org barista does. It would take less than one day of sales to finalize a fair contract. Baristas at Starbucks corporate stores nationwide are on strike to fight this corporate greed and get the fair contract they deserve.
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nat weaver @weaver.wtf · 11/11/2025
Don’t forget to check out my interview of publisher @transfriend.bsky.social about growing up trans in the Midwest during the 90s and what little queer media was available to him. #publishing #WritingCommunity #QueerBooks #transrightsarehumanrights
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Small Robin Press @smallrobinpress.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Now is a great time to submit your essay to the Small Robin Press Spring 2026 anthology themed "Walls." smallrobinpress.com/2025/10/07/subm…
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Small Robin Press @smallrobinpress.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
We are open for submissions! Send us your best, and feel free to ask questions. We're friendly, and we would love to hear from you.
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TransFriend @transfriend.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Right now on TransFriend you can join a fabulous book giveaway with Karla Marie Sweet's new release, False Idols. transfriend.substack.com/p/book-givea...
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Book Giveaway by Karla Marie Sweet, author of False Idols
and a stack of book recommendations from the community!
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TransFriend @transfriend.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
There's still one day left to get your comments in for a chance to win a signed copy of Karla Marie Sweet's new book, False Idols!
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TransFriend @transfriend.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
There's still one day left to get your comments in for a chance to win a signed copy of Karla Marie Sweet's new book, False Idols!
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GenderWild Press @genderwildpress.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
We should all have a plan.
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Support Trans Stories
There is an urgency in preserving transgender stories amidst increasing governmental attacks on our rights. Our lack of a coordinated plan for resistance can be restored by sharing personal narratives. GenderWild Press aims to create a platform for trans and queer voices, emphasizing the necessity of funding to continue this vital work.
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TransFriend @transfriend.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Thanks, Karl. I'll take a look at them.
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Alyssa MacKenzie @alyssamackenzie.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
If you're trying your absolute best to put into the world what you'd like to see more of and feeling completely overwhelmed, please read this: You are NOT wrong. It is NOT pointless. Fascism works exactly how it's making you feel: Depleted. Run-down. Recharge when you must. Then keep being you.
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TransFriend @transfriend.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Serious question to all my #publishing friends, #authors, and #bookshops out there... Are there any established book distributors for queer/trans indie presses? Not amazon or ingramspark or any of those routes. An actual company choosing to work with queer presses. @genderwildpress.bsky.social
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Small Robin Press @smallrobinpress.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Submissions for Our Next Anthology Open on October 1 Small Robin Press will open to submissions for our next anthology on October 1! Stop by to learn about our guidelines and requirements. smallrobinpress.com/2025/09/17/subm…
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TransFriend @transfriend.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Right now on TransFriend you can join a fabulous book giveaway with Karla Marie Sweet's new release, False Idols. transfriend.substack.com/p/book-givea...
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Book Giveaway by Karla Marie Sweet, author of False Idols
and a stack of book recommendations from the community!
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
You are under no obligation to mourn the death of people who would’ve celebrated yours.
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GenderWild Press @genderwildpress.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I'm so excited to host this inspiring interview with my good friend, Troy Ford. Buy his book! Support queer authors! Give the big 5 the middle finger!
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An interview with Troy Ford
Troy Ford, an author and LGBTQIA2S+ organizer, discusses his newly released novel "Lamb: A Novel in Snapshots," a queer coming-of-age story which explores themes of identity and belonging. Ford reflects on the supportive community found through serializing his work on Substack, the significance of vulnerability in writing, and the evolving landscape of LGBTQIA2S+ literature amidst ongoing censorship challenges. We also chat about the success his book has achieved and his plans for future works.
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Santa Fe Public Library @sfnmpl.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
“Libraries should be beautiful and open; inviting, not intimidating. It’s not a shrine, but a place where you can spend time freely, take part in discussions, public consultations, or meet people,” he says. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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Warsaw opens metro station ‘express’ library to get commuters off their phones
Metroteka aims to encourage people to read more in country that lost majority of libraries in second world war
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Small Robin Press @smallrobinpress.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Small Robin Press is still just a tiny fledgling in the world of books, but we don't mind being small. Our submissions will be opening soon (October 1, to be specific) for our next anthology. Is it too early to get excited about that? smallrobinpress.com
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Small Robin Press @smallrobinpress.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Hello BlueSky #authors #writers and #books ! Small Robin Press is just showing up to get to know you. We're a tiny publisher of small (but important) books. Our first book is available right now on our website! smallrobinpress.com/product/you-...
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you are enough: a small anthology
A collection of resilient voices share their personal takes on what makes their size–or lack thereof–powerful. From illness diagnosis to art, finding community to baking delicious recipes, eight ou…
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GenderWild Press @genderwildpress.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Indie presses offer a completely different author-publisher experience, and a lot of writers are taking note. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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Indie Presses Provide a Haven for Midlist Authors
More and more marquee names at major publishers are choosing to work with smaller, independent houses.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
This from Riley Gaines is why trans people freak out when Democrats try to carve out some compromise over sports. The politicians and activists attacking trans people are not interested in compromise! They're interested in our eradication from public life and are exploiting sports to that end
This is Ms. Gaines’s intuition as an activist, too: If people accept the premise that transgender women do not belong in women’s sports, then they have conceded that transgender women are not fully, truly women.

As she sees it, more sweeping restrictions of transgender people flow from there, including the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that states can ban gender-affirming care for minors and the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee’s change of its eligibility rules to bar transgender women from competing in Olympic women’s sports.

“The gender ideology movement is a house of cards, and I believe it’s lying on that sports issue,” she said. “This will be the card that makes all of it crumble.”
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bunnlilah.bsky.social @bunnlilah.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
It is so wild seeing a bunch of people in the replies telling trans people to shush under a video of a trans woman talking about how we are always shushed! Way to prove our point! Maybe listen to us when we talk about Newsom and stop shushing us?
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Mari Cohn @maricohn.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social
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GenderWild Press @genderwildpress.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
GenderWild is pleased to announce that we are now working with four brilliant authors!
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We Have authors
GenderWild Press is pleased to announce that we are now working with four brilliant authors! This is a big announcement for such a tiny press. But it is also a celebration, a long pre-party, and a hopeful gaze into the gorgeous future we’re building alongside our trans, intersex, genderqueer, and nonbinary writing community.
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TransFriend @transfriend.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Sometimes I do, too, and I'm years into my transition. So instead, I try to think about the little things that make me feel happier, more joyful, more me. Whether or not I *really* am trans is subjective anyway. But do I like my beard? Hell yes I do. That's enough for today.
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TransFriend @transfriend.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
JD, you are the best!! Thank you!
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GenderWild Press @genderwildpress.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Oh look! A totally random post by your friendly, overwhelmed underdog publisher!
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Doing the work
I feel guilty, and I feel out of breath. I haven’t told you everything I’ve been doing, stuff you don’t see, things you won’t hear about, and yet I’ve been running myself ragged. Maybe this is just what it means to take on a career of passion. Maybe this is what the learning curve will look like for a while. So this is your update, a kind of a catch-up post, a place for me to spill out the things that have been happening and the work yet to come.
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nat weaver @weaver.wtf · 29/07/2025
Reminder that @genderwildpress.bsky.social is now open for business and taking submissions from queer authors. Robin, who is an online friend of mine, is running this and is good people. #publishing #WritingCommunity #booksky #LGBTQ
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Corbin Dallas @cmdmultipass.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
So proud of being able to say I'm working with Robin to help queer and trans stories be told!
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GenderWild Press @genderwildpress.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Please also share this widely with your friends, family, and community members. Being a small, new press means there are lots of places that haven’t heard about us yet, but your networking can make an immediate positive impact. 3/3
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GenderWild Press @genderwildpress.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I started GenderWild Press genderwild.substack.com to provide space for trans, nonbinary, intersex, and genderqueer people to tell our own stories, write our own books, and keep our histories alive. If you have a story to tell, please consider submitting your manuscript to GenderWild. 2/3
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GenderWild Press @genderwildpress.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
They’re trying to silence us. They are trying to erase us. They are targeting our children. They are criminalizing our medical care. So what do we do about it? Get loud, get proud, and keep showing up as our gorgeous, beautiful selves. genderwildpress.com #queerstories #transstories #trans 1/3
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GenderWild Press
stories with queer roots
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Small Harbor Publishing @smallharborpub.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
This month and every month we celebrate Pride! 🌈🏳️‍🌈 Celebrate with us and support our authors! 🔗Get this chapbook: www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/ma... #pridemonth #indiepublishing #lgbtqbooks #poetry
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Denise Norris @denisenorris.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Lots of doomday coverage after Skrmetti dropped, but let hear from the legal team on the case: "Notably, however, the decision is based on the record in and context of the Tennessee case and therefore does not extend to other cases concerning discrimination based on transgender status."
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ACLU, Lambda Legal Respond to Supreme Court Ruling in U.S. v. Skrmetti | American Civil Liberties Union
WASHINGTON – This morning, the Supreme Court issued its ruling in U.S. v. Skrmetti, a challenge brought by three transgender adolescents, their...
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