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🇵🇸 Trans Palestinian Fabulousness🍉 Wanted to be here for the thirst traps instead here fighting against genocide. Organizer Author 📚 Be Better Broken out Feb 20 linktr.ee/mxyaffa

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Nicole Zelniker @nicolezelniker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Please feel free to follow me! I love that you're here! But follow Palestinian creatives, too! Here are some of my fave books by Palestinian authors. For nonfiction & poetry, check out Nada Samih-Rotondo, Ahmed Tamimi, Dena Takruri, Naomi Shihab Nye, Diya Abdo, & @yaffasutopia.bsky.social📚
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🍉Yaffa 🍉 @yaffasutopia.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This is a very overdue answer. You can get them from local bookstores in most places, as well as request them from libraries. You can also get it on bookshop.org If you can’t find it reach out to info@merajpublishing.com and someone will try to help
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Bookshop.org: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores.
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🍉Yaffa 🍉 @yaffasutopia.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I love it when artists who are supposedly left-wing talk about how their art is going to suffer due to boycotts and so we shouldn’t have boycotts. Gurl we can talk about individual impact, we can set up alternative care systems, but you are not liberatory if your only concern is yourself.
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april @april-now.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
letters from a living utopia (yaffa) becoming a woman (megan burke) terry dactyl (mattilda bernstein sycamore) persona (aoife josie clements) sex isn′t real: the invention of an incoherent binary (beans velocci) again, harder (alice stoehr) all us saints (katherine packert burke) [3/3]
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 03/07/2026
I know folks don’t want to hear it, but @lifeline4gaza.bsky.social remains the best way to give. Mathematically and ethically. You start at the bottom with the most stagnant and ensure they get steady care, and build up until that’s everyone. Every day, their team shares those most in need. Help.
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Putri Prihatini @putriprihatini.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Trans Palestinian author Yaffa, photographed by Maria del Rio for Atmos. They have released several poetry books as a response to attack toward their Palestinian and trans identities (another poetry book, Thistle, was inspired by years of supporting their sibling through cancer). #Booksky #Pride
A photograph of Yaffa, who poses with their hands hanging on a branch under a tree with orange leaves. They wear a keffiyeh wrapped around their head, with watermelon slice-shaped earrings, a black thobe with colorful traditional embroideries adorning the hems, chest panel, and waistline.A cover of Blood Orange by Yaffa. It has an illustration of Al-Aqsa mosque under a giant orange that resembles the sun. Underneath Al-Aqsa is an image of orange dripping.A cover of Desecrated Poppies by Yaffa. It depicts an outline of a poppy growing from a mound that resembles a keffiyeh. Blood flows from the root of the poppy.A cover of Sage by Yaffa, depicting a simple black text that says Sage over a white background. The letters are adorned by realistic images of sage leaves.
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Rainbow Crate @rainbowcrate.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Trans: Veil us in Gold by Shepard DiStasio Where the Petals Remain by Micah Flowers The Tale that Twines by Cedar McCloud Blood Orange by Yaffa Sordidez by E.G. Condé
A graphic with the transgender flag as the background. It has five stripes: light blue, light pink, white, light pink and light blue. A white opaque rectangle is overlaid with a thin white outline. At the bottom of the slide is text that reads “@rainbowcratebookbox” in white font. The slide has five book covers displayed in two rows. The top row has two covers, while the bottom row has three covers.
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Rainbow Crate @rainbowcrate.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! It’s time for our pride month book lists! Every June, we put together book lists as an extra pride treat. Let us know what kind of themed list you’d like to see next! 📷: Thank you to @/LittleMissStar55 on IG for the cover photo featuring our editions!
A photo of twenty Rainbow Crate books in four rows of five books each. Overlaid is a green-yellow gradient circle. Text on it says “25 underrated queer books to read for pride month”. “Pride Month” is in rainbow striped font while all other text is in white font with a black outline.
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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Hello #BookSky It's time for a big old thread of recommendations for Pride! (Sorry it's a little late in the month, we launched a book review!) Before we get to the books go follow @authorsabb.bsky.social Bans are devastating queer books right now & AABB is a great resource to help you fight back
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Queer Books and Authors are at a Breaking Point
Authors, agents, publishers: every part of the industry is seeing the strain of five years of escalating anti-LGBTQ censorship.
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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
With this short yet striking collection, Palestinian poet Yaffa As confronts the imposed burdens of being queer and brown and part of a diaspora.
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Blood Orange
"Blood Orange" is a highly emotional, important and timely poetry collection by Mx. Yaffa (They/She), a trans Muslim displaced Indigenous Palestinian. Their writings probe the yearning for home,…
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Dhiyanah @bydhiyanah.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
3 recs for #TransRightsReadathon! 💙 The Bruising of Qilwa by Naseem Jamnia (just completed this for my 2026 TRR - so good!) 💗 Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom 🤍 Desecrated Poppies by Mx Yaffa (these two have stayed with me since reading them, highly rec) #books #bookSky
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
So, some news to celebrate: Last night, I had finished prepping opening night for our series at @bambrooklyn.bsky.social & was scrolling thru my phone before bed, when I saw an ad from @bookshop.org that let me know The Overseer Class is a top selling title at America's biggest indie bookseller
An ad for The Overseer Class from Bookshop
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
1/2 On Marjane Satrapi, Naming Names & Naming Causes Of Death (Part 1)
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Disco Barrington 🏳️‍⚧️ Author @discobooks.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Eid Mubarak to those who celebrate! Since it’s also the #transrightsreadathon, I want to share this poetry collection, Blood Orange by Mx. Yaffa, a trans Muslim displaced Indigenous Palestinian. It’s beautiful and raw and reminds us to take care of our communities and take pride in ourselves 📚🏳️‍⚧️ 📚💙
Blood Orange by Mx Yaffa, an Orange Sky above a white building and a dripping orange pool
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Last night at a Baltimore joint called @redemmas.org , I picked up @intifadabatata.bsky.social and took him home with me. Nice to wake up with him & Hannah this AM
The books The Overseer Class and Homosexual Intifada
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 02/06/2026
“When We Are Kin”: A Vision of Black-Native Solidarity
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“When We Are Kin”: A Vision of Black-Native Solidarity
Historian Kyle T. Mays fluxes between pragmatism and idealism while recounting a history and future of collaboration and conflict between Black and Native Americans
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Dhiyanah @bydhiyanah.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
#NowReading Be Better Broken: In Service to Liberation by Yaffa, with a foreword by Ijeoma Oluo 💙📚
Quoted text: "To the Broken, may our sharp edges tear apart what should never have been — may they move us to a liberated world." From the book, Be Better Broken by Yaffa
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Sam @horrorbutch.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Intersectional Trans+ Rep Outside Your Own Experience: Deciding between desecrated poppies by Yaffa As or Song of the Dryads by Bailey Saxon (I'm still hoping to finish Black Trans Feminism by Marquis Bey until then, otherwise I might count that one). (4/6).
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Carla B. Estruch (elle) @carlabestruch.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Segunda parte 😅 #TransRightsReadathon
Imagen con el fondo azul muy claro, atravesada por una banda sinuosa de tres colores (azul, blanco y rosa). La imagen cuenta con 7 cubiertas de libros, a saber:
-Old Wounds, de Logan-Ashley Kisner
-Whispers Beneath the Orange Grove, de Yaffa As
-Dead Girls Don't Dream, de Nino Cipri
-These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart, de Izzy Wasserstein
-Everything for Everyone, de M.E. O'Brien y Eman Abdelhadi
-Hell Followed with Us, de Andrew Joseph White
-Cantoras, de Carolina de Robertis
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Dhiyanah @bydhiyanah.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
To keep momentums going for larger movements, we're asked to define how our broken-ness lives with us as part of the work towards liberation rather than as a hindrance. - Review of Be Better Broken by Mx Yaffa app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/02dd... #BookSky 💙📚 #reviews #books
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Review by fierceandtender - Be Better Broken: In Service to Liberation
"This is also why the most marginalized are the most fit to lead. Even an individualistic pers...
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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Please help get the word out that I am open for submissions. Thyme Travellers is an award winning anthology of Palestinian fantasy, science fiction and horror. My publisher and I are making it a series. Submissions are open for short stories, pro rate pay: soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travel...
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Thyme Travellers 2 – Call for Submissions
Roseway, an imprint of Fernwood Publishing, will be publishing a sequel to the award-winning and acclaimed anthology Thyme Travellers featuring speculative fiction by Palestinian writers. Editor So…
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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
We might reach 90% funded today. I’m truly so grateful for each and every one of you who has shared and supported this book of Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror. www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...
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Update 4: 89% there! Time to talk stretch goals… · Thyme Travellers 2
Your support means a lot to me. The story for this project, and the small community of Palestinian writers of fantasy, science fiction, and horror… truly, this series would be much harder to put toget...
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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Friends, could you help me share this Kickstarter? It’s doing well but I need to extend its reach: www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...
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Thyme Travellers 2
An anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction
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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This is not a joke. Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction will be an ongoing series! And we’re open to submissions for the second volume starting today: soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travel...
The cover for the original volume of Thyme Travellers.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 29/03/2026
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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🍉Yaffa 🍉 @yaffasutopia.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I love it when artists who are supposedly left-wing talk about how their art is going to suffer due to boycotts and so we shouldn’t have boycotts. Gurl we can talk about individual impact, we can set up alternative care systems, but you are not liberatory if your only concern is yourself.
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🍉Yaffa 🍉 @yaffasutopia.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Though to be slightly more objective, not giving terf ass bitches money for them to target trans folks isn’t intelligent, it’s basic decency.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
thus proving whales are among the most intelligent creatures on earth
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the whales will not be watching the new hbo harry potter show. you might think this is because very few whales watch any television at all, but it is actually because jk rowling is a terf ass bitch
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🍉Yaffa 🍉 @yaffasutopia.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Wild seeing folks be pro-TSA all of a sudden.
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now featured in the criterion collection @anem0ne.net · 03/03/2026
My entire life the systematic murder and erasure of trans people has been a daily norm that just runs in the background of American life and has been perpetuated by every major institution and publication and when you talk to or about trans folks you need to take into account that context
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Clashes between Bahrain’s dictatorship and protesters. Angry crowds are calling for the removal of US bases and troops from the country.
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Ayman Makarem @aymanmak.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Following Al-Jazeera's coverage has been very interesting. Like this is the headline of IT (alongside 4 other GCC countries - and Jordan) getting attacked by Iran. The FM condemned the attack, but also we had it coming.
Image from AJ english website. Pic of gulf port with plume of smoke rising from it. text reads: Multiple Arab states that host US assets targeted in iran retaliation.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/02/2026
BOSTON!!! Looking forward to seeing you on April 27 at the Harvard Science Center! I will be in conversation with THE Evelynn Hammonds!!! Can't make that? Don't want to cross the river? I'll be at Brookline Booksmith with THE David Kaiser the next day, April 28 :-)
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🍉Yaffa 🍉 @yaffasutopia.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Yall it is here!!!! This book was started almost exactly a year ago, during the March 29th eclipse in Aries. Today Saturn and Neptune meet in Aries 0 degrees. We are meant to move forward. We are meant to step into action after refining our practice. We refine everyday, we take action every day.
Image with the words liberation isn’t about youA poster that says justice happens when the truth mattersCover or be better broken in service to liberation
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🍉Yaffa 🍉 @yaffasutopia.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Yall it is here!!!! This book was started almost exactly a year ago, during the March 29th eclipse in Aries. Today Saturn and Neptune meet in Aries 0 degrees. We are meant to move forward. We are meant to step into action after refining our practice. We refine everyday, we take action every day.
Image with the words liberation isn’t about youA poster that says justice happens when the truth mattersCover or be better broken in service to liberation
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Timothy @landbeforetim.myatproto.social · 14/02/2026
I can’t stop thinking about this, but this was the main reason Trump and the US toppled Venezuela’s government and seized its oil. It was always done to starve Cuba of oil and make Cuban civilization grind to a stop and crumble to nothingness. It was always designed for US domination of the world
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/02/2026
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
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🍉Yaffa 🍉 @yaffasutopia.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Moving some things to upscroll. Follow me there @yaffasutopia
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🍉Yaffa 🍉 @yaffasutopia.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 25/01/2026
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 25/01/2026
Concentration camp victims protest! The incredible bravery and fortitude and care involved in doing this ✊🏽 ‘some of them holding signs that included “Libertad para los niños,” or “Liberty for the kids.”‘
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Immigrant families protest at Texas facility housing 5-year-old boy, father detained in Minnesota
Dozens of immigrant families protested behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where a 5-year-old boy Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week after being detained in Minnesota.
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I’m out here in Los Angeles, where hundreds have gathered in response to the ICE execution of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. Chants and speeches underway here outside the Federal Building in DTLA. Working multiple cameras today so posts may be sparse
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🍉Yaffa 🍉 @yaffasutopia.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Final session of Organizing to a living Utopia tomorrow. Let’s talk death, movements, and rising to meet this moment. give.socialgoodfund.org/d2dO71
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Organizing to a Living Utopia
Please support us by making a contribution!
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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 20/01/2026
If you have been curious about how the 10 principles of Disability Justice developed by Sins Invalid over 2 decades ago would address all the pressing issues we face, I invite you to attend my free/donations-welcome DJ 101 workshop on Zoom at 7-9pm EST on Saturday, January 31, 2026!🫂 bit.ly/DJ101Jan
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Disability Justice 101
Disability Justice would solve every single social justice issue we currently face, so please join us to learn more about this framework! ✨
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20/01/2026
People don't really think through how the Nazis actively made it harder for Jews to leave The idea that all Americans are guaranteed any kind of freedom of movement, including boarding a flight, is quite the presumption at this point.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20/01/2026
Getting my book from the library means that the library keeps it in stock and people will find it and read it and the book will live and I love that for my book
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Straybard Art @straybardart.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
I wanted to start off #pride by sharing an important book: Blood Orange by Yaffa As has poems of grief, identity, genocide, colonialism, and hope from the lenses of a queer Palestinian Muslim. Me and friends have described it as a must read for all. 🇵🇸 #freepalestine
A Portrait photo of the author of Blood Orange, Yaffa AsThe book cover of Blood Orange
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Nico @bigtiddiestwice.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Finished Sage yesterday, and will finish this over the weekend. Both are by Yaffa As.
An illustrated orange tree tendrils around the Al-Aqsa mosque under a starry night sky.
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Steve Hugh Westenra 🕷️🧛‍♂️🏳️‍⚧️📚✒️ @stevewestenra.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
To follow up, a rough sampling of books on my 2026 TBR by trans, nonbinary, Two Spirit, & gender divergent authors! There are some that are new releases without covers, so didn't include those, & I've definitely blanked and left others off, but in case anyone wanted their TBRs further destroyed! 🤣
A collage of book covers: Dead Cowpokes Don't Wrangle- Various, The Cosmic Colour - T. T. Madden, Stag Dance - Torrey Peters, Desecrated Poppies - yaffa as, They of the West - Dani Finn, The Library Thief - Kuchenga Shenje, A Game in Yellow - Hailey Piper, Body After Body - Briar Ripley Page, Model Home - Rivers Solomon, Merchants of Knowledge and Magic - Erika McCokle, The Cruel Gods - Trudie Skies, Legacy of Brick and Bone - Krystle Matar, The Year of Blue Water - Yanyi, Brainwyrms - Alison Rumfit, A Minor Chorus - Billy-Ray Belcourt, The Fall Is All There Is - C. M. Caplan, The Transition - Logan-Ashley Kisner, Kiss of the Fur Queen - Tomson Highway, Crushed Plums - H. S. Wolfe, You Weren't Meant to Be Human - Andrew Joseph White, The Thirty Names of Night - Zeyn Joukhadar, Mistress of Lies - K.M. Enright, Dove's Eyes - Kienn Nguyen, Look Who's Morphin' - Tom Cho, Alpha - K. D. Marchesi, Lakelore - Anna-Marie McLemore, Songs of Broken Bells - Lilly Lockwood, The Fealty of Monsters - Ladz
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