Last minute but I'm flying tomorrow to Greece for a feminist festival so mutuals! Drop me your Athens recommendations. If they don't cost much money, even better😉

“Asked about the inscription on the bullet, the friend said: “Josh was an edgelord who wanted someone to get blamed. I think he tried his best to write something goofy …to rile people up.”

Reminder that this week is for Marah.

Venus Voluptuous in the Loins of the Last God — Joseph Nechvatal ( @orbistertiuspress.bsky.social ) minorliteratures.com/2025/09/25/v...

From 1952: The critic ponders the plight of professional painters but who, for economic or personal reasons, have little actual time to work artreview.com/john-berger-...

"I think that one autobiographical impetus was, well, what would it look like to fail and just completely reject these methods, or the idea of productivity that we are enmeshed in?" — Austyn Wohlers talks to @monalisavitti.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/09/23/w...

New at Lesbians With Teeth: 4 upcoming books I'm looking forward to, by @tinylesbianrobot.itch.io @trishusband.itch.io @riengray.bsky.social and @mzakharuk.bsky.social lesbianwithteeth.wordpress.com/2025/09/21/4...

All The Things Trans People Said Were Gonna Happen Ended Up Happening

"how many pages should a chapter in a novel have? How many do you think is enough?" "I'm writing a book and I have a whole page of dialogue. It all contributes to the plot, but is a page too much?" Maybe the only goal of creative writing classes should be to push back against these questions...

I talked with Lit Hub's @drewsof.bsky.social about our extremely stupid moment in history

Anything you can give makes a difference for Sama'a and her family as they flee the IDF. Please, help however you can. gofund.me/db56c7ce3

Go figure. Fascists can’t take a joke.

My new novel, AS IF, has a cover. Out from Hamish Hamilton on 26th Feb 2026, and later in the year from FSG in the US. As of now you can preorder via your usual bookshop or your library—thank you! x

It's here. BAD LANGUAGE 13/11/25 "made with love and horror, & a guidebook for our time" — @adamzmith.bsky.social "Mayer's words & a gift and a gateway" — @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social "incantation & spell distil a complex argument" — Lola Olufemi Pre-order: peninsulapress.co.uk/products/bad...

“What do we betray when we refuse to make the ritual sacrifice?:” An Interview with @alinaetc.bsky.social — @monalisavitti.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/09/18/w...

The outpouring of support from readers & colleagues is overwhelming. I can't imagine them coming together like this for a "problematic" trans woman even five years ago. If you want to help me make up the lost income from comics work, you can subscribe to my Patreon. www.patreon.com/c/scumbeliev...

Hey all! I'd like to thank the world's media institutions, and of course the Bluesky mods, for being totally normal and proportional about a barely famous trans woman cracking wise about a Nazi's death.

Ooh, Kai Ashante Wilson (author of SORCEROR OF THE WILDEEPS) has a new Patreon! And it looks like he's working on a new book! www.patreon.com/posts/introd...

My favourite so far!

"Perhaps you can imagine Helen DeWitt at Niagara Falls or on a cliff near Brighton. It could go either way ..." @nameofauthor.bsky.social on 'Your Name Here' by Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff minorliteratures.com/2025/09/17/y...

Help families escape north Gaza 🚨 our friends describe displacement as like death, and this situation is even worse. But they need our help to get out from under fire, quite literally. Funds are for tents & transportation. This is a REAL way to help. chuffed.org/project/hope...

A really fun and insightful review. Glad to have it in ML 🔥

Very annoyed at the heat today! Madrid continues to be a scam, not a real city, we should abolish it etc

ICYMI — last week @ minor lits ... — new fiction by @addisonzeller.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/09/09/w... — @monalisavitti.bsky.social interviews Tim MacGabhann minorliteratures.com/2025/09/10/i... — an extract from Charlotte Northall minorliteratures.com/2025/09/11/p...

We don´t make the rules😉 Please pick at least one campaign and donate what you can. Every little bit helps.

this timeline is very clarifying, showing 1) right-wingers immediately promoted the idea the shooter was trans before any evidence, 2) someone within (or claiming to be in) ATF leaked false info to right-wing outlets reinforcing that claim. all of these ppl are evil and the leaker should be fired.

Sony confirmed to Kotaku that a Sucker Punch employee is no longer with the company following pressure from a right wing harassment campaign. Yotei has been making headlines in alt-right gaming culture warrior circles ever since it reveals the protagonist was a woman.

Polish poster for SOLARIS (1972), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Stanislaw Lem - BOTD in 1921

Yep:

People also need to watch more Pier Paolo Pasolini.

People need to read more Christa Wolf & read Christa Wolf more.

"The objectification of my body has led to the destruction of my mind. Not only by my own hand, but by the messages of society ..." Practicing Dying — Charlotte Northall minorliteratures.com/2025/09/11/p...

"journalist gets banned for quoting their own post" doesn't bode well for Bluesky

Glasgow, we're bringing the forest to you! 🍃 4 Nov: celebrate @silver-press.bsky.social Ursula K. Le Guin titles THE WORD FOR WORLD & SPACE CRONE w @taylorwdriggers.bsky.social, Phil Crockett-Thomas (Abolition Science Fiction!), Matthew Sangster & me in convo. www.waterstones.com/events/a-cel...

"I was trying to be as reportorially honest as possible. That I think links to your question about investigative journalism. I didn’t want to write a literary thing at all ..." Tim MacGabhann talks to @monalisavitti.bsky.social about his memoir THE BLACK POOL minorliteratures.com/2025/09/10/i...

It's too easy to hear the story of Cindy Bi suing her surrogate for murder & infer that what we need to get rid of is surrogacy (rather than the way parenthood is organized under capitalism). So many ppl sent me the Wired article that I ended up writing my response: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

One of my favest problematic faves

5. A sword for delivering justice to those whose existence is questioned. #swordtember

Sama'a and her family, including her little girl, Julia, and her newborn, Talia, are being driven from their home by Israel's killers. They need our help to survive. tinyurl.com/help4samaa

It's hard to resist the temptation but I don't think trans people should be using the law as a gotcha against transphobes. What that does is legitimise a legal system that has never protected us and in this case of UK law, a system very much doing us violence at this moment

Loren Ipsum — @andrewgallix.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/09/04/l...

New from me and @devi.bsky.social! A tragic lesbian romance between a sorceress and her sworn knight, fleeing their legacy in an alt-historical setting circa 19c. You only need to have read Grace of Sorcerers for this one. Itch: mariaying.itch.io/the-moth-of-... Amz: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FP3ZF2F3

"The most devastating of ruling powers have always counted on superficial leniencies to prevent overwhelming dissent, manufacturing a complicity that comes in the shape of complacency..." on The Time of Cherries — Xiao Yue Shan minorliteratures.com/2025/09/03/t...

Human sex work, erotic art, queer art hounded off every platform, but corporate chatbot avatars owned by technofascist billionaires seducing children is acceptable and encouraged.

This Sapphic September, someone brought up the idea of stories that aren't about queer joy but queer *power*--this is open to interpretation, whether it's about power fantasies or otherwise. I think this is a fantastic lens to frame stories that, for me, work better than 'queer joy'.

Very happy to be publishing a review (and such an in-depth one at that) highlighting the work of feminist writer and journalist Montserrat Roig, Who definitely should be better known outside Spain/Catalonia

REVIEW: The Time of Cherries by Montserrat Roig (trans. Julia Sanches) — Xiao Yue Shan minorliteratures.com/2025/09/03/t...

Reminder that if you want to write a story, start by writing the story, not endlessly worldbuilding about it.

This is an existential threat to the written word btw

Do big publishers use AI gen? Yes. This is from Hachette Book Group, one of the largest publishing companies that owns a shitload of imprints. I highlighted some of the more immediately alarming ones. www.hbgauthorresources.com/landing-page...