Monthly Dispatch #30 — December 2025 minorlits.substack.com/p/monthly-di...

Mentally there

🪾 Este 20N se cumplen 50 años de la muerte de Franco y nosotras lo tenemos claro: enterremos el fascismo, enterremos el binarismo ✊🏽 Muchos de los preceptos del régimen fascista siguen vivos. Ante esto: nos toca responder. Construyamos antifascismo queer ❤️‍🔥 #AntifascismoQueer @anticapi.bsky.social

This. Instead of helping selfpub authors (like the gurus said it would) AI is ruining chances for writers who might have been scammed by designers who swore it was all human made. At this point not everyone have the tools/literacy to spot it & readers won't touch you if you have been connected to AI

Seeing @pdjeliclark.bsky.social tonight in the Sui Generis festival in Madrid. Which is very serendipitous since this is the next novel I've picked for my speculative fiction book club 💪🔥

Please help a TCD posgrad couple looking for a LGBTQ+friendly apartment or apartmentshare/houseshare in/near Dublin. They've stayed at my place and I can vouch for them 100% Please pass around all your networks. Message me to be put in touch. (image just so you'll notice this post, right?)

"This still and unspoken time is one I recognise, the shifting boundaries between realms of sleep and waking, the edges of oblivion. She writes: ‘My thoughts have become strands of weed, of no special colour, slowly undulating in colourless water.’" —Anna Evans, soaks in the work of Ana Kavan

Magazines with submission guidelines where they come down so hard on one tense/pov/syntax or grammar model fascinate me. A tense seems like such a wide thing to "outlaw". I for one, find the anglosphere's insistence that the past tense sounds "more literary" very jarring

Need need need

Please share, please donate, please do what you can. Despair is not an option, you can help.

"i wish the blab were genuine moreaway into an urge your heart speaks a sign language or else i’m gasping ..." ATTENTION SPAN et al — Elnura Huseynova minorliteratures.com/2025/11/11/a...

Fellas (as in fellow travellers, which in my heart is a non-binary term), I cannot explain how much I'm falling in love with this book

i'm going to start calling myself an ambivalent ambisexual ambigendered person in homage to @suchmayer.bsky.social

Can't believe @badaude.bsky.social has a book launch in Spain today when I'm in London and @suchmayer.bsky.social 's launch is this week but when I'm no longer in London. What is this conspiracy to keep me away from my favourite authors????

Read an extract from @suchmayer.bsky.social's forthcoming book, BAD LANGUAGE, a blend of memoir and manifesto exploring the politics of speech, and how language has been used – and abused – collectively and in their own life.

last week @ Minor Lits ... — poetic prose from @dluntz.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/10/28/t... — @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social interviewed by @monalisavitti.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/10/29/a... — new fiction from Mikra Namani minorliteratures.com/2025/10/30/t...

I'll be here talking about horror fiction and the ecological crisis, if you're coming do say hi, fellow commies

Wow, it's catering to my interests 😉😎

If you are broke and would like a free physical copy of Enemy Feminisms, DM me your mailing address. I will probably cover postage (or might ask you to chip in a bit for that)

This is so cool.

“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” Read Wilde's “The Soul of Man under Socialism”:

“Well-meaning” people are using machine translation to write Wikipedia articles in languages that they don’t speak themselves, accelerating the degeneration in quality of the web corpus for several languages with relatively few native speakers. www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...

I'm now writing a monthly column for @artreview.bsky.social Works of Art looks at the intersections between art, labour & finance & asks how artists of all kinds are able (or not) to sustain creative practice. If there's s'thing you'd like to see covered, message me. artreview.com/can-we-ever-...

"Carol, all warm and giddy in her chest, dipped her big toe into the little pond and exclaimed to the kids, ‘The water is so tepid! The water is so tepid!’ ..." Deliverywoman — @evawyles.bsky.social @influxpress.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/10/16/d...

Reading this right now, by the way! I loved Bulkin's "She said destroy" &always felt the author deserved to become a big cult name. So far, so excellently unsettling.

Oh! I need to read this.!!

Romantasy is YA's own counterrevolution, it's a conservative backslash &we should talk about many of its titles in the same way we talk about tradwife tiktoks, part of the same wave of cishet propaganda

Anyone know of any F/F retellings of Baba Yaga? Or in general lesbian stuff with Slavic folklore settings?

Found out that the latest Nobel Peace Prize winner is a staunch ally of Netanyahu's and signed a cooperation agreement with the Likud party, which makes perfect sense. This is a prize that went to Kissinger and Obama, after all.

PROTECT THE LIBERAL NARRATIVE

Actually a good illustration of how there is no liberal narrative anymore--it's vestigial, absorbed into the fascist narrative because liberal imperialism tilted the scales toward the nazis. Now there are liberals celebrating a politician who supports Trump & Netanyahu because 'democracy'.

She's literally a Trump supporter, I am begging you to look past the liberal propaganda

The Nobel Peace Prize IS for war criminals. That's who they give it to!

send us your gripes, complaints and pet hates ...

I'm a committed small press author & editor. Small presses are the seed-heads of the books world & they are scorched. Pls read and share this excellent letter on the situation & what's needed in @thebookseller.com, signatories inc Peninsula Press, @cipherpress.bsky.social @silver-press.bsky.social

People celebrating this because Trump is going to be angry... You need to read up on her politics and listen to Latinx journalists about this, instead of being stuck on this US-centric logic. This woman praised Milei and said their projects were on the same length wave, that should give you a clue.

“We are in a lot of trouble. Our difficulties are multiplying and becoming more complex and challenging. Whatever short- or medium-term plans we have are having to be revised or discarded daily…” Can you help us, even just with an RT?

"Sometimes I say I write books because I have questions, and I try to answer them, but I rarely answer them. It always gets more complex ..." @noonanerik.bsky.social in conversation with Bothayna Al-Essa minorliteratures.com/2025/10/07/l...

Beyond Grandeur — @matthewkinlin.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/10/09/b...

As ever, I direct your good gazes to the "Structurally F'cked" report on gallery visual arts, but widely applicable on extractive labour practices. All arts degrees should teach this report. www.a-n.co.uk/research/str...

70%!!!

"It’s fun not just to have different forms, but also to have different languages [...] The way they sound, the way they whisper in your ear, is like a different language speaking to you every time, customized to that particular world ..." — Bothayna Al-Essa minorliteratures.com/2025/10/07/l...

last week @ minor lits ... — new fiction from @robrubsam.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/09/30/t... — alphabetical images from @eoghancarrick.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/10/02/u...

AND! Monthly Dispatch #27 — feat. everything we published in September — went out ... read/sign up here: minorlits.substack.com

Athens is really beautiful but people here have a relationship to punctuality that is very anxiety-inducing for my extremely-on-time persona. Which is probably very reactionary of me, I know

Not gonna lie, I'm very excited for Greek coffee

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😉

The plane to Athens already warning me

So happy that my piece is out at the evergreen review (such an iconic name in the game). I'm very fond of this one, I have performed variations of it live, but I'm quite happy with this text incarnation

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😉