URGENT call to those in USA. 1) Look if any of these are your reps. 2) Choose from the talking points on the slide below this one, to tell them to vote NO - and you feel very strongly about this - for HR 7661. Follow @authorsabb.bsky.social for more. #BookSky

Please spread word about this horrific bill and if you're in a position to call US Reps, please do. I also urge people, while protecting queer, trans, and intersex people to not decontextualize this fight from racism and misogyny. It's all one goal. The stand MUST be strong and MUST be together.

Does anyone have *personal* good experience w. any trans relocation orgs, before I tell people to send them money. I have had a not-great experience last year (just general total unresponsiveness - I know people are overloaded, but a "sry we're overloaded" would've been nice.) Feel free to DM

Whether your disabilities can be easily perceived by others or not, your lived experiences are valid. Gaslighters and gatekeepers cause real harm. Yeet them into space. #Disability

Most translation funding still goes to bestsellers or colonial languages. This campaign shifts that balance by supporting translations from Shona, Nishinaabemowin, Ukrainian, Malay, Hausa, isiZulu, Tamil, Thai, Brazilian Portuguese, and more. storybundle.com/translation

I still have one media download code for the StoryBundle, if anyone is interested in covering it. A lot of people would be very grateful!

I know this will probably have asshats in my mentions again, but periodic reminder that everything happening now has a precedent. And that precedent is closer than slavery, internment, boarding schools, Jim Crow...it is the very modern school to prison pipeline. It is the last 40 years of policy.

*taps the board with pointer stick* DO YOU KNOW, this bundle contains: - This year's Palestine Book Awards winner for translator - Quiet fantasy written by a murdered combat medic - A beloved early century trans novel - Experimental short stories from the streets of Bangkok (1/4)

This project was built by a worldwide community of writers, editors, and translators. It shows what happens when global storytellers collaborate: they share, build, and learn across languages—just like the mission of @globalvoiceslingua.bsky.social.

I think I've found a solution to my conundrum with Substack nazi issues that I'm happy with. I'm just putting EVERYTHING on my website and I'll do some footwork to increase my reach. So...if you like ancient history (as well as some forays into other times), give me a shot! www.melaniermeadors.com

Honored to see Faraway Dreaming by Ulla Thynell in Illustrated and Art Books. We hope that you'll consider this artist-built, community-realized exploration of art, dreams, and hope. We also hope you'll consider a Collections write-in for the extraordinary: Wolf's Path, Joyce Chng (Atthis Arts)

Thrilled to see the In Translation @storybundle.bsky.social covered by Writing Africa! #BookSky #AfricanLit #Translation

Honestly shocked (maybe I shouldn't be) that SFWA's posthumous apology to Jean Rabe isn't being discussed. www.sfwa.org/2026/02/05/i...

Nishinaabemowin is an endangered, spoken (not written), language. Most speakers of this language are elder. This translation (Sit with Us) is extremely special.

An interview with our editor, on now at @globalvoices.org. Please talk and tell people about Global Voices, their work, and the ability to donate on a one-time or recurring basis. Independent storytelling - fiction, representative, non-fiction, activism, journalism - is vital. #BookSky #Journalism

Read @globalvoiceslingua.bsky.social interview with the bundle's curator @edebell.com and then check out the amazing selection of translated books! lingua.globalvoices.org/2026/02/stor...

On now, a StoryBundle curated by our own E.D.E. Bell and including our own The Factory, alongside wonderful, important stories from around the globe, and supporting @globalvoiceslingua.bsky.social. May the light of these stories shine brightly. #BookSky #Translation storybundle.com/translation

We're deeply honored to see our collection, Wolf's Path by Joyce Chng on the BFSA Longlist. Congratulations to emma burnett and Cheryl S. Ntumy for two nominations each, and to Atthis Arts published creators Jason Sanford, Premee Mohamed, A.D. Sui, Stewart C Baker, and Stephen Embleton!

Happy Birthday Dr. King! Today, I will address, on the floor of the House of Representatives, one of your most profound quotes, “the ultimate measure of a man.” Tune in to @CSPAN at the 11 o’clock hour ET by clicking here: cspan.org

You guys win. You got me. I guess I'll go off and grift somewhere else. It was a fun grift while it lasted.

UCLA just fired me (Dir. of Race & Equity) over Bluesky posts about not being sad Charlie Kirk died.

Again the magic for you average left/ lib public intellectual for something being “good” right now is an idea that was probably first introduced by a - Black person - Queer Person - Native - IPV survivor - disabled Remixed to remove the cultural/ material origins with a dash of cruelty

I'm saddened to see that the current head of the Gen Con Writers Symposium piling on attacking Emily. As Maurice is well aware, Emily was brought on as a disabled person tasked with helping make the GCWS a more welcoming place to those with neurodivergences. Unfortunately, GCWS is not a safe space.

Sporting my new Gwen C. Katz silkscreen tshirt next to this guy.

I can’t speak for the entire Jewish community, but personally I have been watching many of y’all under-react to ICE actions for the last year and suddenly understanding in a whole new way how my family ended up being rounded up and massacred in camps and y’all should think on that.

Do you want this to stop? Or do you want this to stop with the racial, social hierarchy intact ? Because those are two different goals and only one is attainable

The Vice President of the U.S. just defamed Renee Good, calling her brainwashed; she was murdered I.C.E. yesterday. We're a fascist nation, now. It's simply a fact. It didn't have to be this way. But White America couldn't bring themselves to vote for the sitting VP, because she was a Black Woman.

White Men, do better than this. If someone tells you that you are causing harm, listen. And if you disagree, use your privilege to de-escalate and then reflect on your disagreement to see if you can make a positive change.

Join BFS chair @shonak.bsky.social in chatting with Eugen Bacon, Stephen Embleton and Cheryl S Nutmy, the editorial team behind Sauùti Terrors @sauutiverse.bsky.social on February 3rd at @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social at 7pm! Book your tickets here: www.waterstones.com/events/prese...

They weren't protecting the Writers Symposium -- they were protecting Gen Con so they don't lose their access to the Writers Symposium (some white men have told me this directly). I tried protecting the Writers Symposium.

Something I've been saying for years but feels more relevant now. Get businesses, publishers, etc - to share their values on their website. I should probably refine this, but anyway, ours ( @atthisarts.com ) are listed and have been a while:

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Just think if the genre community came together and organized for UBI/UHC they same way they organized against SFWA. UBI/UHC would do a hell of a lot more good to all writers (in countries with UBI) than a few Nebulas would ever do. And GenAI gives us the legitimate argument for it.

Update: Medical appts on pause for now. Focusing on weekly treatments & routines for pain management🤞🏽 Commissions open. Ko-fi sales help, saving up for mobility aids/tools for work station: 💚 www.ko-fi.com/bydhiyanah 💖 forms.gle/xbdSuuQRwwfA... #DisabledArtist #chronicPain #SupportArtists #artists

This is simply classism. Yes I know he disclaims "" "good" "" schools. But I read with my kids until they were adults. I taught them that reading was something they wanted to do. I didn't let schools, good or bad, put them off or limit their horizons. I worked 1 job & got home in time to do so...

"One major problem, bluntly, is that lots of folks can't distinguish between good writing and poor writing." JESUS. Taken out of context this is racist. Taken in context, it is just plain an awful statement.

GenAI gives us the perfect justification why we need UBI and UHC. Consider focusing some of your rage that direction. UBI/UHC would fix a lot of the inequities plaguing genre.

One of these days I'll tell you about my experience with SFWA and my immigration process. (It won't be today because I have a bunch of things to do before Shabbes.) But I feel like how SFWA treated Palestinian and Ukrainian writers more recently should be a reason enough to quit.

We all see this as wrong Right? We see how having Black women be present but silent so bad But how many folks will unironically watch an entire thread of white people discuss something and not answer a single question from a Black person… But say nothing because “liberal”

One of the reasons universal basic income is so important is how it can directly distribute a share of GDP growth instead of relying on jobs to do it. Another reason UBI is important is because it increases bargaining power for everyone, which in turn will empower unions and function as strike pay.

One of my favorite times of the year is making the annual peanut brittle holiday gifts. Has nothing to do with me drinking wine and, er, 'quality testing' the brittle to make sure it is worthy of a gift package.

Not sure if Jason is referring to those in genre fiction with "power and money", but he sure could be. Try promoting 2 bipoc women as GoH to bring new ideas into a major gaming convention and see what happens. Actually, I'm pretty sure he isn't referring to genre fiction, too bad.

This, squared.

This. Most people throw integrity under the bus in order to stay at the table. They will swallow unacceptable just for that extra chum change.

Very first time my white kid rode with a black family in Detroit to go out to dinner, they were pulled over to "just wanna run your plates". You can guess how many times in my life that has happened to me.

We see one of our books... 👀 The whole set looks awesome.

During the Hugo Awards ceremony last year, I decided my time was better spent at a restaurant enjoying a nice dinner in Seattle. I ended up sitting at the bar talking with a former Amazon IP attorney. This is their MO. Partner to learn trade secrets and business models to eventually take it over.

Think how much universal basic income and universal single-payer healthcare would improve the quality of life of the writing community. If you want to direct your anger against generative AI, consider focusing on the massive $$ coming in for AI to fund this.

My ACA plan premium is increasing 68%, BEFORE the tax credit expiration. After the tax credit expiration, my cost is going up almost 600%, I can reduce this to 300% by dropping from a silver to a bronze plan with a much higher deductible and out of pocket max.

Today is Emily's birthday! The best birthday present would be for her to see that these two non-colonial titles translated and published by an African small press. Throw in a buck or two?