#OtD 3 Oct 1952 the UK conducted its first-ever atomic bomb test on the Monte Bello Islands off the coast of Western Australia. The government later admitted they gave no thought for the health of Aboriginal people living nearby stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1024...

While the Nova Scotia government works to pass its controversial law that would make it illegal to block forest roads in the province, Mi’kmaw land protectors say they’re not going anywhere.

agus lèirmheas #2 dhen oidhche, air The Seer of Kintail, le Elizabeth Sutherland: anduilleaggheal.neocities.org/leirmheasan/...

review #1 of the evening: Sean Ashcroft's Cocky, ostensibly a sports romance but light on the sports (but very high on the romance, in kind of a good way) anduilleaggheal.neocities.org/leirmheasan/...

When our descendants look back on our era, what traumas that we endured will they find horrifying? Something ppl often don't want to talk about re: IR/BS: while they were happening, most alumni didn't speak of them as traumatic, bc the violence was so normalized. What violences do we still accept?

Something folks (both in the US and Canada) need to really talk about more is the fact that trauma and violence towards Indigenous children within colonial education systems has never been limited to residential/boarding schools. Assimilationist IR/BS were a particularly horrific incarnation, but

BDS works! also, they're still letting the IDF use their other cloud services, but they're starting to move on this, keep pushing.

having said all of this: what the fuck was up with the main character giving temperatures in Fahrenheit????

lèirmheas Gàidhlig air The Ministry of Time, le Kaliane Bradley, oir thuirt a h-uile duine (is @chloroformtea.bsky.social gu sònraichte) na theirinnsa sa Bheurla mu thràth: anduilleaggheal.neocities.org/leirmheasan/...

There is some really lovely art to entice you to support this project! And then we all get more books in translation! Talk about a win-win!

Spotlight on Comma Press locusmag.com/feature...

review of C.J. Cherryh's Well of Shiuan: anduilleaggheal.neocities.org/leirmheasan/... this book rules. Morgaine forever.

BTW, editors: I've got several more Cherryh essays cooking up that are even more ambitious than this one, so hmu if you're interested.

And hey, if you want to boost or donate micro art to the African Translation - performatively or genuinely - that's great. Do it. Please. I want to fund these translations. They are important on so many levels, as are the messages we're sending about it.

#zine Portalpettai is an illustrated mini-book about an interdimensional portal which opens at a women’s college in a small town in Tamil Nadu. www.blaft.com/products/por...

New piece by Ellen Gabriel and I on the need to resist Canada’s “elbows up” colonialism.

incredible keynote from Djuna at VICFA — easly a top-10 of all time for me. even more hyped than I already was to read Counterweight once I finish Well of Shiuan!

Oh! Kai Ashante Wilson fans, some news: www.patreon.com/posts/138033...

I was curious today and asked if they could send me the exhibit catalogues for both exhibits. I overestimated the percentage of fantasy in both exhibits, but I was correct that there was more cat sci-fi: cats: 51% sci-fi / 49% fantasy dogs: 41% sci-fi / 59% fantasy

review of Thomas Burnett Swann's Day of the Minotaur, a fascinating Minoan-influenced fantasy: anduilleaggheal.neocities.org/leirmheasan/... I loved this and am really curious to see where Swann went from this very promising beginning.

3) Related to #2. If you look at the number of debuts being signed by big SFF pubs written by queer men about queer men it's shockingly, shockingly small. "What about the men?!" is a hard sell but queer men are still queer regardless of relative privilege in some contexts & look at the numbers.

2) In the current time, I'm v happy for all quality queer rep across the genre, but queer men are under-represented, and where we are present it's almost all siloed into m/m romantasy. Which I often like, but it's a problem that that is the majority of our presence & it's typically not *for us*.

Is there any fiction in translation from transfemme authors writing in Arabic or Chinese? Obviously there are difficulties in those parts of the world for "trans fiction," but I'm curious if there's anything out there.

review of Charles R. Saunders's Imaro: anduilleaggheal.neocities.org/leirmheasan/... really well-constructed, balancing episodic structure with overarching plot, and with an engaging protagonist — but unfortunately importing a number of sword-and-sorcery's ideological flaws (just not the racism).

And the second is the 1981 Ohoyo Resource Center Con ference on Educational Equity Awareness (files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED2...) titled "Words of Today's American Indian Women: Ohoyo Makachi" which took place in Oklahoma.

Two free documents of Native women's writing and speaking available online: the first is from the 1976 Conference on Educational and Occupational Needs of American Indian Women (files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED1...)

⭐ With an absolutely delightful tone and prose quality, Pauli Kidd's 1995 classic is a romance in the most traditional sense of the word. If you love Jane Austen, fairytales, or renaissance-style storytelling, this is a fantastic read.

stopped in at the Merril Collection to start reading Thomas Burnett Swann's Day of the Minotaur, and as I was heading out I stopped to peruse this season's exhibit — The Bark Side, about dogs/canines in fantasy and science fiction, a follow-up to the previous exhibit, Fantasti-cats (sff felines).

"El arte y la crítica son uno, la distinción es cuestión de perspectiva." [Art and criticism are one; the distinction is a question of perspective.] (Valdés, La interpretación abierta)

I don't say this as often as I do with other people but more people should read Mario J. Valdés, too

On this day in 1995, Canadian paramilitary police deployed an explosive and engaged in rifle fire against a Secwepemc land defence camp in British Columbia. One of the cop's/army's armoured carriers is disabled in pursuit of camp defenders and the occupants must be rescued by their fellow officers.

See the preface to Dixon's "Clansman" novel for how Griffith might have identified with it specifically as a "Celtic" Southerner

"Birth of a Nation", based on Thomas Dixon Jr.'s similarly Scottish-inflected white supremacist novel "The Clansman", really needs to be considered as an aspect of the Celtic Revival. A Celtic-identified diaspora creating a myth of racist Celtic "chivalry".

How D. W. Griffith, Welsh-American director of the Ku Klux Klan-reviving "Birth of a Nation", was presented/presented himself in 'Theatre Magazine' while working on the film in 1914

anyone have sff novel recs about natural disasters (or speculative natural disasters)? looking for books where there isn't a "villain" as such

New pieces of legislation by different levels of government seek to streamline industrial mega-projects on Indigenous land, regardless of consultation. By Changiz Varsi @policyalternatives.ca www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

review of Siân Llywelyn's Darogan: anduilleaggheal.neocities.org/leirmheasan/... an engaging supernatural mystery novel, but structurally not altogether successful in what it set out to do.

Launching mâci-nêhiyawêtân - tell your friends and family to start learning nêhiyawêwin/Cree! apihtawikosisan.com/2025/09/maci...

Yásnaya Elena Águilar Gil’s writing is soooo good

It is time to announce the semifinalists for the Small Spec Book Awards. Thank you to our readers, who worked diligently to assign ratings to all books. The competition was close. Authors, we hope you are proud of your stories because we are. Thank you for sharing them with us.

The thing is when people say "biologically male/female" in contexts like this, they don't really mean in the sense of observable, empirical biological features (b/c that would inevitably produce some results they don't want), they mean what you "should" be, what you're divinely "designed" to be.

… I wish I could tell Kai Ashanti Wilson, personally, that this is one of the most beautiful fantasy novellas I’ve ever read. It’s everything I want fantasy to be: strange, mystical, visceral, romantic in flesh and spirit, dense with suggestion and playful misdirection… and gay as hell.

31 days, 31 book and story recommendations!

I think I wrote rather snarkily in a review of a largely good book about horror films and capitalism, but which turned hard into the "these films can liberate us" territory, that we've had supposedly liberatory texts for decades and they haven't changed a thing. Nor have our readings of those texts.

This is also true of fantasy, crime, romance, and westerns

As a set of aesthetic signifiers it has no inherent political valence. But as a (set of) tradition(s) it borrows so heavily from imperialist propaganda and race science that it tends to lean right unless checked.

Science fiction is the subset of fantasy where we are being fashionable about science. This is science fiction's own novum: the idea that "science" can be an aesthetic and that then-current models and ideologies of knowledge, both in form and content, can be a source of both constraint and excession

to be blunt, if revealing the contingency of the present through fiction were actually going to lead to world-historical change it would have happened already. we ask too much of literature — science fiction or otherwise. it's literally just books. sometimes very good books! but books.

"If someone were to draw a sharp boundary, I couldn’t acknowledge it as the one that I too always wanted to draw, or had drawn in my mind. For I didn’t want to draw one at all." (Philosophical Investigations §76, tr. Anscombe, Hacker, and Schulte)

where's Wittgenstein when you need him