Estro Junkies 2026

I can’t believe the gall of Trickster’s Tatas, lying about being Italian is not ok. They deserved to get kicked out

Why does this read like Lauremmy RCBG pillow talk

my spicy take of the day is that i think we are not actually going to make any meaningful progress on women's lib/ending patriarchy/etc if we refuse to address that patriarchy exploits men's capacity for violence and that exploitation is 1) necessary to uphold patriarchy and 2) is bad for men too

[my first day as health secretary] ME: how’s it CIVIL SERVANT: NHS so broke they say they can’t afford the S any more ME: CIVIL SERVANT: gonna have to just be NH now ME: HORDE OF TERFS: [scratching at outside of glass office door] tranniesssssssssssssss

For this Pride month, consider supporting queer art about a normally underrepresented demographic: (mostly) cishet* men!

If you're considering watching the FIFA World Cup this June, consider reading a men's sport novel set in a world of cup sizes instead! It's much more homoerotic I promise you

GOOD NEWS! Amivantamab has demonstrated unprecedented results in an international trial for cancer patients whose disease has become resistant to chemotherapy AND immunotherapy. Tumors shrank in OVER a third of participants, with 15 patients experiencing COMPLETE eradication of their tumors.

*cracking knuckles now that 'Estro Junkies' is finished*

what if I wrote my take on mechsplo what then, woke moralists?

👀 what if

Excited for next year’s release of Mechstro Junkies

I actually wrote about ritualistic patriarchal violence and how it leads to the erosion and compromising of community identity last term when we were reading "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe. How topical.

hope you brought urine!

(This is why masculinity is always in crisis, because it's in a perennial state of needing to be 'proved' through ritualistic patriarchal violence against the abject and effeminised. What is 'manly' is often synonymous with what is reactionary.)

Sinners WIP

Hi, expert on far-right extremism here, a history of domestic violence and misogyny is one of the strongest predictive variables for violent extremism, especially on the right. We've been raising the alarm on this for DECADES but no one cares.

was watching videos yesterday discussing like 2010s libfem and it was crazy bc i was just like god it was all so unserious then. it really made me realize how bad it actually is for trans ppl rn if this was the kind of shit we were arguing about a decade ago lmfao

to be clearer: the problem wasn't "businesses shouldn't support queer ppl" the problem was "affluent liberals think commodified representation reflects an equal society and so they can't clock fascism bc gay fascists signal equality to them"

like sorry i know you worked very hard on your self-congratulatory propaganda piece maam but i actually remember the 2010s so im afraid youre gonna have to do better than that

“I’m going to go out on a limb and say it: There has still never been a better time in human history to happily and successfully pursue heterosexuality, if that is your thing, as it is mine.” maam, five years ago women had abortion rights and now those dont exist in half of US states!!

When your movement is built on intense paranoia and the constant surveillance of gender presentation, no one is safe from scrutiny -- not even the movement's own champions. All fascist movements eat themselves because fascism requires a constant supply of "traitors" to be subjugated.

This is so cool!

June 1st

I read and enormously enjoyed Estro Junkies by Talia Bhatt, Beth Leigh-Ann

If you wanna pick up some toxic vampire yuri to read this Pride month 👀

This was truly such a joy to read, it's sicko, it's lovingly sardonic, and deeply relatable. Small enough in scope to devour in one bite but set in a world big enough to satisfy while leaving you gasping for more

Mfw I read a book about racism and then complain about the racist character not being sufficiently redeemed (it makes me feel sad :( ) and then I'm like, hmm what was this book about again?

I guess someone really persnickety could claim the new name she chooses to replace Kaalappan would count as a spoiler, but even if I were inclined to cater to someone like that I'd just refer to Rashmi as "The MC" or something like that, personally

...why do you keep misgendering and deadnaming Rashmi in this review? You don't refer to Nichole and Katherine as Nicholas and Daniel, but you keep referring to Rashmi as "Kaalapan"... like it's hardly a spoiler that the main character of a trans novel comes out as trans, right?

"there were moments in Estro Junkies where I felt like I was reading outtakes from Trans/Rad/Fem" I would recommend reading Brown/Trans/Les because there are some themes of EJ you definitely missed that enhance the reading experience a LOT imo

why are you racist

the way western society pressures women of color to white-womanize our faces is so awful, natural and beautiful unibrows, hairstyles, and nose shapes are demonized by colonialist mentalities that even many (usually cis) women of color believe and enforce those beliefs on other women

@taliabhatt.itch.io i want to yeet every single one of these little shits into traffic except “Kyle”

is this foreshadowing for nichole mean girl moments? perhaps. but also. crying

the way i was describing myself for like five years while also claiming allism

without minimizing [jeff]'s dysphoria. to self-compare to rupali in a way that specifically isolates her racialized traits, curviness, and her having the "right parts." like. fully breaking this woman down to 1. brown 2. "gropable" 3. genitals. [jeff] you gotta die

HER MOST FORBIDDEN PORN IS M/F I'M CRYING. i do understand why heterosexuality is fraught for trans people im not ignoring that but also like. in a world where they made heterosexuality illegal...

it's like when skinny people repost fat liberation stuff and have to clarify that they're still skinny BUTTTT they have sympathy for the poor oppressed masses. the desire to denigrate yourself while still making it clear that you're part of the in-group even if you're soooooo guilty about it

"Adonis—or in his case, Arjuna" is physically painful but the marble line might be the sleeper hardest hitter in this paragraph. me when i invoke the famously white famous classical statues from the ancient civilization fascists worship to prove i'm busteddddddd (but i AM white btw)

and we're already foregrounding the pattern of [jeff] using men (or. "men") of color as a foil to her womanhood to make her feel more feminine based off hypermasculinizing stereotypes... really really well-done first chapter of this novelization. i need to throw her

JAW DROPPED. [kaal] you are braver than every member of every military ever

[jeff] is such a perfect skewering of the very specific white "ally" type of racism where you are so stressed by your own white guilt that you forget people of color are human beings and not, like, simultaneously fragile glass sculptures + dispensers of validation and reassurance

"we need to stand up for trans people through the proper channels uwu" I AM NOT A SUPPORTER OF ALL WOMEN! SOME OF YOU ARE STUPID!

1. at least [jeff] is paying for the protest supplies. i guess :/ 2. OKAY SO EVERYBODY KNOWS THEY'RE ENGAGED. i don't know how similar the plot is here but if [that thing that happens] still happens we have to kill [jeff] for real. like immediately posthaste

they;'re literally friends i'm distraught

OH I'M ALREADY PISSED OFF. rupali you have my sword and my axe and my glock etc

oooh and i love that we're also foregrounding that [kaal] (i am clinging to a pretense of spoilers here re: names) is genuinely attracted to and gets along with rupali (on a platonic level, too!). they're friends they're literally friends! that's what's so agonizing about the whole mess!

I'LL MISS HER VOICE but i love how much of her we're already seeing in [kaal] POV. i trust the process