taking a break from these for now (I will let you all know if and when I reopen them!) but here are a few more pet menus i've made these past few days. thank you to everyone who donated to a trans-supportive org! you all make the world feel better to exist in.

hi, cis folks! if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now. the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. we need you to call senators: reps.fyi more info & script downthread.🧵

these days I rejoice in having one (1) normal petty problem, like "HOW will I not over-listen to the sick new Mountain Goats single before the album comes to place it in context"

This gives me life

My spouse is now making these for people who present proof of a charitable donation benefitting trans people, btw! Check their profile for instructions. We've printed and framed the Roxy's Diner menu over her dish so she always knows the daily specials ($0).

This is such a great book about art and family and love and identity and revolution (among other things), and you (yes, you specifically) should read it.

ONE DAY MORE...

Notes from a Regicide is still on sale for $3 on Bookshop: tinyurl.com/2xx5bch9 and Kindle: tinyurl.com/9zkt4khd. Sale ends on Sunday, so pick it up now if you want it!

yeah so Notes from a Regicide by @isaac-fellman.bsky.social made me cry (complimentary). I can't explain how much this resonated with me. highly, highly recommend.

LRT: I interviewed a couple of scholars I admire about their Queer Pasts series of online exhibits. The project itself is paywalled, but if you have Alexander Street access through a university or public library, it is beautiful and ambitious and often quite moving. outhistory.org/exhibits/sho...

OutHistory is pleased to announce "Queer Pasts: A 2025 Interview with the Founding Editors," by Isaac Fellman. This exhibit features an interview with the coeditors of QP, a digital history database. The exhibit also provides titles and abstracts for all QP projects. outhistory.org/exhibits/sho...

the fatal flaw with the Bluesky is dying proposition is that it ignores the broader truth that I am also dying, as are you, and everybody you know. By dying Bluesky lets us know that it’s one of us, that it shares in our beauty and our pain. Grow or die? No, there is no “or.” Bluesky understands

A reminder that the Notes from a Regicide ebook is still on sale for three bucks from Bookshop. Kindle edition is the same (and it seems Amazon has named it one of their Best Books of the Year So Far). They don't sell hardbacks at "fuck around and find out" prices, but! bookshop.org/p/books/note...

Ad for cassette of music for your "walk-woman," from a 1996 Imperial Queens & Kings of NY, LI, & NJ newsletter. Working on this for an upcoming online collection from the Center, New York's LGBTQ archives. Full name and address redacted for the creator's privacy; hope she's still singing out there.

Interesting information!!

Publishing is such a weird thing. I wrote Dead Collections and Notes from a Regicide in the same year, 2020 (though Notes took its spine, and a handful of samples, from a book I wrote in 2013). It's not like I changed a lot between them, or could. Just *seems* like an older man's book.

On a winning reading streak this month: Notes from a Regicide by @isaac-fellman.bsky.social - languid, queer, gloriously strange Rakesfall by @vajra.me - Allow me to be the 1st to say this book rules In the middle of Beings by @ilanaslightly.bsky.social - love it so much I brought it on vacation

Spectacular event with Mattie Lubchansky (read SIMPLICITY!!) and Calvin Kasulke (who came out to moderate despite having recently taken 100hp worth of spine damage) -- thanks to all who came. We had a great audience. Felt alive. Felt close to people. Have you heard of a place called New York City?

some cool people @mattielubchansky.com @kasulke.co @isaac-fellman.bsky.social

ok this is tonight!! see you soon!!!! www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...

T O - D A Y

Once again reminding New Yorkers that I'll be at P&T Knitwear on Wednesday with Mattie and Calvin! If you're a fan of Mattie's podcast No Gods No Mayors (as you should be), both of our books debatably have mayoral content -- keep it in mind!

I blurbed this, and it was my introduction to Hal and hir ambitious, grimy, beautifully detailed work. If you're not generally a YA reader, fyi neither am I -- I'm so glad I tried it anyway. I'm also flattered as hell that the book is in explicit conversation with Dead Collections.

rly excited for this next week; isaac’s book is truly one of my favorites of the last few years and we’re being moderated by calvin, the very talented author that i called when i accidentally injected my leg with a bunch of air to make sure i wasn’t going to die: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...

Once again reminding you of our New York book party on August 20! I'm not saying that the thought of the incandescent Calvin and Mattie is the only thing currently keeping me going, but.

My book comes out in just over a month! It hasn’t got any trade reviews yet and I’m biting my nails about it a little. Please preorder my trans vampire book which is about community and trans mentors who are insane and also radicalized moms who want to kill us. I mean vampires

reading this excellent list but in reverse order, to escape

NEW YORKERS: I'm flying TO YOU for a book event on August 20 at P&T Knitwear, with Mattie Lubchansky and Calvin Kasulke! This is a dream lineup for me, I get to share the stage with two brilliant people, and I hope you can come! www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...

Reviews are in! Portalmania by Debbie Urbanski reviewed by William Shaw Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman reviewed by Amy Nagopaleen Anji Kills A King by Evan Leikam reviewed by Jacqueline Nyathi Read at the link to the latest issue in our bio #speculativefiction #fantasy #sff #bookreviews

these two books are actually very In Conversation with each other, i think. trans stories about resistance, revolution, and love, with very different lenses and scales.

all the cool people (me) will be seeing isaac and calvin and mattie in NYC. will you??

NEW YORKERS: I'm flying TO YOU for a book event on August 20 at P&T Knitwear, with Mattie Lubchansky and Calvin Kasulke! This is a dream lineup for me, I get to share the stage with two brilliant people, and I hope you can come! www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...

WHAT a review of Notes From a Regicide in Strange Horizons by the always incisive Amy Nagopaleen. Not just a rave, but a fantastic piece of criticism that illuminates the book and makes me feel all-caps READ. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Here's @amynagopaleen.bsky.social on Isaac Fellman's "mesmerizing new novel" Notes from a Regicide: "It is a masterpiece of the radical risks that constitute queer and trans survival, and the flawed love that creates a family." For my money, too, it's among the finest novels of the year so far.

Once again rereading some Chandler, which is always fraught because his books' titles don't mean anything and it's not clear which one I've read most recently. The Big Sleep is about a little sister; The Little Sister is about a big sleep; every single one involves a high window and a long goodbye.

The way this book delves into creativity, the many diverse uses and meanings and importance of art, and how differently artists can approach their own talent as well as the world around them... masterful.

I finished this book a few days ago but I can't stop thinking about it. An extraordinary book. Quiet and tender in parts, yet sharp and piercing. A future that feels like a past haunted by ghosts of our own time. Characters and relationships that go deep. And the ART.

Oh huh just like trans people have been saying for a decade

JUNE RECOGNIZED

I once again joined my friends at Wizards vs. Lesbians, this time for a late Aubrey/Maturin book. Got INSANELY excited during recording, was driven to question everything I'd thought about the second half of the series. As always with W. vs. L., there are also songs. Give it a listen!

I blurbed this one in the strongest possible terms -- if you like my work, I think you'll like Mattie's. Best to go into it with a very limited idea of what's going on.

Blurbs for my book!! From Isaac Fellman, Maia Kobabe and Kyle Lukoff ! Preorder my book here www.sevenstories.com/books/4753-f...

Kemi is SO good; reposting this less for the ARC lottery (I'll read this in the fullness of time) as just to spread the word. Re: the prompt, the last great book I read was Sakaya Murata's Vanishing World, a breezy but *also* crushing novel about the rapidly shifting sexual mores of the future.

Working with digitized photos from the astonishing Don Paulson and Skippy LaRue collection at UW, which chronicles the lifelong friendships of old-school drag performers from a Seattle venue called the Garden of Allah. This drag wedding photo! digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/coll...

not wanting to "do discourse" but compelled by conscience to say that Gavin Newsom accepting right-wing framing of gender-affirming care and trying to position himself as some Solomon of hard choices is bullshit. care is care. the people who need it and the people who provide it are the experts

Just saw a piece in a mainstream online magazine which introduced a discussion of transmasculinity in media by explaining that, beyond Stone Butch Blues, there's pretty sparse representation of transmasc experiences out there. This is true on its face, but also erases a lot of artists and writers!

I wrote the @newyorker.com Pride essay about the fight for trans healthcare, the Skremetti decision, trans children, the Big Beautiful Bill, Medicaid, and last month’s vicious HHS report. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Day 27, #Pride Book 27: NOTES FROM A REGICIDE, trans author Isaac Fellman's (@isaac-fellman.bsky.social) honest, absolutely lovely science fiction novel about, more than anything, love. Wonderfully queer, gorgeously told, NOTES is both history and blueprint, unflinching and magnificently tender.

This is one of those reviews that felt actively impossible to write; I'll write a better one in five or ten years after I've properly thought this through. However, if you are the kind of person who worries you might miss the best book of the year, good news, I found it:

The August 20 date in Manhattan is a double headliner with ME, moderated by CALVIN KASULKE!