once again go read rosemary's THE STRANGER. it's infinitely more thought provoking & pleasant on the eyes www.hirosemaryhello.com/shop/5w5djk3...

October is LGBTQ History Month so here's all the queer history that went into & inspired A LADY FOR ALL SEASONS. Not just Regency era! 🧵

We Will Rise Again From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...

STARRED review in Library Journal for WE WILL RISE AGAIN, the speculative activism anthology edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social, @older.bsky.social and me! Pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...

30 More SFF Titles to Look Forward to in 2025 - Reactor Here are 30 more standouts to put on your TBR for the second half of this year!

Let's talk about books baybeeeeeee!!

Here are the titles I think you should check out for the rest of the year, including hot lady knights, tons of science-fantasy, bad bitches, epic non-eurocentric adventures, hot love triangles, and spooky houses

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Vote - The Ignyte Awards Public voting for the 2025 AWARDS IS NOW OPEN THRU AUG 15. GO VOTE OUTSTANDING NOVEL: ADULT for novel-length work (40k words) Works intended for an adult audience BLACKHEART MAN – Nalo Hopkinson (S&S/...

Don't forget to vote for the Ignyte Awards!!

Warning: your TBR will be in trouble if you haven't already checked out all the finalists. And don't sleep on the non-fiction categories! This list is ❤️‍🔥

ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/vote/

Featuring stories from The Dark Magazine, @omgjulia.bsky.social, @thefuturefire.bsky.social, @innerworlds.bsky.social, @kaleidotrope.bsky.social, @clarkesworldmagazine.com, @stateofmatter.bsky.social, @uncannymagazine.bsky.social, @unchartedmag.bsky.social, and @morningtransport.bsky.social

A white mug with the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction logo holds a spray of lavender next to a stack of the eight books shortlisted for this year's prize: North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins The City in Glass by Nghi Vo Archangels of Funk by Andrea Hairston The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera The West Passage by Jared Pechaček Blackheart Man by Nalo Hopkinson

We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

Trans & GNC Comics A booklist of graphic novels with stories focusing on trans issues, featuring trans protagonists, and/or made by trans/gender-nonconforming creators.

Trans people and their right to life are not a political distraction. Period.

Here’s a booklist of comics by trans creators/featuring trans and GNC characters and stories. Please support trans comic creators (and all trans ppl), now more than ever!!

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We've hit $9000, so here's another poem from the Fund Drive Issue!

A Mermaid Falls in Love with Icarus
by Elena Sichrovsky @esichr.bsky.social

"IF THE SUN WAS YOUR SCALPEL THE MOON IS MINE"

Read it at the link to this year's Fund Drive issue in our bio! Check out the link to donate as well!

As Hillsborough book battle unfolds, other districts wonder who’s next Florida school boards are weighing the state’s push to bypass standard reviews to remove controversial books.

What's happening to libraries in Florida should frighten everyone.

Spurred on by Moms For Liberty, the AG is threatening librarians with felonies for stocking LGBTQ+ books and overruling established processes for removing "harmful" material.

It's a full on censorship campaign by the government.

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📣ATTENTION YOUNG WRITERS!📣
Henry Lien will be holding a free youth writing workshop hosted at @Chapter510 in partnership with the Locus Awards and @sistahscifi on Sunday, June 22nd in Oakland. RSVP now here or through the link in our bio! tinyurl.com/3fcz9yt7
See you there! #kidlit

The logo of Violet Lichen Books: a luminous violet lichen (illustrated by the amazing painter Rebecca DeVendara)

I'm so excited to announce the launch of my imprint Violet Lichen Books under @apexmag.bsky.social. Violet Lichen publishes literary dark fiction, esp. New Weird, Weird, folk horror & eco-fiction!🖤🍄www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontpage/apex-ann...

The Nonbinarian Book Bike, a pink cargo tricycle that distributes free queer books of all genres to all ages, is gone. On the morning of April 2, 2025, when Nonbinarian Bookstore proprietor K. Kerimian (they/them) arrived on-site to open for the day, they found the boxy, pink cargo bike missing from its usual spot. Kerimian first declared, "We're not going anywhere" following the second vandalization of the bike. Regardless of the reasoning, there is no justification for this act against our symbol of pride and community solidarity. We use the Book Bike to distribute queer books of all genres for all ages across the borough, along with the message of queer joy and resistance. “After Trans Day of Visibility,” Kerimian said, “This feels like a terrible joke." Please help us say: WE ARE (STILL) NOT GOING ANYWHERE. Donate today to help us recover from this theft, including raising funds to purchase a replacement book bike; additional security measures for the store; create an emergency fund to weather additional targeting; and aid our mission of distributing free queer books and resources for all. About The Nonbinarian The Nonbinarian Bookstore is an exclusively queer bookstore and community space. It is an extension of the Nonbinarian Book Bike, which was formed to provide access to and promote representation of queer stories for all ages, directly bringing LGBTQIA2S+ books to the folks that need them most. The Nonbinarian collective strives to empower and affirm queer and trans people of all ages by offering accessible services, such as free resources, workshops, and events, as well as continuing the foundational work of the Book Bike's mobile book distribution.

Want to help support an indie queer bookstore in need? The Nonbinarian's book bike, used to distribute free queer books across NYC, was stolen earlier this month. This store is such a wonderful, joyful community space. Please consider showing them some love. www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-re...

Digital illustration of a crow holding an asexual pride flag in its beak.

Happy International Asexuality Day!!!🖤🩶🤍💜

"to democratize art is not every person having a cute drawing made in seconds, to democratize art is every person having time and health to learn and make art if they chose to, and mainly to have the means to think and relate introspectively with art."

A radical skeleton telling you "Just start. You don't need permission. Art, craft, 2nd book, cake, writing, that show, any new skill, making friends. If it sucks, ask for help. The time will pass anyway"

The Smithsonian's queer erasure of an AIDS artwork should alarm us all By omitting the tragic story behind Felix González-Torres "Untitled" (Portrait of Ross in L.A.), the National Gallery of Art is setting a perilous precedent, warns art scholar Ignacio Darnaude.

The erasure of queer people and history from our art should alarm you. It is a first step in erasing us completely.

Resist this. It’s unacceptable and we cannot let it happen.

Please read this piece from @out.com

#SaveQueerStories

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If you're at a Southern university/institution that is closing your LGBTQ or DEI/DEIA offices please reach out to us. We are helping people preserve their department's archival history and will work with you to help ensure folks remain anonymous.

30 SFF Titles to Look Forward to in 2025 - Reactor Here are 30 standouts to put on your TBR for the first half of this year!

Happy to share with you my picks for the most anticipated sci-fi, fantasy, horror, gothic, and romantasy titles coming in the first half of 2025! I always love making this list and there are definitely some forever favorites on here. Let me yell at you about books!

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Horror books by/incl trans masc authors that came out 2024. Please keep reading and sharing and supporting trans-authored work. I can personally vouch for all of these.

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Come hear us read from Of Gods and Globes III in January and have the best hot toddy in Brooklyn.

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Slowly going through the process of following mutuals from Twitter 👋 Hi everyone!