Oh, hey, @cycling2asylum.bsky.social look what just arrived at my library! Can't wait to hand them to soooo many patrons 💜💜💜.
Su J Sokol (xe, xyr)
@cycling2asylum.bsky.social
Writer of speculative and interstitial fiction; social rights activist, VP 2024; Cycling to Asylum/Les lignes invisible (longlisted for the Sunburst ), Run J Run, Zee, Invisible Line and Five Points on an Invisible Line🌈
That's TRIPLE 2026 AURORA AWARDS-NOMINATED author and podcaster Rachel A. Rosen discussing speculative fiction on Thursday, along with @cycling2asylum.bsky.social, moderated by @meganysta.bsky.social, on Thursday, by Kensington Market!
Current Ballot – The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA)
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Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐@darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 4mo agoCome out to hear Su J Sokol and I discuss the role of art — and speculative fiction in particular — as a tool of community organizing and social justice imagining, and fighting fascism.
Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist.
I’m currently reading Five Points on an Invisible Line, by @cycling2asylum.bsky.social. It’s SO GOOD! I highly recommend following this awesome author! #SpoonieAuthChat
Spoonie Authors Network@spoonieauthnet.bsky.social · 4mo agoSpoonie Author Chat (for creatives who manage spoons), April 7,2026: What are you reading now? (Please quote-post and add #SpoonieAuthChat to your replies!)
Check out my latest short story, “Like Salt Marshes, Like Yourself" beautifully illustrated by Sean Suchara, with insightful annotations from Fatima Asghar and Autumn Brown. Thanks, @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social team!
Tractor Beam@tractorbeamearth.bsky.social · 4mo agoCould your time-traveling bog boyfriend fight gentrification with peat moss? Find out in "Like Salt Marshes, Like Yourself" by @cycling2asylum.bsky.social, available to read now on Tractor Beam! 🍎🌳🐛💜✨ #soilpunksunday #clifi #scifi #shortstory #tractorbeam
My short story, “Like Salt Marshes, Like Yourself” will be coming out in a week, on March 29th. So thrilled and honoured to be working with this team!
Tractor Beam@tractorbeamearth.bsky.social · 5mo agoSpring is here, and Tractor Beam has made its first full trip around the sun. 🌞🌱🪱 For our fifth issue, we're looking Underground—with help from our guest editor: poet, filmmaker, educator, and performer Fatimah Asghar! Read their guest editor letter here: www.tractorbeam.earth
So excited to be teaming up with Tractor Beam Issue 3 author @sarahkat.bsky.social for @writershq.bsky.social's Write A Short Story Festival in April. Sign up for our soilpunk workshop here: writershq.co.uk/whq-event/so... Full details coming soon! ✍️📖🌱✨
Writers’ HQ@writershq.bsky.social · 5mo agoFuck AI. Write an absolutely banging short story with your own glorious brain. The Writers' HQ Write A Short Story Festival is in April and you should definitely join us writershq.co.uk/festivals-ch... With @lindzmcleod.bsky.social @sarahkat.bsky.social @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social @aliceslat
Someone just tagged me to this viral post on Threads. I’m feeling rage.
There are a lot of other things that you can do to stop death camps from being constructed but this is a real-name account. I'm sure you can read accounts of WWII and dystopian fiction to find out what some of them are.
Andrea Pitzer@andreapitzer.bsky.social · 6mo agoWhen I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege
Great local reporting on an unprecedented, ominous situation in El Paso elpasomatters.org/2026/02/11/u...
El Paso, New Mexico airspace closed by FAA without explanation; flights restricted under national defense noticeWithout explanation, FAA closes El Paso and New Mexico airspace for 10 days, cites natio...
The Federal Aviation Administration has closed airspace over El Paso and parts of southern New Mexico for 10 days under a national defense designation, offering no explanation for the rare move.An une...
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Le retrait d’un drapeau arc-en-ciel du site historique de Stonewall dédié aux droits LGBT+ à New York, en raison de règles adoptées par l’administration Trump, a provoqué mardi l’indignation du maire démocrate et de plusieurs organisations, qui ont appelé à manifester. www.noovo.info/nouvelles/in...
Le retrait d’un drapeau arc-en-ciel d’un site historique à New York provoque l’indignation
Le monument national de Stonewall commémore les émeutes du même nom qui se sont déroulées en 1969 à la suite d’un raid policier dans le Stonewall Inn, un bar gay de Greenwich Village, à New York.
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The book club scam has taken an exciting new leap forward. I got one today from a "curated literary platform and newsletter" that, unusually, offered a link to its website. I'm in edits, so obviously I took the opportunity to procrastinate. /1
Again, for anyone who needs help articulating the fact that the BBC is routinely using fake-scientific language to express bigoted views while pretending they're being neutral... oolong.medium.com/biological-m... bsky.app/profile/dani...
‘Biological male’ is a pseudoscientific dogwhistle
The BBC should be better than this.
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Dan Sohege@danielsohege.bsky.social · 6mo agoBBC persists in referring to trans and non-binary individuals as "biological X who identify as X". It's a line routinely used by gender critical groups to dismiss trans and non-binary individuals' identities. That framing has been shown to cause distress. It definitely isn't "unbiased reporting".
It's Spring in the City day! Grab this anthology of dark urban fantasy stories featuring living cities and new dangers wherever books are sold. Buy direct: links.ruadanbooks.com/spring Join us for our launch event at 8 PM ET: links.ruadanbooks.com/springparty #BookSky #shortstories #TBR
Thank you ImaginAtlas for this detailed and thoughtful review. I also love the title: "Five points on an invisible line: Family, Love and Fighting Fascism." imaginatlas.ca/five-points-...
Five points on an invisible line: Family, Love, and Fighting Fascism - ImaginAtlas
After several years of anticipation, the sequel to Su J. Sokol’s Cycling to Asylum (which has received a new edition under the title Invisible Lines) is finally here. As someone who absolutely adored ...
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I've always found @cycling2asylum.bsky.social's books read like real life through a science fiction paradigm. Must be the #bicycles! Go to xyr profile page and read reviews, interviews & more. These are great books (and thoughtful, too) to recommend for #EBookGifts.
A fantastic interview w/ Su J. Sokol @cycling2asylum.bsky.social at Interstellar Flight Magazine! @lisatimpf.bsky.social Learn about xyr books "Invisible Line" & "Five Points on an Invisible Line" & how they explore "activism, social justice, & environmental ... themes" --> magazine.interstella...
Thank you to @lisatimpf.bsky.social and @interstellarflight.bsky.social for this chance to discuss community, activism, and hopepunk. magazine.interstellarflightpress.com/hopepunk-act...
Hopepunk, Activism, and Community
Interview with Su J. Sokol, author of Invisible Line and Five Points on an Invisible Line
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Thank you, Lisa TImpf and The Seaboard Review of Books, for this review of Five Points on an Invisible Line! www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/five-point...
Five Points on an Invisible Line by Su J Sokol
Reviewed by Lisa Timpf
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I had a great night at Livre and Let Livre last night with @alexwhitebean.bsky.social, @cycling2asylum.bsky.social, Rich Larson, @michellefranklin.bsky.social and @neuvel.net! 🖤🎃🖤
I had the amazing opportunity to be interviewed by Derek Newman-Stille for their award-winning podcast, Speculating Canada. You can watch the interview here: speculatingcanada.ca/2025/10/20/a...
An Interview with Su Sokol
I had the wonderful opportunity to finally sit down and talk to Su J Sokol, activist and Spec Fic writer. As an activist myself, I knew that Xe would be an interesting person to talk to about socia…
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Second panel of day 2 #CanCon2025 called “Worldbuilding Without the Nuclear Family” with Sonia Urlando (moderator), Claudie Arseneault, @cycling2asylum.bsky.social (Su J Sokol) and Rebecca Simkin. @canconsffh.bsky.social
Late but... Amidst hunger and ecological disaster, SETH falls for SEVEN who, like him, wants to heal the world. As Increasingly strange things occur, Seth wonders if Seven is at the centre of the problem. 7/7 TIME is The Time Traveler’s Wife (gay version) meets The Free People’s Village. #DVpit
Here is my schedule for Can*Con. Hope I see you at a the launch, signing, or one of my panels! October 17, 17h: Sensitivity Reading 101 Friday, October 17 at 20h: book launch! Saturday, October 18 at 11h30: Worldbuilding Without the Nuclear Family Sunday, October 19 at 12: signing
Hell yes. Look at all those rainbows!
OTHERSIDE@othersidespec.bsky.social · 10mo agoYOU ALL DID IT! WE HIT OUR REPRINT STRETCH GOAL! Our next stretch goal is MORE ART!! This is so much more than we dared hope possible so thank you 💜 Beyond more art we also have nonfiction followed by an additional reprint per issue! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
My new duology -- Invisible Line and Five Points on an Invisible Line -- is co-launching with master sci-fi writer Rich Larson's new collection The Sky Didn't Load Today and Other Launches on Thursday at 5pm in Montréal at @joiedelivresmtl.bsky.social. Can't wait!
