I just got a notification that an account called rednblack . Net that has added me to a list called “dirty Leeds” what does that mean? They’ve blocked me so I don’t understand who they are or what it is
Zoe Whittall
@zoewhittall.bsky.social
TV writer/novelist. My latest books: No Credit River, Wild Failure, & The Fake. The Best Kind of People was shortlisted for The Giller Prize. Canadian Screen Award winner. Available to staff on your TV show. https://linktr.ee/Zoewhittall
Trans people are facing a decades-long, escalating, international effort to drive them out of society supported by some of the richest, most powerful people AND governments in the world and you are right that a few of them being snippy with you on social media is, essentially, the same thing.
My first romance novel, Chasing Summer, is out now in stores! Elise Hunter is a screenwriter of Christmas romance movies who gets fired and ends up in Prince Edward County for the summer caught between two potential suitors. I hope you enjoy it! www.harpercollins.ca/978144347612...
Books - HarperCollins Canada
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It feels like Jacob Elordi’s agents negotiated max 5 minutes per episode so they wrote every one of his scenes filled with literal physical torture.
Always an absolute pleasure to review some poetry for @malahatreview.bsky.social, spend some time with @zoewhittall.bsky.social's work, and muse about the porous genre boundaries of poetry. Here are some excerpts from my review of No Credit River from @bookhugpress.bsky.social.
Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: No Credit River by @zoewhittall.bsky.social, @bookhugpress.bsky.social & The Rose: Poems by Ariana Reines, @graywolfpress.bsky.social. See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers
I love that the big triumphant ending to the Devil Wears Prada in 2026 is that a boomer and a millennial get to keep their jobs for maybe two more years if they’re lucky.
I think that Centrist activists are having their version of the Twitter heyday of 2011. All over Substack, writers I remember being medium ok intellectuals in that era are like Wait, What if heterosexual submission is radical?
Every time I read about the mergers in Hollywood I think about this scene: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktAb...
Sally's Show Gets Canceled | Barry | HBO
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since The Atlantic is apparently reviving the "a was a feminine gay child, but if I was a kid today they would have 'transed' me" trope, here's an essay I wrote back in 2020 explaining why this is not true & there is no evidence to support it: juliaserano.medium.com/transgender-...
Transgender People, “Gay Conversion,” and “Lesbian Extinction”: What the Data Show
A couple days ago (on Christmas, actually), The Telegraph ran a piece with the provocative title: “Lesbians facing ‘extinction’ as…
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Oh hey, this sounds familiar encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/t...
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 5mo ago1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses. Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...
1. Major news on trans youth care. The American Psychological Association has reaffirmed its full support for its 2024 guidelines supporting trans youth car.e It provided documentation showing Jesse Singal mischaracterized their position in the NYT. Subscribe to support our journalism.
American Psychological Association Reaffirms Support For Trans Youth Care, Pushes Back Against NYT
A recent article from Jesse Singal in the New York Times seemed to indicate the organization might be quietly retreating from supporting trans youth care.
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Really intense episode of What’s That Smell in my Fridge today. Who knows what’s gonna happen.
*Taylor Sheridan pulling a slot machine arm* "Ok, we got... Kurt Russell... as a... Fire Chief in... Paducah, Kentucky" Paramount Exec: Sure whatever, here's $40,000,000. All of our parents: Prairie of Flames is the best show on TV
About one of the Trump accusers in this piece: “The interview [with the alleged victim and her attorney] was conducted July 24, 2019, and entered into the FBI’s case files on August 9, the day before Epstein was found dead in his jail cell.”
Roger Sollenberger@sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 6mo agoHey everyone. Potentially the biggest story in the country, right here. substack.com/home/post/p-...
a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500
NEW from me today: Tumbler Ridge is mourning a horrific loss. But how the shooter's identity is being talked about online, and the dangerous links being made to trans people at large, will have resounding and dangerous impacts in the months and weeks to come. xtramagazine.com/power/tumble...
The Tumbler Ridge shooting is already fuelling anti-trans hate in Canada | Xtra Magazine
Bad actors on the right are leaping to connect the shooter’s trans identity to the violence
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Is the school shooter even trans or is it just the far right jumping on it before someone is identified?
NEW: This was the last essay I was supposed to publish at the Washington Post. But they fired me. I'm publishing it anyway-- about my family's connection to a sword the British looted from Ghana in 1874. If youve ever wondered why I love swords, here's why. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
The "Return" of the Golden Sword
My grandfather guarded it. The British stole it. I'm named after it—and I'm going to fight for it.
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In perimenopause adhd news, until today I thought Charlie Puth and Florence Pugh were the same person.
Coming this May, a rom com set in Prince Edward County. By my romance writing alter ego, Frankie Scott.
I may have a stroke. Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.” A PROTESTant. I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.
I just read some of the Epstein files and feel like I need to shower for 50 years. Why isn't Trump impeached. I remember when Clinton was impeached for a consensual blow job, what is even happening
‘Gender critical’ transphobes are trying to build in opportunity to brow-beat trans kids into NOT taking puberty blockers. This is a conversion therapy practice. It’s the same tactic anti-abortion lobbyists use with their ‘crisis pregnancy’ centres! #TransRightsAreWomensRights 👉🏻 archive.ph/4orNj
