Guido A. Sanchez
@guidoasanchez.bsky.social
author✍️ educator🤓// collector + fan of comics, books, antiques, ephemera, movies, music // podcast🎙️Dear Watchers //❤️🏳️🌈🇨🇺// QUEER MYTHOLOGY 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️book out now // The Substrate on Substack
Marry your best friend. Then RUN A BUSINESS TOGETHER! As we approach our one-year anniversary of the @sleepovertrading.bsky.social shop, Rob and I couldn’t be more proud. We expanded to the BASEMENT LEVEL! And tomorrow we have the biggest event we’ve ever done. 👏 Thread continued 👇
Oh my gosh, it is indeed good for the soul to be told about QUEER MYTHOLOGY out in the wild yet again! 😱 Some post-Pride month 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ display action at the local library shared by @elliotcomicart.bsky.social Love this love for queer storytelling. 🥰🥰🥰♥️ Available from @runningpressbooks.bsky.social 📚🙏
Happy Pride from inside @sleepovertrading.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 You can’t buy my book QUEER MYTHOLOGY here, but you can walk out with plenty of queer stories on VHS 📼. The chart on my right leg is the sky over Stonewall, June 28, 1969 ✨ It keeps me grounded in our history every single day.
McDonald's Apple Pies are Fried again. My life is instantly improved and shortened.
Your first look at the stage for the 70th Eurovision Song Contest 👀 And in just a few days, the artists of Vienna 2026 will start rehearsals on it 🤩 www.eurovision.com/stories/your...
60 years ago today, Julius’ became a site of revolution. The 1966 Sip-In made it a place of history. Not enough people know it (one day I will write that children’s book). 13 years ago, Rob and I had our first date there. 3 years ago, we got married there. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️😍 👏
🌈 Honored that Queer Mythology made it onto the ALA Rainbow Book List this year. Deeply grateful it’s still resonating with readers—especially queer young folks searching for themselves in the oldest stories we’ve ever told. We have always existed. And we still do. 📚♥️
One of my queer ephemera grails joined the collection: the Village Voice issue from the week after Stonewall, featuring Fred W. McDarrah’s iconic photo. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Holding it feels like holding a piece of that moment. And yes I wore white gloves! 🧤 #QueerHistory #Stonewall #LGBTQArchives #VillageVoice
2025 highlight reel 📼✨ A year that still feels unreal. 🤩 We opened the shop & somehow turned a 5 year plan into a 1 year sprint. ⚡️ Thank you for showing up and making it real, + a SPECIAL THANK YOU TO OUR MEMBERS! 🙏 Be kind, rewind your childhood. 📺
📖 Drinking from Graveyard Wells by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu 📖 Marsha by Tourmaline 📖 A Short History of Queer Women by Kirsty Loehr 📖 Queer Mythology by Guido A. Sanchez & James Fenner @guidoasanchez.bsky.social
Buy my bloody book 'Queer As Folklore' this Christmas... otherwise you're getting coal. 😠 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781807070397/
“They represent a lot of things that we have to get back to...The idea that difference is okay, and you shouldn't hide yourself.” @karaswisher.bsky.social says KPop Demon Hunters should have been TIME’s Person of the Year.
📻✨ We’re on the radio TOMORROW! Catch us in your earphones! Sleepover Trading Co. is on Dim The Lights at 7PM on WGXC 90.7 FM 🎙️ We’ll be talking VHS magic, the new shop, and all things analog. Tune in, dim the lights, and hang with us on the airwaves. 📼💛 #SleepoverTrading #VHSForever #RadioStar
On this day in 1988, a scrappy local show proved the best way to enjoy a B-movie is to laugh with it—or at it. MST3K turned late-night bargain-bin cinema into a shared art form, a little party for monster suits and misfits. All you need is a weird film, good friends, and a comfy place to riff.
So excited for everyone to see these!
Sleepover Trading Co.@sleepovertrading.bsky.social · 9mo ago🎬 Opening Fri Nov 7 in Catskill: our first Pop-Up Gallery Exhibition! Local artists imagine VHS box art for sequels they wish existed. Prints & originals for sale thru Dec 5. Artist lineup drops this week 👀 #VHSArt #SleepoverTradingCo #CatskillNY #BeKindRewind
📼 New hours, same analog magic. Mon & Tues 4–9 • Fri–Sun 2–9 at our shop inside the Community Theatre, Catskill 🎞 Text 518-987-7VHS to confirm hours or set an appointment. Be kind, rewind your childhood. 💫 #SleepoverTrading #VHSstore #CatskillNY #BeKindRewind #PhysicalMedia #RetroRevival
Thank you to the KLINGENSTEIN CENTER for reviewing QUEER MYTHOLOGY in the latest KlingBrief. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ This resource is invaluable, so to be featured was incredible! 🤩 www.klingensteincenter.org/klingbrief Make sure to tell an educator you know about the book so they can get it in their classrooms! 🙏🤓🥰
Follow us on Instagram for A LOT of NYCC 2025 updates! Just posted our haul, but check out our posts from panels, of creators, & more! #NYCC2025 #NewYorkComicCon www.instagram.com/dearwatchers...
🎂✨ Happy Birthday, Queer Mythology! ✨🎂 One year ago, this book of queer myths and legends entered the world. Since then, it’s been read, shared, taught, and celebrated. 🌍📚 At its heart is a truth: we have always existed. From Tu’er Shen to Lakapati to Xochipilli, our stories are ancient and alive.
✨ After my own whirlwind back-to-school night, a friend told me her child discovered my book on their school library shelf. 💜 Almost a year since release (!!), and I’ll be celebrating with events this fall—some online. 📚 Here’s to stories finding their way to classrooms, libraries & young readers.
🪓🔥🔪 The ultimate horror crossover: Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash! We dig into the wild comic sequel-that-never-was to Freddy vs. Jason — full of slashers, chainsaws & multiversal mayhem. 🎧 Listen: linktr.ee/dearwatchers #HorrorComics #EvilDead #FreddyVsJasonVsAsh
Hey, that’s me! Listen anywhere you podcast or you can WATCH this one @retrogamerspodcast.bsky.social 🎮🕹️👾
The Retro Gamers Podcast@retrogamerspodcast.bsky.social · 12mo agoThe latest episode of The Retro Gamers Podcast is LIVE! Newcomers Rob & Guido from Dear Watchers join me this week to discuss their favorite comic book video games. Check it out on Youtube or wherever you listen to podcasts.
BREAKING: Federal court blocks and limits most of Florida law targeting school library books. The only constitutional application is its "harmful to minors" provision, which limits obscene material that had already been banned from school libraries. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com
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Dear Watchers@dearwatchers.bsky.social · 12mo ago📚💥 Just 16 issues to go ‘til X-Men completion! 💥📚 Big thanks to Cromulent Comics Troy NY for hooking @guidoasanchez.bsky.social up with X-Men #12 (1965) — Juggernaut’s first smash! 💪👊 Mutant love is eternal. 💛🖤 #XMen #Juggernaut #ComicCollector #MarvelMilestone #XMenHistory #DearWatchersPodcast
🎂🎥 Happy birthday to the man who made us care about a talking tree, gave us the best needle drops in superhero history, and is now redefining DC from the ground up. Here’s to a future full of flying capes, heartfelt chaos, and even weirder team-ups. #AllIn 💫 Happy Day @jamesgunn.bsky.social 👏♥️🙏
I also can’t stop adding to our Plex server. So there’s that…
Sleepover Trading Co.@sleepovertrading.bsky.social · last yr.🧠💾 = full. 😱 Upgrading the memory. Just picked up 3 new 22TB drives & keep up with all the VHS rips we’ve been archiving lately—commercials, bumpers, glitchy goodness & all 📼✨ 📺 Subscribe to our YouTube channel 📦 Send us your old tapes! (We’ll give ’em a good home.) Every bit 💻helps—literally.
Have and love this book, can’t wait for the movie!
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas@horrornonna.com · last yr.🚨 Big news 5 years in the making: some friends and I made a documentary! 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR hits Shudder soon, directed by Donna Davies and inspired by my 2020 book of the same name If you are in Australia, I hope you can make it to the world premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival
My happy place!
Sleepover Trading Co.@sleepovertrading.bsky.social · last yr.Busy Frankensteining two ✨Crystal Castles✨ into one majestic She-Ra dream palace! 🏰💖 Gotta get all the pastel pieces in place before the Horde attacks 😅⚔️ #PrincessOfPower #SheRa #CrystalCastle #80sToys #ToyRestoration #SleepoverTradingCompany #VintageToys #NostalgiaTrip
