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Sam

@horrorbutch.bsky.social

nonbinary lesbian (tme) | they/them (deutsch: dey/dem), xe/xer (d: xier/xies) | horror & sci-fi fan | book reviewer | enjoyer of trans, weird, disabled and mad literature | https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/horrorbutch | https://podcastlesbian.itch.io/

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Ahana (she/her)@antisanitygirl.bsky.social · yesterday

“Inscribing transness with insanity, and the fusion of cissexuality with sanity, enabled psychiatry to colonize our bodies and claim the power to regulate them.” “Anti-sanity explains that…sanity, as a form of power, redoubles and reinforces the cissexual compulsion.”

Ahana (she/her)@antisanitygirl.bsky.social · yesterday

i posted a new essay to my site that explores the entanglements of trans and Mad identity and the alliances of sanity and cissexuality as forms of social power. i write with an ‘anti-sanity’ perspective that refuses the repudiation of madness in trans politics. open.substack.com/pub/tenderly...

Stefanie 🏳️‍⚧️@foxenlock.bsky.social · 19h ago

I spoke to trans masc actor and drag artist Ros Watt about letting trans people be monsters, making space for us in horror, and laughing at murder ahead of his debut full-length show, Trans People Are Awful.

Becoming the Monster: Ros Watt, Horror, and the Politics of Making Transness Abject — Exquisite Terror

In Trans People Are Awful, show creator Ros Watt argues that true equality also means the freedom to be abject and grotesque.

exquisiteterror.com

Misha (not a girl)@mishacopyninja.bsky.social · 20h ago

Bluesky: Hey, you might be interested in this criticism of Andrea Dworkin! Me: oh… are they mentioning how she sold out lesbian authors of erotica and sex workers to Reagan’s administration in a failed attempt to persecute misogynistic porn producers? Bluesky: uh… they’re calling her a misandrist

S. Morgan Burbank | Project Tasman BackerKit Coming August 3@anotherindiewriter.com · 2d ago

Project Tasman’s crowdfunding is LIVE! Want to get your hands on a sapphic dystopian thriller novel where a woman has to choose who close to her lives and dies? Back now to get the book, exclusive rewards, and support my work as an indie author! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Project Tasman - A Sapphic Dystopian Novel

Project Tasman is a sapphic dystopian novel that follows Alana Quevedo as she navigates a terrifying government experiment where she has to decide who will live and who will die.

backerkit.com

jj skolnik@supremenothing.myatproto.social · 6d ago

want to address this one because it’s a common misconception. this whole thing is entirely astroturfed transphobia, and if “good faith” people bought it they never looked into the science (there is no physical advantage for trans girls over cis girls) or the fact that this was a settled matter

@chrisvls.bsky.social · 6d ago

dunno. there's a difference between public performative political discourse and personal views... yes, the campaigners are all bad faith, but I certainly know cis parents with gay kids who do in fact see tough issues in girls sports but give no quarter on passports, ids, jobs, bathrooms, violence...

KJ Charles@kjcharleswriter.com · last wk.

An excellent thread on special editions, but holy wow, this line: "Sales are what romance gets *instead* of importance." YEP

Olivia Waite@oliviawaite.com · last wk.

The exception is: romance. Romance sales numbers are not permitted to measure importance. When multiauthor romance box sets started to dominate the NYT bestseller list in the early ebook era, they *changed the rules of the list* to exclude them. Sales are what romance gets *instead* of importance.

Mags Visaggio - Writer and Writing Coach for Hire 🏳️‍⚧️@magsvisaggio.com · last wk.

I got so much shit for having some teenagers say "dyke" and not be admonished for it in Girlmode. Stopping the scene to correct them would have been the wrong move, and it's not something any of the characters in the story *would* do for a whole lot or reasons, and the *book is about that*

@jawless-fish.bsky.social · last wk.

theres this one tumblr post ive seen talking about that phenomenon but w fiction writing that I think about often

darling of dots feb 24 been stewing on an analytical approach to fiction which call "is this book afraid of me?" and in order to answer this question you determine how hard the book is trying to make sure you don't come after the writer on twitter the fucked-up part is that specifically notice this in like, BIPOC or queer romances because their authors a) are more likely to be harassed online b) tend to care about writing inclusive and intersectional books more, both of which are totally valid reasons, but unfortunately a book that is scared to be misunderstood is also scared to challenge the reader or allow for too much nuance or grey areas or character flaws and am sorry to say that it often makes for less compelling stories because it means shying away from ambiguities and complexities in an effort to reassure me, the reader, that everyone here is a Good Person engaging in Healthy Behaviours and Relationships
David J Prokopetz@prokopetz.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's always fun when authors say their work contains no politics, because either they're blatantly lying, or they genuinely think they're telling the truth and you get a lot of insight into what claims about human nature they regard as so self-evidently true as to lie outside the political sphere.