K. Meera (they/them)
@kmeera.bsky.social
professional pollambifier on stolen duwamish lands https://linktr.ee/kmeera
I’m teaching high schoolers this summer and giving them a bunch of weird fiction to look at and it’s been overwhelmingly positive. These kids go into all of this like you know what let’s lock in and crack this thing and it’s pretty fun to see
'the documentation of this violence might work against the state. These images can break our assumptions of those frequently painted as suspect simply for resisting far more ruthless state excesses. Think of the military raining pellets on young Kashmiris in 2016; opening fire on Manipuris...'
Before We Move On From Jantar Mantar, Remember the Past Decade of Student Resistance
From Rohith Vemula and Occupy UGC to the JNU 'sedition' case, the Jamia attack and Umar Khalid's imprisonment, the past decade shows why the student movement cannot afford to become a single-issue str...
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This Publishers Weekly article from Jan. goes into more detail. It's not that they are TRYING to sell our work for training, it's that those companies are placing orders with booksellers and distributors. Most sellers aren't giving us the option Ingram is. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Ingram Lets Publishers Opt Out of Book Sales to Tech Firms
In a note sent last week to client publishers, Ingram Content Group warned of the “growing trend” of AI companies purchasing and scanning print books to train their large language models, and said pub...
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Still looking for my secondary world fantasy to sweep me off my feet, so if you have one, please send it to Otherside? I like stories that feel brutal and sharp, beautiful prose, and audacious worldbuilding. Above all, I'm looking for ambition rather than stories that play within an existing canon
OTHERSIDE@othersidespec.bsky.social · 3w agoICYMI, we are OPEN to original fiction and poetry by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors through July 21st! We're having the best time reading your wonderful work. Still deciding what to send us? We asked our reading team what they'd like to see more of, and they answered! Guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines
'Prominent social activist Sonam Wangchuk has been on an indefinite hunger strike in the Indian capital of Delhi for more than two weeks amid growing concern over his deteriorating health.' www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/s...
Why Indian activist Sonam Wangchuk is on hunger strike and what happens next
Renowned climate activist joined student-led protest over alleged examination irregularities, but his worsening health has become a growing concern
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A good example of Kwame Ture's point that 'In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience.' He's asking for the most basic shit possible--the resignation of a minister who has failed in his duties. The regime won't even give that inch. They don't give a shit.
Shreya Ila Anasuya - THE POISON PALACE@thresholdrose.bsky.social · 3w ago'Prominent social activist Sonam Wangchuk has been on an indefinite hunger strike in the Indian capital of Delhi for more than two weeks amid growing concern over his deteriorating health.' www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/s...
This is just to say I have placed Senator McConnell in the icebox and who you were probably saving for elections Forgive me he was so dead so stiff and so cold
no longer on a beach; soon to be found in a library vajra.me/2026/07/15/i...
I’m just back from the beach; the salt is still in my beard.
Coming up: first author talk in Colombo!
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But the point of that film is that powers by themselves don't make you hero. And simply using AI to create something doesn't make you a writer or artist. Tech bros know this, so they want to change how we see the entire creative process. They want people to question real writers and artists. 5/
Today, in place of a new piece of writing from IT WAS PARADISE, our special issue on war and conflict in environmental justice, here's a word of explanation from publisher @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social as to why we felt we had to remove a poem from the issue: reckoning.press/ai/
From lyrical essays to experimental poetry, Fahmidan Journal welcomes writing that expands literary possibilities. Submit now: fahmidanjournal.submittable.com/submit%E2%81...
I think yesterday was the first time I’d been in a room with only QTBIPOC folx and I don’t think I’ve ever been happier
Using Handwritten Letters for Interviews, Sourcing - Nieman Storyboard niemanstoryboard.org/2024/12/19/j...
Using Handwritten Letters for Interviews, Sourcing - Nieman Storyboard
Journalists can find value in the old-school approach of handwritten letters to gain interviews and thank sources
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The Exchange Between Martin Delany and Frederick Douglass omowalebooks.wordpress.com/2020/12/11/t...
The Exchange Between Martin Delany and Frederick Douglass
The following document is an exchange between Martin Delany and Frederick Douglass which took place in the pages of Douglass’ newspaper. The exchange centered on the differences that the two …
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It’s Disability Pride Month. Fascists are enacting a blatant eugenicist project worldwide. You can disrupt it. You can defy fascists, do community care, keep resistance efforts healthy, & shield marginalized groups from disproportionate harm. How? Wear an n95 in public. Give/get mutual aid:
Worldwide Mask Bloc Directory – Find your local Mask Bloc
MaskBloc.org lists active Mask Blocs around the world. Free high-quality masks, COVID-19 tests and other equipment for your community. Mutual Aid & We Keep Us Safe.
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Jenny Jackson, Teddy Wayne, Paul Tremblay, and more: 16 new books out today! lithub.com/jenny-jackso...
Jenny Jackson, Teddy Wayne, Paul Tremblay, and more: 16 new books out today!
As we go easing into the holiday weekend, there’s a smaller batch of releases: though the ones that are here, are ones that count. Jenny Jackson’s next hotly anticipated novel, The Sham…
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my general issues in life can be boiled down to have biriyani tastes but no biriyani skills
Submissions cap update: lots of slots left! Fiction is 47% full (70/150), poetry is 21% full (21/100). If you haven’t sent Jess and Angel a story and/or poem yet… you still have time to write something dark + weird + messy + risky + deeply, deeply fucked up (complimentary) just for them 👀
OTHERSIDE@othersidespec.bsky.social · last mo.Open NOW! Calling all trans and nonbinary authors: send us your speculative horror!!! Rates: 8 cents/word for fiction, $50/poem. GUIDELINES and the submissions portal: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/3 (Plus, more details in the quoted thread!)
One of my favorite things about working with young writers is going “HOLY SHIT YOU WROTE THIS???????”
I have emails to send and also two really unavoidable phone calls so of course I had to make a poster
Premee Mohamed@premeemohamed.com · 2mo agoWhile I was looking for that picture of me and Matt I found a bunch of photos I took on the train from Edinburgh and was like "Why do these all look distinctly yet ambiguously like posters for a folk horror movie made in 2009"
genuinely Quinta Brunson gives me so much joy i grew up with this woman give her all her flowers
The only benefit of not being in an LDR is that my ex and I don’t have to split five hundred bucks to fly to Michigan. The downside is that I only get cat pictures now and not cat :(
atomic bog@jessicapancakes.bsky.social · 2mo agomy family lives on the opposite coast and its so expensive to visit them that I literally cant afford a vacation. ive never been one that wasnt domestic to somewhere I could crash on a friends couch. im 42
A year or so ago I spent several hundred bucks on a version of MS Word from 2019 explicitly so that it would not update and give be subscription nonsense or AI bullshit. It updated and broke everything. Now I can't create or edit documents and I'm out a whole bunch of money.
John Hornor Jacobs@johnhornor.bsky.social · 2mo agoI hate this future. I'm so fucking pissed off. I just opened MS Word to look at a manuscript and suddenly I can't create or edit any documents because I don't have Microsoft 365. I'm not fucking buying MS 365, I bought THIS single license version of Word in 2024.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ correction for registration; not dot com, but dot org! TOMORROW AT 7PM EST ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ springwrites.org/events/zoom-...
Zoom – May & June – Spring Writes
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upfromsumdirt@upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 2mo agoin 3 days, june 14, we get a headstart on juneteenth celebrations with The Black Fantastic, an online reading of spec poetry. 7pm via zoom. register at springwrites.com
I wish I had any hours left in me for this godddd would be awesome to read some kickass shit
khōréō magazine@khoreo.bsky.social · 2mo agoJoin our team as a fiction editor! We’re looking for someone who loves SFFH and wants to work with writers to bring their stories to life. This role is remote, you can be based anywhere in the world and still be a part of the team. Interested? Apply here by 15 June www.khoreomag.com/join-our-team/
Slowly dying of Long Covid, a direct result of my covid infection in March 2020 before vaccines were available. It has been an excruciating few years that will end in early death or homelessness. Covid is still circulating, still disabling & more often than we like to admit, still ending lives.
I represent the 9th ward of the Oakland conglomerate of transgender mice. As their designated consigliere, we are advocating for the rights of all animals to be trans and free.
my broke alternative to going to concerts where i can float away from my body is getting so high i start counting floaters and putting a speaker on my chest in the dark with tiger balm on my shoulders and a heating pad on my back
Me @ the people who’ve come in for convocation and FIFA and don’t have any train etiquette which would be bearable if they were at least observant but no go back to the suburbs where you can keep believing that you don’t owe anyone anything
Hourly Martens@hourlymartens.bsky.social · 2mo ago