Marieke Nijkamp
@mariekeyn.bsky.social
#1 NYT bestselling author of novels, comics, and graphic novels | nonbinary | 🌈📚 | 🏳️🌈 | ♿ Out now: SPLINTER & ASH | Up next: AFTER WE BURNED 📖: mariekenijkamp.com
I'm not here often, but peeking it to say: do you love comics and do you want to celebrate Disability Pride Month? Pick up Absolute Spider-Man #32! It includes the first part of 'Mind and Matter', an action-packed backup saga celebrating disabled heroes, written by me, with art by Andrea Di Vito.
*vibrates with high enough intensity to shatter glass* YALL. How'd I miss the preorder date pop up for the conclusion to one of my favorite series?? I'm SO HYPED!!Look at this BEAUTIFUL cover ahhhh 😭 Splinter and Ash by @mariekeyn.bsky.social has literally been life changing as somebody with hEDS😭💕
Are you looking for a middle grade adventure that celebrates trans joy, found family, and sword fighting? The third and final book in the Splinter & Ash trilogy, SPLINTER & ASH: THE LOST CROWN, hits shelves this November. Here's the gorgeous cover by Vivienne To, designed by Sylvie Lefloch 😍
This is the best?!!! 🥰🥹
Serinthia Kelberry 🔞🧙🌛🌕🌜🏴☠️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🖤🩶🤍💜@amethystdreams.cc · 6mo agoI got a new laptop for the holidays. Decided on what I was going to make the two drives in it. If you haven't read the "Splinter & Ash" books by @mariekeyn.bsky.social you really need to. #books #fantasy #nonbinary #disability
They raided the jailed children to steal their letters. The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.
Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 6mo ago“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
Psst. Hey, come closer. No, closer. I have a New Year’s secret for you. It’s this: If you care about people you don’t even know, and try to live your life that way, you are absolutely beautiful no matter what you look like.
I'm old. If you're not, listen to this. Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder. Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever. It's literally never been more important.
For Tolkien fans, a timely passage for No Kings Eve, from WH Auden’s review of Lord of the Rings.
For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings
No kid should ever have to protest or advocate for their friends’ basic humanity. But they’re standing up at No Kings anyway.
If you’re out at a #NoKings rally today, stay safe, stay smart, and wear a mask! I love you!
It's here eeeeeee eeeee!! 🥰🥰 I'm so excited to dive into book 2 of this amazing series by @mariekeyn.bsky.social! 💖💖 I feel very lucky I discovered book 1 last month so I didn't have to wait long for the sequel 🥰 Disabled AND queer representation are BEAUTIFULLY woven in their series! 💖
Dusting off my account to share that SPLINTER & ASH 2: CITY OF SECRETS is out now! This series is my love letter to the fantasy adventures that I grew up on, but with a disabled princess and a nonbinary squire taking the lead in the fight to make their wartorn kingdom kinder and fairer. 💙
I'm hoping the algo gets this to the people who need it. If you were at UVU or you saw the video, you should play Tetris. Preferably today. You don't have to be good at it. Research tells us that playing Tetris after traumatic events helps to disrupt your brain's long term storage of the memory.
I don’t know, peeps, but I just keep coming back around to the idea that what so many people want is a hopeful vision of a better world, with autonomy, dignity, & respect for all, affordability of food/shelter, education, medical care, clean air/water, & a place in a community. That’s the message.
New York City friends! Go vote today! Don't rank Cuomo! Stay hydrated!! I'm rooting for you all!
I needed to read this today. Thought someone else might need it too.
I'm honored AFTER WE BURNED is kicking off such a spectacular list of LGBTQ+ books! 🌈📚
LGBTQReads@lgbtqreads.bsky.social · last yr.Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Young Adult Fiction: July-December 2025 After We Burned by Marieke Nijkamp (July 1st) A terrible accident. A horrible loss. A regrettable tragedy. That's all anyone in Fenix can talk about when a fire consumes the local high school, taking the life of a student. The town…
Just finished Splinter & Ash by @mariekeyn.bsky.social and really loved it! The story was full of surprises and the characters were well rounded and relatable. As someone who also tries to fight for a better world for all, I felt very seen ❤️
the kid looks fucking terrified, knows the university will probably punitively hold the diploma they've worked three or four years to get, and also knows people have been disappeared recently by fascists for doing way, way less. still says it! just an incredibly fucking brave person
Jacqueline Sweet@jsweetli.bsky.social · last yr.Here is a clip of the student's speech.
This is what I'm hoping for. Good thread, great context.
rahaeli@rahaeli.bsky.social · last yr.This is a choice that will not only continue Francis's outreach work and attempts to place the focus of church life on the force it can be for human rights and dignity, but someone who can manipulate the levers of church politics a lot better and more effectively to that end.
