Silvia Park
@silviapark.bsky.social
writer of LUMINOUS 🐯🤖 teaches at the University of Kansas https://linktr.ee/silvia_park
This amazing online event is happening tomorrow, Tuesday, April 21st. Susanna Clarke, @amalelmohtar.com, Gregory Maguire and I will be talking about fairy tales, fairy lore, and fairy tale literature for the @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Please join us! events.bl.uk/events/fairy...
Fairy Tales for Grown-Ups | British Library
Fairy Tales have an older and darker past as stories for adults as well as the young. They were often sensual, bawdy, unflinchingly violent, sophisticated
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Dozens of US military veterans were arrested at the Capitol today during a protest against the Iran War. Photos via @frankthorp.bsky.social
Thank you, Eugen, Andrew, Cheryl, K., and Rebecca for your thoughtful work as this year’s jury of the Otherwise Award. I hope many will discover all the honored and longlisted books, each one exploring the complexities of gender in our world and the possibilities for something better
Otherwise Award@otherwiseaward.org · 4mo agoNEWS: The Otherwise Award is pleased to announce the winner of the 2025 Award: the novel "Luminous" by Silvia Park @silviapark.bsky.social Read about the winner, the Honor List and Long List at otherwiseaward.org/2026/03/anno...
very very excited (& nervous! stage jitters!) to share news of a project that my person & I have been working on for so long now we're starting a tiny artist residency here in Baltimore; say hello to The Doll House! www.thedollhouse.studio
The Doll House
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Discover why SONG OF SPORES by Bogi Takács made the 2025 Recommended Reading List www.brokeneyebooks.c...
Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines
During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.
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Catherine O’Hara wardrobe polaroids from Second City, 1983. RIP an absolute legend & icon💔
So much love for @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social
“Everything We Do Matters.” Minneapolis’s Moon Palace Books is a Hub For Anti-ICE Resistance
Angela Schwesnedl from Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis picked up my phone call on Saturday almost two hours to the minute after Alex Pretti was murdered in the street by ICE officers. “If you have…
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A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
A friendly reminder that no ICE officer has ever been killed in the line of duty in a hostile incident. Being an elementary schoolchild in America is far more deadly and dangerous than being an ICE officer.
Jess Piper@piperformissouri.bsky.social · 7mo agoIf you’re scared of a Honda Pilot driving less than 5 miles an hour, with its wheels pointing away from you, you should not be working in law-enforcement… You shouldn’t have a gun. You shouldn’t have a badge. You should find a new line of work.
Damn, it looks just like the photos of the disappeared that were put up by relatives in the South American dictatorships
Mel Buer@melbuer.bsky.social · last yr.Nestled up against the steps of City Hall in LA is a large placard with missing posters for the recently disappeared in the city.
If you love speculative fiction, then you owe a huge debt to @strangehorizons.bsky.social -- a magazine that successfully brought SFF short fiction online and expanded our ideas of what genre can do. It launched my career and many others. And it's still amazing. www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...
Strange Horizons 2026
A free weekly speculative fiction magazine with a global perspective.
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Join @silviapark.bsky.social and Sierra Greer as they discuss their debut novels Luminous and Annie Bot in this online event for @cymerafestival.co.uk on Sunday 8th June! Grab your tickets here ⬇️ cymerafestival.co.uk/cymera25-eve...
Hard-hitting analysis from NYT. As you can see from the diagram, legal impediments are a weak gray box that can be defeated by a strong orange arrow and bold typeface Gift article (but it’s bad) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
One of the easiest ways you can reach your senators right now. So many trans people, myself included, won't be able to access life-saving HRT if this passes, this is a murder bill plain and simple. Cis folks: this is the bare fucking minimum.
Orphan Source@orphan-source-0.bsky.social · last yr.
Our reporting on the NEA suddenly yanking grants. Affected include: n+1, McSweeney’s, Paris Review, Oxford American, book publishers, nonprofit theaters, more: www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
National Endowment for the Arts rescinds grants, dazing publishers and theaters
Arts organizations across the country saw their grants pulled with little explanation, while a proposed federal budget sought to eliminate the arts funding agency altogether.
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Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.
A wonderful review of Luminous by @silviapark.bsky.social on @theguardian.com this morning! 'A novel of huge humanity...This is the arrival of a major new voice in SF.' www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/23/luminous-by-silvia-park-review-a-major-new-voice-in-sf
Luminous by Silvia Park review – a major new voice in SF
From humans with robotic body parts to robots with human emotions, a vibrant debut set in a unified Korea examines what it means to be a person
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BREAKING: SCOTUS orders the government not to remove from the country, for the time being, any of the individuals slated for possible deportation to El Salvador. The vote is apparently 7-2, with Justices Thomas and Alito in dissent
Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
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Advocate [Mar 28] -- Lake City FL Walmart fires 7-year employee w/ spotless record who tutors special needs kids in spare time after a male customer attacks her for being trans because she is 6' 4" tall. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social [HT @denisenorris.bsky.social]
Walmart fires 6'4" cisgender woman threatened by man who thought she was trans
Dani Davis told a superior at Walmart that a man screamed anti-trans epithets while she was alone in the bathroom. Walmart fired her after she reported what happened.
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Enlightening and hilarious. My apologies, Toby, for equating your name with “failure” 🫶
Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · last yr.Silvia Park's Luminous explores a near-future with a reunified Korea and three siblings–two human, one robotic–within it. Check out @tobiascarroll.bsky.social's review! reactormag.com/book-review-...
Join @silviapark.bsky.social and Ela Lee on Thursday 17th April for a compelling discussion on literature, technology, and the shifting boundaries of identity! Tickets ➡️ bit.ly/Luminous-KCCUK
“School is not important. Work is not important. Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.” —Fred Hampton
