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🇵🇸 Trans Palestinian Fabulousness🍉 Wanted to be here for the thirst traps instead here fighting against genocide. Organizer Author 📚 Be Better Broken out Feb 20 https://linktr.ee/mxyaffa
letters from a living utopia (yaffa) becoming a woman (megan burke) terry dactyl (mattilda bernstein sycamore) persona (aoife josie clements) sex isn′t real: the invention of an incoherent binary (beans velocci) again, harder (alice stoehr) all us saints (katherine packert burke) [3/3]
I know folks don’t want to hear it, but @lifeline4gaza.bsky.social remains the best way to give. Mathematically and ethically. You start at the bottom with the most stagnant and ensure they get steady care, and build up until that’s everyone. Every day, their team shares those most in need. Help.
Trans: Veil us in Gold by Shepard DiStasio Where the Petals Remain by Micah Flowers The Tale that Twines by Cedar McCloud Blood Orange by Yaffa Sordidez by E.G. Condé
🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! It’s time for our pride month book lists! Every June, we put together book lists as an extra pride treat. Let us know what kind of themed list you’d like to see next! 📷: Thank you to @/LittleMissStar55 on IG for the cover photo featuring our editions!
Hello #BookSky It's time for a big old thread of recommendations for Pride! (Sorry it's a little late in the month, we launched a book review!) Before we get to the books go follow @authorsabb.bsky.social Bans are devastating queer books right now & AABB is a great resource to help you fight back
Queer Books and Authors are at a Breaking Point
Authors, agents, publishers: every part of the industry is seeing the strain of five years of escalating anti-LGBTQ censorship.
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With this short yet striking collection, Palestinian poet Yaffa As confronts the imposed burdens of being queer and brown and part of a diaspora.
Blood Orange
"Blood Orange" is a highly emotional, important and timely poetry collection by Mx. Yaffa (They/She), a trans Muslim displaced Indigenous Palestinian. Their writings probe the yearning for home,…
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3 recs for #TransRightsReadathon! 💙 The Bruising of Qilwa by Naseem Jamnia (just completed this for my 2026 TRR - so good!) 💗 Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom 🤍 Desecrated Poppies by Mx Yaffa (these two have stayed with me since reading them, highly rec) #books #bookSky
Steve Hugh Westenra 🕷️🧛♂️🏳️⚧️📚✒️@stevewestenra.bsky.social · 4mo agoDrop 3 recs for the #transrightsreadathon instead of #harrypotter garbo 🐺Teeth - Soraya Quinn (visceral monsterfuckery with a generous helping of humour) 🪽Grey Angel - Dani Finn (well-written adventure fantasy full of ❤️) 🚀An Unkindness of Ghosts - Rivers Solomon (unflinching generation ship SFF)
Eid Mubarak to those who celebrate! Since it’s also the #transrightsreadathon, I want to share this poetry collection, Blood Orange by Mx. Yaffa, a trans Muslim displaced Indigenous Palestinian. It’s beautiful and raw and reminds us to take care of our communities and take pride in ourselves 📚🏳️⚧️ 📚💙
Intersectional Trans+ Rep Outside Your Own Experience: Deciding between desecrated poppies by Yaffa As or Song of the Dryads by Bailey Saxon (I'm still hoping to finish Black Trans Feminism by Marquis Bey until then, otherwise I might count that one). (4/6).
To keep momentums going for larger movements, we're asked to define how our broken-ness lives with us as part of the work towards liberation rather than as a hindrance. - Review of Be Better Broken by Mx Yaffa app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/02dd... #BookSky 💙📚 #reviews #books
Review by fierceandtender - Be Better Broken: In Service to Liberation
"This is also why the most marginalized are the most fit to lead. Even an individualistic pers...
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Dhiyanah@bydhiyanah.bsky.social · 3mo ago#NowReading Be Better Broken: In Service to Liberation by Yaffa, with a foreword by Ijeoma Oluo 💙📚
Please help get the word out that I am open for submissions. Thyme Travellers is an award winning anthology of Palestinian fantasy, science fiction and horror. My publisher and I are making it a series. Submissions are open for short stories, pro rate pay: soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travel...
Thyme Travellers 2 – Call for Submissions
Roseway, an imprint of Fernwood Publishing, will be publishing a sequel to the award-winning and acclaimed anthology Thyme Travellers featuring speculative fiction by Palestinian writers. Editor So…
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We might reach 90% funded today. I’m truly so grateful for each and every one of you who has shared and supported this book of Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror. www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...
Update 4: 89% there! Time to talk stretch goals… · Thyme Travellers 2
Your support means a lot to me. The story for this project, and the small community of Palestinian writers of fantasy, science fiction, and horror… truly, this series would be much harder to put toget...
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Friends, could you help me share this Kickstarter? It’s doing well but I need to extend its reach: www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...
Thyme Travellers 2
An anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction
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This is not a joke. Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction will be an ongoing series! And we’re open to submissions for the second volume starting today: soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travel...
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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I love it when artists who are supposedly left-wing talk about how their art is going to suffer due to boycotts and so we shouldn’t have boycotts. Gurl we can talk about individual impact, we can set up alternative care systems, but you are not liberatory if your only concern is yourself.
Though to be slightly more objective, not giving terf ass bitches money for them to target trans folks isn’t intelligent, it’s basic decency.
shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · 4mo agothus proving whales are among the most intelligent creatures on earth
thus proving whales are among the most intelligent creatures on earth
My entire life the systematic murder and erasure of trans people has been a daily norm that just runs in the background of American life and has been perpetuated by every major institution and publication and when you talk to or about trans folks you need to take into account that context
Clashes between Bahrain’s dictatorship and protesters. Angry crowds are calling for the removal of US bases and troops from the country.
Following Al-Jazeera's coverage has been very interesting. Like this is the headline of IT (alongside 4 other GCC countries - and Jordan) getting attacked by Iran. The FM condemned the attack, but also we had it coming.
BOSTON!!! Looking forward to seeing you on April 27 at the Harvard Science Center! I will be in conversation with THE Evelynn Hammonds!!! Can't make that? Don't want to cross the river? I'll be at Brookline Booksmith with THE David Kaiser the next day, April 28 :-)
vijay iyer@vijayiyer.bsky.social · 6mo agopsyched for this! @chanda.blacksky.app at Harvard Bookstore April 27 in conversation with Evelynn Hammonds 🎉 www.harvard.com/event/chanda...
