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"We want authentic queer voices but don't you dare let a homophobic utterance leave the lips of your fictional character"

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how is every single queer erotica collection always welcome to BUCKETS OF GOREFUCK, we are a subversive transgressive indie collection. please read our submission guidelines! Submission Guidelines ▪︎ no gore ▪︎ no fuck ▪︎ no buckets

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

Well, it's disjointed and full of weird typos and I think the ending is probably too sweet, but I just wrote draft 1 of my horror novella.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: A group known as the 'puppygirl hacker polycule' has leaked thousands of police training & policy manuals from departments across the country www.dailydot.com/debug/lexipo...

submitted 13 days ago • 259 comments

Hey Boston! I’m coming thru to read with u at T4T at Model Cafe Wednesday night.

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

don't miss this, at the Model in Allston

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Have you ever considered a story where upsetting things happen to transfeminine bodies but here's the twist it was written by a trans woman? (It's me, I think about this a lot, also I'm writing about one of those stories)

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

It’s that time again: the B&N pre-order sale! No better time to place an order for “Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity,” out May 27th from @erewhonbooks.bsky.social, and get 25% off in the process while supporting a diverse and resistant collection of queer/trans artists.

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

"Cyberpunk is best when it focuses on the body." In this new interview, @robotleblanc.bsky.social and @tenacity.bsky.social discuss the new anthology Embodied Exegesis, plus what a trans cyberpunk future might hold: reactormag.com/living-in-a-...

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

This happened really slowly, ~11 years from first eggshell crack to last, but an important moment was when I joined a Discord server as "Esther (she/her)". I assumed I'd either feel really weird or gender-euphoric. Instead, I just felt normal, and that's when I was like, fuck this is probably real

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I think my current wip is going to be set in late 2024. Every year before it was fucked in really specific ways and the immediacy of what's going on makes those years feel like forever ago.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Authors, if you see this, it’s a sign to post the first line of your book: Lev signed a standard lease that had a standard subtextual clause. - wip novella

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Whoa whoa whoa my story Rachel is at a Protest is on the Locus Recommended Reading List for 2024. Wow wow ok. You can vote for it for a Locus Award, if you want to!

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Actually, being trans is really cool. Someone should tell most people about this.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

It still feels impossible that I'm in this anthology, along with some of my favorite authors but: I am in this anthology

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

‘Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity’ is available for preorder wherever fine books are sold, due out on May 27th—and these are all the folks whose work I’m honored to present: Esther Alter - Bendi Barrett - Ta-wei Chi, trans. Ariel Chu - Colin Dean - Maya Deane - Dominique Dickey [1/2]

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

We failed to stop fascism's rise. Now it's dancing about on the White House lawn. I don't know how to fix all this but I do know that the shit we've been doing won't get us out of this one. shatterzone.substack.com/p/we-failed-...

submitted 34 days ago • 185 comments

Oh hey I've got a very good very gross poem in Rose Books Reader and you can preorder it now www.instagram.com/p/DFFrsERJH0I/

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

The thing about being a trans woman is that there's literally nothing you can do to keep scary people from hating you and wanting you to die. You might as well be a completely authentic freak pervert, because no matter how polite and withdrawn you are they will hate you anyway.

submitted 75 days ago • 18 comments

Hey, if an author tells you in the cover letter that she's trans, and the story is about some T4T Alternate Lifestyle Decisions, and that's not really your thing, you can send a form rejection, not whatever the fuck this is

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

The Internet was more fun when you had to really go looking for things

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

The ceasefire might slow down the genocide, and definitely won't stop it. But that the fact that there is a ceasefire is, still, a reason to celebrate. Free Palestine.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Have you considered a woman who fantasizes what aftercare would be like with her evil roommate

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

be cool if we remembered 2017-2021 & put substantive evil over flash. what am i supposed to do here? join an anti-trump pro-canadian-sovereignty militia? it’s a good time to shore up your community. there’s policy being written locally. save panic for shit you can act on. you aren’t inexhaustible.

submitted 47 days ago • 3 comments

Have you ever considered two women holding spears and goading each other into taking a wrong step

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

ACK!! I am so thrilled that EMBODIED EXEGESIS won the award for best anthology!!! Thank you so much to everyone who voted, and to Bethany for all the amazing hard work of creating this award.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments