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@akilamantado

Ignyte-nominated critic, beta reader, bookstagrammer. Words in Strange Horizons, Bad Form Review, Rebel Women Lit, Divergent Terror essay anthology from @offlimitspress.• She/Her • https://zez.am/ifthisisparadise

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Proud to be here for another Black History Month! Show some love to the Black creators who've been a part of FIYAH for the past decade:
go.bsky.app/VSHmC2p

01.02.2026 16:56 👍 115 🔁 96 💬 0 📌 2

I'll try to figure out where I read it. HR readers on Twitter are locked *in* and discuss/share/pick apart every interview and IG Live she has done during the show's press run. That's probably where I saw it.

10.01.2026 23:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Reportedly, she admitted that she didn't. Her experience living with her son filtered into her writing of Shane. It was only after her son got diagnosed that she realised what she had written in retrospect. Don't remember exactly where I read this tho.

10.01.2026 23:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Black *SFF authors, obviously.

13.11.2025 20:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Respect due to Octavia Butler but can we ask Black authors about their work in relation to other writers. Anyone else at all...

13.11.2025 20:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

*correction, one was a PhD student

31.10.2025 00:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh, this is a bewildering thing to learn about. It doesn't make up for it but two different professors asked me to recommend queer Caribbean writing and I included your work. 💜

30.10.2025 23:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Featuring stories from @clarkesworldmagazine.com, @smallwondersmag.com, @pseudopod.org, @escapepod.org, @lightspeedmagazine.com, @diabolicalplots.com, @flashpointsf.bsky.social, @thefuturefire.bsky.social, @lunastation.bsky.social, and Moonday Mag.

24.10.2025 15:59 👍 26 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0

Registering in the hope I'll have electricity and internet back up by this date, post-Melissa. 🥹

24.10.2025 05:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Canada is so lucky. 🥲

14.10.2025 19:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

09.10.2025 10:14 👍 14554 🔁 7829 💬 120 📌 274
photo of paulina borsook

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1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

24.09.2025 18:36 👍 6993 🔁 3246 💬 82 📌 343

Weapons: Julia Garner 😍. I don't think there's much there there thematically.

Nashville: I love when a hyped film meets if not surpasses its rep.

Nosferatu: A rewatch because I read Blood on Her Tongue by Johanna van Veen.

High and Low: See Nashville. That blocking!

#FilmSky #LastFourWatched

19.09.2025 22:25 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ah, I do always lose steam in the first half. Knowing it was done for a purpose later revealed is encouraging. 😅

19.09.2025 03:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you, I need all the good vibes. 😅 I made it through Lathe of Heaven in audio which I liked well enough. Unfortunately, the narrator for Dispossessed, at least the copy the library has, sounded so robotic. Which, combined with the prose...sigh. Eyeballs it is.

19.09.2025 00:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Here I go in my third attempt to read The Dispossessed x Ursula K. Le Guin in the hopes that it sticks this time. 🪐📚💙

18.09.2025 23:59 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Oh don't be sorry! And take care of yourself, that's the most important thing.

26.08.2025 16:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Omg you're back! I've been worried about you. I hope you're doing okay and it was just a well-deserved break.

25.08.2025 13:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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“Turn my body into art.
(Tell me you’re obsessed.)
Cuz I think that it’s the best part.
(We can make a mess…)
.. While I try to fix my broken heart. 🎶”

These vocals over this rock arrangement is INSANE.

(🎶: Jair Faria)

18.08.2025 13:27 👍 29 🔁 5 💬 4 📌 2
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Vincent Brown · What Universities Owe When challenged to justify past investment in slavery – or current investments in, say, fossil fuel extraction or arms...

‘Weren’t all Black people owed something for the dispossession that accumulated over generations? Or was the university’s primary function only to pursue knowledge about the history that gave rise to these questions?’

Vincent Brown reviews ‘Yale and Slavery’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

27.07.2025 16:10 👍 31 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 1

I hate group work.

20.07.2025 00:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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how does one survive flexing this hard

19.07.2025 04:03 👍 4478 🔁 853 💬 93 📌 162

Every time I start to read submissions I forget how much I love to read submissions. My friends do not understand it, maybe I am delusional, but I genuinely do.

19.07.2025 15:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And that's fine, I'm here for nonsense, let's just be honest about what's going on.

07.06.2025 16:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Whenever adult readers complain about the stupid decisions YA protagonists make we are admonished for imposing adult expectations on titles not for us. But I'm sorry, some authors are telling lies on these children in order to prop up nonsensical plots.

07.06.2025 16:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

COVER REVEAL!!! Our anthology of Indigenous Futurisms <3333

06.06.2025 21:01 👍 102 🔁 37 💬 3 📌 0
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Thanking her mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, the market women of Haiti, and the enduring spirit of Haiti itself, @myriamjachancy.bsky.social accepts the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.
#bocas2025 #OCMBocasPrize
@tinhouse.bsky.social

04.05.2025 01:15 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 2
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🏆 Congratulations to the winner of the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, @myriamjachancy.bsky.social! 🏆

She has won the 15th annual award for her book, Village Weavers (@tinhouse.bsky.social)

#bocas2025 #OCMBocasPrize

04.05.2025 01:17 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1

Saving Face really is that movie. #FilmSky

02.05.2025 01:30 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0