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Niko Stratis

@nikostratis.com

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Sober trans broad. Award winning writer. Former smoker. I write a newsletter called Anxiety Shark, my debut book is called The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman She//Her linktr.ee/nikostratis

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · May 23

hell of a time to be promoting a book about being trans, the damage done to the body/spirit in the decades spent fighting it, and how you can’t fight city hall (Big Transgender) but here we are. utpress.utexas.edu/978147733148...

A book called the dad rock that made me a woman by Niko Stratis, on a desk surrounded by a computer, an iPad and a coffee mug amongst other desk things

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Emily Zhou @emializh.bsky.social · 17h

thrilled to be able to talk about this directly now: the first book I edited for LittlePuss is available for pre-order.

we’ve got a little marketing gimmick as usual but i’m gonna be sincere for a second

LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 20h

NEW 📗!

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements (@ravineangel.bsky.social)

In which a trans woman discovers porn of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil

"The year's great work of literary horror."
—Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable.bsky.social)

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements — Debut trans horror — LittlePuss Press

"The best book I've read in years." —Gretchen Felker-Martin

www.littlepuss.net

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Peter BOO! Counter @peterbcounter.com · 1d

HOW TO RESTORE A TIMELINE is two years old. My monster mash of memoir and criticism exploring the experience of PTSD is my less popular book, but I love it and I'm proud of it. Thank you to everyone who has supported this one with your blurbs, reviews, and recommendations—you're all diamonds.

The book HOW TO RESTORE A TIMELINE: ON VIOLENCE AND MEMORY laying on white painted wooden slats, next to three spent bullet casings.

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 19h

Wild to me how each act could have easily been their own game. Act 2 took me so long just because I was so happy to wander around in it. Act 3 is so weird that I don't want it to end

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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 22h

I'm very sad to say that this event has to be cancelled!

Yesterday, I was among 8 arrested at an action demanding:

- The safe return of Freedom Flotilla members currently being detained in Israeli prisons, including Mskwaasin Agnew

- A two way arms embargo

- Immediate sanctions on Israel

Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 18d

Buffalo! I'll be in town to read at @gutterpopcomics.bsky.social on October 10, alongside @philmcandrew.bsky.social, Gia Ligammari and Max Weiss

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 1d

Thank you!!

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Raelee @grimmrj.bsky.social · 1d

I'm trying out audio books this year bc I just don't have the time to sit and read. I recently finished The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman by @nikostratis.com. LOVED it. Took longer because I had to stop, listen to records and sit in my memories. Go listen!! Or read!

The screen shot of an audio book. The book is Niko Stratis's The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman. The credits say it is written and narrated by Niko Stratis, the language is English and the book is 6 hours and 21 minutes long. The book cover is this wonderful dark teal color with just the title on it.

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 1d

hard week for me, someone who took an ad out in the newspaper that said "this year I'm for sure going to win the McArthur Genius Grant and the Nobel Peace Prize"

Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 1d

I'm on board for this, and will watch the movie when it comes out

Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 1d

weird insomnia is great, you get to be up at 1:36 am scribbling "Gillian Anderson: real British accent?" on a notepad because you don't keep your phone in the bedroom and refuse to get up because legally then the day has started

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 1d

this happened to me yesterday, a bunch of calls, then texts, then emails, all within the span of half an hour.

Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 1d

this was in the Washington Post

Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 1d

when I was a kid I thought changing your sex meant you had to live as a woman for a year, and then once you achieved that you goal you went into the hospital and had one big Sex Change Operation and this is all to say Sharks, today I come to you with a gameshow idea that will change EVERYTHING

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 1d

I mention in the thread that they even reference this, but saying they're doing it "2.0"

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 1d

John knitted me a banner when my cat died, and it hangs in my office now. True the kindest, most thoughtful person.

Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 1d

they literally talk about how this is "Lavender Marriage 2.0", like it's a fun hack. It's so clearly a "we're paid well as influencers for this" thing and I fucking hate how its couched in so much bullshit faux-inclusivity-for-conservatives language.

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 1d

you don't say!

Greenstone said some of their most supportive commenters online are conservative. “It’s a safe package for them,” she said.

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 1d

it's obviously not going to be how its reported, but telling that we're in an era of increased public homophobia, and the ever revolving for of "will they roll back gay marriage", to suddenly do influencer posting about "gay-straight relationships"

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 1d

The Washing Post just discovered beards

He’s gay. She’s straight. They’re happily married.
Meet the couples who are redefining what it means to be in a relationship, including those in gay-straight and same-sex platonic marriages.
By Shane O’Neill

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 2d

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 1d

Cheesecake is so good, it makes sense that they made a whole ass factory for it.

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 1d

yeah, totally get that. My lens on him is always going to be that he clearly doesn't like trans people, trans women especially, so I can't really follow it down any road past "he think me and the people like me are less deserving of humanity"

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 1d

I saw a story yesterday that they're already bringing back the slide over feature? big news if it happens!

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 2d

tapping the Noggin Chart to say "that's where I bonked it your honour"

Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 2d

the stuff he used to make wasn't great either though. He was one of the big "comedian who thinks shitting on trans women is a joke" guys, but he just got a pass because he spent the last few months calling out republicans.

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 2d

Rolling Stone's list of the top 50 times I bonked my head on the foot of the bed

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