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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 7d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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Salon Sinister @salonsinister.com · 19d

You can once again purchase a PHYSICAL COPY of Salon Sinister!

The links are once again linkin' after some techincal issues, so please go support queer horror and thank you SO MUCH for being patient. We love you 🖤

www.salonsinister.com

SALON SINISTER

Salon Sinister is dedicated to documenting the 2SLGBTQIA+ experience through horror.

www.salonsinister.com

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Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 6: Nostalgia now! @epistemiclit.bsky.social · Sep 11

Cellophane Boy - #poetry by @odinmeadows.bsky.social

epistemiclit.com/past-issues/...

CELLOPHANE BOY -

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epistemiclit.com

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Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 6: Nostalgia now! @epistemiclit.bsky.social · Sep 11

Ok, friends, we are DELIGHTED to announce our nominees for the inaugural Monarch Queer Literary Awards by @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social @monarch.gay

@awritingwall.bsky.social
@odinmeadows.bsky.social
@marisca.bsky.social
Jae Casella
@lyfaulk.bsky.social
Sama Bell

MONARCH QUEER LITERARY AWARDS
Allison Wall - Before You Burn Me at the Stake, issue 4
Odin Meadows - Cellophane Boy, issue 4
Marisca Pichette - Asking, issue 4
Jae Casella - Monday Night Choir Boi, issue 4
Ly Faulk - Pig Flu, issue 5
Sama Bell - Better Chance, issue 5

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Salon Sinister @salonsinister.com · Sep 9

The Salon is now open...

The first issue of our queer horror magazine is official live and ready for you to consume.

Step inside. Lose yourself. Find your new favorite writer or artist within. We have such sights to show you🖤

t.ly/MGy-2

Text on the right side of the image reads, "Welcome to Salon Sinister: A Queer Horror Lit Mag"
""The work featured in this issue is a look inside the minds of those directly affected by the fascist regime in the United States. The contributors in this issue are strong representatives of a population that not only faces daily persecution, but still finds ways to exist boldly and beautifully under threat."

Below that reads, "Contributors: Abigail Waldron, al dsym, Amber S., A.V. Shurling, Bee Delores, Christine Makepeace, Ciaran Flake, E.L. Rey, Elizabeth R. McClellan, Ell Huang, Garrett Emerson, Genevieve Hugenbruch, Jay Zimmerman, Jaylan Salah, Molly M., Odin Meadows, Tera Freeman, Trevor Kassis."

The right side of the image is the cover of the new free horror lit magazine "Salon sinister" which features a figure cloaked in black with a pale hand emerging within the folds that has pink painted nails. Instead of a face there are big, unnerving teeth seeming to break through the paper. The words "Salon Sinister" are written across the front of the figure in either lipstick or blood. Hard to say which...

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fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · Sep 6

if you're not nominating your contributors for the @genrepunkmag.bsky.social awards, wyd?

genrepunk awards
2025 fwp nominees

editor’s choice
Ariana Rahman
Daniel Suárez Miranda
Nish Trivedi

haunting
Naa Asheley Ashitey
Haley Bossé
Odin Meadows

wildcard
Alannah Guevara
Jackie Hedeman
Ash Maeille

disabled creators
V Garmon Koski
Ena Pierce Lee
Elena Sichrovsky

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Megan Piontkowski illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · Sep 2

Not sure if you have seen my zines, they may be helpful! “How to Report ICE and Help Keep Our Neighbors Safe” Chicago edition: drive.google.com/file/d/1e7Ym...

Chicago-SALUTE-zine-8-30-.pdf

drive.google.com

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𝙯𝙤𝙚 @tipcalculator.bsky.social · Jan 29

i would like to see a little less "the cruelty is the point" and a little more "nazis are not safe around me"

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aslynn's tremendous 'tism horror show 👻 🎃 @audhd-psychnp.com · Aug 21

Hi, I’m a psychiatric nurse practitioner and I endorse this message. People who make you feel bad about being open about your mental illness need to sit with their discomfort and not project it back onto you. Their stigma is not your problem. You are a bright shining star despite your struggles. 🫶🏻

Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · Aug 21

"keep your mental illness to yourself lol nobody needs to know about that" sounds a lot like keep your sexuality to yourself. being open about bipolar/psychosis has improved my well-being considerably. it's made me healthier bc it gave me a pathway towards self-acceptance and advocacy/meaningfulness

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🪱𝔼𝕟𝕠𝕔𝕙🪱 @oddoblivion.bsky.social · Aug 17

Art isn’t “instinctive” you aren’t born with knowing how to draw. There’s nothing humiliating about putting in the work to learn a new craft.

Samyaza Panoptes (art acc) @seraphsriddle.bsky.social · Aug 17

Honestly this is an excuse.

I know plenty of people who are not “naturally gifted” who do art.

It requires effort to learn. I feel you did not approach it correctly or think things happen over night.

Also hard work and skill is not “naturally gifted” as that undermines their efforts to draw.

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Odin Meadows @odinmeadows.bsky.social · Aug 15

My #poem "podunk, USA" is out now in the first issue of Outskirts Literary Journal, a journal of poetry and prose living in the periphery. www.outskirtslit.com/odin-meadows #poetry

Odin Meadows — Outskirts Literary Journal

www.outskirtslit.com

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Lilith Goddess of Rebellion @elo-cin.bsky.social · Aug 11

In case you havent heard, there are 24/7 protests happening in major US cities such as Portland and LA. The protest in LA has been going nonstop for weeks.

MSM isn't reporting on it, and videos are being suppressed online.

Remember, the revolution will not be televised.
#lamusicfestival #protest

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The New Monuments @thenewmonuments.bsky.social · Aug 8

Issue 1 of The New Monuments is live. Thank you to the contributors in this inaugural issue.

Lance Olsen @lance-olsen.bsky.social
Nathan Anderson @njapoetry.bsky.social
Joshua Martin @jmartinpoetry.bsky.social
Rebecca Greenes Gearheart
Odin Meadows
Heikki Huotari
Arnold Koch

THE NEW MONUMENTS

www.thenewmonuments.com

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chadzia dax 🔞😷🖖🏻 @m00psy.bsky.social · Aug 7

reposting with alt text!

#MaskUp #MasksWork #CovidIsntOver

4-panel black-and-white comic by DoodlesByCharlie, dated 2024.

Panel 1: a triangle tells a circle that’s wearing a black facemask: “it’s smart you still wear a mask.”

Panel 2: closeup on the triangle saying dramatically, “when i had covid, i couldn’t taste for nine months. it hurt to breathe. my lungs haven’t been the same…”

Panel 3: the masked circle holds out a facemask, saying, “i’m sorry. i have masks you can use.”

Panel 4: the triangle loses interest, walking away with its arms held out. “no, i’m fine!!” the masked circle just stands there, bewildered, holding out the extra mask.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · Aug 2

We need a radically, militantly kind agenda championed by people who aren't afraid to be radically, militantly kind.

And if that sounds gentle and cutesy, well. You are not understanding me when I say "militant"

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · Aug 1

Over 150 Jews and people of conscience are staging a sit-in at the offices of Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand in New York City to demand that the U.S. stop starving Gaza immediately.

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Salon Sinister @salonsinister.com · Aug 1

She's cute, she's sassy, she will *remove your face with a single thoughtful bite*.

@slimyswampghost.bsky.social truly outdid himself with this piece for our cover. A lot of love is going into this publication, and it shows. JUST LOOK AT HER!

Issue one is coming soon, but watch out. We bite 😘

A figure cloaked in black with a single pale hand coming through the folds. It has sassy pink nails. Where the face should be, there are giant, grotesque teeth seemingly breaking through the page. Across the middle in dropping, lipstick pink letters reads the name of the publication: SALON SINISTER

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✨Stardust Melody✨ — Polyamorous Lesbian Dragon Era @dragonsandsapphics.bsky.social · Jul 26

Let's talk about weird art.

Weird art, gross art, sexual art, violent art, all has its place and belongs. And you really need to stop acting like the existence of uncomfortable themes equals harm. That kind of censorship, which IS what that is, only serves to silence and abuse people.

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Odin Meadows @odinmeadows.bsky.social · Jul 26

My #poem "Pitch" is out now in The Soliloquist. Read online for free: online.fliphtml5.com/obsvt/jydb/

Or purchase a physical copy: www.lulu.com/shop/martha/... #poetry

The Soliloquist (Summer 2025 Issue)

THE SOLILOQUIST JOURNAL ( ISSUE 2/SUMMER ISSUE/JULY 2025) Contributors: Adelle Aly Kar Amber Kusching Anna Langman Anna Simone Scott Bara Swain Becky Nicole James Ben Macnair Blaire Baron Brennan T...

www.lulu.com

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Bree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · Dec 10

Evergreen mood. (Stickers available in my shop: breelundberg.bigcartel.com )

Photo of a stack of stickers of a cute illustrated grey cat's face, its eyes are wide and distressed while smiling and sweating and the words "I could get so much done if not for the mental illness" above their head in a green melting shape.

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Odin Meadows @odinmeadows.bsky.social · Jul 26

"From inside, came the tips of fingers, then the hand, like a houndstooth glove extending between the folds of crumpled clothes in the bottom of the closet..." read Houndstooth now in the Patterns anthology edited by @sjtownend.bsky.social. mybook.to/patternspape...

A houndstooth glove reaching out from the crack of a door.

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Blood+Honey @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social · Jul 23

Flash Fiction "Unintelligible Mutterings of a Not Yet Dead Corpse" by Odin Meadows

“The corpse lies on the couch eating Cheerios while I clean.”

www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/unin...

unintelligible mutterings of a not yet dead corpse — Blood+Honey

by Odin Meadows “The corpse lies on the couch eating Cheerios while I clean.”

www.bloodhoneylit.com

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Odin Meadows @odinmeadows.bsky.social · Jul 20

My poem “Shuck” is out now in Gathered Here Today, an illustrated anthology of #horror poetry from @gravesidepress.bsky.social. geni.us/gatheredhere

Gathered Here Today: An Open Casket of Art and Poetry

Get it now:

geni.us

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Fromthemixedupdesk @fromthemixedupdesk.bsky.social · Jul 19

Bro, nobody wants to promenade anymore and I’d love to bring this old pastime back. We need to faire the tour. Do you know what I mean? Why are we not strolling the De Young and Academy of Sciences circle, arm in arm while discussing the books we read all week in our fancy wears.

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SJ Townend @sjtownend.bsky.social · Jul 10

AVAILABLE NOW!

PATTERNS - an anthology of pattern-themed HORROR.

All 2025 profit to NAPS, a menstrual disorder charity.

Paperback and e-book purchase link: t.co/zIAly7U1Dp

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