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Andrea Zanin

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Enby Leatherqueer (they). Author, Post-Nonmonogamy & Beyond; co-author, More Than Two, 2nd ed. Translator & editor. Cyclist 🚲 Taster 🫖🍫🧀🍷 Night 🦇. Lapsed spoonie & PhD student. Tkaronto/Toronto. sexgeek.wordpress.com. 💚: 📚👠💅📽 🧠

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · Nov 11

Oh lookie, we can pin posts now! Here's where you can find my books. :)
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Andrea Zanin

Andrea Zanin, MA, is a white, nonbinary, middle-aged queer writer who lives in Tkaronto (Toronto, Ontario), on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa...

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 1d

Oh wow, that sounds incredible. I will have to follow up with my friend the third-wave coffee nerd, or my brother, to set up an introductory tasting. I have much to learn!

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Anne with an “e” @redheadinthecity.bsky.social · 1d

“I would rather poke hot needles into my eyes”: 100%

Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 1d

Those who agree - "If the US offered all Canadians full US citizenship and a full conversion of the Canadian dollar/personal assets into US dollars, I would vote to become part of the US"

🟢 All: 16%

🟢 Boomers: 6%
🟢 Zoomers: 24%

Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/canadian...

Canadians Firmly Reject Idea of American Statehood

Support for American statehood remains low across all age groups, even in more conservative provinces like Alberta

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 2d

He's really having fun with the promo for this film! It surprises me not at all that he's some kind of heteroflexible and has spent some time among kinky folk. Good on him for saying so, and for expressing such respect for the Leather world. 🖤💙💌💙🖤
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Alexander Skarsgård Admits They Shot ‘Way More Graphic Scenes’ for ‘Pillion’ but ‘You Don’t Show a Close-Up of a D— Just Because You Can’

Alexander Skarsgård talks sex in ‘Pillion,’ recalls partying with the Gay Bikers Motorcycle Club and praises director Harry Lighton.

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 2d

This is such a solid, sensible take! I guess I just keep hoping it's gonna be a massive bust like so many other tech bubbles, so we can stop fighting off all the imposed mediocrity. But if that doesn't happen, well... ⬇️
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Thinking of AI as a Social Problem

No need to know the unknowable. The knowable is bad enough.

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andrea bennett (they/them) @akkabah.bsky.social · 2d

I am so tired of people calling things divisive when what they mean is that they were more comfortable when other people were just being silently oppressed and they didn’t have to hear about it or change anything

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 2d

Indeed. Schmaltz used to do a beetroot gravlax and I think there's a spot on Roncy that still does, that's the closest thing I've experienced til now!

Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 2d

...over tea?? 😃

Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 2d

The feeling is very mutual! 🥰

Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 2d

Same! Three seems excessive! LOL

Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 2d

Fun news: Having narrated the audiobook version of my own book, Post-Nonmongamy and Beyond, and half-ish of More Than Two, Second Edition, I've now been asked to voice several books by other authors starting early next year. I'm so flattered the authors like my voice! 🥰 Now, to find a good closet...

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 2d

Just made a sweet little trip to Montreal to see a lovely friend passing through from the US. 💚 @glitter-femme.bsky.social We came across some fun street art in Mile End. And discovered that Fairmount Bagel is now selling haskap-rubbed salmon which is totally delicious! I love this place.

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 2d

Ugh, I know you understand. Thanks. 💚

Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 3d

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 3d

Wildest part: I swear they all looked real. But of course, it was dark, it was firelight, his sweater was covering where there could have been strings or whatever, and also I didn't want to stare. Though he was kind of inviting it.
Anyhow, there's what Brain decided to serve up just now. Sorry?

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 3d

Just had a random memory of being at Burning Man in 2004 and standing around a fire with my then-partner and a bunch of strangers. Partner says "that guy has the WILDEST costume." I look over: guy is wearing a sweater and no pants. That's it. Then I realize he's got three dicks.

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 3d

Spoiler alert: I am not done. But maybe, just maybe, not too much more once this month's appointments are over with??
In the meantime, my longtime local water spa is closing in January. So no more post-prodding "I need to retreat from the world in a hot tub and cold plunge" within biking distance. 😭

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 3d

This year has been an absolute marathon of medical appointments, and I am so. very. tired. of running around to nail down administrative details and then running around to appointments where I get poked, prodded, squished, scanned, bled, stickered, weighed and measured. I need to be done. ...

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 5d

#manicure #extremityfetish I did a one-polish job this week: Velociraptor by Mooncat. It's an older formula that goes on thin and I don't love how the tips show through, but the teal has a juicy translucent finish that reads as candy-like to me, and I love a matte finish on glitter flakies!

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · Nov 28

Look, if cranberries can be weird and bitter and still liked by roughly half the people at Thanksgiving dinner, then so can you!

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 6d

LOL I sorta do too? But that could be wishful thinking! And I understand that he hits certain notes, especially height and physique, that fit mainstream notions of "the dom."

Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 6d

Another delightful review!
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NYFF Review: 'Pillion' is a Prince Albert Piercing Through the Heart

Alexander Skarsgard and Harry Melling are a Sub-Dom Dream

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 6d

The view from the Via train: a ghostly low-hanging waxing gibbous moon against a blush sunset, suspended over reddening trees. Quietly glorious.

Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 8d

Srsly counting the days til this film comes out! 😍
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Pillion | Official Teaser HD | A24

YouTube video by A24

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 8d

It felt very... mid-century wartime vibes. I don't know how to explain it. Like an echo of a past century was in the hall alongside the music. A kind of swelling patriotism I associate with... well, times exactly like now, I suppose, except that right there is fuckin weird.
What a time to be alive.

Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 8d

I have mixed feelings! As always, not a flag-waver, and highly suspicious of anything that smells like nationalism. But also, it was quite stirring? I've never heard the national anthem done by a full orchestra before. To say nothing of a whole Roy Thompson Hall audience standing and singing.

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