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of/for @chideraoffor.bsky.social · Mar 27
i am glad to be featured; these poems mean so much to me, especially at a time like this—merci infiniment xx
sotospeakjournal.bsky.social So to Speak @sotospeakjournal.bsky.social · Mar 25
We’re haunted by the wordplay in Chidera Offor's two poems "the woman at the embassy tells me" and "inside a bipoc body.”@chideraoffor.bsky.social

To hold these tender poems:
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leguinbot.bsky.social
In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a mistaken and terrible beauty; in the rites of the moneychangers, where greed, laziness, and envy were assumed to move all men's acts, even the terrible became banal.
February 10, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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ruthjoffre.bsky.social
hello hundreds of new followers! 👋 I’m glad you’re here. I thought I’d introduce myself: I’m a queer Bolivian American writer, birder, teacher, and photographer currently based in the Midwest. my ethos is be gay and FUCK ICE! check out my book Night Beast or the ~100 stories I’ve published since
Night Beast
Check out Night Beast - A masterful collection from an important new voice in American fiction, <i>Night Beast</i> is a gorgeously written work of profound originality and vision. These doomed love st...
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February 10, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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abistevensart.bsky.social
Here's the Oarfish print from the campaign! :D
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#ArtShop #illustration #digitalArt
a square digital illustration featuring a navy blue pair of Oarfish with merged heads and their bodies entwined, with eyes all along them. It is framed by an orange ring, and an outer pink square border with rainbow hued eyes around it.
February 5, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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pedroiniguez.bsky.social
Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all!
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February 9, 2026 at 5:14 AM
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kissphoria.bsky.social
Amber Glenn, a queer Texan who started ice skating at the stonebriar mall in frisco at age 5, who plays magic the gathering, is an olympic gold medalist
February 8, 2026 at 10:45 PM
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roxanegay.bsky.social
What made it such a great show is that it was entertaining and layered and explicitly political with excellent music, delightful surprise guests, stunning sets, a clear narrative, a shout out to ALL of the Americas and a cameo from Belcalis.
February 9, 2026 at 1:45 AM
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newedgeswordmag.bsky.social
⚔️ We here at NESS have had good fortune that we'd like to pay forward by helping our sword-siblings @swordsagainst.bsky.social get their new S&S magazine off the ground via a collab-crowdfund! 🧑‍🤝‍🧑

Learn more by checking out their sign-up page here👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
The predator arms meme with the logo of Swords Against! magazine over Carl Weather's bicep and the New Edge Sword & Sorcery logo over Arnie's bicep.
February 6, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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cursedmorsels.bsky.social
Submissions for our zine call have been a little slow, so I've extended the call to February 14th. Check out our themes and guidelines here:
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Submission Calls
OPEN Zine call (January 28th through February 14th) Zine PromptsFor this zine bundle, I’m looking for written pieces about these five prompts: -Cunty Horrors (cunty horror microfiction and mi…
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February 6, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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reckoningmag.bsky.social
Reckoning reopened to submissions on February 1st! We pay @sfwa.org pro rates, we never charge fees, AND we're piloting a new/improved process for reviewing and publishing submissions, which shows every sign of making our response times MUCH faster. Please submit? Guidelines: reckoning.press/submit/
February 6, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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burgi.bsky.social
Two poems from LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET GO TO WAR by Lesyk Panasiuk, translated by Katie Farris & Ilya Kaminsky (@sarabandebooks.bsky.social, 2026) in honor of #Ukraine (this month marks 4 years since the Russian invasion & 4 years of war.)

#poetry #bookSky 📚💙
Cover art is by the author (Lesyk Panasiuk). It uses photographic as well as print material: red dots are spread across the cover next to letters of the Cyrillic alphabet like in a connect the dots design, blue ten-pointed star-cutouts are interspersed. In the upper left corner, two boys in caps and early 20th century attire are caught in mid-movement playing some game, or inspecting something on the ground that caught their eye. The background is an uncrumpled sheet of light gray paper. The title reads up down from the center right side. A WARTIME DREAM Emptiness lives inside a radio and newspapers are now printed without letters. I walk up the street but I don't—do I?—hear my own steps. I notice an acquaintance across the street, and call out to him to say hello, but bullets of silence fly from my mouth. I start shouting with my hands, but my fingers are bent, crooked are my fingers. But it's just—or is it?—a dream, just a dream which pretends it is an emptiness inside a radio. PRAYER TO THE ROAD Old bicycles stubbornly pull sticks into their wheels, pull everything into their mouths like infants still discovering the world. They often break their own teeth and jaws, scraping their black, rubber lips which bleed air. They tell too many stories. They no longer remember where they meant to wheel us. They pray to the roads, endlessly kissing the asphalt like it was a vast self-portrait of God, begging and begging to stop— yet, like a vast self-portrait of God, they cannot stop.
February 5, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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kathleenclark.bsky.social
‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
… 25. This Cibola jail was horrible. It was cramped. I was chained up again. The officers mocked me and called me their enemy. They laughed at me. I was kept at the jail for what felt like around three hours. I wasn't given an explanation for why I was there. 26. Security guards then put me on a bus. I think it was around January 27. No one said anything about where I was going. I was handcuffed. It felt like the middle of the night. It was freezing cold in the bus because the driver had the AC on. We had no jackets. The bus eventually took me back to El Paso in the carly morning of Tuesday, January 27th. 27. I was put in a cold cell where I had to sleep on the bare cement floor. Around 10 in the morning my cellmate asked to speak to an ICE officer. Three officers came into the cell so I had a chance to speak to them too. One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." She told me that if I fought my case, I would spend two to three more months here in El Paso. She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota. If I hadn't managed to talk to my attorney who told me a while back that I was ordered released. I might have given up at this point and signed the self-deportation forms because the conditions were so unbearable. … 30. When I was taken back to the detention center from the airport, after missing the flight, I overheard an ICE officer saying in English, "the judge in Minnesota wants this one back." I was put in a cold jail cell again until early next morning (January 28). But again no one had told me directly that a judge had ordered my release … 32. When I arrived in Minneapolis, I was handed off to ICE … I had to sign lots of papers saying that I wasn't going to be a part of any "groups." I didn't know what they meant by "groups." They never told me why I was detained
February 5, 2026 at 6:04 AM
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authorizedmusings.bsky.social
Neon Hemlock's kickstarter is at $7,314 of their initial $16,500 goal! you know what to do!

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What Elegant Stars
Queer Tales of Impossible Style, a fashionable space opera anthology.
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February 5, 2026 at 2:18 AM
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sillysyntax.bsky.social
RUN. RUN FAR AWAY FROM THIS CONTEST.
victoriastrauss.com Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 9d
Venerable magazine Harper's Bazaar is running its short story contest again, with the winner receiving "the chance" of publication in the magazine. Just one catch: per the wording of the guidelines, _just by entering_ you transfer copyright ownership of your story to Harper's parent, Hearst. 1/3
By entering the competition and in consideration for Hearst publishing your entry, you assign to Hearst the entire worldwide copyright in your entry for all uses in all print and non-print media formats, including but not limited to all rights to use your entry in any and all electronic and digital formats, and in any future medium hereafter developed for the full period of copyright therein, and all renewals and extensions thereof, any rental and lending rights and retransmission rights and all rights of a like nature wherever subsisting.
February 4, 2026 at 11:47 PM
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ruthjoffre.bsky.social
hey bird lovers, I'm co-teaching this online class with my friend Laura Da' this spring and we would love you to join us. come read, write, and think about birds with fellow birders 🪶
Bird's Eye View - Understanding the Self and the World via Birding (Multigenre, Online) — Nightjar Arts Collective
Instructors: Ruth Joffre and Laura Da’ Format: Online (Zoom) Dates: Thursdays, April 9 to April 30, 7:30 - 9:00 PM (Central) / 5:30 - 7:00 PM (Pacific) At Half past Three, a single Bi...
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February 4, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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priyachand.bsky.social
block @neilhimself if you haven't already. fuck abusers
readingtheend.bsky.social Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 11d
apropos of nothing in particular, @lilashapiro.bsky.social gave us a tremendous piece of journalism last year, and it's always a great time to revisit it and thank her for the work she did in bringing these stories to light.
There Is No Safe Word
How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
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February 2, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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apexmag.bsky.social
For our readers who may not be aware, author @ziibiing.com has created a directory of charities and fundraisers providing rent support and essential services to Minnesota families impacted by ICE. We encourage you to check out Stand with Minnesota, and to donate if you are able.
ziibiing.com ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 19d
tomorrow, StandWithMinnesota.com will hit a million site visits and over 650,000 unique visitors.

i made it 10 days ago with $600 from you guys for hosting and cloudflare.

thank you. thank you.
Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory
Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.
StandWithMinnesota.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:49 PM
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cgaubrey.bsky.social
🍃🍄Reckoning Magazine (@reckoningmag.bsky.social) is open for submissions in art, creative nonfiction, critical essay, fiction, novellas, and reviews! 🍃🍄

Open 01 Feb-31 August. Reckoning is a speculative leaning environmental justice magazine. Read about what we want here: reckoning.press/submit/
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February 1, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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theprideroars.bsky.social
>The Pride Roars - Flash Competition 2026<--
@theprideroars.bsky.social

-Free to enter
-Open to all women writers
-1000 words max
-Submissions via google form 14/2-28/2 or until we reach our cap.

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February 1, 2026 at 6:17 AM
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went to watch Melania (2026) observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
February 1, 2026 at 10:48 AM
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reckoningmag.bsky.social
Dear mysterious people who support Reckoning's work via "paypal giving fund": I've searched and searched and have never found a way to discover who you are to thank you directly, but please know that we appreciate you very much <3

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Reckoning is supported by your generous donations and others' like yours, and by funding from Accelerate Resilience L.A., a sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. Reckoning Press acce...
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January 29, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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Catherine O'Hara: "I think the success of my work stems from being truthful."

Revisit our 1983 interview with the actress: bit.ly/4k6FKu6
January 31, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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wutangforchildren.bsky.social
Macaulay Culkin posted a tribute to Catherine O’Hara….I’m not crying, you’re crying 🥺🙏
January 30, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social
Y'all, it matters that journalists are being arrested on US soil for existing as journalists. Remember when we told y'all fascist regimes look a particular way. This is that.
January 30, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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🚨SCAM ALERT: THIS IS NOT ME

SOMEONE IS IMPERSONATING ME ON VENMO. DO NOT SEND MONEY TO THIS ACCOUNT🚨
scam account on venmo with a photo of Soraya Impersonator handle is @sorayamcdonald
January 30, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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miasato.bsky.social
I talked to one of the r/MassiveCock posters who decided to bring anti-ICE conversations to the subreddit.

"... Nothing in life should feel ‘normal’ when these sorts of things are happening in our country. Even porn and sex," he said.

Gift link (obviously): tinyurl.com/mr3nua5k
January 26, 2026 at 6:39 PM