Elle Grenier
@elleoftheball.bsky.social
Author of THIS WRETCHED BEAUTY (Feiwel & Friends/Titan Books, February 2026). Mellow Dramatic. French Canadian. The world’s top Cats (2019) enthusiast. || She/they
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THIS WRETCHED BEAUTY just received its first trade review from Kirkus!!! 🪞
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
THIS WRETCHED BEAUTY is a YA historical gothic with paranormal, psychological, and romance elements, releasing February 17th.
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
THIS WRETCHED BEAUTY is a YA historical gothic with paranormal, psychological, and romance elements, releasing February 17th.
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Required reading tbh
What I would give to have THIS detransitioner's story blasted across all the media, with its author earning six figures for telling it to everyone, instead of the anti-trans grifters
This author needs to put her GoFundMe at the bottom
(Go pay her for her work!)
What I would give to have THIS detransitioner's story blasted across all the media, with its author earning six figures for telling it to everyone, instead of the anti-trans grifters
This author needs to put her GoFundMe at the bottom
(Go pay her for her work!)
An autobiographical essay about anti-trans child conversion therapy and the place of queer children under patriarchy.
open.substack.com/pub/dolphind...
open.substack.com/pub/dolphind...
December 17, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Required reading tbh
What I would give to have THIS detransitioner's story blasted across all the media, with its author earning six figures for telling it to everyone, instead of the anti-trans grifters
This author needs to put her GoFundMe at the bottom
(Go pay her for her work!)
What I would give to have THIS detransitioner's story blasted across all the media, with its author earning six figures for telling it to everyone, instead of the anti-trans grifters
This author needs to put her GoFundMe at the bottom
(Go pay her for her work!)
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There’s a direct line from ‘just asking questions about women’s sports’ to criminalizing our health care, we warned you it was coming, you said it would be fine and you just had a few more questions.
December 18, 2025 at 4:25 AM
There’s a direct line from ‘just asking questions about women’s sports’ to criminalizing our health care, we warned you it was coming, you said it would be fine and you just had a few more questions.
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This framing is dishonest. It was a bipartisan bill. Enough Republicans actually defected and voted no to kill the bill. Three Democrats crossed over to save it.
They should be stripped of their committee assignments and thrown out of the party, quite frankly.
They should be stripped of their committee assignments and thrown out of the party, quite frankly.
Today House Republicans voted 216-211 to pass MTG’s bill to criminalize gender-affirming care for minors nationwide, marking the first time a national ban on care for trans youth has reached — and passed — the House floor.
www.huffpost.com/entry/marjor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/marjor...
Marjorie Taylor Greene's Bill Punishing Doctors And Parents Clears House Floor
If passed, the bill would punish doctors and parents who provide or consent to a minor receiving gender-affirming care.
www.huffpost.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:55 AM
This framing is dishonest. It was a bipartisan bill. Enough Republicans actually defected and voted no to kill the bill. Three Democrats crossed over to save it.
They should be stripped of their committee assignments and thrown out of the party, quite frankly.
They should be stripped of their committee assignments and thrown out of the party, quite frankly.
Okay so turning each act of Wicked into its own movie didn’t work out BUT I think we should consider trying it for Into the Woods and see if it gives a good adaptation this time
December 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Okay so turning each act of Wicked into its own movie didn’t work out BUT I think we should consider trying it for Into the Woods and see if it gives a good adaptation this time
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#OnThisDay in 1775, Jane Austen was born!
Most Ardently by @thegabecole.bsky.social is a Pride & Prejudice remix following a trans boy yearning for the freedom to live openly, centering queerness in a well-known story of subverting society’s patriarchal expectations. bit.ly/48CE99a
#janeausten
Most Ardently by @thegabecole.bsky.social is a Pride & Prejudice remix following a trans boy yearning for the freedom to live openly, centering queerness in a well-known story of subverting society’s patriarchal expectations. bit.ly/48CE99a
#janeausten
December 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
#OnThisDay in 1775, Jane Austen was born!
Most Ardently by @thegabecole.bsky.social is a Pride & Prejudice remix following a trans boy yearning for the freedom to live openly, centering queerness in a well-known story of subverting society’s patriarchal expectations. bit.ly/48CE99a
#janeausten
Most Ardently by @thegabecole.bsky.social is a Pride & Prejudice remix following a trans boy yearning for the freedom to live openly, centering queerness in a well-known story of subverting society’s patriarchal expectations. bit.ly/48CE99a
#janeausten
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If I were a flintstone
Yaba dabba dabba, bubba bubba dabba dabba doo
Yaba dabba dabba, bubba bubba dabba dabba doo
December 17, 2025 at 4:29 AM
If I were a flintstone
Yaba dabba dabba, bubba bubba dabba dabba doo
Yaba dabba dabba, bubba bubba dabba dabba doo
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I know many things are awful but here is one genuinely useful and helpful thing you can do. No matter their party, your representative needs to hear that trans people and our families are not alone and this bill is an unjustifiable and extreme threat to criminalize the health care we need to live.
Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that bans gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18, and threatens any medical professional providing this care to youth with 10 years in prison.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Protect Trans Care Now
As wave after wave of extreme measures to criminalize and strip trans people of rights and safety continue, tell Congress to act.
action.aclu.org
December 16, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I know many things are awful but here is one genuinely useful and helpful thing you can do. No matter their party, your representative needs to hear that trans people and our families are not alone and this bill is an unjustifiable and extreme threat to criminalize the health care we need to live.
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Just got this from the Canadian government:
“While Global Affairs Canada regrets the decision, the group was travelling independently and was not representing the Government of Canada.”
Israeli officials ASSAULTED a Canadian member of Parliament!!
Where is the backbone????
“While Global Affairs Canada regrets the decision, the group was travelling independently and was not representing the Government of Canada.”
Israeli officials ASSAULTED a Canadian member of Parliament!!
Where is the backbone????
December 17, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Just got this from the Canadian government:
“While Global Affairs Canada regrets the decision, the group was travelling independently and was not representing the Government of Canada.”
Israeli officials ASSAULTED a Canadian member of Parliament!!
Where is the backbone????
“While Global Affairs Canada regrets the decision, the group was travelling independently and was not representing the Government of Canada.”
Israeli officials ASSAULTED a Canadian member of Parliament!!
Where is the backbone????
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Absolutely shameful, also absolutely predictable.
Israel acts with violence and impunity towards Canadian MPs?
The Carney government should impose immediate diplomatic & economic consequences.
This appalling treatment cannot be met by mushy words that ultimately amount to capitulation.
dub.sh/wb
Israel acts with violence and impunity towards Canadian MPs?
The Carney government should impose immediate diplomatic & economic consequences.
This appalling treatment cannot be met by mushy words that ultimately amount to capitulation.
dub.sh/wb
Israel denies 6 MPs entry into West Bank for 'security reasons' | CBC News
A delegation of 30 Canadians, including six MPs, was denied entry into the West Bank early Tuesday.
dub.sh
December 16, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Absolutely shameful, also absolutely predictable.
Israel acts with violence and impunity towards Canadian MPs?
The Carney government should impose immediate diplomatic & economic consequences.
This appalling treatment cannot be met by mushy words that ultimately amount to capitulation.
dub.sh/wb
Israel acts with violence and impunity towards Canadian MPs?
The Carney government should impose immediate diplomatic & economic consequences.
This appalling treatment cannot be met by mushy words that ultimately amount to capitulation.
dub.sh/wb
I’m still pretty early into the book I’m drafting but boy is it fun writing a character who thinks they’ve mastered weaponizing therapy speech for masking purposes
(Narrator: they had not, in fact, mastered this skill in the slightest)
(Narrator: they had not, in fact, mastered this skill in the slightest)
December 14, 2025 at 7:21 AM
I’m still pretty early into the book I’m drafting but boy is it fun writing a character who thinks they’ve mastered weaponizing therapy speech for masking purposes
(Narrator: they had not, in fact, mastered this skill in the slightest)
(Narrator: they had not, in fact, mastered this skill in the slightest)
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dont worry about your unfinished business. we'll fix it in ghost
December 14, 2025 at 5:15 AM
dont worry about your unfinished business. we'll fix it in ghost
The fair friar fries air fryer fries
December 7, 2025 at 4:37 AM
The fair friar fries air fryer fries
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New Releases: December 2025
There’s Always Next Year by George M. Johnson and Leah Johnson (2nd) Andy was supposed to shed her too-serious student journalist persona and reinvent herself on New Year’s Eve. Instead, she puked on her crush, dropped her phone in a fish tank, and managed to get her…
There’s Always Next Year by George M. Johnson and Leah Johnson (2nd) Andy was supposed to shed her too-serious student journalist persona and reinvent herself on New Year’s Eve. Instead, she puked on her crush, dropped her phone in a fish tank, and managed to get her…
New Releases: December 2025
There’s Always Next Year by George M. Johnson and Leah Johnson (2nd) Andy was supposed to shed her too-serious student journalist persona and reinvent herself on New Year’s Eve. Instead, she puked on her crush, dropped her phone in a fish tank, and managed to get her car stolen. Now, she only has the first day of the year to stop the gentrification that’s threatening her family’s business, right her wrongs from the night before, and figure out why she feels so drawn to the electric new-girl-next-door.
lgbtqreads.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
New Releases: December 2025
There’s Always Next Year by George M. Johnson and Leah Johnson (2nd) Andy was supposed to shed her too-serious student journalist persona and reinvent herself on New Year’s Eve. Instead, she puked on her crush, dropped her phone in a fish tank, and managed to get her…
There’s Always Next Year by George M. Johnson and Leah Johnson (2nd) Andy was supposed to shed her too-serious student journalist persona and reinvent herself on New Year’s Eve. Instead, she puked on her crush, dropped her phone in a fish tank, and managed to get her…
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Fave Five: New and Upcoming YA Starring Trans Girls
These are 2024-26 releases. Lucy, Uncensored by Mel Hammond and Teghan Hammond One of the Boys by Victoria Zeller Fawn's Blood by Hal Schrieve Queen of Faces by Petra Lord This Wretched Beauty by Elle Grenier Bonus: These are all prose novels,…
These are 2024-26 releases. Lucy, Uncensored by Mel Hammond and Teghan Hammond One of the Boys by Victoria Zeller Fawn's Blood by Hal Schrieve Queen of Faces by Petra Lord This Wretched Beauty by Elle Grenier Bonus: These are all prose novels,…
Fave Five: New and Upcoming YA Starring Trans Girls
These are 2024-26 releases. Lucy, Uncensored by Mel Hammond and Teghan Hammond One of the Boys by Victoria Zeller Fawn's Blood by Hal Schrieve Queen of Faces by Petra Lord This Wretched Beauty by Elle Grenier Bonus: These are all prose novels, but for a graphic novel, check out Girlmode by Magdalene Visaggio and Paulina Ganucheau
lgbtqreads.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Fave Five: New and Upcoming YA Starring Trans Girls
These are 2024-26 releases. Lucy, Uncensored by Mel Hammond and Teghan Hammond One of the Boys by Victoria Zeller Fawn's Blood by Hal Schrieve Queen of Faces by Petra Lord This Wretched Beauty by Elle Grenier Bonus: These are all prose novels,…
These are 2024-26 releases. Lucy, Uncensored by Mel Hammond and Teghan Hammond One of the Boys by Victoria Zeller Fawn's Blood by Hal Schrieve Queen of Faces by Petra Lord This Wretched Beauty by Elle Grenier Bonus: These are all prose novels,…
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Me: I have a book idea that might actually be commercial!
Agent: That's great!
Me: The title is a reference to a classic 1971 Sesame Street Golden Book.
Agent: There it is.
Agent: That's great!
Me: The title is a reference to a classic 1971 Sesame Street Golden Book.
Agent: There it is.
December 5, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Me: I have a book idea that might actually be commercial!
Agent: That's great!
Me: The title is a reference to a classic 1971 Sesame Street Golden Book.
Agent: There it is.
Agent: That's great!
Me: The title is a reference to a classic 1971 Sesame Street Golden Book.
Agent: There it is.
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We all know that ICE is violating human rights in the U.S.
But did you know a Canadian company is profiting off ICE? And that this same company has been ramping up its lobbying efforts?
Now, in my latest for @thetyee.ca, the government won't tell me if this is a red line for procurement:
But did you know a Canadian company is profiting off ICE? And that this same company has been ramping up its lobbying efforts?
Now, in my latest for @thetyee.ca, the government won't tell me if this is a red line for procurement:
December 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
We all know that ICE is violating human rights in the U.S.
But did you know a Canadian company is profiting off ICE? And that this same company has been ramping up its lobbying efforts?
Now, in my latest for @thetyee.ca, the government won't tell me if this is a red line for procurement:
But did you know a Canadian company is profiting off ICE? And that this same company has been ramping up its lobbying efforts?
Now, in my latest for @thetyee.ca, the government won't tell me if this is a red line for procurement:
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Carney the banker was the thought leader the climate movement needed. As prime minister, he is torching the country’s climate policies, while pouring government time and resources into new fossil fuel infrastructure... www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/01/a...
Did the climate world misread Carney?
Many in the climate movement saw a fellow traveller in Mark Carney — the man who could preach climate action in the language of finance — but what if they were wrong from the very start?
www.nationalobserver.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Carney the banker was the thought leader the climate movement needed. As prime minister, he is torching the country’s climate policies, while pouring government time and resources into new fossil fuel infrastructure... www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/01/a...
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For our second year, I'm proud to present the TFR Reader's Choice Awards, the only literary awards where YOU can vote for your favorite transfeminine books of 2025 🩷
Voting is open right now! The voting period will last until December 26th, 2025 at 11:59 PM, so don't forget to cast your ballot.
Voting is open right now! The voting period will last until December 26th, 2025 at 11:59 PM, so don't forget to cast your ballot.
Vote for the 2025 TFR Reader’s Choice Awards!
Voting is open now for the 2025 TFR Reader’s Choice Awards! Vote by Dec. 26th.
thetransfemininereview.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:22 PM
For our second year, I'm proud to present the TFR Reader's Choice Awards, the only literary awards where YOU can vote for your favorite transfeminine books of 2025 🩷
Voting is open right now! The voting period will last until December 26th, 2025 at 11:59 PM, so don't forget to cast your ballot.
Voting is open right now! The voting period will last until December 26th, 2025 at 11:59 PM, so don't forget to cast your ballot.
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be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world
there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
December 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world
Checking out Heated Rivalry and there had better be a character reason Hollander wanted Boston over Montréal 🙃
November 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Checking out Heated Rivalry and there had better be a character reason Hollander wanted Boston over Montréal 🙃
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Danielle Smith Celebrates Her Glorious Pipeline Victory
YouTube video by Clare Blackwood
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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THIS WRETCHED BEAUTY by @elleoftheball.bsky.social is a gloriously gothic trans retelling of The Picture of Dorian Gray set in the smoky underworld of 1860s London. 🪞 ✨
Coming February 2026 and available to pre-order now!
https://tinyurl.com/2nybm4zd
Coming February 2026 and available to pre-order now!
https://tinyurl.com/2nybm4zd
November 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
THIS WRETCHED BEAUTY by @elleoftheball.bsky.social is a gloriously gothic trans retelling of The Picture of Dorian Gray set in the smoky underworld of 1860s London. 🪞 ✨
Coming February 2026 and available to pre-order now!
https://tinyurl.com/2nybm4zd
Coming February 2026 and available to pre-order now!
https://tinyurl.com/2nybm4zd
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“[Book banners] do not want safe children -- they want obedient children, and they think they can accomplish that by deciding what books are allowed to be on the shelf.”
On Saturday, @authorsabb.bsky.social won the ALAN Award at @ncte.org, and I was honored to accept it on our behalf.
This is the speech I gave.
www.prettyokmaggie.com/blog/2025/11...
This is the speech I gave.
www.prettyokmaggie.com/blog/2025/11...
November 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
“[Book banners] do not want safe children -- they want obedient children, and they think they can accomplish that by deciding what books are allowed to be on the shelf.”
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you can just go ask crows stuff instead of asking chatgpt
November 6, 2025 at 12:14 PM
you can just go ask crows stuff instead of asking chatgpt
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Recently picked up a few cases defending queer or trans people facing felony charges and dangerous incarceration conditions. I’m taking these cases pro bono and low bono, so it would really really help me fight for these clients if you’re able to donate.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-fund-...
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Donate to Help Fund Lyra's Pro Bono Cases, organized by Lyra LB
Hi! I'm Lyra, @pinkrangerlb on twitter. I'm a trans woman lawyer in Atlanta! While I am not a … Lyra LB needs your support for Help Fund Lyra's Pro Bono Cases
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November 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Recently picked up a few cases defending queer or trans people facing felony charges and dangerous incarceration conditions. I’m taking these cases pro bono and low bono, so it would really really help me fight for these clients if you’re able to donate.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-fund-...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-fund-...