Lara Alonso Corona (they/them)
@laraacorona.bsky.social
queer commie writer & translator, commonly known as "that science fiction person"
Mentally there
November 26, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Mentally there
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Este 20N se cumplen 50 años de la muerte de Franco y nosotras lo tenemos claro: enterremos el fascismo, enterremos el binarismo ✊🏽
Muchos de los preceptos del régimen fascista siguen vivos. Ante esto: nos toca responder. Construyamos antifascismo queer ❤️🔥 #AntifascismoQueer
@anticapi.bsky.social
Muchos de los preceptos del régimen fascista siguen vivos. Ante esto: nos toca responder. Construyamos antifascismo queer ❤️🔥 #AntifascismoQueer
@anticapi.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Este 20N se cumplen 50 años de la muerte de Franco y nosotras lo tenemos claro: enterremos el fascismo, enterremos el binarismo ✊🏽
Muchos de los preceptos del régimen fascista siguen vivos. Ante esto: nos toca responder. Construyamos antifascismo queer ❤️🔥 #AntifascismoQueer
@anticapi.bsky.social
Muchos de los preceptos del régimen fascista siguen vivos. Ante esto: nos toca responder. Construyamos antifascismo queer ❤️🔥 #AntifascismoQueer
@anticapi.bsky.social
This. Instead of helping selfpub authors (like the gurus said it would) AI is ruining chances for writers who might have been scammed by designers who swore it was all human made. At this point not everyone have the tools/literacy to spot it & readers won't touch you if you have been connected to AI
An issue with unknowingly using an AI gen cover from an unscrupulous scammer, btw, is that most people don't think through that you may have been fooled. No, they go straight to blaming the author. So you really have to inspect your cover designer's work closely, unfortunately.
November 14, 2025 at 9:01 AM
This. Instead of helping selfpub authors (like the gurus said it would) AI is ruining chances for writers who might have been scammed by designers who swore it was all human made. At this point not everyone have the tools/literacy to spot it & readers won't touch you if you have been connected to AI
Seeing @pdjeliclark.bsky.social tonight in the Sui Generis festival in Madrid. Which is very serendipitous since this is the next novel I've picked for my speculative fiction book club 💪🔥
November 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Seeing @pdjeliclark.bsky.social tonight in the Sui Generis festival in Madrid. Which is very serendipitous since this is the next novel I've picked for my speculative fiction book club 💪🔥
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Please help a TCD posgrad couple looking for a LGBTQ+friendly apartment or apartmentshare/houseshare in/near Dublin. They've stayed at my place and I can vouch for them 100%
Please pass around all your networks. Message me to be put in touch.
(image just so you'll notice this post, right?)
Please pass around all your networks. Message me to be put in touch.
(image just so you'll notice this post, right?)
November 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Please help a TCD posgrad couple looking for a LGBTQ+friendly apartment or apartmentshare/houseshare in/near Dublin. They've stayed at my place and I can vouch for them 100%
Please pass around all your networks. Message me to be put in touch.
(image just so you'll notice this post, right?)
Please pass around all your networks. Message me to be put in touch.
(image just so you'll notice this post, right?)
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"This still and unspoken time is one I recognise, the shifting boundaries between realms of sleep and waking, the edges of oblivion. She writes: ‘My thoughts have become strands of weed, of no special colour, slowly undulating in colourless water.’"
—Anna Evans, soaks in the work of Ana Kavan
—Anna Evans, soaks in the work of Ana Kavan
In A Nameless Place: Some Notes on Reading Anna Kavan’s Asylum Piece — Anna Evans
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In a nameless place: some notes on reading Anna Kavan’s Asylum Piece — Anna Evans
It was the woolgathering, of course, the preoccupation with non-human things, the interest in the wrong place… What I think of is fragments dispersed by the wind and left behind. A word that conjur…
minorliteratures.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:18 AM
"This still and unspoken time is one I recognise, the shifting boundaries between realms of sleep and waking, the edges of oblivion. She writes: ‘My thoughts have become strands of weed, of no special colour, slowly undulating in colourless water.’"
—Anna Evans, soaks in the work of Ana Kavan
—Anna Evans, soaks in the work of Ana Kavan
Magazines with submission guidelines where they come down so hard on one tense/pov/syntax or grammar model fascinate me. A tense seems like such a wide thing to "outlaw". I for one, find the anglosphere's insistence that the past tense sounds "more literary" very jarring
November 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Magazines with submission guidelines where they come down so hard on one tense/pov/syntax or grammar model fascinate me. A tense seems like such a wide thing to "outlaw". I for one, find the anglosphere's insistence that the past tense sounds "more literary" very jarring
Need need need
November 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Need need need
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Please share, please donate, please do what you can. Despair is not an option, you can help.
November 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Please share, please donate, please do what you can. Despair is not an option, you can help.
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"i wish the blab were genuine moreaway into an urge your heart speaks a sign language or else i’m gasping ..."
ATTENTION SPAN et al — Elnura Huseynova
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ATTENTION SPAN et al — Elnura Huseynova
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Attention Span — Elnura Huseynova
stay for a moment hey november as slipping through your fingers but moving on movement tilts a stroke of time moving as it is one after another which blows statues as if immune to others for you ha…
minorliteratures.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
"i wish the blab were genuine moreaway into an urge your heart speaks a sign language or else i’m gasping ..."
ATTENTION SPAN et al — Elnura Huseynova
minorliteratures.com/2025/11/11/a...
ATTENTION SPAN et al — Elnura Huseynova
minorliteratures.com/2025/11/11/a...
Fellas (as in fellow travellers, which in my heart is a non-binary term), I cannot explain how much I'm falling in love with this book
November 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Fellas (as in fellow travellers, which in my heart is a non-binary term), I cannot explain how much I'm falling in love with this book
i'm going to start calling myself an ambivalent ambisexual ambigendered person in homage to @suchmayer.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
i'm going to start calling myself an ambivalent ambisexual ambigendered person in homage to @suchmayer.bsky.social
Can't believe @badaude.bsky.social has a book launch in Spain today when I'm in London and @suchmayer.bsky.social 's launch is this week but when I'm no longer in London. What is this conspiracy to keep me away from my favourite authors????
November 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Can't believe @badaude.bsky.social has a book launch in Spain today when I'm in London and @suchmayer.bsky.social 's launch is this week but when I'm no longer in London. What is this conspiracy to keep me away from my favourite authors????
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Read an extract from @suchmayer.bsky.social's forthcoming book, BAD LANGUAGE, a blend of memoir and manifesto exploring the politics of speech, and how language has been used – and abused – collectively and in their own life.
Exclusive Extract: Bad Language by So Mayer
Read an extract from So Mayer's forthcoming book, Bad Language, a blend of memoir and manifesto exploring the politics of speech…
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November 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Read an extract from @suchmayer.bsky.social's forthcoming book, BAD LANGUAGE, a blend of memoir and manifesto exploring the politics of speech, and how language has been used – and abused – collectively and in their own life.
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last week @ Minor Lits ...
— poetic prose from @dluntz.bsky.social
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— @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social interviewed by @monalisavitti.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/10/29/a...
— new fiction from Mikra Namani
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— poetic prose from @dluntz.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/10/28/t...
— @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social interviewed by @monalisavitti.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/10/29/a...
— new fiction from Mikra Namani
minorliteratures.com/2025/10/30/t...
The Sentimental Monster — Mikra Namani
“He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind…” Dear Mother, I am often reminded of King Solomon’s proverb whenever I think of the history and trajectory of our family, our lives, and all…
minorliteratures.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:30 AM
last week @ Minor Lits ...
— poetic prose from @dluntz.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/10/28/t...
— @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social interviewed by @monalisavitti.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/10/29/a...
— new fiction from Mikra Namani
minorliteratures.com/2025/10/30/t...
— poetic prose from @dluntz.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/10/28/t...
— @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social interviewed by @monalisavitti.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/10/29/a...
— new fiction from Mikra Namani
minorliteratures.com/2025/10/30/t...
I'll be here talking about horror fiction and the ecological crisis, if you're coming do say hi, fellow commies
Reminder! You only have a few days left to register (and write your papers) for the HM London Conference. Do it now!
Twenty-Second Annual Conference - Historical Materialism
Registration is open and programme is online! Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order 6-9 November 2025, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: F...
www.historicalmaterialism.org
November 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I'll be here talking about horror fiction and the ecological crisis, if you're coming do say hi, fellow commies
Wow, it's catering to my interests 😉😎
Welcome to Toxic Yuri November! That's not a thing, you say? Well, now it is. Our new bundle is just $15 for TWENTY-FOUR titles, all united by everyone's favorite theme: terrible, no-good, dangerous lesbians.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Wow, it's catering to my interests 😉😎
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If you are broke and would like a free physical copy of Enemy Feminisms, DM me your mailing address. I will probably cover postage (or might ask you to chip in a bit for that)
October 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
If you are broke and would like a free physical copy of Enemy Feminisms, DM me your mailing address. I will probably cover postage (or might ask you to chip in a bit for that)
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This is so cool.
Today for @theverge.com, I talk about transfem narratives: the epistemic lockout from mainstream publishing, the advantages and pitfalls of the self-pub model, and what a global transmisogynistic panic implies for our ability to make our voices heard and represent our own lives and worlds.
Trans women are building their own publishing world, and it’s under threat
Online communities are stepping in where traditional publishing stops.
www.theverge.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This is so cool.
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“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue.
It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”
Read Wilde's “The Soul of Man under Socialism”:
It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”
Read Wilde's “The Soul of Man under Socialism”:
Oscar Wilde: The Soul of Man Under Socialism — homocommunist
“Maybe a homosexual could be the most revolutionary.”
homocommunist.xyz
October 16, 2025 at 10:37 PM
“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue.
It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”
Read Wilde's “The Soul of Man under Socialism”:
It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”
Read Wilde's “The Soul of Man under Socialism”:
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“Well-meaning” people are using machine translation to write Wikipedia articles in languages that they don’t speak themselves, accelerating the degeneration in quality of the web corpus for several languages with relatively few native speakers.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...
How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral
Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages?
www.technologyreview.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:14 AM
“Well-meaning” people are using machine translation to write Wikipedia articles in languages that they don’t speak themselves, accelerating the degeneration in quality of the web corpus for several languages with relatively few native speakers.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...
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I'm now writing a monthly column for @artreview.bsky.social
Works of Art looks at the intersections between art, labour & finance & asks how artists of all kinds are able (or not) to sustain creative practice.
If there's s'thing you'd like to see covered, message me.
artreview.com/can-we-ever-...
Works of Art looks at the intersections between art, labour & finance & asks how artists of all kinds are able (or not) to sustain creative practice.
If there's s'thing you'd like to see covered, message me.
artreview.com/can-we-ever-...
Who Can Stop Artwashing?
Artists and unethical money have been implicitly linked for centuries. Whose role should it be to police it?
artreview.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:52 AM
I'm now writing a monthly column for @artreview.bsky.social
Works of Art looks at the intersections between art, labour & finance & asks how artists of all kinds are able (or not) to sustain creative practice.
If there's s'thing you'd like to see covered, message me.
artreview.com/can-we-ever-...
Works of Art looks at the intersections between art, labour & finance & asks how artists of all kinds are able (or not) to sustain creative practice.
If there's s'thing you'd like to see covered, message me.
artreview.com/can-we-ever-...
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"Carol, all warm and giddy in her chest, dipped her big toe into the little pond and exclaimed to the kids, ‘The water is so tepid! The water is so tepid!’ ..."
Deliverywoman — @evawyles.bsky.social
@influxpress.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/10/16/d...
Deliverywoman — @evawyles.bsky.social
@influxpress.bsky.social
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Deliverywoman — Eva Wyles
BAD KID Carol, all warm and giddy in her chest, dipped her big toe into the little pond and exclaimed to the kids, ‘The water is so tepid! The water is so tepid!’ Wanted them to do the same, take t…
minorliteratures.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:43 AM
"Carol, all warm and giddy in her chest, dipped her big toe into the little pond and exclaimed to the kids, ‘The water is so tepid! The water is so tepid!’ ..."
Deliverywoman — @evawyles.bsky.social
@influxpress.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/10/16/d...
Deliverywoman — @evawyles.bsky.social
@influxpress.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/10/16/d...
Reading this right now, by the way! I loved Bulkin's "She said destroy" &always felt the author deserved to become a big cult name. So far, so excellently unsettling.
Come for the alpha bitches, stay for the unholy vibes. ISSUES WITH AUTHORITY is out now through Ghoulish Books. Get it here: ghoulish.rip/product/issu...
@nadiabulkin.bsky.social
@nadiabulkin.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Reading this right now, by the way! I loved Bulkin's "She said destroy" &always felt the author deserved to become a big cult name. So far, so excellently unsettling.
Oh! I need to read this.!!
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 (@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
October 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Oh! I need to read this.!!