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Lara Alonso Corona (they/them) @laraacorona.bsky.social · 21h

Hahaha we all do what we can to subvert

Lara Alonso Corona (they/them) @laraacorona.bsky.social · 21h

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.

Ghoulish Books @ghoulish.bsky.social · 20d

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

trope graphic for ISSUES WITH AUTHORITY - "everything is fine" dog, lawful evil, unholy vibes, face-monster turn, bureaucratic hellscape, existential crisis, alpha bitch, cursed media

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Lara Alonso Corona (they/them) @laraacorona.bsky.social · 21h

That book is amazing, indeed! I'm a big Ugresic fan

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Lara Alonso Corona (they/them) @laraacorona.bsky.social · 21h

Oh! I need to read this.!!

LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 21h

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 — Debut trans horror — LittlePuss Press

"The best book I've read in years." —Gretchen Felker-Martin

www.littlepuss.net

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Lara Alonso Corona (they/them) @laraacorona.bsky.social · 21h

&(like with tradwife stuff) we'll get arguments abt how books with normative hetero relationships that double down on 1950s gender roles are actually very feminist because women write them &like reading them. They'll sell Stepford Wives as girlboss goals

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Lara Alonso Corona (they/them) @laraacorona.bsky.social · 21h

And we'll hear "well, authors were tired of all that self-censorship and complaints about racism in ao3, no wonder they're doing this now" &it sounds like the antiwoke crowd saying the rise of fascism is to blame on minorities for getting too uppity about getting rights 🙃

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Lara Alonso Corona (they/them) @laraacorona.bsky.social · 21h

It's no coincidence that the popularity of romantasy means that fewer titles with queer protagonists are making it to the shelves.

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Lara Alonso Corona (they/them) @laraacorona.bsky.social · 21h

Romantasy is YA's own counterrevolution, it's a conservative backslash &we should talk about many of its titles in the same way we talk about tradwife tiktoks, part of the same wave of cishet propaganda

Diana 📚🦦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @bookishdi.bsky.social · 22h

Honestly it feels like a lot of popular romantasy is a backlash to diverse YA books

Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 22h

This whole thread!!! when I talk about YA authors getting picked up to write romantasy, it's overwhelmingly white authors writing het romance. but that represents just a fraction of what's actually happening in the YA space.

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Lara Alonso Corona (they/them) @laraacorona.bsky.social · 21h

Anyone know of any F/F retellings of Baba Yaga? Or in general lesbian stuff with Slavic folklore settings?

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 1d

Found out that the latest Nobel Peace Prize winner is a staunch ally of Netanyahu's and signed a cooperation agreement with the Likud party, which makes perfect sense. This is a prize that went to Kissinger and Obama, after all.

Venezuela opposition cooperating with Israel's Likud party

An opposition party, called Vente Venezuela,through its leader, María Corina Machado, signed a cooperation agreement with Zionist Likud party, which is in government through Benjamin Netanyahu.

nournews.ir

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 1d

PROTECT THE LIBERAL NARRATIVE

Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 1d

Bro blocked me for pointing out that she supports Trump, the strikes, and Israel’s genocide

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social • 1h
I like how they gave the Nobel Prize to someone fighting for democracy in Venezuela, instead of someone sinking fishing boats off their coast.
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 1d

Actually a good illustration of how there is no liberal narrative anymore--it's vestigial, absorbed into the fascist narrative because liberal imperialism tilted the scales toward the nazis. Now there are liberals celebrating a politician who supports Trump & Netanyahu because 'democracy'.

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Lara Alonso Corona (they/them) @laraacorona.bsky.social · 1d

She's literally a Trump supporter, I am begging you to look past the liberal propaganda

Lara Alonso Corona (they/them) @laraacorona.bsky.social · 1d

People celebrating this because Trump is going to be angry... You need to read up on her politics and listen to Latinx journalists about this, instead of being stuck on this US-centric logic. This woman praised Milei and said their projects were on the same length wave, that should give you a clue.

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

#NobelPrize

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

The Nobel Peace Prize IS for war criminals. That's who they give it to!

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Lara Alonso Corona (they/them) @laraacorona.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think Watatabe has "the worst" animation ever but yeah, I found it poor. I'll keep watching for now, cause mmm, yuri mermaid

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Lara Alonso Corona (they/them) @laraacorona.bsky.social · 1d

I think the Hikaru anime is boring, I was bored and I love the manga and would re-read it any time. I think the script was just pretty mediocre, lots of changes without any reason, made up scenes etc

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Lara Alonso Corona (they/them) @laraacorona.bsky.social · 1d

*wavelength

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Tobias Ryan @tobiasvryan.bsky.social · 1d

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 1d

got beef?

oleada.io/publication/...

Oleada - A Submission Platform

A submission platform for small presses and magazines.

oleada.io

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 1d

I'm a committed small press author & editor. Small presses are the seed-heads of the books world & they are scorched. Pls read and share this excellent letter on the situation & what's needed in @thebookseller.com, signatories inc Peninsula Press, @cipherpress.bsky.social @silver-press.bsky.social

Open letter on the future of small press publishing in the UK

The industry must work together to ensure the longevity of the UK’s independent presses.

www.thebookseller.com

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Lara Alonso Corona (they/them) @laraacorona.bsky.social · 1d

People celebrating this because Trump is going to be angry... You need to read up on her politics and listen to Latinx journalists about this, instead of being stuck on this US-centric logic. This woman praised Milei and said their projects were on the same length wave, that should give you a clue.

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

#NobelPrize

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 4d

“We are in a lot of trouble. Our difficulties are multiplying and becoming more complex and challenging. Whatever short- or medium-term plans we have are having to be revised or discarded daily…”

Can you help us, even just with an RT?

Donate to Support a Voyage to Find Home, organized by Liz Cullinane

Hello, my name is Liz Cullinane and for the past four years, I have been inspired to raise… Liz Cullinane needs your support for Support a Voyage to Find Home

www.gofundme.com

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 4d

"Sometimes I say I write books because I have questions, and I try to answer them, but I rarely answer them. It always gets more complex ..."

@noonanerik.bsky.social in conversation with Bothayna Al-Essa

minorliteratures.com/2025/10/07/l...

“[Literature is] a dance around silence, an attempt to get closer to what we are not saying”: A Conversation with Bothayna Al-Essa—Erik Noonan

Anglophone audiences first encountered the Kuwaiti novelist, publisher, and bookseller Bothanya Al-Essa through excerpts of her 2004 novel A Soundless Collision (trans. Chris Bredin), published in …

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 2d

Beyond Grandeur — @matthewkinlin.bsky.social

minorliteratures.com/2025/10/09/b...

Beyond Grandeur — Matthew Kinlin

Rhinoplasty. Cheek implants. Ultra-sonic assisted liposuction. A purple exoskeleton was admitted to the clinic last week. His name is Robert and he’s the oldest twink in Cheshire. They washed his s…

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 3d

As ever, I direct your good gazes to the "Structurally F'cked" report on gallery visual arts, but widely applicable on extractive labour practices. All arts degrees should teach this report.

www.a-n.co.uk/research/str...

Structurally F–cked - a-n The Artists Information Company

An inquiry into artists’ pay and conditions in the public sector in response to the Artist Leaks data.

www.a-n.co.uk

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Lara Alonso Corona (they/them) @laraacorona.bsky.social · 3d

It's a general problem, totally. We cultural workers are so very good at exploiting ourselves and believing our precariry doesn't matter because art is not "really work" or some such toxic nonsense. We need our own Wages for Housework moment

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