Cameron Reed (she|they)
@lateonsetgirl.bsky.social
Author of The Fortunate Fall (Tor Essentials, 2024) and What We Are Seeking (Tor, April 2026). I won the Otherwise Award under its deadname and my deadname. Represented by @laurenbajek.bsky.social. 🏳️⚧️♀︎♀︎
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The Girl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For - Reactor
In a corporate-run dystopia, a trans girl plucked out of poverty to give birth to a clone meets her replacement.
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Are we doing awards eligibility posts already? Mine is simple: The GIrl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For, published in Reactor 4/2025. It's got romance in dystopia and mild superpowers and complicated trans feelings about body-swapping, and it's free to read reactormag.com/the-girl-tha...
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I've been looking up reviews of my 1998 novel Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary, because reasons. I thought I'd turned off AI, but was presented with this:
December 12, 2025 at 7:58 AM
I've been looking up reviews of my 1998 novel Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary, because reasons. I thought I'd turned off AI, but was presented with this:
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I thought the book was stunning! It's brilliantly and defiantly queer.
WHAT WE ARE SEEKING got a starred review in Library Journal! A perceptive one, too. Bujold's ETHAN OF ATHOS is definitely a book I thought about while writing it
December 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I thought the book was stunning! It's brilliantly and defiantly queer.
WHAT WE ARE SEEKING got a starred review in Library Journal! A perceptive one, too. Bujold's ETHAN OF ATHOS is definitely a book I thought about while writing it
December 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
WHAT WE ARE SEEKING got a starred review in Library Journal! A perceptive one, too. Bujold's ETHAN OF ATHOS is definitely a book I thought about while writing it
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Feels really significant that the Trump admin is making a concerted effort to force colleges to undo policies that made campus safe and accessible for trans people, because for so many trans people college is the first place they ever get to be themselves.
November 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Feels really significant that the Trump admin is making a concerted effort to force colleges to undo policies that made campus safe and accessible for trans people, because for so many trans people college is the first place they ever get to be themselves.
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“ ‘The U.S. poverty line is calculated as three times the cost of a minimum food diet in 1963, adjusted for inflation’ … [But] in 2024, food-at-home is no longer 33% of household spending. For most families, it’s 5 to 7 percent.”
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:10 AM
“ ‘The U.S. poverty line is calculated as three times the cost of a minimum food diet in 1963, adjusted for inflation’ … [But] in 2024, food-at-home is no longer 33% of household spending. For most families, it’s 5 to 7 percent.”
This is a tremendous movie, justly a cult favorite. Read nothing else about it and go watch it
The 1988 thriller "Miracle Mile" features a trans woman who blows off the nuclear apocalypse to finish her coffee in a diner because she refuses to listen to some panicky white guy. I submit to you that she is the most important character in cinema. youtu.be/YWkVOO43y9Q?...
Miracle Mile Cafe Scene (possible Semena Mertvykh influence?)
YouTube video by Araungzeb *
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November 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
This is a tremendous movie, justly a cult favorite. Read nothing else about it and go watch it
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There are many reasons why I have a publishing house, but keeping trans people in print when no one else will is looking like an important goal these days.
November 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
There are many reasons why I have a publishing house, but keeping trans people in print when no one else will is looking like an important goal these days.
As one of rather few trans women with a Big 5 publishing contract, I hope people will buy my book or borrow it from a library. Not just because I need money, but because I want to retain that access. Trans women's books should be in bookstores and libraries, and publishers like to see line go up 1/3
November 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
As one of rather few trans women with a Big 5 publishing contract, I hope people will buy my book or borrow it from a library. Not just because I need money, but because I want to retain that access. Trans women's books should be in bookstores and libraries, and publishers like to see line go up 1/3
Are we doing awards eligibility posts already? Mine is simple: The GIrl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For, published in Reactor 4/2025. It's got romance in dystopia and mild superpowers and complicated trans feelings about body-swapping, and it's free to read reactormag.com/the-girl-tha...
The Girl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For - Reactor
In a corporate-run dystopia, a trans girl plucked out of poverty to give birth to a clone meets her replacement.
reactormag.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Are we doing awards eligibility posts already? Mine is simple: The GIrl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For, published in Reactor 4/2025. It's got romance in dystopia and mild superpowers and complicated trans feelings about body-swapping, and it's free to read reactormag.com/the-girl-tha...
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it's kinda crazy how many Dem governors released statements for TDOR while simultaneously having their hands caught deep in the "complicit in the systemic torture and rape of trans women" jar
While Maryland Gov. Moore posted about Trans Day of Rememberance, his state was torturing a trans woman by denying her hormones and housing her with men--according to her lawyer--for 2 months.
All of this for "hate crime" charges from alleged vandalism of a trans symbol near a Catholic school.
All of this for "hate crime" charges from alleged vandalism of a trans symbol near a Catholic school.
November 22, 2025 at 10:31 PM
it's kinda crazy how many Dem governors released statements for TDOR while simultaneously having their hands caught deep in the "complicit in the systemic torture and rape of trans women" jar
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This is being required of trans teens in the UK in order to start puberty blockers. There is a limited time period in which PBs are even useful.
Are there ANY medical treatments that require this many pre-requisites? This is designed to exhaust patients so that they age out of the system.
Are there ANY medical treatments that require this many pre-requisites? This is designed to exhaust patients so that they age out of the system.
The “Pathways” trial is, IMO on more than one level, a thoroughly unethical piece of “research” to be carrying out on children, especially children who are part of a marginalised minority.
November 22, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This is being required of trans teens in the UK in order to start puberty blockers. There is a limited time period in which PBs are even useful.
Are there ANY medical treatments that require this many pre-requisites? This is designed to exhaust patients so that they age out of the system.
Are there ANY medical treatments that require this many pre-requisites? This is designed to exhaust patients so that they age out of the system.
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There is no context in which grown cisgender adults questioning Trans+ kids and teenagers about their sexual experiences or body parts is acceptable
It’s profoundly inappropriate - and frankly, creepy as fuck
Systemic clinical malpractice is the standard within NHS cis-controlled Trans+ healthcare
It’s profoundly inappropriate - and frankly, creepy as fuck
Systemic clinical malpractice is the standard within NHS cis-controlled Trans+ healthcare
"Body Image Scale – Gender Spectrum (BIS-GS) (a horrific tool that asks children to assess how much they hate all their body parts); the ALSPAC Romantic Relations (which in spite of its name asks totally irrelevant and intrusive questions about the sex life of those aged 12-17).
November 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
There is no context in which grown cisgender adults questioning Trans+ kids and teenagers about their sexual experiences or body parts is acceptable
It’s profoundly inappropriate - and frankly, creepy as fuck
Systemic clinical malpractice is the standard within NHS cis-controlled Trans+ healthcare
It’s profoundly inappropriate - and frankly, creepy as fuck
Systemic clinical malpractice is the standard within NHS cis-controlled Trans+ healthcare
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Ngl, it doesn't feel awesome that so much discourse about policies designed specifically to hurt trans people is about the negative effects it might have on some cis people.
Not cos it's not bad that it will have broader incidental effects but because it should be enough that it will hurt us.
Not cos it's not bad that it will have broader incidental effects but because it should be enough that it will hurt us.
November 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Ngl, it doesn't feel awesome that so much discourse about policies designed specifically to hurt trans people is about the negative effects it might have on some cis people.
Not cos it's not bad that it will have broader incidental effects but because it should be enough that it will hurt us.
Not cos it's not bad that it will have broader incidental effects but because it should be enough that it will hurt us.
This is the exact same kind of fairy tale that gave us Kavanaugh stops. The wise enforcers of the law inquire politely and retreat when they're corrected. No one gets harassed or beaten or imprisoned or deported or killed. Everyone has a good laugh together afterward
Who does this …reptile… think she is speaking for anyone else?
November 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This is the exact same kind of fairy tale that gave us Kavanaugh stops. The wise enforcers of the law inquire politely and retreat when they're corrected. No one gets harassed or beaten or imprisoned or deported or killed. Everyone has a good laugh together afterward
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"It's hard for me to care about Riley Gaines tying for fifth when my swim coach is accused of raping my teammates.”
An incident in a locker room has always been key to Riley Gaines’ anti-trans fame.
But @msjpauly.bsky.social spoke to swimmers who were present at the same 2022 meet. They shared a very different narrative.
But @msjpauly.bsky.social spoke to swimmers who were present at the same 2022 meet. They shared a very different narrative.
How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire
The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
"It's hard for me to care about Riley Gaines tying for fifth when my swim coach is accused of raping my teammates.”
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There are (rightfully) several of these challenges going on — and likely more we don’t yet know of — and I hope to be able to spend some time on this issue soon, but this is a notable win that I’m glad to see getting coverage.
NEW: Trump's DOJ sent a subpoena to a gender-affirming care clinic seeking information on patients, including minors, and its insurance billing practices. The clinic—which doesn't even take insurance—fought the demand in court and won.
Read @garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co
Read @garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co
The DOJ Subpoenaed Patient Info From a Gender-Affirming Care Clinic. It Fought Back.
A Washington judge quashed the Trump administration's attempt to subpoena patient information from the telehealth practice QueerDoc—but the fight may not be over.
www.autonomynews.co
November 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM
There are (rightfully) several of these challenges going on — and likely more we don’t yet know of — and I hope to be able to spend some time on this issue soon, but this is a notable win that I’m glad to see getting coverage.
I support games costing more if necessary to pay all the workers who make them, even much more. I do not support pumping them full of pink slime to make them cheaper. If you paid for this get a refund to send a message
steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
Insulting to the players, insulting to the IP, insulting to the medium, the developers. And the craft itself. Fuck you executives who pushed this garbage.
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November 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I support games costing more if necessary to pay all the workers who make them, even much more. I do not support pumping them full of pink slime to make them cheaper. If you paid for this get a refund to send a message
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People INCLUDING TRANS FRIENDLY MEDIA keep writing news stories on exclusions of trans people from women's sport while never talking to trans women athletes involved in women's sports.
November 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
People INCLUDING TRANS FRIENDLY MEDIA keep writing news stories on exclusions of trans people from women's sport while never talking to trans women athletes involved in women's sports.
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for our "Texas Canon" series, I wrote about Halt and Catch Fire, the underrated AMC show about the '80s Dallas tech boom, and how it reminds us of why we were optimistic about tech in the first place: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
One of TV's most underrated shows gave Texas' tech past its due
Texas rarely gets the prestige treatment. One AMC drama pulled it off.
www.chron.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
for our "Texas Canon" series, I wrote about Halt and Catch Fire, the underrated AMC show about the '80s Dallas tech boom, and how it reminds us of why we were optimistic about tech in the first place: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
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"Although young trans people were most frequently and viciously targeted by Trump, the report found that “transgender youth under 20 were quoted in just 6% of articles.
Who did msm corporate media turn to? Trump, a member of his administration, or other Republicans were quoted in 50% of articles"
Who did msm corporate media turn to? Trump, a member of his administration, or other Republicans were quoted in 50% of articles"
NEW: Firings of LGBTQ staff at NBC and Condé Nast have worsened an already dire picture for legacy news media when it comes to covering the trans community.
From @billiejsweeney.bsky.social, a close look at our increasingly degraded media environment.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
From @billiejsweeney.bsky.social, a close look at our increasingly degraded media environment.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Corporate Media’s Queer Purge — Assigned
It’s no coincidence that historic assaults on trans and queer people’s rights have been accompanied by the mainstream media’s widespread dismissal of LGBTQ+ journalists and the elimination of beats de...
www.assignedmedia.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
"Although young trans people were most frequently and viciously targeted by Trump, the report found that “transgender youth under 20 were quoted in just 6% of articles.
Who did msm corporate media turn to? Trump, a member of his administration, or other Republicans were quoted in 50% of articles"
Who did msm corporate media turn to? Trump, a member of his administration, or other Republicans were quoted in 50% of articles"
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This is my transition timeline
November 10, 2025 at 4:49 AM
This is my transition timeline
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A historic win for equality in #Albania! Parliament has passed the Law “On Gender Equality”, keeping protections for sexual orientation, gender identity and expression and withdrawn a proposal to recognise only two genders.
A victory for unity, dignity and democracy. 🧵
A victory for unity, dignity and democracy. 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 PM
A historic win for equality in #Albania! Parliament has passed the Law “On Gender Equality”, keeping protections for sexual orientation, gender identity and expression and withdrawn a proposal to recognise only two genders.
A victory for unity, dignity and democracy. 🧵
A victory for unity, dignity and democracy. 🧵
Oh wow, look at this new blurb for WHAT WE ARE SEEKING from Cory Doctorow!
Preorder links here: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Preorder links here: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
November 7, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Oh wow, look at this new blurb for WHAT WE ARE SEEKING from Cory Doctorow!
Preorder links here: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Preorder links here: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
November 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.