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Luke :)
@lukejsuth.bsky.social
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writer, librarian, publisher

🪻@lilacperil.bsky.social

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A deer sleeping outside my bedroom window this morning 🤍
Looking throw a window at a young deer sleeping with its nose tucked towards its tail
November 28, 2025 at 3:10 AM
lukejsuth.bsky.social
I’m speaking at this wonderful event at GMU on Thursday <3 watershedlit.gmu.edu/events/17561
A light blue and pink flyer. The text reads: The LGBTQ+ Resources Center, the Women and Gender Studies Center, and Watershed Lit Present DAY OF TRANSGENDER LITERATURE PROSE PANEL at 12 pm Explore the transgender experience with readings & discussions from speculative fiction, tabletop role-playing games, and flash narrative writers. Featuring Charlie Jane Anders, Dominique Dickey, Luke Sutherland, and Andrew Joseph White. © FENWICK READING ROOM POETRY PANEL at 1:30 Enjoy poetry readings & a discussion of poetry's unique capacity for illuminating the transgender experience. Featuring Andrea Abi-Karam, Emily Holland, Amir Rabiyah, and K. Iver. © FENWICK READING ROOM WRITING WORKSHOP at 3 PM Join us for creative writing & fellowship as we create new works of literature in a community writing workshop moderated by Addie Tsai. @ FENWICK READING ROOM TDOR VIGIL at 6 pm In observance of Transgender Day of Remembrance, the LGBTQ+ Resources Center and the Center for Leadership and Intercultural Engagement will hold a vigil to acknowledge the losses of our last year and spread awareness about the continued violence against trans and non-binary folks. @ THE JOHNSON CENTER BISTRO A light blue and pink flyer. The text reads: The LGBTQ+ Resources Center, the Women and Gender Studies Center, and Watershed Lit Presents DAY OF TRANSGENDER LITERATURE PROSE PANEL at 12pm Andrew Joseph White is the bestselling, award-winning author of horror novels for teens and adults, including Hell Followed With Us, You Weren't Meant to Be Human, and more. Born and raised in the Shenandoah Valley, he received his MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University and lives in Virginia with his wife and their antisocial cat. Charlie Jane Anders is the author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster, among others. She's won the Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, and other awards. She co-created Escapade, a transgender superhero, for Marvel Comics. She's currently the science fiction and fantasy book reviewer for the Washington Post. With Annalee Newitz, she co-hosts the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct. Luke Sutherland is a writer, librarian, and publisher on Piscataway lands, so-called Washington D.C. His chapbook Distance Sequence won the 2023 OutWrite Chapbook Contest, published by Neon Hemlock Press. He is an editor at smoke + mold and co-founder of the trans small press Lilac Peril. Find him online as @lukejsuth or @lilacperil. Dominique Dickey is a speculative fiction writer and game designer. As the creative director of Sly Robot Games, they've created Plant Girl Game and Tomorrow on Revelation Ill. Their short fiction has appeared in venues including Fantasy Magazine Lightspeed Magazine, and Nightmare Magazine. Their novella Redundancies & Potentials is now available from Neon Hemlock Press.
November 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
lukejsuth.bsky.social
Thinking about Them
X and Jordan in The Doom Generation looking at each other homosexually X and Jordan in The Doom Generation looking at each other homosexually but it’s a different scene
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 AM
lukejsuth.bsky.social
I let myself be queeny around other ftms in a way that often feels locked up around other people—that is something I really love about us, f*ggots of our own making keeping each other company
November 12, 2025 at 3:46 AM
lukejsuth.bsky.social
🥲 this means a lot to me actually
Quote from a review by the Transfeminine Review of the book TABOO: “But the real editorial triumph here comes in the table of contents with the absolute sea of underground talent Lilac Peril has managed to gather here, almost all of them at their best. It's not the presence of underground talent that impresses; it's the quality. This is the kind of exceptional submission pool you can create when you're actively investing in supporting and educating your literary community. It's a talent cultivated in workshops and networks of mutual aid and support, and it slaps so damn hard.” Quote from a review by the Transfeminine Review of the book TABOO: “Yes, TABOO is one of the best books of 2025. I'll stand by that, this book fucks so hard. But I have an immense respect now for this entire cohort of authors - what they stand for, and how they represent it. Lilac Peril is sitting on a crop of talent that's overflowing with potential, and almost every story here feels like a beginning of a career still waiting to be written. And isn't that the best possible feeling to take away from a short story collection?”
November 8, 2025 at 5:01 AM
lukejsuth.bsky.social
It’s been a hard few months and it’s felt like I haven’t had the energy to celebrate the book properly, but a reading like this makes me really fucking proud of what @submorstua.bsky.social and I made 🖤

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November 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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After three straight months of research and reading, I have FINALLY reached the last book for the 2025 Start Here page 😭🙏

It's @lilacperil.bsky.social's second short story collection, let's bring this thing home!!
Issue one Taboo by Lilac Peril ed Luke Sutherland and Andrea Morgan
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
Page One.

@theguardian.com #ICE
November 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
lukejsuth.bsky.social
Once again asking! Small press especially welcome. This is for a series of mini reviews in the spring issue of a journal
lukejsuth.bsky.social Luke :) @lukejsuth.bsky.social · Oct 26
People in the know - what trans horror is coming out in 2026? Besides Persona
November 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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I have a short little essay out now in Seventh Wave Magazine about thylacines and writing 🦴 the art is a collage I made a few years ago! theseventhwave.org/insights-on-...
SEVENTH WAVE On Animals Essays "Animals have always haunted human art, but that haunting takes on a different quality when we understand ourselves to be the executioners." Below the text is a collage made up of framed photos of thylacines
October 27, 2025 at 10:16 PM
lukejsuth.bsky.social
People in the know - what trans horror is coming out in 2026? Besides Persona
October 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
lukejsuth.bsky.social
The person doing acoustic covers at the dog Halloween parade did not sing the little “awooo” during She Wolf. I’m seeing red
October 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
lukejsuth.bsky.social
I’m taking away the word performative until we can all behave ourselves
October 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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nicolefoy.bsky.social
Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.
White words on a black background read: 50+ Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino. ~130 Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. ~20 Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.
October 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
lukejsuth.bsky.social
This is in one week :) free and virtual!
lilacperil.bsky.social Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · Oct 12
The workshop is virtual and free and that means 🫵YOU🫵 can attend www.eventbrite.com/e/trans-writ...
workshop topic HOW TO "KILL LIES:" WRITING AGAINST RECEIVED LANGUAGE Nico Walker, the infamous bankrobber-turned-novelist, once wrote in BookForum, "Any writer worth a fuck should be in the business of killing lies." This generative writing workshop will consider the clichés, disinformation, and reductive language that plague minority writers specifically and employ them as writing prompts. We will begin by looking at some remarkable lie-killers across identity groups and history (potential writers include Torrey Peters, Andrea Long Chu, Imogen Binnie, Kay Gabriel, Leslie Feinberg, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Ralph Ellison, Claudia Rankine, Danez Smith, Charles Yu, Mosab Abu Toha, and Nafissa Thompson-Spires) and finish with a writing exercise in which we, as trans artists, write directly against and past the language wrongly applied to us. Sat, October 18 at 2 PM EST Virtual, registration in bio
October 12, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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dcbookstoprisons.bsky.social
Prisons and jails ban more books than all public schools and libraries combined. Throughout the country individual prisons and entire states are implementing more draconian and non-sensical prison book bans, with little public knowledge or outcry.
October 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
lukejsuth.bsky.social
Evil nonbinary person named Nestle
October 9, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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dcbookstoprisons.bsky.social
@bannedbooksweek.bsky.social starts today! Prisons ban more books than all public schools and libraries combined. All week books donated to us from our partners will be matched. See our @mahoganybooks.bsky.social @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social and @peoplesbooktakoma.com wishlists - linktr.ee/dcbtpp
A red book on a yellow background with the words Banned Books Bookdrive October 5-11 All books donated from our partner bookstores will be matched with cash! linktr.ee/dcbtp
October 5, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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lilacperil.bsky.social
Our auction raised $500, split between Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid and Alice Correia Barbosa’s legal fund 🥳 massive thanks to everyone who bid, and especially to our contributors who donated their work
A picture of Lilac Peril’s book TABOO with text above it that reads “$500 raised to defend migrant rights in DC”
October 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
lukejsuth.bsky.social
(Marketing for the uti pain meds I took without realizing they contain lactose) You can’t feel dick pain when you’re dead!
October 3, 2025 at 9:51 AM
lukejsuth.bsky.social
I’ve been so stressed all week, but I just found out the auction I planned extremely last minute raised $500 for our migrant neighbors 🥳🥳
September 26, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.
September 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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lilacperil.bsky.social
A little more than a day left!
lilacperil.bsky.social Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · Sep 10
Our launch events are a wrap! We still have plenty of auction items that you can bid on for the next week. All money goes to migrant mutual aid in DC auctria.events/migrantsolid...
Home page of the Lilac Peril auction for migrant rights in Washington DC
September 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
lukejsuth.bsky.social
I’m losing my mind over this transition in an episode of the Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau
September 16, 2025 at 2:24 AM