Kassandra Jo Tomaras
@raconteuse.bsky.social
Transfeminine author, literary translator, and sufferable pedant. Messenger of divine wrath and sleepy times. She/they
https://raconteuse.me
DMs open to people I follow only.
EN/ES/DE/FR/PT and sometimes Yiddish
https://raconteuse.me
DMs open to people I follow only.
EN/ES/DE/FR/PT and sometimes Yiddish
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About Kassandra Jo Tomaras
Kassandra Jo Tomaras is a New Yorker, a mother, a writer, and a literary translator. She has published literary criticism, personal essays, short speculative fiction, and translations of fantasy stori...
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@juneeee.bsky.social is an excellent web developer. You should pay her to help you do cool things.
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@juneeee.bsky.social is an excellent web developer. You should pay her to help you do cool things.
Have been referring to my compatriots as US-American for almost 30 years now.
When with Canadians, I will often use "Yanks" instead.
When speaking Spanish, I routinely call myself a "gringa".
Why are you people whining about this?
When with Canadians, I will often use "Yanks" instead.
When speaking Spanish, I routinely call myself a "gringa".
Why are you people whining about this?
November 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Have been referring to my compatriots as US-American for almost 30 years now.
When with Canadians, I will often use "Yanks" instead.
When speaking Spanish, I routinely call myself a "gringa".
Why are you people whining about this?
When with Canadians, I will often use "Yanks" instead.
When speaking Spanish, I routinely call myself a "gringa".
Why are you people whining about this?
Snow is nice to look at through the window of a bus.
November 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Snow is nice to look at through the window of a bus.
Update:
- Dick appointment canceled
- Instead I got a manicure and my eyebrows waxed, and I am going to an allegedly women-oriented bathhouse
I love Toronto.
- Dick appointment canceled
- Instead I got a manicure and my eyebrows waxed, and I am going to an allegedly women-oriented bathhouse
I love Toronto.
What I will be doing on November Genocide Day:
1. Not being in the only country that celebrates it
2. Getting railed by the same person who railed me the last time I was in Canada
3. Coffee hang with a trans woman
4. Dinner with an old friend whom I haven't seen in years
BEST HOLIDAY EVER
1. Not being in the only country that celebrates it
2. Getting railed by the same person who railed me the last time I was in Canada
3. Coffee hang with a trans woman
4. Dinner with an old friend whom I haven't seen in years
BEST HOLIDAY EVER
November 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Update:
- Dick appointment canceled
- Instead I got a manicure and my eyebrows waxed, and I am going to an allegedly women-oriented bathhouse
I love Toronto.
- Dick appointment canceled
- Instead I got a manicure and my eyebrows waxed, and I am going to an allegedly women-oriented bathhouse
I love Toronto.
Bottom's breakfast: granola with chia seeds, dried blueberries, and kefir; strong coffee.
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Bottom's breakfast: granola with chia seeds, dried blueberries, and kefir; strong coffee.
Reposted by Kassandra Jo Tomaras
Like, bitches wake the fuck up, you’re women, that is the voice of the patriarchy hijacking your superego, babe. You’re not supposed to repeat what it says.
Don’t eschew gender norms in your personal life and hold everyone else to them please.
Many of us can’t. Genetics, time, money, society.
Don’t eschew gender norms in your personal life and hold everyone else to them please.
Many of us can’t. Genetics, time, money, society.
November 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Like, bitches wake the fuck up, you’re women, that is the voice of the patriarchy hijacking your superego, babe. You’re not supposed to repeat what it says.
Don’t eschew gender norms in your personal life and hold everyone else to them please.
Many of us can’t. Genetics, time, money, society.
Don’t eschew gender norms in your personal life and hold everyone else to them please.
Many of us can’t. Genetics, time, money, society.
Already feeling lighter (the weight of Being in the US is lifting)
November 27, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Already feeling lighter (the weight of Being in the US is lifting)
I'm out of the US, but June is still there facing down the institutional transmisogyny that I described in the fundraiser.
Share and give, please.
www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...
Share and give, please.
www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...
Donate to Stand with June: Legal and Housing Support Needed, organized by Kassandra Tomaras
June L. is a dear friend, a committed community-builder, a proud J… Kassandra Tomaras needs your support for Stand with June: Legal and Housing Support Needed
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November 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I'm out of the US, but June is still there facing down the institutional transmisogyny that I described in the fundraiser.
Share and give, please.
www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...
Share and give, please.
www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...
I am officially in Canada now.
November 26, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I am officially in Canada now.
What I will be doing on November Genocide Day:
1. Not being in the only country that celebrates it
2. Getting railed by the same person who railed me the last time I was in Canada
3. Coffee hang with a trans woman
4. Dinner with an old friend whom I haven't seen in years
BEST HOLIDAY EVER
1. Not being in the only country that celebrates it
2. Getting railed by the same person who railed me the last time I was in Canada
3. Coffee hang with a trans woman
4. Dinner with an old friend whom I haven't seen in years
BEST HOLIDAY EVER
November 26, 2025 at 8:48 PM
What I will be doing on November Genocide Day:
1. Not being in the only country that celebrates it
2. Getting railed by the same person who railed me the last time I was in Canada
3. Coffee hang with a trans woman
4. Dinner with an old friend whom I haven't seen in years
BEST HOLIDAY EVER
1. Not being in the only country that celebrates it
2. Getting railed by the same person who railed me the last time I was in Canada
3. Coffee hang with a trans woman
4. Dinner with an old friend whom I haven't seen in years
BEST HOLIDAY EVER
Relationship anarchist (all her partners are in other jurisdictions)
Relationship anarchist (bottom who forms a polycule of other bottoms)
Relationship anarchist (she doesn’t have any plans for dealing with externalities)
November 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Relationship anarchist (all her partners are in other jurisdictions)
Once again, I am on a slow train to Canada.
November 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Once again, I am on a slow train to Canada.
Reposted by Kassandra Jo Tomaras
I think a red flag in all this ai stuff is that when you hear public conversations between ai folks about ai they sound like fucking dumbasses who just took lots of drugs or maybe got hit really hard on the head.
November 26, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I think a red flag in all this ai stuff is that when you hear public conversations between ai folks about ai they sound like fucking dumbasses who just took lots of drugs or maybe got hit really hard on the head.
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you.
Come through, Louise! You're my only hope!
Come through, Louise! You're my only hope!
November 26, 2025 at 1:17 AM
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you.
Come through, Louise! You're my only hope!
Come through, Louise! You're my only hope!
Reposted by Kassandra Jo Tomaras
1333 mujeres asesinadas desde 2013 en España.
Este hilo de El País recoge las historias de todas las mujeres víctimas de la violencia machista de este año.
SON 39, JODER.
BASTA YA.
#25N
Este hilo de El País recoge las historias de todas las mujeres víctimas de la violencia machista de este año.
SON 39, JODER.
BASTA YA.
#25N
Karilenia tenía 40 años y era madre de tres hijos. Desde hacía poco, mantenía una relación con Francisco, de 72 años y de Langreo. Este pasado fin de semana, la asesinó a cuchilladas.
Es la primera víctima de la violencia machista de 2025 #NiUnaMenos
Es la primera víctima de la violencia machista de 2025 #NiUnaMenos
Un hombre asesina a su pareja en Langreo en el primer crimen machista de 2025
El sospechoso, de 72 años, salió a la calle persiguiendo a la víctima, de 40, con un cuchillo con el que acabó apuñalándola ante varios testigos
elpais.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
1333 mujeres asesinadas desde 2013 en España.
Este hilo de El País recoge las historias de todas las mujeres víctimas de la violencia machista de este año.
SON 39, JODER.
BASTA YA.
#25N
Este hilo de El País recoge las historias de todas las mujeres víctimas de la violencia machista de este año.
SON 39, JODER.
BASTA YA.
#25N
Reposted by Kassandra Jo Tomaras
Das Max Planck institut kommt zum Ergebnis: In den zwei Jahren #Genozid in #Gaza wurden von Israel zwischen 100.000 und 126.000 Menschen ermordet.
#Staatsräson
#Staatsräson
November 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Das Max Planck institut kommt zum Ergebnis: In den zwei Jahren #Genozid in #Gaza wurden von Israel zwischen 100.000 und 126.000 Menschen ermordet.
#Staatsräson
#Staatsräson
How the Mamdani-Trump meeting is being covered on the left wing of the Spanish press
Mamdani sigue considerando a Trump un “fascista” y un “déspota” tras la reunión en la Casa Blanca
Mamdani sigue considerando a Trump un "fascista" y un "déspota" tras la reunión en la Casa Blanca
El presidente de EEUU intentó exhibir buena sintonía con el alcalde electo de Nueva York tras la reunión del viernes, quien a preguntas en una entrevista en NBC ha afirmado: "Lo que he dicho en el pas...
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November 24, 2025 at 10:23 AM
How the Mamdani-Trump meeting is being covered on the left wing of the Spanish press
If you see this, post a bad woman you love.
November 24, 2025 at 2:33 AM
If you see this, post a bad woman you love.
It'll be at least 4 more months until I see Kid 2 in person again.
It's already been almost that long since I was last with Kid 1, but it's harder with the younger one.
It's already been almost that long since I was last with Kid 1, but it's harder with the younger one.
November 24, 2025 at 1:56 AM
It'll be at least 4 more months until I see Kid 2 in person again.
It's already been almost that long since I was last with Kid 1, but it's harder with the younger one.
It's already been almost that long since I was last with Kid 1, but it's harder with the younger one.
Reposted by Kassandra Jo Tomaras
In case it makes news: there was a World Zionist Org aliyah fair at a London synagogue today and Jewish pro-Palestine groups protested against it. Various right wing or pro-Israel groups are pretending they were just protesting a synagogue for the sake of it and that the protestors were not Jews.
November 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
In case it makes news: there was a World Zionist Org aliyah fair at a London synagogue today and Jewish pro-Palestine groups protested against it. Various right wing or pro-Israel groups are pretending they were just protesting a synagogue for the sake of it and that the protestors were not Jews.
Same
It continued throughout my 20s and 30s.
It continued throughout my 20s and 30s.
It was wild to figure out why I kept finding reasons to avoid yearbook photos as a teenager
November 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Same
It continued throughout my 20s and 30s.
It continued throughout my 20s and 30s.
I second this recommendation, and add HJP's more recent book, ANY OTHER CITY.
If you like post-modern lit, do I have a recommendation for you!
LITTLE BLUE ENCYCLOPEDIA (FOR VIVIAN) is a work of genius. Hazel Jane Plante creates a world, a world within it, and vivid characters in both. It's one of the best things I've read in years.
www.hazeljaneplante.com/little-blue
LITTLE BLUE ENCYCLOPEDIA (FOR VIVIAN) is a work of genius. Hazel Jane Plante creates a world, a world within it, and vivid characters in both. It's one of the best things I've read in years.
www.hazeljaneplante.com/little-blue
Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) — Hazel Jane Plante
www.hazeljaneplante.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I second this recommendation, and add HJP's more recent book, ANY OTHER CITY.
In less than a week, I will be back in a country where no one lives more than 50 kilometers away from a mass grave left by the dictatorship.
Still better than here.
Still better than here.
November 23, 2025 at 2:13 AM
In less than a week, I will be back in a country where no one lives more than 50 kilometers away from a mass grave left by the dictatorship.
Still better than here.
Still better than here.
Tomorrow, Espose and I are hosting lunch with a coworker of theirs who just came out as a trans woman, and the coworker's partner. (Kid 2 is also with us.) I will be making lunch and answering questions about all things transfeminine.
I'm calling it Transgiving.
I'm calling it Transgiving.
November 23, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Tomorrow, Espose and I are hosting lunch with a coworker of theirs who just came out as a trans woman, and the coworker's partner. (Kid 2 is also with us.) I will be making lunch and answering questions about all things transfeminine.
I'm calling it Transgiving.
I'm calling it Transgiving.
Without downloading any new pics what is it like dating you
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Without downloading any new pics what is it like dating you