Erin Elkin
@shadell.itch.io
Disaster trans woman with a PhD in media studies. I write stuff sometimes. (she/her)
Buy my book: https://linktr.ee/Shadell13
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Erin Elkin
@shadell.itch.io
· Nov 19
So, since my follower count here doubled this week, hi!
I’m a self pub transfic author who writes trans fantasy stories, available on itch, Amazon and Scribblehub.
I’m also a postdoc in media psych with a casual interest in transfeminism and trans studies, so I may post thoughts sometimes.
I’m a self pub transfic author who writes trans fantasy stories, available on itch, Amazon and Scribblehub.
I’m also a postdoc in media psych with a casual interest in transfeminism and trans studies, so I may post thoughts sometimes.
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January 14, 2026 at 10:54 AM
Like, I dunno. Literary critique and numerical ratings have never really struck me as compatible.
Even if they were a reasonable way of sorting merit/enjoyment:etc, which I don’t believe, numbers generally serve as thought-enders here. They invite people to skip the substance
Even if they were a reasonable way of sorting merit/enjoyment:etc, which I don’t believe, numbers generally serve as thought-enders here. They invite people to skip the substance
January 15, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Like, I dunno. Literary critique and numerical ratings have never really struck me as compatible.
Even if they were a reasonable way of sorting merit/enjoyment:etc, which I don’t believe, numbers generally serve as thought-enders here. They invite people to skip the substance
Even if they were a reasonable way of sorting merit/enjoyment:etc, which I don’t believe, numbers generally serve as thought-enders here. They invite people to skip the substance
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This was so disappointing. I and several other tech-related academics who live in Boston tried reaching out many, many times, but nothing - her office simply did not want to hear about this one, it was completely shut down.
"Warren is well known in MA's LGBTQ community for showing up at Pride events and dancing around in a feather boa. But when her queer and trans constituents asked her to meet with us about legislation that could harm the most vulnerable members of our community, she wouldn’t even look us in the eye."
It appears that some members of the Democratic Party are supporting KOSA.
The act purports to be about protecting children, but it could weaponize Trump's FTC to target LGBTQ+ content on the internet.
Evan Greer writes for EITM in this latest op-ed.
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The act purports to be about protecting children, but it could weaponize Trump's FTC to target LGBTQ+ content on the internet.
Evan Greer writes for EITM in this latest op-ed.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
January 12, 2026 at 6:18 PM
This was so disappointing. I and several other tech-related academics who live in Boston tried reaching out many, many times, but nothing - her office simply did not want to hear about this one, it was completely shut down.
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Depressing news reported at @lgbtqnation.com:
Publishers are “stepping back” from LGBTQ+ books amid bans & the current GOP president
www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/publ...
#kidlit #queerkidlit #lgbtq #booksky
Publishers are “stepping back” from LGBTQ+ books amid bans & the current GOP president
www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/publ...
#kidlit #queerkidlit #lgbtq #booksky
Publishers are “stepping back” from LGBTQ+ books amid bans & the current GOP president - LGBTQ Nation
"In the face of so many book bans and so much concern about decreasing school library sales of queer content" publishers are "passing" on LGBTQ+ books.
www.lgbtqnation.com
January 13, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Depressing news reported at @lgbtqnation.com:
Publishers are “stepping back” from LGBTQ+ books amid bans & the current GOP president
www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/publ...
#kidlit #queerkidlit #lgbtq #booksky
Publishers are “stepping back” from LGBTQ+ books amid bans & the current GOP president
www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/publ...
#kidlit #queerkidlit #lgbtq #booksky
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Meanwhile, check out this heartfelt convo with @sophiajt.com on how trans books rekindled her love of reading and writing. Loved the book. We became friends from this podcast and full disclosure, now partners. But I enjoyed the book before any of that. 🥰
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...
Resonance, Consent, and Discovery in Trans Lit with Sophia Turner
Podcast Episode · Galaxy Moth Queer Books · 10/06/2025 · 1h 2m
podcasts.apple.com
January 14, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Meanwhile, check out this heartfelt convo with @sophiajt.com on how trans books rekindled her love of reading and writing. Loved the book. We became friends from this podcast and full disclosure, now partners. But I enjoyed the book before any of that. 🥰
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...
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New! November 2025 - Jan 2026 book releases by transfeminine authors, counting 15 titles in total. medium.com/@soverybee/n...
November 2025 — January 2026 releases by Transfeminine Authors
The Persephone Effect by Maria Ying (Gunmetal Olympus 2). Mecha sci-fi. Persephone is wounded but not yet defeated. A presence grows…
medium.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:44 PM
New! November 2025 - Jan 2026 book releases by transfeminine authors, counting 15 titles in total. medium.com/@soverybee/n...
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Me before writing Bloodstained Porcelain: I have no strong feelings about porcelain.
Me after writing Bloodstained Porcelain: The flesh is weak, and it must be replaced with pristine, perfect porcelain.
Anyway, pre-order my book at chimeratallulah.itch.io/bloodstained... for some great Doll TF.
Me after writing Bloodstained Porcelain: The flesh is weak, and it must be replaced with pristine, perfect porcelain.
Anyway, pre-order my book at chimeratallulah.itch.io/bloodstained... for some great Doll TF.
Bloodstained Porcelain by ChimeraLucy
chimeratallulah.itch.io
January 13, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Me before writing Bloodstained Porcelain: I have no strong feelings about porcelain.
Me after writing Bloodstained Porcelain: The flesh is weak, and it must be replaced with pristine, perfect porcelain.
Anyway, pre-order my book at chimeratallulah.itch.io/bloodstained... for some great Doll TF.
Me after writing Bloodstained Porcelain: The flesh is weak, and it must be replaced with pristine, perfect porcelain.
Anyway, pre-order my book at chimeratallulah.itch.io/bloodstained... for some great Doll TF.
Shibou Yuugi, the new death game anime,
has a schlocky pilot elevated by occasionally brilliant direction, amazing music choices and a slow, deliberative pacing that avoids jump scares or gore while emphasizing character and psychology.
And then the character designs give “hi I’m Tits McBoobs.”
has a schlocky pilot elevated by occasionally brilliant direction, amazing music choices and a slow, deliberative pacing that avoids jump scares or gore while emphasizing character and psychology.
And then the character designs give “hi I’m Tits McBoobs.”
January 12, 2026 at 1:23 AM
Shibou Yuugi, the new death game anime,
has a schlocky pilot elevated by occasionally brilliant direction, amazing music choices and a slow, deliberative pacing that avoids jump scares or gore while emphasizing character and psychology.
And then the character designs give “hi I’m Tits McBoobs.”
has a schlocky pilot elevated by occasionally brilliant direction, amazing music choices and a slow, deliberative pacing that avoids jump scares or gore while emphasizing character and psychology.
And then the character designs give “hi I’m Tits McBoobs.”
Strong second on this rec! Team Butterfly Forever is something quite special.
Just read all the published chapters of Team Butterfly Forever by @opensketchbook.bsky.social, and loved it!
A *very* queer story about Magical Girls a decade after they saved the world and how they've coped (or failed to) with the aftermath of that
A *very* queer story about Magical Girls a decade after they saved the world and how they've coped (or failed to) with the aftermath of that
January 10, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Strong second on this rec! Team Butterfly Forever is something quite special.
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January 10, 2026 at 12:53 AM
Discord wants to know how you feel about AI.
Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
People thinking super robot as a genre is incompatible with traumacore stories a la mechsplo is low key kinda funny.
Like the edgy ones exist and are classics! “All my friends died in front of me and then the god robot declared us all unworthy and exterminated humanity” type shit.
Like the edgy ones exist and are classics! “All my friends died in front of me and then the god robot declared us all unworthy and exterminated humanity” type shit.
January 9, 2026 at 2:40 AM
People thinking super robot as a genre is incompatible with traumacore stories a la mechsplo is low key kinda funny.
Like the edgy ones exist and are classics! “All my friends died in front of me and then the god robot declared us all unworthy and exterminated humanity” type shit.
Like the edgy ones exist and are classics! “All my friends died in front of me and then the god robot declared us all unworthy and exterminated humanity” type shit.
TFW you are just going about your business and then "As Girls Go" comes up on autoplay, like Youtube, why are you giving me the skeevy lesbian chaser anthem?!
Okay, it is kinda a bop.
Okay, it is kinda a bop.
January 9, 2026 at 2:12 AM
TFW you are just going about your business and then "As Girls Go" comes up on autoplay, like Youtube, why are you giving me the skeevy lesbian chaser anthem?!
Okay, it is kinda a bop.
Okay, it is kinda a bop.
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Do you like lesbian books that make you deeply unwell yet strangely excited? Haunted mecha and the women who pilot them; desire so consuming it becomes cannibalistic? The Hades Calculus is on sale for just $3.99.
Itch: mariaying.itch.io/the-hades-ca...
Amz: www.amazon.com/Hades-Calcul...
Itch: mariaying.itch.io/the-hades-ca...
Amz: www.amazon.com/Hades-Calcul...
The Hades Calculus by Maria Ying
Hades/Persephone retelling with giant mecha
mariaying.itch.io
January 8, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Do you like lesbian books that make you deeply unwell yet strangely excited? Haunted mecha and the women who pilot them; desire so consuming it becomes cannibalistic? The Hades Calculus is on sale for just $3.99.
Itch: mariaying.itch.io/the-hades-ca...
Amz: www.amazon.com/Hades-Calcul...
Itch: mariaying.itch.io/the-hades-ca...
Amz: www.amazon.com/Hades-Calcul...
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Early access!
Emma and Talia bring you an interview with one-third of bestselling author Maria Ying, about lesbian futurism, not-so-feminist Greek myth retellings, and how the past is a foreign country (so you can be orientalist about it)! 'The Persephone Effect' is out this January!
Emma and Talia bring you an interview with one-third of bestselling author Maria Ying, about lesbian futurism, not-so-feminist Greek myth retellings, and how the past is a foreign country (so you can be orientalist about it)! 'The Persephone Effect' is out this January!
Spotlight: Interview with Maria Ying, Author of "The Hades Calculus" | Cracked Ivory
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January 8, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Early access!
Emma and Talia bring you an interview with one-third of bestselling author Maria Ying, about lesbian futurism, not-so-feminist Greek myth retellings, and how the past is a foreign country (so you can be orientalist about it)! 'The Persephone Effect' is out this January!
Emma and Talia bring you an interview with one-third of bestselling author Maria Ying, about lesbian futurism, not-so-feminist Greek myth retellings, and how the past is a foreign country (so you can be orientalist about it)! 'The Persephone Effect' is out this January!
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This just goes to show how vacuous all those concerns about preserving the status of the Western canon were. Plato is basically the main white-bust-statue guy, but it turns out he's too woke for universities if you actually read him
"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
dailynous.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:07 PM
This just goes to show how vacuous all those concerns about preserving the status of the Western canon were. Plato is basically the main white-bust-statue guy, but it turns out he's too woke for universities if you actually read him
Thinking once again that people, particular online, need to spend less time talking for, policing, or speaking as/for “the community,” and more time building and being in communities.
January 7, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Thinking once again that people, particular online, need to spend less time talking for, policing, or speaking as/for “the community,” and more time building and being in communities.
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She gave permission for screenshots for posterity since she's about to deactivate, so I wanted to preserve these in particular.
This is why I was going on about this issue so much last night amidst all of the lamentations in the passive voice. A lot of this awfulness is self-inflicted.
This is why I was going on about this issue so much last night amidst all of the lamentations in the passive voice. A lot of this awfulness is self-inflicted.
January 7, 2026 at 1:57 AM
She gave permission for screenshots for posterity since she's about to deactivate, so I wanted to preserve these in particular.
This is why I was going on about this issue so much last night amidst all of the lamentations in the passive voice. A lot of this awfulness is self-inflicted.
This is why I was going on about this issue so much last night amidst all of the lamentations in the passive voice. A lot of this awfulness is self-inflicted.
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It’s honestly pretty telling that two trans women who took opposite positions were harassed off this site. It doesn’t really matter if you’re right or wrong, people just want to abuse us.
January 7, 2026 at 11:54 AM
It’s honestly pretty telling that two trans women who took opposite positions were harassed off this site. It doesn’t really matter if you’re right or wrong, people just want to abuse us.
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just finished reading the hades calculus by @devi.bsky.social and @benjanun.bsky.social. what the fuck. what the fuck. what the fuck???!!!
January 4, 2026 at 6:18 PM
just finished reading the hades calculus by @devi.bsky.social and @benjanun.bsky.social. what the fuck. what the fuck. what the fuck???!!!
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A lot of us have left the media industry because this is what the industry has become… one has to wonder whether the Pentagon Papers would have been published today. NYT likely would have buried it
(Semafor) - The New York Times and Washington Post learned of a secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin Friday night — but held off publishing what they knew to avoid endangering US troops ..
@semafor.com
www.semafor.com/article/01/0...
@semafor.com
www.semafor.com/article/01/0...
January 4, 2026 at 6:38 AM
A lot of us have left the media industry because this is what the industry has become… one has to wonder whether the Pentagon Papers would have been published today. NYT likely would have buried it
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Anyway Tumblr was the original seed in the sense that it rewarded antisocial behavior in progressive / seemingly progressive communities, I think a lot of people have internalized that visiting severe abuse on another is fine as long as they do it in socially acceptable contexts
January 4, 2026 at 6:20 AM
Anyway Tumblr was the original seed in the sense that it rewarded antisocial behavior in progressive / seemingly progressive communities, I think a lot of people have internalized that visiting severe abuse on another is fine as long as they do it in socially acceptable contexts
Periodically I think about being active on Tumblr, as a number of people I quite admire do exist primarily there. But every time I look at it, it seems like there's another massive transmisogynistic harassment campaign.
And, like, I'd probably be fine; but I do not need that prospective stress.
And, like, I'd probably be fine; but I do not need that prospective stress.
January 4, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Periodically I think about being active on Tumblr, as a number of people I quite admire do exist primarily there. But every time I look at it, it seems like there's another massive transmisogynistic harassment campaign.
And, like, I'd probably be fine; but I do not need that prospective stress.
And, like, I'd probably be fine; but I do not need that prospective stress.
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there has not been nearly enough coverage of how anti-trans activists cloaked in the guise of journalism are responsible for undermining public faith in scientific expertise. singal is emblematic of a now dominant strain of science journalism that has nothing but contempt for science and scientists
January 2, 2026 at 1:16 AM
there has not been nearly enough coverage of how anti-trans activists cloaked in the guise of journalism are responsible for undermining public faith in scientific expertise. singal is emblematic of a now dominant strain of science journalism that has nothing but contempt for science and scientists
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![Current beginning of wikipedia entry for NYT publisher A.G. Sulzberger:
"Arthur Gregg Sulzberger (born August 5, 1980) is an American journalist and anti-transgender activist serving as the chairman of the New York Times Company and publisher of its flagship newspaper, The New York Times. He has been described as the "primary architect" of the paper's "barrage of anti-trans coverage."[1][2][3][4]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xslgcpn2b4jjygmowrfvaxtd/bafkreicsusqemnhibumrqi7vpn2nurqfiujwqnhakyynsix6j3lnjhcjti@jpeg)