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Susan Stinson

@susanstinson.bsky.social

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Novelist. Author of Martha Moody, Spider in a Tree, and Venus of Chalk from Small Beer Press. Essays in The Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies and The Portable Feminist Reader. Triker. she/her.

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Susan Stinson @susanstinson.bsky.social · Jun 20

It makes me so happy that @martin65.bsky.social just read my novel Spider in a Tree and is writing such interesting things about it. 🧵

Catherine Rockwood @martin65.bsky.social · Jun 20

Finished reading this wonderful, weird, insect- and vision-filled novel by @susanstinson.bsky.social this week. 1/?

Photo shows the cover of the novel _Spider in a Tree_ by Susan Stinson. The art shows the interior of an 18th century church of Protestant denomination. It is very full. The upper balconies of the church (removed from the pulpit's main sightline and the sightlines of the fully integrated white, presumably Godly members of the congregation)are filled with white servants and Black enslaved people. From the pulpit, a white man is preaching.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17h

Good news for transgender people at MIT.

Unlike some prestigious universities, MIT has defied the Trump administration and refused its attempt to pressure the university into banning transgender people from bathrooms.

The latest from reporter S. Baum.

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MIT Rejects Trump’s Bid to Institute Trans Bathroom, Athletics Ban

“A government that can reward colleges and universities for speech it favors today can punish them for speech it dislikes tomorrow.”

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 18h

Make Portland Noah's Ark of Harmless Nylon Beasts

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 1d

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 16h

And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt. And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt

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From the Portland community on Reddit: Los Angeles-based activist and #1 NYT bestselling author and illustrator, Nikkolas Smith, draws 'Portland Frog'.

Explore this post and more from the Portland community

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 16h

And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants…

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 16h

And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 18h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 14h

I've stopped asking, "what does the future hold?"

I'm more likely to ask, "what can *I* hold, no matter the future?"

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 1d

Love after Love. Derek Walcott.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2d

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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Susan Stinson @susanstinson.bsky.social · 3d

Rebecca Makkai's memories of Lori Cannon are so beautiful. What a life! What witness, service, rule-breaking, joy.

Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social · 3d

She was also hilarious. I wrote about her, and I promise it will make your day better if you take a minute to learn how driving a bus led to decades of activism and charity.
rebeccamakkai.substack.com/p/we-needed-...

"We needed to do SOMETHING"

in memoriam, Lori Cannon

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Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social · 3d

In early August, the indomitable Chicago AIDS activist Lori Cannon passed away. She was an irreplaceable resource while I was writing The Great Believers, and inspiration, angel, and friend to thousands. 🧵

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Susan Stinson @susanstinson.bsky.social · 5d

Cheers for all of the @lambdaliterary.org award winners and finalists. And everyone who published a queer book. We need all of us more than ever!

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Susan Stinson @susanstinson.bsky.social · 5d

I am always extra happy for the other Duggins award winners! Mid-Career Novelists, unite!

Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 10d

🎉 Congratulations to the winners of the Jim Duggins, PhD Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize, R.O. Kwon (@rokwon.bsky.social) and Carter Sickels (@cartersickels.bsky.social)! 🎉
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

Red and gold background. Image is split in half vertically. The two winners of the 2025 Jim Duggins, PhD Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize, R.O. Kwon and Carter Sickels are listed alongside their headshots.

Susan Stinson @susanstinson.bsky.social · 5d

So excited for @sandragaillambert.bsky.social!

Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 6d

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Lesbian Memoir/Biography: My Withered Legs and Other Essays by Sandra Gail Lambert! 🎉🎉🎉 @sandragaillambert.bsky.social @ugapress.bsky.social
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

Susan Stinson @susanstinson.bsky.social · 5d

Thrilled for Omotara James!

Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 6d

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Lesbian Poetry: Song of My Softening by Omotara James! 🎉🎉🎉
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 6d

Costumes are ready. Just waiting on the invitations...

vintage Halloween costumes with two women dressed as mushrooms and one man dressed as a gnome or something

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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 12d

JOB ALERT: Assistant Professor of Art at Smith College, focusing on artists’ books and artist publications:

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 9d

On Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US.

And nobody covered it.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

State AGs Defend Trans Americans in Stunning Rebuke to Trump’s FTC — Assigned

Eighteen state Attorneys General unite to stand up in defense of trans Americans, in opposition to a Federal Trade Commission investigation into trans healthcare.

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Nick Arvin @nickarvin.bsky.social · 6d

An amazing graph, what happens when you destigmatize a behavior.

Graph, titled "The history of left-handedness," shows the rate of left-handedness among Americans by year of birth. The graph illustrates a significant increase in the percentage of left-handed people from the early 1900s to the 1960s, after which the rate stabilized.

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Susan Stinson @susanstinson.bsky.social · 6d

This is unbelievably close to my heart.

the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 7d

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for life. Transform a man into a fish and you enable him to roam the cool waters of the Atlantic, free from the burdens of the human world

Susan Stinson @susanstinson.bsky.social · 6d

Seeing these posts, I am filled with respectful love of your social media voice and presence.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 6d

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

CNN @cnn.com · 7d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

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Sheep in Fog @brebis.bsky.social · 7d

Swedes discover that Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), is more common in people with Long Covid.

"Previous studies have shown that there is a connection, but now we can say with certainty that POTS is a very common condition in patients with long Covid."

Yes, it's October 2025. 😫

Long Covid patients more likely to suffer from unusual heart rhythm disorder

<p><strong>NEW DELHI:</strong> An unusual heart rhythm disorder, also known as Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), is more common in people with long Covid, according to a study.</p...

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Susan Stinson @susanstinson.bsky.social · 7d

Riding my trike to teach brings me such persistent gifts. This week, I wore a skirt with a black background and big sunflowers and orange and purple flowers on it. It rippled under the changing leaves. I had on scarlet wool gloves. The past has things to offer the hard times coming ahead.

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Rebecca Fraimow @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social · 11d

excited to share that I'm on the judging panel for this year's Otherwise awards!

AND, RELATEDLY: please recommend things for the Otherwise awards! nominations close 11/14, my reading list for this is already long but I'm stoked for it to get longer

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News « Otherwise Award

All the latest news from the Otherwise Award, given to a work of science fiction or fantasy in one year which best explores & expands gender roles.

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Tiffany Babb @explodingarrow.bsky.social · 8d

If you have two minutes free right now, call Netflix and leave a comment in support of this programming and ask them to stand up for their shows against political pressure.

Phone number is 1-866-952-4456, and I waited less than a minute before a human picked up.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 8d

1. Led by Elon Musk, the far-right has exploded in a campaign to get Netflix to remove shows with queer and trans characters.

If Netflix capitulates to their demands, an already strained market for LGBTQ+ animators might become even more dire.

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Elon Musk Leads Campaign To Force Netflix To Remove Shows With Trans Characters

Musk's posts have been seen by tens of millions of users, and many conservatives are now attempting to force Netflix into a removal of LGBTQ+ content.

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