Mieke Em
@twilightbutterfly.bsky.social
Arty, writerish, skateboarding rock-n-roll girl. https://twilightbutterfly.substack.com
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"Obviously, I am trans. I can’t escape that. I feel like I could have died, somebody could have shot me, I could have been revived on the operating table, and the headline would still be about being trans.” www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
‘All of us felt like we had touched gold’: What It Feels Like for a Girl, the BBC’s electric coming-of-age tale
Paris Lees has turned her hit memoir of growing up as a working-class trans kid into a vivid, joyful drama. Its team talks teenage sex work, nostalgia for Tony Blair, and why TV drama is so posh it’s ...
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May 31, 2025 at 5:53 AM
"Obviously, I am trans. I can’t escape that. I feel like I could have died, somebody could have shot me, I could have been revived on the operating table, and the headline would still be about being trans.” www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
I’m feeling called out.
How to be a Writer, #28367:
Look for perfect notebook in which to write new idea
Peruse collection of roughly 20,000 unused notebooks
Decide they are all too pretty to use
Buy new (plain black, Moleskine) notebook
Write idea on laptop
Tea
Look for perfect notebook in which to write new idea
Peruse collection of roughly 20,000 unused notebooks
Decide they are all too pretty to use
Buy new (plain black, Moleskine) notebook
Write idea on laptop
Tea
May 31, 2025 at 10:07 AM
I’m feeling called out.
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I recommend Luminous to all of y'all. Park's Luminous, and Laila Lalami's The Dream Hotel are both terrific, timely, and reset something in me (a state of mind? a sense of the world and it's possibilities?) that badly needed to be reset.
Reactor is delighted to present a conversation between authors Kelly Link and @silviapark.bsky.social, as they discuss inspiration, robots, and writing stories across borders:
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Speculative Fiction Can Shake Us Awake: A Conversation With Silvia Park and Kelly Link - Reactor
Reactor is proud to host this conversation with Kelly Link, author of The Book of Love and Silvia Park, in conjunction with the publication of her novel Luminous. The two writers discuss speculative c...
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March 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I recommend Luminous to all of y'all. Park's Luminous, and Laila Lalami's The Dream Hotel are both terrific, timely, and reset something in me (a state of mind? a sense of the world and it's possibilities?) that badly needed to be reset.