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Audrey T. Carroll

@audreytcarroll.bsky.social

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Queer disabled writer, artist, scholar. Lover of nature, sitcoms, libraries, & coffee. MFA. PhD Candidate. EIC, Genrepunk Magazine 📚 What Blooms in the Dark (2024), The Gaia Hypothesis (2024) She/they https://linktr.ee/audreytcarroll

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Audrey T. Carroll @audreytcarroll.bsky.social · Jun 1

For Pride Month, I'll be posting some of my recent creative and scholarly works each day. All of these pieces are available for free online! 🌈💖💜💙

First up: "Silent as the Grave" in JAKE: jakethemag.com/silent-as-th...

Silent as the Grave

How do we resist? / Fire and joy.

jakethemag.com

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Audrey T. Carroll @audreytcarroll.bsky.social · 15h

Houston (as in Houston Street)

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LJ Pemberton @ljabouttown.bsky.social · 1d

we’ll never get a better future if we don’t all commit to being the weirdest we can possibly be

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Audrey T. Carroll @audreytcarroll.bsky.social · 1d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4Wi...

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Audrey T. Carroll @audreytcarroll.bsky.social · 2d

Currently Teaching: The Book Censor’s Library by Bothayna Al-Essa, translated from the Arabic by Ranya Abdelrahman and Sawad Hussain

Currently Reading: Drinking from Graveyard Wells by Yvette Lisa Ndlova

Drinking from Graveyard Wells by Yvette Lisa Ndlova

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Audrey T. Carroll @audreytcarroll.bsky.social · 2d

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Audrey T. Carroll @audreytcarroll.bsky.social · 3d

I feed them to my outdoor birds over winter to help keep their protein up! The dark-eyed juncos especially love them.

I can't stand the smell, so I always say it's a sign of how much I love the birds. 😅

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Audrey T. Carroll @audreytcarroll.bsky.social · 3d

I'm about to start an Agatha All Along rewatch.

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Valerie B. Williams @valwillwrite.bsky.social · 3d

First pre-release review of my forthcoming story collection, Penfold's Menu of Magic and Malice! www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

Goodreads

Discover and share books you love on Goodreads.

www.goodreads.com

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Audrey T. Carroll @audreytcarroll.bsky.social · 5d

I passed my dissertation proposal defense!!! 🎉🎉🎉

Audrey T. Carroll @audreytcarroll.bsky.social · 5d

The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami and Drinking from Graveyard Wells by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu

Audrey T. Carroll @audreytcarroll.bsky.social · 5d

Also disability scholar here. One of the problems with it being "impolite" to call an asshole an asshole is that, all too often, it leads to more "acceptable" ableist rhetoric.

Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social · 5d

Disability scholar here. This is an example of ableism called sanism, and it both endangers mentally ill ppl, already one of our most vulnerable populations, and does not help us come up with actionable ways to deal with the ppl in power who largely are greedy, ignorant, and malicious.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8d

This current American presidential administration is run by people who are quite obviously mentally ill, and we need to start talking about that.

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Audrey T. Carroll @audreytcarroll.bsky.social · 5d

Oh NO.

Audrey T. Carroll @audreytcarroll.bsky.social · 10d

Instantly added this to my TBR.

Alex DiFrancesco @alessandrostardust.bsky.social · 10d

I've got a book coming out (if we make it to '26) about what it means to go numb from trying to cope w the incessant tragedies of the world. While not specifically about COVID, genocide & endless hate-filled gun violence, it's precisely about these things.

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/818453...

The Grief Shop by Alex DiFrancesco: 9781644215531 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

From the author of Transmutation comes a linked collection of speculative short fiction following a woman who navigates surreal jobs in a near-future dystopia, where people have become completely numb...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Audrey T. Carroll @audreytcarroll.bsky.social · 10d

Harvested fresh basil from the garden to prepare it for freezing for winter soups. 🌱

Audrey T. Carroll @audreytcarroll.bsky.social · 12d

I... is he claiming to have invented dumpsters?

Audrey T. Carroll @audreytcarroll.bsky.social · 14d

Share your favorite black and white movie

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Audrey T. Carroll @audreytcarroll.bsky.social · 14d

I'm a nature girlie who stops to smile at every squirrel, raven, and moth on the cloudy autumnal walk into work.

Audrey T. Carroll @audreytcarroll.bsky.social · 15d

Taking a Youtube and collaging break between writing cover letters for the academic job market.

Audrey T. Carroll @audreytcarroll.bsky.social · 18d

I was literally going to reply with an "Oh my GOODNESS." Same caps and everything! lol

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Audrey T. Carroll @audreytcarroll.bsky.social · 18d

Ekphrastic poems by disabled and/or queer poets! Recommendations? Links?

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Audrey T. Carroll @audreytcarroll.bsky.social · 18d

Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu and Mexicans on the Moon: Speculative Poetry from a Possible Future by Pedro Íñiguez. Hoping to start Hekate: The Witch by Nikita Gill, too.

Audrey T. Carroll @audreytcarroll.bsky.social · 18d

"Not a robot."

Audrey T. Carroll @audreytcarroll.bsky.social · 20d

The fae trying to trap me like:

John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 21d

Sure. Why not.

Sign on white wall saying "it is a normal coffee"

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Audrey T. Carroll @audreytcarroll.bsky.social · 22d

Cat with exasperated expression cuddling

Cat sleeping on the books Meanwhile, Elsewhere and Baldwin: A Love Story

Audrey T. Carroll @audreytcarroll.bsky.social · 22d

Genderqueer salamander! 🪨

Dani Finn 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 23d

All trans people are salamander (hides under a cool damp rock during the day) or lizard (stretches in the sun to absorb its luscious heat)