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Azalea Dunn/A.Z. Dunsworth 🇯🇲 🇳🇬 🍉
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Island girl 🌺
African princess 👑
Queer & proud 🏳️‍🌈

Writer of interracial/multicultural romance (as Azalea) & sci fi/fantasy (as A.Z.) http://books2read.com/u/38MPwV

Currently based in Jamaica.
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Azalea Dunn/A.Z. Dunsworth 🇯🇲 🇳🇬 🍉 @azaleadunn.bsky.social · Sep 1
An acquaintance is facing stage 3 cervical cancer and could really use the support as she gets treatment. A donation or a share would mean so much. Thank you 💜

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Friends! I bring good news of the world to come!! My novel is coming out May 19, 2026. And it is available for pre-order now! Either at your local bookstore or at the link below!
Plastic, Prism, Void by Violet Allen — Debut trans romantasy — LittlePuss Press
A time-skipping quick-quipping trans romantasy supernova! "An utterly essential, astounding new voice." —Charlie Jane Anders
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December 1, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Seems like as time goes on more people will adopt this already emerging consensus view of the Biden admin in MENA, but it's one thing to say it and another to hold the architects of this program to account: why does no one ask why CAP hired Blinken, why CNN hired McGurk, Sullivan at Harvard?
Good piece by @brhodes on lessons that must be learned from the tragedy and myopia of Biden Democrats enabling Netanyahu in Gaza and the West Bank. It was an utter moral, diplomatic and political failure: Opinion | This Is the Story of How the Democrats Blew It on G... From nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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7/ This essay is part of "Global Stop Work Order," a series on the impacts of Trump's cuts on LGBTQ health (& employment) + HIV. In the coming months, Afeef Nessouli & I will be publishing investigations from Uganda, South Africa, Europe, the Middle East & the US theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
This essay is part of the series Global Stop Work Order, which will feature reporting about how the Trump administration’s cuts are affecting LGBTQ+ health and HIV/AIDS in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and North America. The series is supported by a Pulitzer Center Global Reporting Grant and the Fund for Investigative Journalism.
December 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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6/ "'the six-month injectable PrEP, you could have potentially improved patient outcomes, increased adherence, and reduced the burden of HIV prevention,' Ahabwe Lenard, one of the lab technicians pointed out. Protectiong for 180 days> 30! theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
And finally, while giving dozens of sex workers 30 pills PrEp is a good thing, if the team had been able to provide lenacapivr instead, “the six-month injectable PrEP, you could have potentially improved patient outcomes, increased adherence, and reduced the burden of HIV prevention,” Ahabwe Lenard, one of the lab technicians pointed out.
December 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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5/ As I shared last week, I had the chance to draw blood & observe an HIV outreach team in Kampala, which gave condoms to 200 sex workers & 30 days of PreP pills to dozens who tested negative for HIV.

But if we’d had Lenacapavir instead…

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December 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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4/ Also, Lenacapvir, an injectable HIV prevention medication which lasts for six months, is just ready to roll out. But as @gregggonsalves.bsky.social explained—and as I have seen in South African & Uganda—Trump just DESTROYED the needed distribution infrastructure
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Tragically, right as it was ready to begin rolling out, the Trump administration “decimated the infrastructure of global HIV prevention programs by its destruction of USAID,” said Gregg Gonsalves, an epidemiologist at the Yale School of Public Health. Despite the administration backing some small rollouts of the drug (about 500 doses of lenacapavir were delivered each to Zambia and Eswatini, which have a combined population of about 24 million people), Gonsalves described Trump’s “support for Lenacapivir” as “a hollow promise to millions who are at risk of HIV infection around the globe,” and “a drop in the bucket for a drug that can be manufactured by generic companies for $40 a year. We need the programs and services that Trump cut put back in place” — and for workers to be hired back to distribute this new drug to their peers.
December 1, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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3/ In every country we reported, Trump's health budgets have been a crisis of LGBTQ *employment*. HIV is a slow-acting virus & while "the cuts" have caused death, overwhelmingly, the biggest and fastest form of harm has been Black & brown LGBTQ people losing work theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
The immediate consequences of the cuts are more economic than medical. For many, the cuts created an acute crisis of employment. Research has long shown that people who identify as LGBTQ+ and/or living with HIV are prone to living in poverty. Often, the only work in the formal economy accessible to LGBTQ people — and trans women in particular — is to work in HIV prevention. Workers typically began as clients, then became volunteers, then stick with it for their career. These people often lack university or even secondary-school educations, and their jobs in HIV prevention are key to their economic and physical well-being, with salaries serving as lifelines for their families and economic engines in their communities. And when the stop-work order came, they fell off an economic cliff that brought financial danger much faster than HIV ever could. This was true in every country where we reported.
December 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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2/ First, a simple acknowledgment of World AIDS Day, and the impact of HIV over the last half-century: the virus has already taken the lives of approximately 44 million people, and 40 million people are currently living with HIV. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
On World AIDS Day 2025, humanity should be celebrating that there is a new shot available which offers six months of protection against the transmission of HIV, the virus which has already infected approximately 40 million living people and taken the lives of 44 million more.
December 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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1/ For six months, I've been traveling the world on Pulitzer Ctr & Fund For Investigative Journalism grants investigating Trump's effect on HIV & LGBTQ health. On World AIDS Day, @theintercept.com is publishing an overview essay of Afeef Nessouli & my findings. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
Trump Gutted AIDS Health Care at the Worst Possible Time
By the first World AIDS Day of his second term, Trump gutted LGBTQ+ employment globally and put humanity at greater risk of AIDS.
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December 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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One cannot reject authoritarianism ar home and support it abroad. A vital corrective to decades of catastrophic failed policy, with a death toll in the tens if not hundreds of thousands.

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Opinion | This Is the Story of How the Democrats Blew It on Gaza
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December 1, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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December 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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We publish many new & emerging authors; they deserve pro pay. Our First Readers write personalized comments in ALL replies; they deserve pay. If you read BCS & you're able to support, please consider it. If you have, THANK YOU. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... weightlessbooks.com/genre/fictio... 2/3
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BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3
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December 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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For everyone looking for a fantasy magazine to subscribe to/support on this Cyber Monday!

(Individual issues are also available through various online ebook retailers.)
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BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3
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December 1, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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December 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Looking forward to our anthology launch tomorrow, and this event on Thursday!
December 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Despair has seeped into my heart and my children's lives are tragic
Hunger bites little ones in the cold, and a childhood trembles with no bread and no warmth.
We were freezing,Hunger and cold met, and the bodies of kids were eaten.
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December 1, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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I think it's important to say every time that Americans have been frightened of Black Haitians since the Haitian Revolution succeeded because the Haitian fight for freedom inspired enslaved people across the Americas and showed colonizer slaveholders that sometimes we win. They're still scared.
juanescalante.com Juan Escalante @juanescalante.com · 5d
DHS has announced the end of temporary immigration protections for Haitians.

The decision, effective Feb. 3, 2026, affects up to more than a half million Haitians. They now face returning to a country plagued by criminal gangs that control all major roads into the capital Port-au-Prince.
Trump says Haiti no longer meets requirements for TPS. Haitians have to leave
The Department of Homeland Security said TPS for Haiti ends Feb. 3, 2026, affecting over half a million people who may face return to gang-controlled Port-au-Prince.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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ICYMI: an old-timey mermaid story from me in October's @thepinkhydra.com: www.thepinkhydra.com/issues/0202202510/thegrotto/

thanks to Charles for these round-ups! they always put more to-reads on my list.
November 30, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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I am here 👇 and I am queer (and so is every other story on the list)
November 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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I am "many more" if you want to check out my romantic fantasy flash piece about words and people. "The Bureaucromancers' Duel" at www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...
December 1, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - OCTOBER 2025🏳️‍🌈
I round up over 30 stories by @sentencebender.bsky.social @marisca.bsky.social @deeholloway.bsky.social @mimulus.bsky.social @jennahanchey.bsky.social @aimeeogdenwrites.com @thesuiway.bsky.social @straith.ca & MANY MORE!!!!
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Some Queer Short SFF - October 2025 | Charles Payseur
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November 30, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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On Thanksgiving night, the Maloon & Rabin family was involved… Eileen Price needs your support for Help the Maloon & Rabin Family Recover After Their Accident
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November 30, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Just a month left to register for the ANTI-FASCIST WRITE-ATHON on January 3rd. Thousands of writers coming together (via Zoom) to work on their own WIPs and let the world know we refuse to lie down for a fascist takeover. Register here: bit.ly/AFWa and share!
December 1, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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“Radiation and the Question of Power: C.L.R. James and the Struggle for Chaguaramas” - Small Axe

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“Rumors of a War: Radar and Power in Trinidad and Tobago” - Clash! Voices for a Caribbean Federation from Below

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December 1, 2025 at 12:10 AM