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@davevriser.bsky.social
he/him. graduate student, writer, and transsexual horror.
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· Mar 18
“Enough Rope:” Transmasculine Erasure, Violence, and Reading Trans Horror
There was a horror novel kept behind glass when I visited the Chicago Leather Archives and Museum. Poppy Z. Brite, or Billy Martin, is the author of Exquisite Corpse, a disgusting…
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so pleased to have an essay in the #lore issue of #bloodletter magazine ! i talk about (gay) trans masc erasure and poppy z brite / billy martin's fierce and heartbreaking essay "Enough Rope." + how horror can soothe bad trans feelings ♡
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As you’re doing holiday shopping, consider Amplitudes!
I’m proud of this project, and all our contributors—folks from more than 6 countries, each bringing unique perspectives and stories about queer/trans futurity, community, and survival even or especially through difficult times—did amazing work.
I’m proud of this project, and all our contributors—folks from more than 6 countries, each bringing unique perspectives and stories about queer/trans futurity, community, and survival even or especially through difficult times—did amazing work.
For #transawarenessweek, a bump for Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity!
Featuring contributors from across the globe, including both familiar and fresh voices, it gathers 22 speculative stories about queer and trans futures—and I hope at least one of them will hit for you 🖤
Featuring contributors from across the globe, including both familiar and fresh voices, it gathers 22 speculative stories about queer and trans futures—and I hope at least one of them will hit for you 🖤
November 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
As you’re doing holiday shopping, consider Amplitudes!
I’m proud of this project, and all our contributors—folks from more than 6 countries, each bringing unique perspectives and stories about queer/trans futurity, community, and survival even or especially through difficult times—did amazing work.
I’m proud of this project, and all our contributors—folks from more than 6 countries, each bringing unique perspectives and stories about queer/trans futurity, community, and survival even or especially through difficult times—did amazing work.
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Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com
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Why I Need the Birds
A Love Letters Feature by Amal El-Mohtar - November 2025
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November 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com
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We're officially OPEN TO NONFICTION AND REPRINT SUBMISSIONS! We are looking for full nonfiction pieces (not pitches) and reprints of stories currently unavailable for free online.
🪐See our guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines
🗡️Submit here: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...
🪐See our guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines
🗡️Submit here: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
We're officially OPEN TO NONFICTION AND REPRINT SUBMISSIONS! We are looking for full nonfiction pieces (not pitches) and reprints of stories currently unavailable for free online.
🪐See our guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines
🗡️Submit here: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...
🪐See our guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines
🗡️Submit here: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...
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Another bump for the homies 🙏😅
Help if you can, boost if you can't (but no pressure)! They're my friends who have been struggling to stay housed. I need not explain in detail how difficult it is to be trans or to maintain stability in times like ours 😔 www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...
Donate to Help Keep a Trans Family Mobile and Safe, organized by Uilleam Macgregor
We're two working trans artists, Uil and Moss, seeking financial … Uilleam Macgregor needs your support for Donate to Help Keep a Trans Family Mobile and Safe
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November 25, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Another bump for the homies 🙏😅
Psst you dont have to be a conventional scholar to participate--the Queer Horror Conference also accepts presentations from artists and other creative practitioners, as well as grads, undergrads, independent scholars, and established faculty.
November 21, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Psst you dont have to be a conventional scholar to participate--the Queer Horror Conference also accepts presentations from artists and other creative practitioners, as well as grads, undergrads, independent scholars, and established faculty.
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Give us our roses while we're still alive.
November 20, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Give us our roses while we're still alive.
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If they took these off the list, what’s left? These are the main ones
This is fucking horrifying.
Swastikas and nooses are just “potentially divisive”? Are you kidding me?
Swastikas and nooses are just “potentially divisive”? Are you kidding me?
November 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
If they took these off the list, what’s left? These are the main ones
It's that time... consider submitting to the Queer Horror Conference 2026 ! The call for papers is up now--it was so fun and generative last year, I would love to see all of you here this year! The conference is completely virtual, Feb 5-8th 2026 ♡
www.queerhorrorconference.com/call-for-pap...
www.queerhorrorconference.com/call-for-pap...
Call For Papers — HSWG Queer Horror Conference 2026
www.queerhorrorconference.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
It's that time... consider submitting to the Queer Horror Conference 2026 ! The call for papers is up now--it was so fun and generative last year, I would love to see all of you here this year! The conference is completely virtual, Feb 5-8th 2026 ♡
www.queerhorrorconference.com/call-for-pap...
www.queerhorrorconference.com/call-for-pap...
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🔥 COVER +TITLE REVEAL + SUBMISSIONS OPEN🔥
YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM: A Cosmic Body Horror Anthology from Trans & Gender Nonconforming Voices
A Charity collection coming in October 2026🖤☠️🏳️⚧️
Art by @mxmorgan.com
All the info here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...
YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM: A Cosmic Body Horror Anthology from Trans & Gender Nonconforming Voices
A Charity collection coming in October 2026🖤☠️🏳️⚧️
Art by @mxmorgan.com
All the info here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...
November 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🔥 COVER +TITLE REVEAL + SUBMISSIONS OPEN🔥
YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM: A Cosmic Body Horror Anthology from Trans & Gender Nonconforming Voices
A Charity collection coming in October 2026🖤☠️🏳️⚧️
Art by @mxmorgan.com
All the info here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...
YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM: A Cosmic Body Horror Anthology from Trans & Gender Nonconforming Voices
A Charity collection coming in October 2026🖤☠️🏳️⚧️
Art by @mxmorgan.com
All the info here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...
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Episode 2 of Season 9 profiles Dorian Corey. One of Paris Is Burning's most quotable characters, Corey's life helps us explore the history of drag from balls for enslaved people in the 1870s to today. And when she died, friends found a mummified body in her closet. badgayspod.com/episode-arch...
November 11, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Episode 2 of Season 9 profiles Dorian Corey. One of Paris Is Burning's most quotable characters, Corey's life helps us explore the history of drag from balls for enslaved people in the 1870s to today. And when she died, friends found a mummified body in her closet. badgayspod.com/episode-arch...
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THE WORKS OF VERMIN OUT NOW!
"A brilliant, shapeshifting puzzle-box of a book"
- Christopher Buehlman
"A hallucinatory scorpion sting"
- Elizabeth Bear
"My dreams were plagued with anxiety and fear of toxins... Thanks for that."
- My barber
Get your copy from your local bookstore!
"A brilliant, shapeshifting puzzle-box of a book"
- Christopher Buehlman
"A hallucinatory scorpion sting"
- Elizabeth Bear
"My dreams were plagued with anxiety and fear of toxins... Thanks for that."
- My barber
Get your copy from your local bookstore!
October 31, 2025 at 12:37 AM
THE WORKS OF VERMIN OUT NOW!
"A brilliant, shapeshifting puzzle-box of a book"
- Christopher Buehlman
"A hallucinatory scorpion sting"
- Elizabeth Bear
"My dreams were plagued with anxiety and fear of toxins... Thanks for that."
- My barber
Get your copy from your local bookstore!
"A brilliant, shapeshifting puzzle-box of a book"
- Christopher Buehlman
"A hallucinatory scorpion sting"
- Elizabeth Bear
"My dreams were plagued with anxiety and fear of toxins... Thanks for that."
- My barber
Get your copy from your local bookstore!
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LEECH by @hironennes.bsky.social is the post-post-post-apocalyptic sci-fi gothic the world needs. Set in a bitter north with a scalpel's attention to bodies, this is a book I wish I could read for the first time again. Our drink, the Institute, bites back as you sip.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F21b...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F21b...
October 25, 2023 at 8:05 PM
LEECH by @hironennes.bsky.social is the post-post-post-apocalyptic sci-fi gothic the world needs. Set in a bitter north with a scalpel's attention to bodies, this is a book I wish I could read for the first time again. Our drink, the Institute, bites back as you sip.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F21b...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F21b...
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“This thing is definitely bad for us but no one can say what it is”
The evidence that ultra-processed foods are bad for us is piling up. But efforts to reduce their role in our diets face a big hurdle: experts can't agree on what they are and which to target. n.pr/4qMrN7P
People want to avoid ultra-processed foods. But experts struggle to define them
The evidence that ultra-processed foods are bad for us is piling up. But efforts to reduce their role in our diets face a big hurdle: experts can't agree on what they are and which to target.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
“This thing is definitely bad for us but no one can say what it is”
beast that lives in my home and hunts me daily.
November 9, 2025 at 1:03 AM
beast that lives in my home and hunts me daily.
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just wanted to yell about my Trans-Gothic necromancer gay fuck book again
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November 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
just wanted to yell about my Trans-Gothic necromancer gay fuck book again
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These things feel so awkward to post, but I genuinely like seeing other people sharing their work from this year, so I'll hop aboard the train of awards eligibility posts.
November 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
These things feel so awkward to post, but I genuinely like seeing other people sharing their work from this year, so I'll hop aboard the train of awards eligibility posts.
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such a big honor to have this piece, one of the various tendrils of my respective tributes to nick cave, whether creative or academic, in the absolutely unfuckwithable @hexliterary.bsky.social
"Brother Jack, the Father, speaks from a pulpit as crooked as the Tower of Babel."
This week on hex, a devilish delight by @sasharavitch.bsky.social! Hellfire licking, evil evangelist, incredible imagery--Saint Joe and His Devils has got it all! Don't miss a little debauchery this morning! 😈
This week on hex, a devilish delight by @sasharavitch.bsky.social! Hellfire licking, evil evangelist, incredible imagery--Saint Joe and His Devils has got it all! Don't miss a little debauchery this morning! 😈
Saint Joe and His Devils by Sasha Ravitch
Brother Jack, the Father, speaks from a pulpit as crooked as the Tower of Babel.
“And the Parable of Saint Joe and his Devils goes like this: once she lived as a murder of crows or more like a row ...
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November 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
such a big honor to have this piece, one of the various tendrils of my respective tributes to nick cave, whether creative or academic, in the absolutely unfuckwithable @hexliterary.bsky.social
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A woman decides to have a hot vampire summer and make it everyone's problem.
ALL THE HEARTS YOU EAT is on sale at Libro FM for like 80 percent off. I'm not sure for how long? But it's narrated by a full stunning cast 🫀 eat your heart out at Cape Morning
libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
ALL THE HEARTS YOU EAT is on sale at Libro FM for like 80 percent off. I'm not sure for how long? But it's narrated by a full stunning cast 🫀 eat your heart out at Cape Morning
libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
October 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
A woman decides to have a hot vampire summer and make it everyone's problem.
ALL THE HEARTS YOU EAT is on sale at Libro FM for like 80 percent off. I'm not sure for how long? But it's narrated by a full stunning cast 🫀 eat your heart out at Cape Morning
libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
ALL THE HEARTS YOU EAT is on sale at Libro FM for like 80 percent off. I'm not sure for how long? But it's narrated by a full stunning cast 🫀 eat your heart out at Cape Morning
libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
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Cover reveal! 🖤🏚️🖤
So many thanks to Nightworms and @sadiehartmann.bsky.social for unveiling the cover for my second collection, The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own, out on 4/14/26 from @rdspress.bsky.social!
Artwork by the fantastic Scott Cole!
Pre-order links: books2read.com/hauntedhouses
So many thanks to Nightworms and @sadiehartmann.bsky.social for unveiling the cover for my second collection, The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own, out on 4/14/26 from @rdspress.bsky.social!
Artwork by the fantastic Scott Cole!
Pre-order links: books2read.com/hauntedhouses
October 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Cover reveal! 🖤🏚️🖤
So many thanks to Nightworms and @sadiehartmann.bsky.social for unveiling the cover for my second collection, The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own, out on 4/14/26 from @rdspress.bsky.social!
Artwork by the fantastic Scott Cole!
Pre-order links: books2read.com/hauntedhouses
So many thanks to Nightworms and @sadiehartmann.bsky.social for unveiling the cover for my second collection, The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own, out on 4/14/26 from @rdspress.bsky.social!
Artwork by the fantastic Scott Cole!
Pre-order links: books2read.com/hauntedhouses
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I just donated to my local food bank. If you can, you should too. People are already suffering but next month, in particular, is going to be so difficult.
October 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I just donated to my local food bank. If you can, you should too. People are already suffering but next month, in particular, is going to be so difficult.
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thought i would just read one chapter of black flame (2025) before bed. found myself gripped by unease and frantic at 2am. absolutely fantastic, gripping novel, run do not walk etc
October 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
thought i would just read one chapter of black flame (2025) before bed. found myself gripped by unease and frantic at 2am. absolutely fantastic, gripping novel, run do not walk etc
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#whatsleepsbeneath
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complicated feelings about Psycho, trans grief, and psychosis
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complicated feelings about Psycho, trans grief, and psychosis
Private Traps: Transphobia, Psychosis, and Grief in Psycho
Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho continues to be tumultuous ground for trans authors and viewers. In Private Traps, Dave Riser posits questions around the transphobic and ableist histories that force us to c...
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March 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
#whatsleepsbeneath
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complicated feelings about Psycho, trans grief, and psychosis
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complicated feelings about Psycho, trans grief, and psychosis
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Short fiction recommendation of the day: “Each-Uisge” by @davevriser.bsky.social in The Off Season ✨
June 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Short fiction recommendation of the day: “Each-Uisge” by @davevriser.bsky.social in The Off Season ✨