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Luke :)
@lukejsuth.bsky.social
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writer, librarian, publisher

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A deer sleeping outside my bedroom window this morning 🤍
Looking throw a window at a young deer sleeping with its nose tucked towards its tail
November 28, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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I’m speaking at this wonderful event at GMU on Thursday <3 watershedlit.gmu.edu/events/17561
A light blue and pink flyer. The text reads: The LGBTQ+ Resources Center, the Women and Gender Studies Center, and Watershed Lit Present DAY OF TRANSGENDER LITERATURE PROSE PANEL at 12 pm Explore the transgender experience with readings & discussions from speculative fiction, tabletop role-playing games, and flash narrative writers. Featuring Charlie Jane Anders, Dominique Dickey, Luke Sutherland, and Andrew Joseph White. © FENWICK READING ROOM POETRY PANEL at 1:30 Enjoy poetry readings & a discussion of poetry's unique capacity for illuminating the transgender experience. Featuring Andrea Abi-Karam, Emily Holland, Amir Rabiyah, and K. Iver. © FENWICK READING ROOM WRITING WORKSHOP at 3 PM Join us for creative writing & fellowship as we create new works of literature in a community writing workshop moderated by Addie Tsai. @ FENWICK READING ROOM TDOR VIGIL at 6 pm In observance of Transgender Day of Remembrance, the LGBTQ+ Resources Center and the Center for Leadership and Intercultural Engagement will hold a vigil to acknowledge the losses of our last year and spread awareness about the continued violence against trans and non-binary folks. @ THE JOHNSON CENTER BISTRO A light blue and pink flyer. The text reads: The LGBTQ+ Resources Center, the Women and Gender Studies Center, and Watershed Lit Presents DAY OF TRANSGENDER LITERATURE PROSE PANEL at 12pm Andrew Joseph White is the bestselling, award-winning author of horror novels for teens and adults, including Hell Followed With Us, You Weren't Meant to Be Human, and more. Born and raised in the Shenandoah Valley, he received his MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University and lives in Virginia with his wife and their antisocial cat. Charlie Jane Anders is the author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster, among others. She's won the Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, and other awards. She co-created Escapade, a transgender superhero, for Marvel Comics. She's currently the science fiction and fantasy book reviewer for the Washington Post. With Annalee Newitz, she co-hosts the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct. Luke Sutherland is a writer, librarian, and publisher on Piscataway lands, so-called Washington D.C. His chapbook Distance Sequence won the 2023 OutWrite Chapbook Contest, published by Neon Hemlock Press. He is an editor at smoke + mold and co-founder of the trans small press Lilac Peril. Find him online as @lukejsuth or @lilacperil. Dominique Dickey is a speculative fiction writer and game designer. As the creative director of Sly Robot Games, they've created Plant Girl Game and Tomorrow on Revelation Ill. Their short fiction has appeared in venues including Fantasy Magazine Lightspeed Magazine, and Nightmare Magazine. Their novella Redundancies & Potentials is now available from Neon Hemlock Press.
November 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Thinking about Them
X and Jordan in The Doom Generation looking at each other homosexually X and Jordan in The Doom Generation looking at each other homosexually but it’s a different scene
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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🥲 this means a lot to me actually
Quote from a review by the Transfeminine Review of the book TABOO: “But the real editorial triumph here comes in the table of contents with the absolute sea of underground talent Lilac Peril has managed to gather here, almost all of them at their best. It's not the presence of underground talent that impresses; it's the quality. This is the kind of exceptional submission pool you can create when you're actively investing in supporting and educating your literary community. It's a talent cultivated in workshops and networks of mutual aid and support, and it slaps so damn hard.” Quote from a review by the Transfeminine Review of the book TABOO: “Yes, TABOO is one of the best books of 2025. I'll stand by that, this book fucks so hard. But I have an immense respect now for this entire cohort of authors - what they stand for, and how they represent it. Lilac Peril is sitting on a crop of talent that's overflowing with potential, and almost every story here feels like a beginning of a career still waiting to be written. And isn't that the best possible feeling to take away from a short story collection?”
November 8, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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I have a short little essay out now in Seventh Wave Magazine about thylacines and writing 🦴 the art is a collage I made a few years ago! theseventhwave.org/insights-on-...
SEVENTH WAVE On Animals Essays "Animals have always haunted human art, but that haunting takes on a different quality when we understand ourselves to be the executioners." Below the text is a collage made up of framed photos of thylacines
October 27, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Luckily this calmed me down
Smallest dog alive, wearing a cowboy costume, held aloft in someone’s hands
October 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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I’m losing my mind over this transition in an episode of the Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau
September 16, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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One of these has peanuts and the other one doesn’t. Guess who’s been micro-dosing poison for weeks 🤪
Laoganma Spicy Chili Crisp Laoganma Fried Chili in Oil
September 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Give it up for BEELZEBUFO!!
Extinct, massive frog genus Beelzebufo staring down a much smaller theropod
July 30, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Incredibly fortuitous used bookstore haul including a stunning foil edition of the fifth wound :)
Books laid flat on a floral carpet. She of the Mountains by Vivek Shraya, Low Life by Lucy Sante, Perfume by Patrick Süskind, On the Calculation of Volume 1 by Solvej Balle, The Nature Book by Tom Comitta, Unusual Fragments: Japanese Stories, and The Fifth Wound by Aurora Mattia.
July 22, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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I was delighted to be interviewed about my chapbook by Aylli Cortez for @sundresspub.bsky.social 🌟❤️ sundressblog.com/2025/06/09/w...
WE CALL UPON THE AUTHOR TO EXPLAIN DISTANCE SEQUENCE LUKE SUTHERLAND Following the release of his debut nonfiction chapbook, Distance Sequence, Luke Sutherland spoke with Sundress intern Aylli Cortez. Quote from Luke: “I'm always trying to get at the social construction of the 'natural,' both ecologically and morally. It's a violent construction; we see this in everything from Zionist ecofascism (trying to make the "empty" desert bloom) to the criminalization of transition. Attempting to label certain expressions of human life as unnatural is deeply fascistic.” Quote from Luke: “Prose writers do themselves a disservice when they don't consider the options that verse and experimental text rendering offers them. Why are we so stiff with our lines? A paragraph can be such a dull container.”
June 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Tabling for @lilacperil.bsky.social at two events on Saturday!! We will have pre-orders for the anthology, a sneak peek zine, buttons, diy hrt info, oh my! :) @liberationwknd.bsky.social
May 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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I love graphic design
A very cool and chill birthday invitation featuring shadow the hedgehog with a gun
April 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Next @lilacperil.bsky.social workshop, our first virtual one! hmu for the meeting link
April 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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ALSO in TWO WEEKS I’ll be reading in support of @thedennemichele.bsky.social for @theinnerlooplit.bsky.social :) it’s go-to-a-book-event April
April 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Also this week: I’ll be in convo with @aaantons.bsky.social about his new book at Lost City Books! @littlepuss.net 🪄🐇
Realistic Fiction by Anton Solomonik, in conversation with Luke Sutherland. Thursday April 10 at 7 pm.
April 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Always forget to post here, but: this weekend with @lilacperil.bsky.social ! Learn about traditional publishing from an industry professional who is also one of the boys, if you know what I mean 💅
Lilac Peril presents: Trans writing workshop with guest instructor Noah Rosenzweig. Rhizome DC, 6950 Maple St NW, Washington DC 20012. Sunday April 13 at 3 pm. workshop topic: Q&A WITH A LITERARY AGENT. Chat all things traditional publishing with a professional literary agent! What are the pros and cons of trad publishing? Who are agents and what do they do? What do I want out of publishing? Why the hell is it all so confusing??? GUEST INSTRUCTOR: NOAH ROSENZWEIG. Noah Grey Rosenzweig grew up in New Jersey before moving to D.C. in 2017. He was an editorial fellow at Grove Atlantic and Roxane Gay Books and is a literary agent at Triangle House. His work can be found in The Columbia Journal, Angel Food Magazine, and is forthcoming elsewhere. Who is this workshop for? trans, non-binary, andTwo-Spirit writers of all experiences levels. we welcome you whether its you lst or 100th workshop. How much does it cost? nothing! the workshop is 100% free to all. Why should I go? to build community, to fight despair, and to get inspired for that writing project you've been meaning to work on.
April 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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My order from @traumbooks.bsky.social came with SNACKS!! 10/10 book and snack combo
A book and a small pack of gummies
March 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Hi Aurora, I’m one of the lilac peril people! We’re planning on hosting workshops once a month, so hopefully you can make the next one 🙂
February 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Cashing in my Sutherland inheritance today (being goth in Santa Cruz)
March 1, 2024 at 10:14 PM
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January 6, 2024 at 4:00 AM
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I’m a Ward 4 resident, and I just contacted Councilmember George and urged her to support a ceasefire resolution in DC Council. It’s important that the council hears from us, so check out this toolkit and join me today by driving calls and emails: bit.ly/dcceasefiretoolkit
November 28, 2023 at 8:44 PM
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Do not miss the brilliant @emializh.bsky.social at Lost City Books on Tues Oct 24 at 7 pm, reading from her new book out through @littlepusspress.bsky.social 🌸🌸
Book cover of “Girlfriends” by Emily Zhou Event flyer for “Girlfriends.” Lost City Books, 2467 18th St NW, DC. October 24 at 7 pm.
October 17, 2023 at 3:31 PM