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Sylvie Althoff
@sylvie-althoff.bsky.social
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Writer, editor, teacher, and jazz banjoist based in Lawrence, Kansas. Fiction appearing in Escape Pod, Small Wonders, Inner Worlds, Saros, and more. 🏳️‍⚧️🚲🍃 Look for my story "Hot Teeth" in Space Wizard's new anthology Lesbians in Space!
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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · Jun 24
It’s here! Check out this collection for my queer SF heist story “Hot Teeth” and plenty more by some truly incredible authors!
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William C. Tracy @wctracy.bsky.social · Jun 24
Lesbians in Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before is now officially released! Get a copy from the store of your choosing!
Ebooks are officially available through 'zon and KU, but contact the publisher (me) about other methods.
#sapphic #sciencefiction
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Lesbians in Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before
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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · 4d
While the Punch a Nazi anthology is no longer available on Ko-Fi, you can still read my queer Jewish ghost story “Bubbe Hates You” for free on my website! Give it a read, and if you like it, consider throwing some money to the Trevor Project (link in story).
Writing — Sylvie Althoff
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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · 7d
The latest in unsolicited student portraiture:
A child-drawn picture of author Sylvie Althoff, incorrectly spelled.
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Charles (Cy) Payseur @cypayseur.bsky.social · 9d
🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - AUGUST 2025🏳️‍🌈
I round up 25 stories by @rukman.bsky.social @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social @rfdwrites.bsky.social @gothgreenwitch.bsky.social @nassos.bsky.social @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social @mererain.bsky.social @whatsmacksaid.bsky.social & MORE!!!
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Some Queer Short SFF - August 2025 | Charles Payseur
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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · 10d
No Beastie Boys? Cowards.
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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · 15d
Longer and queerer is my short story "Root and Branch" in issue 6 of Baubles from Bones: www.baublesfrombones.com/root-and-bra...
"Root and Branch" by Sylvie Althoff
Hidden in a Thai jungle, a geneticist and a synthetic human struggle beneath the brunt of persecution. By Sylvie Althoff. Featured in Baubles From Bones: Issue 6.
www.baublesfrombones.com
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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · 15d
My flash story "Last of the Cigarette Gremlins" is out on manywor(l)ds: manyworlds.place/issue-9/sylv...
Last of the Cigarette Gremlins by Sylvie Althoff - manywor(l)ds :: place
The skinny old punk was up to something. She blended in with the usual crowd at Wart’s: saggy gauged earlobes, sunbleached neck tattoos, ratty Bundeswehr jacket, the PBR can that looked like she’d bee...
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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · 17d
That's now 126 writing rejections for 2025. You WISH you were this rejected. 👑
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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 20d
i remain resolute in my confidence we will win and it will be because we stuck together. dooming and fatalism is not how any of us will get out of this mess. i’m saying this as a veteran climate journalist who is a trans woman. if i have more hope than you, think of what that says about your view
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david tveite @tveite.bsky.social · 23d
one of the clearest signs you're dealing with a strong and principled political movement is when they want to make it illegal to make fun of them
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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · 25d
Unintentional Britishisms? You? 😮
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 26d
Good fucking morning to everybody except those who spread the obvious bullshit lie that the shooter’s ammo was engraved with “transgender and anti-fascist ideology.” You should be publicly shamed into never posting on social media again for spreading such blatant disinformation.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 27d
It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.
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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 29d
hi, cis folks!

if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now.

the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE.

we need you to call senators: reps.fyi

more info & script downthread.🧵
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · Sep 8
NEWS: House Appropriations Committee Republicans released their spending bill for Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies. The legislation would prohibit taxpayer dollars for any type of gender-affirming care for transgender people. This would include programs like Medicaid
SEC. 243. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce Executive Order 13988, entitled ‘‘Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation’’, published by the Executive Office of the President on January 25, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 7023). SEC. 244. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for any social, psychological, behavioral,or medical intervention performed for the purposes of in16 tentionally changing the body of an individual (including by disrupting the body’s development, inhibiting its natural functions, or modifying its appearance) to no longer correspond to the individual’s biological sex.
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smelly wolf penis @gnarlyanimal.bsky.social · Sep 7
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Do not let these milquetoast white men content creators convince you that we are doomed. They are selling fear and profiting off of it. His health is failing. The cult has lost its momentum. The Epstein victims are actively making their case and trials will be happening, worldwide. The GOP is fighting amongst themselves about everything. Dems are winning their elections at federal and state levels. The military is being sent to cities to then stand around and get mocked. Judges have ruled it's illegal to be sent to blue cities in the first place. Alligator Alcatraz got shut down. They're desperate to hire people for ICE because people keep quitting. Protests are happening every week, everywhere. We are in a very scary and very chaotic time. Project 2025 is terrifying. People are being emboldened to be violent, and people are being traumatized and harmed. The country has been divided and damaged, but not beyond repair and rebuild. We will get through this, we can't just give up and comply in advance. Don't let the bastards get you down.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · Sep 5
Gotta be honest and say that it once again feels stressful that all the evil people are doing evil things and making life worse for everyone
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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · Sep 4
Is this praxis?
A cute gray cat resting his head atop a copy of Jacobin magazine.
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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · Sep 4
Part of the marketing for the 2000 X-Men movie was a fake campaign site for an bigoted senator full of articles on the mutant threat, including one about how mutants need to be stopped ... because of their unfair advantage in high school sports.
Front page of the "mutant watch 2000" website an article with the headline "HIGH SCHOOL SOPHOMORE HITS FOURTEEN CONSECUTIVE HOME RUNS"
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Kelly McKernan 🔜 NYCC F-23 @kellymckernan.bsky.social · Sep 1
✏️ Happy Labor Day! 🖌️

Did you know that AI “art” is labor theft?

Hi. I’m a professional traditional artist of over 15 years & I was able to make a decent living until 3 years ago.

In May 2023, over 50 of my paintings had been scraped without my consent to fuel AI image generators like Midjourney.
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Bob Cesca @bobcesca.bsky.social · Sep 1
Happy Yes Day!
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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · Sep 1
Link to the review, which will have me blushing for a good while longer: locusmag.com/2025/09/worl...
Worlds of Possibility, Saros and Flash Fiction Online: Reviews by Charles Payseur
Worlds of Possibility 4/25 Version 2 Saros 5/25 Flash Fiction Online 5/25 The April Worlds of Possibility is split into two parts, and the second contains a number of stories featuring magic and ad…
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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · Sep 1
If you haven't checked out "The New Sound," my story in Saros #3, @cypayseur.bsky.social recommends it in Locus as "chilling in many ways and yet delivered masterfully".
Issue #3 - Saros Speculative Fiction
Edited by Em Arata-Berkel “Rewritten in Flesh” by Gio Clairval: obsolescence / biopunk / my body, my choice “The Ladder” by Cailín Frankland: funerary rites / forbidden keys / from underground “The Ne...
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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · Aug 27
New story day! “Root and Branch” is out in Baubles from Bones issue 6. If you’re interested in fugitive replicants discovering gender with mad scientists in rural Thailand, boy, is this ever your lucky day! @bfbzine.bsky.social

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"Root and Branch" by Sylvie Althoff
Hidden in a Thai jungle, a geneticist and a synthetic human struggle beneath the brunt of persecution. By Sylvie Althoff. Featured in Baubles From Bones: Issue 6.
www.baublesfrombones.com
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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · Aug 22
At least we’re back to heartwarming child art season.
A hand-drawn illustration of Sylvie Althoff made by a small child, labeled as “something I love about school.”
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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · Aug 19
Well that’s an authorial first: a book containing a story of mine sighted in the wild on a bookstore shelf. Not just any bookstore, mind you, but @ravenbookstore.bsky.social
A photo of the book “Lesbians in Space” on a bookshelf in the bookstore The Raven.
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