Kiki
@akilamantado.bsky.social
Ignyte-nominated critic, beta reader, bookstagrammer. Words in Strange Horizons, Bad Form Review, Rebel Women Lit, Divergent Terror essay anthology from @offlimitspress.• She/Her • https://zez.am/ifthisisparadise
Respect due to Octavia Butler but can we ask Black authors about their work in relation to other writers. Anyone else at all...
November 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Respect due to Octavia Butler but can we ask Black authors about their work in relation to other writers. Anyone else at all...
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Featuring stories from @clarkesworldmagazine.com, @smallwondersmag.com, @pseudopod.org, @escapepod.org, @lightspeedmagazine.com, @diabolicalplots.com, @flashpointsf.bsky.social, @thefuturefire.bsky.social, @lunastation.bsky.social, and Moonday Mag.
I have some September short science fiction, fantasy, and horror picks for you on this fine October day. reactormag.com/must-read-sh...
Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: September 2025 - Reactor
What a fall, huh? Lemon, it’s October. This season has both flown by and trickled by at a glacial pace. I’m already exhausted and there’s still so much left to go. Fortunately, reading a bunch of shor...
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October 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Featuring stories from @clarkesworldmagazine.com, @smallwondersmag.com, @pseudopod.org, @escapepod.org, @lightspeedmagazine.com, @diabolicalplots.com, @flashpointsf.bsky.social, @thefuturefire.bsky.social, @lunastation.bsky.social, and Moonday Mag.
Registering in the hope I'll have electricity and internet back up by this date, post-Melissa. 🥹
The Alchemy Lecture 2025
Sound—at the Interregnum
Glen Coulthard
Canisia Lubrin
Madeleine Thien
Immanuel Wilkins
Date: October 30, 2025
Time: 5 - 8 p.m. (Reception: 5 - 6 p.m.)
Venue: Tribute Communities Recital Hall, CIBC Lobby (Location) YorkU
Event type: Hybrid – in person and online
Sound—at the Interregnum
Glen Coulthard
Canisia Lubrin
Madeleine Thien
Immanuel Wilkins
Date: October 30, 2025
Time: 5 - 8 p.m. (Reception: 5 - 6 p.m.)
Venue: Tribute Communities Recital Hall, CIBC Lobby (Location) YorkU
Event type: Hybrid – in person and online
October 24, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Registering in the hope I'll have electricity and internet back up by this date, post-Melissa. 🥹
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The lecture is free. In person and live streaming.
The Alchemy Lecture 2025
Sound—at the Interregnum
Glen Coulthard
Canisia Lubrin
Madeleine Thien
Immanuel Wilkins
Date: October 30, 2025
Time: 5 - 8 p.m. (Reception: 5 - 6 p.m.)
Venue: Tribute Communities Recital Hall, CIBC Lobby (Location) YorkU
Event type: Hybrid – in person and online
Sound—at the Interregnum
Glen Coulthard
Canisia Lubrin
Madeleine Thien
Immanuel Wilkins
Date: October 30, 2025
Time: 5 - 8 p.m. (Reception: 5 - 6 p.m.)
Venue: Tribute Communities Recital Hall, CIBC Lobby (Location) YorkU
Event type: Hybrid – in person and online
October 24, 2025 at 12:36 AM
The lecture is free. In person and live streaming.
Canada is so lucky. 🥲
Happy pub day! The World After Rain. Canisia Lubrin.
October 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Canada is so lucky. 🥲
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It cannot be made clearer.
If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
October 9, 2025 at 10:14 AM
It cannot be made clearer.
If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
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1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
Weapons: Julia Garner 😍. I don't think there's much there there thematically.
Nashville: I love when a hyped film meets if not surpasses its rep.
Nosferatu: A rewatch because I read Blood on Her Tongue by Johanna van Veen.
High and Low: See Nashville. That blocking!
#FilmSky #LastFourWatched
Nashville: I love when a hyped film meets if not surpasses its rep.
Nosferatu: A rewatch because I read Blood on Her Tongue by Johanna van Veen.
High and Low: See Nashville. That blocking!
#FilmSky #LastFourWatched
September 19, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Weapons: Julia Garner 😍. I don't think there's much there there thematically.
Nashville: I love when a hyped film meets if not surpasses its rep.
Nosferatu: A rewatch because I read Blood on Her Tongue by Johanna van Veen.
High and Low: See Nashville. That blocking!
#FilmSky #LastFourWatched
Nashville: I love when a hyped film meets if not surpasses its rep.
Nosferatu: A rewatch because I read Blood on Her Tongue by Johanna van Veen.
High and Low: See Nashville. That blocking!
#FilmSky #LastFourWatched
Here I go in my third attempt to read The Dispossessed x Ursula K. Le Guin in the hopes that it sticks this time. 🪐📚💙
September 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Here I go in my third attempt to read The Dispossessed x Ursula K. Le Guin in the hopes that it sticks this time. 🪐📚💙
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“Turn my body into art.
(Tell me you’re obsessed.)
Cuz I think that it’s the best part.
(We can make a mess…)
.. While I try to fix my broken heart. 🎶”
These vocals over this rock arrangement is INSANE.
(🎶: Jair Faria)
(Tell me you’re obsessed.)
Cuz I think that it’s the best part.
(We can make a mess…)
.. While I try to fix my broken heart. 🎶”
These vocals over this rock arrangement is INSANE.
(🎶: Jair Faria)
August 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
“Turn my body into art.
(Tell me you’re obsessed.)
Cuz I think that it’s the best part.
(We can make a mess…)
.. While I try to fix my broken heart. 🎶”
These vocals over this rock arrangement is INSANE.
(🎶: Jair Faria)
(Tell me you’re obsessed.)
Cuz I think that it’s the best part.
(We can make a mess…)
.. While I try to fix my broken heart. 🎶”
These vocals over this rock arrangement is INSANE.
(🎶: Jair Faria)
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‘Weren’t all Black people owed something for the dispossession that accumulated over generations? Or was the university’s primary function only to pursue knowledge about the history that gave rise to these questions?’
Vincent Brown reviews ‘Yale and Slavery’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Vincent Brown reviews ‘Yale and Slavery’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Vincent Brown · What Universities Owe
When challenged to justify past investment in slavery – or current investments in, say, fossil fuel extraction or arms...
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July 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
‘Weren’t all Black people owed something for the dispossession that accumulated over generations? Or was the university’s primary function only to pursue knowledge about the history that gave rise to these questions?’
Vincent Brown reviews ‘Yale and Slavery’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Vincent Brown reviews ‘Yale and Slavery’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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how does one survive flexing this hard
July 19, 2025 at 4:03 AM
how does one survive flexing this hard
Every time I start to read submissions I forget how much I love to read submissions. My friends do not understand it, maybe I am delusional, but I genuinely do.
July 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Every time I start to read submissions I forget how much I love to read submissions. My friends do not understand it, maybe I am delusional, but I genuinely do.
Whenever adult readers complain about the stupid decisions YA protagonists make we are admonished for imposing adult expectations on titles not for us. But I'm sorry, some authors are telling lies on these children in order to prop up nonsensical plots.
June 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Whenever adult readers complain about the stupid decisions YA protagonists make we are admonished for imposing adult expectations on titles not for us. But I'm sorry, some authors are telling lies on these children in order to prop up nonsensical plots.
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COVER REVEAL!!! Our anthology of Indigenous Futurisms <3333
Billy-Ray Belcourt, Angeline Boulley, Shane Hawk, and Deborah Taffa Jackson have all praised our anthology, available for preorder now! @littlebadger.bsky.social
www.torreyhouse.org/product-page...
www.torreyhouse.org/product-page...
June 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
COVER REVEAL!!! Our anthology of Indigenous Futurisms <3333
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Thanking her mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, the market women of Haiti, and the enduring spirit of Haiti itself, @myriamjachancy.bsky.social accepts the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.
#bocas2025 #OCMBocasPrize
@tinhouse.bsky.social
#bocas2025 #OCMBocasPrize
@tinhouse.bsky.social
May 4, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Thanking her mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, the market women of Haiti, and the enduring spirit of Haiti itself, @myriamjachancy.bsky.social accepts the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.
#bocas2025 #OCMBocasPrize
@tinhouse.bsky.social
#bocas2025 #OCMBocasPrize
@tinhouse.bsky.social
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🏆 Congratulations to the winner of the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, @myriamjachancy.bsky.social! 🏆
She has won the 15th annual award for her book, Village Weavers (@tinhouse.bsky.social)
#bocas2025 #OCMBocasPrize
She has won the 15th annual award for her book, Village Weavers (@tinhouse.bsky.social)
#bocas2025 #OCMBocasPrize
May 4, 2025 at 1:17 AM
🏆 Congratulations to the winner of the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, @myriamjachancy.bsky.social! 🏆
She has won the 15th annual award for her book, Village Weavers (@tinhouse.bsky.social)
#bocas2025 #OCMBocasPrize
She has won the 15th annual award for her book, Village Weavers (@tinhouse.bsky.social)
#bocas2025 #OCMBocasPrize
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In the Spring 2025 issue of ArabLit Quarterly (GRIEF) -- coming in five days -- we make a shared space to grieve and to build together from that grief.
"May what we mourn propel us toward our collective liberation." - guest editor Abdelrahman ElGendy
"May what we mourn propel us toward our collective liberation." - guest editor Abdelrahman ElGendy
April 25, 2025 at 9:21 AM
In the Spring 2025 issue of ArabLit Quarterly (GRIEF) -- coming in five days -- we make a shared space to grieve and to build together from that grief.
"May what we mourn propel us toward our collective liberation." - guest editor Abdelrahman ElGendy
"May what we mourn propel us toward our collective liberation." - guest editor Abdelrahman ElGendy
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also a ton of movies streaming live on their site this week! www.criterionchannel.com/free-movie-w...
April 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
also a ton of movies streaming live on their site this week! www.criterionchannel.com/free-movie-w...
Did a tiny post on a few of the connections between the film Ganja & Hess, directed and written by Bill Gunn, and the novel My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due. www.instagram.com/share/_kpWIW...
April 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Did a tiny post on a few of the connections between the film Ganja & Hess, directed and written by Bill Gunn, and the novel My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due. www.instagram.com/share/_kpWIW...
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I thought it was fun and tried to do some interesting things, which is more than you can say for basically any Star Wars property since 1980 not called Rogue One or Andor
Tonight seems like the ideal night to relitigate The Last Jedi
March 14, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I thought it was fun and tried to do some interesting things, which is more than you can say for basically any Star Wars property since 1980 not called Rogue One or Andor
Thinking a lot about what it takes to create persuasive world building. I try these books that purport to depict oppressive matriarchies in some fashion and can never buy into it. I can't connect it to anything real and the author never does the work needed to make the world persuasive.
February 26, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Thinking a lot about what it takes to create persuasive world building. I try these books that purport to depict oppressive matriarchies in some fashion and can never buy into it. I can't connect it to anything real and the author never does the work needed to make the world persuasive.
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Let's do this!
It has just been announced that my newest short story collection, Power to Yield and Other Stories, is on the Locus Recommended list.
This is a very trans & intersex book & I feel like it didn't get a lot of reviews.
Ping me for a review copy!
If you don't review books, repost 🥰
It has just been announced that my newest short story collection, Power to Yield and Other Stories, is on the Locus Recommended list.
This is a very trans & intersex book & I feel like it didn't get a lot of reviews.
Ping me for a review copy!
If you don't review books, repost 🥰
February 3, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Let's do this!
It has just been announced that my newest short story collection, Power to Yield and Other Stories, is on the Locus Recommended list.
This is a very trans & intersex book & I feel like it didn't get a lot of reviews.
Ping me for a review copy!
If you don't review books, repost 🥰
It has just been announced that my newest short story collection, Power to Yield and Other Stories, is on the Locus Recommended list.
This is a very trans & intersex book & I feel like it didn't get a lot of reviews.
Ping me for a review copy!
If you don't review books, repost 🥰