Caio Major
@caiomajor.bsky.social
trans latino writer. Syracuse MFA candidate. you're going to love my dog.
Blog: https://caiomajor.substack.com/
Blog: https://caiomajor.substack.com/
New post on my newsletter, for subscribers: going in extra on "One Battle After Another," and how witnessing what's happening in Minneapolis has slightly shifted my perspective on the film. Read it here: caiomajor.substack.com/p/one-battle...
One Battle After Another and Real-World Hope
Expanding on my recent essay about "One Battle After Another" and how it reflects our current times.
caiomajor.substack.com
February 1, 2026 at 7:28 PM
New post on my newsletter, for subscribers: going in extra on "One Battle After Another," and how witnessing what's happening in Minneapolis has slightly shifted my perspective on the film. Read it here: caiomajor.substack.com/p/one-battle...
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relevant to many of yalls interests.
February 1, 2026 at 2:09 AM
relevant to many of yalls interests.
I watched "Kneecap" last night, which of course was wonderful--just a happy bomb thrown into the (boring, to me) genre of music biopics. I was struck by how this must be the only biopic I've seen in which the characters' drug use didn't signal their downfall?
February 1, 2026 at 2:50 PM
I watched "Kneecap" last night, which of course was wonderful--just a happy bomb thrown into the (boring, to me) genre of music biopics. I was struck by how this must be the only biopic I've seen in which the characters' drug use didn't signal their downfall?
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More writing news: my flash fiction piece, "Mixtape #1: Mixtape #1: We Have Salvaged All We Can From the 600 Feet of Human Trash in the Sediment of Formerly-Known-As Lake Powell" is out now in the second issue of transitive rag! you can read it and the rest of this amazing issue here: trans-rag.com
transitive rag Issue #2
Issue 2 out now — transitive rag is a quarterly magazine of trans writing and art.
trans-rag.com
January 29, 2026 at 12:43 PM
More writing news: my flash fiction piece, "Mixtape #1: Mixtape #1: We Have Salvaged All We Can From the 600 Feet of Human Trash in the Sediment of Formerly-Known-As Lake Powell" is out now in the second issue of transitive rag! you can read it and the rest of this amazing issue here: trans-rag.com
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New essay! On “One Battle After Another” and whether we should want white artists to step out of their comfort zones. Read it below:
“When a white auteur gives nonwhite characters such sustained attention and we scrutinize the results, what does our scrutiny reveal about the political projects white artists can join? What is it that we want from our white art?”
buff.ly/npnNCGP
buff.ly/npnNCGP
“One Battle After Another” Reminds Me What I Want From White Art - Electric Literature
Latine activism is an unusual addition to Paul Thomas Anderson's milk-pale oeuvre
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January 28, 2026 at 3:52 PM
New essay! On “One Battle After Another” and whether we should want white artists to step out of their comfort zones. Read it below:
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They really have no fucking idea what is coming. No fucking idea.
January 29, 2026 at 4:20 AM
They really have no fucking idea what is coming. No fucking idea.
More writing news: my flash fiction piece, "Mixtape #1: Mixtape #1: We Have Salvaged All We Can From the 600 Feet of Human Trash in the Sediment of Formerly-Known-As Lake Powell" is out now in the second issue of transitive rag! you can read it and the rest of this amazing issue here: trans-rag.com
transitive rag Issue #2
Issue 2 out now — transitive rag is a quarterly magazine of trans writing and art.
trans-rag.com
January 29, 2026 at 12:43 PM
More writing news: my flash fiction piece, "Mixtape #1: Mixtape #1: We Have Salvaged All We Can From the 600 Feet of Human Trash in the Sediment of Formerly-Known-As Lake Powell" is out now in the second issue of transitive rag! you can read it and the rest of this amazing issue here: trans-rag.com
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You should read this excellent piece of film writing by @caiomajor.bsky.social about solidarity, Gloria Anzaldúa, and One Battle After Another.
January 28, 2026 at 4:36 PM
You should read this excellent piece of film writing by @caiomajor.bsky.social about solidarity, Gloria Anzaldúa, and One Battle After Another.
New essay! On “One Battle After Another” and whether we should want white artists to step out of their comfort zones. Read it below:
“When a white auteur gives nonwhite characters such sustained attention and we scrutinize the results, what does our scrutiny reveal about the political projects white artists can join? What is it that we want from our white art?”
buff.ly/npnNCGP
buff.ly/npnNCGP
“One Battle After Another” Reminds Me What I Want From White Art - Electric Literature
Latine activism is an unusual addition to Paul Thomas Anderson's milk-pale oeuvre
buff.ly
January 28, 2026 at 3:52 PM
New essay! On “One Battle After Another” and whether we should want white artists to step out of their comfort zones. Read it below:
I have a new essay out today on @electricliterature.com ! it's about One Battle After Another being Latinocore, and what the discourse around this film says about what we want from our white artists. read it here: electricliterature.com/one-battle-a...
“One Battle After Another” Reminds Me What I Want From White Art - Electric Literature
Latine activism is an unusual addition to Paul Thomas Anderson's milk-pale oeuvre
electricliterature.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:53 PM
I have a new essay out today on @electricliterature.com ! it's about One Battle After Another being Latinocore, and what the discourse around this film says about what we want from our white artists. read it here: electricliterature.com/one-battle-a...
He should shout out @littlepuss.net next
"The number of downloads...surged by 529% after Mr. Mamdani’s news conference"
"there had been 3,000 people on a waiting list to access a limited number of e-book copies"
"2,000 people applied for a library card over the weekend, roughly twice as many as had applied by this time last year"
A win!
"there had been 3,000 people on a waiting list to access a limited number of e-book copies"
"2,000 people applied for a library card over the weekend, roughly twice as many as had applied by this time last year"
A win!
gifting this article because it made me laugh, which is hard to do in this context. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/n...
January 27, 2026 at 11:20 AM
He should shout out @littlepuss.net next
The combo of Agata being out of town + being kept inside by winter for 3 days now is like…. Wow I sure do just have to keep making decisions about how to spend my time huh
January 25, 2026 at 4:53 PM
The combo of Agata being out of town + being kept inside by winter for 3 days now is like…. Wow I sure do just have to keep making decisions about how to spend my time huh
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Last week I wrote “The border crossed us. We’re gonna abolish it,” and this is exactly what I meant: most Americans are accustomed to ignoring the deep violence of the agencies that maintain US national borders. Border Patrol are trained to be murderous. They are teaching ICE to be likewise.
I just want to make it clear that it was *Border Patrol* agents who murdered Alex Pretti, and those fuckers murder people regularly here along the border.
Renee Good´s murderer is also a former Border Patrol agent (currently ICE).
Disband ALL the paramilitary groups and prosecute every member.
Renee Good´s murderer is also a former Border Patrol agent (currently ICE).
Disband ALL the paramilitary groups and prosecute every member.
January 25, 2026 at 4:11 AM
Last week I wrote “The border crossed us. We’re gonna abolish it,” and this is exactly what I meant: most Americans are accustomed to ignoring the deep violence of the agencies that maintain US national borders. Border Patrol are trained to be murderous. They are teaching ICE to be likewise.
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Concentration camp victims protest! The incredible bravery and fortitude and care involved in doing this ✊🏽
‘some of them holding signs that included “Libertad para los niños,” or “Liberty for the kids.”‘
‘some of them holding signs that included “Libertad para los niños,” or “Liberty for the kids.”‘
Immigrant families protest at Texas facility housing 5-year-old boy, father detained in Minnesota
Dozens of immigrant families protested behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where a 5-year-old boy Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week after being detained in Minnesota.
apnews.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Concentration camp victims protest! The incredible bravery and fortitude and care involved in doing this ✊🏽
‘some of them holding signs that included “Libertad para los niños,” or “Liberty for the kids.”‘
‘some of them holding signs that included “Libertad para los niños,” or “Liberty for the kids.”‘
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the children are protesting from inside the camps. i hope they know that we hear them.
There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:
January 25, 2026 at 12:30 AM
the children are protesting from inside the camps. i hope they know that we hear them.
to desire the world as it is
not as it was
if you call this planet evil one more time
I will have to learn how to hold you better
-Both from CAConrad, "Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return"
not as it was
if you call this planet evil one more time
I will have to learn how to hold you better
-Both from CAConrad, "Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return"
January 22, 2026 at 1:53 PM
to desire the world as it is
not as it was
if you call this planet evil one more time
I will have to learn how to hold you better
-Both from CAConrad, "Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return"
not as it was
if you call this planet evil one more time
I will have to learn how to hold you better
-Both from CAConrad, "Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return"
nothing will make you loathe HBO Max's UI more than trying to write an essay about a movie hosted on that platform... just let me rewatch parts in the middle!! ffs
January 21, 2026 at 4:38 PM
nothing will make you loathe HBO Max's UI more than trying to write an essay about a movie hosted on that platform... just let me rewatch parts in the middle!! ffs
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You are NOT valueless no matter how your senses, judgments, and perceptions all tell you you are. Somehow you have value, in some way that you can never yourself perceive, appreciate or know.
You know what Immanuel Kant would tell you about your value?
Do you, you glorious noumenal bitch??
You know what Immanuel Kant would tell you about your value?
Do you, you glorious noumenal bitch??
January 21, 2026 at 3:36 AM
You are NOT valueless no matter how your senses, judgments, and perceptions all tell you you are. Somehow you have value, in some way that you can never yourself perceive, appreciate or know.
You know what Immanuel Kant would tell you about your value?
Do you, you glorious noumenal bitch??
You know what Immanuel Kant would tell you about your value?
Do you, you glorious noumenal bitch??
I would like Emily Green of Geese to read my novel when it comes out
what is the biggest writerly goal you are willing to cop to publicly? I would like to be nominated for a Lammy
January 21, 2026 at 12:06 PM
I would like Emily Green of Geese to read my novel when it comes out
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Look for the helpers
Alaska Art Student Arrested for Eating Another Student’s AI-Generated Art in Protest
A University of Alaska student was charged with a misdemeanor for eating another student's AI-generated art in protest.
www.artnews.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Look for the helpers
damn but I love to write... I can't always lock in but when I can, I'll take "Writing" over "Having Written" every time
January 17, 2026 at 9:37 PM
damn but I love to write... I can't always lock in but when I can, I'll take "Writing" over "Having Written" every time
The essay I just reposted is so good. To know Heated Rivalry is to know The Discourse, and one of the things that has made all the vacuous, tedious, and wrong opinions easier to shake off is @alexanderchee.bsky.social’s love for the show on my timeline. He Gets It
January 17, 2026 at 2:36 PM
The essay I just reposted is so good. To know Heated Rivalry is to know The Discourse, and one of the things that has made all the vacuous, tedious, and wrong opinions easier to shake off is @alexanderchee.bsky.social’s love for the show on my timeline. He Gets It
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In which @alexanderchee.bsky.social writes beautifully (as always) about the way Heated Rivalry has become a fragment shored against the ruin of almost everyone's mental health, and the artistic and narrative joys of both its universality and its specificity. open.substack.com/pub/querent/...
I Would Start A War In Your Arms
A Heated Rivalry Notebook
open.substack.com
January 17, 2026 at 5:55 AM
In which @alexanderchee.bsky.social writes beautifully (as always) about the way Heated Rivalry has become a fragment shored against the ruin of almost everyone's mental health, and the artistic and narrative joys of both its universality and its specificity. open.substack.com/pub/querent/...
really loved the poem "Techno-Puritanism" by Beth Anne MacDonald in @existotherwise.bsky.social 🔥https://existotherwise.com/techno-puritanism/
January 15, 2026 at 6:17 PM
really loved the poem "Techno-Puritanism" by Beth Anne MacDonald in @existotherwise.bsky.social 🔥https://existotherwise.com/techno-puritanism/
Also boosting this poem that was published yesterday in @existotherwise.bsky.social, "Wingspan," which you can read here: existotherwise.com/wingspan/
Wingspan
poetry by Caio Major
existotherwise.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Also boosting this poem that was published yesterday in @existotherwise.bsky.social, "Wingspan," which you can read here: existotherwise.com/wingspan/