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Idris Grey
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Black. Queer. Intersectional Feminist. They/Them.

Writer. #SensitivityReader. Book Reviewer. Artist 🎨.

Rep'd by Claire Friedman.

No TERFs, no neocons, no racists, no problem.

http://idrisgrey.carrd.co/
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Idris Grey @idrisgrey.bsky.social · Jan 21
Hiiii, I'm a Black nonbinary freelance writer, PW book reviewer, and sensitivity reader with almost a decade of experience. Please see my page for examples of my work. Feel free to contact me for quotes for SR work.

idrisgrey.carrd.co

Thank you, Dani, for this space.
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Author landing page for Black queer author Idris Grey (they/them).
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☠️ 85 Scary (and Not-So-Scary) 2025 Young Adult Books To Get Readers In The Halloween Spirit ☠️
popgoesthereader.com/85-scary-and... #BookSky #KidLit #YALit
A compilation of twenty-one 2025 young adult book covers organized by colour, beginning with blue, transitioning into red and pink, and finally ending with green. Books featured include Moonsick, Out of Air, Keep Your Friends Close, Deadstream, And The River Drags Her Down, Bad Creek, Hollow, These Bodies Ain't Broken, We Won't All Survive, Let's Split Up, Showstopper, The Devil's In The Dancers, Final Cut, The Protégée, Honeysuckle and Bone, The Devouring Light, Predatory Natures, They Bloom At Night, The Dead of Summer and You've Awoken Her.
September 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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PRE-ORDER ALERT!
Make Me a Monster by @kalynnbayron.bsky.social

Meka is used to death. After all, it's the family business.

#YAHorrorRom #Romancelandia #BookSky

Buy:
Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
Make Me a Monster ebook by Kalynn Bayron - Rakuten Kobo
Read "Make Me a Monster" by Kalynn Bayron available from Rakuten Kobo. Featuring colored endpapers and a designed case! New York Times bestselling author Kalynn Bayron is back with a Frankens...
www.kobo.com
September 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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haileypiperfights.bsky.social
I try to focus this account so it's for my readers, but hey writers:

NEVER sign a contract where the publisher keeps your rights indefinitely. For short stories, there should be a point when you can sell reprints.

and NEVER sign your movie/TV/etc adaptation rights to a publisher. Those are yours.
September 29, 2025 at 9:46 PM
idrisgrey.bsky.social
There was some lady who I swear said that this dude was in bed with Project 2025. Everybody said she was fearmongering though. What was her name...? Not Cassandra but it’s close.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 2
Trump: "I have a meeting today with Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut ... I can’t believe the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity."
I have a meeting today with Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut, and whether or not those cuts will be temporary or permanent. I can’t believe the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity. They are not stupid people, so maybe this is their way of wanting to, quietly and quickly, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DJT
October 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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schooley.bsky.social
First they came for James Comey and I said, "Huh, ironic... But still very bad."
September 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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keezyyoung.bsky.social
GOOD MORNING EVERYONE HAPPY HELLO SUNSHINE DAY!! ☀️☀️☀️
the cover of hello sunshine
September 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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ryanmarino.bsky.social
Fun fact: Doctor Oz, Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, close friend of Trump and RFK Jr., and self-admitted fraudulent supplement huckster, sells multiple forms of leucovorin through his supplement company, iHerb, which he didn’t divest when taking his federal gov role.
james.claims james @james.claims · Sep 22
Anyway watch the stocks of whoever has the patent of leucovorin go up after the announcement. That’s all this is. Promoting Leucovorin so adults force their kids to ingest it to “cure their autism”.

But what is Leucovorin and why are they claiming it cures autism? 👇
September 23, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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drandrealove.bsky.social
If you didn’t know, Mehmet Oz has a financial stake in the company iHerb which sells: folinic acid supplements (folinic acid = leucovorin)

The lies about Tylenol, autism, and this “treatment” are ALL part of their grift.
September 23, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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ytsrik.bsky.social
Me on my way to the rapture.
a woman in a pink sweater and white pants is walking down a sidewalk .
Alt: A woman in a pink sweater and white pants is doing prancercise on a path outside.
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September 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
idrisgrey.bsky.social
Anyway, don't give your child an unproven autism "cure" sold by a snake oil salesman. Stop trying to fix your autistic children. They aren't broken.
September 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
idrisgrey.bsky.social
This democratic republic is so flambéed
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 19
Trump: "When 97% of the stories are bad about a person, that's no longer free speech."
September 21, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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gregolear.bsky.social Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · Sep 20
If people who know their history keep comparing you to Nazis, the fault is not with the people making the comparisons.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 19
Trump: "When 97% of the stories are bad about a person, that's no longer free speech."
September 21, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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deecherrywriter.bsky.social
You can "honor" Kirk's memory by doing the thing he'd hate and donating to an organization that wants to help low-income trans adults receive gender affirming care:

www.transincomeproject.org/donate

(also read my interview with TIPs executive director in the original post)
September 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Good morning, chums! Don’t forget this is on all day today as well!
brandtandstein.com Ted (& technically Ro) @brandtandstein.com · Sep 20
Good morning, chums! A reminder that as it’s the weekend, my DMs are open to all new comics creators (especially those of marginalised identity) who want advice on writing, art or the industry at large!
September 21, 2025 at 4:18 AM
idrisgrey.bsky.social
Where's that journalist who said we aren't living in a fascist country? I just want to talk!
September 21, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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courtneymilan.com
It's always been like this, and it's because the elites are essentially self-preserving, and civility has always been the tool by which non-elites are condemned.
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Aug 28
I will never understand how American elites managed to convince themselves that uncivil debate — not fascism, not impunity and not widespread indifference to facts — is the defining problem of our time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
How We Brought Respectful Debate Back to The Harvard Crimson’s Editorial Board To us, the solution is deceptively simple. Universities should create environments where students with different views must talk to one another routinely and establish ground rules that ensure they do so without distractions or prejudgment. Illiberalism on college campuses isn’t inevitable. At The Crimson, it took only a few months to radically improve.
August 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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courtneymilan.com
Much of the apparatus of fascism--surveillance, militarized cops, etc--uses how armed the American population is as an excuse why they need so much more.
August 28, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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authorwinifred.blacksky.app
Next week I get to onboard at my new gig AND have surgery. Rough, but the promise of flexible but steady income is THRILLING. Provided I make it through the end of August checkpoint AND can afford surgery and med costs. Current goal of at least $1395 of the remaining 18% of the campaign total.
August 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
idrisgrey.bsky.social
Suicide TW

But so important
angryblacklady.blacksky.app Imani Gandied Yams @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · Aug 26
Here in Colorado, legislators from both parties are trying to grant AI companies immunity from consumer protection lawsuits.

Like immunity for gun manufacturers.

Politicians will be bought off by all these tech bros as their products continue to kill us.
August 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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courtneymilan.com
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
arstechnica.com Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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courtneymilan.com
Hey, I have had some questions about who is allowed to file.

Here is the class certification:
1. The following LibGen & PiLiMi Pirated Books Class is CERTIFIED: All beneficial or legal copyright owners of the exclusive right to reproduce copies of any book in the versions of LibGen or PiLiMi downloaded by Anthropic. "Book" refers to any work possessing an ISBN or ASIN which was registered with the United States Copyright Office within five years of the work's publication and which was registered with the United States Copyright Office before being downloaded by Anthropic, or within three months of publication. Excluded are the directors, officers and employees of Anthropic, personnel of federal agencies, and district court personnel.
August 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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15/810

Anything helps!!

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#helpsky #helpfolkslive2025 #mutualaid #maboost #disabled 💸💕
Disability Crowdfund. Currently behind on payments this month and could use help! vet: $450. water: $60. gas: $140. internet: $60. other: $100. kofi: beverlyannemichel.
August 8, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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horrorsong.blog
People who comply in advance with the human rights abuses suggested by this administration are taking the side of fascism. I wish we were facing a more nuanced world, but the agenda of fascist domination has been stated plainly. The line is clear.
melissagiragrant.com Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · Aug 8
Contrary to Trump’s grotesque, self-congratulatory press releases, he has not ended gender-affirming care for young people; rather, as the health care workers I spoke to this week made clear, hospital management, boards, and their legal advisers have ended it for him. My new story:
The Blue-State Hospitals Carrying Out Trump’s Anti-Trans Agenda
In states where gender-affirming care remains legal, some hospitals have nonetheless stopped providing it. What gives?
newrepublic.com
August 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Back to school supply giveaways around Maryland
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Back to school supply giveaways around Maryland
Here is our list of back-to-school give-aways and resource fairs around the state. Note: check events for details before you go. Many require registration, a child and/or parent present, or are while…
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August 8, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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jenbrownwrites.bsky.social
I am literally SHAKING with anticipation. Stunning cover + the first chapter preview is so compelling. 🔥
ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🍂 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · Aug 7
An even better look at the gorgeous Year of the Mer book 1 (of 2) cover! I gasped just about to death when they told me THEEEE Micaela Alcaino was the one doing it.

You can (and should) pre-order it wherever you pre-order your books. Out April 7, 2026. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Year-o...
Mockup of book Year of the Mer by L. D. Lewis wherein a blue mermaid tail and tentacles writhe out of a roiling gray ocean around an ornate trident. Book One: 4/7/26. Cover by Micaela Alcaino Flat image of a book cover: Year of the Mer by L. D. Lewis wherein a blue mermaid tail and tentacles writhe out of a roiling gray ocean around an ornate trident
August 8, 2025 at 4:16 AM