Katharine Duckett
@katharineduckett.bsky.social
USA Today bestselling author of many weird and magical works. Fiction editor, Disabled People Destroy Fantasy. Advisory Board, @octaviaproject.bsky.social.
Rep: Angeline Rodriguez, WME
Rep: Angeline Rodriguez, WME
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An update from the team at @erewhonbooks.bsky.social!
While yesterday’s all-retailer ebook sale for Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity only lasted for 24 hours, the $3.99 price will continue to be available until Nov. 30th on Kindle. Apologies for the confusion, everyone 🖤
While yesterday’s all-retailer ebook sale for Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity only lasted for 24 hours, the $3.99 price will continue to be available until Nov. 30th on Kindle. Apologies for the confusion, everyone 🖤
November 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
An update from the team at @erewhonbooks.bsky.social!
While yesterday’s all-retailer ebook sale for Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity only lasted for 24 hours, the $3.99 price will continue to be available until Nov. 30th on Kindle. Apologies for the confusion, everyone 🖤
While yesterday’s all-retailer ebook sale for Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity only lasted for 24 hours, the $3.99 price will continue to be available until Nov. 30th on Kindle. Apologies for the confusion, everyone 🖤
'Tis the season for eligibility posts!
As you're reading for awards this year, I'd love for you to consider my short story "pocket futures in the present past" & the other works in Amplitudes, edited by @leemandelo.bsky.social.
As you're reading for awards this year, I'd love for you to consider my short story "pocket futures in the present past" & the other works in Amplitudes, edited by @leemandelo.bsky.social.
November 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
'Tis the season for eligibility posts!
As you're reading for awards this year, I'd love for you to consider my short story "pocket futures in the present past" & the other works in Amplitudes, edited by @leemandelo.bsky.social.
As you're reading for awards this year, I'd love for you to consider my short story "pocket futures in the present past" & the other works in Amplitudes, edited by @leemandelo.bsky.social.
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For #transawarenessweek, a bump for Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity!
Featuring contributors from across the globe, including both familiar and fresh voices, it gathers 22 speculative stories about queer and trans futures—and I hope at least one of them will hit for you 🖤
Featuring contributors from across the globe, including both familiar and fresh voices, it gathers 22 speculative stories about queer and trans futures—and I hope at least one of them will hit for you 🖤
November 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
For #transawarenessweek, a bump for Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity!
Featuring contributors from across the globe, including both familiar and fresh voices, it gathers 22 speculative stories about queer and trans futures—and I hope at least one of them will hit for you 🖤
Featuring contributors from across the globe, including both familiar and fresh voices, it gathers 22 speculative stories about queer and trans futures—and I hope at least one of them will hit for you 🖤
Already trying to figure out what to propose as a couples' Halloween costume for next year, since my wife will only agree if the ensemble does not a) require her to wear make-up or wigs and b) allows her to mostly wear own clothes. This year's Beaker and Dr. Bunsen Honeydew may be hard to top.
November 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Already trying to figure out what to propose as a couples' Halloween costume for next year, since my wife will only agree if the ensemble does not a) require her to wear make-up or wigs and b) allows her to mostly wear own clothes. This year's Beaker and Dr. Bunsen Honeydew may be hard to top.
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🎉 We're thrilled to share that we've received funding from the Stonewall Community Foundation 🎉
The Stonewall Community Foundation funds work that makes differences on issues affecting LGBTQ+ lives.
As queer and trans youth face additional challenges, the Octavia Project is deepening supports.
The Stonewall Community Foundation funds work that makes differences on issues affecting LGBTQ+ lives.
As queer and trans youth face additional challenges, the Octavia Project is deepening supports.
November 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
🎉 We're thrilled to share that we've received funding from the Stonewall Community Foundation 🎉
The Stonewall Community Foundation funds work that makes differences on issues affecting LGBTQ+ lives.
As queer and trans youth face additional challenges, the Octavia Project is deepening supports.
The Stonewall Community Foundation funds work that makes differences on issues affecting LGBTQ+ lives.
As queer and trans youth face additional challenges, the Octavia Project is deepening supports.
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Since it’s up on the @locusmag.bsky.social site now, I do wanna shout out this review of ‘Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity’ by @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social—what a joy it was to see the anthology described thusly 🥹🥹
locusmag.com/review/ampli...
locusmag.com/review/ampli...
September 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Since it’s up on the @locusmag.bsky.social site now, I do wanna shout out this review of ‘Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity’ by @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social—what a joy it was to see the anthology described thusly 🥹🥹
locusmag.com/review/ampli...
locusmag.com/review/ampli...
Our fundraiser ends today! If you have $10 or $20 to put toward leadership opportunities for young women and trans and nonbinary youth in Brooklyn, now's your chance to make a gift. donorbox.org/build-our-yo...
August 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Our fundraiser ends today! If you have $10 or $20 to put toward leadership opportunities for young women and trans and nonbinary youth in Brooklyn, now's your chance to make a gift. donorbox.org/build-our-yo...
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📣 We have 4 more days to reach our $6,000 goal by 8/29! Together, we can launch our Youth Advisory Board and center the voices of OP alumni! Join us in supporting young leaders like our Teaching Fellows.
👆 Make a gift today and support this critical work through the link in our bio 👆
👆 Make a gift today and support this critical work through the link in our bio 👆
August 25, 2025 at 11:02 AM
📣 We have 4 more days to reach our $6,000 goal by 8/29! Together, we can launch our Youth Advisory Board and center the voices of OP alumni! Join us in supporting young leaders like our Teaching Fellows.
👆 Make a gift today and support this critical work through the link in our bio 👆
👆 Make a gift today and support this critical work through the link in our bio 👆
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📣 We're halfway to the $6K we need to fund our new Youth Advisory Board! This leadership initiative will center the voices of OP alumni, including Fellows like Xylon.
Ready to support the next generation? Help us make our goal by 8/29! https://donorbox.org/build-our-youth-advisory-board
Ready to support the next generation? Help us make our goal by 8/29! https://donorbox.org/build-our-youth-advisory-board
August 22, 2025 at 11:02 AM
📣 We're halfway to the $6K we need to fund our new Youth Advisory Board! This leadership initiative will center the voices of OP alumni, including Fellows like Xylon.
Ready to support the next generation? Help us make our goal by 8/29! https://donorbox.org/build-our-youth-advisory-board
Ready to support the next generation? Help us make our goal by 8/29! https://donorbox.org/build-our-youth-advisory-board
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Last night, we celebrated a new generation of OP alumni at our Summer Showcase! To keep serving them year-round, we're launching our Youth Advisory Board this fall.
Can you help us raise $6K by 8/29 for our alumni leadership initiative? https://donorbox.org/build-our-youth-advisory-board
Can you help us raise $6K by 8/29 for our alumni leadership initiative? https://donorbox.org/build-our-youth-advisory-board
August 15, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Last night, we celebrated a new generation of OP alumni at our Summer Showcase! To keep serving them year-round, we're launching our Youth Advisory Board this fall.
Can you help us raise $6K by 8/29 for our alumni leadership initiative? https://donorbox.org/build-our-youth-advisory-board
Can you help us raise $6K by 8/29 for our alumni leadership initiative? https://donorbox.org/build-our-youth-advisory-board
If you're in or around NYC, come out to the @octaviaproject.bsky.social's Summer Showcase! It's going to be a lot of fun (and psst, there's an afterparty--DM me for details).
Our Institute participants are using the open-source tool Twine to code story-based games this week—and guess what? If you attend our Summer Showcase at CARA (225 W. 13th St in Manhattan), which kicks off at 5:30 PM this Thursday, you’ll get a chance to play some of them!
Hope to see you there!
Hope to see you there!
August 12, 2025 at 11:09 AM
If you're in or around NYC, come out to the @octaviaproject.bsky.social's Summer Showcase! It's going to be a lot of fun (and psst, there's an afterparty--DM me for details).
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Our Institute participants became community scientists this week at Billion Oyster Project! They gained experience supporting NYC's best “ecosystem engineers”: the oysters that boost ecological resilience by fostering biodiversity, filtering water, & acting as natural storm barriers.
August 8, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Our Institute participants became community scientists this week at Billion Oyster Project! They gained experience supporting NYC's best “ecosystem engineers”: the oysters that boost ecological resilience by fostering biodiversity, filtering water, & acting as natural storm barriers.
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Our Institute participants are building new worlds with guidance from @nkjemisin.bsky.social! Through the lens of mythmaking, students examined what our collective stories communicate about power and social roles. How can we subvert existing myths and craft new narratives?
August 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Our Institute participants are building new worlds with guidance from @nkjemisin.bsky.social! Through the lens of mythmaking, students examined what our collective stories communicate about power and social roles. How can we subvert existing myths and craft new narratives?
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We’re continuing our explorations of the city around us with urban planning workshops at the Institute. Through sharing real and speculative stories about the impact of rising temperatures on on urban environments, we’re working together to imagine cities of the future. 🌇
July 25, 2025 at 11:02 AM
We’re continuing our explorations of the city around us with urban planning workshops at the Institute. Through sharing real and speculative stories about the impact of rising temperatures on on urban environments, we’re working together to imagine cities of the future. 🌇
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At the OP, New York City is our classroom! Last week, guest teachers in architecture and urban planning helped Camp participants discover the ✨everyday magic✨ present in their communities with generative mapping exercises, model building, and observations of public spaces.
July 22, 2025 at 11:02 AM
At the OP, New York City is our classroom! Last week, guest teachers in architecture and urban planning helped Camp participants discover the ✨everyday magic✨ present in their communities with generative mapping exercises, model building, and observations of public spaces.
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Speculative fiction lets us enter realms beyond our own world. On a field trip to the Museum of Arts and Design, our Campers visited the "Empathic Universe" of artist Saya Woolfalk, who uses fantastical worldbuilding techniques to bring new beings & immersive landscapes to life.
July 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Speculative fiction lets us enter realms beyond our own world. On a field trip to the Museum of Arts and Design, our Campers visited the "Empathic Universe" of artist Saya Woolfalk, who uses fantastical worldbuilding techniques to bring new beings & immersive landscapes to life.
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Today is the perfect day to pick up your next favorite book! Check out some titles we're so excited to have on the shelves (Queer nature! Apocalyptic horror! MELISSA FEBOS!)
July 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Today is the perfect day to pick up your next favorite book! Check out some titles we're so excited to have on the shelves (Queer nature! Apocalyptic horror! MELISSA FEBOS!)
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$250,000 is a lot of money. But last quarter we had more than 450,000 page views; $1 for each of them- the cost of a fairly old-timey newspaper -would have us more than covered.
If you enjoy our articles, chip in the cost of a coffee, or $10, or $15. Help us to keep offering the coverage you value.
If you enjoy our articles, chip in the cost of a coffee, or $10, or $15. Help us to keep offering the coverage you value.
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July 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM
$250,000 is a lot of money. But last quarter we had more than 450,000 page views; $1 for each of them- the cost of a fairly old-timey newspaper -would have us more than covered.
If you enjoy our articles, chip in the cost of a coffee, or $10, or $15. Help us to keep offering the coverage you value.
If you enjoy our articles, chip in the cost of a coffee, or $10, or $15. Help us to keep offering the coverage you value.
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We’re just one month away from our Summer Showcase! Every year, we celebrate the work of our participants with their friends, family, and OP community.
If you're in NYC, RSVP here to join us on 8/14 at 5:30 PM at CARA: https://www.cara-nyc.org/program/events/octavia-project-summer-showcase-2025
If you're in NYC, RSVP here to join us on 8/14 at 5:30 PM at CARA: https://www.cara-nyc.org/program/events/octavia-project-summer-showcase-2025
July 15, 2025 at 11:02 AM
We’re just one month away from our Summer Showcase! Every year, we celebrate the work of our participants with their friends, family, and OP community.
If you're in NYC, RSVP here to join us on 8/14 at 5:30 PM at CARA: https://www.cara-nyc.org/program/events/octavia-project-summer-showcase-2025
If you're in NYC, RSVP here to join us on 8/14 at 5:30 PM at CARA: https://www.cara-nyc.org/program/events/octavia-project-summer-showcase-2025
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📖 2025 Releases with Nonbinary Characters
July 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
📖 2025 Releases with Nonbinary Characters
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The editor of “Amplitudes” discusses gathering diverse queer and trans voices to upend publishing trends and reimagine community.
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Lee Mandelo Is Creating Queer Futurity Today - Electric Literature
The editor of “Amplitudes” discusses gathering diverse queer and trans voices to upend publishing trends and reimagine community
electricliterature.com
July 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The editor of “Amplitudes” discusses gathering diverse queer and trans voices to upend publishing trends and reimagine community.
electricliterature.com/lee-mandelo-...
electricliterature.com/lee-mandelo-...
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Our ✨Teaching Fellows✨ are all OP alums who bring their passion, STEAM skills, and expertise about the program to new groups of Camp participants each summer. Our Teaching Fellows designed and led two of the art workshops at Camp last week, including this block printing workshop!
July 11, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Our ✨Teaching Fellows✨ are all OP alums who bring their passion, STEAM skills, and expertise about the program to new groups of Camp participants each summer. Our Teaching Fellows designed and led two of the art workshops at Camp last week, including this block printing workshop!
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Right after you finish this episode you need to go grab a copy of “Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity” edited by Lee and featuring a story from Aysha. It’s really remarkable stuff, we promise you’ll enjoy it immensely!
Amplitudes: 9781645660866 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Revolutionary and visionary, these twenty-two speculative stories edited by Lambda, Nebula and Hugo finalist Lee Mandelo explore the vast potentialities of our queer and trans futures. USA Today Bes...
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July 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Right after you finish this episode you need to go grab a copy of “Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity” edited by Lee and featuring a story from Aysha. It’s really remarkable stuff, we promise you’ll enjoy it immensely!
Reposted by Katharine Duckett
What can butterfly pea flower tea 🦋 and temperature-sensitive slime 🧪 teach us about the 🪄scientific magic🪄 of light and color? Our Campers found out by conducting their own experiments on Science Day this week! 🌈
July 8, 2025 at 11:02 AM
What can butterfly pea flower tea 🦋 and temperature-sensitive slime 🧪 teach us about the 🪄scientific magic🪄 of light and color? Our Campers found out by conducting their own experiments on Science Day this week! 🌈