Lara Alonso Corona (they/them)
@laraacorona.bsky.social
queer commie writer & translator, commonly known as "that science fiction person"
i'm going to start calling myself an ambivalent ambisexual ambigendered person in homage to @suchmayer.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
i'm going to start calling myself an ambivalent ambisexual ambigendered person in homage to @suchmayer.bsky.social
Can't believe @badaude.bsky.social has a book launch in Spain today when I'm in London and @suchmayer.bsky.social 's launch is this week but when I'm no longer in London. What is this conspiracy to keep me away from my favourite authors????
November 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Can't believe @badaude.bsky.social has a book launch in Spain today when I'm in London and @suchmayer.bsky.social 's launch is this week but when I'm no longer in London. What is this conspiracy to keep me away from my favourite authors????
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Read an extract from @suchmayer.bsky.social's forthcoming book, BAD LANGUAGE, a blend of memoir and manifesto exploring the politics of speech, and how language has been used – and abused – collectively and in their own life.
Exclusive Extract: Bad Language by So Mayer
Read an extract from So Mayer's forthcoming book, Bad Language, a blend of memoir and manifesto exploring the politics of speech…
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November 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Read an extract from @suchmayer.bsky.social's forthcoming book, BAD LANGUAGE, a blend of memoir and manifesto exploring the politics of speech, and how language has been used – and abused – collectively and in their own life.
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last week @ Minor Lits ...
— poetic prose from @dluntz.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/10/28/t...
— @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social interviewed by @monalisavitti.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/10/29/a...
— new fiction from Mikra Namani
minorliteratures.com/2025/10/30/t...
— poetic prose from @dluntz.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/10/28/t...
— @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social interviewed by @monalisavitti.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/10/29/a...
— new fiction from Mikra Namani
minorliteratures.com/2025/10/30/t...
The Sentimental Monster — Mikra Namani
“He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind…” Dear Mother, I am often reminded of King Solomon’s proverb whenever I think of the history and trajectory of our family, our lives, and all…
minorliteratures.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:30 AM
last week @ Minor Lits ...
— poetic prose from @dluntz.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/10/28/t...
— @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social interviewed by @monalisavitti.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/10/29/a...
— new fiction from Mikra Namani
minorliteratures.com/2025/10/30/t...
— poetic prose from @dluntz.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/10/28/t...
— @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social interviewed by @monalisavitti.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/10/29/a...
— new fiction from Mikra Namani
minorliteratures.com/2025/10/30/t...
I'll be here talking about horror fiction and the ecological crisis, if you're coming do say hi, fellow commies
Reminder! You only have a few days left to register (and write your papers) for the HM London Conference. Do it now!
Twenty-Second Annual Conference - Historical Materialism
Registration is open and programme is online! Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order 6-9 November 2025, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: F...
www.historicalmaterialism.org
November 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I'll be here talking about horror fiction and the ecological crisis, if you're coming do say hi, fellow commies
Wow, it's catering to my interests 😉😎
Welcome to Toxic Yuri November! That's not a thing, you say? Well, now it is. Our new bundle is just $15 for TWENTY-FOUR titles, all united by everyone's favorite theme: terrible, no-good, dangerous lesbians.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Wow, it's catering to my interests 😉😎
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If you are broke and would like a free physical copy of Enemy Feminisms, DM me your mailing address. I will probably cover postage (or might ask you to chip in a bit for that)
October 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
If you are broke and would like a free physical copy of Enemy Feminisms, DM me your mailing address. I will probably cover postage (or might ask you to chip in a bit for that)
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This is so cool.
Today for @theverge.com, I talk about transfem narratives: the epistemic lockout from mainstream publishing, the advantages and pitfalls of the self-pub model, and what a global transmisogynistic panic implies for our ability to make our voices heard and represent our own lives and worlds.
Trans women are building their own publishing world, and it’s under threat
Online communities are stepping in where traditional publishing stops.
www.theverge.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This is so cool.
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“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue.
It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”
Read Wilde's “The Soul of Man under Socialism”:
It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”
Read Wilde's “The Soul of Man under Socialism”:
Oscar Wilde: The Soul of Man Under Socialism — homocommunist
“Maybe a homosexual could be the most revolutionary.”
homocommunist.xyz
October 16, 2025 at 10:37 PM
“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue.
It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”
Read Wilde's “The Soul of Man under Socialism”:
It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”
Read Wilde's “The Soul of Man under Socialism”:
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“Well-meaning” people are using machine translation to write Wikipedia articles in languages that they don’t speak themselves, accelerating the degeneration in quality of the web corpus for several languages with relatively few native speakers.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...
How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral
Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages?
www.technologyreview.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:14 AM
“Well-meaning” people are using machine translation to write Wikipedia articles in languages that they don’t speak themselves, accelerating the degeneration in quality of the web corpus for several languages with relatively few native speakers.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...
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I'm now writing a monthly column for @artreview.bsky.social
Works of Art looks at the intersections between art, labour & finance & asks how artists of all kinds are able (or not) to sustain creative practice.
If there's s'thing you'd like to see covered, message me.
artreview.com/can-we-ever-...
Works of Art looks at the intersections between art, labour & finance & asks how artists of all kinds are able (or not) to sustain creative practice.
If there's s'thing you'd like to see covered, message me.
artreview.com/can-we-ever-...
Who Can Stop Artwashing?
Artists and unethical money have been implicitly linked for centuries. Whose role should it be to police it?
artreview.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:52 AM
I'm now writing a monthly column for @artreview.bsky.social
Works of Art looks at the intersections between art, labour & finance & asks how artists of all kinds are able (or not) to sustain creative practice.
If there's s'thing you'd like to see covered, message me.
artreview.com/can-we-ever-...
Works of Art looks at the intersections between art, labour & finance & asks how artists of all kinds are able (or not) to sustain creative practice.
If there's s'thing you'd like to see covered, message me.
artreview.com/can-we-ever-...
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"Carol, all warm and giddy in her chest, dipped her big toe into the little pond and exclaimed to the kids, ‘The water is so tepid! The water is so tepid!’ ..."
Deliverywoman — @evawyles.bsky.social
@influxpress.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/10/16/d...
Deliverywoman — @evawyles.bsky.social
@influxpress.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/10/16/d...
Deliverywoman — Eva Wyles
BAD KID Carol, all warm and giddy in her chest, dipped her big toe into the little pond and exclaimed to the kids, ‘The water is so tepid! The water is so tepid!’ Wanted them to do the same, take t…
minorliteratures.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:43 AM
"Carol, all warm and giddy in her chest, dipped her big toe into the little pond and exclaimed to the kids, ‘The water is so tepid! The water is so tepid!’ ..."
Deliverywoman — @evawyles.bsky.social
@influxpress.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/10/16/d...
Deliverywoman — @evawyles.bsky.social
@influxpress.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/10/16/d...
Reading this right now, by the way! I loved Bulkin's "She said destroy" &always felt the author deserved to become a big cult name. So far, so excellently unsettling.
Come for the alpha bitches, stay for the unholy vibes. ISSUES WITH AUTHORITY is out now through Ghoulish Books. Get it here: ghoulish.rip/product/issu...
@nadiabulkin.bsky.social
@nadiabulkin.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Reading this right now, by the way! I loved Bulkin's "She said destroy" &always felt the author deserved to become a big cult name. So far, so excellently unsettling.
Oh! I need to read this.!!
NEW 📗!
PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements (@ravineangel.bsky.social)
In which a trans woman discovers porn of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil
"The year's great work of literary horror."
—Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable.bsky.social)
PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements (@ravineangel.bsky.social)
In which a trans woman discovers porn of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil
"The year's great work of literary horror."
—Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable.bsky.social)
PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements — Debut trans horror — LittlePuss Press
"The best book I've read in years." —Gretchen Felker-Martin
www.littlepuss.net
October 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Oh! I need to read this.!!
Romantasy is YA's own counterrevolution, it's a conservative backslash &we should talk about many of its titles in the same way we talk about tradwife tiktoks, part of the same wave of cishet propaganda
Honestly it feels like a lot of popular romantasy is a backlash to diverse YA books
This whole thread!!! when I talk about YA authors getting picked up to write romantasy, it's overwhelmingly white authors writing het romance. but that represents just a fraction of what's actually happening in the YA space.
October 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Romantasy is YA's own counterrevolution, it's a conservative backslash &we should talk about many of its titles in the same way we talk about tradwife tiktoks, part of the same wave of cishet propaganda
Anyone know of any F/F retellings of Baba Yaga? Or in general lesbian stuff with Slavic folklore settings?
October 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Anyone know of any F/F retellings of Baba Yaga? Or in general lesbian stuff with Slavic folklore settings?
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Found out that the latest Nobel Peace Prize winner is a staunch ally of Netanyahu's and signed a cooperation agreement with the Likud party, which makes perfect sense. This is a prize that went to Kissinger and Obama, after all.
Venezuela opposition cooperating with Israel's Likud party
An opposition party, called Vente Venezuela,through its leader, María Corina Machado, signed a cooperation agreement with Zionist Likud party, which is in government through Benjamin Netanyahu.
nournews.ir
October 10, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Found out that the latest Nobel Peace Prize winner is a staunch ally of Netanyahu's and signed a cooperation agreement with the Likud party, which makes perfect sense. This is a prize that went to Kissinger and Obama, after all.
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PROTECT THE LIBERAL NARRATIVE
Bro blocked me for pointing out that she supports Trump, the strikes, and Israel’s genocide
October 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
PROTECT THE LIBERAL NARRATIVE
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Actually a good illustration of how there is no liberal narrative anymore--it's vestigial, absorbed into the fascist narrative because liberal imperialism tilted the scales toward the nazis. Now there are liberals celebrating a politician who supports Trump & Netanyahu because 'democracy'.
October 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Actually a good illustration of how there is no liberal narrative anymore--it's vestigial, absorbed into the fascist narrative because liberal imperialism tilted the scales toward the nazis. Now there are liberals celebrating a politician who supports Trump & Netanyahu because 'democracy'.
She's literally a Trump supporter, I am begging you to look past the liberal propaganda
People celebrating this because Trump is going to be angry... You need to read up on her politics and listen to Latinx journalists about this, instead of being stuck on this US-centric logic. This woman praised Milei and said their projects were on the same length wave, that should give you a clue.
BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.
#NobelPrize
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.
#NobelPrize
October 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
She's literally a Trump supporter, I am begging you to look past the liberal propaganda
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The Nobel Peace Prize IS for war criminals. That's who they give it to!
October 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The Nobel Peace Prize IS for war criminals. That's who they give it to!
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send us your gripes, complaints and pet hates ...
October 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
send us your gripes, complaints and pet hates ...
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I'm a committed small press author & editor. Small presses are the seed-heads of the books world & they are scorched. Pls read and share this excellent letter on the situation & what's needed in @thebookseller.com, signatories inc Peninsula Press, @cipherpress.bsky.social @silver-press.bsky.social
Open letter on the future of small press publishing in the UK
The industry must work together to ensure the longevity of the UK’s independent presses.
www.thebookseller.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:19 AM
I'm a committed small press author & editor. Small presses are the seed-heads of the books world & they are scorched. Pls read and share this excellent letter on the situation & what's needed in @thebookseller.com, signatories inc Peninsula Press, @cipherpress.bsky.social @silver-press.bsky.social
People celebrating this because Trump is going to be angry... You need to read up on her politics and listen to Latinx journalists about this, instead of being stuck on this US-centric logic. This woman praised Milei and said their projects were on the same length wave, that should give you a clue.
BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.
#NobelPrize
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.
#NobelPrize
October 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
People celebrating this because Trump is going to be angry... You need to read up on her politics and listen to Latinx journalists about this, instead of being stuck on this US-centric logic. This woman praised Milei and said their projects were on the same length wave, that should give you a clue.
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“We are in a lot of trouble. Our difficulties are multiplying and becoming more complex and challenging. Whatever short- or medium-term plans we have are having to be revised or discarded daily…”
Can you help us, even just with an RT?
Can you help us, even just with an RT?
Donate to Support a Voyage to Find Home, organized by Liz Cullinane
Hello, my name is Liz Cullinane and for the past four years, I have been inspired to raise… Liz Cullinane needs your support for Support a Voyage to Find Home
www.gofundme.com
October 7, 2025 at 10:29 AM
“We are in a lot of trouble. Our difficulties are multiplying and becoming more complex and challenging. Whatever short- or medium-term plans we have are having to be revised or discarded daily…”
Can you help us, even just with an RT?
Can you help us, even just with an RT?