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Niko Stratis
@nikostratis.com
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Sober trans broad. Award winning writer. Former smoker. I write a newsletter called Anxiety Shark, my debut book is called The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · May 23
hell of a time to be promoting a book about being trans, the damage done to the body/spirit in the decades spent fighting it, and how you can’t fight city hall (Big Transgender) but here we are. utpress.utexas.edu/978147733148...
A book called the dad rock that made me a woman by Niko Stratis, on a desk surrounded by a computer, an iPad and a coffee mug amongst other desk things
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once we’re through Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald day, we’re allowed to move onto the final Holiday Season of the year - (listening to A Long December by The Counting Crows)
November 11, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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also! WHY PATTI SMITH MATTERS (or any of the books in the MUSIC MATTERS series as well as all UTP books!) is on sale at the University of Texas Press' website for 40% off (50% off ebooks) with the code UTXGIFTS utpress.utexas.edu/9781477320112/
Why Patti Smith Matters
Patti Smith arrived in New York City at the end of the Age of Aquarius in search of work and purpose. What she found—what she fostered—was a cultural rev...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Slightly later in the morning than planned: we have a new website!! You should receive an email with everything you need to know, but let us know how it goes for you. We've worked so hard to bring this to you (especially Luke!) and we're so excited about it!
aftermath.site Aftermath @aftermath.site · 18h
Despite the ravages of age and an internet steeped in misinformation, your eyes – in this one case – do not deceive you: Website different. It’s taken an immense amount of time and effort, but welcome to Aftermath version 2.0:

aftermath.site/aftermath-rela...
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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it's Wreckmas Eve, don't forget to leave 29 sailors out for the Gales of November tonight
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Congratulations to Kim Thayil, the first person featured on the debut album by the Presidents of the United States of America to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Skill issue
johnmoe.bsky.social John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 19h
“The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” is a moving memorial to those who died but it continues to be a wildly unsuccessful strip club song.
November 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Text in the Zohran font that reads one two three for five everybody in the car so come on let’s ride, which is the opening to Mano no 5 by Lou Bega
November 9, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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we need a Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald about Amelia Earhart
November 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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whenever i need it, there is always a @raxkingisdead.bsky.social
raxkingisdead.bsky.social rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3d
i wrote about being a sober alcoholic trying to have a healthy relationship with exercise
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In my new love affair with working out, I've met my addictive brain in a radically different setting from the mucky undergrowth that first sprouted it. I learned to be an addict in junk houses, dive bars, apartments with a single stained mattress on the floor as furniture; I've done coke off surfaces I wouldn't even sit on now. I've met WASP-type addicts in recovery whose alcoholism was rather a genteel thing, learned from parents over champagne toasts in Martha's Vineyard, but mine was always grubby and it was always secret: if a room could comfortably grow mushrooms along its dingy grouting, I could get high in it. Imagine my surprise at finding out that I can still get drunk in the fluorescently lit weight room at the Y, even without secrecy, even without liquor. I'm still doing it til it hurts. Til some as-yet-unexplored cave system inside myself floods with a familiar gushing pain, because hurting myself is the only way I've ever been able to know myself.
November 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Deleted my post about the guy posting that Lynch quote because I simply don’t care. Please don’t fight him about it, it doesn’t matter
November 8, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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wild that the article does not mention that this is his second time being charged with sexual assault
November 7, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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SKIN GRAFT is out now! Listen wherever you get good music!

pansysucks.bandcamp.com/album/skin-g...

And come see them play in Portland with me if u live there! :)
November 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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I had a very good time talking Billy Madison on @youaregood.bsky.social , a movie I somehow know every single line despite not having seen it since the late 1900s
youaregood.bsky.social You Are Good @youaregood.bsky.social · 5d
NEW EPISODE! "At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought." In which @maryhoulie.bsky.social explains to Alex and @nikostratis.com what about Billy Madison warms her heart.
a man is taking a bath in a bathtub filled with foam and bubbles .
Alt: a man is taking a bath in a bathtub filled with foam and bubbles .
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November 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Jumped on the radio to talk about the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald this morning ,take a listen
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November 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Happy release day to our beautiful little book about Sex, and The City. Also the irreversible damage hole on the cover, art by the beautifully talented @mattielubchansky.com, is a fun little craft you can do at home, on the bus, or the workplace. All you need is a knife and a can do attitude.
a book called sex change and the city, edited by Tuck Woodstock and Niko Stratis. the cover has a cartoon image of Carrie from SATC getting splashed by water from a bus, she has an irreversible damage hole
November 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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i’ve got a tremendously dumb comic in this and also drew the insanely stupid cover….get your copy and see tuck on tour in my opinion
tuck.bsky.social tuck woodstock @tuck.bsky.social · 4d
Happy pub day to my beautiful daughter!!!!!! she is so smart and funny and weird and thoughtful and I am so excited for you to meet her!!!!
November 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.
Statement from The NewsGuild of New York and Condé United on illegal firing of four union leaders who demanded answers about this week’s layoffs at Teen Vogue, other brands Late Wednesday night, Condé Nast’s VP of Labor Relations notified the Guild that the Company was immediately terminating four Condé United leaders for engaging in the protected concerted activity of gathering in their 1 World Trade Center office to demand answers on this week’s abrupt layoffs at multiple brands including WIRED and the consolidation at Teen Vogue. These egregious terminations are a flagrant breach of the Just Cause terms of our contract and an unprecedented violation of their federally protected rights as union members to participate in a collective action. Through these illegal terminations, Condé Nast management is attempting to intimidate and silence our members' advocacy for the courageous cultural and political journalism of Teen Vogue, as well as diverting attention away from the obvious lack of corporate leadership at the company. Condé United members illegally fired are: Alma Avalle: Writer, digital producer at Bon Appetit; NewsGuild of New York first vice president, trans activist, and union leader Jake Lahut: Wired senior reporter covering the Trump White House Jasper Lo: Senior fact checker at The New Yorker and US Army veteran: outgoing first vice chair of The New Yorker Union Ben Dewey: Videographer at Condé Nast Entertainment, former vice chair of the CNE unit “Management’s attempt at union-busting, using intimidation and grossly illegal tactics to try to suppress protected union activity, will not stand,” said Susan DeCarava, president of The NewsGuild of New York. “The NewsGuild of New York has zero tolerance for bad bosses who harass, target and disrespect our fellow Guild members. We represent nearly 6,000 media workers across the tri-state area and we stand firmly in solidarity, ready to fight for the rights of our members illegally fired from their jobs at …
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee.

I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them
maxtani.bsky.social max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 4d
New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.
November 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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HEY if you are reading Patti Smith’s new book BREAD OF ANGELS & want more, my book WHY PATTI SMITH MATTERS is on sale for 40% off right now (use code UTXGIFTS) utpress.utexas.edu/9781477320112/
Why Patti Smith Matters
Patti Smith arrived in New York City at the end of the Age of Aquarius in search of work and purpose. What she found—what she fostered—was a cultural rev...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Also on sale is @nikostratis.com’s THE DAD ROCK THAT MADE ME A WOMAN:

utpress.utexas.edu/9781477331484/
The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman
A memoir-in-essays on transness, dad rock, and the music that saves us. When Wilco’s 2007 album Sky Blue Sky was infamously criticized as “dad rock,” N...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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NEW EPISODE! "At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought." In which @maryhoulie.bsky.social explains to Alex and @nikostratis.com what about Billy Madison warms her heart.
a man is taking a bath in a bathtub filled with foam and bubbles .
Alt: a man is taking a bath in a bathtub filled with foam and bubbles .
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November 5, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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tuck.bsky.social
It's so cool that Zohran was JUST elected and the transsexual degenerate takeover of NYC has already begun! Join me and @littlepuss.net for SEX CHANGE FROM HELL next Tuesday at Starr Bar! There will be iconic performances and hot people and NEW books from TWO fun trans presses :)
a poster that shows Carrie Bradshaw kissing the woman from the cover of gendertrash from hell. the women are being consumed by flames that says SEX CHANGE FROM HELL. additional text says: girl dad press and littlepuss launch party. Starr bar, 214 Starr st, nov 11, 8pm. screening of gender troublemakers. readings from sex change and the city.
November 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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also so hyped to be making my Elliott Bay debut on Nov 17 with my friend Serena Hommes! Serena contributed to 2 Trans 2 Furious ~and~ Sex Change and the City, and is also a smart cool actor and writer!

I'll be heading to Pony after the official event, so come kick it with us on a Monday night :)
a graphic that says "Sex Change in seattle! a Sex Change and the city book tour. Sex Change and the city editor Tuck Woodstock in conversation with contributor Serena hommes! mon, nov 17, 7pm, Elliott bay book company. rsvp at girl dad press dot com slash tour." there are also photos of tuck and Serena and the cover of Sex Change and the city.
November 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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I'm so hyped for SEX CHANGE + SKIN GRAFT, a joint launch party with Pansy, @vivmccall.bsky.social 's rad indie band!

Join us at Kelly's in PDX on 11/19 to hear tunes from Pansy's new EP Skin Graft, plus Vivian & I chatting about trans art! Tickets going fast!!!! www.eventbrite.com/e/pansy-tuck...
a poster with three images: Carrie Bradshaw using a laptop and phone simultaneously, Vivian hanging out with a skeleton, and a tuck flashing a peace sign in the corner. the poster says "Sex Change plus Skin Graft, presented by Tuck Woodstock. featuring pansy, a cool and hot seattle band, Sex Change and the city, a fun new book, and leisure trash, back for one night only! at Kelly's olympian in sw portland, wed, nov 9, 7:30pm 7pm doors, $10, includes $5 off books and merch. tickets at girl dad press dot com slash tour."
November 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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SEX CHANGE IN YOUR CITY starts today! join us for a celebration of weird scrappy trans+queer art why not?!

every event has an optional Hang Out in addition to the book part, so come hang! or just come quietly listen to me riff, idc.

RSVP @ girldadpress.com/tour :)
a graphic listing the first four tour days for the Sex Change and the City book tour, with stops in Philly (tonight at Wooden Shoe books with Kelsey McKinney), Chicago (waitlisted), Minneapolis (Nov 10 at Moon Palace Books with Cassius Adair) and Brooklyn (littlepuss press collab event at Starr bar on nov 11). There's also a photo of Tuck and an image of the cover of Sex Change and the City, which features Carrie Bradshaw with an irreversible damage hole through her middle. Full tour details at girl dad press dot com slash tour. a graphic listing the west coast dates for the Sex Change and the City book tour, with stops in Seattle (at Elliott Bay on Nov 17 with Serena Homes), Portland (at Kelly's Olympian on Nov 19, featuring music by Pansy) and Oakland (waitlist only). There's also a photo of Tuck and an image of the cover of Sex Change and the City, which features Carrie Bradshaw with an irreversible damage hole through her middle. Full tour details at girl dad press dot com slash tour.
November 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM