Sarah Avery
@sarahavery.bsky.social
Mythopoeic Award winning fantasy writer 🪐📚, escaped academic, beginner permaculture gardener, Gen X Army brat, DC area local, she/her, https://SarahAvery.com, https://www.patreon.com/SarahAvery
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Sarah Avery
@sarahavery.bsky.social
· Sep 10
Announcing – Tales from Rugosa Coven
Candlemark & Gleam is delighted to announce that we’re bringing Sarah Avery’s 2015 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Winner Tales from Rugosa Coven back into print in a new and revised edition. This volume of ...
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Geolocating Trump's Gulag Archipelago DetentionReports.com now includes an interactive map of all 237 ICE detention facilities, comparative scatter plots, & publicly available contracts archive. Designed to support empirical research and institutional accountability.
February 15, 2026 at 1:57 AM
Geolocating Trump's Gulag Archipelago DetentionReports.com now includes an interactive map of all 237 ICE detention facilities, comparative scatter plots, & publicly available contracts archive. Designed to support empirical research and institutional accountability.
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If 100,000 people on #Bluesky gave just $1, we could #FeedMinneapolis.
A dollar feeds a neighbor. Let’s do this.
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A dollar feeds a neighbor. Let’s do this.
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Minneapolis residents are facing a growing food crisis. Fear from ICE is keeping families—especially elders, parents, and the homebound from groceries.
Feed Minneapolis funds trusted local food shelves and kitchens, with a goal of feeding 10,000 people in 2 weeks.
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Feed Minneapolis funds trusted local food shelves and kitchens, with a goal of feeding 10,000 people in 2 weeks.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fe...
Donate to Support Feed Minneapolis: Urgent Food Relief, organized by Andrew Behrman
FEED MINNEAPOLIS
A COMMUNITY IN CRISIS NEEDS YOU NOW
Minneapolis r… Andrew Behrman needs your support for Support Feed Minneapolis: Urgent Food Relief
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February 9, 2026 at 9:07 PM
If 100,000 people on #Bluesky gave just $1, we could #FeedMinneapolis.
A dollar feeds a neighbor. Let’s do this.
Click below.
A dollar feeds a neighbor. Let’s do this.
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Quote this post with a gif from one of your favorite movies.
February 13, 2026 at 5:40 AM
Quote this post with a gif from one of your favorite movies.
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build these. i'm not joking. the more I read history the more I read how often hiding spaces save lives.
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
February 11, 2026 at 4:38 AM
build these. i'm not joking. the more I read history the more I read how often hiding spaces save lives.
Smug sociopath has alliteration going for it.
I think this label is one of those that only we smug bitches can call ourselves.
February 12, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Smug sociopath has alliteration going for it.
Emily was the other front runner for girl names, and Peter for boy names.
They considered Emily Tiffany Avery, but realized that if you could waltz to it, the rhythm wasn’t working right.
They considered Emily Tiffany Avery, but realized that if you could waltz to it, the rhythm wasn’t working right.
Introduce yourself with the name your parents almost gave you:
Colleen
I was also eventually given “Catherine” as my middle name, and the intention was to call me Cat. It didn’t stick, though. I think Cat works, though, as an adult.
Colleen
I was also eventually given “Catherine” as my middle name, and the intention was to call me Cat. It didn’t stick, though. I think Cat works, though, as an adult.
Introduce yourself with the name your parents almost gave you:
Alfredo
(After my maternal grandfather not the sauce)
Alfredo
(After my maternal grandfather not the sauce)
February 11, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Emily was the other front runner for girl names, and Peter for boy names.
They considered Emily Tiffany Avery, but realized that if you could waltz to it, the rhythm wasn’t working right.
They considered Emily Tiffany Avery, but realized that if you could waltz to it, the rhythm wasn’t working right.
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Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
February 10, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
A short thread on job creation as a form of resistance. I don't have the resources to implement this, but someone does.
antisocial malcontents who actually support this are a limited resource, and the only source of growth in that population is new ones turning 18
there are not enough of them to staff the mass detention warehouses
people who are just desperate for work are the secondary recruitment targets
there are not enough of them to staff the mass detention warehouses
people who are just desperate for work are the secondary recruitment targets
February 10, 2026 at 6:58 AM
A short thread on job creation as a form of resistance. I don't have the resources to implement this, but someone does.
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When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured”
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts
Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...
www.reuters.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:42 PM
When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured”
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Hey, spaetzle-cooking veterans, which kind of #spaetzle maker do you use? So far, I've tried forming them by pinching them with my fingers and by squishing the dough through holes in a colander. It's a good thing I'm not a 19th century peasant lass on the marriage market. #cooking #KitchenTools.
February 10, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Hey, spaetzle-cooking veterans, which kind of #spaetzle maker do you use? So far, I've tried forming them by pinching them with my fingers and by squishing the dough through holes in a colander. It's a good thing I'm not a 19th century peasant lass on the marriage market. #cooking #KitchenTools.
"It's okay to brag in this supplemental. The admissions office put that question in their application as an invitation so they could see you brag right here."
“Yeah, unfortunately they’re allowed to do that”
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
"It's not designed to work that way"
"It's not designed to work that way"
February 7, 2026 at 9:47 PM
"It's okay to brag in this supplemental. The admissions office put that question in their application as an invitation so they could see you brag right here."
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10/10 ICE protest sign
January 31, 2026 at 10:20 PM
10/10 ICE protest sign
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And the current moment, where the right are revealed as what they are - fascists, thugs, criminals, grasping swine who would loot the fillings from your teeth - means the death of Sensible Centrism. Because if your opponents are Nazi sex offenders, then who are you supposed to compromise with?
February 5, 2026 at 4:01 PM
And the current moment, where the right are revealed as what they are - fascists, thugs, criminals, grasping swine who would loot the fillings from your teeth - means the death of Sensible Centrism. Because if your opponents are Nazi sex offenders, then who are you supposed to compromise with?
There are already brain swelling cases among the kids in the SC measles outbreak. Measles encephalitis can permanently disable and kill people. Now that there's a measles outbreak in the ICE concentration camps for children, it'll be happening there, too.
www.encephalitis.info/types-of-enc...
www.encephalitis.info/types-of-enc...
February 5, 2026 at 9:31 PM
There are already brain swelling cases among the kids in the SC measles outbreak. Measles encephalitis can permanently disable and kill people. Now that there's a measles outbreak in the ICE concentration camps for children, it'll be happening there, too.
www.encephalitis.info/types-of-enc...
www.encephalitis.info/types-of-enc...
How that short story deadline went, in a public post. www.patreon.com/posts/done-a...
Done and Sent! | Sarah Avery
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February 5, 2026 at 9:20 PM
How that short story deadline went, in a public post. www.patreon.com/posts/done-a...
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‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
![…
25. This Cibola jail was horrible. It was cramped. I was chained up again.
The officers mocked
me and called me their enemy. They laughed at me. I was kept at the jail for what felt like around three hours. I wasn't given an explanation for why I was there.
26. Security
guards then put me on a bus. I think it was around January 27.
No one said
anything about where I was going. I was handcuffed. It felt like the middle of the night. It was freezing cold in the bus because the driver had the AC on. We had no jackets. The bus eventually took me back to El Paso in the carly morning of Tuesday, January 27th.
27. I was put in a cold cell where I had to sleep on the bare cement floor. Around 10 in the morning my cellmate asked to speak to an ICE officer. Three officers came into the cell so I had a chance to speak to them too. One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." She told me that if I fought my case, I would spend two to three more months here in El Paso. She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota. If I hadn't managed to talk to my attorney who told me a while back that I was ordered released. I might have given up at this point and signed the self-deportation forms because the conditions were so unbearable.
…
30. When I was taken back to the detention center from the airport, after missing the flight, I overheard an ICE officer saying in English, "the judge in Minnesota wants this one back." I was put in a cold jail cell again until early next morning (January 28). But again no one had told me directly that a judge had ordered my release
…
32. When I arrived in Minneapolis, I was handed off to ICE
… I had to sign lots of papers saying that I wasn't going to be a part of any "groups." I didn't know what they meant by "groups." They never told me why I was detained](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5cn3kbi4g5blrtahon34xbu4/bafkreiccqxmfncofjqinoveiqscwale2ox5xpiqt46veqjdh3jmimkrxhq@jpeg)
February 5, 2026 at 6:04 AM
‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
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In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
January 23, 2026 at 4:01 PM
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
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Medievalist friends! Applications are open until end of Feb for a fully-funded PhD in Arthurian Literature with the brilliant Louise D'Arcens @medievalafterlives.bsky.social and myself, based between Sydney (Australia) and Groningen (The Netherlands).
Please share widely!
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Please share widely!
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Global PhD on Middle English Arthurian romance
The University of Groningen and Macquarie are offering a co-funded scholarship to support a student undertaking doctoral research in medieval literature.
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December 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Medievalist friends! Applications are open until end of Feb for a fully-funded PhD in Arthurian Literature with the brilliant Louise D'Arcens @medievalafterlives.bsky.social and myself, based between Sydney (Australia) and Groningen (The Netherlands).
Please share widely!
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Please share widely!
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well sure now that it's so warm out (currently 22 F)
Minneapolis is trying out new forms of resistance. They're doing pop-up blockade block parties. This one is on Cedar and 34th, a main route into the city. They have a stereo, food & a fire. MPD is present but not interfering. Lots of honks of support. ICE agents have been reported detouring around.
January 31, 2026 at 8:46 PM
well sure now that it's so warm out (currently 22 F)
My grandparents, who lost their first child to measles encephalitis ten years before the vaccine was developed, would have given anything for the safety antivaxxers are throwing away and trying to outlaw. Measles can kill, and it's an awful death. Please get vaccinated and vaccinate your children.
US measles cases this year already exceed the total for the whole of 2023 and 2024 combined, and it is only January. Yikes.
January 31, 2026 at 1:39 AM
My grandparents, who lost their first child to measles encephalitis ten years before the vaccine was developed, would have given anything for the safety antivaxxers are throwing away and trying to outlaw. Measles can kill, and it's an awful death. Please get vaccinated and vaccinate your children.
Someone who knows more about corvids than I do should write this short story.
God, the idea of getting paid to follow a crow with a grudge against you around for months . . . worst research position ever.
January 30, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Someone who knows more about corvids than I do should write this short story.
My students have loved this story so much over the years.
I'm incredibly pleased to able to talk about this at last. Art by Rovina Cai! Will be available to order here in a few days, and the book is already printed. No wait!
The Faery Handbag by Kelly Link
The Faery Handbag by Kelly Link is letterpress-printed and hardbound in quarter cloth and marbled paper from Daniela Prina with illustrations by Rovina Cai. All copies are signed by the author and art...
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January 30, 2026 at 9:57 PM
My students have loved this story so much over the years.
Good humans are humaning.
January 30, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Good humans are humaning.