So Mayer
@suchmayer.bsky.social
They/them. Overthinker. Reads things, writes things. BAD LANGUAGE out now with Peninsula Press 🐉 THE WORD FOR WORLD (co-ed) out now with @silver-press.bsky.social 🌳 Website & newsletter: somayer.net. Won't age-verify so no DMs.
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So Mayer
@suchmayer.bsky.social
· Sep 16
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BAD LANGUAGE
13/11/25
"made with love and horror, & a guidebook for our time" — @adamzmith.bsky.social
"Mayer's words & a gift and a gateway" — @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social
"incantation & spell distil a complex argument" — Lola Olufemi
Pre-order: peninsulapress.co.uk/products/bad...
BAD LANGUAGE
13/11/25
"made with love and horror, & a guidebook for our time" — @adamzmith.bsky.social
"Mayer's words & a gift and a gateway" — @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social
"incantation & spell distil a complex argument" — Lola Olufemi
Pre-order: peninsulapress.co.uk/products/bad...
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Big distributors also didn't touch bold, timely docs like Sam Feder's "Heightened Scrutiny" (featuring Chase Strangio preparing to argue in the Supreme Court against the dismantling of trans rights: a major case decided earlier this fucking year!) Feder's last film was on Netflix, FFS.
it’s just all the great films are mostly small indies, docs, international films with smaller distribution footprints. But they exist.
November 10, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Big distributors also didn't touch bold, timely docs like Sam Feder's "Heightened Scrutiny" (featuring Chase Strangio preparing to argue in the Supreme Court against the dismantling of trans rights: a major case decided earlier this fucking year!) Feder's last film was on Netflix, FFS.
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The BFI monograph on Mani's USKI ROTI (1969) is nearing completion; had the aim of getting a first draft done by end of the year...
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The BFI monograph on Mani's USKI ROTI (1969) is nearing completion; had the aim of getting a first draft done by end of the year...
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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
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Distro Highlight✨ 🐑
Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms
From Torrey House Press, Editied by @littlebadger.bsky.social, Stacie Shannon Denetsosie and @kinsaledrake.bsky.social
Order you copy today @ AKPress.org!
Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms
From Torrey House Press, Editied by @littlebadger.bsky.social, Stacie Shannon Denetsosie and @kinsaledrake.bsky.social
Order you copy today @ AKPress.org!
November 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Distro Highlight✨ 🐑
Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms
From Torrey House Press, Editied by @littlebadger.bsky.social, Stacie Shannon Denetsosie and @kinsaledrake.bsky.social
Order you copy today @ AKPress.org!
Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms
From Torrey House Press, Editied by @littlebadger.bsky.social, Stacie Shannon Denetsosie and @kinsaledrake.bsky.social
Order you copy today @ AKPress.org!
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Hey Dublin, you have a chance to see an absolutely astonishing movie on the big screen next week, and I'm hosting the director Q&A afterwards with Lucile Hadzihalilovic, who has only made four films in her lengthy career but they are all stunning:
ifi.ie/film/french-...
ifi.ie/film/french-...
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: THE ICE TOWER + Q&A - Irish Film Institute
(LA TOUR DE GLACE) Jeanne (Clara Pacini), a 16-year-old runaway, takes refuge in a film studio where she falls under the spell of the enigmatic Cristina (Marion Cotillard), who is starring in an adapt...
ifi.ie
November 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Hey Dublin, you have a chance to see an absolutely astonishing movie on the big screen next week, and I'm hosting the director Q&A afterwards with Lucile Hadzihalilovic, who has only made four films in her lengthy career but they are all stunning:
ifi.ie/film/french-...
ifi.ie/film/french-...
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literally what's happening at a species / planetary scale
getting a more powerful GPU to heat my apartment in the winter
November 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
literally what's happening at a species / planetary scale
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I don't so much have a beef with Braiding Sweetgrass, which I quite enjoyed, as much as I have a beef with its impact on white people who seem to think that the interconnectedness of all things runs on vibes and not the actual needs of plants.
November 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I don't so much have a beef with Braiding Sweetgrass, which I quite enjoyed, as much as I have a beef with its impact on white people who seem to think that the interconnectedness of all things runs on vibes and not the actual needs of plants.
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This is on top of the #GivingTuesday we already told you about (RSVPs would be very appreciated!) & the #BlueSkyMonday #CyberMonday recommendation fest, so if it seems like we're posting a little less...we are!
November 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This is on top of the #GivingTuesday we already told you about (RSVPs would be very appreciated!) & the #BlueSkyMonday #CyberMonday recommendation fest, so if it seems like we're posting a little less...we are!
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🎬 An Evening of Films by Pratibha Parmar
Friday 11/14, 7:30 p.m.
“A Place of Rage” (1991) presents candid interviews with activists Angela Davis, June Jordan and Alice Walker.
“My Name Is Andrea” (2022) reexamines the life and legacy of radical feminist Andrea Dworkin.
Free! ucla.in/4nMHOrC
Friday 11/14, 7:30 p.m.
“A Place of Rage” (1991) presents candid interviews with activists Angela Davis, June Jordan and Alice Walker.
“My Name Is Andrea” (2022) reexamines the life and legacy of radical feminist Andrea Dworkin.
Free! ucla.in/4nMHOrC
November 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
🎬 An Evening of Films by Pratibha Parmar
Friday 11/14, 7:30 p.m.
“A Place of Rage” (1991) presents candid interviews with activists Angela Davis, June Jordan and Alice Walker.
“My Name Is Andrea” (2022) reexamines the life and legacy of radical feminist Andrea Dworkin.
Free! ucla.in/4nMHOrC
Friday 11/14, 7:30 p.m.
“A Place of Rage” (1991) presents candid interviews with activists Angela Davis, June Jordan and Alice Walker.
“My Name Is Andrea” (2022) reexamines the life and legacy of radical feminist Andrea Dworkin.
Free! ucla.in/4nMHOrC
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doing a little test print of the booklet that goes with the militant cards.... off to the printers this week...
November 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
doing a little test print of the booklet that goes with the militant cards.... off to the printers this week...
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This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰
November 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰
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Hi! I have reached out to as many writers as I could find for the Bitch x @theflytrapmedia.com project I am shepherding. If you published stories in Bitch and want to have them potentially republished at The Flytrap, email us! I’ll be responding. flyteam[at]theflytrapmedia[dot]com
November 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Hi! I have reached out to as many writers as I could find for the Bitch x @theflytrapmedia.com project I am shepherding. If you published stories in Bitch and want to have them potentially republished at The Flytrap, email us! I’ll be responding. flyteam[at]theflytrapmedia[dot]com
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it is not even a footnote to Higgins’s presidency, but I so admired his beautiful tribute to John Prine, who died early in the pandemic
“..with whom he felt a great freedom..”
President of Ireland, “Statement on the Death of John Prine”, April 2020
president.ie/en/media-lib...
“..with whom he felt a great freedom..”
President of Ireland, “Statement on the Death of John Prine”, April 2020
president.ie/en/media-lib...
November 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
it is not even a footnote to Higgins’s presidency, but I so admired his beautiful tribute to John Prine, who died early in the pandemic
“..with whom he felt a great freedom..”
President of Ireland, “Statement on the Death of John Prine”, April 2020
president.ie/en/media-lib...
“..with whom he felt a great freedom..”
President of Ireland, “Statement on the Death of John Prine”, April 2020
president.ie/en/media-lib...
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You might enjoy www.youtube.com/live/-C4KiSM...
Three Women and the Truth: NYE Special
YouTube video by Eliza Gilkyson
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
You might enjoy www.youtube.com/live/-C4KiSM...
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@vajra.me is great and very smart and you all should read this interview and his books
Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me)'s Rakesfall recently received the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. In this new interview, Senior Books Editor @cxorlando.bsky.social asks him the author about genre boundaries, violence in fiction, and how Le Guin has inspired his writing:
A Conversation With Vajra Chandrasekera, Author of Rakesfall - Reactor
"I think writers, like all artists, have a responsibility to act as human cultural workers in an actual society"
reactormag.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
@vajra.me is great and very smart and you all should read this interview and his books
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Every so often I remember a poet who lightheartedly made fun of me for taking such a long time to read a book of poetry. I think of it whenever I take my sweet ass time reading anything. I do read poetry more slowly than I read prose, and I like it that way.
November 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Every so often I remember a poet who lightheartedly made fun of me for taking such a long time to read a book of poetry. I think of it whenever I take my sweet ass time reading anything. I do read poetry more slowly than I read prose, and I like it that way.
Look what arrived from @thefunambulist.bsky.social just in time to come to Outburst Queer Arts Festival, where contributor Nat Raha @fullnommunism.bsky.social will be one of the panellists for the closing Big Talk on Sat 21 Nov, on Trans Formations. Join us!
November 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Look what arrived from @thefunambulist.bsky.social just in time to come to Outburst Queer Arts Festival, where contributor Nat Raha @fullnommunism.bsky.social will be one of the panellists for the closing Big Talk on Sat 21 Nov, on Trans Formations. Join us!
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It's incredible considering how grim the news are all around that so much of the mainstream media keeps presenting any progressive alternative, no matter how moderate, as a threat equal to that posed by emboldened billionaire reactionaries and their stooges
What a failure of their basic duty
What a failure of their basic duty
November 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
It's incredible considering how grim the news are all around that so much of the mainstream media keeps presenting any progressive alternative, no matter how moderate, as a threat equal to that posed by emboldened billionaire reactionaries and their stooges
What a failure of their basic duty
What a failure of their basic duty
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Podcast (from @palfest.bsky.social) featuring @lalehkhalili.bsky.social interviewing Adam Hanieh, @rafeefz.bsky.social and me ou our @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet Resisting Erasure.
Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation.
www.podbean.com/media/share/...
Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation.
www.podbean.com/media/share/...
Laleh Khalili talks to Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox and Rafeef Ziadeh about Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine
In the third instalment of The PalFest Podcast we are excited to bring you Laleh Khalili, the esteemed professor and writer in conversation with the authors of Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism ...
www.podbean.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Podcast (from @palfest.bsky.social) featuring @lalehkhalili.bsky.social interviewing Adam Hanieh, @rafeefz.bsky.social and me ou our @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet Resisting Erasure.
Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation.
www.podbean.com/media/share/...
Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation.
www.podbean.com/media/share/...
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For those asking what Palestine reveals about the world - and what it demands of us - this book is one small intervention in a much larger fight.
We hope you’ll read it, share it, and organise with it. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
We hope you’ll read it, share it, and organise with it. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
Resisting Erasure
Why has Palestine become a defining fault line of contemporary politics?Challenging mainstream narratives that reduce Palestine to ancient hatreds, humanitarian tragedy, or legal abstractions, Resisti...
www.versobooks.com
August 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
For those asking what Palestine reveals about the world - and what it demands of us - this book is one small intervention in a much larger fight.
We hope you’ll read it, share it, and organise with it. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
We hope you’ll read it, share it, and organise with it. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
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The algorithm gave me Mary Gauthier picking up John Prine’s legacy this morning and nearly knocked me over. youtu.be/TKUWvF8lcKI?...
Mary Gauthier - Mercy Now - 2/7/2018 - Paste Studios - New York - NY
YouTube video by Paste Magazine
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The algorithm gave me Mary Gauthier picking up John Prine’s legacy this morning and nearly knocked me over. youtu.be/TKUWvF8lcKI?...
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What are some trad pub SFF/H books that have been out at least a year that you think didn't get enough attention? Adult or YA. Marginalized authors preferred, and small press titles encouraged. Not looking for big bestsellers or award-sweepers.
September 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
What are some trad pub SFF/H books that have been out at least a year that you think didn't get enough attention? Adult or YA. Marginalized authors preferred, and small press titles encouraged. Not looking for big bestsellers or award-sweepers.
Having done it for decades, mixed in with voice notes, word docs, tweets, etc, I am increasingly drawn to reading and writing principally on paper *because* it is unsurveillable & unscrapeable (without brute intrusion, which is possible but less insidious).
Yes I totally feel this! I wonder if it's something about the fact that writing by hand & reading in print are unsurveillable & not data-scrapeable; you're not participating in the data economy & therefore suspicious?
November 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Having done it for decades, mixed in with voice notes, word docs, tweets, etc, I am increasingly drawn to reading and writing principally on paper *because* it is unsurveillable & unscrapeable (without brute intrusion, which is possible but less insidious).
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If you are in London, and if you like, come and hear Susanne Gregor, Eleanor Updegraff and me discuss Susanne's novel Halbe Leben next Tuesday 18.11. www.acflondon.org/events/book-...
such a good book!
@ilcs.bsky.social
such a good book!
@ilcs.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
If you are in London, and if you like, come and hear Susanne Gregor, Eleanor Updegraff and me discuss Susanne's novel Halbe Leben next Tuesday 18.11. www.acflondon.org/events/book-...
such a good book!
@ilcs.bsky.social
such a good book!
@ilcs.bsky.social