Victoria Mbabazi
@victoriambabazi.bsky.social
writer | they/them | the siren in the twelfth house (palimpsest press) | the stone who strapped me (arsenal pulp press, forthcoming)
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Who keeps beating up Jay Leno? What did he do?
I like how my brain works I’m finishing gone girl after 49393 months cuz it was missing at Adina’s house for a minute and Amy Dunne describes herself as a product because of the Amazing Amy childrens books and I realize she’s Jojo Siwa and I can’t unrealize that it’s all I know forever
July 7, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I like how my brain works I’m finishing gone girl after 49393 months cuz it was missing at Adina’s house for a minute and Amy Dunne describes herself as a product because of the Amazing Amy childrens books and I realize she’s Jojo Siwa and I can’t unrealize that it’s all I know forever
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Poet @victoriambabazi.bsky.social discusses the cover of their collection THE SIREN IN THE TWELFTH HOUSE (@palimpsestpress.bsky.social) with its illustrator, Isabella Fassler, for today's #beautifulbooks.
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May 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Poet @victoriambabazi.bsky.social discusses the cover of their collection THE SIREN IN THE TWELFTH HOUSE (@palimpsestpress.bsky.social) with its illustrator, Isabella Fassler, for today's #beautifulbooks.
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PLEASE SHARE! I am raising funds for a dear friend and member of the literary as well as arts communities.
$5 and $10 goes a long way! Reshares even further! We are just $800 from our goal and my hope is bluesky can take us the rest of the way. 💛💛💛
chuffed.org/project/1299...
$5 and $10 goes a long way! Reshares even further! We are just $800 from our goal and my hope is bluesky can take us the rest of the way. 💛💛💛
chuffed.org/project/1299...
May 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
PLEASE SHARE! I am raising funds for a dear friend and member of the literary as well as arts communities.
$5 and $10 goes a long way! Reshares even further! We are just $800 from our goal and my hope is bluesky can take us the rest of the way. 💛💛💛
chuffed.org/project/1299...
$5 and $10 goes a long way! Reshares even further! We are just $800 from our goal and my hope is bluesky can take us the rest of the way. 💛💛💛
chuffed.org/project/1299...
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Library Card Vest knitting pattern
www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...
Long overdue. Thanks @ronmcquade.bsky.social
www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...
Long overdue. Thanks @ronmcquade.bsky.social
February 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Library Card Vest knitting pattern
www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...
Long overdue. Thanks @ronmcquade.bsky.social
www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...
Long overdue. Thanks @ronmcquade.bsky.social
I like writing poems that ask the question “what the fuck is wrong with you?”
January 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I like writing poems that ask the question “what the fuck is wrong with you?”
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Well i got like 100 scam DMs today. Thats pretty good. It could have been 200 or 1000. I guess theres no way to make this happen less often. The devs are doing their best. Its basically impossible to program a computer to do any thing
January 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Well i got like 100 scam DMs today. Thats pretty good. It could have been 200 or 1000. I guess theres no way to make this happen less often. The devs are doing their best. Its basically impossible to program a computer to do any thing
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Drake has withdrawn his petition against Spotify and UMG after accusing the entities of launching an illegal “scheme” to boost numbers for Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us.”
Drake Withdraws Legal Petition Accusing Spotify and Universal Music of Artificially Inflating Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’
Drake has withdrawn his legal petition against Spotify and UMG after claiming they artificially inflated Kendrick Lamar's 'Not LIke Us.'
variety.com
January 15, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Drake has withdrawn his petition against Spotify and UMG after accusing the entities of launching an illegal “scheme” to boost numbers for Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us.”
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thank u everyone for playing my game. unfortuantely as soon as I posted it i logged off and forgot this app existed for 10 days
December 24, 2024 at 2:03 AM
thank u everyone for playing my game. unfortuantely as soon as I posted it i logged off and forgot this app existed for 10 days
Let’s play a game! What are you reading and why?
I’m reading I’m A Fan by Sheena Patel because I’m writing vignettes an it’s in vignettes!
I tag @ryannekap.bsky.social @inkstainedwreck.bsky.social and @summ.bsky.social
I’m reading I’m A Fan by Sheena Patel because I’m writing vignettes an it’s in vignettes!
I tag @ryannekap.bsky.social @inkstainedwreck.bsky.social and @summ.bsky.social
Let’s play a game! What are you reading right now and why?
I’ll start—I’m rereading the Percy Jackson series by @rickriordan.bsky.social because I want to re-experience a childhood fav.
I tag @victoriambabazi.bsky.social @manahil.bsky.social and @patrycjasara.bsky.social. ❤️
I’ll start—I’m rereading the Percy Jackson series by @rickriordan.bsky.social because I want to re-experience a childhood fav.
I tag @victoriambabazi.bsky.social @manahil.bsky.social and @patrycjasara.bsky.social. ❤️
December 20, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Let’s play a game! What are you reading and why?
I’m reading I’m A Fan by Sheena Patel because I’m writing vignettes an it’s in vignettes!
I tag @ryannekap.bsky.social @inkstainedwreck.bsky.social and @summ.bsky.social
I’m reading I’m A Fan by Sheena Patel because I’m writing vignettes an it’s in vignettes!
I tag @ryannekap.bsky.social @inkstainedwreck.bsky.social and @summ.bsky.social
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Let’s play a game! What are you reading right now and why?
I’ll start—I’m rereading the Percy Jackson series by @rickriordan.bsky.social because I want to re-experience a childhood fav.
I tag @victoriambabazi.bsky.social @manahil.bsky.social and @patrycjasara.bsky.social. ❤️
I’ll start—I’m rereading the Percy Jackson series by @rickriordan.bsky.social because I want to re-experience a childhood fav.
I tag @victoriambabazi.bsky.social @manahil.bsky.social and @patrycjasara.bsky.social. ❤️
December 16, 2024 at 12:06 AM
Let’s play a game! What are you reading right now and why?
I’ll start—I’m rereading the Percy Jackson series by @rickriordan.bsky.social because I want to re-experience a childhood fav.
I tag @victoriambabazi.bsky.social @manahil.bsky.social and @patrycjasara.bsky.social. ❤️
I’ll start—I’m rereading the Percy Jackson series by @rickriordan.bsky.social because I want to re-experience a childhood fav.
I tag @victoriambabazi.bsky.social @manahil.bsky.social and @patrycjasara.bsky.social. ❤️
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Luigi Mangione’s fellow prisoners yelled “Luigi’s conditions suck” and “Free Luigi” from their cells in Pennsylvania during an interview: www.newsnationnow.com/banfield/lui...
December 12, 2024 at 12:07 PM
Luigi Mangione’s fellow prisoners yelled “Luigi’s conditions suck” and “Free Luigi” from their cells in Pennsylvania during an interview: www.newsnationnow.com/banfield/lui...
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here is my new poem in The Paris Review, about a toilet www.theparisreview.org/poetry/8360/...
December 10, 2024 at 5:20 PM
here is my new poem in The Paris Review, about a toilet www.theparisreview.org/poetry/8360/...
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(Biden after reading 'The Hundred Years' War on Palestine'): I have to pardon my son
December 2, 2024 at 4:11 AM
(Biden after reading 'The Hundred Years' War on Palestine'): I have to pardon my son
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My latest story “The Garden” was just released in the Schism themed issue of The Ex-Puritan. It’s a neo-gothic, lightly speculative look at violence, release, and attempt at control over bodies in relationships, through the lens of a garden. Thanks for reading xo
ex-puritan.ca/the-garden
ex-puritan.ca/the-garden
The Garden
Read Conyer Clayton's short story "The Garden" in the Schism issue of The Ex-Puritan, then check out the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence!
ex-puritan.ca
November 27, 2024 at 5:07 PM
My latest story “The Garden” was just released in the Schism themed issue of The Ex-Puritan. It’s a neo-gothic, lightly speculative look at violence, release, and attempt at control over bodies in relationships, through the lens of a garden. Thanks for reading xo
ex-puritan.ca/the-garden
ex-puritan.ca/the-garden
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@earthtokb.bsky.social @daijmoore.bsky.social @karismaprice.bsky.social @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social @victoriambabazi.bsky.social @tariqthompson.bsky.social
Happy Friday! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 Who is a Black author you've read that you need more people to know about?? No better time than today to give folks they flowers 💐💐💐
November 24, 2024 at 1:07 PM
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This is amazing news for all the amazing and talented SFF poets out there!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
It’s official: in 2025, the Nebula Awards and @sfwa.bsky.social will recognize poetry as a new award category. Poetry has been a vital part of SFF from the earliest pulps. I’m so thrilled to see it recognized in this way.
November 22, 2024 at 7:20 PM
This is amazing news for all the amazing and talented SFF poets out there!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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It’s official: in 2025, the Nebula Awards and @sfwa.bsky.social will recognize poetry as a new award category. Poetry has been a vital part of SFF from the earliest pulps. I’m so thrilled to see it recognized in this way.
November 22, 2024 at 12:33 PM
It’s official: in 2025, the Nebula Awards and @sfwa.bsky.social will recognize poetry as a new award category. Poetry has been a vital part of SFF from the earliest pulps. I’m so thrilled to see it recognized in this way.
Who keeps beating up Jay Leno? What did he do?
November 22, 2024 at 12:50 PM
Who keeps beating up Jay Leno? What did he do?
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Just another day of wishing my country would stop arming war criminals.
November 21, 2024 at 4:08 PM
Just another day of wishing my country would stop arming war criminals.
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"I loved him, he was my safety" the mantra of every child successfully groomed by an adult old enough to be their parent, ever.
November 20, 2024 at 5:14 PM
"I loved him, he was my safety" the mantra of every child successfully groomed by an adult old enough to be their parent, ever.
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Often, I find myself back and forth between the white nonsense of CanLit and the white nonsense of SFF. This refusal to relinquish, or, sometimes, even acknowledge, power. Where to rest?
November 20, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Often, I find myself back and forth between the white nonsense of CanLit and the white nonsense of SFF. This refusal to relinquish, or, sometimes, even acknowledge, power. Where to rest?
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Madeleine Thien wins the Writers' Trust Engel Findley Award, which recognizes the accomplishments of a mid-career fiction writer.
She will donate her $25,000 prize to 3 charities, including the Palestine Children's Relief Fund and the Lebanese Red Cross.
www.cbc.ca/books/writer...
She will donate her $25,000 prize to 3 charities, including the Palestine Children's Relief Fund and the Lebanese Red Cross.
www.cbc.ca/books/writer...
Sheung-King, Martha Baillie among Writers' Trust literary prize winners | CBC Books
More than $340,000 was given out across seven prizes, recognizing fiction, nonfiction and poetry.
www.cbc.ca
November 20, 2024 at 2:20 AM
Madeleine Thien wins the Writers' Trust Engel Findley Award, which recognizes the accomplishments of a mid-career fiction writer.
She will donate her $25,000 prize to 3 charities, including the Palestine Children's Relief Fund and the Lebanese Red Cross.
www.cbc.ca/books/writer...
She will donate her $25,000 prize to 3 charities, including the Palestine Children's Relief Fund and the Lebanese Red Cross.
www.cbc.ca/books/writer...
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I'm in an abusive polycule with the book I just published, the next book I'm publishing, and the book I'm currently writing
November 19, 2024 at 9:56 PM
I'm in an abusive polycule with the book I just published, the next book I'm publishing, and the book I'm currently writing