Veronica Zora Kirin
@vmkirin.bsky.social
I like to challenge the status quo. | Founder of @asteriskdao.bsky.social and @anodynemag.bsky.social | Anthropologist and Author of STORIES OF ELDERS (Stories of Tech)
My latest piece — a narrative essay about reproductive rights — was just published in @unborderedmag.bsky.social !!!!!! Have a look (pg 15): www.unborderedmag.com/issues
Current Issue
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February 2, 2026 at 5:50 PM
My latest piece — a narrative essay about reproductive rights — was just published in @unborderedmag.bsky.social !!!!!! Have a look (pg 15): www.unborderedmag.com/issues
In other news I’ve spent two months pitching freelance in Web3 (the weird niche I’ve carved for myself) and gotten no replies so starting today I’m pitching as a man. This will either lead to actual interviews or a solid feminist essay. Stay tuned. ✊🏼
January 29, 2026 at 1:59 PM
In other news I’ve spent two months pitching freelance in Web3 (the weird niche I’ve carved for myself) and gotten no replies so starting today I’m pitching as a man. This will either lead to actual interviews or a solid feminist essay. Stay tuned. ✊🏼
Just finished typing my first novel (manuscript was written pencil and paper). It’s 30,689 words. A nice little queer dystopian sci-fi Novella shaping up — we’ll see how much more gets added after more edits and beta readers. 😅 #writingcommunity
January 28, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Just finished typing my first novel (manuscript was written pencil and paper). It’s 30,689 words. A nice little queer dystopian sci-fi Novella shaping up — we’ll see how much more gets added after more edits and beta readers. 😅 #writingcommunity
Navigate change without losing your shit. I’m speaking for free at the Mother of all Menopause Summits next month. My talk will provide tools for navigating all kinds of change, including perimenopause and menopause. Save your free seat here: motherofallmenopausesummits.com/lp1?am_id=ve...
The Mother of All Menopause Summits | Feb 11-13, 2026
Free 3-day virtual event for busy career and business mums who want to reclaim energy, focus and confidence with natural, realistic shifts.
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January 28, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Navigate change without losing your shit. I’m speaking for free at the Mother of all Menopause Summits next month. My talk will provide tools for navigating all kinds of change, including perimenopause and menopause. Save your free seat here: motherofallmenopausesummits.com/lp1?am_id=ve...
Dunno who needs this message of peace today. Take ten minutes with this song to tap back into beauty. youtu.be/YsgP8LkEopM?...
Nahko Bear (Medicine for the People) ღ Aloha Ke Akua
YouTube video by Good Wolf Sessions
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January 28, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Dunno who needs this message of peace today. Take ten minutes with this song to tap back into beauty. youtu.be/YsgP8LkEopM?...
Uhm. Exqueeze me? open.substack.com/pub/underthe...
Why the F&*K is Trump sending ICE to Italy?????
Plus: Trump predicts his own death (again), Olympic drug smuggling, and more
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January 27, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Uhm. Exqueeze me? open.substack.com/pub/underthe...
There are only two options for stopping abuse with this much power. open.substack.com/pub/scalingl...
Stopping an Abusive Government
Aka. the two methods for stopping a runaway train.
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January 25, 2026 at 1:32 PM
There are only two options for stopping abuse with this much power. open.substack.com/pub/scalingl...
This is how abuse works. The abuser takes and hits and takes and hits until met with force equal to or greater than its own. I’m terrified of that moment, of how many beautiful, innocent, good people will be lost. As a social scientist, I know it’s coming. #minneapolis
January 24, 2026 at 7:47 PM
This is how abuse works. The abuser takes and hits and takes and hits until met with force equal to or greater than its own. I’m terrified of that moment, of how many beautiful, innocent, good people will be lost. As a social scientist, I know it’s coming. #minneapolis
Pssttt have you seen the new Ground Work Academy yet? Now is the time to look — I’m offering 10% off any course or guidebook until the end of January. Just use code XFNQ8MN-JAN on checkout. 💜
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Welcome to the Ground Work Academy, where we distill practical tools for building freedom, resilience, and a life you actually want to live. This isn’t about hustle or hacks. It’s about agency: giving...
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January 23, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Pssttt have you seen the new Ground Work Academy yet? Now is the time to look — I’m offering 10% off any course or guidebook until the end of January. Just use code XFNQ8MN-JAN on checkout. 💜
vmkirin.gumroad.com
vmkirin.gumroad.com
My magazine is open for subs and we want YOU to show the world why health equity matters goddammit. Give us your harshest critique, your slay of words on page, your flourish of colors and shapes. We’re ready. #writingcommunity #art
Still open, still reading.
Free submissions for our seventh issue ends TOMORROW! If you've been meaning to submit, this is your sign. 🪧 Our regular submission period is still available through January 31st.
Full guidelines: anodynemag.com/submit/
#flinta #queer #litmag #fiction
Free submissions for our seventh issue ends TOMORROW! If you've been meaning to submit, this is your sign. 🪧 Our regular submission period is still available through January 31st.
Full guidelines: anodynemag.com/submit/
#flinta #queer #litmag #fiction
January 21, 2026 at 4:58 PM
My magazine is open for subs and we want YOU to show the world why health equity matters goddammit. Give us your harshest critique, your slay of words on page, your flourish of colors and shapes. We’re ready. #writingcommunity #art
Hey #writingcommunity — I want to reference a doc in my research but it’s never been translated to English. I have a translator but no fund. What do we do? This doc is of importance to French history and freedom post-WWII if that helps. Thanks!
January 15, 2026 at 9:23 AM
Hey #writingcommunity — I want to reference a doc in my research but it’s never been translated to English. I have a translator but no fund. What do we do? This doc is of importance to French history and freedom post-WWII if that helps. Thanks!
Tom Johnson is selling t-shirts now! If you’ve never come across this cozy channel, you’re in for a treat. We can’t wait to get our shirts and support him.
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Thomas Johnson Antique Furniture Restoration
Tom Johnson of Thomas Johnson Antique Furniture Restoration in Gorham, Maine offers videos that document his restoration of a wide variety of antique and fine furniture pieces. Tom has been restoring ...
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January 11, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Tom Johnson is selling t-shirts now! If you’ve never come across this cozy channel, you’re in for a treat. We can’t wait to get our shirts and support him.
youtube.com/@johnsonrest...
youtube.com/@johnsonrest...
I’m so deep into #conformitygate and eating it up with a giant spoon. #strangerthings
a red sign that says stranger things 3 on a black background
Alt: Stranger things season 5
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January 7, 2026 at 6:01 PM
I’m so deep into #conformitygate and eating it up with a giant spoon. #strangerthings
Looking for a way to get to (and write from) Europe? This scholarship might be your ticket. ijnet.org/en/opportuni...
Journalism master's program offers scholarships [Worldwide]
Students who wish to pursue a graduate degree in journalism can apply for a scholarship. The Erasmus Mundus Master’s in Journalism, Media and Globalisation welcomes applications from graduate students...
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January 7, 2026 at 12:03 PM
Looking for a way to get to (and write from) Europe? This scholarship might be your ticket. ijnet.org/en/opportuni...
Just got my first rejection of the year. #writingcommunity
January 6, 2026 at 11:13 AM
Just got my first rejection of the year. #writingcommunity
Reposted by Veronica Zora Kirin
"Peace President." [Cartoon by Jesse Duquette]
January 5, 2026 at 4:01 PM
"Peace President." [Cartoon by Jesse Duquette]
Returning to my desk after a two-week holiday break and it's DUSTY. Mission accomplished. Happy new year!
January 5, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Returning to my desk after a two-week holiday break and it's DUSTY. Mission accomplished. Happy new year!
I think it’s a win that I’ve been showering every day of winter break. 😅🛁
December 29, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I think it’s a win that I’ve been showering every day of winter break. 😅🛁
We’re in between the years, now. Time to do the Ground Work of 2026.
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open.substack.com/pub/scalingl...
The New Year: Time for Death and Rebirth
What will you kill and what willl you give life to?
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December 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
We’re in between the years, now. Time to do the Ground Work of 2026.
open.substack.com/pub/scalingl...
open.substack.com/pub/scalingl...
The next #deadpool film needs to take place 50 years from now when everyone he knows and loves is dying and he’s still looking young and fine. How much more irreverent does he become? Does he become besties w/ Cable? 🥹👉🏻👈🏻
December 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The next #deadpool film needs to take place 50 years from now when everyone he knows and loves is dying and he’s still looking young and fine. How much more irreverent does he become? Does he become besties w/ Cable? 🥹👉🏻👈🏻
Who doesn’t want to learn from Octavia Butler and @philippullmanreal.bsky.social? Let’s talk predicting the future, paradigm shifts, and agency. #writingcommunity
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open.substack.com/pub/scalingl...
Octavia Butler, Philip Pullman, and Agency
Even inaction has consequences.
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December 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Who doesn’t want to learn from Octavia Butler and @philippullmanreal.bsky.social? Let’s talk predicting the future, paradigm shifts, and agency. #writingcommunity
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Thank you so much for sharing my essay with your readers! #writingcommunity #holidays
The holidays are a time for togetherness, when we’re supposed to gather with family, get along and nurture the ties that bind us. But what if those relationships cause us harm? How do we nonviolently engage with right-w...
Let’s Agree to Stop ‘Keeping the Peace’ This Holiday Season
The holidays are a time for togetherness, when we’re supposed to gather with family, get along and nurture the ties that bind us. But what if those
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December 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Thank you so much for sharing my essay with your readers! #writingcommunity #holidays
I don’t have an alethiometer, but I do have a smartphone. #thegoldencompass
December 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I don’t have an alethiometer, but I do have a smartphone. #thegoldencompass
My piece “What I Learned From Telling Men When I Menstruate” was nominated for a Monarch Award *swoon* @monarch.gay www.blanketgravitymag.com/whatilearned
What I Learned from Telling Men When I Menstruate — Blanket Gravity Magazine
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November 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
My piece “What I Learned From Telling Men When I Menstruate” was nominated for a Monarch Award *swoon* @monarch.gay www.blanketgravitymag.com/whatilearned
The essay I wrote about my aunt Marian(a ‘false elector’ of Trump recently pardoned)is out in @wagingnonviolence.org I hope it’ll help some folks in the difficult discussions that arise over the holidays everywhere. #writingcommunity wagingnonviolence.org/2025/11/lets...
Let’s agree to stop ‘keeping the peace’ this holiday season
As we approach the holidays, here are eight tools for discussing difficult topics with family that center connection over conflict.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:52 AM
The essay I wrote about my aunt Marian(a ‘false elector’ of Trump recently pardoned)is out in @wagingnonviolence.org I hope it’ll help some folks in the difficult discussions that arise over the holidays everywhere. #writingcommunity wagingnonviolence.org/2025/11/lets...