Amalia Gladhart
@amaliag.bsky.social
Writer, reader, translator
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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Banipal Prize Announces 2025’s 6-book Shortlist
Today, the Banipal Trust for Arab Literature announced the six-book shortlist for their 2025 prize: "two comic works, an historical epic, a dystopian fiction, a prison memoir, and an eco-novel from the Gulf."
Today, the Banipal Trust for Arab Literature announced the six-book shortlist for their 2025 prize: "two comic works, an historical epic, a dystopian fiction, a prison memoir, and an eco-novel from the Gulf."
Banipal Prize Announces 2025’s 6-book Shortlist
Today, the Banipal Trust for Arab Literature announced the six-book shortlist for their 2025 prize: "two comic works, an historical epic, a dystopian fiction, a prison memoir, and an eco-novel from the Gulf."
arablit.org
December 1, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Banipal Prize Announces 2025’s 6-book Shortlist
Today, the Banipal Trust for Arab Literature announced the six-book shortlist for their 2025 prize: "two comic works, an historical epic, a dystopian fiction, a prison memoir, and an eco-novel from the Gulf."
Today, the Banipal Trust for Arab Literature announced the six-book shortlist for their 2025 prize: "two comic works, an historical epic, a dystopian fiction, a prison memoir, and an eco-novel from the Gulf."
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It's December, which means that it's time for reading trans books!
The December Trans Readathon is a challenge to read a trans book every day for the whole month! If you do, you can track your progress with this official calendar, or use the hashtag #DecemberTransReadathon to share your progress 🩷
The December Trans Readathon is a challenge to read a trans book every day for the whole month! If you do, you can track your progress with this official calendar, or use the hashtag #DecemberTransReadathon to share your progress 🩷
December 1, 2025 at 1:08 PM
It's December, which means that it's time for reading trans books!
The December Trans Readathon is a challenge to read a trans book every day for the whole month! If you do, you can track your progress with this official calendar, or use the hashtag #DecemberTransReadathon to share your progress 🩷
The December Trans Readathon is a challenge to read a trans book every day for the whole month! If you do, you can track your progress with this official calendar, or use the hashtag #DecemberTransReadathon to share your progress 🩷
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Nice to see a number of our past contributors included here
If you only look at one year-end "best of" books list, make it this thoughtful one of underrecognized gems from @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/100-notable-...
100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…
lithub.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Nice to see a number of our past contributors included here
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Trump has literally tried to cancel World AIDS Day. Don't let him. Watch CASHING OUT an amazing New Yorker doc short by Matt Nadel.
I'm a proud EP.
www.newyorker.com/video/watch/...
I'm a proud EP.
www.newyorker.com/video/watch/...
“Cashing Out” Examines an Investment Strategy That Profited from AIDS Deaths
www.newyorker.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Trump has literally tried to cancel World AIDS Day. Don't let him. Watch CASHING OUT an amazing New Yorker doc short by Matt Nadel.
I'm a proud EP.
www.newyorker.com/video/watch/...
I'm a proud EP.
www.newyorker.com/video/watch/...
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This is a thrilling list of books that deserve attention and love. Small press publication is thriving.
If you only look at one year-end "best of" books list, make it this thoughtful one of underrecognized gems from @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/100-notable-...
100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…
lithub.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This is a thrilling list of books that deserve attention and love. Small press publication is thriving.
The #100smallpress list is live on LitHub today! Thanks to @miriamgershow.bsky.social for launching this project! It's been a pleasure to be part of it. Do check out the whole list.
December 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The #100smallpress list is live on LitHub today! Thanks to @miriamgershow.bsky.social for launching this project! It's been a pleasure to be part of it. Do check out the whole list.
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Do pay attention to the submission guidelines for this — we're open to surprises, but this call is particular in what we're looking for.
We've just opened submissions on a brief call for short solstice writing. Let's see what happens!
Necessary Fiction - Winter Solstice: Points of Light
When the winter solstice approaches and days contract, I often return to seasonal rereads — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Nina MacLaughlin's Winter Solstice, essays by Kathleen Jamie, or the fictio...
necessaryfiction.submittable.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Do pay attention to the submission guidelines for this — we're open to surprises, but this call is particular in what we're looking for.
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It's alive!
Issue 33 has frighteningly good new poetry from:
Debra Allbery
Ashley Oakes
Amanda Chiado
Zachary Lorico Hertz
Jamie Kim
Jasmina Kuenzli
Laura Mills
Janice Northerns
Abiodun Salako
Moudi Sbeity
Susan Trofimow
Dana Tenille Weekes
Kenton K. Yee
leonliteraryreview.com
Issue 33 has frighteningly good new poetry from:
Debra Allbery
Ashley Oakes
Amanda Chiado
Zachary Lorico Hertz
Jamie Kim
Jasmina Kuenzli
Laura Mills
Janice Northerns
Abiodun Salako
Moudi Sbeity
Susan Trofimow
Dana Tenille Weekes
Kenton K. Yee
leonliteraryreview.com
LEON Literary Review
leonliteraryreview.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:56 PM
It's alive!
Issue 33 has frighteningly good new poetry from:
Debra Allbery
Ashley Oakes
Amanda Chiado
Zachary Lorico Hertz
Jamie Kim
Jasmina Kuenzli
Laura Mills
Janice Northerns
Abiodun Salako
Moudi Sbeity
Susan Trofimow
Dana Tenille Weekes
Kenton K. Yee
leonliteraryreview.com
Issue 33 has frighteningly good new poetry from:
Debra Allbery
Ashley Oakes
Amanda Chiado
Zachary Lorico Hertz
Jamie Kim
Jasmina Kuenzli
Laura Mills
Janice Northerns
Abiodun Salako
Moudi Sbeity
Susan Trofimow
Dana Tenille Weekes
Kenton K. Yee
leonliteraryreview.com
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This is completely insane and abhorrent.
People will suffer. People will die.
People will suffer. People will die.
Women who get an abortion and anyone who helps them could face up to 30 years in prison under the bill.
It appears to ban any contraception that prevents a fertilized egg from implanting. That would ban IUDs and could strictly limit in-vitro fertilization.
It appears to ban any contraception that prevents a fertilized egg from implanting. That would ban IUDs and could strictly limit in-vitro fertilization.
Women Who Have Abortions Would Face Decades in Prison Under South Carolina Plan
Women who get abortions could spend decades in prison and IUDs would be outlawed under proposed legislation in South Carolina.
buff.ly
November 18, 2025 at 2:31 AM
This is completely insane and abhorrent.
People will suffer. People will die.
People will suffer. People will die.
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"The attorneys spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution. All three said the plan is not regional to New England, but a nationwide strategy."
"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:29 AM
"The attorneys spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution. All three said the plan is not regional to New England, but a nationwide strategy."
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BURN IT TO THE GROUND
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:49 AM
BURN IT TO THE GROUND
I’ve been recommending Robert Macfarlane’s Is a River Alive? to everyone. Now I see there’s a local measure along the same lines. Time to get to work. #climate #watershed #lanecounty www.klcc.org/environment/...
'Watersheds Bill of Rights' qualifies for Lane County ballot
A proposal to create a “Watersheds Bill of Rights” has qualified for the Lane County ballot next May.
www.klcc.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I’ve been recommending Robert Macfarlane’s Is a River Alive? to everyone. Now I see there’s a local measure along the same lines. Time to get to work. #climate #watershed #lanecounty www.klcc.org/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Yes, real people can still make a difference.
Yes, real people can still make a difference.
How a Texas shrimper stalled Exxon’s $10bn plastics plant | Shilpi Chhotray
Diane Wilson recognized Exxon’s playbook – and showed how local people can take on even the most entrenched industries
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Yes, real people can still make a difference.
Yes, real people can still make a difference.
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Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.
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Thanks @tr. review of translations at @blacklawrence.bsky.social for publishing this bone-chilling story from Angélica Gorodischer's collection "Las nenas" [Girls]. This translation is the fruit of a collaboration between me and the fabulous @amaliag.bsky.social.
Read: tinyurl.com/vpbtrnvn
Read: tinyurl.com/vpbtrnvn
November 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Thanks @tr. review of translations at @blacklawrence.bsky.social for publishing this bone-chilling story from Angélica Gorodischer's collection "Las nenas" [Girls]. This translation is the fruit of a collaboration between me and the fabulous @amaliag.bsky.social.
Read: tinyurl.com/vpbtrnvn
Read: tinyurl.com/vpbtrnvn
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Earle-Sears ran what felt like 12 billion ads about how much she hated trans kids and I didn’t hear a single pundit say she should stick to real issues that affect real people.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Abigail Spanberger wins Virginia governor’s race.
November 5, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Earle-Sears ran what felt like 12 billion ads about how much she hated trans kids and I didn’t hear a single pundit say she should stick to real issues that affect real people.
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Hey Dems, look who won in NYC and elsewhere (VA, GA).
ACT ACCORDINGLY AND START SUPPORTING PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATES!!!
ACT ACCORDINGLY AND START SUPPORTING PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATES!!!
November 5, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Hey Dems, look who won in NYC and elsewhere (VA, GA).
ACT ACCORDINGLY AND START SUPPORTING PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATES!!!
ACT ACCORDINGLY AND START SUPPORTING PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATES!!!
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Major win in Arlington County Public Schools, with pro-trans Moe Bryant dominating the election. Arlington County Public Schools has made headlines for defying the Trump admin on trans kids in bathrooms.
November 5, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Major win in Arlington County Public Schools, with pro-trans Moe Bryant dominating the election. Arlington County Public Schools has made headlines for defying the Trump admin on trans kids in bathrooms.
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The GOP vile anti-trans campaign failed miserably. Earle-Sears made it her dominant issue - and lost hugely
Should be duly noted by the punditry (but don't count on that)
Should be duly noted by the punditry (but don't count on that)
Abigail Spanberger (D) wins the Virginia governor's race, NBC News projects, defeating Winsome Earle-Sears (R).
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 AM
The GOP vile anti-trans campaign failed miserably. Earle-Sears made it her dominant issue - and lost hugely
Should be duly noted by the punditry (but don't count on that)
Should be duly noted by the punditry (but don't count on that)
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Breaking: Jubilation in Richmond, Virginia where Abigail Spanberger was just elected the new governor.
Republican anti-trans ads did not work in the state.
www.advocate.com/politics/abi...
Republican anti-trans ads did not work in the state.
www.advocate.com/politics/abi...
LGBTQ+ ally Abigail Spanberger trounces anti-trans Republican to win Virginia governor’s race
The Advocate is reporting live from Spanberger's election night victory event.
www.advocate.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Breaking: Jubilation in Richmond, Virginia where Abigail Spanberger was just elected the new governor.
Republican anti-trans ads did not work in the state.
www.advocate.com/politics/abi...
Republican anti-trans ads did not work in the state.
www.advocate.com/politics/abi...
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💡 ANNOUNCEMENT! 💡
Bulb Culture Collective will be reopening for submissions on NOVEMBER 24, 2025!
We can't wait to read your incredible previously published work!
Bulb Culture Collective will be reopening for submissions on NOVEMBER 24, 2025!
We can't wait to read your incredible previously published work!
Submission Guidelines — Bulb Culture Collective
www.bulbculturecollective.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
💡 ANNOUNCEMENT! 💡
Bulb Culture Collective will be reopening for submissions on NOVEMBER 24, 2025!
We can't wait to read your incredible previously published work!
Bulb Culture Collective will be reopening for submissions on NOVEMBER 24, 2025!
We can't wait to read your incredible previously published work!