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Amy Bouwer
@amybouwer.bsky.social
🇿🇦 PhD candidate researching feminist dystopias at the University of Nottingham • utopianism, critical theory, sff, decolonisation, queer revolution • she/her 🏳️‍🌈🍉
Important words from Dorothy Roberts in my morning reading today.
March 4, 2025 at 10:08 AM
My life is going great thanks I drunkenly did the NYT Mini Crossword in 14 seconds today.
February 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
4. Trinity — Leon Uris
5. Beware the Woman — Megan Abbott
6. youthjuice — E. K. Sathue
7. A Kiss Before Dying — Ira Levin
8. Pandora — Susan Stokes-Chapman
9. Pieces of Her — Karin Slaughter
10. The Hundred Thousand Kingdom — N. K. Jemisin (an old favourite, clearly)
January 20, 2025 at 10:15 AM
First books of 2025:
1. The Neighbour’s Secret — Sharon Bolton ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
2. American Psycho — Bret Easton Ellis ⭐️⭐️
3. The Familiar — Leigh Bardugo ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
January 7, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Possibly an unpopular opinion but after finishing the audiobook yesterday I think Bridge is my favourite Lauren Beukes novel. Tight prose, brilliant world building, intrigue balanced with ethical inquiry… not to mention all the sf/f tie-ins. Beukes is a fucking force.
December 8, 2024 at 3:52 PM
Just saw this CfP on the Other Site and thought I’d share here for anyone that missed it! The @bacls.bsky.social What Happens Now Conference will be held in Stirling on 10-12 June 2025 🤩 Proposals due 24 Jan.
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December 5, 2024 at 7:59 PM
Elle Nash’s Deliver Me was weird as hell but I couldn’t put it down. Highly recommended if, like me, you need something queer and thrilling and horrifying every once in a while. (Big CW for pregnancy, miscarriage, Pentecostal trauma and bugs.)
December 5, 2024 at 7:39 PM
Still uneasy about pandemic-related stories (/novels set during Covid) but I’m glad I gave Delphi by Clare Pollard a chance. Skilful handling of mundanity and anachronism in ‘unprecedented times’, all while meditating on prophetic methods and myths.
December 4, 2024 at 6:21 PM
Arrived home-home to this little one today 🥰 I’m away for 8-10 months at a time and she still comes to sleep on my childhood bed whenever I visit my parents.
December 4, 2024 at 4:28 PM
To me it looks like ‘shadow’. The ‘h’ and ‘a’ are warped, but your As do tend to be larger than other letters elsewhere… People seem to be getting tripped up bc of the comma on the previous line (which looks like the dot of an ‘i’) — I’m pretty sure the final three letters are ‘dow’.
December 1, 2024 at 10:31 AM
Finally spotted DUDE WIPES in the wild and I cannot stop laughing. $5 plus tax to protect you from germs, mess, AND emasculation.

(Alternate caption: chapstick lesbian fall starter pack.)
November 18, 2024 at 10:26 PM
Had the best time at Day 1 of the NWSA annual conference yesterday! Ready for a full day of panels and discussions about feminist scholarship, reproductive activism, and the traps of neoliberal feminism today ✨
November 15, 2024 at 1:25 PM
Waking up and checking the news like
November 6, 2024 at 11:02 AM
Academia masquerades as an objective profession but it is, has always been, bloody business.
October 9, 2024 at 7:32 PM
Fuck the U$ and fuck Isr@el. Obviously this is all just academic bullshit and pales when held in tension with literal genocide. But the moments of tension are still worth acknowledging when the systemic decimation of Palestine is so normalised that it threatens to become background noise.
October 9, 2024 at 7:31 PM
Deeply unsettling experience applying for a visa to attend a conference on gender in Detroit. Imagine engraving a quote about peace* into the marble floors of your embassy whilst discouraging everyone from looking out the window at a protest encampment for Palestine.
October 9, 2024 at 7:24 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, only covers. Day 7 #booksky 📚💙
September 12, 2024 at 9:53 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, only covers. Day 6 #booksky 📚💙
September 11, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, only covers. Day 5 #booksky 📚💙
September 10, 2024 at 5:36 PM
New house came with two resident artists 🕷️🕸️
September 9, 2024 at 10:26 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, only covers. Day 4 #booksky 📚💙
September 9, 2024 at 10:22 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, only covers. Day 3 #booksky 📚💙
September 8, 2024 at 8:28 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, only covers. Day 2 #booksky 📚💙
September 7, 2024 at 8:05 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, only covers. #booksky 📚💙
September 6, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Big Swiss is keeping me company through packing/unpacking boredom — y’all this book is SO STRANGE I love it.
September 6, 2024 at 11:29 AM