Caio Major
@caiomajor.bsky.social
trans latino writer. Syracuse MFA candidate. you're going to love my dog.
Blog: https://caiomajor.substack.com/
Blog: https://caiomajor.substack.com/
New (free) essay: Reflecting on how my given name, and now my chosen name, has affected my sense of my ethnic identity. I also interviewed some family and friends for their perspectives on naming and identity formation.
caiomajor.substack.com/p/by-any-oth...
caiomajor.substack.com/p/by-any-oth...
November 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
New (free) essay: Reflecting on how my given name, and now my chosen name, has affected my sense of my ethnic identity. I also interviewed some family and friends for their perspectives on naming and identity formation.
caiomajor.substack.com/p/by-any-oth...
caiomajor.substack.com/p/by-any-oth...
hell yeah brother
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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November 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
hell yeah brother
Boost 😙
New post for subscribers is up: yapping about yapping at the rave (and at live music events generally) open.substack.com/pub/caiomajo...
Social Anxiety vs. Shared Musical Experience
Yapping at the rave.
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Boost 😙
Does anyone have book recs for novels (or story collections) that came out in the past 4 years or so that prominently feature characters struggling with psychosis, schizophrenia, or who've suffered some break with reality/make the reader confused re: what reality is, stuff along these lines?
November 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Does anyone have book recs for novels (or story collections) that came out in the past 4 years or so that prominently feature characters struggling with psychosis, schizophrenia, or who've suffered some break with reality/make the reader confused re: what reality is, stuff along these lines?
kind of amazing that we’ve known how the internet works for decades now yet ragebait still works
November 25, 2025 at 1:37 AM
kind of amazing that we’ve known how the internet works for decades now yet ragebait still works
it is depressing to find Reddit threads about the common mistakes AI makes in creative writing and see people a) being very honest about the impossibility of getting AI to write anything good, while also b) talking about spending “hundreds of hours” trying to get AI to creating interesting writing
November 24, 2025 at 2:03 AM
it is depressing to find Reddit threads about the common mistakes AI makes in creative writing and see people a) being very honest about the impossibility of getting AI to write anything good, while also b) talking about spending “hundreds of hours” trying to get AI to creating interesting writing
New post for subscribers is up: yapping about yapping at the rave (and at live music events generally) open.substack.com/pub/caiomajo...
Social Anxiety vs. Shared Musical Experience
Yapping at the rave.
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
New post for subscribers is up: yapping about yapping at the rave (and at live music events generally) open.substack.com/pub/caiomajo...
I completely failed at “writing on the side” of various day jobs for like 15 years, then wrist pain made day job untenable so the choice became quit job + move back in with parents, or get into an MFA program
November 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
I completely failed at “writing on the side” of various day jobs for like 15 years, then wrist pain made day job untenable so the choice became quit job + move back in with parents, or get into an MFA program
perhaps blue sky might appreciate the best photographs I have ever been involved in
November 21, 2025 at 10:30 AM
perhaps blue sky might appreciate the best photographs I have ever been involved in
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(everyone who complains about not enough men/masculinity in literary fiction should be forced to read no fewer than five (5) books by trans men before they are allowed to publish any more opinions)
November 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
(everyone who complains about not enough men/masculinity in literary fiction should be forced to read no fewer than five (5) books by trans men before they are allowed to publish any more opinions)
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THANK YOU to the editorial writers of The Grauniad for this brave and important argument, you get it! THIS is why we published REALISTIC FICTION by ANTON SOLOMONIK
November 16, 2025 at 4:34 PM
THANK YOU to the editorial writers of The Grauniad for this brave and important argument, you get it! THIS is why we published REALISTIC FICTION by ANTON SOLOMONIK
Zadie Smith’s “On Beauty” broke a long streak of not reading books for me, and her prose was like this signpost pointing me back towards literature and the love of the game. I’ve felt that way about most of her prose, like whatever it is that I want to be able to achieve with words, she has it
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 13, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Zadie Smith’s “On Beauty” broke a long streak of not reading books for me, and her prose was like this signpost pointing me back towards literature and the love of the game. I’ve felt that way about most of her prose, like whatever it is that I want to be able to achieve with words, she has it
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if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam
In all ways except physical we are in New York city
November 5, 2025 at 2:57 AM
In all ways except physical we are in New York city
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I wonder if I’ll be able to vape testosterone in 20 years
January 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I wonder if I’ll be able to vape testosterone in 20 years
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And now that I have your attention, please help my girlfriend deal with a Kafkaesque clusterfuck of transmisogyny.
www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...
www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...
Donate to Stand with June: Legal and Housing Support Needed, organized by Kassandra Tomaras
June L. is a dear friend, a committed community-builder, a proud J… Kassandra Tomaras needs your support for Stand with June: Legal and Housing Support Needed
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November 3, 2025 at 1:48 AM
And now that I have your attention, please help my girlfriend deal with a Kafkaesque clusterfuck of transmisogyny.
www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...
www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...
the first time I went to Mood Ring was with Agata the first time she visited NY… the last time I was at Mood Ring it was for the after party of a T-Boy wrestling event… this is so fucking gay of him I’m getting choked up
November 2, 2025 at 11:06 AM
the first time I went to Mood Ring was with Agata the first time she visited NY… the last time I was at Mood Ring it was for the after party of a T-Boy wrestling event… this is so fucking gay of him I’m getting choked up
I know speculating on the genders of dead cis people is gauche, but every time David Foster Wallace writes about his experience of/reaction to puberty, it's... it's just very trans im sorry!!
November 1, 2025 at 11:32 AM
I know speculating on the genders of dead cis people is gauche, but every time David Foster Wallace writes about his experience of/reaction to puberty, it's... it's just very trans im sorry!!
is an insomnia spell the night before I have to wake up at 6am to cram lesson plan a good time to start reading my first Krasznahorkai
October 31, 2025 at 5:48 AM
is an insomnia spell the night before I have to wake up at 6am to cram lesson plan a good time to start reading my first Krasznahorkai
new blog post: Getting It Up for the Good Guys, in which I seek to answer why I find sad literature so much more compelling than its opposite, and compare Garth Greenwell to Tumblr posts arguing the moral worth of darkfic: caiomajor.substack.com/p/getting-it...
Getting It Up For The Good Guys
Why am I so easily compelled to read about sad stuff? Do I find happy stuff inherently boring?
caiomajor.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:46 PM
new blog post: Getting It Up for the Good Guys, in which I seek to answer why I find sad literature so much more compelling than its opposite, and compare Garth Greenwell to Tumblr posts arguing the moral worth of darkfic: caiomajor.substack.com/p/getting-it...
I have a new post up, reviewing the short story collection CRAWL by Max Delsohn, which you should read. open.substack.com/pub/caiomajo...
Trans Community in Max Delsohn's CRAWL
Hot off the presses, a new cure for the male loneliness epidemic: A whole short story collection about non-isolated men?? It's as hilarious as it sounds.
open.substack.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I have a new post up, reviewing the short story collection CRAWL by Max Delsohn, which you should read. open.substack.com/pub/caiomajo...
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A little weird how many takes on the racial politics of OBAA do not mention Latinx people at all despite their central relevance in the film...
October 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
A little weird how many takes on the racial politics of OBAA do not mention Latinx people at all despite their central relevance in the film...
saw One Battle After Another. loved it, obsessed with it, and also, I now have a perfect example to point to when I say that I'd rather see white artists attempt ambitious stories with characters of color/stories about racism and have the results be flawed, than for those attempts to never be made
October 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
saw One Battle After Another. loved it, obsessed with it, and also, I now have a perfect example to point to when I say that I'd rather see white artists attempt ambitious stories with characters of color/stories about racism and have the results be flawed, than for those attempts to never be made
This is horrifying to watch but I am holding in my heart the last few seconds, watching him fly fly fly away
ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards
September 29, 2025 at 12:15 PM
This is horrifying to watch but I am holding in my heart the last few seconds, watching him fly fly fly away
Why is it that doing my PT exercises at home is infinitely less rewarding and satisfying than weightlifting at the gym? Is this something that like a professional hypnotist could help me with
September 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Why is it that doing my PT exercises at home is infinitely less rewarding and satisfying than weightlifting at the gym? Is this something that like a professional hypnotist could help me with