Caro De Robertis
@caroderobertis.bsky.social
Author of THE PALACE OF EROS, CANTORAS, & more. SO MANY STARS, an oral history of trans people of color, coming May 2025. Professor at SFSU. Joyfully immigrant & queer. Not giving up, coño. They/them.
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Books as medicine. Books as resistance. The galleys of SO MANY STARS have arrived and the love & gratitude I feel for the trans BIPOC elders whose voices are gathered here is boundless. Their voices nourish me so much & I hope they’ll nourish you too. ❤️🏳️⚧️
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The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama.
His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.
Now he is tweeting in support of me.
This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.
Or used to work.
His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.
Now he is tweeting in support of me.
This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.
Or used to work.
September 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama.
His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.
Now he is tweeting in support of me.
This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.
Or used to work.
His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.
Now he is tweeting in support of me.
This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.
Or used to work.
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This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.
Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.
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Kirk's murder is being weaponized to corral us into a smaller and smaller arena of speech, and it is our job to refuse to be confined, to keep speaking out, to keep making irreverent jokes, supporting progressive voices, chastising the high-profile cowards, and talking among ourselves.
The War on Truth Heats Up (just in time for Constitution Day)
Hannah Arendt famously wrote, “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the real...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Kirk's murder is being weaponized to corral us into a smaller and smaller arena of speech, and it is our job to refuse to be confined, to keep speaking out, to keep making irreverent jokes, supporting progressive voices, chastising the high-profile cowards, and talking among ourselves.
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I want those of us who are getting into our middle-aged years and beyond to understand that as cynical and sad as we might feel, we have a responsibility to ensure that those who come after us have the energy to go on, to be creative in their problem-solving, to believe change is possible.
September 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I want those of us who are getting into our middle-aged years and beyond to understand that as cynical and sad as we might feel, we have a responsibility to ensure that those who come after us have the energy to go on, to be creative in their problem-solving, to believe change is possible.
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The amazing @caroderobertis.bsky.social has written some brilliant fiction lately (including the transcendant Palace of Eros) but their latest is an utterly essential nonfiction book called So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color. <3
September 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
The amazing @caroderobertis.bsky.social has written some brilliant fiction lately (including the transcendant Palace of Eros) but their latest is an utterly essential nonfiction book called So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color. <3
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New Mexico's economy is a fraction of the size of New York City's.
If they can enact universal childcare — and relieve working families of a crushing cost burden — surely we can too.
It's just a question of political will.
If they can enact universal childcare — and relieve working families of a crushing cost burden — surely we can too.
It's just a question of political will.
New Mexico will be the first state to make child care free
The program, which is expected to save families $12,000 per child annually, is available to all residents regardless of income.
19thnews.org
September 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
New Mexico's economy is a fraction of the size of New York City's.
If they can enact universal childcare — and relieve working families of a crushing cost burden — surely we can too.
It's just a question of political will.
If they can enact universal childcare — and relieve working families of a crushing cost burden — surely we can too.
It's just a question of political will.
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I surround myself with peers, mentors and students who in all kinds of ways call out the best in me. I sit down with my students and want to be a bodhisattva FOR them. I learn from history and my elders what integrity feels like from the inside.
This work can’t happen in isolation.
This work can’t happen in isolation.
It’s hard. These folks are despicable and have no limits so how do protect your moral health when you might have to retaliate with despicable things just to survive?
September 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I surround myself with peers, mentors and students who in all kinds of ways call out the best in me. I sit down with my students and want to be a bodhisattva FOR them. I learn from history and my elders what integrity feels like from the inside.
This work can’t happen in isolation.
This work can’t happen in isolation.
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This. Times a thousand. Again and again.
rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words
September 11, 2025 at 1:33 AM
This. Times a thousand. Again and again.
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Personally, I will not be continuing Charlie Kirk's work.
September 10, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Personally, I will not be continuing Charlie Kirk's work.
!!!!!!!! 👀
One of the queerest and 🥵 books I've ever read
An intensely empowering story, using an ancient myth to shed light on our modern exististences, reminding us of the possibilities there always were - and all that may still be to come
This is pure queer joy in book form.
@caroderobertis.bsky.social
An intensely empowering story, using an ancient myth to shed light on our modern exististences, reminding us of the possibilities there always were - and all that may still be to come
This is pure queer joy in book form.
@caroderobertis.bsky.social
August 21, 2025 at 9:47 PM
!!!!!!!! 👀
Happy pub week to @charliejane.bsky.social ‘s absolutely delightful new novel 🎉
Hey, LESSONS IN MAGIC AND DISASTER by @charliejane.bsky.social is available! It's a dazzlingly layered story that's part queer family portrait, part exploration of modern-day witchcraft, and part literary criticism. You will love it if you love any of those things!
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bookshop.org/p/books/less...
Lessons in Magic and Disaster
Check out Lessons in Magic and Disaster - <p><b>In the vein of Alice Hoffman and Charlie Jane Anders's own <i>All the Birds in the Sky</i> comes a novel full of love, disaster, and magic. </b><br><br>...
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August 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Happy pub week to @charliejane.bsky.social ‘s absolutely delightful new novel 🎉
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Good morning, folks. The sky says trans rights are human rights.
August 4, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Good morning, folks. The sky says trans rights are human rights.
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🌈📚
📖 So Many Stars
An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color
by @caroderobertis.bsky.social
intimate accounts of creating space for themselves & their communities in the world
Affiliate Link
bookshop.org/a/100590/978...
#booksky
📖 So Many Stars
An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color
by @caroderobertis.bsky.social
intimate accounts of creating space for themselves & their communities in the world
Affiliate Link
bookshop.org/a/100590/978...
#booksky
So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color
An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color
bookshop.org
July 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
🌈📚
📖 So Many Stars
An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color
by @caroderobertis.bsky.social
intimate accounts of creating space for themselves & their communities in the world
Affiliate Link
bookshop.org/a/100590/978...
#booksky
📖 So Many Stars
An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color
by @caroderobertis.bsky.social
intimate accounts of creating space for themselves & their communities in the world
Affiliate Link
bookshop.org/a/100590/978...
#booksky
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Today marks the 60th anniversary of the passage of the Voting Rights Act. The beginning of true democracy in America. A offering to this country paid for by the work, dedication and lives of ordinary Black people.
We’ve always had to fight. Are you prepared to fight to protect our rights?
We’ve always had to fight. Are you prepared to fight to protect our rights?
August 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Today marks the 60th anniversary of the passage of the Voting Rights Act. The beginning of true democracy in America. A offering to this country paid for by the work, dedication and lives of ordinary Black people.
We’ve always had to fight. Are you prepared to fight to protect our rights?
We’ve always had to fight. Are you prepared to fight to protect our rights?
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Comedians are a comfort and he can’t silence all of us. The ridicule must go deeper. Bruise and swell him from the inside. Thicken those ankles until they burst.
July 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Comedians are a comfort and he can’t silence all of us. The ridicule must go deeper. Bruise and swell him from the inside. Thicken those ankles until they burst.
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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These people think they’re at the end of a story — that they ARE the end of a story — and they are wrong. More than that: the story is changing around us all the time, in the ways that people who think they will always have the power to write it cannot even begin to anticipate.
July 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
These people think they’re at the end of a story — that they ARE the end of a story — and they are wrong. More than that: the story is changing around us all the time, in the ways that people who think they will always have the power to write it cannot even begin to anticipate.
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No one voted to kick 17 MILLION people off their health care.
No one voted to RAISE the cost of groceries.
No one voted to give handouts to BILLIONAIRES.
Donald Trump and Republicans just sold out working people.
This is a gut punch — but we will NOT stop fighting back.
No one voted to RAISE the cost of groceries.
No one voted to give handouts to BILLIONAIRES.
Donald Trump and Republicans just sold out working people.
This is a gut punch — but we will NOT stop fighting back.
July 3, 2025 at 6:39 PM
No one voted to kick 17 MILLION people off their health care.
No one voted to RAISE the cost of groceries.
No one voted to give handouts to BILLIONAIRES.
Donald Trump and Republicans just sold out working people.
This is a gut punch — but we will NOT stop fighting back.
No one voted to RAISE the cost of groceries.
No one voted to give handouts to BILLIONAIRES.
Donald Trump and Republicans just sold out working people.
This is a gut punch — but we will NOT stop fighting back.
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Struggling with the work/they're building concentration camps balance.
July 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Struggling with the work/they're building concentration camps balance.
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"To be bent over like this.
Naked.
Pinned down.
Spread wide. Taken.
Slapped, whipped, called a whore—where did it all come from?
Can it be feminist, she wondered as she spread her thighs, to want this?"
Today's queer story is "Green" by @caroderobertis.bsky.social!
Naked.
Pinned down.
Spread wide. Taken.
Slapped, whipped, called a whore—where did it all come from?
Can it be feminist, she wondered as she spread her thighs, to want this?"
Today's queer story is "Green" by @caroderobertis.bsky.social!
Green by Caro De Robertis - Aster(ix) Journal
Can it be feminist, she wondered as she spread her thighs, to want this? Can I still be on the side of liberation?
asterixjournal.com
June 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
"To be bent over like this.
Naked.
Pinned down.
Spread wide. Taken.
Slapped, whipped, called a whore—where did it all come from?
Can it be feminist, she wondered as she spread her thighs, to want this?"
Today's queer story is "Green" by @caroderobertis.bsky.social!
Naked.
Pinned down.
Spread wide. Taken.
Slapped, whipped, called a whore—where did it all come from?
Can it be feminist, she wondered as she spread her thighs, to want this?"
Today's queer story is "Green" by @caroderobertis.bsky.social!
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The media coverage around the Florida concentration camp seems familiar.
From the NYT covering the opening of Dachau in the summer of 1933.
www.nytimes.com/1933/07/26/a...
From the NYT covering the opening of Dachau in the summer of 1933.
www.nytimes.com/1933/07/26/a...
July 2, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The media coverage around the Florida concentration camp seems familiar.
From the NYT covering the opening of Dachau in the summer of 1933.
www.nytimes.com/1933/07/26/a...
From the NYT covering the opening of Dachau in the summer of 1933.
www.nytimes.com/1933/07/26/a...
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Well done!
In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
June 25, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Well done!
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We live in a rogue and dangerous country.
Do what you need to do to maintain your internal peace. Hold the core of your spirit. Pray for peace. Commit yourself to justice. And just rest.
Do what you need to do to maintain your internal peace. Hold the core of your spirit. Pray for peace. Commit yourself to justice. And just rest.
June 22, 2025 at 2:52 AM
We live in a rogue and dangerous country.
Do what you need to do to maintain your internal peace. Hold the core of your spirit. Pray for peace. Commit yourself to justice. And just rest.
Do what you need to do to maintain your internal peace. Hold the core of your spirit. Pray for peace. Commit yourself to justice. And just rest.
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My heart is with my Iranian friends and their families. May everyone live.
June 22, 2025 at 12:49 AM
My heart is with my Iranian friends and their families. May everyone live.