Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️⚧
@charliejane.bsky.social
Author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster (Tor Books, 2025), about a woman who teaches her mother how to do magic — and uncovers a queer scandal hidden in a 300 year old book.
SFF book critic @WashingtonPost.com. Co-host @ouropinions.bsky.social.
SFF book critic @WashingtonPost.com. Co-host @ouropinions.bsky.social.
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I'm so grateful for recent responses to Lessons in Magic and Disaster!!!
First, bookseller Rowan Julian with @novelneighbor.bsky.social in St Louis calls Lessons "a firecracker of a book" and "one of my favorites of 2025" in an utterly wonderful shelf-talker.
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First, bookseller Rowan Julian with @novelneighbor.bsky.social in St Louis calls Lessons "a firecracker of a book" and "one of my favorites of 2025" in an utterly wonderful shelf-talker.
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gavin newsom says he wants to pass legislation banning trans people from playing sports in california
October 28, 2025 at 5:41 AM
gavin newsom says he wants to pass legislation banning trans people from playing sports in california
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
A good name for a drag king would be MinMaxwell Miranda
November 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
A good name for a drag king would be MinMaxwell Miranda
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The Danish party that inspired Labour’s hardline immigration policy is on course to lose Copenhagen for the first time in more than a hundred years.
Among the reasons cited: fatigue and frustration with its hardline immigration policy.
Among the reasons cited: fatigue and frustration with its hardline immigration policy.
Centre-left tipped to lose Copenhagen for first time in electoral history
Political rivals say PM’s divisive politics have encouraged voters to ditch the Social Democrats for the far right
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The Danish party that inspired Labour’s hardline immigration policy is on course to lose Copenhagen for the first time in more than a hundred years.
Among the reasons cited: fatigue and frustration with its hardline immigration policy.
Among the reasons cited: fatigue and frustration with its hardline immigration policy.
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This must happen.
We're primarying John Fetterman.
Last week, Fetterman again sold out working Pennsylvanians. He was the deciding vote for a Republican budget bill that will strip healthcare from over 400,000 Pennsylvanians.
We deserve real working class leadership in the Senate, not a Trump-enabling Democrat.
Last week, Fetterman again sold out working Pennsylvanians. He was the deciding vote for a Republican budget bill that will strip healthcare from over 400,000 Pennsylvanians.
We deserve real working class leadership in the Senate, not a Trump-enabling Democrat.
November 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
This must happen.
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The HHS report on gender affirming care released it's updated report showing they stacked its authors with anti-trans hate-group affiliated members, several of whom aren't even doctors with any sort of clinical experience. They selected their own ideologically friendly peer reviewers.
It's a joke.
It's a joke.
November 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The HHS report on gender affirming care released it's updated report showing they stacked its authors with anti-trans hate-group affiliated members, several of whom aren't even doctors with any sort of clinical experience. They selected their own ideologically friendly peer reviewers.
It's a joke.
It's a joke.
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It was a crazy busy in the bookshop today. I took almost four times what I'd expect to take on a normal Weds. I guess the ramp-up to Christmas has started, which is good news. Independent bookshops make around a third of their yearly income over the seasonal period, so remember to shop local!
November 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM
It was a crazy busy in the bookshop today. I took almost four times what I'd expect to take on a normal Weds. I guess the ramp-up to Christmas has started, which is good news. Independent bookshops make around a third of their yearly income over the seasonal period, so remember to shop local!
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NEW: Trump's DOJ sent a subpoena to a gender-affirming care clinic seeking information on patients, including minors, and its insurance billing practices. The clinic—which doesn't even take insurance—fought the demand in court and won.
Read @garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co
Read @garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co
The DOJ Subpoenaed Patient Info From a Gender-Affirming Care Clinic. It Fought Back.
A Washington judge quashed the Trump administration's attempt to subpoena patient information from the telehealth practice QueerDoc—but the fight may not be over.
www.autonomynews.co
November 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
NEW: Trump's DOJ sent a subpoena to a gender-affirming care clinic seeking information on patients, including minors, and its insurance billing practices. The clinic—which doesn't even take insurance—fought the demand in court and won.
Read @garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co
Read @garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co
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This is coming up in a few hours!!! Washington DC come say hi! <3
TOMORROW!!!
I'm gonna be in Washington DC, doing an event at Little District Books. There'll be some hella gay writing about magic and families and survival, and then we'll bounce up and down while talking about everything that's ever happened.
littledistrictbooks.com/products/les...
I'm gonna be in Washington DC, doing an event at Little District Books. There'll be some hella gay writing about magic and families and survival, and then we'll bounce up and down while talking about everything that's ever happened.
littledistrictbooks.com/products/les...
Lessons in Magic and Disaster Event with Charlie Jane Anders
Join us for a Conversation and Q&A with Charlie Jane Anders, Author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster About the Book In the vein of Alice Hoffman and Charlie Jane Anders's own All the Birds in the ...
littledistrictbooks.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
This is coming up in a few hours!!! Washington DC come say hi! <3
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Wondering what are the BEST science fiction and fantasy books of 2025? I got you covered! Here are ten fantastical books that rocked my world and keep snagging in my mind.
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
The 10 best sci-fi and fantasy novels of 2025
From an indigenous vampire story to the tale of two sisters living in a cosmic whale, this year’s books kept us guessing.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Wondering what are the BEST science fiction and fantasy books of 2025? I got you covered! Here are ten fantastical books that rocked my world and keep snagging in my mind.
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
This is coming up in a few hours!!! Washington DC come say hi! <3
TOMORROW!!!
I'm gonna be in Washington DC, doing an event at Little District Books. There'll be some hella gay writing about magic and families and survival, and then we'll bounce up and down while talking about everything that's ever happened.
littledistrictbooks.com/products/les...
I'm gonna be in Washington DC, doing an event at Little District Books. There'll be some hella gay writing about magic and families and survival, and then we'll bounce up and down while talking about everything that's ever happened.
littledistrictbooks.com/products/les...
Lessons in Magic and Disaster Event with Charlie Jane Anders
Join us for a Conversation and Q&A with Charlie Jane Anders, Author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster About the Book In the vein of Alice Hoffman and Charlie Jane Anders's own All the Birds in the ...
littledistrictbooks.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
This is coming up in a few hours!!! Washington DC come say hi! <3
If you've spent any time in San Francisco's queer arts, poetry, comedy or spoken word scenes, you've DEFINITELY been rocked by Baruch Porras-Hernandez. He also rocked the NY Fringe recently. He is an utterly brilliant performer and curator.
And now he has a Patreon:
www.patreon.com/cw/BaruchPor...
And now he has a Patreon:
www.patreon.com/cw/BaruchPor...
Baruch Porras Hernandez | Patreon
Poetry, Comedy, Illustrations, Performance, Short Stories, Novel
www.patreon.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
If you've spent any time in San Francisco's queer arts, poetry, comedy or spoken word scenes, you've DEFINITELY been rocked by Baruch Porras-Hernandez. He also rocked the NY Fringe recently. He is an utterly brilliant performer and curator.
And now he has a Patreon:
www.patreon.com/cw/BaruchPor...
And now he has a Patreon:
www.patreon.com/cw/BaruchPor...
Wondering what are the BEST science fiction and fantasy books of 2025? I got you covered! Here are ten fantastical books that rocked my world and keep snagging in my mind.
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
The 10 best sci-fi and fantasy novels of 2025
From an indigenous vampire story to the tale of two sisters living in a cosmic whale, this year’s books kept us guessing.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Wondering what are the BEST science fiction and fantasy books of 2025? I got you covered! Here are ten fantastical books that rocked my world and keep snagging in my mind.
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
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My friend Hani was killed in Gaza for the crime of trying to feed his family — and meanwhile, his family is still hungry and cold, in a tent that doesn’t keep out the rain. If you have any money to spare, it’s desperately needed.
chuffed.org/project/help...
chuffed.org/project/help...
Remembering Hani & Helping his family to survive
To the generous souls who have come to this page: I am so sorry to inform you that Hani was marytered on September 22, 2025 while driving a truck in Northern Gaza, in order to raise money to support h...
chuffed.org
November 19, 2025 at 4:55 PM
My friend Hani was killed in Gaza for the crime of trying to feed his family — and meanwhile, his family is still hungry and cold, in a tent that doesn’t keep out the rain. If you have any money to spare, it’s desperately needed.
chuffed.org/project/help...
chuffed.org/project/help...
Did Kruschev give the first ever shoegaze performance?
November 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Did Kruschev give the first ever shoegaze performance?
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Yup. They need to be punished for what they tried to do. Make them squeal until they beg for a nationwide non-partisan redistricting system.
I don’t care what happens with the Texas legislative maps. Democrats should still gerrymander the shit out of blue states.
November 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Yup. They need to be punished for what they tried to do. Make them squeal until they beg for a nationwide non-partisan redistricting system.
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This is easily an order of magnitude larger than the number of firings in the entire years-long 'cancel culture' panic.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This is easily an order of magnitude larger than the number of firings in the entire years-long 'cancel culture' panic.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Thread. “AI is patching up the holes in conspiracy theories and so making them seem more reasonable, making them easier to spread and more resilient to collapse” was not on my bingo card.
AI relieves the pressure of cognitive dissonance. That’s … not great.
AI relieves the pressure of cognitive dissonance. That’s … not great.
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Thread. “AI is patching up the holes in conspiracy theories and so making them seem more reasonable, making them easier to spread and more resilient to collapse” was not on my bingo card.
AI relieves the pressure of cognitive dissonance. That’s … not great.
AI relieves the pressure of cognitive dissonance. That’s … not great.
MonoNeon LIVE in Amsterdam at Melkweg... "Jelly Roll"
YouTube video by MonoNeon
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Sometimes I glance at YouTube and there's a video about Doctor Who, Star Trek, etc., that's like "breaking news! a thing happened!"
And then instead of watching a 30 minute video I go and look for text-based sites that can tell me in three sentences what the thing that happened was.
And then instead of watching a 30 minute video I go and look for text-based sites that can tell me in three sentences what the thing that happened was.
November 19, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Sometimes I glance at YouTube and there's a video about Doctor Who, Star Trek, etc., that's like "breaking news! a thing happened!"
And then instead of watching a 30 minute video I go and look for text-based sites that can tell me in three sentences what the thing that happened was.
And then instead of watching a 30 minute video I go and look for text-based sites that can tell me in three sentences what the thing that happened was.
I whole-heartedly endorse the suggestion to let Jon M. Chu have a "do-over" Jem and the Holograms movie, this time with the budget and pizzazz of his Wicked movies.
In terms of these “part 2 of 2” movies, it’s a lot closer in quality to ‘Dune Part Two’ than ‘It Chapter Two’. Concurrently, that #WickedForGood might, in any way, come off as “the movie we need right now” is very much an indictment of our stupid, stupid world (right now).
Review: 'Wicked: For Good' Is Wicked Good
Jon M. Chu and friends deliver the show’s challenging blend of kid-friendly fantasy and cynical dystopian political melodrama in a finale that sticks the landing.
open.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:41 AM
I whole-heartedly endorse the suggestion to let Jon M. Chu have a "do-over" Jem and the Holograms movie, this time with the budget and pizzazz of his Wicked movies.
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TOMORROW!!!
I'm gonna be in Washington DC, doing an event at Little District Books. There'll be some hella gay writing about magic and families and survival, and then we'll bounce up and down while talking about everything that's ever happened.
littledistrictbooks.com/products/les...
I'm gonna be in Washington DC, doing an event at Little District Books. There'll be some hella gay writing about magic and families and survival, and then we'll bounce up and down while talking about everything that's ever happened.
littledistrictbooks.com/products/les...
Lessons in Magic and Disaster Event with Charlie Jane Anders
Join us for a Conversation and Q&A with Charlie Jane Anders, Author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster About the Book In the vein of Alice Hoffman and Charlie Jane Anders's own All the Birds in the ...
littledistrictbooks.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
TOMORROW!!!
I'm gonna be in Washington DC, doing an event at Little District Books. There'll be some hella gay writing about magic and families and survival, and then we'll bounce up and down while talking about everything that's ever happened.
littledistrictbooks.com/products/les...
I'm gonna be in Washington DC, doing an event at Little District Books. There'll be some hella gay writing about magic and families and survival, and then we'll bounce up and down while talking about everything that's ever happened.
littledistrictbooks.com/products/les...
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DMV Fam - If you've never heard @charliejane.bsky.social in person, get your backside to Little District Books! Amazing writer and absolute blast in person.
TOMORROW!!!
I'm gonna be in Washington DC, doing an event at Little District Books. There'll be some hella gay writing about magic and families and survival, and then we'll bounce up and down while talking about everything that's ever happened.
littledistrictbooks.com/products/les...
I'm gonna be in Washington DC, doing an event at Little District Books. There'll be some hella gay writing about magic and families and survival, and then we'll bounce up and down while talking about everything that's ever happened.
littledistrictbooks.com/products/les...
Lessons in Magic and Disaster Event with Charlie Jane Anders
Join us for a Conversation and Q&A with Charlie Jane Anders, Author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster About the Book In the vein of Alice Hoffman and Charlie Jane Anders's own All the Birds in the ...
littledistrictbooks.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
DMV Fam - If you've never heard @charliejane.bsky.social in person, get your backside to Little District Books! Amazing writer and absolute blast in person.
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I'll also note that the author of this article Emily Bazelon is having a hotdog suit moment since she helped kick up the moral panic around gender affirming care with her NYT Magazine article in 2022.
November 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I'll also note that the author of this article Emily Bazelon is having a hotdog suit moment since she helped kick up the moral panic around gender affirming care with her NYT Magazine article in 2022.
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Reminder that Bazelon is fresh out of undergrad, his stat knowledge is questionable, and his qualifications are an internship with Matty's blog that he might have gotten because his mom is a well known journalist.
this is just a wild thing to tweet a week after democrats won a statewide in Georgia by 20 points. completely divorced from the current electoral environment
November 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Reminder that Bazelon is fresh out of undergrad, his stat knowledge is questionable, and his qualifications are an internship with Matty's blog that he might have gotten because his mom is a well known journalist.