Ed Davies
@edaviesauthor.bsky.social
MM romance author, trans & queer AF, and basically a flower.
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Ed Davies
@edaviesauthor.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Hi, lovelies 🥰 Impromptu bio: unapologetic femme transfag, and MM romance author since 2013. Pretty obsessed with queer HEAs: book #52 (Unmoored) is on preorder now! Canadian living in London, cat daddy, T4T forever, hobby collector, and particularly a fan of flowers and bees.
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This fight over “should authors get paid for their work” debate boils down to this: many, MANY people do not see art as labor.
If art isn’t labor, then you don’t have to change your political views to justify piracy. Easy peasy!
If art isn’t labor, then you don’t have to change your political views to justify piracy. Easy peasy!
March 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This fight over “should authors get paid for their work” debate boils down to this: many, MANY people do not see art as labor.
If art isn’t labor, then you don’t have to change your political views to justify piracy. Easy peasy!
If art isn’t labor, then you don’t have to change your political views to justify piracy. Easy peasy!
Specifically, trans people.
Remember that this is where his discussions with El Salvador began. The migrant detentions there are the dry run. He wants to ship U.S. prisoners to El Salvador.We cannot sleepwalk through this.
March 21, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Specifically, trans people.
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The thing about so-called generative artificial intelligence is, the intelligence isn't artificial. It's real. It's OURS. The techbros stole our intelligence (our data, our thoughts, our stories, our art) and used the software to regurgitate it and spackle it together into digital particleboard.
March 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The thing about so-called generative artificial intelligence is, the intelligence isn't artificial. It's real. It's OURS. The techbros stole our intelligence (our data, our thoughts, our stories, our art) and used the software to regurgitate it and spackle it together into digital particleboard.
Need a little escapism? Grab my bestselling #mmromance “Splinter” free on Amazon, only until Friday! 💖 getbook.at/Splinter
#gayromancebooks #biromance #queerromance #lgbtqreads #authorsofbluesky
#gayromancebooks #biromance #queerromance #lgbtqreads #authorsofbluesky
March 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Need a little escapism? Grab my bestselling #mmromance “Splinter” free on Amazon, only until Friday! 💖 getbook.at/Splinter
#gayromancebooks #biromance #queerromance #lgbtqreads #authorsofbluesky
#gayromancebooks #biromance #queerromance #lgbtqreads #authorsofbluesky
“If we claim to be men, we cannot experience oppression based on our unique position within patriarchy; if we insist on accurately naming our experiences, then we must erase our identities as men.”
Read more: open.substack.com/pub/edaviesa...
(Free, ofc—we don’t give these guys money.)
Read more: open.substack.com/pub/edaviesa...
(Free, ofc—we don’t give these guys money.)
March 15, 2025 at 9:09 AM
“If we claim to be men, we cannot experience oppression based on our unique position within patriarchy; if we insist on accurately naming our experiences, then we must erase our identities as men.”
Read more: open.substack.com/pub/edaviesa...
(Free, ofc—we don’t give these guys money.)
Read more: open.substack.com/pub/edaviesa...
(Free, ofc—we don’t give these guys money.)
I’ve been working on my first nonfiction book.
“The Desert: The Exile of Transmasculinity” is about why/how we must be made invisible or impossible in the public imagination.
But we need transmasculine conversations toward liberation now, so I started a Substack.
Here’s the first post.
“The Desert: The Exile of Transmasculinity” is about why/how we must be made invisible or impossible in the public imagination.
But we need transmasculine conversations toward liberation now, so I started a Substack.
Here’s the first post.
The double bind of transmasculinity.
Silencing is not safety or privilege—it's exile.
open.substack.com
March 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I’ve been working on my first nonfiction book.
“The Desert: The Exile of Transmasculinity” is about why/how we must be made invisible or impossible in the public imagination.
But we need transmasculine conversations toward liberation now, so I started a Substack.
Here’s the first post.
“The Desert: The Exile of Transmasculinity” is about why/how we must be made invisible or impossible in the public imagination.
But we need transmasculine conversations toward liberation now, so I started a Substack.
Here’s the first post.
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This is the first page of this morning’s edition of the Globe and Mail (arguably the English Canadian paper of record)
I don’t remember seeing anything like this before
I don’t remember seeing anything like this before
March 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This is the first page of this morning’s edition of the Globe and Mail (arguably the English Canadian paper of record)
I don’t remember seeing anything like this before
I don’t remember seeing anything like this before
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March 4, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Get in good trouble, necessary trouble.
February 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Get in good trouble, necessary trouble.
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All applications for gender marker change are on hold while the State Department changes this policy.
Anyone who now submits an application for a change runs the risk of losing access to their passport and documents while their application is being processed.
Anyone who now submits an application for a change runs the risk of losing access to their passport and documents while their application is being processed.
January 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
All applications for gender marker change are on hold while the State Department changes this policy.
Anyone who now submits an application for a change runs the risk of losing access to their passport and documents while their application is being processed.
Anyone who now submits an application for a change runs the risk of losing access to their passport and documents while their application is being processed.
Introducing Rena Yehuda Newman… my husband. 💖
I can’t describe how proud and happy I am. The last few years have been the hardest of my life; Rena Yehuda has been my cornerstone.
Even after a decade of writing happy endings, I keep discovering what it means to love and be loved so well.
I can’t describe how proud and happy I am. The last few years have been the hardest of my life; Rena Yehuda has been my cornerstone.
Even after a decade of writing happy endings, I keep discovering what it means to love and be loved so well.
January 21, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Introducing Rena Yehuda Newman… my husband. 💖
I can’t describe how proud and happy I am. The last few years have been the hardest of my life; Rena Yehuda has been my cornerstone.
Even after a decade of writing happy endings, I keep discovering what it means to love and be loved so well.
I can’t describe how proud and happy I am. The last few years have been the hardest of my life; Rena Yehuda has been my cornerstone.
Even after a decade of writing happy endings, I keep discovering what it means to love and be loved so well.
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The looters I want to talk about are the ones who stole our safe and stable climate from us. Millennia of planetary harm for individuals' profit. They set the fires.
January 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The looters I want to talk about are the ones who stole our safe and stable climate from us. Millennia of planetary harm for individuals' profit. They set the fires.
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One of the weirder things about watching the hard right turn of big tech is that it really reminds you that they don’t think people outside America are real
January 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
One of the weirder things about watching the hard right turn of big tech is that it really reminds you that they don’t think people outside America are real
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Reminds me of the time @edaviesauthor.bsky.social and I were writing in the same room and paused to mime so we could figure out scene blocking.
Ed was putting hands together to check sex positions.
I was holding an imaginary shotgun to sight along.
We write very different genres 😂
Ed was putting hands together to check sex positions.
I was holding an imaginary shotgun to sight along.
We write very different genres 😂
Being a Fantasy author means addressing heavy philosophical problems like, “How would I pick a jail cell door’s lock with only my mouth if my head was ten feet tall?”
December 28, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Reminds me of the time @edaviesauthor.bsky.social and I were writing in the same room and paused to mime so we could figure out scene blocking.
Ed was putting hands together to check sex positions.
I was holding an imaginary shotgun to sight along.
We write very different genres 😂
Ed was putting hands together to check sex positions.
I was holding an imaginary shotgun to sight along.
We write very different genres 😂
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CALLING ALL AMERICAN READERS!
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@edaviesauthor.bsky.social, his boyfriend Rena Yehuda Newman and I are squeezing in a quick US sign and ship event of signed paperbacks, zines and art!
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THE ORDER FORM CLOSES ON SATURDAY! So don't delay!
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forms.gle/xr7kDeWk1vXn...
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@edaviesauthor.bsky.social, his boyfriend Rena Yehuda Newman and I are squeezing in a quick US sign and ship event of signed paperbacks, zines and art!
.
THE ORDER FORM CLOSES ON SATURDAY! So don't delay!
.
forms.gle/xr7kDeWk1vXn...
January 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
CALLING ALL AMERICAN READERS!
.
@edaviesauthor.bsky.social, his boyfriend Rena Yehuda Newman and I are squeezing in a quick US sign and ship event of signed paperbacks, zines and art!
.
THE ORDER FORM CLOSES ON SATURDAY! So don't delay!
.
forms.gle/xr7kDeWk1vXn...
.
@edaviesauthor.bsky.social, his boyfriend Rena Yehuda Newman and I are squeezing in a quick US sign and ship event of signed paperbacks, zines and art!
.
THE ORDER FORM CLOSES ON SATURDAY! So don't delay!
.
forms.gle/xr7kDeWk1vXn...
Teapigs advent calendar (from @poopraven.bsky.social) plus writing deadlines equals…
I can’t believe I’m pretending to review tea on the internet. #writerlife
Anyway, we started strong! Real punchy winter smell, but without tasting like the garnish from the office Christmas party punch bowl.
I can’t believe I’m pretending to review tea on the internet. #writerlife
Anyway, we started strong! Real punchy winter smell, but without tasting like the garnish from the office Christmas party punch bowl.
December 12, 2024 at 7:31 PM
Teapigs advent calendar (from @poopraven.bsky.social) plus writing deadlines equals…
I can’t believe I’m pretending to review tea on the internet. #writerlife
Anyway, we started strong! Real punchy winter smell, but without tasting like the garnish from the office Christmas party punch bowl.
I can’t believe I’m pretending to review tea on the internet. #writerlife
Anyway, we started strong! Real punchy winter smell, but without tasting like the garnish from the office Christmas party punch bowl.
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Did you know that @edaviesauthor.bsky.social & I are doing a UK Sign & Ship! Order paperbacks in time for Xmas!
Did you also know that I’m offering TWO paperback exclusives that you can’t get from Amazon? One of them has limited stock, so once they’re gone, THEY’RE GONE!
forms.gle/7vW8Fpe5e25X...
Did you also know that I’m offering TWO paperback exclusives that you can’t get from Amazon? One of them has limited stock, so once they’re gone, THEY’RE GONE!
forms.gle/7vW8Fpe5e25X...
December 7, 2024 at 4:21 PM
Did you know that @edaviesauthor.bsky.social & I are doing a UK Sign & Ship! Order paperbacks in time for Xmas!
Did you also know that I’m offering TWO paperback exclusives that you can’t get from Amazon? One of them has limited stock, so once they’re gone, THEY’RE GONE!
forms.gle/7vW8Fpe5e25X...
Did you also know that I’m offering TWO paperback exclusives that you can’t get from Amazon? One of them has limited stock, so once they’re gone, THEY’RE GONE!
forms.gle/7vW8Fpe5e25X...
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chuck tingle, notable 'joke' and 'bit', still wildly successful despite neurotypical people thinking autistic folks cant possibly create 'real' art
December 2, 2024 at 11:52 PM
chuck tingle, notable 'joke' and 'bit', still wildly successful despite neurotypical people thinking autistic folks cant possibly create 'real' art
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1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.
The Mystery of Food Deserts
They didn’t materialize around the country for no reason. Something happened.
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2024 at 2:06 PM
1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.
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"Cis people are afraid that trans people will laugh at them. Trans people are afraid that cis people will kill them"
November 26, 2024 at 3:45 PM
"Cis people are afraid that trans people will laugh at them. Trans people are afraid that cis people will kill them"
FYI, I’m editing and reposting an old thread from the bad place, but I only have brainpower for 1-2 posts at a time. This may take a while. 🙈
I’m calling it “slow theory”. 🤣
I’m calling it “slow theory”. 🤣
We can’t keep pretending that trans men are not targets of transphobia and misogyny.
The patriarchy needs to protect the unchangeable category of woman (as an asset). Trans men can’t be allowed to exist.
The silence about us is not accident, ignorance, tolerance, privilege—it’s a threat.
The patriarchy needs to protect the unchangeable category of woman (as an asset). Trans men can’t be allowed to exist.
The silence about us is not accident, ignorance, tolerance, privilege—it’s a threat.
November 29, 2024 at 9:52 PM
FYI, I’m editing and reposting an old thread from the bad place, but I only have brainpower for 1-2 posts at a time. This may take a while. 🙈
I’m calling it “slow theory”. 🤣
I’m calling it “slow theory”. 🤣
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MASSIVE win for a Monday morning - campaigners in Scotland have succeeded in getting NHS Lothian to drop their openly discriminatory surgery ban for trans people aged under 25.
All referrals for gender-affirming surgery resumed in NHS Lothian | Lothian Sexual Health
www.lothiansexualhealth.scot
November 25, 2024 at 9:29 AM
MASSIVE win for a Monday morning - campaigners in Scotland have succeeded in getting NHS Lothian to drop their openly discriminatory surgery ban for trans people aged under 25.
We can’t keep pretending that trans men are not targets of transphobia and misogyny.
The patriarchy needs to protect the unchangeable category of woman (as an asset). Trans men can’t be allowed to exist.
The silence about us is not accident, ignorance, tolerance, privilege—it’s a threat.
The patriarchy needs to protect the unchangeable category of woman (as an asset). Trans men can’t be allowed to exist.
The silence about us is not accident, ignorance, tolerance, privilege—it’s a threat.
November 25, 2024 at 7:10 AM
We can’t keep pretending that trans men are not targets of transphobia and misogyny.
The patriarchy needs to protect the unchangeable category of woman (as an asset). Trans men can’t be allowed to exist.
The silence about us is not accident, ignorance, tolerance, privilege—it’s a threat.
The patriarchy needs to protect the unchangeable category of woman (as an asset). Trans men can’t be allowed to exist.
The silence about us is not accident, ignorance, tolerance, privilege—it’s a threat.
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brutal to get toasted so when I haven't even had second breakfast
November 24, 2024 at 2:31 PM
brutal to get toasted so when I haven't even had second breakfast