Just wait until you get maintenance notifications about bringing your ThinQ microwave to a licensed LG servicer for a turntable alignment, a 10,000 minute tune up, and a protective mesh adjustment…

(Edit to add: very much looking forward to the last chunk and feel like I needed to trust the author. Guess I can try that more…)

modes of narrating, knowing, and living. I read it fast (which meant I was into it!) and could prob use a second, slower read. (Completed)

4. Cloud Missives by Kenzie Allen (2024). I was in awe of the first section, and loved how the book explored identity, race, and settler colonial logics in archaeology/forensic pathology, and then dug into relationality, embodiment, and interconnectedness as alternative…

3. All The Names Given by Raymond Antrobus (2021).

This was a stunningly beautiful and complex book of poetry and what it did with sound and writing, family, and history was brilliant. (As smarter, cooler people than me have said since 2021) (completed)

around halfway through and it pulled me in all the way. I don’t read much romance, but always look for Blake’s books. (70ish% complete)

2. Dream On, Ramona Riley by @ashleyhblake.bsky.social (2025). I quietly devoured Blake’s first sapphic romance trilogy and was looking forward to this. The opening felt a bit looser narratively/editorially than her previous work, but the plot and conflicts developed in fresh directions…

1. You Weren’t Meant to be Human by @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social (2025). Appreciating this — despite the intense content warnings — it’s measured in its shock and a thoughtful take on bodily autonomy and violence in this moment, from a distinctly trans perspective. (currently about halfway)

Another fine patron of Lightspeed Briefs, I see?

Just gonna drop this here for the ai powered browser stans… brave.com/blog/unseeab...

Well played, you’ve preempted my primary rhetorical strategy.

They really make drawing the transversal across eugenics easy, taking us back to what, Darwin’s The Expression of the Emotions in Man & Animals?

I am snagging the whole pocket pubs (ig @pocket_pubs) lineup and getting a little envelope with a strip of washi tape on it and a tiny zine inside for MONTHS and I can’t express the joy it brings me. I wanted to share that with you.

Mia is also editing a series of 10 or 11 pocket zines, starting with Taylor Stout’s entry, “The Last Grizzly Bear”, illustrated by Naava Guaraca (on the right in the image that starts this thread!).

I met Mia Arias Tsang (ig @mia.arias.tsang) at a workshop this summer and we stayed in touch.

Mia is a writer and editor and, among other things, she makes rad, hella indie, queer zines like the one on the left, above.

And it’s banned books week 🫠