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Ess Writes Things
@esswrites.bsky.social
She/they. Researcher, writer, educator, and other stuff. Gender-hacked dyke, neurodivergent, (invisibly) crip.

Creative stuff:
Body Horror — https://www.acdclit.com/pokornowski-ess
Haunted — https://www.cleavermagazine.com/haunted-by-ess-pokornowski/
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…
October 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
(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…)
October 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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)
October 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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…
October 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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)
October 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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)
October 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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…
October 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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)
October 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Another fine patron of Lightspeed Briefs, I see?
fry from futurama is smiling and holding a red scarf over his shoulder
ALT: fry from futurama is smiling and holding a red scarf over his shoulder
media.tenor.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Well played, you’ve preempted my primary rhetorical strategy.
October 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
They really make drawing the transversal across eugenics easy, taking us back to what, Darwin’s The Expression of the Emotions in Man & Animals?
October 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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.
October 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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!).
October 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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.
October 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
And it’s banned books week 🫠
October 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM