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Siobhan Dunlop
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poet, book reviewer, learnt HTML from Neopets. poetry micro-chap Glitching Al Pacino (Ghost City Press), chapbook Syntax Error (kith books). they/them

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My yearly round-up of books - 2025 in reading: fiendfullyreading.com/2025/12/31/2...
2025 in reading
Last year, I decided in my final blog post of the year to reflect on my reading over the year rather than just list my 5-star books, in an effort to not just focus on data. I’m going to do th…
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December 31, 2025 at 10:19 AM
fiendfull.bsky.social
I’ve seen a lot of people complaining about all the Wicked tie-in marketing and no matter how annoying you find it, spare a thought for me who worked front of house at Wicked for two years and thought I had long since escaped it…
November 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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halschrieve.bsky.social
electricliterature.com/8-books-that... i wrote this booklist of queer vampire recs for anyone who feels like reading more queer vamps 🧛‍♀️
8 Books That Queer the Vampire - Electric Literature
These authors find creativity and liberation in hunger, desire, and depravity.
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October 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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davevriser.bsky.social
so pleased to have an essay in the #lore issue of #bloodletter magazine ! i talk about (gay) trans masc erasure and poppy z brite / billy martin's fierce and heartbreaking essay "Enough Rope." + how horror can soothe bad trans feelings ♡
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“Enough Rope:” Transmasculine Erasure, Violence, and Reading Trans Horror
There was a horror novel kept behind glass when I visited the Chicago Leather Archives and Museum. Poppy Z. Brite, or Billy Martin, is the author of Exquisite Corpse, a disgusting…
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March 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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kithbooks.bsky.social
HELLO W̶O̶R̶L̶D̶ YOU
Siobhan Dunlop
@fiendfull.bsky.social

31 of wim's favourite poems from kith books
#SealeyChallenge
4/31
SYNTAX ERROR Siobhan Dunlop cover: the text of the HELLO WORLD code appears in commodore 64 font on a background of kill screen blue. the title and author's name appear as commands text: Hello (World) You I'm messaging you on Snapchat / I'm messaging you on Instagram / I'm messaging you using a Twitter DM / I'm messaging you with an @ reply / / I'm messaging you on Facebook / I'm messaging you by tagging you in a Tumblr post / I'm messaging you by posting on your wall (remember?) / I'm messaging you by sending an email / I'm messaging you by remembering text messages do still exist / I'm messaging you by sending an ecard / I'm messaging you by writing in a forum you might read / I'm messaging you using an inbox feature on a website that no longer exists / I'm messaging you by changing the HTML and CSS of my MySpace page in 2006 and hoping you see it on the Wayback Machine / I'm messaging you by taking apart old mobile phones and using their parts to form a message on the street outside your house / I'm messaging you by writing a letter in Word 2003 with the help of Clippy and then printing it out and posting it through your letterbox / I'm messaging you by writing a txt file and saving it on a floppy disk that I'll leave somewhere you could go / I'm messaging you by screaming into the ether and wishing that you'd hear it
August 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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One must imagine Mario happy
August 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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en-gendered.bsky.social
"home me
into the frame
I dream of"
- finally, a use for gender, Siobhan Dunlop

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skimming through surface-level thoughts hoping for something juicy to write all I keep returning to is each instance of girls she we’re all women here tiny daggers cut my skin slice my body if only they could be applied to the right places remove slivers of flesh unwanted hone me into the frame I dream of each word each pronoun each time they could’ve just read my email signature remakes like an artist with a chisel sandpaper a sharp knife applied to gender each wrong creates a little more right I let them say whatever they presume knowing I’m a little more me each time finally, a use for gender, siobhan dunlop
July 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
fiendfull.bsky.social
I was recording a video featuring my actual face today so of course I managed to wear a t shirt with a stain on it. And then a ghost (movement of the door) caused a dead plant to fall off the windowsill in the recording room. Hopefully by now there’s a ‘remove chaos’ button in most video editors.
July 18, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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kithbooks.bsky.social
"I tell people: you've got to be very clear
because computers don't understand
anything except on/off
ones and zeros
binary;"
- Siobhan Dunlop, Syntax Error

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kith in print
In Syntax Error, Siobhan Dunlop explores computer binary and the gender binary, feeling right and wrong, on and off. Through poetry that takes code, found text, and the realities of Big Tech, the coll...
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July 16, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Of big tech and binaries, Siobhan Dunlop's Syntax Error is one step in the history of how we've been failed.
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SYNTAX ERROR Siobhan Dunlop cover: the text of the 'HELLO WORLD' programme repeats over and over in white commodore 64 font on a background of kill screen blue. text: If left to my own devices I would recommend this book, not only for its cunning and captivating way with words, but to all future history students, as a record of our digital lives in late stage capitalism, just before our Cloud masters press Ctrl Alt Delete. JP Seabright, author of What Are You Afraid Of?
July 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
fiendfull.bsky.social
404 Ink have been amazing - I’ve read so many of their books and their lit mag was one of the first places to publish my poems.
July 11, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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halschrieve.bsky.social
www.sevenstories.com/books/4753-f... it is my birthday today, and one awesome gift you can give me is preordering my gay trans vampire novel about a teen runaway trying to save Seattle’s vampires and a slayer-turned-vampire struggling with whether she is evil
Fawn's Blood
Vampires, vampire slayers, and a bloodthirsty underground resistance converge in a campy YA fantasy about being a queer teen in a world that wishes they did not exist. The librarian and critic...
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July 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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kithbooks.bsky.social
it's end of quarter over here so if you want to help pride month go out on a high note for a queer or trans author, pick up a book
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kith in print
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June 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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So excited to have a new poem on Anthropocene today! Back to some tech-related poetry for me
June 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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en-gendered.bsky.social
"I know
some cis people who are
good at building furniture

and I don’t know about
the prowess of trans people,
as good as we are at

buying blåhaj in ikea,"
- Siobhan Dunlop, Queering the Furniture Building Experience

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summer 2025 — en*gendered
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June 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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en-gendered.bsky.social
deceptively painful, @fiendfull.bsky.social's Queering the Furniture Building Experience speaks to the lost so many trans people are feeling. we're building futures, they're changing the rules.
are there any stereotypes about non-binary people building furniture? all I know is that I know some cis people who are good at building furniture and I don’t know about the prowess of trans people, as good as we are at buying blåhaj in ikea, because none of the trans people I know or follow online talk much about their abilities in flatpack furniture. I guess there’s other things we’re talking about like fundamental human rights and petty drama, but I’d like to know if I’m meant to be good or not at building flatpack furniture Queering the Furniture Building Experience Siobhan Dunlop.
June 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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deadinkbooks.bsky.social
The Eden Book Society Kickstarter ends today. Your last chance to back 100 years of unseen horror before the vaults close for another year.

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June 10, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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en-gendered.bsky.social
'gender ideology is not ruining poetry' by Siobhan Dunlop (@fiendfull.bsky.social) was the perfect poem to open this issue. come read the rest

engenderedlitmag.com/summer2025
gender ideology is ruining poetry Siobhan Dunlop I’m so sorry for you I heard your gender ‘s nothing to talk about so boring not exploring just sat static with your gender looking across the dining table nothing left to say the neighbours are gossiping about how normal self-reflection is pronouns in bio just a useful fact your obsession is not progression I have so much more to say playing outside of the binary gender ideology is not ruining poetry the poem is presented in two side by side columns so it can be read in its entirety or in the following parts: I’m so sorry I heard your gender so boring just sat static looking across nothing left the neighbours about how normal pronouns in bio your obsession I have so much playing outside gender ideology and for you 's nothing to talk about not exploring with your gender the dining table to say are gossiping self-reflection is just a useful fact is not progression more to say of the binary is not ruining poetry
June 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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A few poems from me in here, about gender and IKEA
en-gendered.bsky.social en•gendered @en-gendered.bsky.social · Jun 3
17 creators, 32 incredible titles
en*gendered Summer 2025 is live
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engendered Summer 2025 Summer 2025 cover: line drawings of a head and shoulders and legs are bridged by splotches of menstrual blood gender ideology is ruining poetry • Finally, a use for gender • Queering the Furniture Building Experience • poem after executive orders • poem from my deathbed • poem for the cishet woman who says including transmasc people in “women’s” issues isn’t relatable to her personally • poem in which a tech bro thinks i’m mentally ill • Frankincense • Questioning • in a casino, the vending machine develops gender dysphoria • alien: romulus (2024) • Rebirth • Laundry Room • Lignum • Underbelly • Sex • Diagnosis • For the Clocky Girls • Guillotine Talk • Not What a the Gods Made • "The Great Blight of Yates County, NY” • “The Great Pine of Welaunee Forest, Georgia” • “The Great Sleeping Sickness of Owasso, Oklahoma” • “The Great Bird Over Syracuse” • Your Own Symphony • Period Bloatedness • Not Quite • Early Womanhood • something about tattoos • My Voice Found Me Long Before • “A drum, a drum!” • Simulacring Myself
June 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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deadinkbooks.bsky.social
The final week of the Eden Book Society begins. 7 days until the vault closes. Join the society today to unearth 100 years of unseen horror.

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#horror #horrorbooks #edenbooksociety
June 3, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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en-gendered.bsky.social
en*gendered - summer 2025
is coming June 3rd
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en*gendered summer 2025 June 3rd cover: "period Bloatedness" by Míša Hejná the line drawn head and shoulders, and legs of a person are bridged by splotches of menstrual blood sterling-elizabeth Arcadia Sadee Bee Claude Siobhan Dunlop Míša Hejná R.W. Jane Kian de Laforcade silas denver melvin Nick Newman nat raum Billie Sainwood Danielle Tamara Schatten James T. Stemmle Mercy Rei Tanq Erica Leslie Weidner engenderedlitmag.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
fiendfull.bsky.social
Just finished reading A/S/L by Jeanne Thornton, to which my review is 'wow, what an awesome book about not completing making a video game'. Also there's a few things I now cannot do in the project I'm working on because she's done them better (including the title concept). I like that in a book.
May 27, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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We're living in the technological future, but is it the one we want? Join in the discussion as we explore if digital technologies are solving the right problems of the modern age.

Can We Create a Better Technological Future? 3 Jun - ONLINE

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May 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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i wrote for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social about the supreme court judgment, and how the idea that it ‘clarifies’ gender is actually a violent project to reify right-wing ideas of ‘nature’ and produce a two-tier gendered system
tribunemagazine.bsky.social Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · May 7
Politicians' pronouncements that April's Supreme Court judgement 'clarifies' sex and gender feeds into a wider right-wing narrative that the Left is in denial about human nature — and that hostility to minorities is the only way to deal with the truth.
A Murky Clarity
Politicians' pronouncements that last month's Supreme Court judgement 'clarifies' sex and gender feeds into a wider right-wing narrative that the Left is in denial about the truth of human nature —…
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May 7, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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kithbooks.bsky.social
I tell people: you've got to be very clear because computers don't understand anything except on/off ones and zeroes

binary;
- Syntax Error

Print: www.kithbooks.com/shop/p/dunlop
eBook: www.kithbooks.com/digital/p/dunlop
kith in print
In Syntax Error, Siobhan Dunlop explores computer binary and the gender binary, feeling right and wrong, on and off. Through poetry that takes code, found text, and the realities of Big Tech, the coll...
www.kithbooks.com
April 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM