Isaac Fellman
@isaac-fellman.bsky.social
Writer and archivist. NOTES FROM A REGICIDE (Spring '25), THE TWO DOCTORS GÓRSKI (Fall '22), DEAD COLLECTIONS (Spring '22), THE BREATH OF THE SUN ('18, Lambda winner). He/him. 🏳️⚧️ Rep Kate McKean.
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Made Amazon's top 20 SFF books of the year! www.amazon.com/b/?_encoding...
November 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Made Amazon's top 20 SFF books of the year! www.amazon.com/b/?_encoding...
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I hear we’re starting to look at eligibility posts and what we loved this year. Here are two books that I fell absolutely in love with in 2025. @isaac-fellman.bsky.social and @yumewrites.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I hear we’re starting to look at eligibility posts and what we loved this year. Here are two books that I fell absolutely in love with in 2025. @isaac-fellman.bsky.social and @yumewrites.bsky.social
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If @isaac-fellman.bsky.social’s goal in writing “Notes from a Regicide” was to get every queer to sob staring at the wall but also feel a new glimmer of hope for the future, he succeeded. Fucking brilliant existential fuel. Read it
November 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
If @isaac-fellman.bsky.social’s goal in writing “Notes from a Regicide” was to get every queer to sob staring at the wall but also feel a new glimmer of hope for the future, he succeeded. Fucking brilliant existential fuel. Read it
HARTAPALOOZA 2025 continues with my notes on Alan Hart's The Undaunted, a 1930s technothriller about liver and the meaning of life: isaacs-law.ghost.io/paging-dr-ha...
Paging Dr. Hart
I've written before about Dr. Alan Hart (1890-1962), the transgender radiologist, novelist, and medical researcher from the Pacific Northwest. Today I'm reporting back on his novel The Undaunted (1936...
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November 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
HARTAPALOOZA 2025 continues with my notes on Alan Hart's The Undaunted, a 1930s technothriller about liver and the meaning of life: isaacs-law.ghost.io/paging-dr-ha...
I've only been logging on to check my mentions lately, but I did have to post this W.H. Auden captcha. "Choose all the clocks/select the telephone/click on the squares that show a juicy bone..."
October 31, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I've only been logging on to check my mentions lately, but I did have to post this W.H. Auden captcha. "Choose all the clocks/select the telephone/click on the squares that show a juicy bone..."
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Saw this and thought of @isaac-fellman.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Saw this and thought of @isaac-fellman.bsky.social
I'm a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2025! best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-book...
Best Books 2025: Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly
Best Books 2025, Best Science Fiction Fantasy Horror, Nnedi Okorafor, Emily Tesh, Bora Chung, Isaac Fellman, Antonia Hodgson, Yume Kitasei, Andrew Joseph White
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October 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I'm a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2025! best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-book...
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An attempt at a different format - I talk about books that might pair well with Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman, and have a go at making a rec list.
Things to read if you loved Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman
First up, congrats on your amazing taste in books! High five. But alas, assuming you have already burned through Fellman’s back catalogue (if you haven’t, why not, fix that, and then come flail at …
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October 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
An attempt at a different format - I talk about books that might pair well with Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman, and have a go at making a rec list.
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hi! maybe you remember me from the menu i made for my cat, which hit surprisingly big a little while ago. i made some menus for other people's pets in exchange for donations to pro-trans organisations. now i'm doing it again, but for food banks.
please share! more info downthread!
please share! more info downthread!
October 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
hi! maybe you remember me from the menu i made for my cat, which hit surprisingly big a little while ago. i made some menus for other people's pets in exchange for donations to pro-trans organisations. now i'm doing it again, but for food banks.
please share! more info downthread!
please share! more info downthread!
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Isaac, June, and M.M. are all extremely talented, and while I haven't read the other authors featured, that lineup suggests to me that they are similarly worth listening to!
This is happening TONIGHT at 5 PM! It's the first time I'm emceeing an event, so I'd love to have some friendly faces in the crowd! I will also accept hostile faces if they're beautiful enough
San Francisco! Lit Crawl is tomorrow and YOU should come out to this reading at @silversprocket.net from 5-6 to see me and some amazing writers read about love!
October 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Isaac, June, and M.M. are all extremely talented, and while I haven't read the other authors featured, that lineup suggests to me that they are similarly worth listening to!
Incredible lineup for our trans event at Lit Crawl this Saturday! Also, it's at Silver Sprocket, so you can buy comics before/during/after the reading -- a truly ideal combination.
October 21, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Incredible lineup for our trans event at Lit Crawl this Saturday! Also, it's at Silver Sprocket, so you can buy comics before/during/after the reading -- a truly ideal combination.
we're watching early seasons of project runway together, and this show was RIFE with jombathoon content. They'd let the key players introduce themselves in the first episode -- the person who's going to win and the one who's going to lose -- but there'd also be 5-6 phantoms slowly manifesting later
there’s a point at like the second episode of any reality tv show where you see the whole cast and you inevitably feel like you’ve never seen half of them before. heidi klum could be like “jombathoon it’s your turn to choose your model” and I’d be like okay I guess jombathoon was here all along
October 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
we're watching early seasons of project runway together, and this show was RIFE with jombathoon content. They'd let the key players introduce themselves in the first episode -- the person who's going to win and the one who's going to lose -- but there'd also be 5-6 phantoms slowly manifesting later
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taking a break from these for now (I will let you all know if and when I reopen them!) but here are a few more pet menus i've made these past few days. thank you to everyone who donated to a trans-supportive org! you all make the world feel better to exist in.
September 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
taking a break from these for now (I will let you all know if and when I reopen them!) but here are a few more pet menus i've made these past few days. thank you to everyone who donated to a trans-supportive org! you all make the world feel better to exist in.
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hi, cis folks!
if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now.
the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE.
we need you to call senators: reps.fyi
more info & script downthread.🧵
if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now.
the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE.
we need you to call senators: reps.fyi
more info & script downthread.🧵
NEWS: House Appropriations Committee Republicans released their spending bill for Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies. The legislation would prohibit taxpayer dollars for any type of gender-affirming care for transgender people. This would include programs like Medicaid
September 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
hi, cis folks!
if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now.
the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE.
we need you to call senators: reps.fyi
more info & script downthread.🧵
if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now.
the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE.
we need you to call senators: reps.fyi
more info & script downthread.🧵
these days I rejoice in having one (1) normal petty problem, like "HOW will I not over-listen to the sick new Mountain Goats single before the album comes to place it in context"
September 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
these days I rejoice in having one (1) normal petty problem, like "HOW will I not over-listen to the sick new Mountain Goats single before the album comes to place it in context"
This gives me life
I feel like I need to read NOTES FROM A REGICIDE @isaac-fellman.bsky.social again, just to properly absorb the cornucopia of emotions--the tenderness, the fierceness--and its wonderful imperfections. I don't think I've ever read anything like it, and that's a shame.
(please read it, y'all)
(please read it, y'all)
September 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This gives me life
My spouse is now making these for people who present proof of a charitable donation benefitting trans people, btw! Check their profile for instructions. We've printed and framed the Roxy's Diner menu over her dish so she always knows the daily specials ($0).
in a bid to avoid doomscrolling on my lunch break i made a menu for my cat
September 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
My spouse is now making these for people who present proof of a charitable donation benefitting trans people, btw! Check their profile for instructions. We've printed and framed the Roxy's Diner menu over her dish so she always knows the daily specials ($0).
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This is such a great book about art and family and love and identity and revolution (among other things), and you (yes, you specifically) should read it.
Notes from a Regicide is still on sale for $3 on Bookshop: tinyurl.com/2xx5bch9 and Kindle: tinyurl.com/9zkt4khd. Sale ends on Sunday, so pick it up now if you want it!
Notes from a Regicide
Check out Notes from a Regicide - <p>“Few capture the grubbiness of intimacy — and the starchy scent of home — as well as Fellman does in his depiction of his characters’ trans family. Magnificent, he...
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September 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
This is such a great book about art and family and love and identity and revolution (among other things), and you (yes, you specifically) should read it.
ONE DAY MORE...
Notes from a Regicide is still on sale for $3 on Bookshop: tinyurl.com/2xx5bch9 and Kindle: tinyurl.com/9zkt4khd. Sale ends on Sunday, so pick it up now if you want it!
Notes from a Regicide
Check out Notes from a Regicide - <p>“Few capture the grubbiness of intimacy — and the starchy scent of home — as well as Fellman does in his depiction of his characters’ trans family. Magnificent, he...
bookshop.org
September 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
ONE DAY MORE...
Notes from a Regicide is still on sale for $3 on Bookshop: tinyurl.com/2xx5bch9 and Kindle: tinyurl.com/9zkt4khd. Sale ends on Sunday, so pick it up now if you want it!
Notes from a Regicide
Check out Notes from a Regicide - <p>“Few capture the grubbiness of intimacy — and the starchy scent of home — as well as Fellman does in his depiction of his characters’ trans family. Magnificent, he...
bookshop.org
September 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Notes from a Regicide is still on sale for $3 on Bookshop: tinyurl.com/2xx5bch9 and Kindle: tinyurl.com/9zkt4khd. Sale ends on Sunday, so pick it up now if you want it!
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yeah so Notes from a Regicide by @isaac-fellman.bsky.social made me cry (complimentary). I can't explain how much this resonated with me. highly, highly recommend.
September 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
yeah so Notes from a Regicide by @isaac-fellman.bsky.social made me cry (complimentary). I can't explain how much this resonated with me. highly, highly recommend.
LRT: I interviewed a couple of scholars I admire about their Queer Pasts series of online exhibits. The project itself is paywalled, but if you have Alexander Street access through a university or public library, it is beautiful and ambitious and often quite moving.
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The Interview · Queer Pasts: A 2025 Interview with the Founding Editors, by Isaac Fellman · OutHistory
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September 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
LRT: I interviewed a couple of scholars I admire about their Queer Pasts series of online exhibits. The project itself is paywalled, but if you have Alexander Street access through a university or public library, it is beautiful and ambitious and often quite moving.
outhistory.org/exhibits/sho...
outhistory.org/exhibits/sho...
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OutHistory is pleased to announce "Queer Pasts: A 2025 Interview with the Founding Editors," by Isaac Fellman. This exhibit features an interview with the coeditors of QP, a digital history database. The exhibit also provides titles and abstracts for all QP projects. outhistory.org/exhibits/sho...
September 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
OutHistory is pleased to announce "Queer Pasts: A 2025 Interview with the Founding Editors," by Isaac Fellman. This exhibit features an interview with the coeditors of QP, a digital history database. The exhibit also provides titles and abstracts for all QP projects. outhistory.org/exhibits/sho...
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the fatal flaw with the Bluesky is dying proposition is that it ignores the broader truth that I am also dying, as are you, and everybody you know. By dying Bluesky lets us know that it’s one of us, that it shares in our beauty and our pain. Grow or die? No, there is no “or.” Bluesky understands
September 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
the fatal flaw with the Bluesky is dying proposition is that it ignores the broader truth that I am also dying, as are you, and everybody you know. By dying Bluesky lets us know that it’s one of us, that it shares in our beauty and our pain. Grow or die? No, there is no “or.” Bluesky understands
A reminder that the Notes from a Regicide ebook is still on sale for three bucks from Bookshop. Kindle edition is the same (and it seems Amazon has named it one of their Best Books of the Year So Far). They don't sell hardbacks at "fuck around and find out" prices, but!
bookshop.org/p/books/note...
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Notes from a Regicide
Check out Notes from a Regicide - <p>“Few capture the grubbiness of intimacy — and the starchy scent of home — as well as Fellman does in his depiction of his characters’ trans family. Magnificent, he...
bookshop.org
August 30, 2025 at 10:29 PM
A reminder that the Notes from a Regicide ebook is still on sale for three bucks from Bookshop. Kindle edition is the same (and it seems Amazon has named it one of their Best Books of the Year So Far). They don't sell hardbacks at "fuck around and find out" prices, but!
bookshop.org/p/books/note...
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