Jordan Kurella
@jordankurella.com
Nebula and Sturgeon Award Finalist. Wrote I NEVER LIKED YOU ANYWAY (Lethe Press), WHEN I WAS LOST (Trepidatio), and THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS (Lethe Press). Got more stories, essays, and poems at JordanKurella.com. He/Him. GenAI is right out.
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Jordan Kurella
@jordankurella.com
· Sep 13
gosh, what a wonderful thing to see when i wake up. if you want to listen to Premee (you do), you can get THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS at this link here:
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1. Intersectionality. We know that each person has multiple identities, & that each identity can be a site of privilege or oppression. The mechanical workings of oppression & how it outputs shift depending upon the characteristics of any given institutional or interpersonal interaction; 5/
February 18, 2025 at 9:11 PM
1. Intersectionality. We know that each person has multiple identities, & that each identity can be a site of privilege or oppression. The mechanical workings of oppression & how it outputs shift depending upon the characteristics of any given institutional or interpersonal interaction; 5/
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i got into a new voice chat, and no one could hear me. they said, "Bro. Your voice is SO LOW, you need to turn your mic up."
5 years ago i was a girl.
5 years ago i was a girl.
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 AM
i got into a new voice chat, and no one could hear me. they said, "Bro. Your voice is SO LOW, you need to turn your mic up."
5 years ago i was a girl.
5 years ago i was a girl.
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your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
oh damn
oh damn
November 17, 2025 at 5:56 AM
your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
oh damn
oh damn
your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
November 17, 2025 at 5:51 AM
your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
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The Air Force is firing transgender service members 18 months before the finish line, wiping out the pensions & healthcare they earned through honorable service. It’s discriminatory, reckless, legally frail, & sends a message to every troop that promises mean nothing.
Trans air force members sue Trump administration over denied pension
Complaint slams government’s actions as ‘unlawful and invalid’ after air force revoked early retirement benefits
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:29 AM
The Air Force is firing transgender service members 18 months before the finish line, wiping out the pensions & healthcare they earned through honorable service. It’s discriminatory, reckless, legally frail, & sends a message to every troop that promises mean nothing.
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Here's a lovely fantasy story from @marissalingen.bsky.social about telling stories to crows www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Crow’s Second Tale by Marissa Lingen
So Kiris knew, even at the age of five: no one should only know one story. Not even a crow, like in the song. And if she was the only one who had spotted the problem, she felt down to her five-year-ol...
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Here's a lovely fantasy story from @marissalingen.bsky.social about telling stories to crows www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...
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Time to bring back this Patricia Lockwood banger.
November 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Time to bring back this Patricia Lockwood banger.
top 5 film genres
- physics, impossible? friends, proven
- the relationship dynamics are cringe af but the dialog is goals
- multiverse? multiverse. multiverse!
- this is great! set it to MUSIC
- movie=good. soundtrack=WAY GOOD
- physics, impossible? friends, proven
- the relationship dynamics are cringe af but the dialog is goals
- multiverse? multiverse. multiverse!
- this is great! set it to MUSIC
- movie=good. soundtrack=WAY GOOD
Top 5 film genres:
-this woman sure is an asshole
-boy, this person just keeps on murderin people huh
-these neurodivergent children are on an ADVENTURE
-these women/girls say they're friends but I don't think that's true
-is that a ghost???
-this woman sure is an asshole
-boy, this person just keeps on murderin people huh
-these neurodivergent children are on an ADVENTURE
-these women/girls say they're friends but I don't think that's true
-is that a ghost???
Top five film genres:
-rustic folk of this town have peculiar religious rituals
-hottest villain ever conceived is doing awful things but shot so erotically that I'm riveted
-these doomed nerds yearn in gay ways, then tragedy or war or something makes it worse
-kaiju
-childless woman wins
-rustic folk of this town have peculiar religious rituals
-hottest villain ever conceived is doing awful things but shot so erotically that I'm riveted
-these doomed nerds yearn in gay ways, then tragedy or war or something makes it worse
-kaiju
-childless woman wins
November 17, 2025 at 2:36 AM
top 5 film genres
- physics, impossible? friends, proven
- the relationship dynamics are cringe af but the dialog is goals
- multiverse? multiverse. multiverse!
- this is great! set it to MUSIC
- movie=good. soundtrack=WAY GOOD
- physics, impossible? friends, proven
- the relationship dynamics are cringe af but the dialog is goals
- multiverse? multiverse. multiverse!
- this is great! set it to MUSIC
- movie=good. soundtrack=WAY GOOD
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Sssssooooo... yeah. (Wow!) 😳🤗
✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
November 16, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Sssssooooo... yeah. (Wow!) 😳🤗
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I've now heard from 3 authors targeted on X by a scammer impersonating Lois McMaster Bujold. Bujold impersonator refers author to "Eleanor Wood at Spectrum Literary", also an impersonation. Goal: to sell editing svcs. Scam is impersonating multiple authors & agents writerbeware.blog/2025/11/14/i...
If a Famous Author Calls, Hang Up: Anatomy of an Impersonation Scam - Writer Beware
You open your email program one morning. The usual work stuff. Some spam (annoying that it got past your filters!). A couple of newsletters (maybe later). You sip your coffee, scroll down. Wait. What’...
writerbeware.blog
November 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I've now heard from 3 authors targeted on X by a scammer impersonating Lois McMaster Bujold. Bujold impersonator refers author to "Eleanor Wood at Spectrum Literary", also an impersonation. Goal: to sell editing svcs. Scam is impersonating multiple authors & agents writerbeware.blog/2025/11/14/i...
love this!
LOVE THIS!
LOVE THIS!
✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
November 16, 2025 at 10:09 PM
love this!
LOVE THIS!
LOVE THIS!
me, very tired all the time, exhausted: "What if we did 70 more things?"
November 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
me, very tired all the time, exhausted: "What if we did 70 more things?"
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ICE is now racistly terrorizing #Charlotte, NC as they continue their string of utter failures to stop real criminals. They're so cruel & inept, they assaulted this AMERICAN CITIZEN twice, violently detaining him w/in minutes of confirming his citizenship. 🤬
Reposting for legal documentation reach.
Reposting for legal documentation reach.
November 16, 2025 at 6:34 AM
ICE is now racistly terrorizing #Charlotte, NC as they continue their string of utter failures to stop real criminals. They're so cruel & inept, they assaulted this AMERICAN CITIZEN twice, violently detaining him w/in minutes of confirming his citizenship. 🤬
Reposting for legal documentation reach.
Reposting for legal documentation reach.
my cat screaming at me so i will go sit down so she can bathe herself on my lap like some sort of weirdo
November 16, 2025 at 7:12 AM
my cat screaming at me so i will go sit down so she can bathe herself on my lap like some sort of weirdo
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The fact that trans people have to be medicalized or pathologized and made to jump through hoops to be "allowed" to transition is ridiculous. It's just medical oppression. People should be allowed to transition just because they WANT to.
5/8
5/8
November 12, 2025 at 1:32 AM
The fact that trans people have to be medicalized or pathologized and made to jump through hoops to be "allowed" to transition is ridiculous. It's just medical oppression. People should be allowed to transition just because they WANT to.
5/8
5/8
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those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures
It was announced on October 16, 2025 that VIBE was "joining forces" with Rolling Stone. As a result, the majority of VIBE employees were laid off. If you have the means to give, this team could use the support! www.gofundme.com/f/support-vi...
Donate to Support VIBE Staff After Sudden Layoffs, organized by Mya Abraham
It was announced on October 16, 2025 that VIBE was "joining forces" with Rolling S… Mya Abraham needs your support for Support VIBE Staff After Sudden Layoffs
www.gofundme.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures
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This is what they've done.
Congress’s shutdown deal eliminated key food safety rules, blocking agencies from enforcing measures to prevent contamination and trace outbreaks. This rollback has coincided with a surge in hospitalizations and deaths from foodborne illnesses.
Shutdown Deal Kills Rules to Prevent Food Contamination and Foodborne Illnesses
The gutting of these rules coincides with a huge increase in hospitalizations and deaths from foodborne illnesses.
truthout.org
November 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
This is what they've done.
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Here is an obituary for Alice Wong from The Sick Times, a publication aligned with disability rights and disability activism, if you are looking for an alternative to reading the nyt one: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
Alice Wong, disability activist and luminary, dies at 51 - The Sick Times
Alice Wong platformed and uplifted people with Long COVID in her final chapter as a lifelong disability advocate and storyteller.
thesicktimes.org
November 16, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Here is an obituary for Alice Wong from The Sick Times, a publication aligned with disability rights and disability activism, if you are looking for an alternative to reading the nyt one: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
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Adjacent protip:
If you are the abled parent of a disabled child, other disabled adults are REALLY not your audience if you want to bitch about what a burden your child is. Nobody is denying that caretaking is hard, but you are in effect telling us that we too are horrible burdens and not worth it.
If you are the abled parent of a disabled child, other disabled adults are REALLY not your audience if you want to bitch about what a burden your child is. Nobody is denying that caretaking is hard, but you are in effect telling us that we too are horrible burdens and not worth it.
Some abled parents of disabled people are the most violent ableists. They use their children as tools to demonstrate their heroism in shouldering the burden of taking care of a disabled person, think they’re incapable of ableism, and say the experience of a caretaker is the same as being disabled.
November 16, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Adjacent protip:
If you are the abled parent of a disabled child, other disabled adults are REALLY not your audience if you want to bitch about what a burden your child is. Nobody is denying that caretaking is hard, but you are in effect telling us that we too are horrible burdens and not worth it.
If you are the abled parent of a disabled child, other disabled adults are REALLY not your audience if you want to bitch about what a burden your child is. Nobody is denying that caretaking is hard, but you are in effect telling us that we too are horrible burdens and not worth it.
it was a treasure to be a disabled person in the world while Alice Wong was in it. she was a fierce voice for disabled people everywhere, and the loss of her is... it's a lot.
while i never knew her, i read a lot of her essays and work. please mask, and continue to think of accessibility always <3
while i never knew her, i read a lot of her essays and work. please mask, and continue to think of accessibility always <3
Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr
November 16, 2025 at 3:21 AM
it was a treasure to be a disabled person in the world while Alice Wong was in it. she was a fierce voice for disabled people everywhere, and the loss of her is... it's a lot.
while i never knew her, i read a lot of her essays and work. please mask, and continue to think of accessibility always <3
while i never knew her, i read a lot of her essays and work. please mask, and continue to think of accessibility always <3
i loved listening to this story in @pseudopod.org by @thomasha.bsky.social. it's so creepy, and you can read it in his book "UNCERTAIN SONS." it's a great example of Ha's work, how he sets up expectations early, and then subverts and subverts, but never leaves things dissatisfyingly ambiguous.
PseudoPod 1003: House Traveler
The five of us were gathered on the floor of one of the last houses, trying to decide which of the group would be the one to go outside. Sitting around an electric camping lantern…
pseudopod.org
November 16, 2025 at 3:04 AM
i loved listening to this story in @pseudopod.org by @thomasha.bsky.social. it's so creepy, and you can read it in his book "UNCERTAIN SONS." it's a great example of Ha's work, how he sets up expectations early, and then subverts and subverts, but never leaves things dissatisfyingly ambiguous.
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'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'
November 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM
'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'
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Psst if you are a Goodreads user, you can now mark my next novel, Mercutio, as want-to-read, if you are so inclined. My favourite of my books so far.
Mercutio
From Sunday Times bestselling author of The Embroidered…
www.goodreads.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Psst if you are a Goodreads user, you can now mark my next novel, Mercutio, as want-to-read, if you are so inclined. My favourite of my books so far.