Chris Herrmann
@kafkurse.bsky.social
Queer 📚slinger, fantasy, science fiction & horror/poetry/comic reader.
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AND supporting your local library is super important! If you actually DO want books to be available to everyone, the library *already exists* and is staffed by the people who are deep in the trenches of fighting censorship! Supporting the library is doing actual good for your community!
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For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
AND supporting your local library is super important! If you actually DO want books to be available to everyone, the library *already exists* and is staffed by the people who are deep in the trenches of fighting censorship! Supporting the library is doing actual good for your community!
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TAPS SCREEN
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
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Hey @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team please unsuspend Goran immediately.
Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.
Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Hey @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team please unsuspend Goran immediately.
Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.
Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.
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nobody talks about Turner's kaiju era these days. it wasn't her fault--how was she supposed to know what was in that serum--but you can still see the damage if you know where to look
Tina Turner on the Eiffel Tower — Peter Lindbergh, 1989
November 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
nobody talks about Turner's kaiju era these days. it wasn't her fault--how was she supposed to know what was in that serum--but you can still see the damage if you know where to look
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Get on your library board, folks. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Get on your library board, folks. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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The US collaborates with the genocide in many ways.
US revokes visa of former South African minister who initiated genocide case against Israel - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-revokes-visa-south-africa-naledi-pandor-led-case-icj-israel-genocide
US revokes visa of former South African minister who initiated genocide case against Israel
Naledi Pandor played a key role in South Africa's case against Israel at the International Court of Justice
www.middleeasteye.net
November 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The US collaborates with the genocide in many ways.
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I want to uplift again this brilliant piece of writing and thinking by @shannonmattern.bsky.social - placesjournal.org/article/extr... - I think that everyone who is interested in libraries would benefit from reading it.
Extralibrary Loan: Making the Civic Infrastructure We Need
Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.
placesjournal.org
November 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I want to uplift again this brilliant piece of writing and thinking by @shannonmattern.bsky.social - placesjournal.org/article/extr... - I think that everyone who is interested in libraries would benefit from reading it.
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So this is happening outside of the Heritage Foundation right now
"Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE! Fuck Project 2025! Fuck Alligator Alcatraz!"
"Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE! Fuck Project 2025! Fuck Alligator Alcatraz!"
November 20, 2025 at 10:11 PM
So this is happening outside of the Heritage Foundation right now
"Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE! Fuck Project 2025! Fuck Alligator Alcatraz!"
"Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE! Fuck Project 2025! Fuck Alligator Alcatraz!"
A kickass, multitudinous book.
An update from the team at @erewhonbooks.bsky.social!
While yesterday’s all-retailer ebook sale for Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity only lasted for 24 hours, the $3.99 price will continue to be available until Nov. 30th on Kindle. Apologies for the confusion, everyone 🖤
While yesterday’s all-retailer ebook sale for Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity only lasted for 24 hours, the $3.99 price will continue to be available until Nov. 30th on Kindle. Apologies for the confusion, everyone 🖤
November 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A kickass, multitudinous book.
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I wrote about the exhaustion and dissonance of writing about TDOR for the past 15 years
I’m sick of writing about dead trans people | Xtra Magazine
For 15 years, I hoped my words would change something. Now I’m grieving the world that could’ve been
xtramagazine.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I wrote about the exhaustion and dissonance of writing about TDOR for the past 15 years
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A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
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“It’s hard to think in celebratory terms when I’ve written a book about a genocide.” We thank you, Omar El Alkad.
November 20, 2025 at 2:33 AM
“It’s hard to think in celebratory terms when I’ve written a book about a genocide.” We thank you, Omar El Alkad.
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Truly is there any bigger joy than reading a friend’s smart, nuanced, passionate book and being suffused with love and pride and critical hope? I think not
Also: I cried a lot!
Also: I cried a lot!
November 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Truly is there any bigger joy than reading a friend’s smart, nuanced, passionate book and being suffused with love and pride and critical hope? I think not
Also: I cried a lot!
Also: I cried a lot!
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The entire American economy still depends on modern slavery and forced labor
November 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The entire American economy still depends on modern slavery and forced labor
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Season 9 is here! And it's LITTLE RICHARD, who contained multitudes: a pioneering rock and roll musician, a conservative preacher from the deep South, and a young Black queer man thrown out of his home who became a drag performer under the name Princess LaVonne.
badgayspod.com/episode-arch...
badgayspod.com/episode-arch...
November 4, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Season 9 is here! And it's LITTLE RICHARD, who contained multitudes: a pioneering rock and roll musician, a conservative preacher from the deep South, and a young Black queer man thrown out of his home who became a drag performer under the name Princess LaVonne.
badgayspod.com/episode-arch...
badgayspod.com/episode-arch...
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Can we please help this writer and these cats?
did, but now the amount of money I need to have by my move in date has jumped significantly. If you have $5, $10, $50 to spare, it would make a huge difference for me (and my cats). Between legal and moving expenses, my budget is shot all the way through. If you can contribute, that's amazing, and
Donate to Support Chance's Urgent Relocation, organized by Chance Calloway
My name is Chance Calloway, a disabled Air Force vet (among other things) living in… Chance Calloway needs your support for Support Chance's Urgent Relocation
gofund.me
November 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Can we please help this writer and these cats?
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“I have not found one single instance of a straight person risking, helping, protecting a queer and trans person during this history. Not a single one. And that’s a hard pill to swallow"
19thnews.org/2025/10/lgbt...
19thnews.org/2025/10/lgbt...
Holocaust history shows LGBTQ+ people have always been their own heroes
Queer historians are using LGBTQ+ History Month to reflect on the often forgotten but powerful resistance against the Nazis.
19thnews.org
November 4, 2025 at 10:56 PM
“I have not found one single instance of a straight person risking, helping, protecting a queer and trans person during this history. Not a single one. And that’s a hard pill to swallow"
19thnews.org/2025/10/lgbt...
19thnews.org/2025/10/lgbt...
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I love Wumuti an endless amount.
November 7, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I love Wumuti an endless amount.
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I spoke to Donovan Hohn of @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social for their Moby Dick podcast. We talked about Chapter 4, my Queequeg and Ishmael fanfic (Quishmael for my fellow old Tumblr heads) and Melville’s unrequited love for Nathaniel Hawthorne.
www.laphamsquarterly.org/content/epis...
www.laphamsquarterly.org/content/epis...
Episode 17: Queequeg and Ishmael in Love (with Alexander Chee, Aaron Sachs, and Caleb Crain)
The latest episode of The World in Time.
www.laphamsquarterly.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I spoke to Donovan Hohn of @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social for their Moby Dick podcast. We talked about Chapter 4, my Queequeg and Ishmael fanfic (Quishmael for my fellow old Tumblr heads) and Melville’s unrequited love for Nathaniel Hawthorne.
www.laphamsquarterly.org/content/epis...
www.laphamsquarterly.org/content/epis...
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Chicago Public Library (IL) workers speak out against the city's proposed cuts: www.fox32chicago.com/video/1735171
Chicago library workers speak out against proposed cuts
Chicago library workers expressed their concerns about proposed cuts at City Hall today. The City Council's 2026 budget calls for nearly 90 library positions to be eliminated.
www.fox32chicago.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Chicago Public Library (IL) workers speak out against the city's proposed cuts: www.fox32chicago.com/video/1735171
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This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.
November 5, 2025 at 5:39 AM
This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.
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looks like Chicago’s anti-ICE resources and whistle codes have made their way to D.C. (Pilsen Arts and Community House is credited on the bottom)
Sign of the times: Someone was handing these out to adults in my D.C. neighborhood while kids were trick or treating
November 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
looks like Chicago’s anti-ICE resources and whistle codes have made their way to D.C. (Pilsen Arts and Community House is credited on the bottom)
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This is devastating, and it is also the society we have allowed a broken government to create for our kids. So many kids are getting exposed to this terror. They deserve a childhood of joy and it’s been taken from them.
newrepublic.com/article/2023...
newrepublic.com/article/2023...
November 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
This is devastating, and it is also the society we have allowed a broken government to create for our kids. So many kids are getting exposed to this terror. They deserve a childhood of joy and it’s been taken from them.
newrepublic.com/article/2023...
newrepublic.com/article/2023...