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Margot Atwell
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Writer, editor,publisher, creative funding expert in Brooklyn. Editor of ABSOLUTE PLEASURE. Previously @feministpress & @kickstarter. She/they 🌈📚
https://margotatwell.com/
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Tonight in Brooklyn, join me at Franklin Park for the World Transsexual Forum, where I'll be in conversation with two of the writers in the book and the delightful @jeannethornton.bsky.social and Anton Solominik.
September 29, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Today, I'll be doing an event in Somerville, MA with @allshewrotebks.bsky.social and Full Body Cast will perform fan favorites from Rocky Horror. Then tomorrow, I'll be back in Brooklyn and talking with @jeannethornton.bsky.social and @magsvisaggio.com Mel King and Anton Solomonik. #rockyhorror
September 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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The next stops on the ABSOLUTE PLEASURE Tour: Brooklyn, Providence, and Boston!
September 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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It's pub day for ABSOLUTE PLEASURE! It's such a thrill to get to share this incredible collection of essays by 25 brilliant, funny, earnest, thoughtful, talented writers with the world.

#RockyHorror #RockyHorrorPictureShow
September 16, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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ABSOLUTE PLEASURE, an anthology of trans and queer writers on The Rocky Horror Picture Show, launches next week with some great events in New York and elsewhere. I am incredibly proud of this collection and the in-person spaces and conversations we are creating. absolutepleasurebook.com
Margot, a white femme person with rainbow hair, holds a copy of ABSOLUTE PLEASURE in front of bookshelves at Hive Mind Books An illustration of a Frank-N-Stein-like figure in a gold corset against a red background, with Book Tour at the top. The text from the flyer is readable at absolutepleasurebook.com A flyer about the book launch at Hive Mind Books. Tickets and info at hivemindbooks.com A flyer about the ABSOLUTE PLEASURE launch party at 3 Dollar Bill on 9/18. Tickets and info at 3DollarBillBK.com
September 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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From @jesszimmerman.com
"Virgins and veterans alike will find something to contemplate in this wide-ranging collection, which is not afraid to interrogate a beloved classic while also celebrating its profound impact on weirdos and misfits across generations. As one of those weirdos, I'm so glad it exists." Jess Zimmerman, Author of Women and Other Monsters In white text on a black and gold star background
May 19, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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From Joe Vallese:
"A collection as colorful, subversive, and comforting as the film it celebrates, Absolute Pleasure immortalizes in print Rocky Horror Picture Show's still-unrivaled capacity for building queer connection and community in ways both wistful and wicked.""  - Joe Vallese, editor It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror  In white text against a black and gold star background
May 19, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Some brilliant people have said some incredibly lovely things about Absolute Pleasure! You can get a copy and some cool swag here:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...
In white text against a black and gold star background: "A book that examines Rocky Horror's legacy in all its queer, defiant, transgressive, flawed, chaotic glory." -From the introduction to Absolute Pleasure by Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House and Her Body and Other Parties
May 19, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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I just got the advance copies of Absolute Pleasure and they look amazing! I’m even more excited about this book than I was before, if you can believe it. Click here to grab a copy and some cool merch, or find out more about the tour:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...

#rockyhorror
A book cover image with a red background featuring an illustration of a sexy person's torso in a gold corset with ABSOLUTE PLEASURE hand-lettered on it, with black panties and garter belt, a purple feather boa, red lips, and a white pearl necklace, like Rocky Horror's Frank N Furter. Below, text reads: Queer Perspectives on Rocky Horror, then Edited By Margot Atwell / Foreword By Carmen Maria Machado The book rests on a black and gold fabric and sequined background with a string of white pearls
May 6, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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COVER REVEAL! 📕🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💋 ✨
Unconventional Conventionalists, feast your eyes on ABSOLUTE PLEASURE, a queer anthology on the iconic camp horror classic film, The Rocky Horror Picture Show! Pub date: September 16, 2025.

Cover art by the incredible @rosalarian.bsky.social

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A book cover image with a red background featuring an illustration of a sexy person's torso in a gold corset with ABSOLUTE PLEASURE hand-lettered on it, with black panties and garter belt, a purple feather boa, red lips, and a white pearl necklace, like Rocky Horror's Frank N Furter. Below, text reads: Queer Perspectives on Rocky Horror, then Edited By Margot Atwell / Foreword By Carmen Maria Machado
April 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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We've extended the deadline to March 1, 2024. Thanks so much to those of you who have already sent essays. I can't wait to read them! 💜🗓️✨
A picture of the Rocky Horror Picture Show DVD in front of silver sequined fabric
November 30, 2023 at 11:41 PM
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I’m so thrilled to share the news that the tremendously talented @TanekaStotts and I will be editing a Rocky Horror anthology for Feminist Press, forthcoming in 2025 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the film’s release!
bit.ly/rhpsanthology
In red and white text in a spooky font against a black background, Absolute Pleasure Anthology Call for Submissions
September 1, 2023 at 10:08 PM
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I’m so excited for people to read this incredible book, HEAD ABOVE WATER by Shahd Alahammari. I'm thrilled that this was my first acquisition at @FeministPress. It's an honest, vulnerable exploration of disability, community & moving through worlds that weren’t designed for Shahd.
A book with a black cover and a person's face surrounded by orange dots, reading Shahd Alshammari / Head Above Water: Reflections on Illness is held up by a white woman's hand beneath a pink sign reading The Feminist Press.
July 18, 2023 at 6:33 PM
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We trapped the chaotic beast, Loki, in a backpack!
A poodle mix with black curly hair and his tongue sticking out is in a backpack on the back of a white woman in a purple baseball cap and jersey, standing in a park.
July 16, 2023 at 2:15 PM