Maya Gittelman
@mayagittelman.bsky.social
full of love poems and rage
fil-am & jew-ish
out now: stories in the anthos Why on Earth, Night of the Living Queers, Lofty Mountains, Fiery Deeps
reviews & criticism at reactor mag
they/she
fil-am & jew-ish
out now: stories in the anthos Why on Earth, Night of the Living Queers, Lofty Mountains, Fiery Deeps
reviews & criticism at reactor mag
they/she
Pinned
Maya Gittelman
@mayagittelman.bsky.social
· Oct 13
UPDATE I WON 😭❤️🔥
Thank you to
@fiyahlitmag.bsky.social
@reactorsff.bsky.social and congrats to all the other winners & nominees, it's a huge honor and joy to be among you!!
Thank you to
@fiyahlitmag.bsky.social
@reactorsff.bsky.social and congrats to all the other winners & nominees, it's a huge honor and joy to be among you!!
Reposted by Maya Gittelman
You all MUST READ this piece by Kaitlyn Greenidge about the power of art to “exist outside of a tech lord’s algorithm.”
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...
The Artist Who Reminds Us that Another Way Is Possible
The late artist Abigail McGrath cultivated a creative life for herself filled with freedom, joy, and a commitment to beauty. In an age of authoritarianism and algorithms, it’s a kind of life worth pro...
www.harpersbazaar.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
You all MUST READ this piece by Kaitlyn Greenidge about the power of art to “exist outside of a tech lord’s algorithm.”
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...
Reposted by Maya Gittelman
Please share & give to help Hammam afford surgery for his injured mother. Healthcare is scarce & expensive under Israel's continuing genocide, which has left Palestinians homeless & starving in winter:
November 23, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Please share & give to help Hammam afford surgery for his injured mother. Healthcare is scarce & expensive under Israel's continuing genocide, which has left Palestinians homeless & starving in winter:
while it wasn’t the “no notes” experience i had with part 1 i still fucking loved wicked: for good!! certainly my favorite & most gay viewing of the second act of wicked lmao
November 23, 2025 at 5:32 AM
while it wasn’t the “no notes” experience i had with part 1 i still fucking loved wicked: for good!! certainly my favorite & most gay viewing of the second act of wicked lmao
ICYMI: I got to interview Joey Batey about his debut novel <3
If you have to say it's not a cult, well...
@mayagittelman.bsky.social spoke with Joey Batey (AKA JASKIER) about music, meta, mythology, and his debut novel about a perfectly normal enthusiastic fandom, It's Not A Cult!
@mayagittelman.bsky.social spoke with Joey Batey (AKA JASKIER) about music, meta, mythology, and his debut novel about a perfectly normal enthusiastic fandom, It's Not A Cult!
If It’s Not A Cult, What Is It? A Conversation With Joey Batey - Reactor
Author and actor Joey Batey chats about music, Northern England, and the creative process
reactormag.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
ICYMI: I got to interview Joey Batey about his debut novel <3
Reposted by Maya Gittelman
If you have to say it's not a cult, well...
@mayagittelman.bsky.social spoke with Joey Batey (AKA JASKIER) about music, meta, mythology, and his debut novel about a perfectly normal enthusiastic fandom, It's Not A Cult!
@mayagittelman.bsky.social spoke with Joey Batey (AKA JASKIER) about music, meta, mythology, and his debut novel about a perfectly normal enthusiastic fandom, It's Not A Cult!
If It’s Not A Cult, What Is It? A Conversation With Joey Batey - Reactor
Author and actor Joey Batey chats about music, Northern England, and the creative process
reactormag.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:45 PM
If you have to say it's not a cult, well...
@mayagittelman.bsky.social spoke with Joey Batey (AKA JASKIER) about music, meta, mythology, and his debut novel about a perfectly normal enthusiastic fandom, It's Not A Cult!
@mayagittelman.bsky.social spoke with Joey Batey (AKA JASKIER) about music, meta, mythology, and his debut novel about a perfectly normal enthusiastic fandom, It's Not A Cult!
AHH HERE IT IS I‘ve been so psyched to share!! My latest for Reactor—a conversation with debut novelist Joey Batey. I love his strange, clever book, and it was a true pleasure and honor to chat place, process, and more. Check out our interview & get your hands on this book quick as you can! 🔥📹🌟🎶❤️🔥
If you have to say it's not a cult, well...
@mayagittelman.bsky.social spoke with Joey Batey (AKA JASKIER) about music, meta, mythology, and his debut novel about a perfectly normal enthusiastic fandom, It's Not A Cult!
@mayagittelman.bsky.social spoke with Joey Batey (AKA JASKIER) about music, meta, mythology, and his debut novel about a perfectly normal enthusiastic fandom, It's Not A Cult!
If It’s Not A Cult, What Is It? A Conversation With Joey Batey - Reactor
Author and actor Joey Batey chats about music, Northern England, and the creative process
reactormag.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
AHH HERE IT IS I‘ve been so psyched to share!! My latest for Reactor—a conversation with debut novelist Joey Batey. I love his strange, clever book, and it was a true pleasure and honor to chat place, process, and more. Check out our interview & get your hands on this book quick as you can! 🔥📹🌟🎶❤️🔥
Reposted by Maya Gittelman
“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.
Reposted by Maya Gittelman
"our data centres use hardly any water!"
"oh, how much do they use then?"
"it's a secret"
www.roanokerambler.com/google-striv...
"oh, how much do they use then?"
"it's a secret"
www.roanokerambler.com/google-striv...
Google Strives To Keep Data Center Water Use Secret After Judge Orders Records Released
A Roanoke judge has ordered the Western Virginia Water Authority to release information related to a potential Google data center.
www.roanokerambler.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
"our data centres use hardly any water!"
"oh, how much do they use then?"
"it's a secret"
www.roanokerambler.com/google-striv...
"oh, how much do they use then?"
"it's a secret"
www.roanokerambler.com/google-striv...
for me personally if you have beloved boykissers andrew scott & josh o’connor in a 2025 installment of a franchise led by canonically queer benoit blanc
it should be reasonable to expect he’ll be kissing one if not both of them over the course of the film
it should be reasonable to expect he’ll be kissing one if not both of them over the course of the film
November 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
for me personally if you have beloved boykissers andrew scott & josh o’connor in a 2025 installment of a franchise led by canonically queer benoit blanc
it should be reasonable to expect he’ll be kissing one if not both of them over the course of the film
it should be reasonable to expect he’ll be kissing one if not both of them over the course of the film
Reposted by Maya Gittelman
"Ghost story, love story, and an incarnation that deeply knows its roots, Cinder House is a sweet fresh thing."
@mayagittelman.bsky.social reviews Freya Marske's gothic retelling of Cinderella Cinder House:
@mayagittelman.bsky.social reviews Freya Marske's gothic retelling of Cinderella Cinder House:
The Sublime Ache and Freedom of Freya Marske’s Cinder House - Reactor
Ghost story, love story, and an incarnation that deeply knows its roots, Cinder House is a sweet fresh thing.
reactormag.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:56 PM
"Ghost story, love story, and an incarnation that deeply knows its roots, Cinder House is a sweet fresh thing."
@mayagittelman.bsky.social reviews Freya Marske's gothic retelling of Cinderella Cinder House:
@mayagittelman.bsky.social reviews Freya Marske's gothic retelling of Cinderella Cinder House:
check back here thursday for a cool thing 🌟💕
November 18, 2025 at 5:18 PM
check back here thursday for a cool thing 🌟💕
Reposted by Maya Gittelman
Oh hey, I found the war on christmas
"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Oh hey, I found the war on christmas
Reposted by Maya Gittelman
The Salvation Army are a hate group. Do not forget that this winter.
November 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The Salvation Army are a hate group. Do not forget that this winter.
Reposted by Maya Gittelman
I'm never not gonna shout about YA queer horror books. Ryan La Sala is a great introduction to this subgenre, and The Dead of Summer is a great introduction to this author.
reactormag.com/book-review-...
reactormag.com/book-review-...
The Dead of Summer by Ryan La Sala is an Ambitious Eco-Horror - Reactor
Alex Brown reviews a "taut, tense YA eco-horror novel."
reactormag.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I'm never not gonna shout about YA queer horror books. Ryan La Sala is a great introduction to this subgenre, and The Dead of Summer is a great introduction to this author.
reactormag.com/book-review-...
reactormag.com/book-review-...
Reposted by Maya Gittelman
every author in the class action, please file the claim.
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:41 AM
every author in the class action, please file the claim.
Reposted by Maya Gittelman
We're still hovering just under halfway towards the @globalvoices.org November goal. Check out our coverage at globalvoices.org and if you like what you read, chip in what you can to help! globalvoices.org/donate/
Donate · Global Voices
Support freedom of expression for everyone, everywhere, by donating to Global Voices.
globalvoices.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:43 PM
We're still hovering just under halfway towards the @globalvoices.org November goal. Check out our coverage at globalvoices.org and if you like what you read, chip in what you can to help! globalvoices.org/donate/
Reposted by Maya Gittelman
A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50.
I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
wapo.st/49WOdx1
I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
wapo.st/49WOdx1
Alice Wong, disability rights advocate and wordsmith, dies at 51
Alice Wong, a transformational leader for disability rights and justice, who founded the Disability Visibility project to magnify disabled culture, died Nov. 14.
wapo.st
November 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50.
I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
wapo.st/49WOdx1
I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
wapo.st/49WOdx1
there is reason to live
Sophie Thatcher and Havana Rose Liu will star in a new comedy ‘PEACHES’, from director Jenny Suen.
The film follows 2 spoiled best friends who con older rich men for a living.
(Source: Deadline)
The film follows 2 spoiled best friends who con older rich men for a living.
(Source: Deadline)
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 AM
there is reason to live
god please let them kiss
Sophie Thatcher and Havana Rose Liu will star in a new comedy ‘PEACHES’, from director Jenny Suen.
The film follows 2 spoiled best friends who con older rich men for a living.
(Source: Deadline)
The film follows 2 spoiled best friends who con older rich men for a living.
(Source: Deadline)
November 14, 2025 at 1:23 AM
god please let them kiss
Reposted by Maya Gittelman
this was SO fun to write 🍽🥩
It's chic, it's tasteful, and it's dominating the literary landscape: cannibalism. Readers are hungry and author @wenyilee.bsky.social examines its relationship to revenge, exploitation, and desire 🥩
Tender Is the Flesh-Eating: The Literary Cannibal as Exploitation and Desire - Reactor
Wen-yi Lee examines the teeth of fictional cannibalism
reactormag.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:54 AM
this was SO fun to write 🍽🥩
i genuinely feel a huge weight lifted from me, so many tensions released. i am going to sleep so well tonight. electoral politics alone won’t save us but this one was really, really important, and hope has returned to the shire! the relief I feel is physical. whew. ONWARD. let’s go #MayorMamdani ❤️🔥
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
i genuinely feel a huge weight lifted from me, so many tensions released. i am going to sleep so well tonight. electoral politics alone won’t save us but this one was really, really important, and hope has returned to the shire! the relief I feel is physical. whew. ONWARD. let’s go #MayorMamdani ❤️🔥
Reposted by Maya Gittelman
i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often
November 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often
there’s some good in this city mr Zohran!! and it’s worth fighting for!!
November 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
there’s some good in this city mr Zohran!! and it’s worth fighting for!!