mimi mondal (they/she/🐈⬛)
@mimimondal.bsky.social
nebula & hugo awards-nominated indian sff writer. #RadiantCitadel #manivarsha. rep: @luciennediver.
technicolor cat enjoys the best afternoon ever (aka basically every afternoon) 🌈
September 3, 2025 at 11:18 PM
technicolor cat enjoys the best afternoon ever (aka basically every afternoon) 🌈
not getting any younger but with ice cream cake 🎂 (and all these blessings, which are good stuff 🥹)
July 15, 2025 at 3:27 AM
not getting any younger but with ice cream cake 🎂 (and all these blessings, which are good stuff 🥹)
This was my first publication in Chinese. The excitement of seeing my byline in a new language never fades! It was surreal enough in English to write about the first storybook I ever owned: Thakumar Jhuli, which my dad got me for my 6th birthday. Doubly surreal to see that cover in a Chinese mag.
May 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
This was my first publication in Chinese. The excitement of seeing my byline in a new language never fades! It was surreal enough in English to write about the first storybook I ever owned: Thakumar Jhuli, which my dad got me for my 6th birthday. Doubly surreal to see that cover in a Chinese mag.
One more translation to celebrate! As a sweet beginning to 2025 my two-part essay "A Short History of South Asian Speculative Fiction" was published in Chinese (Mandarin) by the Hugo Award-winning writer and editor @riverflowsf.bsky.social in Zero Gravity Science Fiction.
May 10, 2025 at 2:49 AM
One more translation to celebrate! As a sweet beginning to 2025 my two-part essay "A Short History of South Asian Speculative Fiction" was published in Chinese (Mandarin) by the Hugo Award-winning writer and editor @riverflowsf.bsky.social in Zero Gravity Science Fiction.
May 8, 2025 at 12:14 PM
April 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
i've been counting my age in selfies with autumn leaves and spring flowers, routinely every year 🌸
April 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
i've been counting my age in selfies with autumn leaves and spring flowers, routinely every year 🌸
This is published from India but you should really check out @blaft.bsky.social's Book of Anti-Caste SF! They ship internationally + there's an ebook.
April 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
This is published from India but you should really check out @blaft.bsky.social's Book of Anti-Caste SF! They ship internationally + there's an ebook.
@pyaariazaadi.bsky.social (aka the radical political outspoken endearing South Asian artist older sister you all need) hosted last evening's incredible reception for @bakeryprasad.bsky.social at her Xenana Projects studio.
April 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
@pyaariazaadi.bsky.social (aka the radical political outspoken endearing South Asian artist older sister you all need) hosted last evening's incredible reception for @bakeryprasad.bsky.social at her Xenana Projects studio.
Over this weekend in NYC I had the opportunity to meet and experience the works, ideas, and visions of TWO of the most exciting Dalit visual artists of my generation (Shrujana Niranjani Shridhar and Siddhesh Gautam, who's @bakeryprasad.bsky.social) so that's how my #DalitHistoryMonth is going ✊🏽
April 7, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Over this weekend in NYC I had the opportunity to meet and experience the works, ideas, and visions of TWO of the most exciting Dalit visual artists of my generation (Shrujana Niranjani Shridhar and Siddhesh Gautam, who's @bakeryprasad.bsky.social) so that's how my #DalitHistoryMonth is going ✊🏽
Didn't get around to posting this earlier but the Polish 🇵🇱 translation of "Malotibala Printing Press" was published in the Nowa Fantastyka magazine from Warsaw in June 2024! Translated by Kamila Regel. I didn't receive a print copy this time, which made me a little sad because look at that cover! 🤩
April 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Didn't get around to posting this earlier but the Polish 🇵🇱 translation of "Malotibala Printing Press" was published in the Nowa Fantastyka magazine from Warsaw in June 2024! Translated by Kamila Regel. I didn't receive a print copy this time, which made me a little sad because look at that cover! 🤩
New year, new event from @bsfwriters.bsky.social 🎉👾
"We Demand Stories About Human-Centered AI" with panelists @hmason.bsky.social @matthewkressel.net Holden Lee, moderated by @brklyndragon.bsky.social
"We Demand Stories About Human-Centered AI" with panelists @hmason.bsky.social @matthewkressel.net Holden Lee, moderated by @brklyndragon.bsky.social
March 30, 2025 at 7:47 PM
New year, new event from @bsfwriters.bsky.social 🎉👾
"We Demand Stories About Human-Centered AI" with panelists @hmason.bsky.social @matthewkressel.net Holden Lee, moderated by @brklyndragon.bsky.social
"We Demand Stories About Human-Centered AI" with panelists @hmason.bsky.social @matthewkressel.net Holden Lee, moderated by @brklyndragon.bsky.social
Today has been a day of good news and bad news. Sharing the good news first: The fourth story from *Blood Ties*, titled "Sugarbean" (remember her? 🐩), was published today on the website of the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art! Accompanied by another wonderful illustration from Sargam Gupta. Link below.
March 22, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Today has been a day of good news and bad news. Sharing the good news first: The fourth story from *Blood Ties*, titled "Sugarbean" (remember her? 🐩), was published today on the website of the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art! Accompanied by another wonderful illustration from Sargam Gupta. Link below.
I always forget how long I haven't published stories, because I'm always writing them. But the *Blood Ties* set of 3 flash stories is now out on Rubin Museum's Spiral Magazine... with 3 more upcoming! Are vampires hiding in the university town of Briarwood? These characters are trying to find out.
March 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I always forget how long I haven't published stories, because I'm always writing them. But the *Blood Ties* set of 3 flash stories is now out on Rubin Museum's Spiral Magazine... with 3 more upcoming! Are vampires hiding in the university town of Briarwood? These characters are trying to find out.
If you're in Philly today, join me and Dr Arjun Shankar at @makingworlds.bsky.social to celebrate this deeply insightful and reflective book. Come if you want to talk about brownness, about the NGO Industrial Complex, about caste, about India and its diaspora(s). Look forward to meeting you there! 💙
March 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
If you're in Philly today, join me and Dr Arjun Shankar at @makingworlds.bsky.social to celebrate this deeply insightful and reflective book. Come if you want to talk about brownness, about the NGO Industrial Complex, about caste, about India and its diaspora(s). Look forward to meeting you there! 💙
first person in my bloodline to discover that green moong dal can be grown into sprouts for pho 🥇🌱
December 9, 2024 at 8:11 AM
first person in my bloodline to discover that green moong dal can be grown into sprouts for pho 🥇🌱
in which your friendly neighborhood #pumpkinking has perfectly understood his assignment 🎃
#thenightmarebeforechristmas #jackskellington #holidaylights #christmaslights #uppereastside #tryingnewthings
#thenightmarebeforechristmas #jackskellington #holidaylights #christmaslights #uppereastside #tryingnewthings
November 25, 2024 at 6:25 AM
in which your friendly neighborhood #pumpkinking has perfectly understood his assignment 🎃
#thenightmarebeforechristmas #jackskellington #holidaylights #christmaslights #uppereastside #tryingnewthings
#thenightmarebeforechristmas #jackskellington #holidaylights #christmaslights #uppereastside #tryingnewthings
NYC(-area) friends with tattoos, give me all your recs please 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
October 20, 2024 at 6:51 PM
NYC(-area) friends with tattoos, give me all your recs please 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Mahalaya morning started with fiiiinally getting my hands on অন্য বসন্তের উপাখ্যান, i e. this first-ever anthology of contemporary South Asian LGBTQ+ speculative fiction in Bengali! So honored and overjoyed to have "His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light" translated and included by M.D. Mahasweta.
October 5, 2024 at 1:14 AM
Mahalaya morning started with fiiiinally getting my hands on অন্য বসন্তের উপাখ্যান, i e. this first-ever anthology of contemporary South Asian LGBTQ+ speculative fiction in Bengali! So honored and overjoyed to have "His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light" translated and included by M.D. Mahasweta.
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #229,931!
and i fiiiiiinally managed to generate this image 🥰🥰🥰
and i fiiiiiinally managed to generate this image 🥰🥰🥰
September 24, 2024 at 8:53 PM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #229,931!
and i fiiiiiinally managed to generate this image 🥰🥰🥰
and i fiiiiiinally managed to generate this image 🥰🥰🥰
I'm open for more copyediting and proofreading work again. Please share in your networks if you can! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
September 16, 2024 at 7:55 PM
I'm open for more copyediting and proofreading work again. Please share in your networks if you can! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Haven't really been doing conventions this summer and this is super last-minute but if you're at #nasfic #nasfic2024 #buffalonasfic2024 today come over to listen to this conversation I'm super super excited and honored to moderate!
July 20, 2024 at 12:36 PM
Haven't really been doing conventions this summer and this is super last-minute but if you're at #nasfic #nasfic2024 #buffalonasfic2024 today come over to listen to this conversation I'm super super excited and honored to moderate!
51 more weeks to go but here's wishing 2024 brings peace, joy, wish fulfilment and guayaba piraguas to you too 💗
January 8, 2024 at 1:17 PM
51 more weeks to go but here's wishing 2024 brings peace, joy, wish fulfilment and guayaba piraguas to you too 💗
Was wondering why my homepage showed so few posts from the people I know before I realized I didn't follow many of them here, that was the other app which imported my IG contacts. My bad!
Anyway, here are some photos from the Chengdu Worldcon that I posted earlier on my more frequented platforms. 💙
Anyway, here are some photos from the Chengdu Worldcon that I posted earlier on my more frequented platforms. 💙
November 26, 2023 at 3:00 AM
Was wondering why my homepage showed so few posts from the people I know before I realized I didn't follow many of them here, that was the other app which imported my IG contacts. My bad!
Anyway, here are some photos from the Chengdu Worldcon that I posted earlier on my more frequented platforms. 💙
Anyway, here are some photos from the Chengdu Worldcon that I posted earlier on my more frequented platforms. 💙
cat credit: @davidmack.bsky.social as usual
September 6, 2023 at 6:33 AM
cat credit: @davidmack.bsky.social as usual