I’ve written about 69 Palestinian films directed by women in my newsletter over the last year. This list collects them all with links where you can watch most of them.

🔗 boxd.it/xlziu/detail

A Green House with a Brick-Red Roof by Rashad Abu Shawer. A flash fiction piece from A land of Stone and Thyme: An Anthology of Palestinian Short Stories. CW: dismemberment, war, death of children. The story has folkloric undertones making it a fabulist spec fic:

Speaking of reading lists!

Here's @soniasulaiman.bsky.social's #ReadPalestinianSpecFic Reading List.

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Hot damn, the WGA won. The summary of what's been agreed to is in the link but just, wow. www.wgacontract2023.org/the-campaign...

Among all the other things, please remember that ChatGPT is a climate hazard.

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Hayao Miyazaki is tired. He longs to retire, to rest, to sit on a porch and watch the trees. Suddenly he has an unbidden idea for a poignant coming of age story set in a world of magic and whimsy. He groans and reluctantly starts drawing the world’s most beautiful cartoon

I say I write speculative fiction but I started to listen to things about surrealism lately and while my work is not close to the general expectations of surrealism, the concept of afro-surrealism certainly opens new ground for me to think about my work.

Fave media about the genre so far:

If you're a writer, esp a new or early-career writer, check out Susan Dennard's newsletter. She's always got fabulous writing advice, from the very specific to the aspirational.

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It's live!! This month's Frog Pond covers 3 topics from my writing research:

☠️ A poisonous plant's surprising orange family

❤️ The ancient spicy origin of the symbol for love

🌜 Magma on the Moon??

(Also, wow, I'm already at my 10th newsletter??)

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Will I find everyone on my bird timeline or will I not find everyone on my bird timeline? Those are the questions.

People following you here who followed you on twitter feels very “in every timeline, in every universe, I will find you and love you.”

Hi friends! My short short story "The Coffee Shop" is out on Blue Marble Review along with other amazing works. Many thanks to editor Molly Hill. Do read here:

https://bluemarblereview.com/the-coffee-shop/

We spend a lot of time telling kids that they can be whoever they want to be, but I think it might be more important to tell them that they can be who they are