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"My short story 'Excessive and Spurious Emotion' has been published in volume 63 of the literary magazine 'descant' and is available in print. Please have a read and support the other contributors!"

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"The terms story, narrative, and plot are often used interchangeably when describing, well, a narrative, story, or tale. However, when trying to speak about the mechanics of storytelling and of a specific story, story, narrative, and plot are different concepts entirely."

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"Masculinity is denaturalized not through rebels but misfits—characters unable to obtain the masculine ideal despite their best efforts. Pancake’s stories come across as pessimistic, even nihilistic. There seems to be no hope for these characters."

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"I think the internet and being 'chronically online' promotes 'Idealism.' I’m not talking about idealism as in 'starry-eyed idealism.' I’m talking about philosophical, capital-I Idealism. Famous Idealists include Plato, Immanuel Kant, and G. W. F. Hegel."

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"People remember what happens in stories. Stories need to be about something; not just themes or ideas but events and actions. The story is the mug people latch onto, the narrative context, and that carries the drink, the emotional content."

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"Being a woman’s story filtered through multiple men adds ambiguity to how we’re supposed to read Laura and Carmilla as characters. ...Laura isn’t writing for herself but to a doctor, hence we can expect a level of self-censorship to avoid censure."

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"Recently, a friend asked for reading recommendations for a better understanding of trans and nonbinary people. I was happy to oblige, but I figured I’d share with the rest of the class."

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"...if the US were a democracy, the constitution would serve us, but like a monarchy, we are expected to serve the constitution of the United States. The constitution is deified here. To change it is blasphemy. To amend it requires religious dedication."



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The next post I'm sharing is on how the accusation of "male anger" against transfems & trans women in feminist spaces is nothing but transmisogyny, consistent with how past feminisms excluded marginalized women (e.g. racialized, queer, & intersex).

Read here: nicobailey.substack.com/p/the-myth-o...

In honor of being new to Bluesky, I'll share some old blog posts.

Starting with my first entry on a series of posts critiquing the Misandry-model of transphobia, "On Misandry, Part 1: Obscuring Gender Relations and Reifying Transmisogyny:"
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Hi, I'm Nico Bailey, a transfem lesbian writer of literary fiction.

My stories center on queer and trans women and explore themes such as disability, queer history, intimacy, metafiction, & mental health.

Follow me for updates on where and when I'm being published and when I post to my blog.

New blog post! This week, I look at how Anne Dillard's classic creative nonfiction book PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK uses dialectics as a structural alternative to novelesque conflict: nicobailey.substack.com/p/dialectics...