Niko Stratis
@nikostratis.com
Sober trans broad. Award winning writer. Former smoker. I write a newsletter called Anxiety Shark, my debut book is called The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman
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Niko Stratis
@nikostratis.com
· May 23
hell of a time to be promoting a book about being trans, the damage done to the body/spirit in the decades spent fighting it, and how you can’t fight city hall (Big Transgender) but here we are. utpress.utexas.edu/978147733148...
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there were so many books released this year my top 10 list has to be 12! have you read any of them? what did you think?
December 19, 2025 at 12:19 AM
there were so many books released this year my top 10 list has to be 12! have you read any of them? what did you think?
Honestly, “brought to you by Bank of America” is the funniest way that statement can end.
CNN has a show with a similar line. That the problem with this country is we just aren’t talking to each other.
It’s the kind of diagnosis that a toddler would land on.
It’s the kind of diagnosis that a toddler would land on.
December 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Honestly, “brought to you by Bank of America” is the funniest way that statement can end.
Bluesky introduces a new feature where you get two friends to sign up, and each of those two friends sign up two friends each, who will then get two new friends each and so on. Everyone gives you their social insurance number. Make $100,000 working from the comfort of your own home, it's fun and ea
December 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Bluesky introduces a new feature where you get two friends to sign up, and each of those two friends sign up two friends each, who will then get two new friends each and so on. Everyone gives you their social insurance number. Make $100,000 working from the comfort of your own home, it's fun and ea
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an entire generation losing their minds that their children and grandchildren would DARE to do anything they don't understand and turning the full might of the world's imperial powers against the people they profess to love most
Breaking: House Republicans pass Marjorie Taylor Greene's bill to criminalize doctors that provide gender-affirming care for trans kids. Her bill imposes jail time penalties up to 10 years. Now, it's headed to the Senate where it is not likely to advance as it would need 7 Democrats to sign on
December 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
an entire generation losing their minds that their children and grandchildren would DARE to do anything they don't understand and turning the full might of the world's imperial powers against the people they profess to love most
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I brought Sixpence None the Richer to the Tiny Desk for some holiday cheer (and melancholy) @npr.org
youtu.be/sSY_w9odHPk?...
youtu.be/sSY_w9odHPk?...
Sixpence None the Richer: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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December 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I brought Sixpence None the Richer to the Tiny Desk for some holiday cheer (and melancholy) @npr.org
youtu.be/sSY_w9odHPk?...
youtu.be/sSY_w9odHPk?...
my 2025 has been defined by the release of my debut, The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman. I'm incredibly proud of the work that went into it, & everything that has come of it. Incredibly grateful for the team at @utexaspress.bsky.social for their wholehearted support of me and this project.
December 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
my 2025 has been defined by the release of my debut, The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman. I'm incredibly proud of the work that went into it, & everything that has come of it. Incredibly grateful for the team at @utexaspress.bsky.social for their wholehearted support of me and this project.
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Thanks to Hanif Abdurraqib, Felicia Viator, Kevin Kruse, Kate Jewell, and Charles Hughes for their wonderful blurbs of my book!
December 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Thanks to Hanif Abdurraqib, Felicia Viator, Kevin Kruse, Kate Jewell, and Charles Hughes for their wonderful blurbs of my book!
Imagine bring the asshole who shows up to the function with your own corn for popping.
December 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Imagine bring the asshole who shows up to the function with your own corn for popping.
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TODAY: @raxkingisdead.bsky.social memorializes the great Rob Reiner. “It’s not just that he made so many great films; it’s that, in multiple genres, he made *the* film, the standard of its type against which others will forever be compared.” flaminghydra.com/r/5c0fb428?m...
Love story / Green day
Rax King remembers Rob Reiner; the metamorphosis of Amy Chu
flaminghydra.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:10 AM
TODAY: @raxkingisdead.bsky.social memorializes the great Rob Reiner. “It’s not just that he made so many great films; it’s that, in multiple genres, he made *the* film, the standard of its type against which others will forever be compared.” flaminghydra.com/r/5c0fb428?m...
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HARD BOILED DETECTIVE: another cruel sunrise over the city of the damned. another corpse. another widow. another cup of black coffee to drag my sorry ass back to life- *sputtering*
ME: do you like it? it's an ethiopian washed process single origin
DETECTIVE:
ME: are you getting apricot notes
ME: do you like it? it's an ethiopian washed process single origin
DETECTIVE:
ME: are you getting apricot notes
December 16, 2025 at 12:32 PM
HARD BOILED DETECTIVE: another cruel sunrise over the city of the damned. another corpse. another widow. another cup of black coffee to drag my sorry ass back to life- *sputtering*
ME: do you like it? it's an ethiopian washed process single origin
DETECTIVE:
ME: are you getting apricot notes
ME: do you like it? it's an ethiopian washed process single origin
DETECTIVE:
ME: are you getting apricot notes
peak Bluesky to name the trending topic of everyone talking about the exhaustive transphobia of the "oops all media" machine running a Harry Potter campaign as "discontent"
December 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
peak Bluesky to name the trending topic of everyone talking about the exhaustive transphobia of the "oops all media" machine running a Harry Potter campaign as "discontent"
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We’re not running out of good ideas, but the tech fetishists who have no ideas other than “but I put a lot of money and emotion into this basket” always do, and their narcissism does not allow them to consider that their failed ideas suck, and the flop sweat is palpable.
December 16, 2025 at 2:49 AM
We’re not running out of good ideas, but the tech fetishists who have no ideas other than “but I put a lot of money and emotion into this basket” always do, and their narcissism does not allow them to consider that their failed ideas suck, and the flop sweat is palpable.
someone mentions Dad Rock and my computer just turns itself on
In which writer @lukewinkie.bsky.social chronicles his favorite band becoming Dad Rock in real time. Take solace, Luke, it happens to us all, shit, I remember when U2 was the coolest fuckin' band in the world. Sooner or later, time comes for everything cool.
slate.com/culture/2025...
slate.com/culture/2025...
LCD Soundsystem Used to Be the Coolest Band In the World. How Did They Get So Cringe?
Watching the set at the Knockdown Center, I became aware that my favorite band had become unfathomably lame.
slate.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:34 PM
someone mentions Dad Rock and my computer just turns itself on
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@queerliblib.bsky.social just added “The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman” by @nikostratis.com, and I’m the least patient 43rd person in line you know.
I’m also incredibly grateful for generous elders and brave storytellers!
I’m also incredibly grateful for generous elders and brave storytellers!
December 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
@queerliblib.bsky.social just added “The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman” by @nikostratis.com, and I’m the least patient 43rd person in line you know.
I’m also incredibly grateful for generous elders and brave storytellers!
I’m also incredibly grateful for generous elders and brave storytellers!
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My best books of the year list is up on Culture Studies. Yes, it’s paywalled, but yes, Anne Helen Petersen was able to pay me fairly in return. I’m really grateful for the opportunity to put my words in front of a community of readers. www.patreon.com/posts/very-b...
The Very Best Books of the Year (According to a Professional Book Reader) | Culture Study
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December 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
My best books of the year list is up on Culture Studies. Yes, it’s paywalled, but yes, Anne Helen Petersen was able to pay me fairly in return. I’m really grateful for the opportunity to put my words in front of a community of readers. www.patreon.com/posts/very-b...
I need a SAD lamp and then a second, slightly smaller lamp that brings me down a little.
December 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I need a SAD lamp and then a second, slightly smaller lamp that brings me down a little.
Two things you can do to make your life better: get a copy of @lukeoneil47.bsky.social incredible new book We Had It Coming, and also make a helluva mixtape from this list
www.welcometohellworld.com/the-best-50i...
www.welcometohellworld.com/the-best-50i...
The best 50ish songs of 2025
Music is so good
www.welcometohellworld.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Two things you can do to make your life better: get a copy of @lukeoneil47.bsky.social incredible new book We Had It Coming, and also make a helluva mixtape from this list
www.welcometohellworld.com/the-best-50i...
www.welcometohellworld.com/the-best-50i...
Oh it's cold outside? should we tell everybody? Should we throw a party? Should we invite Parson Brown?
December 15, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Oh it's cold outside? should we tell everybody? Should we throw a party? Should we invite Parson Brown?
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i read (or listened to) a lot of books this year (a lot for me) and i am awarding my favorite book of the year to @nikostratis.com. a beautifully written, emotionally charged journey through songs and life. it absolutely touched me utpress.utexas.edu/9781477331484/
The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman
A memoir-in-essays on transness, dad rock, and the music that saves us. When Wilco’s 2007 album Sky Blue Sky was infamously criticized as “dad rock,” N...
utpress.utexas.edu
December 13, 2025 at 12:40 PM
i read (or listened to) a lot of books this year (a lot for me) and i am awarding my favorite book of the year to @nikostratis.com. a beautifully written, emotionally charged journey through songs and life. it absolutely touched me utpress.utexas.edu/9781477331484/
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Wrote a newsletter about rebuilding a Walmart overnight, exhaustion, memories of home and the holidays, and why I think "Wonderful Christmastime" is good when heard in the right place.
We're here tonight, and that's enough
“Wonderful Christmastime” is not a perfect song. It might not work on your holiday playlist, or stand proud on a list of beloved classics, but it might be that it’s not a song to be played at home wit...
www.anxietyshark.ca
December 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Wrote a newsletter about rebuilding a Walmart overnight, exhaustion, memories of home and the holidays, and why I think "Wonderful Christmastime" is good when heard in the right place.
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hey i released a book this year btw. it’s called SLOPPY and it makes a great holiday present for a little sister, open-minded rabbi, or ex-con. here’s a gift link to @alexandrajacobs.bsky.social’s review of it if you’re not sure you want to give it to the slobs in your life
Sex, Sloth and Shoplifting: Notes From a ‘Sloppy’ Girl
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
hey i released a book this year btw. it’s called SLOPPY and it makes a great holiday present for a little sister, open-minded rabbi, or ex-con. here’s a gift link to @alexandrajacobs.bsky.social’s review of it if you’re not sure you want to give it to the slobs in your life
sometimes science is good actually
Today's video answers a question I get A LOT: Why Does Coffee Make You Poop? www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZnA...
If you enjoy this (and it's a little... different to the usual thing) then do please share it!
If you enjoy this (and it's a little... different to the usual thing) then do please share it!
Why Does Coffee Make You Poop?
YouTube video by James Hoffmann
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December 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
sometimes science is good actually
read an early copy of this and really loved it, keep an eye on this one next year
For readers of Jennifer Egan and Heather O’Neill, TEMPORARY PALACES is a stunning debut that captures a generation caught between the dreams that define us and the compromises that save us. 🏚️
🔗 TEMPORARY PALACES by Jeff Miller publishes April 21st. Learn more here: houseofanansi.com/products/tem...
🔗 TEMPORARY PALACES by Jeff Miller publishes April 21st. Learn more here: houseofanansi.com/products/tem...
December 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
read an early copy of this and really loved it, keep an eye on this one next year
this isn't the point but it is funny and kind of a broader point that the focus of the subhead is "architects" and then they replaced what was, in the original photo, labourers.
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
this isn't the point but it is funny and kind of a broader point that the focus of the subhead is "architects" and then they replaced what was, in the original photo, labourers.