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Niko Stratis
@nikostratis.com
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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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the cover of a book, text reads the dad rock that made me a woman Niko Stratis
November 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Text in the Zohran font that reads one two three for five everybody in the car so come on let’s ride, which is the opening to Mano no 5 by Lou Bega
November 9, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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This one
A post that reads I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too, then a photo of lunch with the text fix your hearts or die overtop
November 8, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Happy release day to our beautiful little book about Sex, and The City. Also the irreversible damage hole on the cover, art by the beautifully talented @mattielubchansky.com, is a fun little craft you can do at home, on the bus, or the workplace. All you need is a knife and a can do attitude.
a book called sex change and the city, edited by Tuck Woodstock and Niko Stratis. the cover has a cartoon image of Carrie from SATC getting splashed by water from a bus, she has an irreversible damage hole
November 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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good morning
a still from the music video for the Ted Leo song "Bottled in Cork", where a man with long hair is dressed as a priest, text says he died because he didn't believe in the power of punk
November 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Thrilled to say that I'll be at the Shivering songs festival in Fredericton in January 2026, reading from my book The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman accompanied by my dear friends in the Burning Hell.

Tix on sale now, come hang out: www.shiveringsongs.com
a poster for the festival Shivering Songs, which runs January 22-25 of 2026. A photo of someone in a sweater pulling it up over their head, with the lineup below that reads: Amy Millan, Ben Vallee, The Burning Hell, Caged Animals, Canada.gov.ca, Charlotte Cornfield, Coyote, Dan Mangan, FUZE orchestra with wolf castle, knitting, Logan Richard, the mcmillans camp boys ,mo Kenny, Niko Stratis, Sunday brunch the hypochondriacs quarter, Toledo, wild pink and more an image that says shivering songs, January 22-25 2026, with a photo of a woman with glasses and white hair wearing a leopard print sweater next to an organ. it says Niko Stratis, Friday January 23 underneath.
November 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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i like when they cut to the manager and he’s got dying-inside eyes
The meme of Hayao Miyazaki stressed out, glasses on his head, unlit dart in his mouth
November 2, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Rude to send me this at 10 am
a screenshot of my gmail inbox from Oasis that says Wonderwall is 30!
October 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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"1789 was the worst year in the history of popular music"
F Murray Abraham as Salieri in the movie Amadeus
October 30, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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losing my mind at this
a series of photos, on the left, handwritten notes, in the middle a candle, on the right a typewriter.
October 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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I don’t really do the comparison photo thing anymore, but I found this shirt in a pile the other day and it’s what I was wearing in the last photo I took before I came out, just after Halloween about 8 years ago. Funny to think I used to have so little in my bathroom.
A man on the left with unkempt brown hair wearing a black and white striped shirt. On the right, a woman with long grey hair wears the same shirt. She has so much more shit in her bathroom than the man on the left.
October 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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I’m very excited to report it is long jacket weather at last, when I can dress like I’m going to a business-casual funeral every day
A woman dressed in all black, jeans, shirt, long coat, standing in front of a mirror. She has grey hair and sunglasses on
October 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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this is the best pep talk in the world
Tracy Jordan from 30 rock talking to a pigeon on a car. He's saying "stop eatin peoples old French-fries, pigeon, have some self respect, don't you know you can fly?"
October 20, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Just reading about the heist at the Louvre and hear me out:
The hamburger from McDonalds , wearing a black and white horizontal stipe jumped and red gloves, shows and a long tie
October 19, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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I've never felt more seen in a post. Impossible to narrow it down, but top of mind are Blow It Out Your Ass it's Veruca Salt, their Steve Albini-produced EP. Also Juliana Hatfield's Only Everything. Also Stakes is High, my favourite De La record. There simply too many to choose.
the cover of Blow it out your ass it's Veruca Salt, with the four band members wearing outfits made of toilet paper on a satin backdrop. the cover for the Juliana Hatfield record Only Everything. with a buffalo painted in psych abstract colours
October 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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For reference, here's Bowie, our dog who found a ball in a parking lot and immediately punctured it and also him sitting to prove he's a good boy.
a dog with short little legs standing on concrete. He's brown with black on the ridge and sides, like a German Sheppard. He also has corgi proportions. He's holding a blue ball in his mouth that's clearly deflated. He's very proud of himself despite the ball being functionally useless now. a brown and black dog sitting on the grass in a park, with his ears standing at attention. He's held in place by a black leash.
October 15, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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love this section of the plot for the children’s video game Luigi’s Mansion, where Luigi is trapped in a house as penance for the ghosts he has killed with his brother who is a held on a sacrificial altar in a secret basement.
King Boo subsequently sent the false notification of Luigi winning the mansion to lure the Mario Bros. into a trap in retaliation for the Boos they defeated in the past. Working his way through each of the darkened floors, halls, and locked rooms, Luigi recaptures the escaped ghosts and discovers that Mario has been trapped inside of a painting by King Boo and held captive in a secret ritualistic altar in the mansion's basement. While recapturing the last
October 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Trying to be online less. went to see one of my favorite bands last night - Grandaddy, and then made a nice meal today and if online was like going with friends to a show and then making a little meal I think I would like it so much better. if the mods could get on that
A very far away photograph of a band, Grandaddy, on a stage lit by purple and blue lights. The room is dark. It’s not a great photo, but it’s a proof of life photo
October 12, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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you don't say!
Greenstone said some of their most supportive commenters online are conservative. “It’s a safe package for them,” she said.
October 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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The Washing Post just discovered beards
He’s gay. She’s straight. They’re happily married. Meet the couples who are redefining what it means to be in a relationship, including those in gay-straight and same-sex platonic marriages. By Shane O’Neill
October 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Celebrate prime day by buying my book from Bookshop dot org (with free shipping and a little discount) or your fave indie bookstore.

Fuck Jeff Bezos, books don't need him.

Bookshop dot org: is.gd/iMcYEA
a book, with a blue cover and gradient red to yellow font that reads the dad rock that made me a woman by Niko Stratis. it's sitting on a wooden tabletop, behind it are records and a lamp and whatnot.
October 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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a bar that reads top, latest, people, feeds. below it, text reads no results found for people being normal
October 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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the first time the Hamburgler was introduced, McDonalds called him "The Lone Jogger" which makes him sound like the guy who served time for trying to assassinate Mayor McCheese
a man with a white shirt that says lone jogger, over stripped clothes, wearing a cape and a. hat with an eye mask. an early version of the McDonalds hamburgler.
October 8, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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the most affirmed I have felt in my career in a minute is getting back to back spam emails about - helping to market my book and promoting myself as a podcast guest based on my appearance on a show I co-host
heard you on The OC, Again Inbox Neal Shulman <neal@thepodpitch.com> 2:07 PM (12 minutes ago) to me Niko - loved your recent appearance on The OC, Again! Here's what most people don't know: top-tier podcast guests aren't just lucky. They have systems. PodPitch is that system. Instead of cold-emailing random hosts and hoping for the best, our platform: Your The Dad Rock That Made Me A Woman in Foreword Clarion Reviews – Congratulations! Inbox Marjorie Malimpenet <marjorie@outreach.quaderer.com> Unsubscribe 2:03 PM (17 minutes ago) to me Images in this message are hidden. This message appears suspicious. Don't show the images unless you trust the sender and the message. Show imagesReport spam Hi Niko - I recently came across your book, The Dad Rock That Made Me A Woman, in Foreword Clarion Reviews. Congratulations! While writing a book is a monumental achievement, promoting it is where the real journey begins. With over 3,400 books published every day, it's crucial to ensure your book stands out and reaches the right audience.
October 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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"was this extremely famous trans woman a real person? Cosmopolitan puts on their reporter hats"

Ryan Murphy needs to have his laptop taken away so he can't make more of these things
The series includes a plotline on Gein's growing obsession with Jorgensen – but was Christine Jorgensen a real person? And was Ed Gein really fixated on her? We detail the true facts...
October 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM