Joy P(hD)
@oldjoy.bsky.social
Writing things.
troubled teens and other heroes.
health and health care research: incarceration, substance use, Medicaid, Medicare.
sociology throughout.
troubled teens and other heroes.
health and health care research: incarceration, substance use, Medicaid, Medicare.
sociology throughout.
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We’re doing what we can in Durham
In Durham, North Carolina, neighbors are protecting neighbors from ICE: ‘We care for each other’
Community members have stepped up with carpools, food deliveries, school patrols and policy advocacy
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:29 PM
We’re doing what we can in Durham
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"Schweblin is a modern master of uncanny fiction, and she subtly, dreadfully parades around among the literary in these six stories." Zachary Gillan on Samanta Schweblin’s “Good and Evil and Other Stories." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/parading-around-among-the-living-like-nothing-happened/
October 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
"Schweblin is a modern master of uncanny fiction, and she subtly, dreadfully parades around among the literary in these six stories." Zachary Gillan on Samanta Schweblin’s “Good and Evil and Other Stories." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/parading-around-among-the-living-like-nothing-happened/
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Up now at the Los Angeles Review of Books, my review of Samanta Schweblin’s excellent Good and Evil and Other Stories! The affect of art-dread! Genre haunting literature! Hauntings without ghosts! Doublings without doppelgängers! lareviewofbooks.org/article/para...
Parading Around Among the Living Like Nothing Happened | Los Angeles Review of Books
Zachary Gillan explores Samanta Schweblin’s “Good and Evil and Other Stories,” translated by Megan McDowell.
lareviewofbooks.org
October 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Up now at the Los Angeles Review of Books, my review of Samanta Schweblin’s excellent Good and Evil and Other Stories! The affect of art-dread! Genre haunting literature! Hauntings without ghosts! Doublings without doppelgängers! lareviewofbooks.org/article/para...
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Have kids, don’t have kids, that’s your prerogative, it’s weird for other people to have opinions about it. “I don’t like kids” / “I don’t want to be around kids” is a fucked up, unacceptable position.
August 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Have kids, don’t have kids, that’s your prerogative, it’s weird for other people to have opinions about it. “I don’t like kids” / “I don’t want to be around kids” is a fucked up, unacceptable position.
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Compared to the general population, unhoused people are held in jail for 3.5x as long, despite typically being charged with the lowest level crimes
It’s safe to assume that unaffordable cash bail is to blame. No one should have to stay behind bars because they can't afford bail
It’s safe to assume that unaffordable cash bail is to blame. No one should have to stay behind bars because they can't afford bail
July 13, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Compared to the general population, unhoused people are held in jail for 3.5x as long, despite typically being charged with the lowest level crimes
It’s safe to assume that unaffordable cash bail is to blame. No one should have to stay behind bars because they can't afford bail
It’s safe to assume that unaffordable cash bail is to blame. No one should have to stay behind bars because they can't afford bail
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Since the dawn of time, humankind has yearned to know what the difference is between weird fiction and horror. www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/t...
The H Word: The Profane Illumination of the Weird - Nightmare Magazine
Weird fiction, it seems, is having a moment in the zeitgeist; horror, we’re told, is also having a moment in the zeitgeist. It isn’t surprising, given the state of the world, that these two modes are ...
www.nightmare-magazine.com
July 9, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Since the dawn of time, humankind has yearned to know what the difference is between weird fiction and horror. www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/t...
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I know there are mutual aid requests everywhere right now, but: this kid is renting a garage apartment from a neighbor of mine this summer and got kidnapped by ICE while visiting his family in Georgia. Please donate to his legal fund if you’re able. www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...
Donate to Stand with Erick Machado: Legal Fund, organized by Rachel Adams Hewitt
On June 26, Erick Machado was taken into custody by ICE. We are raising funds… Rachel Adams Hewitt needs your support for Stand with Erick Machado: Legal Fund
www.gofundme.com
July 2, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I know there are mutual aid requests everywhere right now, but: this kid is renting a garage apartment from a neighbor of mine this summer and got kidnapped by ICE while visiting his family in Georgia. Please donate to his legal fund if you’re able. www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...
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I've been threatening for a while to start a column on collections of weird fiction, and so: Profane Illuminations, a quarterly series where I'll look at a few in tandem and see what threads I can draw out about their stories and the genre at large. Quick intro here, first full entry next week.
Profane Illuminations: An Initiation
Zachary Gillan Everyone knows that the short story is the ideal form for weird fiction. But why? What is it about the form and the genre that makes them so symbiotic? What might we learn by explori…
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
June 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I've been threatening for a while to start a column on collections of weird fiction, and so: Profane Illuminations, a quarterly series where I'll look at a few in tandem and see what threads I can draw out about their stories and the genre at large. Quick intro here, first full entry next week.
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Well, well, well, if it isn't the consequences of our own actions at ARB
The #IgnyteAwards finalists for the Critics Award are individuals or entities recognized for reviews and analysis of the field of speculative literature. Congratulations to these critics:
June 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Well, well, well, if it isn't the consequences of our own actions at ARB
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Some thoughts on the reading of weird fiction as a metaphor for radical awakening in an era of morbid symptoms
Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism: @megapolisomancy.bsky.social on the radical possibilities of unsettling literature & theory.
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/05/02/r...
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/05/02/r...
Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism
Zachary Gillan I have been thinking, for obvious reasons, about living in a world of reactionary politics, and about the political valences of the irreal, and about ARB’s insistence upon the radica…
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
May 2, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Some thoughts on the reading of weird fiction as a metaphor for radical awakening in an era of morbid symptoms
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America is wearing me OUT. My nervous system is absolutely fried.
April 17, 2025 at 7:47 PM
America is wearing me OUT. My nervous system is absolutely fried.
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I'm ready to throw 100% of my support behind the politician who is freaking the fuck out.
April 15, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I'm ready to throw 100% of my support behind the politician who is freaking the fuck out.
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Not enough people talk about growing into adulthood, expecting to discover that your childhood assessments of adults were way off course, only to find that your ten and eleven year old self were right the whole time.
April 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Not enough people talk about growing into adulthood, expecting to discover that your childhood assessments of adults were way off course, only to find that your ten and eleven year old self were right the whole time.
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Preorder my “great” foreword and Undertow will even throw in some @thomasha.bsky.social stories, as a treat
April 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Preorder my “great” foreword and Undertow will even throw in some @thomasha.bsky.social stories, as a treat
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Heartbreaking flash essay by Casey Mulligan Walsh ( @caseymulliganwalsh.bsky.social) via @short-reads.org (& originally published in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social). www.short-reads.org/still/
Still
by Casey Mulligan Walsh | Knowing yet not knowing.
www.short-reads.org
April 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Heartbreaking flash essay by Casey Mulligan Walsh ( @caseymulliganwalsh.bsky.social) via @short-reads.org (& originally published in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social). www.short-reads.org/still/
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I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.
April 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.
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Bringing home every person sent to El Salvador and Guantanamo is the only way to change the brutal trajectory we are on
Yet ANOTHER story of a Venezuelan man ripped away from his family in the U.S. because of his tattoos; in this case a tattoo of a rose and a tattoo of a crown.
It’s been three weeks and his wife and kids have no idea what’s happened to him. Like others, El Salvador is holding him incommunicado.
It’s been three weeks and his wife and kids have no idea what’s happened to him. Like others, El Salvador is holding him incommunicado.
April 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Bringing home every person sent to El Salvador and Guantanamo is the only way to change the brutal trajectory we are on
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Israeli forces killed Palestinian rescue workers in Gaza’s Rafah, firing on one ambulance after another. The Red Crescent wants an international probe.
So who were the medics Israel ambushed on March 23?
🔗: aje.io/fwi3yj
So who were the medics Israel ambushed on March 23?
🔗: aje.io/fwi3yj
April 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Israeli forces killed Palestinian rescue workers in Gaza’s Rafah, firing on one ambulance after another. The Red Crescent wants an international probe.
So who were the medics Israel ambushed on March 23?
🔗: aje.io/fwi3yj
So who were the medics Israel ambushed on March 23?
🔗: aje.io/fwi3yj
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You've likely already seen some of us shouting, but we're still very excited to share: ARB is a Hugo finalist for fanzine!
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/04/08/2...
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/04/08/2...
2025 Hugo Finalist Announcement
Exciting news! The Ancillary Review of Books is a finalist for the 2025 Hugo Awards, in the Best Fanzine category! It’s extremely gratifying to see the work we’re doing recognized, and to feel like…
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
April 9, 2025 at 12:43 AM
You've likely already seen some of us shouting, but we're still very excited to share: ARB is a Hugo finalist for fanzine!
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/04/08/2...
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/04/08/2...
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(It’s also wrong to send Americans and/or non-Americans to inhumane domestic prisons, crime or not)
April 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
(It’s also wrong to send Americans and/or non-Americans to inhumane domestic prisons, crime or not)
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NEW: The shuttered DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties “was one of the very few tools we had to check ICE, to hold ICE accountable,” immigration lawyer Sophia Genovese said. “Now you see them speeding to complete authoritarianism.”
By @davidmcswane.bsky.social & @hannahallam.bsky.social
By @davidmcswane.bsky.social & @hannahallam.bsky.social
“They Don’t Care About Civil Rights”: Trump’s Shuttering of DHS Oversight Arm Freezes 600 Cases, Imperils Human Rights
The closure of the 150-person office, which protected the civil rights of both immigrants and U.S. citizens, strips Homeland Security of its internal guardrails as the Trump administration turns DHS i...
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April 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
NEW: The shuttered DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties “was one of the very few tools we had to check ICE, to hold ICE accountable,” immigration lawyer Sophia Genovese said. “Now you see them speeding to complete authoritarianism.”
By @davidmcswane.bsky.social & @hannahallam.bsky.social
By @davidmcswane.bsky.social & @hannahallam.bsky.social