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Speculative fiction writer, book inhaler, and queer disabled human.
Practicing the discipline of hope 🍄‍🟫
(original phrasing Mariame Kaba’s)
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I’ve been reading through the Disabled Voices Anthology and just happened to turn to this piece today. Thank you #AliceWong for everything you’ve offered to the world.

#Disabled #Books
An excerpt from Alice Wong’s essay, “Valuing Activism of All Kinds,” in which she unpacks some difficult feelings around missing out on in person actions and needing to be part of the movement in other ways.
November 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Just a little obsessed with this song rn #TheBeaches #MusicSky
A screenshot of Did I Say Too Much by The Beaches playing in a mobile phone music player. The album art is of a pale skinned woman’s chest and shoulders from the front. She is wearing only a white bra with “no hard feelings” inked in cursive on the upper edge of one cup. Part of a tattoo is visible on the side of her arm and a strand of dark, straight hair hangs down.
June 1, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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📚🏕️ 55/100

📖: The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Historical
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 5
Thoughts: An immersive, multi-POV missing-persons tale. Featuring ‘70s summer camp vibes, dysfunctional family, young love, and not-so-subtle class commentary.

#BookSky #Mystery #GodOfTheWoods
The cover for The God of the Woods by Liz Moore features a green, brown, and blue painting of trees and sky with a pink, goopy-looking liquid dripping in a thin strand from the center top about halfway down the cover. The title and authors name fill most of the cover in a cream, all caps sans serif font that looks like it belongs on the welcome sign for a summer camp.
May 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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📚👾 54/100

📖: Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir
Genre: Sci Fi
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 5
Thoughts: a skillful, adventurous exploration of space travel and human/alien relationships. I struggled with its individualism, and with its justification of authoritarianism “for the good of humanity”.

#BookSky #SciFi
The cover of Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir centers on a small illustration of an astronaut falling backwards while tethered to a white cord projecting from his chest to the left edge of the cover. The backdrop is black with a shimmery gold brushstrokes in the upper left quadrant. The author and title text are presented in all caps white sans serif font, featuring a bold white triangle in place of the “A” in each word.
May 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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📚🪡 52/100

📖: A Short History of the US Working Class, by Paul LeBlanc
Genre: History, Politics
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 / 5
Thoughts: this was an accessible survey of US labor history that didn’t shy away from the racism and sexism of many unions. Great starter for further study.

#BookSky #LaborHistory
The cover of A Short History of the US Working Class by Paul LeBlanc features a mosaic of 9 black and white portraits of US workers of varying ages, races, genders, and occupations. These include a Black woman holding a small child, a man standing in front of a crane, a Latine man wearing a straw hat and holding a large plant, and an older white man in a hat and goggles. The title and authors name are placed in a black offset in the lower third of the book in a simple white sans serif font, along with the subtitle, which reads, From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century.
May 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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📚♟️ 51/100

📖: Intermezzo, by Sally Rooney
Genre: Literary, Contemporary
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 / 5
Thoughts: My intro to Rooney. The characters’ flaws, dysfunctional family, and bids for connection propelled me swiftly through the 400+ pages. “Help! My girlfriends are unionizing!” 😂

#BookSky #SallyRooney
The cover of Intermezzo by Sally Rooney features a yellow and grey chessboard grid with five black and white chess pieces ranged across it in a staggered row. The upside down shadow or silhouette of a person projects from below each chess piece: three women and two men. The authors name is rendered at the top of the cover in a black all caps serif font that is both angular and curvy. The novel title is placed in the same font at the bottom of the cover, beneath the chess piece silhouettes.
May 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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📚🫀 50/100

📖: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, by Alice Munro
Genre: Literary, Contemporary
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 / 5
Thoughts: a constellation of layered, melancholy character vignettes focused on the inner lives of women. I liked the first story the best.

#BookSky #AliceMunro
The cover of Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro features the title in all caps serif text in muted colors and varying indentations two thirds down the page. The author’s name is splayed in cream white all caps serif text along the bottom border of the cover. The backdrop is a rich black.
May 26, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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📚🐎 48/100

📖: Martyr!, by Kaveh Akbar
Genre: Literary, Contemporary
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.25 / 5
Thoughts: Tenderly explores the impact of racism, immigration, and trauma on one family unfolding in rich layers across multiple POVs. Zee must be protected at all costs!

#BookSky #LiteraryFiction #KavehAkbar
The cover of Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar features a curvy, bold sans serif title at the top and author’s name at the bottom against a dandelion-yellow backdrop. An illustration of a person in armor holding a curved sword sits atop a horse rearing up on hind legs in the lower left corner.
May 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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📚💐 47/100

📖: Disability Intimacy, Ed. Alice Wong
Genre: Health, Essays
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 5
Thoughts: I wasn’t ready for how deeply seen I’d feel reading these pieces. Wong is adept at pulling together a diverse tapestry of powerful writers.

#BookSky #DisabilityJustice #Disability
The cover of Disability Intimacy features a illustration of boldly colorful purple, orange, and pink flowers intertwined with each other amidst bright green leaves against a rich cream backdrop. The title is rendered in bold black sans serif font and reads: Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire edited by Alice Wong.
May 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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📚🐦 45/100

📖: This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Genre: Science Fiction, Romance
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.75 / 5
Thoughts: I wanted to enjoy this more than I did. When I forced myself to slow down and process each word, I found it really beautiful.

#BookSky #ScienceFiction
The cover of This Is How You Lose the Time War features a boldly colorful red bird across the center with an upside down blue bird positioned underneath so that their feet appear interlocked. Both photorealistic birds are spliced into 4-5 slightly misaligned segments. The title text: This is How You Lose the Time War, is rendered in a bold black italic serif font against the sky blue background. The authors’ names are placed on the top and bottom of the cover, with the top name reading Amal El-Mohtar in blue all caps serif text and the bottom name reading Max Gladstone in red all caps serif text.
May 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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📚🗡️ 42/100

📖: Being Seen by Elsa Sjunneson
Genre: Health, Memoir
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 5
Thoughts: Elsa’s vulnerability, tenacity, and strong voice make this one of the most entertaining yet substantial memoirs I’ve ever read. I learned so much.

#BookSky #HealthPolitics #DisabilityInMedia #Memoir
The cover of Being Seen by Elsa Sjunnesoj features pale gray and white text against a black backdrop. The title is spelled out in all cap sans serif font with the letter “I” in “Being” centered on the first line with light shining out of it and toward the right edge of the cover. Above the title is Elsa’s name in a similar but smaller and brighter white font, and below the title is faintly rainbow colored text that reads: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism.
May 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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📚🖼️ 41/100

📖: Fearing the Black Body, by Sabrina Strings
Genre: Health, Politics
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 5
Thoughts: A brief, readable history of healthism, beauty standards, white supremacy, and the psuedoscience of race. A great introduction, made me want to learn more!

#BookSky #HealthPolitics
The cover of Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings features an old fashioned illustration of a brown skinned woman with a very large butt surrounded by white people in fancy 1800s fashions who seem to be shying away from her. The illustration covers the upper two thirds of the book, with the lower third spelling out the title in red and teal capitals inside a grey box against a cream background. Below is the subtitle, The Racial Origins of Fatphobia, in plain black serif text, and the author’s name, Sabrina Strings, in brown sans serif capitals.
April 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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📚☠️ 40/100

📖: The Tainted Cup, by Robert Jackson Bennett
Genre: Mystery, Fantasy
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.75 / 5
Thoughts: I enjoyed the rich worldbuilding, classic mystery tropes, & political intrigue. For me, it lacked character depth and the thematic idea felt sort of tacked on.

#BookSky #Mystery #Fantasy
The cover of The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett features a gold illustration of a bunch of flowers with a skull nestled in the center of each bloom. The roots of the plant stretch down and connect to a gold chalice lying on its side. Over top of the illustration is an ornate scroll with the words “The Tainted Cup.” Around the edges of the cover is an ornate gold pattern with black silhouettes of different figures in each of the four corners. A green vine stretches out from the spine edge of the book.
April 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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📚👠 39/100

📖: Whipping Girl, by Julia Serano
Genre: Feminism, Politics, LGBTQIA+
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 / 5
Thoughts: I’ve never read such a clear, straightforward dismantling of sexist logic. This book is foundational for understanding transmysogny as it continues to rage today.

#BookSky #Feminism
The cover of Whipping Girl by Julia Serano features a bold, white, block-stamped rendering of the title words, Whipping Girl, which are stamped slightly askew and motion-blurred at the edges against a background of fire engine red. Below the title is a bright yellow box with small red text inside reading, “a transsexual woman on sexism and the scapegoating of femininity.” The authors name is printed at the bottom in a narrow, bold white text in all caps.
April 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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📚🔪 38/100

📖: Graceling, by Kristin Cashore
Genre: Fantasy, Romance
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.75 / 5
Thoughts: Everything about this book is so clearly, intentionally rendered. One of the most wholesome love stories I’ve ever read. I absolutely love rooting for Wild Katsa.

#BookSky #Graceling #Fantasy
The cover of Graceling by Kristin Cashore features an ornate dagger piercing the midline of the title text, which is rendered in curvy, bold capitals. The backdrop is a pale brown parchment faded to green at the corners with gold trim along the top and bottom edge, and red floral designs decorating the corners.
April 19, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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📚⏳ 37/100

📖: The Ministry of Time, by Kaliane Bradley
Genre: Romance, Literary, Sci Fi
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.25 / 5
Thoughts: An extremely good time. I had to forgive its flaws. The characterization is touching and vivid. The writing, while a bit snooty in places, is engrossing.

#BookSky #ScienceFiction
The cover of The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley features a large, many-colored 3D word art rendering of the title. The backdrop is a black sky with pinpoints of white stars scattered over it, and the author’s name is noted in an elegant white script in the lower right corner.
April 19, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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📚🌱 36/100

📖: The Invisible Kingdom, by Meghan O’Rourke
Genre: Memoir, Health
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 5
Thoughts: Magnificent. A vulnerable, devastating, and hopeful story of grieving, searching, and learning to build a new life as a chronically ill person.

#BookSky #ChronicIllness
The cover of The Invisible Kingdom by Meghan O’Rourke features a powder blue background with a gold line drawing of a human body made up of lines that resemble both a map of nerve networks and/or a tree growing branches and leaves. The simple black text covers the height of the book and reads, The Invisible Kingdom, Reimagining Chronic Illness, by Meghan O’Rourke.
April 19, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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📚⛓️‍💥 34/100

📖: Solitary, by Albert Woodfox
Genre: Memoir, Politics
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 5
Thoughts: Reveals the brutality of the racist criminal punishment system, and how a man survived by choosing community care. The word “inspiring” feels trite, but this book is.

#BookSky #PrisonWriting
The cover for Solitary by Albert Woodfox features a black and white closeup photo of Albert’s face, that of an elder Black man with soft eyes and a dignified smile looking off to the right. The background is white. The text is a simple sans serif block letter, which at the top of the cover in crimson says Solitary, at the bottom in black text says Albert Woodfox, and in the middle says Unbroken by four decades in solitary confinement. My story of transformation and hope. The cover also features a grey seal in the top right indicating the book is a National Book Award Finalist.
April 8, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Yall I’ve just discovered the Disability After Dark pod by @andrewgurza6.bsky.social.

Mere seconds into the intro I was SCREAMING with delight. This is the #disabled humor + joy I’ve been looking for 🥰

Also I need to read This Body Is Grief immediately I guess 🤷🏼

#Disability #DisabledJoy
A screenshot of the Disability After Dark podcast cover, a black background with simple white sans serif text reading Disability After Dark with Andrew Gurza. The episode highlighted in the screenshot is E382 This Body Is Grief w/ Jayne Mattingly
April 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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📚👔 31/100

📖: Black Ivy, by Jason Jules & Graham Marsh
Genre: Fashion, History
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 / 5
Thoughts: A visual history of Black men’s take on Ivy League fashion, anchored in the sociocultural revolution of the 1960s. Stunning photos, fascinating history.

#BookSky #FashionHistory #BlackIvy
The cover of Black Ivy, A Revolt In Style features a photo of Miles Davis wearing a soft sage green dress shirt against a bright orange backdrop.
April 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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📚🌀 30/100

📖: Neuromancer, by William Gibson
Genre: Sci-Fi, Cyberpunk
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 5
Thoughts: A feverishly rendered, thickly atmospheric tale of one man and his obsession with cool hacker shit. Also there’s a cyborg bartender.

#BookSky #SciFi #Cyberpunk #WilliamGibson
The cover for Neuromancer by William Gibson features a purple illustration of a man’s face, which is lined and grizzled. He has a bandaid on his cheek and a cigarette in his mouth. From the eyes up his face is covered by a headset with visible circuitry and wires sprouting out of the top half. One of the wires is plugged into a port in the man’s neck. The novel title and authors name are printed in all caps bright yellow text, with the purple wires sprouting from the man’s head weaving through the text of the title. The background is hot pink.
April 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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📚 ⛓️‍💥 28/100

📖: Chain-Gang All-Stars, by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Genre: Sci-Fi, Dystopian
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 5
Thoughts: somehow, through searing depictions of suffering and exploitation, this story weaves threads of intimacy, hope, and personal agency. I needed this right now.

#BookSky #Dystopian
The cover of Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei Brenyah features the title in bold block letters against a yellow orange background. A red scythe with colorful flames erupting from its tip shatters the “C” in “Chain.”
March 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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📚 💀 27/100

📖: How to Tell When We Will Die, by Johanna Hedva
Genre: Memoir, Disability, 2SLGBTQIA
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 5
Thoughts: powerful essays on oppression, grief, and enduring a world you’re not meant to survive. The pieces on disability, loss, and care resonated most.

#BookSky #Disability
The cover of Johanna Hedva’s How to Tell When We Will Die, featuring a rosy pink background, with an illustration of a human form lying face up and enduring various forms of torture enacted by disembodied hands. In a bold dark grey font the title is proclaimed, and in smaller medium weight font, it says On Pain, Disability, and Doom.
March 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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#WIPSnips “idea”

You’re in your last days, and nothing will ever get better.

You’re asked to retell how it all went wrong.

How do you respond?

#Writing #WritingCommunity
An excerpt from “The Whole World Holds Its Breath,” a short story by sadassbadass. It reads: There was an image in my mind of my parents getting onto a train and going further down the tracks, waving, going into the sun, leaving me as dusk was starting to fall, and it wrapped me in a shiver. Looking back, that seems a treacherous and arrogant thought. So do them all. I don’t want to remember.
March 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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#WIPSnips “protest” from a historic-dystopian fic.

Two university archivists begin smuggling out old censored news articles to fuel a growing resistance movement.

#dystopian #WIP
An excerpt from a short story, reading, “The only reason they get away with it,” she said, talking of one of the student protests that had happened the weekend before, “is because their parents practically made this place. Financially speaking. Physically speaking, they didn’t do shit.”
March 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM