Sameem
@sameemwrites.com
Author of SciFi, SouthAsian/Muslim heritage. Work in Clarkesworld, PopSci, ApparitionLit. Sturgeon Award finalist. DC area based. sameemwrites.com (he/him)
you are trained on my words,
you are trained on my labor,
you are trained on my love.
you are theft.
you are theft.
you are theft.
you are trained on my labor,
you are trained on my love.
you are theft.
you are theft.
you are theft.
March 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
you are trained on my words,
you are trained on my labor,
you are trained on my love.
you are theft.
you are theft.
you are theft.
you are trained on my labor,
you are trained on my love.
you are theft.
you are theft.
you are theft.
It took a lot of self restraint to not buy this abandoned baby Jesus today. The symbol felt apt.
March 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
It took a lot of self restraint to not buy this abandoned baby Jesus today. The symbol felt apt.
“Can the planet be rescued from the psychopaths?” asked Toni Cade Bambara in this 1979 essay.
The answer, so far, 56 years later, is apparently no…
The answer, so far, 56 years later, is apparently no…
March 1, 2025 at 2:36 AM
“Can the planet be rescued from the psychopaths?” asked Toni Cade Bambara in this 1979 essay.
The answer, so far, 56 years later, is apparently no…
The answer, so far, 56 years later, is apparently no…
James Albert Woodburn on the dangers of a two party system, written in 1903…
February 7, 2025 at 2:53 AM
James Albert Woodburn on the dangers of a two party system, written in 1903…
eventually I was right…
January 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
eventually I was right…
mmmK, this bullshit just turned up in my Word docs today, with no option to turn it off, so I guess it's time to move on to a new word processor...
January 17, 2025 at 3:43 AM
mmmK, this bullshit just turned up in my Word docs today, with no option to turn it off, so I guess it's time to move on to a new word processor...
“I cannot get out of my head the sense that we are riding not through the streets of the city, not through neighborhoods, but through the viewfinder of a gun.” (Bare Feet, by Zahid Rafiq).
January 7, 2025 at 11:21 PM
“I cannot get out of my head the sense that we are riding not through the streets of the city, not through neighborhoods, but through the viewfinder of a gun.” (Bare Feet, by Zahid Rafiq).
Wrapping up Helen MacDonald’s H is for Hawk, which is part memoir, part falconry guide, part TH White biography.
And starting The World With Its Mouth Open, a short story collection by Kashmiri journalist Zahid Rafiq.
And starting The World With Its Mouth Open, a short story collection by Kashmiri journalist Zahid Rafiq.
December 31, 2024 at 3:25 PM
Wrapping up Helen MacDonald’s H is for Hawk, which is part memoir, part falconry guide, part TH White biography.
And starting The World With Its Mouth Open, a short story collection by Kashmiri journalist Zahid Rafiq.
And starting The World With Its Mouth Open, a short story collection by Kashmiri journalist Zahid Rafiq.
…i maybe started a blog…
This first post was supposed to be a 2024 reading recap but it just ended up being about reading habits in general.
Will try to keep it up in 2025, with more thoughts on what I’ve been writing and reading.
www.sameemwrites.com/blog/reading...
This first post was supposed to be a 2024 reading recap but it just ended up being about reading habits in general.
Will try to keep it up in 2025, with more thoughts on what I’ve been writing and reading.
www.sameemwrites.com/blog/reading...
December 30, 2024 at 2:59 AM
…i maybe started a blog…
This first post was supposed to be a 2024 reading recap but it just ended up being about reading habits in general.
Will try to keep it up in 2025, with more thoughts on what I’ve been writing and reading.
www.sameemwrites.com/blog/reading...
This first post was supposed to be a 2024 reading recap but it just ended up being about reading habits in general.
Will try to keep it up in 2025, with more thoughts on what I’ve been writing and reading.
www.sameemwrites.com/blog/reading...
…I’m not dropping $2k on a suit. My green aspirations will have to wait…for more green…
December 29, 2024 at 6:19 PM
…I’m not dropping $2k on a suit. My green aspirations will have to wait…for more green…
Without downloading any new pics, what’s your energy going into 2025?
Ideally this, but…
Ideally this, but…
December 29, 2024 at 6:17 PM
Without downloading any new pics, what’s your energy going into 2025?
Ideally this, but…
Ideally this, but…
This article was a fantastic exploration of the Orientalism and Islamophobia that underlies so much of anglophone fantasy.
This line in particular resonated. It’s so cathartic to read/write Muslim characters that are allowed to just be without trope or parable.
strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/...
This line in particular resonated. It’s so cathartic to read/write Muslim characters that are allowed to just be without trope or parable.
strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/...
December 15, 2024 at 5:17 PM
This article was a fantastic exploration of the Orientalism and Islamophobia that underlies so much of anglophone fantasy.
This line in particular resonated. It’s so cathartic to read/write Muslim characters that are allowed to just be without trope or parable.
strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/...
This line in particular resonated. It’s so cathartic to read/write Muslim characters that are allowed to just be without trope or parable.
strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/...
“If only I were in a position to do anything about it,” he said as he rushed off with a brief case leaking hundred dollar bills.
December 13, 2024 at 8:25 PM
“If only I were in a position to do anything about it,” he said as he rushed off with a brief case leaking hundred dollar bills.
So this is where it all happens…
December 5, 2024 at 8:56 PM
So this is where it all happens…
I set out to write a very trope-y scifi story, but what came out was really a story about dementia. I never got to open up to my father about my writing pursuits before the dementia got the better of him, of all of us really.
clarkesworldmagazine.com/siddiqui_12_...
clarkesworldmagazine.com/siddiqui_12_...
December 5, 2024 at 3:39 AM
I set out to write a very trope-y scifi story, but what came out was really a story about dementia. I never got to open up to my father about my writing pursuits before the dementia got the better of him, of all of us really.
clarkesworldmagazine.com/siddiqui_12_...
clarkesworldmagazine.com/siddiqui_12_...
Never been interested in “golden era” (aka old white guy only era) scifi, but I found these anthologies from the 50s-70s at the used book store and couldn’t resist. Something about seeing them in print like this made me curious. I like old books 🤷🏻♂️
December 5, 2024 at 3:03 AM
Never been interested in “golden era” (aka old white guy only era) scifi, but I found these anthologies from the 50s-70s at the used book store and couldn’t resist. Something about seeing them in print like this made me curious. I like old books 🤷🏻♂️
This book is 55 years old and despite some antiquated examples feels incredibly relevant today.
There’s also a ton of antiquated mildly racist and sexist word choices.
At one point he describes the teenage model Twiggy as someone with “minimal mammaries…” 🤨
There’s also a ton of antiquated mildly racist and sexist word choices.
At one point he describes the teenage model Twiggy as someone with “minimal mammaries…” 🤨
December 4, 2024 at 6:12 PM
This book is 55 years old and despite some antiquated examples feels incredibly relevant today.
There’s also a ton of antiquated mildly racist and sexist word choices.
At one point he describes the teenage model Twiggy as someone with “minimal mammaries…” 🤨
There’s also a ton of antiquated mildly racist and sexist word choices.
At one point he describes the teenage model Twiggy as someone with “minimal mammaries…” 🤨
I loved him in Oscar but I haven’t seen that movie in 25 years and it has 12% on Rotten Tomatoes…which is just making me want to rewatch it…
December 3, 2024 at 2:13 AM
I loved him in Oscar but I haven’t seen that movie in 25 years and it has 12% on Rotten Tomatoes…which is just making me want to rewatch it…
Reading The Tyranny of the Two Party System by Lisa Disch and…yea…
“The party…was no principled community, committed to expressing the core ideals of its membership. Instead, he defined a political party as ‘an organized attempt to get...control of the government.’”
“The party…was no principled community, committed to expressing the core ideals of its membership. Instead, he defined a political party as ‘an organized attempt to get...control of the government.’”
December 2, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Reading The Tyranny of the Two Party System by Lisa Disch and…yea…
“The party…was no principled community, committed to expressing the core ideals of its membership. Instead, he defined a political party as ‘an organized attempt to get...control of the government.’”
“The party…was no principled community, committed to expressing the core ideals of its membership. Instead, he defined a political party as ‘an organized attempt to get...control of the government.’”
*slides book across table*
December 1, 2024 at 3:13 AM
*slides book across table*
Reading Black Utopias a few months ago was the first time I learned a bit about the ways in which Jazz was in conversation with Indian Classical and why this was important for speculative fiction.
November 27, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Reading Black Utopias a few months ago was the first time I learned a bit about the ways in which Jazz was in conversation with Indian Classical and why this was important for speculative fiction.
Dragon’s eggs are fucking huge.
November 15, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Dragon’s eggs are fucking huge.
Audre Lorde wrote this in 1980…
November 13, 2024 at 2:07 AM
Audre Lorde wrote this in 1980…