Jasmine Sawers
@sawers.bsky.social
Mixed (gender)queer Thai American writer. Author of THE ANCHORED WORLD, finalist for the 2023 PEN/Bingham Award for Debut Short Story Collection. Senior editor at SmokeLong Quarterly. Kundiman and Lambda fellow. Fiction editor at Blanket Gravity. They/them
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Part of what keeps America so violent is the insistence that people perform care, empty goodness and absolution for white men who espouse hatred and violence.
September 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Part of what keeps America so violent is the insistence that people perform care, empty goodness and absolution for white men who espouse hatred and violence.
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I have no idea what white people are talking about right now. The warnings that the fascists will "use this" to do more violence. WHAT WON'T THEY USE? You've watched them deploy the US military on US soil using bullshit pretexts. What even are you talking about?
September 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I have no idea what white people are talking about right now. The warnings that the fascists will "use this" to do more violence. WHAT WON'T THEY USE? You've watched them deploy the US military on US soil using bullshit pretexts. What even are you talking about?
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“There is no place for political violence in this country” say the politicians using legislation and rhetoric to attack trans people, immigrants, women and BIPOC daily. Just because it’s done with a pen and not a gun doesn’t mean it’s not political violence. Hypocrites. Not that they care.
September 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
“There is no place for political violence in this country” say the politicians using legislation and rhetoric to attack trans people, immigrants, women and BIPOC daily. Just because it’s done with a pen and not a gun doesn’t mean it’s not political violence. Hypocrites. Not that they care.
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“Your uterus,” she announces, “is not happy.”
“I know,” I admit. “I have been sensing its unhappiness.”
New @kathyfish.bsky.social is always a delight. I love this one, especially the use of dialogue and humour. SO GOOD AS ALWAYS! A must read.
“I know,” I admit. “I have been sensing its unhappiness.”
New @kathyfish.bsky.social is always a delight. I love this one, especially the use of dialogue and humour. SO GOOD AS ALWAYS! A must read.
I was thinking recently about how much I missed writing dialogue. This piece I wrote for the "my body, my choice" inaugural issue of Hot Flash Literary uses lots of dialogue and is very short. I'd love for you to read it and the whole amazing debut issue! 💙
hotflashliterary.com/wyoming/
hotflashliterary.com/wyoming/
Wyoming - Hot Flash Literary
It’s the time of the Great Evacuation. That’s what my friend Jess calls it. I’ve been bleeding all over the place. My body is emptying itself out. It’s undignified. And painful. Out for coffee with J...
hotflashliterary.com
September 6, 2025 at 7:50 AM
“Your uterus,” she announces, “is not happy.”
“I know,” I admit. “I have been sensing its unhappiness.”
New @kathyfish.bsky.social is always a delight. I love this one, especially the use of dialogue and humour. SO GOOD AS ALWAYS! A must read.
“I know,” I admit. “I have been sensing its unhappiness.”
New @kathyfish.bsky.social is always a delight. I love this one, especially the use of dialogue and humour. SO GOOD AS ALWAYS! A must read.
Wow so Earthlings. Read it in one sitting. I have to say I liked it leagues better than Convenience Store Woman, but I could see the thematic throughline between them easily.
September 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Wow so Earthlings. Read it in one sitting. I have to say I liked it leagues better than Convenience Store Woman, but I could see the thematic throughline between them easily.
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This enormously pernicious and no one should still be on Substack - not just because of the Nazis, but for sheer practical business reasons.
Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business
August 31, 2025 at 10:24 PM
This enormously pernicious and no one should still be on Substack - not just because of the Nazis, but for sheer practical business reasons.
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"All Your Fragile History" by @sawers.bsky.social won second place in The Smokey in 2020, went on to be a finalist for Best of the Net and was included in Flash Fiction America. The 2025 Smokey deadline is May 10! www.smokelong.com/stories/all-...
All Your Fragile History - SmokeLong Quarterly
I got this DNA test for my dog because he looks like a cloud and he looks like a luckdragon and he looks like something your lint roller picked up when you banged it around under the couch for the fir...
www.smokelong.com
April 29, 2025 at 8:11 PM
"All Your Fragile History" by @sawers.bsky.social won second place in The Smokey in 2020, went on to be a finalist for Best of the Net and was included in Flash Fiction America. The 2025 Smokey deadline is May 10! www.smokelong.com/stories/all-...
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For anyone aware of the tragedy at Vancouver Lapu Lapu festival, here's a thread of GoFundMe's available to help support the many victims. (copy pasted from my friend 'J' in the Vancouver Filipino community)
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April 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
For anyone aware of the tragedy at Vancouver Lapu Lapu festival, here's a thread of GoFundMe's available to help support the many victims. (copy pasted from my friend 'J' in the Vancouver Filipino community)
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Long have the people cried out for this justice, “when, when, o god,” they ask “when will men be allowed to write books?”
Novelist and critic judecook_ has launched Conduit Books, a new independent press that will publish literary fiction and memoir, “focusing initially on male authors” 👇 #BookSky
New indie press Conduit Books launches with 'initial focus on male authors'
Novelist and critic Jude Cook has launched Conduit Books, a new independent press that will publish literary fiction and memoir, “focussing initially on male authors”.
www.thebookseller.com
April 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Long have the people cried out for this justice, “when, when, o god,” they ask “when will men be allowed to write books?”
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Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies.
Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.
Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.
April 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies.
Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.
Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.
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A class action lawsuit is underway. If your work was pirated to train AI, you are included in the lawsuit without having to take any action.
A class action lawsuit is underway. If your work was pirated to train AI, you are included in the lawsuit without having to take any action.
Meta's Massive AI Training Book Heist: What Authors Need to Know - The Authors Guild
Today, The Atlantic published a search tool that allows authors to check if their works are in LibGen, an illegal pirate site AI companies copied for their AI systems. This is a similar tool to the on...
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March 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
authorsguild.org/news/meta-li...
A class action lawsuit is underway. If your work was pirated to train AI, you are included in the lawsuit without having to take any action.
A class action lawsuit is underway. If your work was pirated to train AI, you are included in the lawsuit without having to take any action.
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Send a formal notice: If your books are in the LibGen dataset, send a letter to Meta and other AI companies stating they do not have the right to use your books.
Here is a template you can use. actionnetwork.org/letters/auth...
Here is a template you can use. actionnetwork.org/letters/auth...
Tell AI Companies They Do Not Have the Right to Use Your Work
I just sent a letter telling AI companies they do not not have the right to use my work. Use the Authors Guild's letter template to send your own.
actionnetwork.org
March 21, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Send a formal notice: If your books are in the LibGen dataset, send a letter to Meta and other AI companies stating they do not have the right to use your books.
Here is a template you can use. actionnetwork.org/letters/auth...
Here is a template you can use. actionnetwork.org/letters/auth...
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Is your book on the LibGen list? Let us know.
Meta considered licensing books to train AI—but opted instead to pirate LibGen, a database that currently contains more than 7.5 million books and 81 million research papers, Alex Reisner writes.
The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.
www.theatlantic.com
March 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Is your book on the LibGen list? Let us know.
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Like so many others, my work has been illegally uploaded into Meta’s LibGen to train AI. Does anyone know if there has been a class action lawsuit filed yet? What can be done?
March 21, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Like so many others, my work has been illegally uploaded into Meta’s LibGen to train AI. Does anyone know if there has been a class action lawsuit filed yet? What can be done?
Like so many others, my work has been illegally uploaded into Meta’s LibGen to train AI. Does anyone know if there has been a class action lawsuit filed yet? What can be done?
March 21, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Like so many others, my work has been illegally uploaded into Meta’s LibGen to train AI. Does anyone know if there has been a class action lawsuit filed yet? What can be done?
Does anyone have any recommendations for speculative nonfiction books or essays?
February 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Does anyone have any recommendations for speculative nonfiction books or essays?
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The most horrifying slide from today’s National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) organization grant webinar, imo
February 18, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The most horrifying slide from today’s National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) organization grant webinar, imo
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When ordered by Nazis to give lists of disabled people by disability severity, some doctors sent back exaggerated data to protect patients from forced work
They didn't know that the "most disabled" were to be killed first
The moral here isn't to tell the truth
It's to never co-operate with Nazis
They didn't know that the "most disabled" were to be killed first
The moral here isn't to tell the truth
It's to never co-operate with Nazis
February 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
When ordered by Nazis to give lists of disabled people by disability severity, some doctors sent back exaggerated data to protect patients from forced work
They didn't know that the "most disabled" were to be killed first
The moral here isn't to tell the truth
It's to never co-operate with Nazis
They didn't know that the "most disabled" were to be killed first
The moral here isn't to tell the truth
It's to never co-operate with Nazis
Per the webinar today: the answer is there is no point in applying. They are rolling over for these extralegal anti-“D/E/I” measures and, what’s more, forcing any recipient to sign a contract promising not to engage in any D/E/I activities for decades.
Real talk: Is it worth applying to the NEA now? These processes are always so opaque but I wonder who’s in charge of reading apps and granting these awards now because if actual NEA people I bet my work is fine. If ultra conservative shitbags, then what’s the point of expending the energy to apply?
February 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Per the webinar today: the answer is there is no point in applying. They are rolling over for these extralegal anti-“D/E/I” measures and, what’s more, forcing any recipient to sign a contract promising not to engage in any D/E/I activities for decades.
Real talk: Is it worth applying to the NEA now? These processes are always so opaque but I wonder who’s in charge of reading apps and granting these awards now because if actual NEA people I bet my work is fine. If ultra conservative shitbags, then what’s the point of expending the energy to apply?
February 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Real talk: Is it worth applying to the NEA now? These processes are always so opaque but I wonder who’s in charge of reading apps and granting these awards now because if actual NEA people I bet my work is fine. If ultra conservative shitbags, then what’s the point of expending the energy to apply?
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we are depriving generations of kids of the formative experience of stumbling upon some weird horny sci-fi or fantasy book that was absolutely not written for them, which is the kind of thing that makes reading feel exhilarating, like you are unlocking the grownup world’s fun secrets
"well as long as it's age appropriate" no fuck you guys actually, i read adult books when i was 12 and now i'm weird as hell, as i SHOULD be
February 11, 2025 at 5:59 AM
we are depriving generations of kids of the formative experience of stumbling upon some weird horny sci-fi or fantasy book that was absolutely not written for them, which is the kind of thing that makes reading feel exhilarating, like you are unlocking the grownup world’s fun secrets
I’ll never forget working in the library and having one kid spontaneously monologue to me about how great Wimpy Kid was. At the end he declared that all the kids who said they didn’t like books hadn’t read THIS book!That enthusiasm comes from getting to connect with stories on your own terms.
February 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I’ll never forget working in the library and having one kid spontaneously monologue to me about how great Wimpy Kid was. At the end he declared that all the kids who said they didn’t like books hadn’t read THIS book!That enthusiasm comes from getting to connect with stories on your own terms.
Every day I wake up and pretend I’m gonna get started writing before 10am
January 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Every day I wake up and pretend I’m gonna get started writing before 10am
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@sawers.bsky.social's collection The Anchored World is full of flash fairytales that pack an incredible punch
January 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
@sawers.bsky.social's collection The Anchored World is full of flash fairytales that pack an incredible punch
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putting " -ai " at the end of every google search will get rid of google's AI Overview, even on your phone!
January 2, 2025 at 12:49 AM
putting " -ai " at the end of every google search will get rid of google's AI Overview, even on your phone!