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Silvia Park
@silviapark.bsky.social
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writer/luftmensch. she/they. Assistant Professor of English, University of Kansas. Debut novel LUMINOUS 🐯🤖 out now with Simon & Schuster (US) and Oneworld | Magpie (UK)

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Silvia Park @silviapark.bsky.social · Mar 14
My conversation with the magical @kellylink.bsky.social on @reactorsff.bsky.social. We talk about the joys and challenges of writing multiple perspectives, writing across countries, and how to salvage hope in the speculative future during the dystopian present.

reactormag.com/a-conversati...
Speculative Fiction Can Shake Us Awake: A Conversation With Silvia Park and Kelly Link - Reactor
Reactor is proud to host this conversation with Kelly Link, author of The Book of Love and Silvia Park, in conjunction with the publication of her novel Luminous. The two writers discuss speculative c...
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patrickiber.bsky.social
Damn, it looks just like the photos of the disappeared that were put up by relatives in the South American dictatorships
Small selection of black and white photos of the faces of the disappeared of the Pinochet dictatorship, now at its Museum of Memory and Human Rights
July 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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charliejane.bsky.social
If you love speculative fiction, then you owe a huge debt to @strangehorizons.bsky.social -- a magazine that successfully brought SFF short fiction online and expanded our ideas of what genre can do. It launched my career and many others. And it's still amazing.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...
Strange Horizons 2026
A free weekly speculative fiction magazine with a global perspective.
www.kickstarter.com
June 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
The kids are not the problem
Sharing the podium was nothing but an honor,” White told the Chronicle. “Although the publicity she’s been receiving has been pretty negative, I believe she deserves publicity because she’s a superstar, she’s a rock star, she’s representing who she is.”
June 1, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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oneworldbooks.bsky.social
Join @silviapark.bsky.social and Sierra Greer as they discuss their debut novels Luminous and Annie Bot in this online event for @cymerafestival.co.uk on Sunday 8th June!

Grab your tickets here ⬇️
cymerafestival.co.uk/cymera25-eve...
May 29, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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krogerfoot.bsky.social
Hard-hitting analysis from NYT. As you can see from the diagram, legal impediments are a weak gray box that can be defeated by a strong orange arrow and bold typeface
Gift article (but it’s bad) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
NYT: “In Firing Watchdogs, Trump Sidesteps Laws and Moves to Expand Power, By Elena Shao May 22, 2025 President Trump summarily dismissed more than a dozen members of independent oversight bodies during his first two months in office, defying typical procedures and federal laws that say presidents cannot remove certain officials without good cause, like misconduct or neglect.”A diagram shows Trump’s head on the left and symbols denoting nine federal agencies on the right, connected by a faint gray arrow going through a text box reading “Should issue notice citing cause for firing.” An orange arrow makes 90-degree turns to go up, over, and down the other side of the gray box, captioned “Sidestepping typical procedures,” as if the whole thing was a diagram of a football play.
May 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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hencarnell.bsky.social
Attacks on abortion 🤝 attacks on trans healthcare
Republicans snuck two devastating health care measures into Trump's megabill
“When this country wakes up in the morning, there will be consequences to pay for this.”
www.motherjones.com
May 22, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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joandark.com
One of the easiest ways you can reach your senators right now. So many trans people, myself included, won't be able to access life-saving HRT if this passes, this is a murder bill plain and simple.

Cis folks: this is the bare fucking minimum.
May 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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jamellebouie.net
vandalism www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...
Department of Education Eliminates Grant for PBS Children’s Shows
www.nytimes.com
May 7, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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jonfischer.bsky.social
Our reporting on the NEA suddenly yanking grants. Affected include: n+1, McSweeney’s, Paris Review, Oxford American, book publishers, nonprofit theaters, more: www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
National Endowment for the Arts rescinds grants, dazing publishers and theaters
Arts organizations across the country saw their grants pulled with little explanation, while a proposed federal budget sought to eliminate the arts funding agency altogether.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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legroff.bsky.social
Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.
April 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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oneworldbooks.bsky.social
A wonderful review of Luminous by @silviapark.bsky.social
on @theguardian.com this morning!

'A novel of huge humanity...This is the arrival of a major new voice in SF.'

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/23/luminous-by-silvia-park-review-a-major-new-voice-in-sf
Luminous by Silvia Park review – a major new voice in SF
From humans with robotic body parts to robots with human emotions, a vibrant debut set in a unified Korea examines what it means to be a person
www.theguardian.com
April 23, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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stevenmazie.bsky.social
BREAKING: SCOTUS orders the government not to remove from the country, for the time being, any of the individuals slated for possible deportation to El Salvador. The vote is apparently 7-2, with Justices Thomas and Alito in dissent
April 19, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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washingtonpost.com
Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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assignedmedia.org
Advocate [Mar 28] -- Lake City FL Walmart fires 7-year employee w/ spotless record who tutors special needs kids in spare time after a male customer attacks her for being trans because she is 6' 4" tall. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social [HT @denisenorris.bsky.social]
Walmart fires 6'4" cisgender woman threatened by man who thought she was trans
Dani Davis told a superior at Walmart that a man screamed anti-trans epithets while she was alone in the bathroom. Walmart fired her after she reported what happened.
www.advocate.com
April 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
silviapark.bsky.social
Enlightening and hilarious. My apologies, Toby, for equating your name with “failure” 🫶
April 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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oneworldbooks.bsky.social
Join @silviapark.bsky.social and Ela Lee on Thursday 17th April for a compelling discussion on literature, technology, and the shifting boundaries of identity!

Tickets ➡️ bit.ly/Luminous-KCCUK
April 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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haymarketbooks.org
“School is not important. Work is not important. Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.” —Fred Hampton
April 6, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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dataagainstfascism.bsky.social
This is the home of the USA Disappeared Tracker Dashboard.
DM to let us know of a person to add to the tracker or to volunteer to help!
A screencap of the Tableau Dashboard "USA Disappeared Tracker" which monitors persons "disappeared" in the USA by ICE.
March 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
silviapark.bsky.social
This Friday I will be talking about Luminous with Hannah Tinti—robots, loneliness, gender, crafty stuff like pov & structure—at The Strand at Columbus. Tickets do need to be purchased, which I know is a big ask as a debut novelist, but I’d love to see you there.

www.strandbooks.com/events/event...
Luminous: A Novel by Silvia Park The Strand at Columbus, April 4, 7 PM Launching the New Book by Silvia Park with Hannah Tinti
April 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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abigailnussbaum.bsky.social
Delighted to finally be able to share online my review of @silviapark.bsky.social's fantastic debut Luminous, a smart, heart-wrenching robot novel that reminded me of AI: Artificial Intelligence and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? locusmag.com/2025/03/lumi...
Luminous by Silvia Park: Review by Abigail Nussbaum
Luminous, Silvia Park (Simon & Schuster 978-1-66802-166-8, 400pp, $29.99, hc) March 2025. The woman might have been beautiful once. Lips pink and plush, and long blond hair, the kind that shone…
locusmag.com
March 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
silviapark.bsky.social
One of the most beautifully written reviews for my book 'Luminous.' Thank you @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social
March 30, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
The Guardian noticed: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Stunning Signal leak reveals depths of Trump administration’s loathing of Europe
Messages inadvertently shared with Atlantic journalist lay bare the unvarnished truth about how Vance and Hegseth feel about European allies
www.theguardian.com
March 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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simonwdc.bsky.social
So let’s be very clear about this - DOGE isn’t saving America money. It is now among the costliest domestic programs in our history; and certainly the most significant wealth destroying.
jacobbogage.bsky.social Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social · Mar 22
🚨 Big SCOOP 🚨

Tax revenue could fall by as much as **10%** this year, per sources, as taxpayers and businesses see the Trump admin as less likely to challenge tax cheats.

That'd be **$500 BILLION** in lost revenue.

It'd nearly double the tax gap in a single year.
Tax revenue could drop by 10 percent amid turmoil at IRS
Staff cuts and disruptions related to the U.S. DOGE Service have officials bracing for a sharp loss of revenue.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 22, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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literaryhub.bsky.social
Dive into @silviapark.bsky.social’s reading list, featuring work by Ken Liu, Judy Chicago, Karen Joy Fowler, and others.
The Annotated Nightstand: What Silvia Park Is Reading Now, and Next
The poet and writer Meghan O’Rourke in a recent Substack post entitled “Does Chat GPT 4o Understand Poetry?” gives an extended exchange between O’Rourke and ChatGPT about poetry, grief,…
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March 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
silviapark.bsky.social
Thank you for the marvelous conversation @vitcavage.bsky.social. Adam’s a fantastic host.
March 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM