#quiltbag — Public Fediverse posts

Tube Map of Queer Authors

Look what a UK friend pointed out to me the other day (thanks, Linda!): a Tube Map of Queer Authors put together by the Barbican & Community Libraries, London.

As usual, they’ve mischaracterised me/my work—I should be on a nexus point between the red, yellow, green, and blue lines—and if I had to be connected to only one line, it should be the red one—after all, I’ve written many more non-SFF novels than SFF. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to distance myself from SFF—I love SFF!—but it’s only part of what I do. Having said that, look at where SFF is placed—the smallest line, looped and self-contained, as though SFF has no influence on (or is influenced by) any other literature. Always relegated to the back corner of the store… Or, well, fuck it, no. Let say sui generis (if a whole genre can be singular).

But, hey, it’s a cool map. And I can’t blame the map makers, really—I mean every critic/reviewer and her mother gets confused about what I write; it’s why I hired publicists last year. Sadly, not even they could turn that liner, steaming majestically ahead on its own course 🙄 Oh, well.

As I say, though, still cool: filling the sandwich of Arthur C. Clarke and Octavia Butler. And hey, how could one possibly complain about being on the bottom line of everything, alongside Sappho??

Tube Map of Queer Authors

Look what a UK friend pointed out to me the other day (thanks, Linda!): a Tube Map of Queer Authors put together by the Barbican & Community Libraries, London.

As usual, they’ve mischaracterised me/my work—I should be on a nexus point between the red, yellow, green, and blue lines—and if I had to be connected to only one line, it should be the red one—after all, I’ve written many more non-SFF novels than SFF. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to distance myself from SFF—I love SFF!—but it’s only part of what I do. Having said that, look at where SFF is placed—the smallest line, looped and self-contained, as though SFF has no influence on (or is influenced by) any other literature. Always relegated to the back corner of the store… Or, well, fuck it, no. Let say sui generis (if a whole genre can be singular).

But, hey, it’s a cool map. And I can’t blame the map makers, really—I mean every critic/reviewer and her mother gets confused about what I write; it’s why I hired publicists last year. Sadly, not even they could turn that liner, steaming majestically ahead on its own course 🙄 Oh, well.

As I say, though, still cool: filling the sandwich of Arthur C. Clarke and Octavia Butler. And hey, how could one possibly complain about being on the bottom line of everything, alongside Sappho??

Finished reading: Role Model

So approximately two months ago, in a fit of sadness, I watched the gay hockey show in one sitting then fell down an AO3 rabbit hole wherein I read slightly shy of 500 fanfics about it. During this journey I realized that my OTP for this fandom was, in fact, Actual Wet Cat Troy Barrett and Gay Apple Boy Harris Drover, and there just wasn't that much fic about them, specifically. Which... boo. And then I was like, "I could... read their book?"

chuffed.org/donate/18309... #theater #theatre #Pride #PrideMonth #India #queer #QUILTBAG #fundraising #crowdfunding #dance

Support SatRangaM! India's big...

My friend Deepa, an artist in India, is crowdfunding for SatRangaM, India's biggest queer theatre festival. It needs more support to break even when they go on stage later this month:

https://chuffed.org/donate/183093-fund-satrangam-indias-biggest-queer-theatre-festival

(twelve performances, all written and directed/choreographed by queer artists, + workshops & discussions)

#theater #theatre #Pride #PrideMonth #India #queer #quiltbag #fundraising #crowdfunding #dance

My friend Deepa, an artist in India, is crowdfunding for SatRangaM, India's biggest queer theatre festival. It needs more support to break even when they go on stage later this month:

https://chuffed.org/donate/183093-fund-satrangam-indias-biggest-queer-theatre-festival

(twelve performances, all written and directed/choreographed by queer artists, + workshops & discussions)

#theater #theatre #Pride #PrideMonth #India #queer #quiltbag #fundraising #crowdfunding #dance

I've made my Redbubble shop public again. There's a shitload of Pride stuff, if you want to get ready for June.

Who would not want a Transgender Cubes tote bag? A Lesbian Cubes mug? A Progressive Pride Cubes laptop sleeve? Or some Intersex Cubes coasters?

These and more, as well as some of my other art, over here: https://www.redbubble.com/people/Rhube/shop?asc=u

#art #pride #lgbtq+ #quiltbag #geometric

I've made my Redbubble shop public again. There's a shitload of Pride stuff, if you want to get ready for June.

Who would not want a Transgender Cubes tote bag? A Lesbian Cubes mug? A Progressive Pride Cubes laptop sleeve? Or some Intersex Cubes coasters?

These and more, as well as some of my other art, over here: https://www.redbubble.com/people/Rhube/shop?asc=u

#art #pride #lgbtq+ #quiltbag #geometric

“The show seems to go out of its way to say that it’s very masculine to be gay, which is exactly why people like those classical romances, where homosexuality is a natural overflow of masculine energy. It’s a vision of a sort of non-toxic but also non-anxious masculinity – masculinity that doesn’t require women to constantly affirm it.”

Adrian Daub on girls who like boys who like boys.

Apparently all the AO3 girlies are now sufficiently grown-up and have influenced pop culture to the point that The Guardian is doing the whole “did you know girls like to watch dudes fuck???” thing. Which, like. On the one hand, 2006 called and wants its take back. But, also, on the other, the fact that this is in a big mainstream normie news outlet, about a big mainstream TV show definitely says . . . something? I guess? Maybe.

Remember all those times I've talked about how going after ALL queers is about peeling off one letter at a time? How they're only starting with the T?

Now they're going after the B.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/after-trans-people-trump-now-erasing

Bisexuals are being erased from history, too.

Lesbians will be next.

And then Gays, well, they're just "homosexuals," disordered and wrong...

...and to be eradicated, like everyone else.

#politics #LGBT #lgbtq #lgbtqia #quiltbag #fascism

Remember all those times I've talked about how going after ALL queers is about peeling off one letter at a time? How they're only starting with the T?

Now they're going after the B.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/after-trans-people-trump-now-erasing

Bisexuals are being erased from history, too.

Lesbians will be next.

And then Gays, well, they're just "homosexuals," disordered and wrong...

...and to be eradicated, like everyone else.

#politics #LGBT #lgbtq #lgbtqia #quiltbag #fascism

Listen, I know I'm a language nerd, but why the hell we stumble all over ourselves with "LGBTQIA" instead of using

QuILTBAG

is wholly beyond me.

#PETITION
#QuILTBAG

Listen, I know I'm a language nerd, but why the hell we stumble all over ourselves with "LGBTQIA" instead of using

QuILTBAG

is wholly beyond me.

#PETITION
#QuILTBAG

BEAR ROOTS: Ursula thought protests & social media would be the extent of her animal rights activism. Then she learns her friends are volkolaks, human-bear shapeshifters. Laws are broken, spells are attempted. https://buy.bookfunnel.com/omgs9lzh6m #books #authors #QUILTBAG

Finished reading: Brainwyrms

You know you read a thing and you’re like, “Well. Can’t unread that . . .” but also you know exactly the person you’re going to give a rec to? This is that book.

You’re basically going to know if this is the book for you just by reading the blurb and the content warnings, and if they sound like a thing you want to read, you will have a good time. I will say this was more explicit and visceral and fourth-wall-breakingly surreal than I was expecting, and the satire here is not subtle, though nor is it supposed to be. You know JK Rowling when she shows up. Sympathetic characters are also thin on the ground, though the messiness and the cruelty are recognisable and understandable, and you’ve seen them before to some degree or another if you’ve spent any time in queer alt spaces. People also drink piss. It’s that sort of book.

Brainwyrms is not going to be for everyone, but if you’re looking for a messy, visceral, surreal, trans cosmic horror . . . then yes. This.

#books #booksRead #horror #quiltbag #recommended #thriller

Currently reading: Brainwyrms

“In the earth, air, sea, on the forums and the local council Facebook groups, one truth becomes clear, one truth above everything else, and once you know it you cannot un-know it: it’s getting worse.“

#books #booksRead #horror #quiltbag #thriller

I just backed the "Shades and Silver" #audiobook #kickstarter to enable this anthology of #fantasy stories about #disability, #unicorn-people, and belonging, brought to life by a human narrator and not just on #Audible but on Libro-FM and #Libby as well (that's why it needs the #crowdfunding). 55h remaining and you can help make it possible - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/daxaeterna/shades-and-silver-the-audiobook please do. #OwnVoices need to be heard! #bookstodon @buchstodon @bookstodon #ShadesAndSilver #fantasynovels #lgbtq #queer #quiltbag

“Thatcher’s claim that there are only “men and women” is not an accident. Restrictive gender roles were, and still are, necessary to the world she envisioned. “The single biggest off-the-books investment that keeps stripped-down neoliberal economics working is free female labor,” historian Bethany Moreton told me. American women average over four hours a day of unpaid labor; some estimates put the annual value of this work at $1.5 trillion. If those hours were reduced or paid out, there would be massive cultural and financial repercussions. Men’s lives would be upended, as things stopped happening and they either faced the consequences or had to pick up the slack. Such changes would rewrite what it means to be a good wife and caring mother or, more fundamentally, popular visions of being a woman. Many people naturally will go to great lengths to not have to reimagine the fundamental basis of their lives.”

On unpaid labour.

From a broader article on QAnon culture wars panics.

This is your friendly reminder that whenever you — yes, you — buy into “think of the children” nonsense of any kind — and this absolutely goes around in progressive circles, ref. for e.g. “no kink at Pride” discourse — that Q chuckles as it grows just a little stronger . . .

#culture #quiltbag

I'm begging you all to read Necropolitics by Achille Mbembe.

It's a fucking important theoretical work, especially in today's world.

#anarchism #anticapitalism #Criminology #CriminalJustice #Academia #Uni #university #queer #trans #quiltbag

I'm begging you all to read Necropolitics by Achille Mbembe.

It's a fucking important theoretical work, especially in today's world.

#anarchism #anticapitalism #Criminology #CriminalJustice #Academia #Uni #university #queer #trans #quiltbag

http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/the-spindle-of-necessity/

This new short fantasy story by @bpladek was so captivating. A compelling, closely-observed piece - I laughed aloud at:

'He tried to sound careless.... "Pretty sexist of me, too, right?"....

“Nah,” said Adrian, in the tone that meant, *I hadn’t thought of it, but yes.*'

I think this will resonate with a lot of readers who wrestle with questions about representation and OwnVoices in fiction.

#fantasy #sff #ShortStory #ShortStories #QueerArt #QUILTBAG #trans

http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/the-spindle-of-necessity/

This new short fantasy story by @bpladek was so captivating. A compelling, closely-observed piece - I laughed aloud at:

'He tried to sound careless.... "Pretty sexist of me, too, right?"....

“Nah,” said Adrian, in the tone that meant, *I hadn’t thought of it, but yes.*'

I think this will resonate with a lot of readers who wrestle with questions about representation and OwnVoices in fiction.

#fantasy #sff #ShortStory #ShortStories #QueerArt #QUILTBAG #trans

Hot take: There is nothing radical about white queers claiming "softness". You were already given the base level of humanity to embody that while Black people and people of color never have.

-- Israel Denison-Alexander (2019)

#queer #gay #lgbtqia #quiltbag #whiteness #WhiteSupremacy #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness

Hot take: There is nothing radical about white queers claiming "softness". You were already given the base level of humanity to embody that while Black people and people of color never have.

-- Israel Denison-Alexander (2019)

#queer #gay #lgbtqia #quiltbag #whiteness #WhiteSupremacy #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness

NSW finally outlawed gay conversion therapy, but what the fuck took 14 hours of overnight debate?

#AusPol #Australia #NSW #queer #trans #quiltbag+ #lgbtiqa+

NSW finally outlawed gay conversion therapy, but what the fuck took 14 hours of overnight debate?

#AusPol #Australia #NSW #queer #trans #quiltbag+ #lgbtiqa+

Playing scrabble with my Mum, the #MacquarieDictionary yielded:
QUILTBAG
As in:
"Dutts, mate, leave it alone, it's a QUILTBAG issue"

My Mum, a quilter, was unreasonably pleased with it and has vowed to use it at her retirement village Canasta circle soon.

#QUILTBAG

Not feeling well, so not really around, but today is Intersex Solidarity and Remembrance Day, and I have plenty of resources for this day that I'd like to briefly share! :intersex_flag:

(Responses will probably only happen later, but feel free to ask)

#intersex #books #bookstodon #LGBTQIA #QUILTBAG @bookstodon

Not feeling well, so not really around, but today is Intersex Solidarity and Remembrance Day, and I have plenty of resources for this day that I'd like to briefly share! :intersex_flag:

(Responses will probably only happen later, but feel free to ask)

#intersex #books #bookstodon #LGBTQIA #QUILTBAG @bookstodon

For Intersex Awareness Day, I moved my list of books by Black intersex authors off Twitter!

Here it is in handy blog post format:

https://www.bogireadstheworld.com/a-list-of-books-by-black-intersex-authors/

To my knowledge, this is a complete list; additions are very welcome!

#Intersex #IntersexAwarenessDay #QUILTBAG #IntersexBooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon #BlackAuthors #BlackBooks

For Intersex Awareness Day, I moved my list of books by Black intersex authors off Twitter!

Here it is in handy blog post format:

https://www.bogireadstheworld.com/a-list-of-books-by-black-intersex-authors/

To my knowledge, this is a complete list; additions are very welcome!

#Intersex #IntersexAwarenessDay #QUILTBAG #IntersexBooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon #BlackAuthors #BlackBooks

Finished reading: Fluids

Could you make her worse? Yes, you could.

Psychotic goblin nightmare girl meets sad little meow meow online. The first half of Fluids is a fantastic character study of unhealthy internet relationships — you have definitely met both of these girls if you’ve spent any time in an alt and/or queer space — and a full-force train you know is about to crash. The second half is the crash and it’s also a little bit where the story started falling apart for me. Once the girls get to the casino and the splatterpunk starts, everything starts feeling just a bit too David Lynch.

By now we know both our protagonists are unreliable narrators, albeit in different ways, so it’s hard to take any descriptions of anything that’s happening as “real.” Particularly give the ease at which some human bodies split apart versus the way others endure, and the general lack of consequences at the . . . whatever is going on with the casino murder hotel. Is this actually happening? Or is it in our protagonists’ heads, American Psycho-style? Did we accidentally fall into some kind of Hell or Purgatory? Is this an extended metaphor or allegory of some kind? The book never even seems to acknowledge the questions.

I don’t mind this ambiguity per se, but it does blunt both the emotional impact and viscerality of the gore. Spray all the fluids you want — and this book does — but it’s hard to feel much about it when the novel doesn’t commit to whether people other than its protagonists are even “real.” Fluids is most effective when it’s showing its deeply fucked-up characters slamming full-force into the real-world consequences of their sadistic naivete (for Lauren) and self-justified selfishness (for Dahlia). Everything else is certainly messy and slippery but nonetheless . . . kinda flat.

That being said, this was still a fun read and I would definitely still recommend Fluids to anyone after some fucked-up wlw murdergore action. Which, yanno. I know you’re out there.

#books #booksRead #horror #quiltbag

Wooohooo!!! #nonbinary #lgbtqia #quiltbag

https://www.ggg.at/2023/09/29/exklusiv-wien-bekommt-seinen-ersten-nonbinary-zebrastreifen/

Wooohooo!!! #nonbinary #lgbtqia #quiltbag

https://www.ggg.at/2023/09/29/exklusiv-wien-bekommt-seinen-ersten-nonbinary-zebrastreifen/

A very useful article that explains many of the various flags flown during #PrideMonth

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/30/all-of-the-flags-you-might-see-at-pride-and-what-they-mean/#page/1

#Pride #Flags #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Quiltbag

A very useful article that explains many of the various flags flown during #PrideMonth

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/30/all-of-the-flags-you-might-see-at-pride-and-what-they-mean/#page/1

#Pride #Flags #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Quiltbag

OOKAY so while our basement was being jackhammered, I did manage to get two reviews in! I just *had* to talk about these books.

On my Patreon for now and they become free shortly after the next set of reviews go up.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/patrons-only-83980833?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

#Patreon #Bookstodon #reviews #RykaAoki #WilliamSleator #Fantasy #ScienceFiction #Horror #books #DiverseBookBloggers #QUILTBAG #translit #PrideMonth #QueerBooks

Happy first day of #Pride2026 y’all.
If you’re Born that way
Or it’s a Life That You Choose
Maybe Sheer Happenstance
Don’t Give a Fuck.
Every person is Important
No One Gets Left Behind.

Looks like I **can** post the whole video from “#DoomPatrolHBO”
#QUILTBAG baby!

@Susan_Larson_TN #QUILTBAG forever, except that nobody actually uses it.

The Locus poll is closing tomorrow! Anyone can vote on this worldwide. Here is the story I have on the Recommended list - it is a very short flash story, for a last minute read if you'd like to give it a try :)

From Baffling Mag, edited by @ethereallad and dave ring:

https://jort.link/www.bafflingmag.com/issue-seven/four-glass-cubes-item-description

And the Locus poll:
https://poll.voting.locusmag.com/

#ShortStories #ScienceFiction (or is it) #ContemporaryFantasy (it's a mystery) @shortstory #Locus #Awards #Queer #QUILTBAG #Hungary #asexual #lesbian

Rather than using the easier-to-say and #ungendered "they", some people put in extra syllables for the ol' "he or she" and casually exclude #nonbinary folks.

Cool.

#Protip: shallow, performative #feminism sees only the #bimodal peaks on the gender #spectrum. Yawn. Boooooring. Thpbpbpbpbpbpbp. 👎.

My feminism goes deeper, gets #weirder, dissolves pretty hate machines, and lives without dead time in the spaces in between.

#queer #anarchy #trans #liberation #transhumanism #lgbt #quiltbag

Let's start with a trans book!

Everything Thaws by @rblemberg is coming very soon, last chance to preorder (yes, preorders qualify for the sale)!

A poetry memoir of growing up Jewish between genders, countries, languages. + also POLLEN COSMONAUTS 🧑‍🚀

https://jort.link/www.benyehudapress.com/books/everything-thaws/

#JewishPoetry #Ukraine #Russia #Immigration #Migration #Trans #QUILTBAG #Nonbinary #LGBT

Love Me For Who I Am vol. 1 by Kata Konayama, translated by Amber Tamosaitis.

Manga; working at a crossdressing café while nonbinary is an uneasy experience!

Impulse library borrow and it turned out quite different from what I'd expected.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5358056135

#reviews #BogiReads #manga #bookstodon #translations #comics #Nonbinary #QUILTBAG #LGBT #Trans #Crossdressing #Otokonoko #Femboy

Amazon just discounted The Shortest Skirt in Shul by Sass Orol!

Wonderful trans Jewish poetry now for the extremely impulse-buy-worthy price of $3.48...!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1953829120?tag=bypress-20 (Associate link + a reminder that Amazon pays publishers royalties after the full price if *they* discount something, so do please buy if interested.)

#Poetry #Mazeldon #trans #TransPoetry #QUILTBAG #Jewish #Nonbinary #TransFem #Bookstodon

Watched #episode3 of #LastOfUs last night, and yup, I cried. What a beautiful, heart-rending piece of cinema. I've heard some people were upset because "gays in muh vidya". I feel sorrow for anyone who could watch that episode and not be deeply moved. #TheLastOfUs #NaughtyDog #HBO #QUILTBAG

@Wiswell #quiltbag is longer to type, but easier to pronounce than #lgbt she says clearly unconsciously transsplaining

don't mind me. just doing some signal boosting of #queer content in the #VideoGame space. specifically:

https://www.pcgamer.com/super-lesbian-animal-rpg-is-a-big-hit-with-the-target-audience/

#lgbtq #quiltbag #lesbian