Caio Major

I’m really so grateful for the close reading Sara and Chris gave my story, and for the chance to ramble on all these topics 💙💙💙

YouTube video by Reading into Culture Inherited Misogyny as a Trans Man | Lições do Seu Fantasmo Vovô by Caio Major

I have made my podcast debut, talking about transmasculinity and Portuguese and the place of literature in the world today… in the context of my latest short story in Reading Into Culture! Listen/watch on YouTube or Spotify youtu.be/pHnf-QWuWvo?...

bravely fighting against the tides of late capitalism by writing my novel in third person

there is no reforming this

Lições do Seu Fantasmo Vovô Caio Major Pois é: as vezes coisas fizer claro, when you become a ghost. You see in new ways, um novo jeito. My language skills have been slipping, português overtaking english since I died. Brazil…

For the weekday crowd, I have a new short story out in the world. Lições do Fantasmo Vovô is my take on auto-fabulism, a story about a Brazilian grandpa haunting his trans grandson. You can read it in the latest issue of Reading Into Culture: readingintoculture.com/licoes-do-se...

Lições do Seu Fantasmo Vovô Caio Major Pois é: as vezes coisas fizer claro, when you become a ghost. You see in new ways, um novo jeito. My language skills have been slipping, português overtaking english since I died. Brazil…

For the weekday crowd, I have a new short story out in the world. Lições do Fantasmo Vovô is my take on auto-fabulism, a story about a Brazilian grandpa haunting his trans grandson. You can read it in the latest issue of Reading Into Culture: readingintoculture.com/licoes-do-se...

Lições do Seu Fantasmo Vovô Caio Major Pois é: as vezes coisas fizer claro, when you become a ghost. You see in new ways, um novo jeito. My language skills have been slipping, português overtaking english since I died. Brazil…

The newest issue of Reading Into Culture is out today! Literature from the international young left 🔥My short story, about a trans man being haunted by the ghost of his Brazilian grandpa, is included. "Lições do Seu Fantasmo Vovô," read here: readingintoculture.com/licoes-do-se...

An Essay Is a Conversation Social anxiety and writing nonfiction.

New post up on BlueSky, about writing nonfiction and social anxiety: caiomajor.substack.com/p/an-essay-i...

The most consistently useful advice I have ever gotten is that no one is any good at all at knowing what is going to happen

I need anyone with links to @mayor.nyc.gov to tell him that i spent dozens of hours boots on ground canvassing for him tens of hours in zoom calls persuading my union and my neighbors to vote for him because he supported libraries and would fund them

"Ciao" gotta be my favorite mispronunciation of my name, especially when people say this out loud (sounds like "Chow"). I could totally see this being a name selected by some trans person somewhere, going by Ciao or Chow would be an incredible move

Twitter post from @rifflexielian: "Terfs need to shut up about womanhood, my mom was raised to believe all women were less valuable than men and cried when she learned about trans women because the idea that someone would fight that hard to be a woman was radical for her and meant it was something worth being

There's a transmasculine version of this. If someone assigned female can become a man, it means there's nothing so special or powerful about men.

Each of us has the biological truth of equality between the sexes within us, as demonstrated by the ability of some to pass from one to the other.

Thank you for writing such a wonderful book!

T4T vs. Two Universes in "Plastic, Prism, Void" Reviewing "Plastic, Prism, Void" by Violet Allen, a stylish T4T romantasy with postmodern literary flare.

New blog post! I reviewed "Plastic, Prism, Void" by @blipstress.bsky.social, out later this spring from @littlepuss.net. I had a blast with this book, which delivers a sweeping T4T romance among magical girls, multiple universes, and literary references galore. open.substack.com/pub/caiomajo...

no eres mis casa bonita
no eres mis esposa bonita

If they make a sequel to Muppets Take Manhattan I hope they do it while he’s mayor and put him in it.

One Battle After Another and Real-World Hope Expanding on my recent essay about "One Battle After Another" and how it reflects our current times.

Lastly, for paid subscribers to my newsletter, I posted some thoughts about "One Battle After Another" and our current times that didn't make it into the Electric Lit essay. Read it here: caiomajor.substack.com/p/one-battle...

transitive rag Issue #2 Issue 2 out now — transitive rag is a quarterly magazine of trans writing and art.

I also have a short-short story out with issue #2 of transitive rag, titled "Mixtape #1: We Have Salvaged All We Can From the 600 Feet of Human Trash in the Sediment of Formerly-Known-As Lake Powell." It's about desertification survivors making techno in Utah. read it here: trans-rag.com

I published a few things last week, so I wanted to do a quick round-up. First up, I published this essay on "One Battle After Another" and what we should ask of white artists on @electricliterature.com : electricliterature.com/one-battle-a...

One Battle After Another and Real-World Hope Expanding on my recent essay about "One Battle After Another" and how it reflects our current times.

New post on my newsletter, for subscribers: going in extra on "One Battle After Another," and how witnessing what's happening in Minneapolis has slightly shifted my perspective on the film. Read it here: caiomajor.substack.com/p/one-battle...

a red and pink cross stitch on blue fabric. "everything I love causes carpal tunnel" surrounded by hearts, a needle and thread, and a skein of embroidery floss.

relevant to many of yalls interests.

I'm not pro- or anti- positive depictions of drug use in movies, but I really hate the lazy writing that shows white powder up noses taking the place of character development. also, the scenes when they get confuse ketamine with cocaine were really funny

99% of the time when a musician starts using cocaine in a biopic, it symbolizes the start of their decline. In Kneecap the characters cheerfully use from the start, and it perhaps slightly implies that they're slowing down once the movie nears its conclusion, but there's never any moralizing

I watched "Kneecap" last night, which of course was wonderful--just a happy bomb thrown into the (boring, to me) genre of music biopics. I was struck by how this must be the only biopic I've seen in which the characters' drug use didn't signal their downfall?

transitive rag Issue #2 Issue 2 out now — transitive rag is a quarterly magazine of trans writing and art.

More writing news: my flash fiction piece, "Mixtape #1: Mixtape #1: We Have Salvaged All We Can From the 600 Feet of Human Trash in the Sediment of Formerly-Known-As Lake Powell" is out now in the second issue of transitive rag! you can read it and the rest of this amazing issue here: trans-rag.com

New essay! On “One Battle After Another” and whether we should want white artists to step out of their comfort zones. Read it below:

They really have no fucking idea what is coming. No fucking idea.

ok the title doesn't actually have 'Mixtape #1' twice lmao whoops

transitive rag Issue #2 Issue 2 out now — transitive rag is a quarterly magazine of trans writing and art.

More writing news: my flash fiction piece, "Mixtape #1: Mixtape #1: We Have Salvaged All We Can From the 600 Feet of Human Trash in the Sediment of Formerly-Known-As Lake Powell" is out now in the second issue of transitive rag! you can read it and the rest of this amazing issue here: trans-rag.com

You should read this excellent piece of film writing by @caiomajor.bsky.social about solidarity, Gloria Anzaldúa, and One Battle After Another.