Annalee Newitz

Love these!

Gorgeous!

Wow this is really cool! I love President Deer.

awww li'l guys ... I didn't realize you could also draw on top of your other talents!

Excellent pedigree

Who are your favorite solarpunk illustrators and visual artists? Links and images please! My brain needs some nice things.

Speak for yourself -- it's the only way I escaped from Isengard

I'm also incredibly grateful that I'm able to continue publishing weird, queer, hopeful science fiction about people fighting for worker rights and community sovereignty. Thank you so much to everyone who worked on these books, and to everyone to read them!!! 💖

Awww thanks ...

For Your Consideration This Awards Season ... Best Novella: Automatic Noodle ... Best Anthology: We Will Rise Again, Edited by Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older. The image shows the book covers of both works, and the background is a bunch of rainbow-colored stars, clouds, and planets.

It's awards season! I couldn't be more proud of the two books I published last year. "Automatic Noodle" is my love letter to San Francisco's future. The anthology "We Will Rise Again" is a hopeful collaboration between me, @older.bsky.social, @drkarenlord.bsky.social & many brilliant authors.

Hell yeah messy ancestors

It's in my novel "Future of Another Timeline" 🔥

I just want to talk about my great-grandfather, who was a serial arsonist

Air Force civil engineer and auto repair shop owner

And in today's dollars, that's like 500,000 lol

Wow I had no idea. I was a grad student at Berkeley at that time, and actually was in the very first seminar that Butler taught there. I knew about DA Miller's work, but was always more interested in Sedgwick. Thanks for giving me a dose of queer academic gossip from the 1990s!! So wild.

An afternoon with Malka Older, Karen Lord, and Annalee Newitz: We Will Rise Again Please join us in ABC Amsterdam for an afternoon with 3 of science fiction's most insightful voices: Malka Older, Karen Lord, and Annalee Newitz. They will present We Will Rise Again : Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope, the anthology they jointly edited. There will be Q

REMINDER that @annaleen.bsky.social @drkarenlord.bsky.social and yours truly are going to be together doing events for WE WILL RISE AGAIN next month in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, and Frankfurt. I am so looking forward to it!!!
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MUSLIM FUTURES A literary fiction and graphic novel anthology featuring stories set in aspirational futures through a Muslims lens

OK folks, we're about half way through our #MuslimFutures #Kickstarter for #Ramadan. Help Muslims tell their own authentic stories. My essay deals with #Shiism, queer narratives, and #gender beyond a binary. I play a little with language too. :) Prose and #comics

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I've read Sedgwick's "Epistomology of the Closet" and "Between Men" but I didn't know she was rivals with anyone.

My cats like to jump on my shoulder and stick their butts in my face. Which I realize they mean in a friendly way, but I am too much of a homo sapiens to enjoy it.

Thank you for exactly the essay I needed ... ❤️

Sedgwick’s prescription is “reparative reading,” a theory of more flexible sense-making that can hold truth and provide an antidote to the overwhelming paranoia of our times. While the conventional wisdom states, “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean you don’t have enemies,” Sedgwick turns this formula on its head: “Just because you have enemies doesn’t mean you have to be paranoid.” Or to put it another way, having a direct understanding of systemic oppression (the healthcare system, police violence, the fascist state) does not condemn a person to a categorically paranoid point of view. To practice a worldview more expansive and more open to possibilities than paranoia does not mean you have to deny the reality or gravity of oppression.

Feeling paranoid about stochastic violence and weaponized media? Me too. That's why I can't stop thinking about this incredibly helpful essay by @littlewow.online in @flaminghydra.com about the idea of "reparative reading" as a corrective to the "paranoid style." flaminghydra.com/issue-511/

So sick of everyone complaining about copper. How about the ridiculous prices on purple dye? What -- are there limits to how many shellfish you can harvest? Huh?

Phoenicians!

Class war

Hell yes

There is no way we are cool enough to be Phoenicians. More like the ruling class at Knossos.

MIKE CHEN: THE PHOTONIC EFFECT at Books Inc. Palo Alto Join bestselling author Mike Chen at Books Inc. Palo Alto for a celebration of his new thrilling space adventure, The Photonic Effect!

Starting the week with promo in the midst of the hellscape: join me and @annaleen.bsky.social at @booksinc.bsky.social Palo Alto on 4/21 for the launch of THE PHOTONIC EFFECT! RSVP for free here! If you're not local, you can order a signed copy to ship here too: www.eventbrite.com/e/mike-chen-...

Never read him. Never felt bad about it.

Amateurs think about the Roman Empire. Pros think about the Bronze Age city states.