Timmi Duchamp

The Translated Hugo Initiative Putting the World in Worldcon

There is a really valuable initiative to get a Hugo Award category for Translations, and I am a huge supporter of this idea. Translations deserve their own category and recognition--they are a unique subsection of SFF and have done so much for the global SFF community translatedhugo.org

Words from Audre Lorde I--we--need to keep remembering:
when we speak we are afraid
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we are silent
we are still afraid

We are now HALF-WAY through the fund-drive, with two and a half weeks remaining.

We are 2/3 of the way towards meeting our baseline funding goals for next year.

A lot of rewards and special pieces still remain to be unlocked.

To find out, and to, donate: www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

"War is the modern human sacrifice ritual." @luisahteish.bsky.social

I really need folks to stop acting like disability is full of people “scamming” the system.

The average person has no idea how hard it is to qualify. How dehumanizing the process can be. How much you have to sacrifice & give up.

It’s designed to make you quit.

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Whenever the opportunity arises, I happily channel Lily Tomlin's Edith Ann, as I did on my recent trip to the sublime Neah Bay.

I'm like a broken record on this, but this stuff needs to be stopped right now and it's of paramount importance. we are staring into the abyss of ethnic cleansing and mass murder in not too long at all. this cannot be come the new normal.

Selfie wearing a Keith Haring t-shirt standing in front of bookshelves of my own books or books I translated, holding in my left hand my picture book DAS DORF DER STEINE illustrated by Lena Studer, translated from Spanish to German by​ Eva Roth (Atlantis Verlag) which is a finalist for the Schweizer Kinder- und Jugendbuchpreis in Switzerland & in my right hand my translation into English of LETTERS IN CHARCOAL, written by Irene Vasco, illustrated by Juan Palomino (Lantana Publishing) which is shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal in Illustration in the UK.

How AMAZING that I am a finalist for national awards in 2 different countries:

my picture book DAS DORF DER STEIENE for the Schweizer Kinder- und Jugendbuchpreis in Switzerland
&
my translation of LETTERS IN CHARCOAL for the Carnegie Medal in Illustration in the UK.

😍😍

#kidlit #kidlituk #booksky

Outsiders. Rebels. Who doesn't love an underdog? Deep inside, most of us identify with those who are a little—or a lot—different. Sometime in our lives, we've felt like we didn't quite fit in. Forging your own way builds strength, and makes for a damn good story! storybundle.com/outcasts

Here's a question for science-fiction writers: are any of us addressing fictional science? We're going to be seeing lots more of this, since that is probably the 'research" that will now be getting the best funding in the US. future. (We're in Stalin-Lysenko territory now.)

Thirty years of ‘strange bedmates’: The ICPD and the nexus of population control, feminism, and family planning Widely credited with ending population control and ushering in a new era of reproductive rights, the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action also incl...

A paper I've been working on for quite literally 10 years just came out

It's a shitty time, for sure, but this paper is still cool and good, and I still want to you tell you all about it

So gather 'round, folks, and hear the story of the 10 year paper!

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www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Deep bow to the Wikipedia author for this bold and truthful language. And disturbing that the precedents and terminology for this seem so forgotten.... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraor...

In a nutshell. "Centrist" Democrats want to stall History; Republicans want to abolish it. Leftists and a handful of Democrats want to keep making it.

I was on CBC this morning, talking about this list of books I made for Black History Month for Iron Dog Books: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

We're so excited to finally announce that The Curve of The World will be published with Aqueduct Press! Thanks to a wonderful team of folks that helped make this happen, @timmi.bsky.social, @jenniegoloboy.bsky.social, and many more!

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So one buyer scoops up Analog, Asimov’s and F&SF…

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When it's in Publishers Marketplace, it's real! So excited to have Vonda McIntyre's last book out in the world soon! @clarionwest.bsky.social @timmi.bsky.social

I'm pleased to announce that Aqueduct Press will be publishing the late Vonda N. McIntyre's luminous final novel, "The Curve of the World."

"Decade" is also used (less commonly, of course) to refer to a group of ten. The common use of decade fits that general meaning, since it's a grouping or set of ten years.

Am currently reading Niccolo Machiavelli's Discourse on the First Ten Books of Livy, a brilliant work of analysis that has much more to teach us about the US in 2025 than George Orwell's 1984 does. I do wish members of the US House and Senate would read it.

All it took was a single week of the new regime to provoke me into committing a particular kind of publishing act. Aqueduct will be releasing my new collection, Like Shards of Rainbow Frolicking in the Air, in June 2025. Two of its stories were on their year's Otherwise Award Honor List.

Celebrate Black History Month by reading these 16 sci-fi and fantasy authors who've shaped the genre February is Black History Month, and that means it's a great time to take stock of some of the Black creators who have helped mold the artforms we so love. In t

"Celebrate Black History Month by reading these 16 sci-fi and fantasy authors who've shaped the genre"
h/t @romanwriting.bsky.social #AfricanSFF
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"Helton animates the inventiveness of Black librarians, scrapbookers, collectors, curators, and archivists who salvaged and preserved records of Black life by and for Black communities." via a review of SCATTERED & FUGITIVE THINGS, by @lehelton.bsky.social. shorturl.at/hjkLB @columbiaup.bsky.social

You know a book is good when you find yourself just standing reading in the middle of your bathroom because you couldn't put it down long enough to brush your teeth for bed (in this case @nisishawl.bsky.social 's latest #sci-fi, Making Amends). #booksky #readabook #bookrec

a black and white photo of a vulture with a large beak . ALT: a black and white photo of a vulture with a large beak .

I would say our national bird should be changed to the vulture, but that's not fair to vultures, as they perform a vital service in the landscape.

You do NOT have to speak to ICE without a JUDICIAL warrant. If they attempt to enter your home or your workplace, ask for a warrant. Sometimes they will try to use other, non qualifying paperwork. They need a warrant.

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Congratulations on the wonderful new book, @nisishawl.bsky.social!

Nisi Shawl's Making Amends Back in 2004, Nisi Shawl's "The Deep End" appeared in So Long Been Dreaming, an anthology edited by Nalo Hopkinson. This story, which move...

Nisi Shawl's Making Amends, a novel-in-stories, is out! Read all about it here: aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/01/nisi...