Jessica Stoya

EveryLibrary Live! Banned Books 2025 Calendar Join EveryLibrary Live! for Banned Books Week Fest 2025, a free online celebration featuring 25+ authors, editors, and advocates in bold conversations about storytelling, censorship, and the freedom t...

It's Banned Book Week, and I'm delighted to be part of @everylibrary.bsky.social's calendar of events by chatting with @stoya.bsky.social about Fanny Hill (aka Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure), a Very Banned book. I mean, it was banned in two countries, at least five times.

This half drunk man was about to tell me why, for the past several months, he has been confidently assuming I am Russian despite my complete inability to roll an r

And then he got distracted

As tipsy people tend to

It is dumb! It is ignorant! And it also works in one of several ways when it is inescapable for prolonged periods of time.

My completely flaming hot take on “Wayward” is that, as much as it drastically underplays the reality of teen reprogramming camps, it serves as a palatable-to-the-blissfully-uninitiated primer on some of the mind warping tactics

Which are often used by the current US administration

… they please replace it with one that is actually representative of how I tend to look?

So, now that the US government is shutting down nonessential operations, is it a good time to tell the consulate that I really dislike my passport photo because I got too close to the old one expiring when I was still recalibrating from a deeply regrettable (and failed) hormone treatment so could…

Bonded pairs are wonderful

You and @logandria.bsky.social together is so delightful

“Allowed to focus on… where we feel our voices will be effective” 💕

I stay in my own lane and I avoid a lot of pain

My Wife Told Me She Got a “Promotion” at Work. Then I Found Out What She’s Really Been Doing. This isn't exactly how I want her to support our family.

In which Rich Juzwiak really knocks it out of the park on sexualized labor, and I am that much more proud to be his colleague

slate.com/advice/2025/...

For @slate.com’s How To Do It column

Yes

I have two friends in Belgrade who absolutely adore Parker Posey, and they’re slowly zeroing in on the exact amounts of wine and wound-up emotional state which produce the drawl and vocabulary switch most effectively

I do pay a little extra for the hand-holding tier

It works out as less expensive and more efficient than bothering lawyers and accountants with things that are below their level but above my head when I first encounter them

I assumed, and, regretting my assumption, apologize

I love the payroll company I use in the US

Every time, I get nervous. Revert to North Carolina accent. Say things like “do you have some kind of add on that keeps track of numbers things that aren’t payroll?”

Then I apologize and explain that I write about non-business subjects

They’re patient

With a little more executive function, the past two days could have each been half at my desk and half on my feet

Alas…

These sentences are far too succinct to function as parody of the thick, euphemism packed, ruffling pages which, stacked delicately all against each other at once, make up this massively censored and debated novel of a book

I think you’re in expert territory with foodstuffs? Adjacent, at least.

My orbs were titillated

I injected nothing balsamic

Only thoughts and opinions

But I suppose some of those could be considered tart, sweet, or simultaneously both

Anyway preorder this new edition of Fanny Hill with a forward by me and a conversation with @stoya.bsky.social. It'll titillate your twin orbs and perhaps induce a balsamic injection.

Reminder that Fanny Hill was banned, litigated, expurgated, rereleased, banned, litigated, edited, rereleased, banned in the UK, banned in the US, litigated, rereleased, and now faces potential bans again. All this for a book with no expletives and espouses a clearly capitalist bourgeoise agenda.

Ne, hvala

He wouldn’t even allow an eye patch

Like, the oils we use for cooking?

After a ten hour workday, which included makeup and also bits of cleaning during slim chunks of down time which would otherwise have been wasted

I need to remove the makeup

(Which includes primer, light foundation and powder, and mascara)

Why didn’t I train Pixelcat how to help with this?

Are you living in Austin now?

I also thought!

Is that a neon raven?

“Anything that has a new smell may have a mouse in it” - ancient cat proverb

We are very much on the same page here

This cat is precious

Widget does not care whether I am in a sit-able position at all

Unless I have a new-to-him smell

Because he is a happy little pillow on the corner of the couch or bed

There’s almost always an outlier