Siobhan Dunlop

8 Books That Queer the Vampire - Electric Literature These authors find creativity and liberation in hunger, desire, and depravity.

electricliterature.com/8-books-that... i wrote this booklist of queer vampire recs for anyone who feels like reading more queer vamps 🧛‍♀️

“Enough Rope:” Transmasculine Erasure, Violence, and Reading Trans Horror There was a horror novel kept behind glass when I visited the Chicago Leather Archives and Museum. Poppy Z. Brite, or Billy Martin, is the author of Exquisite Corpse, a disgusting…

so pleased to have an essay in the #lore issue of #bloodletter magazine ! i talk about (gay) trans masc erasure and poppy z brite / billy martin's fierce and heartbreaking essay "Enough Rope." + how horror can soothe bad trans feelings ♡
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SYNTAX ERROR Siobhan Dunlop cover: the text of the HELLO WORLD code appears in commodore 64 font on a background of kill screen blue. the title and author's name appear as commands text: Hello (World) You I'm messaging you on Snapchat / I'm messaging you on Instagram / I'm messaging you using a Twitter DM / I'm messaging you with an @ reply / / I'm messaging you on Facebook / I'm messaging you by tagging you in a Tumblr post / I'm messaging you by posting on your wall (remember?) / I'm messaging you by sending an email / I'm messaging you by remembering text messages do still exist / I'm messaging you by sending an ecard / I'm messaging you by writing in a forum you might read / I'm messaging you using an inbox feature on a website that no longer exists / I'm messaging you by changing the HTML and CSS of my MySpace page in 2006 and hoping you see it on the Wayback Machine / I'm messaging you by taking apart old mobile phones and using their parts to form a message on the street outside your house / I'm messaging you by writing a letter in Word 2003 with the help of Clippy and then printing it out and posting it through your letterbox / I'm messaging you by writing a txt file and saving it on a floppy disk that I'll leave somewhere you could go / I'm messaging you by screaming into the ether and wishing that you'd hear it

HELLO W̶O̶R̶L̶D̶ YOU
Siobhan Dunlop
@fiendfull.bsky.social

31 of wim's favourite poems from kith books
#SealeyChallenge
4/31

One must imagine Mario happy

skimming through surface-level thoughts hoping for something juicy to write all I keep returning to is each instance of girls she we’re all women here tiny daggers cut my skin slice my body if only they could be applied to the right places remove slivers of flesh unwanted hone me into the frame I dream of each word each pronoun each time they could’ve just read my email signature remakes like an artist with a chisel sandpaper a sharp knife applied to gender each wrong creates a little more right I let them say whatever they presume knowing I’m a little more me each time finally, a use for gender, siobhan dunlop

"home me
into the frame
I dream of"
- finally, a use for gender, Siobhan Dunlop

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I was recording a video featuring my actual face today so of course I managed to wear a t shirt with a stain on it. And then a ghost (movement of the door) caused a dead plant to fall off the windowsill in the recording room. Hopefully by now there’s a ‘remove chaos’ button in most video editors.

kith in print In Syntax Error, Siobhan Dunlop explores computer binary and the gender binary, feeling right and wrong, on and off. Through poetry that takes code, found text, and the realities of Big Tech, the coll...

"I tell people: you've got to be very clear
because computers don't understand
anything except on/off
ones and zeros
binary;"
- Siobhan Dunlop, Syntax Error

Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/dunlop
eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/dunlop

SYNTAX ERROR Siobhan Dunlop cover: the text of the 'HELLO WORLD' programme repeats over and over in white commodore 64 font on a background of kill screen blue. text: If left to my own devices I would recommend this book, not only for its cunning and captivating way with words, but to all future history students, as a record of our digital lives in late stage capitalism, just before our Cloud masters press Ctrl Alt Delete. JP Seabright, author of What Are You Afraid Of?

Of big tech and binaries, Siobhan Dunlop's Syntax Error is one step in the history of how we've been failed.
@fiendfull.bsky.social

404 Ink have been amazing - I’ve read so many of their books and their lit mag was one of the first places to publish my poems.

Fawn's Blood Vampires, vampire slayers, and a bloodthirsty underground resistance converge in a campy YA fantasy about being a queer teen in a world that wishes they did not exist. The librarian and critic...

www.sevenstories.com/books/4753-f... it is my birthday today, and one awesome gift you can give me is preordering my gay trans vampire novel about a teen runaway trying to save Seattle’s vampires and a slayer-turned-vampire struggling with whether she is evil

kith in print

it's end of quarter over here so if you want to help pride month go out on a high note for a queer or trans author, pick up a book
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So excited to have a new poem on Anthropocene today! Back to some tech-related poetry for me

summer 2025 — en*gendered

"I know
some cis people who are
good at building furniture

and I don’t know about
the prowess of trans people,
as good as we are at

buying blåhaj in ikea,"
- Siobhan Dunlop, Queering the Furniture Building Experience

@fiendfull.bsky.social
engenderedlitmag.com/summer2025

are there any stereotypes about non-binary people building furniture? all I know is that I know some cis people who are good at building furniture and I don’t know about the prowess of trans people, as good as we are at buying blåhaj in ikea, because none of the trans people I know or follow online talk much about their abilities in flatpack furniture. I guess there’s other things we’re talking about like fundamental human rights and petty drama, but I’d like to know if I’m meant to be good or not at building flatpack furniture Queering the Furniture Building Experience Siobhan Dunlop.

deceptively painful, @fiendfull.bsky.social's Queering the Furniture Building Experience speaks to the lost so many trans people are feeling. we're building futures, they're changing the rules.

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gender ideology is ruining poetry Siobhan Dunlop I’m so sorry for you I heard your gender ‘s nothing to talk about so boring not exploring just sat static with your gender looking across the dining table nothing left to say the neighbours are gossiping about how normal self-reflection is pronouns in bio just a useful fact your obsession is not progression I have so much more to say playing outside of the binary gender ideology is not ruining poetry the poem is presented in two side by side columns so it can be read in its entirety or in the following parts: I’m so sorry I heard your gender so boring just sat static looking across nothing left the neighbours about how normal pronouns in bio your obsession I have so much playing outside gender ideology and for you 's nothing to talk about not exploring with your gender the dining table to say are gossiping self-reflection is just a useful fact is not progression more to say of the binary is not ruining poetry

'gender ideology is not ruining poetry' by Siobhan Dunlop (@fiendfull.bsky.social) was the perfect poem to open this issue. come read the rest

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A few poems from me in here, about gender and IKEA

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en*gendered summer 2025 June 3rd cover: "period Bloatedness" by Míša Hejná the line drawn head and shoulders, and legs of a person are bridged by splotches of menstrual blood sterling-elizabeth Arcadia Sadee Bee Claude Siobhan Dunlop Míša Hejná R.W. Jane Kian de Laforcade silas denver melvin Nick Newman nat raum Billie Sainwood Danielle Tamara Schatten James T. Stemmle Mercy Rei Tanq Erica Leslie Weidner engenderedlitmag.com

en*gendered - summer 2025
is coming June 3rd
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Just finished reading A/S/L by Jeanne Thornton, to which my review is 'wow, what an awesome book about not completing making a video game'. Also there's a few things I now cannot do in the project I'm working on because she's done them better (including the title concept). I like that in a book.

We're living in the technological future, but is it the one we want? Join in the discussion as we explore if digital technologies are solving the right problems of the modern age.

Can We Create a Better Technological Future? 3 Jun - ONLINE

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i wrote for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social about the supreme court judgment, and how the idea that it ‘clarifies’ gender is actually a violent project to reify right-wing ideas of ‘nature’ and produce a two-tier gendered system

kith in print In Syntax Error, Siobhan Dunlop explores computer binary and the gender binary, feeling right and wrong, on and off. Through poetry that takes code, found text, and the realities of Big Tech, the coll...

I tell people: you've got to be very clear because computers don't understand anything except on/off ones and zeroes

binary;
- Syntax Error

Print: www.kithbooks.com/shop/p/dunlop
eBook: www.kithbooks.com/digital/p/dunlop

Syntax Errors Siobhan Dunlop cover: the text of the Hello World code repeat in white commodore font on boot screen blue Hello (World) You I'm messaging you on Snapchat / I'm messaging you on Instagram / I'm messaging you using a Twitter DM / I'm messaging you with an @ reply / / I'm messaging you on Facebook / I'm messaging you by tagging you in a Tumblr post / I'm messaging you by posting on your wall (remember?) / I'm messaging you by sending an email / I'm messaging you by remembering text messages do still exist /I'm messaging you by sending an ecard / I'm messaging you by writing in a forum you might read / I'm messaging you using an inbox feature on a website that no longer exists / I'm messaging you by changing the the text slips behind the title banner from here

"I would recommend this book, not only for its cunning and captivating way with words, but to all future history students, as a record of our digital lives in late stage capitalism, just before our Cloud masters press Ctrl Alt Delete."
-JP Seabright (@jpseabright.bsky.social)
@fiendfull.bsky.social

hello venues, LGBTQ+ clubs and organisations, workplaces and pals Social posts and posters are nice, but we need you to write to the EHRC and tell them their new guidance (see next slides) doesn't work for you They can't tell people how to run a gay or lesbian club. And they can't make you be toilet cops. Please tell them it doesn't work for you. A quick email or phone call will help a lot.

From the EHRC interim guidance: In workplaces and services that are open to the public: • trans women (biological men) should not be permitted to use the women's facilities and trans men (biological women) should not be permitted to use the men's facilities, as this will mean that they are no longer single-sex facilities and must be open to all users of the opposite sex • in some circumstances the law also allows trans women (biological men) not to be permitted to use the men's facilities, and trans men (biological woman) not to be permitted to use the women's facilities From Phoenix: If we pass too well, we aren't allowed in either gendered toilet or changing room. It's not fair to segregate us, never mind the impact on disabled people if abled trans people use their facilities

From the EHRC interim guidance: Membership of an association of 25 or more people can be limited to men only or women only and can be limited to people who each have two protected characteristics. It can be, for example, for gay men only or lesbian women only. A women-only or lesbian-only association should not admit trans women (biological men), and a men-only or gay men-only association should not admit trans men (biological women). From Phoenix: If you run a gay or lesbian club, night, bar, sauna, reading group, walking group etc - the EHRC say you have to exclude trans people or include cishets. Freedom of association is under threat

Time is of the essence. They're going to make this guidance statutory and Parliament will make that law soon. We will try to help with template letters etc, but your initial objections should be logged NOW. We love you, you need to speak up.

Time is of the essence and we need to fight the EHRC interim guidance before it becomes statutory and Parliament make it law.

Don’t just shout about it, write to them. Also tell the media, if you can get them to care. I’ve posted this on Instagram.

Speak to your unions and staff networks at work

a collage of 16 kith covers Utopia in Green - Magi Sumpter a moody green painting of a skull ringed in flowers SYNTAX ERROR - Siobhan Dunlop the hello world code in commodore 64 font on 80's computer screen blue The Magi Come to Toronto a section of medieval tapestry in red and gold Toothache - Ozzy Welch a close up photograph of white skin What was eaten was given - Billie Sainwood glistening raw liver on a plate here I am, pry me open - Atlas St. Cloud a sepia toned painting of the wound in jesus's side Holds Up When Shattered - Merri Andrew a shattered field of glass space neon neon space - luna rey hall a pink and lavender nebula in deep purple space Mall Water - Jenna Jaco a teal tinted mall lobby slashed across with a banner of pink, yellow, and red Hinting of Decolonization - Nicola Andrews a defaced portrait of Captain Cook SWARM - NDR line drawn black paper wasps and their nest on mustard yellow For Spite and Rosemary - Odette Augustine a delicate black line drawn corset washed over in pink watercolours

we consistently get compliments for our covers. they come, by and large, from our authors so I get to agree. they're amazing in person. these 16 drew outsized attention at AWP.

I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold

My poetry book Syntax Error is available digitally for free from @kithbooks.bsky.social during the readathon: bsky.app/profile/kith...

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Siobhan Dunlop Syntax Error cover: the text of the 'HELLO WORLD' computer programme in white commodore 64 font on a background of error screen blue overlayed with black text boxes reading the title and author's name as print commands A. Deshmane <bo(d)y rendering> cover: splashes of pink and blue across a background of dark teal. text accompanying the cover image reads: situate the body the point of connection type self in the search bar and piecemeal a person within the results

five days left in #transrightsreadathon
what are you reading today?
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