Silvia Park

How brilliant is this! What a perfect gift to the world 🦇

very very excited (& nervous! stage jitters!) to share news of a project that my person & I have been working on for so long now

we're starting a tiny artist residency here in Baltimore; say hello to The Doll House!

www.thedollhouse.studio

Discover why SONG OF SPORES by Bogi Takács made the 2025 Recommended Reading List www.brokeneyebooks.c...

It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

Polaroids of Catherine O'Hara in various costumes

Polaroids of Catherine O'Hara in various costumes

Catherine O’Hara wardrobe polaroids from Second City, 1983. RIP an absolute legend & icon💔

“Everything We Do Matters.” Minneapolis’s Moon Palace Books is a Hub For Anti-ICE Resistance Angela Schwesnedl from Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis picked up my phone call on Saturday almost two hours to the minute after Alex Pretti was murdered in the street by ICE officers. “If you have…

So much love for @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

What a flavorful review!

A friendly reminder that no ICE officer has ever been killed in the line of duty in a hostile incident.

Being an elementary schoolchild in America is far more deadly and dangerous than being an ICE officer.

Thank you for sharing! A great list to catch up on reading

Thank you, that’s too kind!

Damn, it looks just like the photos of the disappeared that were put up by relatives in the South American dictatorships

Strange Horizons 2026 A free weekly speculative fiction magazine with a global perspective.

If you love speculative fiction, then you owe a huge debt to @strangehorizons.bsky.social -- a magazine that successfully brought SFF short fiction online and expanded our ideas of what genre can do. It launched my career and many others. And it's still amazing.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

The kids are not the problem

Join @silviapark.bsky.social and Sierra Greer as they discuss their debut novels Luminous and Annie Bot in this online event for @cymerafestival.co.uk on Sunday 8th June!

Grab your tickets here ⬇️
cymerafestival.co.uk/cymera25-eve...

NYT: “In Firing Watchdogs, Trump Sidesteps Laws and Moves to Expand Power, By Elena Shao May 22, 2025 President Trump summarily dismissed more than a dozen members of independent oversight bodies during his first two months in office, defying typical procedures and federal laws that say presidents cannot remove certain officials without good cause, like misconduct or neglect.”A diagram shows Trump’s head on the left and symbols denoting nine federal agencies on the right, connected by a faint gray arrow going through a text box reading “Should issue notice citing cause for firing.” An orange arrow makes 90-degree turns to go up, over, and down the other side of the gray box, captioned “Sidestepping typical procedures,” as if the whole thing was a diagram of a football play.

Hard-hitting analysis from NYT. As you can see from the diagram, legal impediments are a weak gray box that can be defeated by a strong orange arrow and bold typeface
Gift article (but it’s bad) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Republicans snuck two devastating health care measures into Trump's megabill “When this country wakes up in the morning, there will be consequences to pay for this.”

Attacks on abortion 🤝 attacks on trans healthcare

One of the easiest ways you can reach your senators right now. So many trans people, myself included, won't be able to access life-saving HRT if this passes, this is a murder bill plain and simple.

Cis folks: this is the bare fucking minimum.

That’s too kind—thank you!

Department of Education Eliminates Grant for PBS Children’s Shows

vandalism www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...

National Endowment for the Arts rescinds grants, dazing publishers and theaters Arts organizations across the country saw their grants pulled with little explanation, while a proposed federal budget sought to eliminate the arts funding agency altogether.

Our reporting on the NEA suddenly yanking grants. Affected include: n+1, McSweeney’s, Paris Review, Oxford American, book publishers, nonprofit theaters, more: www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

congratulations!

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

Luminous by Silvia Park review – a major new voice in SF From humans with robotic body parts to robots with human emotions, a vibrant debut set in a unified Korea examines what it means to be a person

A wonderful review of Luminous by @silviapark.bsky.social
on @theguardian.com this morning!

'A novel of huge humanity...This is the arrival of a major new voice in SF.'

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/23/luminous-by-silvia-park-review-a-major-new-voice-in-sf

BREAKING: SCOTUS orders the government not to remove from the country, for the time being, any of the individuals slated for possible deportation to El Salvador. The vote is apparently 7-2, with Justices Thomas and Alito in dissent

Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

Walmart fires 6'4" cisgender woman threatened by man who thought she was trans Dani Davis told a superior at Walmart that a man screamed anti-trans epithets while she was alone in the bathroom. Walmart fired her after she reported what happened.

Advocate [Mar 28] -- Lake City FL Walmart fires 7-year employee w/ spotless record who tutors special needs kids in spare time after a male customer attacks her for being trans because she is 6' 4" tall. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social [HT @denisenorris.bsky.social]

Enlightening and hilarious. My apologies, Toby, for equating your name with “failure” 🫶

Join @silviapark.bsky.social and Ela Lee on Thursday 17th April for a compelling discussion on literature, technology, and the shifting boundaries of identity!

Tickets ➡️ bit.ly/Luminous-KCCUK

“School is not important. Work is not important. Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.” —Fred Hampton