Joelle McTigue 📷 @joellemctigue.bsky.social Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com
Dr. Alyssa (they/them) @yesthattoo.bsky.social Autistic researcher with too many interests and no real intention of narrowing it down. Mostly AAC research at the moment. Sometimes a math teacher.
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Bob Freeman @h2liftship.bsky.social Reader of Microbes, Writer of #SciFi
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Retired Public Health Microbiologist, LIMS developer and now SciFi author.
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r. p. singletary @rpsingletary.bsky.social W(e)ide(r)ly published in so-called underground publications, proudly. (And I'm single)
Ryan Newberger @borkflop.bsky.social Indie author. Writing gothic, grimdark fantasy from rural Vermont. Amateur chicken farmer, professional teacher and coach.
Author of: "The Honest Dark", "Wounded Sky, Dying Earth", and "A Wound of the Soul"
My books here: https://tinyurl.com/4dphnwhm
Amalia Dillin/Amalia Carosella/Amalia Theresa @authoramalia.bsky.social Author of Romantasy as Amalia Dillin, Historical Fiction and Mythic Retellings as Amalia Carosella, and flameworthy Contemporary Romance as Amalia Theresa!
Come for Thor, Stay for More!
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Exoplanet || subs open Sept 1st @exoplanetmag.com New digital magazine for experimental speculative short fiction. Stories that imagine new worlds and new ways to explore them.
First #submissions window: September 1 - 15, 2026
First issue: December 1, 2026
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Donald A. Sansom @donaldasansom.bsky.social Science fiction writer from Canada living in Europe. Author of the novel Slide-Backers. Short fiction has appeared in Starfarer's Cafe, The Accidental Time Travelers Collective III, and Tickled by Thunder. 🚀 |🪐📚 🚀 Sci-fi |🪐📚 #Author #fiction #WeirdFiction
David Perlmutter @davidperlmutter.bsky.social Canadian white male autistic writer. Author of America 'Toons In: A History of Television Animation and The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Also author of speculative fiction, superhero fiction and anthropomorphic ("furry") fiction.
Shannon Rampe @shannonrampeauthor.bsky.social Author of weird and wonderful fantasy stories. Science fantasy, hard-boiled historical fantasy, cozy dungeon crawling adventure, and more. Newsletter at www.shannonrampe.com. Also blogs about ttrpgs @thenovelgamemaster.bsky.social
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Ronnie @ronniewhomp.bsky.social Get 3 comics early every week at patreon.com/whomp
Read the secret text for each comic on WhompComic.com
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Vera Brook @verabrook.bsky.social Neuroscientist turned science fiction & fantasy #writer. Stories in Analog, Escape Pod, Cast of Wonders, Utopia SF, Radon. BSFA & BFS member. Based in Edinburgh. verabrook.com. she/her
John Betancourt @wildsidepress.bsky.social Wildside Press's editor & publisher
Award-winning mystery author
Best-selling science fiction & fantasy author
Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social Medicinal chemist / chemical biologist, author of “In the Pipeline” at http://science.org/blogs/pipeline. derekb.lowe@gmail.com and on Signal at Dblowe.18
All opinions are mine; I don’t speak for my employer in any way.
FieldExplores (Gator Days) @fieldexplores.bsky.social I draw silly comics about silly animals that have a lot of emotions.
The Pink Hydra 🐙 Releases & news @pinkhydramonthly.bsky.social Side account for The Pink Hydra, monthly publisher of short fiction, poetry, novellas & novels in the broad genre of ✨unreality⚔️
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Jay Litwicki @jaylitwicki.bsky.social Where the past meets the future, and the within meets the without, you will find me.
Writer of High Fantasy!
Genre aficionado and aspiring author. Fantasy, scifi, prog rock, ancient civilizations.
Michelle Knudsen @michelleknudsen.bsky.social Nebula-winning & NYT bestselling author of 50+ books for kids & teens plus SFF short fiction for the olds. Library Lion, Into the Wild Magic, Evil Librarian & more. BSFA finalist. VCFA alum. SFWA. Codex. All the links: linktr.ee/michelleknudsen
Nico Martinez Nocito 🏳️⚧️ @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social Queer SFF writer & poet • Nebula & Rhysling finalist • he/they 🏳️⚧️ • words in Strange Horizons, Apex, Flame Tree & Haven Spec • SFPA, Codex • 3x Rhysling nominee
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Alan Ranta (ꜱᴏ ᴡʜᴀᴛ?) @alanranta.bsky.social Rants about things, usually music, sometimes for money. Bylines seen in PopMatters, Bandcamp, Georgia Straight and Exclaim! Longtime juror for the Polaris Prize and Juno Awards.
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Lucy A. Snyder @lucyasnyder.bsky.social SISTER, MAIDEN, MONSTER (Tor Nightfire, Titan). 5 Bram Stoker Awards. Shirley Jackson finalist. Work in Strange Horizons, Nightmare, Asimov's, Pseudopod, etc. Clarion grad. 🏳️🌈
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Karen Luk @karenluk.bsky.social Drawer of words, writer of images, and art educator. Also, dim sum and boba enthusiast. KarenLuk.com
Alicia Adams @aliciaadamswriting.bsky.social Speculative fiction writer, Codex, SLF, SFWA.
Vegan, bird enthusiast, reader.
AliciaAdamsWriting.com
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M. A. Holland @maholland.bsky.social Reader/writer. Meanjin/Brisbane, Australia.
Probably misses his old glasses.
#drafting: THESE CURSES WE BEAR, YA Dark Fantasy/Fairy Tale
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Betty Stanton @fadingbetty.bsky.social EdD, MFA, poet, author, speech & debate coach, director, teacher, editor, rpg nerd, game designer, bad at social media, located in Oklahoma
Susan Park @susanfirghilpark.bsky.social writer, poet, nature lover and complete book geek living in the Pacific Northwest surrounded by forest, birds, squirrels, chipmunks and chickens. Member SCBWI.
The conference on imaginative literature @readercon.org Readercon is an annual conference on imaginative literature. It's run entirely by volunteers and has been since it began in 1987. For more information: readercon.org
Eric Idle @ericidle.bsky.social Check out the amazing handcrafed gifts made by my daughter at www.idlehandmade.com
You know you want a Holy Grail bag, or that guitar bag, owned only by me and Micky Dolenz. Updates coming shortly...
William Meikle @williammeikle.com Wee sweary Scottish writer, living in Canada, with 30+ novels and 300+ short stories in genre presses over the past 30+ years. Mostly at williammeikle.com ... mostly.
Oliver Carman @oscarm.bsky.social Fantasy Writer - Author of Out of Shadows
https://books2read.com/u/m0an9W
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Brooke Lanier @authorbelanier.bsky.social Author.
Cozy | Gothic | Queer
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Mark N Drake @mark-n-drake.bsky.social Author - mostly horror. Before that: research physicist & university manager. Flits between rural Co. Durham & south of France. Check out www.markndrake.com for news/info. Free story for you at https://dl.bookfunnel.com/kn2xszai89. Please follow & say hi!
𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸 @horrorculturist.bsky.social Gothic gardening, goblincore, dark art, horror, weird music. 🌿🍁🍂🎃
Agnostic atheist. Nyctophile. AuDHD. Demi-Pan. They/them. | Contrary to internet lore, I am not lost, sorrowful, despairing, trapped, drowning, falling, or stuck in a maze. (You OK?)
Ian C Peake @thesearedogyears.dog Writing the time-hopping, people/dog anthology nobody asked for. They're not *about* dogs, but they're not *not* about dogs. There's always a dog (exclusions apply). Free to read at thesearedogyears.dog. Dog pics from the Scottish hinterland too.
Andrea Kriz @andreakriz.bsky.social PhD in Biological and Biomedical Sciences doing research in human brain genetics, SFF author with stories published in Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, Asimov's and others, short story collection LEARNING TO HATE YOURSELF AS A SELF-DEFENSE MECHANISM from IFP
S.D. Williams (Sci-Fi Author) @sdwilliamsauthor.bsky.social Film Watcher | Book Reader | Photographer | Switch Player | Coffee Drinker.
Tony Dunnell @tonydunnell.bsky.social Writer of fact and fiction ( #scifi mainly, some horror). English but living in the high jungle of Peru. Short stories published in Escape Pod, Fusion Fragment, Fission, Sci Phi Journal and more. I also post about #movies. https://tonydunnell.com/
Joy Deva Baglio @joybaglio.bsky.social Speculative Writer: Fiction in One Story, Ploughshares, Tin House, Apex, etc. Yaddo Fellow. Founder of Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop. Rep'ed by Peter Steinberg. Novel in progress. Bagpiper.
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Liars' League @liarsleague.bsky.social Writers write, actors read. Top 10 Story Night (@TheGuardian.com) Account by LL Director Katy Darby
NEXT SHOW: Liars' League X @fitzroviafutures
Mon 7 Sep @7.30pm
Tickets £5 online / £7 door
Venue: Fitzrovia Chapel, W1
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Lily Lachance 🏳️⚧️🚀✍️ @lilylachance.com Trans 🏳️🌈, adventurer, author, poet, filmmaker. 🇨🇦
Unagented but seeking.
Words in Phano, Gavagai, Bullet Points, and more. Anti-gen-AI absolutist. (No both-siders, ever.)
Upward... Ever upward. 🙂🚀🌌
Laurie @lauriewrites.bsky.social They/Them 🌈
Autistic writer of kidlit and short fiction
Repped by @joycekay.bsky.social
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John Wilker, Writer @johnwilker.com 🚀 Scifi author 📘 living in Denver, CO.
I write fast-fun action adventure space opera and thrillers. Lots of witty banter and found family.
He/Him
Member: SFWA, CODEX
https://johnwilker.com
Merch: https://rogue-publishing.printify.me/
E.J. Wilde @ejwilde.bsky.social She/her/writer of speculative fiction/book worm/ history nerd/ocean enthusiast
Work in In Another Time
🏳️🌈
Shonna White @shonnathewhite.bsky.social Author, artist, gamer & GIANT GEEK (she/her) 🇨🇦
LOST INFERNAL - Now available on Amazon - Learn more at Lostinfernal.com
Tortured soul behind the writer's resource
@descriptionary.bsky.social | descriptionary.wordpress.com
Jennifer 📚🎧❣️ @jdawson001.bsky.social ♿️🏳️🌈American SFF author, poet, editor, & book reviewer living in England. She/her. The Poetry Society & The British Fantasy Society. Old OWW member.
Online at: WorldsOfMayhem.com
https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/dawson001
🏳️⚧️ rights = human rights.
Valerie Sirenko @valeriesirenko.bsky.social Speculative Fiction Writer
www.valeriesirenko.com
mere rain @mererain.bsky.social Author of speculative fiction of all genres.
Pubbed by JMS Books, Mischief Corner, Flametree, CossMass, Mad Scientist Journal, Astral, Things in the Well...
Ravn J. Silver @ravn-j-silver.bsky.social Writer |she/her
🗡️Speculative Fiction🪐
Short stories, poetry, zines, collages
Words in Apex And Clarkesworld
Clarion Writing Workshop '26!
Never AI, obviously.
Alexis Ames @alexisames.bsky.social SFF writer. | #PitchWars '18. | Words in Pseudopod, Escape Pod, Radon Journal | Where to find me: https://linktr.ee/alexis.ames. | Member SFWA and Codex.
Anna Clark @annaclark.bsky.social Writer of speculative fiction, welder of ships, and artist of dragons.
Stories in Diabolical Plots, Factor Four, and Flash Fiction Online.
She/they
annaclarkswritings.com
Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social Stories in CRAFT Literary, Vestal Review, Bending Genres, more. 🐈⬛ Learned from Rutgers-Camden MFA '18, Tin House '22, and Lambda Literary '25. Fiction reader for Okay Donkey. catherinebuck.com
Adriana Kantcheva @adrianakantcheva.com Writer of SFF with a pinch of idealism, an inclusive feminist touch, and the occasional sapphic romance. Bi. SFWA | Codex | Milford. Words in PodCastle, Escape Pod.
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Arthur Robert Tracy IV @arttracy.bsky.social Editor and writer. Burned-out educator. Just here because the kids said it was cool.
A.M. Lomuscio @lomush.bsky.social Science fiction writer. Editor and story producer for reality TV shows. Wine and cheese lover. Clarion Writers workshop Class of 2019. She/her. Bi. http://linktr.ee/lomush
Kyle Winkler @bleakhousing.bsky.social Predominant necromancer. Sad books.
The Substitute Teacher (Avon A/HarperCollins Fall 2027)
The Ship of Death (Avon A/HarperCollins, Fall 2026)
Enter the Peerless
Grasshands
Tone-Bone
The Nothing That Is
Rep: Naomi Eisenbeiss (InkWell)
Sasha Kielman (she/her/hers) 🦋 @sashakielman.bsky.social Attorney & writer (Codex, Mighty Pens, RFFA). Stories available in The Fairtales, CRIMSON BONES, UNLEASHED: SET YOUR MONSTER FREE, WICKEDNESS AND WONDER, & OF LOVE AND DRAGONS.
https://sashakielman.com
J. Kathleen Cheney @jkcheney.bsky.social Fantasy Writer, publishing as J. Kathleen Cheney or Anna St. Vincent. Member of Codex, Nebula Finalist, Locus Award Finalist, W0TF... but mostly a dog servant these days...
Cover: Vitruvian Moth by Patrick Kramer
N.J. Gallegos is Dr. Spooky (she/her) @drspookyer.bsky.social I like big cats. ER doc. Horror author. Artist. Cohost of The Scream Kings Podcast. Member of HWA. Pro-choice. BLM. I voted for her. Star Wars & BravoTV fanatic. She/her. 🌊🏳️🌈
Personal site: https://njgallegos.com
Podcast: https://www.screamkingspodcast.com
Steve Horton 🚀 The Comic Book Story of Space Exploration @mst3k.fan Writer (Comic Book Story of Space Exploration, NYT bestselling BOWIE, secret 3rd thing), SFF & film essays. Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop alumni. Rep'd by RHA. Codexian. Everything is rubbish and all rubbish is wonderful. stevehorton.neocities.org
MikeDunn @mikedunnphilly.bsky.social Links to my fiction at michaelbarbatodunn.com
Shane D. Keene @mothfrenzy.bsky.social Elgin and Dwarf Stars nominated poet, musician, rock and roll maniac, podcaster, filterless pisser-offer. Producer and host of the Ink Heist podcast with co-host Rich Duncan. Coauthor of THE BALLAD OF MASON GOREY with Stephanie Ellis.
#PUNX4EVER
J.M. Phillippe @jmphillippe.bsky.social Novelist, social worker, and cat lady.
Hallucinophonics @hallucinophonics.com Hallucinophonics exist at the nexus of consciousness and sound—crafting immersive soundscapes that challenge the boundaries between reality and reverie. http://hallucinophonics.com
GordMcF @gordlord.bsky.social Retired multi interested. Love history and languages. Trying to learn Irish. Tá mé ag foghlaim na Gaeilge.
M Frost @mfrostwords.bsky.social Poet, Writer, Photographer. SFPA/SFWA/MWA. Rhysling nom. mfrostwords.com
Photos/poems copyright M. Frost (CC-NC w/ attribution), unless noted
Cover art: Walter Crane, "The Fate of Persephone" (1877), detail for The Women of Myth, Island of Wak-Wak (2025)
H. Marin @hanmarin.bsky.social • han
• she/they
• MFA - Fairfield U.
• queer, nd, & disabled spec fic author
• HWA, SFWA, Codex
• freelance editor @ http://www.hmarinliterary.com
• novelette editor @foofarawpress.bsky.social
• fck genAI
• words in Night Shades, ITAL, Gavagai & more
Night Shades ⏾ @nightshadesmag.bsky.social 🛸 500 Word Speculative Stories. $0.15/word. nightshadesmag.com
Akis Linardos @linardos.bsky.social Writer of oddities, biomedical AI scientist, maybe human
🖊️ Apex, Uncharted, Heartlines, Strange Horizons, ergot., Flame Tree, Plott Hound, Cosmic Horror Monthly and elsewhere
akislinardos.com
he/him
Prashanth Srivatsa @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social Writer.
The Spice Gate - July 2024 (HarperVoyager)
Catsfather. 
Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com Writer of queer romance and sff. Half agony, half hope, bisexual. She/her. Romance fiction columnist for the NYTBR: #RomanceColumn OliviaWaite.com
Richard Pack @thewyrm.bsky.social Freelance author and narrator. Creator of Dark Souls Blind Randomized. Random favorites: FFXIV, Stormlight Archive, Muppets, Star Wars, Divinity: OS2, Codex Alera.
No AI
https://linktr.ee/EmeraldWyrm
James Joseph Brown @jamesjosephbrown.bsky.social Writer / Educator / Bibliophile / MFA UNLV / RPCV Russia / LGBTQ+
Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social Poet—latest book: "Slow Now with Clear Skies." Writer. Herbalist—Green Witch. Therapist. Systemic or Family Constellation. Health Artist. #WOMPO https://www.julenetrippweaver.com
Alex S. Garcia @asgwriter.bsky.social Bilingual writer-translator-lyricist from France. Codex member. Proud to write without AI since 1984. Free short stories: http://xenin.substack.com. Music samples: http://soundcloud.com/asglyrics.
Writing About Writing About Writing @writingabtwriting.bsky.social A blog about writing books, and books about writing, and reading books about writing.
Writing About Writing About Writing is a project by @thatemilymunro.bsky.social.
Find it at Writingaboutwritingaboutwriting.com
Tempest Teapot ❌ 👑 🐸 @tempestteapot.bsky.social Tempest Teapot: energy coiled in small space
Epic Fantasy novel Demon’s Bargain
#AmQuerying #F #R #YA #A
Kahyla Tamrin faces a demon’s bargain where all the options are bad: fight with soul-destroying magic or lose her family, her beloved, and her life.
Vyvre Argent, epic fantasy with 🌈 characters @vyvre-argent.bsky.social Buy SKULLRUNNER (my sapphic pirates book) now!👩❤️💋👩🏴☠️💜
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NC Sayers @ncsayers.bsky.social Hello everyone! I'm NC Sayers, an autistic science fiction and fantasy writer who likes writing about strong autistic heroines. I'll be sharing inspiration, writing events, and trying not to go nuts getting story ideas from the news. Excited to connecting!
Hell Itself Magazine @hellitself.bsky.social Speculative Fiction No One Else Would Publish
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Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social Literary Editor, Beta Reader, Plant Dad
& future writer for PBS Digital Studios 🤞- A Abandoned account @abandondedhellmag.bsky.social Formerly the account of Hell Itself Magazine. Please follow @hellitself.bsky.social instead.
Anne Toole @amely.bsky.social Creator, ALLES LIEBE, ANNETTE; writer, Netflix's CANNON BUSTERS, WGA winner HORIZON ZERO DAWN, & Emmy-winner LIZZIE BENNET DIARIES. Former IGDA Board.
T. Chiu-Chu @tchiuchu.bsky.social SFFH writer
tchiuchu.com
Kevin Beckett @kevinbeckett.bsky.social In a city sometimes colder than Mars. I once wrote stories at Cliffhanger Magazine, Water Dragon Press, Bronze Knuckles Magazine and Swords & Sorcery and the anthology Necro Sapiens. Let's say I am a former author for now.
Joshua Ladd @joshualadd.bsky.social Author | Freelance Editor | MA in Publishing | Slush Pile Reader at Baen Books
Alex Fayle @alexfayle.bsky.social Cdn fantasy writer living in the Basque Country. I also love quilting, non-gluten baking.
Neurodivergent with an incurable brain tumour.
I may not have a long time, but I make the most of it.
#Codex
Emil Morel @emilmorel.bsky.social Writer | Codexian
Fiction published in Apex Magazine.
A. L. Munson | Onnahinli Hinak Bitepuli (she/her) @almunsonauthor.bsky.social #SFF & #horror writer. 2025 Brave New Weird Nominee. VLO Choctaw. #Neurodivergent. #Aro/ace. Stories published with The Brothers Uber, PseudoPod, MetaStellar, Brigids Gate Press, and more. See https://www.almunson.com.
FB: https://tinyurl.com/almunson
S France Thomason @france-thomason.bsky.social only thinks straight after tea✨Shortlisted in 2026 #IAmInPrint Commercial Fiction Competition ✨🌈✨Yeovil Literary Prize LL 2025 ✨3rd in 2024 #IAmInPrint SFF competition✨ @cbcreative alumna
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Y.M. Resnik @ymresnik.bsky.social Apparently, I write in a dead genre. What’s a little casual necromancy between friends?
https://linktr.ee/ymresnik
RJ Aurand @rjaurand.bsky.social Appalachian writer & poet | small press editor | Le Fanu studies | weird horror
Member SFPA & Codex
Words in Apex, Orion's Belt, Podcastle, Uncharted, Tales & Feathers, Small Wonders, The Deadlands, & more!
rjaurand.com
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Nicole Carpenter @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social reporter
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Chris Baker @chrisbaker1337.bsky.social Writer and editor in the Bay Area. Codex & SFWA. https://linktr.ee/popculturalprecursors
Tom R. Pike @tomrpike.bsky.social I write science fiction. You can find it in Analog Science Fiction & Fact and Black Library. Day jobs over the years: climate policy research analyst, wiki administrator, and tweet ghostwriter for a cartoon horse. https://tomrpike.com/
Katharine Duckett @katharineduckett.bsky.social USA Today bestselling author of many weird and magical works. Fiction editor, Disabled People Destroy Fantasy. Advisory Board, @octaviaproject.bsky.social.
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Susan Stinson @susanstinson.bsky.social Novelist. Author of Martha Moody, Spider in a Tree, and Venus of Chalk from Small Beer Press. Essays in The Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies and The Portable Feminist Reader. Triker. she/her.