Kassandra Jo Tomaras

@raconteuse.bsky.social

4475 Followers 878 Following

Transfeminine author, literary translator, and sufferable pedant. Represented by Rach Crawford of Wolf Literary Services. She/they https://raconteuse.me DMs open to people I follow only. EN/ES/DE/FR/PT and sometimes Yiddish

Title page of ANY OTHER CITY by Hazel Jane Plante, inscribed To Kass— with room to twirl and with love— Hazel xx 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
"A Writer Ask Game" by Theodore Snapdragon
One-year-old child wearing red silk pajamas with birthday cake all over their fingers and face, seated in a high chair
Woman in purple floral print dress reading from a telephone in a sweltering bar in Berlin
UTOPIA VALLEKAS PUERTO DEL MAR
Adonis, the orange snd white cat, looks very disappointed in you
Meta removing my girlfriend's post quoting a song lyric that says, "What God doesn't give you, you have to go out and get yourself," then commenting that it's particularly true for trans people. They claim that this can be construed as sexual solicitation!
Kass: The posting on Bluesky is doing nothing. Trans people like it and repost it but don't have any money to give. Cis people see it and do nothing. June: I know. Cis people very much don’t understand. Thank you though. Kass: One person, who is a writer who has been an online acquaintance for 20 years, specifically said she would repost MA requests from trans women, and then never reposted mine because of some grudge she has against me. Fine, you don't like me, but don't take that out on my girlfriend and her kids! June: We are prone to pettiness and infighting. Kass: Same person has a whole Discord server full of trans women fans who thirst after her novels full of lesbian violence. But I am not part of her online harem. I would have called her out, but she's a notoriously vicious poster. She's cis, not trans.
Orange and white cat named Adonis looks disappointed at you
Woman smiling contentedly while suspended by a rope harness
Curly haired woman with a side shave
Palabras pintadas: «EN LA CALLE SON EL CHE, EN LA CASA PINOCHET»
SELF-REFERENCE ENGINE by Toh EnJoe
My appeal of Bluesky labeling 19th century art as "sexually suggestive." "Congratulations on being more prudish than Queen Victoria."
Woman with dark brown hair with purplish highlights, wearing a black with blue and green leaf designs, black denim cutoff shorts, and black heeled sandals.
August 2025, trans woman with bleached blonde hair wearing a burgundy bikini top
Adult hand with burgundy nails, 12-year-old hands with nails in a more jewel toned violet color
Middle-aged trans woman in various shades of purple and gold
Publisher's Marketplace Deal Report: "Essayist Kassandra Jo Tomaras's ATTACK HELICOPTER MOTHER, a meditation-in-essays on the author's journey as the transgender mother of two transgender children within an intensifying political climate, following her efforts to arrive at an inclusive definition of motherhood rooted not in biology but in respect for autonomy and care, to Jeanne Thornton at Feminist Press, in a nice deal, for publication in fall 2027, by Rach Crawford at Wolf Literary Services."
"Kuhner said her organization is in touch with a trans woman born in Honduras who proved to a US court that she faced danger if she returned to her home country because of her gender identity. But after she was deported, Mexico sent her to Honduras. To avoid being targeted, she has begun dressing like a man"
Eliza Scanlen (as Cecily Cardew) eating cake from the mouth of Ronke Adekoluejo (as Gwendolen Fairfax) in "The Importance of Being Earnest"
Woman with messy hair wearing a purple top
Betty Draper telling her son, "Go bang your head against a wall. Only boring people are bored."
Black cat lounging on a cat wheel
Brown haired woman with blonde highlights wearing a black and white horizontally striped shirt and black leggings, tied with purple and black ropes that hold her in a kneeling position with her head bent downward
48 year old trans woman with blond highlights, a multicolored muumuu and a purple cardigan
i do not support all women. some of you bitches are very dumb!!!
Survivorship bias diagram (where the bullet holes were found in the airplanes that didn't crash)
Me wearing a black and white horizontally striped shirt and looking cute
Three novels by Kenzaburo Oe, Cross Radical and The Longest Summer by Alexandrine Ogundimu, Tell Me a Riddle by Tillie Olsen, Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, God's Bits of Wood by Sembene Ousmane, At Passages by Michael Palmer, Roman Poems by Pasolini, Los judíos en España by Joseph Pérez, Detransition Baby and Stag Dance by Torrey Peters, Phantasm Japan, Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante, Collected Dialogues by Plato, A Dream of a Woman by Casey Plett
Computer screen on which one can see the following paragraph: "I will always be a New Yorker, but I may never again live in New York. Like the MetroCard, I make no sense without New York, but I am useless within it. This chapter attempts to chronicle the making of a relic." An MTA MetroCard leans against the screen to the right of the paragraph.
Frog with middle finger raised
E.T. wearing women's clothes and jewelry
My living preferences on the continent of Europe
most cutting thing you can say is "who's this clown?" because it implies they're a) a clown & b) not even one of the better-known clowns
Screenshot of me correcting the headline of La Vanguardia from describing Brigitte Bardot as "mito del cine y gran defensora de los animales" to "mito del cine y racista de mierda"
This Is Fine meme (the version in which the dog starts melting)
Seared lamb testicle on a slice of baguette, on a cutting board, on which can also be seen two knives and another slice of baguette
"Red" (fuchsia, really) hot dogs from Maine
Large tree with a white duck in the branches
City street with snowflakes and brick buildings, as seen through the window of a bus
The central characters of the animated TV show Bob's Burgers
One woman holding another down in bed. The one held down is labeled "them needing to get up". The one holding is labeled "me not done with cuddles yet".
Recumbent hermaphrodite, and sculpture in the Prado
Woman wearing a black scoop necked dress with visible cleavage
Beautiful blonde in leather and denim
Pixies, "Doolittle"
3 piece nail set from Stanley
Son: "reminds me that I need to make a Grindr profile" Me: Wait until you have a usable payment card. If you don't pay, the app feeds you so many ads it makes your phone unusable Son: Oh dang. That's a royal PITA. Me: How many Jewish mothers, I response to their gay son's interest in Grindr, would reply "take care of your bank account first, sweetie"? Me: Now that I put it that way, maybe a lot more than I thought. Son: this on a venn diagram of Jewish mothers is practically a circle
Frida Kahlo
Dyed blonde woman wearing an N95 mask, fake silver hoop earrings, and a black and white horizontally striped shirt. Out the train window behind her, some rocks and trees.
Figure from a scientific paper showing, among other things, adult cows sucking each others' teats
El País, el 27 de agosto: "Trump da un nuevo salto en su deriva autoritaria y populista"