Sim Kern

@simkern.bsky.social

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Bestselling author of THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE and DEPART, DEPART! among others Environmental journalism Trans, Jewish, Gulf Coast, they/them

The front and back covers of THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE by Sim Kern, showing a link smashing a robot dog, another punk smashing an electric guitar saying “enough is enough” and a burning cop car
Books by Sim Kern for the Trans Rights Readathon, featuring the cover of DEPART, DEPART! (Quiet horror, all trans cast of characters, how to survive a dybbuk, a hurricane, & other Texans), REAL SUGAR IS HARD TO FIND (scifi fantasy and horror short stories, all kinds of trans rep, stories progress from nightmare dystopias to queer solarpunk utopias), THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE (alt timeline scifi, trans romance, trans punk band fight to save their warehouse from demolition & spark a revolution)
A screenshot of CNN story “Israel resumes” then the next few words are crossed out in red “combat operations against Hamas.” And replaced with “Genocide”
Author meets Booktok: Rashid Khalidi and Sim Kern on THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR ON PALESTINE, librarians and archivists with Palestine, Dec 4, 7am Los Angeles, 10am New York, 3Pm London, 5pm Jerusalem, 6pm Nairobi, with pictures of the authors and the cover of the book
Screenshot of text message “my best friend Mack just told me they read the best book that helped them cope with life and queerness and the end of the world…and it’s Sims book. OMG! Could you bring a copy today when you come?!”
A “demonstration of learning” end of class quiz with a reading passage that cites chatgpt as the source
Amazon screenshot showing THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE as a #1 New Release in LGBTQ+ scifi
Screenshot of Amazon page for THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE w/orange banner calling it the #1 New Release in LGBTQ+ Scifi
Front and back cover of THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE, featuring various punks up to no good against a red background
Screenshot of USA Today bestsellers list, focusing on THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE listed at #86
Two gorgeous round braided challah loaves
Graphic says “A Pattern emerges” and has texts and tweets from four people: Ehigbor Okosun, Nicky Drayden, Phoebe Cramer, and Laura all saying they stayed up all night reading THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE crying
Graphic with cover of THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE, indie next logo, and quote from nominator: “The Free People’s Village goes so hard! Sim Kern’s masterpiece burns with righteous fury … it sliced straight through frustration, fatalism, and ennui and made me want to fight back.” —Shana Hausman, @allshewrotebks
Author with short brown hair and freckles (sim Kern) smiling creepily over a stack of red books —THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE
Cover of THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE by sim Kern. A punk smashed a police drone with a baseball bat on a red background
Butterfly meme “people leaving Twitter because you have to pay $8.99/mo or no one sees your tweets” butterfly text “threads charging $14.99/mo or no one sees your tweets” bottom text: IS THIS LIBERATION?
Threads screenshot of four boring posts by people I don’t follow talking about how excited they are to be on threads
Cover of DEPART, DEPART by Sim Kern. Title on a background of brown water with a ghostly blurred image of a boy.
Q judging Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation.
That scene from OVER THE GARDEN WALL, where all the gourd people are dancing together as their giant pumpkin king looms over them
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