Top story: Once the majority has decided a marginalized group is the demon in one part of a story, it’s easier to paint them as demons in another. To counter this, we need to look at gender-expansive athletes in a detailed and holistic way. texasobserver.org/trans-athlet…

#transgender #gender #sports #politics #USpol #books #bookstodon #culture #LGBTQIA

Let Them Play: How Welcoming Trans Athletes Can Improve Sports Culture for All

Three recent books press us to understand the humanity and lives of gender-expansive athletes.

^{Jessica Luther (The Texas Observer)}

Lagging 9 years behind (and it feels too much), but my #fridayreads is @pluralistic 's #Walkaway, a book I bought as soon as it was out and now I wish I hadn't postponed its reading for so long...

#bookstodon

If you read ebooks on Amazon (sorry) and you're cheap (like me) then I can't recommend ereaderiq.com/ highly enough.

You set a price you'll buy a book at, and it emails you when it hits that price. It also has a graph of the price history so you can tell if the current price is a great deal or something that happens all the time.

Fun fact - I originally created their Chrome extension.

#bookstodon

Ooooooh! Becky Chambers has a new book coming out - the first in a duology! 🥳

As You Wake, Break the Shell is scheduled for release on October 13, 2026.

#BeckyChambers #ScienceFiction #books #Bookstodon

On my conference trip to #Edinburgh, I stumbled upon this bookshop. Had a very nice chat, and have to say, the self-description on the website is apt.

#Bookstodon

armchairbooks.co.uk/

So, nachdem mir @rwaschbaer das empfohlen hat, probiere ich mal das nächste @pluralistic Buch.

#bookstodon #bookstodon_de #buch #martyhench #corydoctorow

We tend to think the internet is permanent, but recent events remind us that our digital record is fragile & being shaped in real time.

Legal pressure, platform restrictions, and limits on tools like the Wayback Machine are already affecting what can be preserved and accessed.

📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE to see why it matters
📖 Download & read: archive.org/details/vanishing-…
🛒 Purchase in print: betterworldbooks.com/product/d…

#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #Bookstodon

I am super excited to announce that my work "Sirens" is on the cover of the sapphic horror anthology, "It Ends With Her"!

Love blooms as swiftly as it devours.
Pull back the layers to delve into the devotion and longing, the lust and the love, the triumphs and tragedy in this sapphic horror collection.

Out June 5, 2026.
Preorders: geni.us/itendswithher

#MastoArt #FediArt #bookstodon #illustration #sapphic #horror #LGBTQ+ #DarkFantasy

Our local independent bookshop has a monthly ‘mystery book’ subscription. The staff have hand-crafted teeny tiny editions of each title they’ve included so far. Each book cover is a faithful rendition of the real one. Amazon could never. AI could never.

#Books
#Bookstodon

Kerry Ferrand makes book review videos about a wide range of fiction and non-fiction. You can follow their review account at:

➡️ @kerry_ferrand

They've already published over 60 videos. If these haven't federated to your server yet you can browse them all at spectra.video/a/kerry_ferrand/…

#FeaturedPeerTube #Books #BookReviews #Fiction #NonFiction #Literature #Bookstodon #PeerTube

Kerry Ferrand

Another loathsome Gen-Xer in New Zealand. Buys lots of books and reads a few of them.

^{Spectra Video}

"When the world sleeps, it falls on us, we the people, to wake it up, and now more than ever the world needs an awakening".

Francesca Albanese

#SundaySentence #FreePalestine #Bookstodon #Resist

omg, we'd never escape. No, not ever.

#bookmemes #getnotified #bookstodon

Daniel Kraus Wins 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with Angel Down as a “breathless novel of World War I, a stylistic tour-de-force that blends such genres as allegory, magical realism and science fiction into a cohesive whole, told in a single sentence.”

#books #Pulitzer #PulitzerPrize #literature #book #bookstodon @bookstodon #Kraus #author #DanielKraus #AngelDown #reading #readingcommunity #booksky #bookstagram #writers #booktok

Finished reading “The Machine Stops” by E.M. Forster.

In this 1909 novella, humanity lives underground in isolated cells, every need met by the Machine. When it begins to fail, a mother and her rebellious son face civilization’s total dependency.

Forster’s prescience is incredible… predicting video calls and the internet in 1909 — but more so the haunting cultural gaslighting: a society too dependent to recognize its own decline.

5/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

goodreads.com/book/show/471185…

#bookstodon​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

The Machine Stops

The Machine Stops is a science fiction short story (12,…

^Goodreads

John Hollander’s poem Kitty and Bug is self-explanatory in its simplicity. The cat’s unpunctuated, almost stream-of-consciousness thoughts fit into a physical ‘cat’ shape, while the bug – in sharp contrast – is but a 3-letter word near the edge of the page.

Happy #Caturday !

#poetry #poem #cat #cats #kitty #catsOfMastodon #books #reading #literature #bookstodon @bookstodon

📚 New Book Stuff on the #Blog!
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb #1) by Tamsyn Muir
🦴🦴🦴🦴 4/5 Bones - Unlike nothing I've read before, and against the odds, I loved this weird tricky book!
The post Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb #1) by Tamsyn Muir appeared first on The Wallflower Digest.

thewallflowerdigest.co.uk/book…

#Blogging #Blogger #BloggingCommunity #RSSFeed #Bookstodon #BookBlogger #Reading

Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb #1) by Tamsyn Muir - The Wallflower Digest

^{Alice (The Wallflower Digest)}

Today is Harper Lee’s 100th birthday.

Born in a small town in Alabama, where her father worked as a lawyer, Lee loved #books. One of her childhood friends was Truman Capote, who spent time in #Monroeville as a boy. Years later, she turned the world she knew into a novel about the difficult bravery of doing what is right when the world refuses to do so.

Do you like her novel To Kill a Mockingbird?

#writers #HarperLee #reading #literature #bookstodon #booksky
@bookstodon

75% of 1980s video games tracked by the LGBTQ Video Game Archive are preserved and accessible in some form.

But that’s not the whole story.
25% are still at risk or unavailable.
Preservation isn’t automatic.

It takes deliberate effort to keep cultural history accessible.

📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE free from the Internet Archive ⤵️

📖 Download & read: archive.org/details/vanishing-…
🛒 Purchase in print: betterworldbooks.com/product/d…

#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #MTVNews #Bookstodon

This is a very Accelerando-like issue we're up against. I remember when the music copyright mafia busted in and attacked Manfred and how he had a near constant influx of patents and lawsuits coming and going, so much so he required external brain augmentations to process/handle everuthing, and most lawsuits were not even from humans. It's sounding more and more familiar every day. Manfrer was really on to something refusing to deal in money. The future really is a foreign country... 🤷

#accelerando #sciencefiction #solarpunk #futurism #ArtificialIntelligence #technology #copyright #censorship #decentralized #bookstodon