1 donation in 1 month. Hamdan's family has been driven off this platform by its racist and genocidal admins, like so many Palestinians exhausted by making new accounts. You can help them survive by sharing & donating.
A banner dropped in Chicago on June 2, reading “Open the cages, free them all”—connecting Chicago’s Broadview detention facility to the hunger strike and protests at Delaney Hall Detention Center in Newark.
Keep up the pressure.
Background:
crimethinc.com/Broadview2025
crimethinc.com/DelaneyHall
Today
This is the deep nerd shit that I live for
Not to play favorites, but the Ignytes are the best, and so it's an especial joy to see TWO (2) Deadlands poets honored as poetry finalists, along with three other fantastic works! Congratulations, @angelaliu.bsky.social and Ishita Basu Mallik! Our skeletons love your skeletons dearly.
What’s even more jarring is this is all security theater. It’s farce to appease the racist xenophobic populace. There’s no reason whatsoever to treat high performance athletes, most of whom play in European leagues, as any kind of threat to the fucking US.
no.... 👀.... i shan't.....
Wow what a moment! We are so honored to be on the ballot and in such splendid company!!! Thank you so much to the Ignyte Team for seeing and recognizing our efforts!
Angela/@angelaliu.bsky.social's poem The Language of Fireflies is pinprick-bright and aching. It was in Issue 37, and you can read it here: psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
Indrapramit Das
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective
Ishita's poem After the Storm is one of those pieces where every phrase is a jewel of precise, evocative imagery. It's a scene that's been held in the palm of anyone who's seen the end of a monsoon or a hurricane. psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
'My family desperately needs help at this time'. You can help Hamdan's family survive Israel's genocide by sharing & donating. They're starving, homeless, & sick under intensifying bombing:
The streets are lined with glass treesWe weave through their false light for a taste of a real moon, fold […]
When I go back, months laterto warm tired bones,clipped-wing ducks preen in the shallows Their feeding frenzy ripples out,a scatter […]
psychopomp.com
How teams/delegations are received in Mexico versus the US
It's me, Nico.
It's me, Nico.
It's me, Nico.
It's me, Nico.
Harare Review of Books
And finally the #2026IgnyteAwards Community Award for Outstanding Efforts in Service of Inclusion and Equitable Practice in Genre are:
@augursociety.bsky.social
@jasonsanford.bsky.social
@sistahscifi.bsky.social
@strangehorizons.bsky.social
@willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social
Tissa
It's me, Nico.
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Will This Be A Problem?
Hello everyone, I am Hamdan, a father of eight living in northern Gaza.
The #2026IgnyteAwards finalist in Speculative Poetry are:
After the Storm – Ishita Basu Mallik
In an attempt to seduce Death my sister starts calling him Love – Karan Kapoor
Set It Off (1996) – Fans’ Cut – Nova Cypress Black
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Back in 1900 these men in bowler hats walked around with their pickle sizing cases selling Heinz pickles to grocers.
Indrapramit Das
If climate fiction is your thing, don't miss this.
June 10 I'm hosting Vandana Singh, Sheree Renée Thomas & Wole Talabi on how speculative storytelling shapes what futures feel possible.
Free on Zoom | 11am ET.
RSVP here: luma.com/19l5xgr9
#CliFi #Solarpunk #Climate #Fiction
What with all the Backrooms and Obsession discourse about murky vs clear lighting… is now a good time to drop my interview with Christian Sprenger, DoP for WIDOW’S BAY? I think it is!
We get into it on Barry Lyndon, night shots, working with Hiro Murai and Ti West, Jaws, The Shining, and more!
The Ignyte Awards
Ian Carrillo
In an era defined by democratic backsliding, climate crisis, disinformation, fear-mongering, and the normalization of cruelty, speculative climate fiction…
We spoke to Christian Sprenger, DoP for Widow’s Bay, about how he and Hiro Murai built the visual language for the series, the secret to getting your audience to lean in, how Jeff Hiller is the goofie...
