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9 Nov, 9 tweets, 2 min read
I bought myself this expensive headcovering to celebrate the favorable outcome of the elections.

turbansstuff.com/collections/me…

Been wanting to buy something from them for ages now. (There are several others that look so good too 😭)
Plus also bought some underscarves, one from here, two from elsewhere, because my underscarves are getting totally chewed up in the wash.

I feel like I wear them a lot more bc of COVID and wear kippot less. Easier to put my hair away.
(I wear both male-coded and female-coded headcoverings bc in my cultures sadly there is no such thing as non-gendered headcoverings.

This confuses people a lot.)
Here I'll show you some other cool ones!

Another shimmery one from the metallic line, rose gold:

turbansstuff.com/collections/me…
Very colorful sequins:

turbansstuff.com/collections/tu…
Also sequins, and look, this is totally the intersex colors:

turbansstuff.com/collections/tu…
Confused by the name, but this has the best texture ever:

turbansstuff.com/collections/ne…

(I would love this in a darker blue color!)
There is also a very cool blue one that doesn't want to come up in the search, so you'll just have to believe it exists.
And now I should sleep, after this kind of random intermission. (Support small businesses! I was not paid for this outburst.)

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11 Nov
I want to talk a little bit about autism in fiction because of the latest trashfire.

(Will link in thread)

Specifically, the whole subgenre of "my sibling is autistic, woe is me" MG/YA books by parents of autistic kids,

but the discussion will be a bit wider than that.
So this is the latest trashfire - thank you to @ahomeforthelost for speaking up about it:

Now, this is bad in itself.

But what is even worse is that there are so many books like that, I honestly feel like I can call it a subgenre.

"Sibling of autistic kid comes to terms with having an extremely annoying autistic sibling"

This is terrible and yet SO common.
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For the record, I disagree with both "there are two sexes" and "there are three sexes":

How sex as a biological phenomenon is divided up into concepts is entirely *cultural*

One of my cultures has historically had 4 sexes + 2 more variations on M/F (+1 of those with 2 subtypes)
Fellow intersex people, I know it is very tempting to go all in on "there are THREE sexes" in response to bigots saying "there are TWO sexes".

But please remember these are *both* Anglo-Western conceptualizations in these discussions.
Yes, the "three sexes" is certainly an improvement over "intersex people don't exist, ever"

But these are not the only two possibilities.

If we subscribe to these being the only two possibilities, that erases *all* non-Western and/or Indigenous sex systems.
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Whenever there is someone saying "I'm not interested in diversity, only in literary quality," I tell my story about reviewing short fiction, and I haven't had a handy thread of it before.

So, thread! (Later I can just bump it when the topic comes up again. It does a lot)
I started reading short stories online -- mostly SFF stories, but not exclusively - in the early 2010s.

At first I'd read everything. (There were also fewer stories back then, and I read fast, so it was feasible to read most of the recent SFF stories.)
I thought that I would also review everything!

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I applied and got one, so I wanted to make sure I'd both make an informed choice and contribute to the community.
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Thinking about multiple discussions this past week (in multiple languages) re: men and women writing "hard SF" - i.e., science-based work.

I'm a nonbinary person (I'm also intersex) and a scientist :), who writes hard SF, but it almost *never* gets discussed in that context -
It gets discussed a lot in other contexts.

So it's not about my writing specifically, but how we as a field categorize stuff? I feel it might be worth poking at this for a thread's duration...

(and I just got through a lot of work email and need a break!)
It often gets categorized as fantasy.

Now, I do write fantasy too, and also science fantasy where there are spaceships and magic.

But I also write very straightforward hard SF. And that gets called fantasy too, even though I'm much more a science fiction writer.
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Their work engages with disability, migration, gender and Indian themes, among other things -
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I strive to be brave like this. It takes bravery.
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And hopefully how to avoid unintended consequences of worldbuilding. :)
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