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[bajoop-sheeb]

PLEASE for the love of the universe read anti-colonial science fiction and fantasy written from marginalized perspectives. Y’all (you know who you are) are killing me. To see people praise books about empire written exclusively by white women and then turn around and say you don’t know who Octavia Butler is or that you haven’t read any NK Jemisin or that Babel was too heavy-handed just kills me! I’m not saying you HAVE to enjoy specific books but there is such an obvious pattern here

Some of y’all love marginalized stories but you don’t give a fuck about marginalized creators and characters, and it shows. Like damn

[spid3rgrrrl]

If anyone has any recommendations give them to me please!

[bajoop-sheeb]

Gladly! The pieces on this list aren’t limited to specifically anti-colonial science fiction and fantasy, but they do center related and relevant topics, themes, etc.

Anything by NK Jemisin. She is the best speculative fiction writer of her generation and probably the best speculative fiction writer alive. She is easily one of the best writers working right now, across all genres. That’s not hyperbole. She deserves all the hype.

Anything by Octavia Butler. She needs no introduction. Her short fiction is incredible; “Bloodchild” is one of the pieces that inspired me to write.

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon. Excellent. Just read it.

The Radiant Emperor duology by Shelley P. Chan. It broke my heart and it'll break yours.

Babel by RF Kuang. You’ve probably already heard of this book because Harper Voyager marketed the shit out of it and was right to do so. It’s very, very good. Kuang writes a compulsively readable story, that’s for sure.

The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo.

So Long Been Dreaming: Post-Colonial Science Fiction and Fantasy (anthology) edited by Nalo Hopkinson.

Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (anthology) edited by Nalo Hopkinson.

Severely underhyped books of assorted speculative genres:

The Blood Trials by NE Davenport. Given the current chokehold romantasy has on the public it’s insane to me that this book hasn’t sold a billion copies.

The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez. It’ll change you.

The Tiger’s Daughter by K. Arsenault Rivera.

The Lesson by Caldwell Turnbull.

Read widely. Read diversely. People of the Caucasian persuasion need to stop getting pissy when the story doesn’t immediately center them and they don’t automatically relate to everything the character says and does and is. Just let yourself get swept in the story—even if it touches on (gasp!) racism—and maybe, just maybe, it’ll reveal something to you.

Or maybe not! Marginalized sff authors do not have to and should not have to educate their readers. But if I see one more white person complain about how Black characters are fundamentally annoying because they complain too much I’m going to fling myself into the sun

Thanks for coming to my ted talk I didn’t want to do it but here I am

[teeth-and-spackle]

Don't forget Aliette de Bodard! Especially her Xuya and Dominion of the Fallen series.

Zen Cho is my other favorite - Sorcerer to the Crown and The True Queen, and also Black Water Sister.

[minago]

Great list! I will also recommend anything by Samuel R. Delany.

[ariaste]

Also reccing P. Djèlí Clark's books, especially Ring Shout, which is like "what if Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a black woman and the KKK was still the KKK but now they're literal horrifying monsters as well as figuratively so". It's SO BADASS.

[shu-of-the-wind]

others to add!!

The Unbroken by CL Clark

ANYTHING by Nghi Vo, not just Empress of Salt and Fortune; When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain and the rest of the Singing Hills cycle, which EoSaF starts, are incredible as well as The Chosen and the Beautiful (an adaptation of the Great Gatsby).

Mexican Gothic and The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, both by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Song of Silver, Flame like Night like Amelie Wen Zhao

Nothing but Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw

ANYTHING by Tasha Suri but especially The Jasmine Throne and its sequel The Oleander Sword

THE LIST KEEPS GOING YOU GUYS

[yaketysmax]

Check out the IGNYTE awards and Fiyah mag for loads of great authors to discover! There are lists of award winners going back years, and also mags you can subscribe to to discover and support new talent 2025 Results - The Ignyte Awards

a few authors whose work I've loved: A. D. Sui Premee Mohamed Yoon Ha Lee Vajra Chandrasekera

[weary4u]

I genuinely believe sports are too exciting for guys. Too much stimuli. It's like taking your reactive dog to a parade. Foolhardy

[parthenogenon]

they literally break things because of it. sports should be rationed like a treat. no rape / rape down this year = one tournament in one sport of their choice. statistics the same = NO tournament. statistics up = winning team from the last tournament are kneecapped.

[sivavakkiyar]

US accepts only white refugees for sixth consecutive month

The Trump administration is spending more than $100 million to fight the "emergency" of "white genocide" in South Africa.

[stillnaomi]

Every single one of the 599 refugees the US admitted last month was a white South African, according to data the State Department’s Bureau of Population released Friday.

In fact, so was every other refugee admitted this year. Since October 1, 2025, the US has accepted 6,668 refugees. Of those, 6,665 were white South Africans. Three—admitted last November—were from Afghanistan. No other refugees were admitted.

[marbleguard]

And this is only half the story. They are also revoking the legal status of existing immigrants granted protected status due to fleeing dangerous conditions in their home countries… and let’s look at which countries they are:

Trump canceled temporary legal status for more than 1.5 million immigrants in 2025

Since Inauguration Day, more than 1.5 million immigrants have either lost or will lose their temporary legal status, including their work au

[hammerandtheanvil]

and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming

[thevastnessof]

it’s actually quite easy to take over a small local government group if you really want to, bc if you volunteer consistently people will just put you in charge of whatever. I’m now one of like three people at a nature preserve making official decisions about trails, putting in a prairie, and designing a series of illustrations for a storybook trail etc., and it’s just because last summer I started coming over once a week to help the naturalist out for a couple hours. Mine now. you too can steal an organization and shape it to your will 🫵

[thoughtportal]

As someone who works in municipal government, I'm telling you, if you and like, 3 of your friends consistently show up to board or commission meeting, you could totally change how your city is run. I've watched it happen.

[fuckcrumpets]

“There is ZERO reason for [female-only] spaces to exist.” Okay.

[loserdogma]

What they meant to say was “there is ZERO reason for female-only spaces to exist that I respect.” There are thousands of reasons for female-only spaces, they just do not respect or value those reasons.

[doingitatmybirthdaydinner]

if males aren't any more unsafe than females, then go be with the males. go in the male bathroom and locker room, and the male college dorm. you'll be safe, because amab bodies are not unsafe and you don't have trauma from amab bodies. tell the males in those spaces that they won't be better for excluding minorities.

[fancycolours]

TWIGGY. (1969.) Photo taken by Justin de Villeneuve.

[unfamiliarsculptures]

This leopard sculpture is obvara fired! This technique involves dipping a hot piece right out of the kiln into a yeast solution, creating unpredictable and unique patterns. This sculpture will be available this Friday, June 12th at 8pm Eastern time.

[sleepboulevard]

I will forever hate passive aggressive tumblrspeak. "Friendly reminder that " "hey friend! " "hope that helps " "we need to normalize" Die die die die

[fuckcrumpets]

“There is ZERO reason for [female-only] spaces to exist.” Okay.

[loserdogma]

What they meant to say was “there is ZERO reason for female-only spaces to exist that I respect.” There are thousands of reasons for female-only spaces, they just do not respect or value those reasons.

[doingitatmybirthdaydinner]

if males aren't any more unsafe than females, then go be with the males. go in the male bathroom and locker room, and the male college dorm. you'll be safe, because amab bodies are not unsafe and you don't have trauma from amab bodies. tell the males in those spaces that they won't be better for excluding minorities.

[lurknotes]

every damn time

[faeberrywine]

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[archivemorgue]

[blackpyrefly]

[showing a medieval peasant radioactive by imagine dragons] so we have devices that can record sounds and music as if it were words upon a page

peasant: can we listen to something else

me [lying maliciously]: this is the only song we have.

[antlered-vixen]

I am so tired of short-attention-span, trim-the-fat culture. All writing advice these days is for how to write like Chuck Palahniuk. "Cut 'think', cut 'feel', cut 'wonder' - only action, only pushing forward, show and move and move and move." What if I could emulate this style, and still don't want to? What if I want to write like Henry James, with three paragraphs of introspective musings between each dialogue line? The music advice is, "make it shortform, make it Tik-Tok compatible, make it punchy, hit the refrain as soon as possible." What if I want that 10-minute prog rock piece? What if I want that symphony? What if I want it slow and luxurious and lazy? Movies. Series. Poetry. Bodies. Everything is "trimmed trimmed trimmed trimmed, stripped bare, you have three seconds to win me over, make it airport chic." I don't want to win you over, then, I guess. I want the fat left it. I want the pleasure and the indolence and the indulgence. Fuck this art-advice that's always "your art needs Ozempic."

[bryszket]

I WANT THE FAT WITH IT (1000 fire emojis) This this this. I despise 'write like this' advice. Like, write however the fuck you want.

[env0]

I've heard TikTok songs and they are punchy but have no staying power because they don't have the fat. Your art needs the fat to sustain itself much like how your body needs fat to sustain itself. Once any intake is complete.

[gnomebutch]

how can you see homosexuals being punished by death or genital mutilation and think it’s somehow a progressive policy due to it being “affirming”

[finnishrogue]

"at least they're trans positive" there is no "at least" here you dipshit

it's JUST homophobia. and it is also why trans ideology and gay rights are two INHERENTLY imcompatible ideas.

the fact that this shit is "surprising" to trans activists makes them sound like such fucking morons.

[bushpropaganda]

where the fuck have these people been?? "transing the gay away" has been a thing since homophobia has existed. imagine aligning yourself in any way, shape, or form with a government that either executes homosexuals or forcefully sterilizes them because the homophobic government murdering gay people "affirms" the transition gay people have no choice but to go through.

it's a very similar concept to the indian government being "pro-trans" but when you look closer only TIMs are recognized and protected and allowed to enter women's spaces, because trans ideology is embraced by the most misogynistic countries as a way to further victimize women while still getting congratulated by western governments for being "progressive".

how WEIRD that of all progressive movements, trans activism is the only one that's been popularized worldwide. in countries where women are gang raped in broad daylight and gay people are routinely executed, transness is fully accepted with zero pushback.

it's almost like trans ideology is fucking regressive and is being weaponized all over the world to further subjugate women and homosexual people! what the fuck are we doing!

[nightmarereverie]

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[kippwire]

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