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Hey, that’s my book, Failure to Comply!

Cavar’s Failure to Comply is an abolitionist text concerned with trans, disabled, and Mad liberation as a speculative art.

Every story has its fugitives. “I,” a deviant self-hacker with three arms, two stomachs, and no name, is on the run from RSCH, a high-tech, authoritarian government that mandates wellness and carves the contours of truth itself. When I is kidnapped at axe-point to be mined for forbidden memories, they must struggle against RSCH’s medical abuse to recapture their history, reunite with their lover, and rewrite their future—or risk remaining Patient forever.

I crosses an epistolary, time-flipped dreamscape as they recollect their memories from RSCH’s hungry archive, and, in the process, write the story of their liberation.

Rivers Solomon said this about it:

Failure to Comply is a striking and fresh examination of life under boot of hegemonic corporate society lovingly and ecstatically told. With language that sings and stings, this novel disrupts the status quo with the form and poetry of its telling. This book made me feel. Each sentence excited and thrilled. I loved it.

It’ll be out on August 6. A percentage of the proceeds from pre-orders of FAILURE TO COMPLY (check out the new ~official~ cover!) now-June 30 will go to Palestinian LGBTQ organization alQaws. In July, for disability pride month, a percentage will go to the anticarceral care collective/respite space Wildflower Alliance.

If you haven’t pre-ordered your copy yet, now is the perfect time. Consider adding on goodreads –– where there’s currently a giveaway going! –– and storygraph while you’re at it, and tell your friends!

[see the original post about my book here :)]

Hello all! It’s independent bookstore day, which means it’s time for me to suggest 1) buying Failure to Comply and 2) doing so from an indie! You can buy a copy physically (us only) and/or as an ebook (worldwide) from Bookshop, a site that supports indie authors and bookstores with every purchase.

You can also check out my Shop Failure to Comply page, where I list some stores that stock/have stocked the book by state/country.

Lastly, if you don’t see your local on the list, consider placing an order through your favorite bookshop –– this helps them, but it also helps me, because stores place stock orders based in part on local reader interest. By ordering a copy, you might help Failure to Comply reach more bookstore shelves!

Thanks for shopping indie!!!

el-shab-hussein:

Hey all! There’s a campaign for eSims again which are in dire need!!!

For donating at least 16$ you can get 237 games in one bundle, valued at almost 900$!

They are donating all proceeds to Crips for eSims for Gaza!! Who have helped donate and top up over 18 000 eSims for people in Ghazzah!!

This campaign ends on May 20th, and they hope to make 20 000$!!!! Please help in whatever way you can. Spread the word, donate, or whatever else!

Crips for eSims for Gaza Bundle by Crips for eSims for Gaza and 176 others

Crips for eSims for Gaza Bundle: 237 items for $16.00

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mythicalogicall:

saw this today

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rubyjones:

Create your own book cover - without generative 'AI' | Ruby Jones

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Too many writers are using generative 'AI’ to make their book covers, so I’ve written a guide on how to make your own cover for free or cheap without turning to a machine.

If you can’t afford to pay an artist, you CAN make your own!

I hope this is a helpful overview that covers the basics and points to some free resources.

I annoyed my cat by writing this and not playing with her; you might find it useful?

This is a fantastic guide not only to the technical aspect of cover design but the aesthetic aspect as well!

This is GREAT STUFF. Highly recommend! Exactly the techniques I have used on covers in the past, and they look great!

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algorithmist:

Scientists Find Measles Likely To Become Endemic in the US Over Next 20 Years

A new study forecasts more than 850,000 measles cases over the next 25 years if US vaccination rates stay the same. Millions of infections a

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heavensghost:

I know I could have loved you but you would not let me

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junglejim4322:

No joke though watching people on here say the most basic heterosexual catholic ass bullshit is so funny straight up wymmmm you think if someone hasn’t been proposed to in two years they should break up. Wym there’s no point to a relationship without the end goal of marriage. Wym you think liking photos on instagram is indicative of wanting to cheat. Wym you think nonmonogamy is soulless. God damn lol you’re skirting the line judging of people based on body counts and saying bisexuals are more likely to cheat at that point

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rawan-soso:

PLEASE DON’T SCROLL BY!!

I don’t know what to share about my life anymore to get people’s attention. We are a family of ten trying to survive in northern Gaza. Our landlord keeps increasing our rent, and we will be at the mercy of the drones and the tanks if we have to leave, on top of having to leave behind all of our belongings. Every kind of food at the market now costs a fortune and there are no jobs available due to the dangerous situation outside, so we have to fully rely on this campaign.

Please help, I swear I’ll be thankful for anything. Share at least if you can’t afford to donate.

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bireaucracy-archived:

this one liberal dude on twitter made the (correct) take that parents have overwhelming power over their kids and very often abuse it and restrict children’s rights and he was ratio’d by conservatives, communists and liberals alike who made comments like “my kids will have rights when they pay the bills” to “aw are you upset mom and dad didn’t you get you a lega set for christmas”. way to prove his point lol! any criticism of the power dynamics adults and particularly parents have over kids and how it is often used to abuse kids or refuse to let them exist as themselves is drowned in mockery and the idea that parents have absolute authority over children and that any less than that is actually spoiling them.

i said it before: people only care about Children as an ideal. as property. as something that is Innocent and deserving protection From Evil Traffickers but also something Dumb that barely deserves the status of human with autonomy. and its fucking wild how even the staunchest communists think of this as normal, and how people refuse to understand that this dynamic is how kids are emotionally, physically and sexually abused, as well as robbed of their voices and too scared/ashamed to talk about it.

it’s worth saying this dude is the parent of a now adult trans girl, and his reflections absolutely come from parenting as well as how he was expected to behave as the father of a trans daughter, how much power he had over her treatment and the refusal of doctors and teachers to listen to her and going over her head to him so they could misgender her and make him consent to conversion therapy.

he did not do these things, but the expectation and judgement that he as a parent was supposed to take away her rights and the sheer power he had over her as a minor made him reflect a lot. and now people are mocking him for sharing this reflection, even as black kids are killed or sent into the school to prison pipeline, as disabled kids are refused humanity, as parents kill their kids to spite their divorced spouses, as trans kids get their healthcare revoked, as migrant kids remain locked in cages. even as these same people panic over child trafficking and pedophile sex rings and refuse to admit how much csa and abuse is from family members.

The fact that this view is so rare despite also being, in my view, extremely obvious is I think a reflection of how strongly incentives mediate our beliefs. My experience growing up was that by six years old every single person I knew had developed a thorough class consciousness for the “child” class and as I’ve gotten older, everyone I know who’s become a parent has forgotten it. Because ya know, it’s not in their interests any more. The authoritarian structure of the parent/child relationship should also be the prototype for how sociological systems replicate, because parenting styles are so directly passed down generationally.

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vodun day, 2020 benin. julio sacristan

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gothhabiba:

Last week, the Relief for Rafah (R4R) community kitchen provided a water truck, and cooked and distributed food for the residents of Al-Junaina, Rafah.

R4R need money to continue their efforts providing people with food, water, and medicine in Rafah. Ramadan begins tomorrow, and people need food and water to break their fasts.

Relief for Rafah - A Mutual Aid Project

Relief for Rafah (R4R) is a mutual aid initiative featuring team members from the US and Gaza. We are fundraising to support families in Al-

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Ramadan Kareem 🕌✨🌒

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ankle-beez:

ankle-beez:

wait are yall actually getting switch two’s

you people are weak and frail

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genderoutlaws:

didnt expect to be talking abt starbucks so much after i quit but it just keeps getting worse

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8 human trafficking survivors are suing Starbucks, exposing years of forced labor and child labor. the article starts with the story of a man who was enslaved at age 16 and was just rescued last year. if nothing else has convinced you to boycott, please let this sway you…

it also says the NGO CoffeeWatch is filing a complaint with US Customs and Border Protection attempting to block these corporations from importing coffees produced wholly or in part by slave labor in Brazil.

but this isn’t unique to Starbucks, this is the unspoken truth of many of our goods in the west, relying on the exploitation of people in the global south. i pray all the survivors secure a massive payout, but still.. i cant imagine anything would ever make up for this kind of treatment.

and i know a lot of people read headlines and not necessarily the whole article so I want to highlight a quote from Santos Filho at the end

“To put an end to this, we need consumers to be aware that every cup of coffee they drink, without questioning its true origin, is financing slave labour in coffee production. It’s no use feeling sympathy for the workers or claiming zero tolerance for such practices if you continue drinking coffee without questioning its source.”

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