Fast reader, slow writer, stealth introvert, openly grouchy woman in an ethically non-monogamous relationship with the USA. Words in Lightspeed, The Magazine of F&SF, Fantasy, khoreo, Nightmare, and others.. Reviews at www.equalopportunityreader.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/eqreader.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/eqreader.bsky.social/post/3ml5h5a77pc23Fully forgot I had a Bluesky account. Hey everybody.06 May 2026 00:30 +0000at://did:plc:cbnqohfajcdx3kmwfta5uspw/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml5h5a77pc23https://bsky.app/profile/eqreader.bsky.social/post/3lpuxb2zdhc2lI'm here all weekend! (I have got to get better at this promotions thing.) [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 May 2025 01:05 +0000at://did:plc:cbnqohfajcdx3kmwfta5uspw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpuxb2zdhc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/eqreader.bsky.social/post/3lprh6gvpvk2yI keep forgetting to check this app. *waves* What's going on?22 May 2025 15:39 +0000at://did:plc:cbnqohfajcdx3kmwfta5uspw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lprh6gvpvk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/eqreader.bsky.social/post/3ll5inwn5gk2wIt's so strange, as a Black person, to go to events about our culture in non-Black spaces. I'm at this thing about Wu-Tang Clan and when the speaker(also Black) brought up the 36 Chambers not ONE person hollered "Wu-TANG!". I'm not sure if I'd be more offended if they had. 😂24 Mar 2025 19:31 +0000at://did:plc:cbnqohfajcdx3kmwfta5uspw/app.bsky.feed.post/3ll5inwn5gk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/eqreader.bsky.social/post/3lkm5chz7uk2hI will never enjoy those posts that are like "hi, I'm (xyz ethnicity), can I do this (Black cultural thing)?" OMG go make a friend.17 Mar 2025 21:53 +0000at://did:plc:cbnqohfajcdx3kmwfta5uspw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkm5chz7uk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/eqreader.bsky.social/post/3lk7blvl4ak2nI'm not a "putting this in the universe" kind of person but I would really love to write a limited streaming series about Bill Pickett sometime in the next 5 years.12 Mar 2025 19:05 +0000at://did:plc:cbnqohfajcdx3kmwfta5uspw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lk7blvl4ak2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/eqreader.bsky.social/post/3ljdnhm47ys2rIt tickles me that the village in Kimberly Lemming's Mead Mishaps series is called Boohail. They be hailing the hell out of some boos, for sure.01 Mar 2025 19:23 +0000at://did:plc:cbnqohfajcdx3kmwfta5uspw/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljdnhm47ys2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/eqreader.bsky.social/post/3ljdir7hxbs2rSO MANY REJECTIONS LATELY. SO MANY FOLLOWUP SUBMISSIONS. And yet I continue to write. If this behavior were transported to any other part of my life, it would probably be considered a kink.01 Mar 2025 17:59 +0000at://did:plc:cbnqohfajcdx3kmwfta5uspw/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljdir7hxbs2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/eqreader.bsky.social/post/3lj2f3lpqoc25Me, staring at a crunchy filthy draft covered in notes and wrong verb tenses, hoping it'll become a well-wrought story someday... https://media.tenor.com/4pi2_uFvnwcAAAAC/divine-filth.gif?hh=304&ww=49826 Feb 2025 02:59 +0000at://did:plc:cbnqohfajcdx3kmwfta5uspw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj2f3lpqoc25https://bsky.app/profile/eqreader.bsky.social/post/3liyyndc52224"America likes its angry Black women best when we are poor and husband-less and mourning. I’m simply angry and Black. I apologize if that is not enough." Nicole Chulick WROTE this. Thank you for the words. https://www.midnightandindigo.com/police-officer-in-my-foyer/25 Feb 2025 13:44 +0000at://did:plc:cbnqohfajcdx3kmwfta5uspw/app.bsky.feed.post/3liyyndc52224https://bsky.app/profile/eqreader.bsky.social/post/3li3zm2ayf22xI don't know how I stumbled on this essay, but I love it. "My dad hated work before hating work was cool. His first job in the United States was as a clerk at the San Jose Department of Motor Vehicles on Alma Street. It was 1975 and the position paid $6 an hour." https://apogeejournal.org/2025/01/31/work-search-requirements/14 Feb 2025 01:14 +0000at://did:plc:cbnqohfajcdx3kmwfta5uspw/app.bsky.feed.post/3li3zm2ayf22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/eqreader.bsky.social/post/3lhrvb44v4c2fLeontyne Price is still living, and today is her 97th birthday. If you don't know the name, pause your day and look her up now.10 Feb 2025 00:29 +0000at://did:plc:cbnqohfajcdx3kmwfta5uspw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhrvb44v4c2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/eqreader.bsky.social/post/3lhpnnx6u6s2zIn 2002-ish, I started writing interconnected short stories about different ways of resistance in a future America that had become a fearful wasteland of company towns controlled by religious fascists.09 Feb 2025 03:08 +0000at://did:plc:cbnqohfajcdx3kmwfta5uspw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhpnnx6u6s2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/eqreader.bsky.social/post/3lhe74z6q2s2oI just found out that Joseph Heller wrote a sequel to Catch-22. It's called Closing Time, and it's still in print. It's also set in the 90s, while Catch-22 takes place in WWII. Not really in the mood to read war satire right now but will keep an eye out for it.04 Feb 2025 13:49 +0000at://did:plc:cbnqohfajcdx3kmwfta5uspw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhe74z6q2s2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/eqreader.bsky.social/post/3lhc4koy7y22nIf I had a dollar for every time in the past 6 months I read a really good story in Lightspeed that explored the idea of being a temporary, uncomfortable vessel for the gods... I'd have two dollars, but it's cool that it's happened twice. The stories in question...03 Feb 2025 17:57 +0000at://did:plc:cbnqohfajcdx3kmwfta5uspw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhc4koy7y22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/eqreader.bsky.social/post/3lgv3hedgmc2cI've been telling other Americans for years that a country's government is not a business. Now we have a bad businessman running the US. I'd be frustrated if all my years of being Black and smart and qualified hadn't prepared me to deal with perpetual top down incompetence and fallout consequences.29 Jan 2025 13:33 +0000at://did:plc:cbnqohfajcdx3kmwfta5uspw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgv3hedgmc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/eqreader.bsky.social/post/3lgooe4ekl22pRe:US politics at present-- I have cycled past horror, disbelief, rage, grief and an attempt at practical hope and am now at "Look I have too much shit to *do* for it to be a dystopia right now."27 Jan 2025 00:22 +0000at://did:plc:cbnqohfajcdx3kmwfta5uspw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgooe4ekl22phttps://bsky.app/profile/eqreader.bsky.social/post/3lgmb5uores2jI have been trying to get through Emilia Perez for like 36 hours and while it's not *bad* exactly, it feels like something that should be seen in a cramped basement room at the Edinburgh festival, not on a Netflix screen.26 Jan 2025 01:21 +0000at://did:plc:cbnqohfajcdx3kmwfta5uspw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgmb5uores2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/eqreader.bsky.social/post/3lgm5e5s6bs2rThis is what I like to see. [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Jan 2025 00:13 +0000at://did:plc:cbnqohfajcdx3kmwfta5uspw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgm5e5s6bs2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/eqreader.bsky.social/post/3lgm5bgzsjs2r@5calls.org is a GREAT app if you want a guide for contacting your local US legislators.26 Jan 2025 00:11 +0000at://did:plc:cbnqohfajcdx3kmwfta5uspw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgm5bgzsjs2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/eqreader.bsky.social/post/3lgj2tk2yos231st--post in forums and personally annoy every British person you know trying to find a very old children's story *you* read as a kid. 2nd-- just frickin' Google "old kids story about conkers" and find out it's by Enid Blyton, it's very well known, and the internet isn't dead after all. *sheesh*24 Jan 2025 18:50 +0000at://did:plc:cbnqohfajcdx3kmwfta5uspw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgj2tk2yos23https://bsky.app/profile/eqreader.bsky.social/post/3lgijq6j4322rOooh look what just arrived...24 Jan 2025 13:44 +0000at://did:plc:cbnqohfajcdx3kmwfta5uspw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgijq6j4322rhttps://bsky.app/profile/eqreader.bsky.social/post/3lgh2shxes22yI wrote a thing for my fellow sensitive dreamy reader people in the US who don't know where to start with the govt right now. https://equalopportunityreader.com/2025/01/23/hear-me-out-keep-reading-and-carry-on-but-also-take-action/23 Jan 2025 23:44 +0000at://did:plc:cbnqohfajcdx3kmwfta5uspw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgh2shxes22y