K. N. Brindle (they/them)

If you've ever wanted humanist, intimate fantasy and sci-fi centering queer characters and emotional, heartfelt storylines, you'll love my debut duology Paths of Memory, and for a lighter read my blue-collar space opera Common Accord Find out more and buy at: knbrindle.com

People with no taste are always big mad when it’s pointed out that they have no taste. Ho-hum.

I literally can't get my correct gender marker on my corrected birth certificate (X) because my state driver's license can only be F or M, which functionally means I'm not allowed to vote because my IDs don't match which is a felony, but somehow being nonbinary isn't part of my trans oppression?

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Today is Intersex Awareness Day. I am intersex – and did not find out until I was 26! Intersex people are also impacted by the decision in FWS, but this is much less talked about. Intersex people continue to be subjected to non-consensual medical interventions. Intersex rights are human rights.

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This is a great bundle if you like space adventures! I have read a few of these books already and they are great, and the authors are amazing people too!

Common Accord is in this bundle! 21 books for $21!? Jes & Windy would be proud of this steal 😅

#QueerWritersChat: Intro: Sup fellow queerdo's? Good to see (or meet) you all again🫶 I'm Shannon (she/her) an out neurodiverse writer, filmmaker, and a single mom. When I'm not doing work in writing services I'm a substitute teacher finishing up my degree so I can start getting my teaching license.

I cannot wait to see what’s coming!

Fantastic news from Aotearoa New Zealand - trans healthcare professionals have won their court case against the government, overturning the country's ban on puberty blockers. Huge respect and congratulations to everyone involved in this fight.

It isn't hard to understand. Don't do work to make money for a guy who wants to have you killed. This is not an unreasonable baseline. Are you non-white? Are you non-Christian? Are you a journalist? Are you a liberal? Are you not fash? Do you live outside the "west"? Then Elon wants you *dead*.

Buy my books tho, they're good

anyone who is still an enthusiastic harry potter fan in 2026 deserves to be publicly shamed & bullied

I write “Humanist sci-fi and fantasy.” No dark lords, chosen ones, or end-of-the-world stakes. Instead, thoughtful, intimate, and emotional portrayals of people who happen to live in alternate worlds.

Please remember that for every VE Schwab and Stephen King, there are a lot of banned Black, queer, and POC writers you've never heard of, to whom it is maybe not a badge of honor but a denial of their voice. Being banned is not a marketing opportunity, unless one is already rich.

It's also one of the things that seems to trigger reality breaks. Talking a lot at a bot even in a non-real imaginary context as a character in a story you know is pretend is dangerous, we really should not let these uses become normalized. These programs literally kill people. Often children.

to the cis people who are like “trans people were never erased from history, that’s a lie!” i want you to pay attention to it happening right in front of your eyes all of this to strip records from a whopping ELEVEN people in fifteen years erasing our accomplishments is part of it

More evidence of the hidden ways in which LLMs are powered by (likely exploited and poorly paid) humans

So now you need our votes after all? If our options are "you don't get full civil rights any more", and "you don't get full civil rights any more, but in blue", and you don't like the possible consequences for cis people, you have a problem. I won't be complicit in my own oppression.

i would rather remove my eyeballs than witness an AI tingler cover

As hospitals across the country cave to the Trump administration’s threats to cut federal funding and abandon trans youth, actor Elliot Page speaks out. In New York City, NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, and NewYork-Presbyterian abruptly ended care for trans kids in response to these threats.

Sigh… desperately wish I could afford to finance translations of my books. And audiobooks. And broader marketing. And… Guess what I will never allow? Use of genAI for ANY of that.

Being a trans person in 2026 is like being a Marvel mutant, but without any powers to defend yourself.

HumanKIND Initiative is putting together an online library of books written by LGBTQIA+ authors. These voices are frequently excluded from traditional publishing, so we are dedicating an entire section of the library to indie and self-published authors. Is this you? THEN READ ON

I tried to think as to why people who are so willing to fight for immigrant rights have been spending the last four odd days telling trans people to shut up, but then I remember that when defending immigrants, every single one of them has said some version of "but who will pick our food?"

A better use of your time as a cis person is to email or phone your politicians and tell them not to rely on your support if they keep attacking trans people. Demand better from your politicians.

If you are agented by: The Wylie Agency, Malatesta Literary Agency, L. Perkins Agency, Global Lion Intellectual Property (formerly PMA Literary), Jeanne Fredericks Literary Agency, Sanford J. Greenburger, Dystel Goderich & Bourret, Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency ...read this and consider hard.

Analog Pixel Art! 💜☺️

“Intractable” gender dysphoria implies attempted conversion

#QueerWritersChat A5: I've been on a bit of a tear all week about Disney Imagineering starting to incorporate genAI into creative processes for the parks, which I think is wrong-headed for oh so many reasons. And I wrote about them. And then sent those thoughts in letters to five Disney execs.

Oh, for fuck's sake. If you had an "AI" generate the text, then you're not the author. "Oh, but the ideas are mine." Motherfucker, ideas aren't copyrightable, and neither is the text if "AI" barfed it out. In neither a logistical nor legal sense does the term "author" convey to you.