Christopher Caldwell

Black queer surfers. Black queer bank-robbers. Black queer sea monsters. Black queer sorcerers. Black queer rootworkers. Black queer sailors. Black queer saints. Black queer sinners. It’s Black! It’s queer! It’s Here! Now available! www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-a...

I’m really looking forward to sharing the story in this issue with you all!

I know times are weird for a lot of folks right now, but if you've ever been interested in owning one of my originals, these three framed paintings are still looking for loving homes 🖤. everydayoriginal.com/artist/Matth...

I feel like “butt naked” carries a slightly different tone than “buck naked”

Some of y’all got reading comprehension issues so gonna paraphrase: it’s dishonest to call a person of multiple marginalizations “privileged” just because they express concerns about the opposition party signalling their willingness to abandon protections for them.

If you are a white person and a non-white person repeatedly tells you what their name is and you insist on calling them a name of your choosing, you are engaging in racism, regardless of you feeling you hold no racial animosity or malice.

It’s Christopher. I’m in Oakland the now. And if me defending a Black, trans person living in New York has the power to “ratfuck” as you inelegantly put it the entire Democratic Party’s electoral efforts, they have bigger problems than one writer with a small following noting some of their failures

Why are they like this? I ignored the weirdos and had a lovely dinner with my friend and then spent time in community with other writers.

Bluesky liberals are so tiresome in their tunnel vision and lack of nuance. I want to be sympathetic, because I don’t think they want fascism any more than I do, but boy do they seem eager to jump on me for reservations about the Democratic Party being effective opposition

Hahahahhahaha

It’s funny how people accuse me of sitting elections out. I’ve been voting since I was 18. I voted in both countries I was eligible to this year. I just don’t think it’s a magic band-aid, and I think we need to hold our representatives’ feet to the fire.

Point out where I have lied. Provide specific examples. Go ahead. Extraordinary claims require evidence.

I hate the disingenuous framing of marginalized people who are not sanguine at the prospect of being crushed underfoot by a Democratic Party that has shown repeatedly that it will jettison any pretense of protecting the welfare of the vulnerable as “privileged”

The Australian government is introducing legislation to allow AI companies to use authors’ work to build their models. This would apply to authors from anywhere in the world. Authors: To sign the US Author's Guild petition against (you don't need to be a member): authorsguild.org/news/austral...

Fake hoteliers have to do real hotel things?

Congratulations to Pip Adam @pipadam.bsky.social for winning the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin prize!

As a citizen of Britain and also the United States, I can confidently confirm that Britain is not at all the least racist country in the world. They innovate kinds of racism here that Americans haven’t even begun to explore.

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Best of luck to our Christopher Caldwell for tomorrow's announcement of the 2026 winner of the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! Here's Chris introducing his shortlisted collection, Call and Response, on the Le Guin Foundation channel. @seraph76.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p7b...

We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.

Had an optometrist appointment before I go see the mountain goats. My eyes will be dilated for the most boring reasons

I had a dream about the king of Sweden. He gave me things I been needin’ He gave me a home made of gold and steel, a diamond car with platinum wheels

“Films Roger Ebert hated and got wrong: number 1, the Village…” Nah, the Village was terrible.

It’s COLD

*clears throat* I went on down to the Audubon Zoo…

This post makes me think of @seraph76.bsky.social ‘s writing.

You know, making a man out of wicker doesn’t sound like a terrible idea

Those mountains are clearly dragon teeth.