Margaret Killjoy

@margaret.bsky.social

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host of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff and of Live Like the World is Dying. Latest book is Escape From Incel Island. she/they

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if i followed you on twitter but don't yet follow you on here can you tell me? my timeline is a little barren

this week's substack is a reflection on the various Russian Revolutions and how inspiring the soviet system could have been. It's called "The Lost Promise of the Soviets." margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/the-lost-p...

okay gonna try to open bluesky reflexively instead of twitter and see how that goes

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I’ve had this for a while, but finally getting around to showing off my copy of #PenumbraCity TTRPG. Many kudos to @margaret.bsky.social and the rest of the team 1/

latest substack post is free, continuing my series on preparedness. In it, I discuss the basics of storing food for crisis margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/the-year-o...

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finally cracking open my game guide for Penumbra City & I really like that in my head I'm reading it in @margaret.bsky.social 's voice

this week's substack is a paid post, about my time living alone during covid in a 12x12' off-grid cabin and also me grandiosely comparing myself to Oscar Wilde, the subject of next week's podcast. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/the-habits...

The Habits of Highly Successful Ghostsmargaretkilljoy.substack.com or: thoughts on isolation and Oscar Wilde

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i don’t really have a “guilty pleasure,” i don’t think? i do re-read a country of ghosts (by @margaret.bsky.social) p regularly when i need a little hope, i just finished another re-read of that last weekend. :)

ok, i took an edible again ngl.link/ellearmageddon

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Just finished WE WON'T BE HERE TOMORROW by @margaret.bsky.social and it's already gonna stay in my top favourite books of the year. Very glad I pre-ordered it last year. You should check out this book of weird, wonderful, brutal stories.

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Super stoked that my copy of Penumbra City arrived today! Also I have fallen desperately in love with the bomb-making anarchist computer scientist on page 38. @margaret.bsky.social (no idea if anyone else involved is on here, apologies if so!)

"We people have enough trouble from the state without establishing another one and becoming like the old bandits. You want to come up with a new, Jewish state. No, I think that the task of the Jews [...] is to demolish and make a furnace of the states." -emma goldman, 1907

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Margaret Skinnider, gender conforming, passing as a Fianna boy & in her Cumann na mBan uniform (right) with her life long partner Nora O’Keeffe (also Cumann na mBan) - they were revolutionary & feminist activists & lived together for over four decades in Clontarf, Dublin #LGBTplusHM

what modern short story writers are you particularly fond of? what fiction magazines are you reading that you find consistently impressive?

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Excellent pod installment from @margaret.bsky.social live-like-the-world-is-dying.pinecast.co/episode/10ef...

S1E105 - Eric King on Surviving Prisonlive-like-the-world-is-dying.pinecast.co # Episode Summary This week on Live Like the World is Dying, Eric King talks to Margaret about navigating and surviving prison. # Guest Info You can support Eric on IG @[supportericking](https://ww...

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really great/thoughtful piece from @margaret.bsky.social today—"There is no going back. We cannot go back to a world that no longer exists. Covid is with us, and we need to accept that. Our risk models have to change. This doesn’t mean we can’t gather, but it changes the ways we should"

This week's substack is about what's involved in looking soberly at the seriousness of climate change and how we maintain hope even as we learn to mourn entire seasons. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/how-can-we...

this week's substack is a tale of two bombers, a reflection on anarchism, violence, and ethics. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/anarchism-...

every other week on substack i make a more personal post, for paid subscribers. This week's is called "Do We Not Lose the Sparrow to the Spring" and it's about why I love winter. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/do-we-not-...

this week's substack is about how the IDF has attempted to implicate all queers worldwide in its genocide margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/in-the-nam...

In the Name of Lovemargaretkilljoy.substack.com Israel has tried to implicate queers worldwide in its genocide

this week's substack is me trying to answer a question I get a lot, about how to be involved in social movements when your skill set doesn't seem to directly apply. It's also about why I love movements that foster a diversity of tactics. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/a-movement...

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If you missed it make sure to check out my latest chat with @margaret.bsky.social where we talk about anarchy and history youtu.be/TfAgJz-vPa8

The Ghost of Anarchism with Margaret Killjoyyoutu.be In this episode I talked to the amazing Margaret Killjoy, anarchist author and podcaster. We talked about how she got into podcasting, how long she's been do...

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We're hosting biographer Eric Laursen with @margaret.bsky.social to discuss The Joy of Sex's eccentric author, a British physician and wide-ranging intellectual who passionately espoused anarchism, pacifism, and civil disobedience. Join us 11/20! firestorm.coop/events/3108-...

This week's substack is a more personal reflection on this week's podcast episode--spookytimes and the meaning of holiday and why I love my friend who scared off my Halloween bully with a baseball bat. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/all-hallows

All Hallowsmargaretkilljoy.substack.com On holiday, metaphor, and Appalachian graves

this week's substack post is about how I learned to care about history and about how America tries to destroy culture and cultural memory. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/i-didnt-al...

this week's substack is about turning 40 and is a refutation, or a complication, of the idea that people inherently get more conservative as they age. A Punk Looks at 40 or The Brittle Sword Has No Use in Battle margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/a-punk-loo...

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I got grilled by the British Fantasy Society - illustrated with some nice snaps of my furniture. Includes appreciative shout-outs to @juliansimpson.bsky.social @hutchinsondave.bsky.social and @margaret.bsky.social britishfantasysociety.org/meet-e-saxey/

Meet E. Saxey – The British Fantasy Societybritishfantasysociety.org

this week's substack post is free, "In Defense of Hope." It's me defending the idea of hope. Pretty literal title. I... hope... you like it margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/in-defense...

this week on Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff we're talking about the Dil Pickle Club, a cafe in 1920s Chicago that changed the city's culture forever that was run by a workingclass dynamiter, an Irish revolutionary, and a horny hobo doctor.

if you want to hear me read my novella The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion, we just launched the Cool Zone Media Book Club in both the It Could Happen Here feed and the Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff feed. Every Sunday, I'll be bringing you fiction, my own and that of others.

this week's substack is about why dichotomies are terrible and why all the cool kids think in triangles and circles margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/the-summer...

The Summer of Solacemargaretkilljoy.substack.com from A Black Triangle in a Green Forest