Author: M Téllez
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Monk reviews Don’t Look Up
Originally written for CineSPEAK journal as No Imagination: A Working Class Sci-fi Writer’s Read of Don’t Look Up **Spoilers Alert** During the first great plague of the 21st century, Hollywood took to producing Don’t Look Up, an engrossing film about a comet striking the Earth and all of humanity too caught up reacting to their…
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A cyborg’s Recap Leaving Jupiter in Aquarius
What you’re reading is a port from my subscription services, patreon, and substack where i crosspost the free content. I post at a frequency between monthly and seasonally lately, and not all of it is posted here by a long shot, so I encourage you to subscribe if you like what you find here at…
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“Desire Practice for Cyborgs” with Common Field 2021
For those who can’t get enough of my Desire Practice offering, here’s a recording of the one I did with COMMON FIELD, a national network of independent arts organizations and organizers, back in November of 2021. Friday, Nov 5, 20215pm EDT/2pm PDTWorkshop: 60 min Partner SessionOrganized by 2021 Convening Partner S RodriguezFacilitated by M Téllez…
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Cyborg Memoirs Fan Club is Here
“Sci-fi magic smut survivor memoir.”“Desire Hope Despair.”“Not everybody is good at their body.”“You must forge yourself into a weapon.”“There will be no new colony.” Cyborg Memoirs first existed as the personal website of me, Magus Monk bka M. Téllez fka number18, back on the FREE BANDWIDTH days of the mid 90s dial-up internet. In 2003,…
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Here Comes The Fall ’21 ☿ Intensive
Announcing the 2021 FALL MERCURY INTENSIVEOCT 4 – NOV 10, Mondays & Wednesdays, 7-9pm ESTapplications close friday, oct 1, 10pm EST Storytelling critique focused. Sci-fi, fantasy, magic, smut welcome. De-centering MFAs, career path academics, or those currently connected to/embedded in institutional resources. Priority to Philly native and long-time residents. Pay what you wish. ? Read…
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Recap on a Mercury Monastery
By all expressed accounts, the Mercury Intensive, my free, impromptu, experimental June-long writing and storytelling workshop, went well. If you recall, I decided I would run my own workshop after getting yet another rejection from a genre writing workshop I had been hoping to attend. (Admittedly, I don’t apply to a terrible amount of workshops…
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Monk Reviews Blue-Collar Conservatism by Timothy J. Lombardo
The postwar United States has experienced many forms of populist politics, none more consequential than that of the blue-collar white ethnics who brought figures like Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump to the White House. Blue-Collar Conservatism traces the rise of this little-understood, easily caricatured variant of populism by presenting a nuanced portrait of the supporters…
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MERCURY INTENSIVE FICTION WRITING WORKSHOP
Seeking participants for a first-time DIY Philly fiction writers workshop series, intensive for the month of June 2021, facilitated by M. Téllez (aka me, check the About if you need more info). If you are interested in participating, READ THIS PAGE and fill out the interest survey at the bottom. The survey will close on…
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Service Appreciation
An old fashioned internet shrine for service expressed through disposable items, mostly bags. @serviceappreciation After tagging a handful of posts with #serviceappreciation on my personal Instagram a couple years ago, I wound up creating a hobby account @serviceappreciation, where every post is a short story or meditation about a different plastic bag. The account has…
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Bookmarked
“This pandemic blows.” I’ve been saying this as a sign off or greeting in many of my short communications lately. Well—lemme get to the news part of this: All orders of my short story collection Transitional Times Transitional Body will now come with this handsome bookmark, designed for the new year and 4th printing of…
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Key Concepts of Message Perception + Futurism & Languages of Manipulation
In the summer of 2020 I put together two zines (PDFs & audio below) concerned with discerning propaganda and strengthening media literacy skills ~ how to call bullshit and pick apart media messages by peeping how and why they’re made, in other words. The impetus must’ve been from watching the media spin spin spin what…
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Monk Reviews Demystification #2
A collab between Ambroze Nzams & Paula Martinez. Through the mystery of social networks, I had been mutually following Paula Martinez online for a few years–someone who I never met but seemed cool and was part of a bunch of interesting and fun collab zine projects with friends of theirs. They approached me when volume…
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