Author: M Téllez
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What Color Is Blue
Yours truly appears as a character in a scene from
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Transitional Times Transitional Body: a new short story collection
This (25-count zine-now) book follows a few personal (or I suppose artistic) decisions I made after working with outside publishers, wherein I told myself not to forget that writing for myself and my network is what’s most rewarding, both spiritually and financially. It contains four stories, two that were published in 2017, and two that…
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METROPOLARITY’s BAD USER AGREEMENT
BAD USER AGREEMENT, the latest episode of METROPOLARITY‘s Journal of Speculative Vision & Critical Liberation Technologies, is finally here. From conception to publication, this release took a few seasons and is the result of us doing the work according to our capacities and desires, rather than some production minded shit. It was also originally intended…
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Desire Practice Worksheet
A printable PDF of this worksheet can be downloaded here. For information about VENUS SATURN SQUARE itself, see this post. Firm but loving guidelines for filling out this worksheet: Be real and honest with yourself. No one else needs to read what you enter here unless you want them to. Write down your answers. This…
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VENUS SATURN SQUARE call for submissions
Calendar Dates First Drafts Due• November 16th [Friday]• send to magusmonk @ protonmail . com• don’t worry about word count Prompts & WorksheetsDesire Practice [PDF | text] Anticipated Release & Reading Soiree• Winter A Venus Saturn square? This aspect sometimes means unhealthy sensuality. They are hard, and do not know how to express their emotions.…
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Discipline Welcomes Beauty ~ A Cleaning & Organizing Grimoire ~ Audio Edition
Please enjoy this audio work in its entirety as read from the original zine, available for purchase here. Sonic ambiance provided by Pauline Darkstar. Discipline Welcomes Beauty by M Téllez A bitch’s/witch’s grimoire. Discipline, cleaning, and organizing are things I’ve developed a reputation for, and this zine meditates on the principles behind my habits. Appreciated…
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SEXINESS: Rituals, Revisions, and Reconstructions
Find a 2016 time capsule of yours truly in Discipline Press’s latest release. This book is 100% something I would be going to the South Street Tower Records every day after school to look at, and I’m winking at my 13 year old self as a contributor in it. So many beautiful essays in there,…
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Discipline Welcomes Beauty ~ A Cleaning & Organizing Grimoire
This feels appropriate for spring & the start of the zodiac year. A long-awaited grimoire regarding cleaning and organizing, something I seem to be known for/something I do for myself and also feel conflicted about. I used to be a very messy child. You couldn’t see the floor in my room, and I would dash…
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Meanwhile, Elsewhere & Transcendent 2
In 2017 I had two stories published in these two trans SFF anthologies. These were my first experiences outside of self-publishing, having stories published under contract in exchange for a dollar amount. Topside Press’s anthology got HEAT DEATH OF WESTERN HUMAN ARROGANCE and Lethe Press’s anthology got ABOUT A WOMAN AND A KID. Neither story…
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non-binary world buildling ~ Shameless Mag interview
The homie Estraven interviewed me about non-binary storytelling for a trans n women youth mag, Shameless. I liked this interview! Here’s an excerpt: Often when we hear the word binary it’s associated with the gender binary. But are there other binaries that you are exploring with your work? ALL OF THEM. Ok, well I think…
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An interview with Discipline Press
Just wanted to share an interview with yours truly that came out today from Tamara Santibañez’s Discipline Press: Here’s an excerpt: Tamara: I think you often don’t realize the scope of how different something you’re doing is or how underrepresented it is until you start doing it, and have created a point of comparison or…
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Unbound Worlds roundtable
I got on a video chat last weekend with Cat Fitzpatrick, Jeanne Thorton, Trish Salah, and Ayşe Devrim for a roundtable now transcribed over at Unbound Worlds SFF magazine. The article is titled Viable Ways For Living: Trans Authors on SFF in Meanwhile, Elsewhere The roundtable is all in reference to Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction…