Author: M Téllez
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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…
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Soothsaying with METROPOLARITY
Myself, Ras Cutlass, and Rasheedah Phillips of our beloved METROPOLARITY crew were invited to do a show on PhillyCAM (Community Access Media) in Philadelphia. Join Metropolarity for an intimate night of prophecying, sh*t talking, and secret spilling. Your anxieties about the future sent via email/text/social media will be answered on air in between doses of…
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DESIRE HOPE DESPAIR Speculative Storytelling Streamcast
03/2025 Update: This was an early attempt at a regular podcast thing, before I had better audio editing chops and before I had accepted that what I was doing was a “podcast.” Some of the old episodes still live on Mixcloud, which you can listen to below. Please enjoy this infrequent sci-fi/speculative storytelling & discussion…
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The Romance of the Colony
I originally wrote this narrative for Mask Magazine [defunct 2021] about the persistent imperialist romance myth of “the colony” in sci-fi. It’s a story about the dreams of The Colony’s extension into outerspace/surveillance state as seen thru lens of Hollywood blockbusters and anime. Better Living Through Chemistry It’s spring, 2011. Your friend is at the…
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Style of Attack Report
A self-published jawn by my unrelenting coven, METROPOLARITY, produced in our fourth year. METROPOLARITY is a DIY sci-fi collective based, bred, and tested in the colliding future-present of Philadelphia. This Style of Attack Report contains select work from Metropolarity’s four founding members, who contribute theory, practice, and experience of home grown speculative visioning for both…
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SHEDDING zine
“WE CRAFTED MEANING OUT OF THINGS WHICH DO NOT REPRESENT US” “MIXED BLOODS Y HALF BREEDS” “TO SAY YOU ARE WHITE IS TO SAY YOU ARE ABSENT OF ANYTHING & ENTITLED BY HISTORY BUT WHAT DO YOU CONTAIN? WHOSE LEGACIES WERE YOU BORN FROM?” I think I made about 50 of these in total. A…