M Téllez
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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HEAT DEATH OF WESTERN HUMAN ARROGANCE
TRANSITIONAL TIMES TRANSITIONAL BODY by M Téllez She turned to me with half-lidded eyes, her mouth turned upward like a cat’s face. Her hands rested on the worn wooden surface beneath her congregation of plants. We needed nothing to see with, just the…
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A Crossroads Dilemma
“Who’s that?” “That’s my mom and dad right before they had me.” “I’m really into how they’re taped to the wall like that. All the pictures, I mean.” Kay hummed a polite nod, eyes sweeping over the wall’s haphazard cluster of photo prints…
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