Margot Atwell

It has been an incredible honor and privilege to lead Feminist Press, nurturing, publishing, and celebrating writing from marginalized and insurgent voices and working to build a more just future for everyone. buttondown.com/onthebooks/arc…

💋 IT’S PUBLICATION DAY!! 💋 Get it at Feminist Press! feministpress.org/books-overflow… @MargotAtwell @FeministPress

Find out more about ABSOLUTE PLEASURE, including how to get a copy and the tour, here: absolutepleasurebook.com #rockyhorror #rockyhorrorpictureshow

COVER REVEAL! 💋📕✨ My dear Unconventional Conventionalists, feast your eyes on the cover of ABSOLUTE PLEASURE, and anthology of queer writing about The Rocky Horror Picture Show, coming out in September from @FeministPress. Gorgeous cover art by @rosalarian. #rockyhorror

I often tell students using LLMs to write papers is like going to the gym to watch a robot do bench presses. “I’m saving so much time.” On what??

It is possible that AI—which supposedly uses too many em dashes—does so because it was trained, in part—without my consent—on my novels, which also use too many em dashes.

Em dash slander!!! I’ve been overusing the em dash since 2016!!!

I miss the days when very rich people used their money to fund libraries, public art and philanthropic endeavors rather than launching slow-motion coups against the federal government.

Imagine still believing that America is the land of the free when they’re doing this to journalists in press conferences

Breaking: After hours of Amazon Teamsters maintaining a strong picket line, cops broke the picket line for Amazon.

Musk’s wealth in 2012: $2 Billion Musk’s wealth in 2024: $447 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2012: $18 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2024: $249 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2012: $44 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2024: $224 Billion Minimum wage in 2012: $7.25 Minimum wage in 2024: $7.25

The world's richest man is concerned about "government overspending." Yet his concern about deficits seems to disappear when it comes to extending tax cuts that will disproportionately benefit billionaires like him. Tax cuts that will balloon the deficit by $5 trillion, btw.

One of the blatant and inarguable ways that UnitedHealth kills: refusing to cover full cancer treatments.

🔥 TWAS THE STRIKE BEFORE CHRISTMAS! 🔥✊ Starbucks baristas are going on five days of escalating ULP strikes in response to the company backtracking on our promised path forward, starting tomorrow in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Seattle... and soon, from coast-to-coast. 🧵

BREAKING: Starbucks Workers United is going on strike. Tomorrow unionized Starbucks workers are walking out in multiple key cities. And @SBWorkersUnited's rolling strike will grow in the coming days. 537 stores and 10,000+ workers are in the union and could potentially strike.

If you see anyone talking about how the Amazon strike could disrupt the flow of packages:

Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries: “It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones. “There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion. “If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the ‘medicine closet’ and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That’s why you should always have a nutrition choice! “Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity.”

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@FeministPress @MargotAtwell Congrats on your next steps, Margot! 💐

Feminist Press Executive Director and Publisher Margot Atwell will be stepping down in February 2025 bit.ly/3ORXKda Thank you @MargotAtwell for your energetic leadership and many contributions to the Press, including spearheading our first-ever crowdfunding campaign!

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@FeministPress I’m editing Absolute Pleasure: Queer Writers on Five Messy Decades of Rocky Horror, (@FeministPress Fall 2025). Next fall is 50 years since the film’s release! To get more info about the book as it’s available, sign up for my free newsletter buttondown.com/onthebooks/

It has been an incredible honor and privilege to lead Feminist Press, nurturing, publishing, and celebrating writing from marginalized and insurgent voices and working to build a more just future for everyone. buttondown.com/onthebooks/arc…

@FeministPress I will also be taking on select editing, publishing consulting, and creative funding and crowdfunding projects. To learn more: margotatwell.com/freelanceediti…

@FeministPress After nearly 20 years supporting other writers’ and artists’ creative work, I am switching gears a bit to focus on my own writing and creative practice.