Author: Naomi Kanakia
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An inexcusably long list of recent substacks
Hey everyone, you should really subscribe to my substack if you’re still reading my work. I have been posting a bunch over there without X-posting here: There’ve also been several paid posts:
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Freud can’t explain transgenderism
Hey all, this is cross-posted from substack. Not all the posts from over there are even coming here, and I think I’ll stop updating this site soon and maybe turn it into a static web page and archive. Substack is just really good, offers me a lot more opportunity to grow. My wordpress traffic has…
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I love reading lists
Sorry folks, I’ve been doing a lot of substack posting, and there are a few posts there that aren’t on here, but I’ll keep cross-posting for a while longer yet! I wouldn’t say Substack is better on a usability front–it’s just healthier, more readers, more growth. Nice to feel like someone is actually reading these…
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What do I mean by “the great books’?
Another post on the substacks! The most common question I get when telling people I’m writing about the Great Books is “What do you mean by ‘The Great Books’?” It’s a question I initially found confusing and perplexing. I’m like, “you know, Aristotle and Plato and Shakespeare and Milton and all the super-classics that you…
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If every white person died tomorrow, PoC Americans would lose all our Great Books hangups
Hey friends. The substacks, I tell you: they really get you. I have two paid subscribers over there and now I’m hooked. Sheesh. Anyway, I’m gonna start trying very slowly to transfer my remaining audience to that platform. So I’m gonna put half the essay here, and then you can find the rest there efore…
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I’m x-posting to substack. Also some stuff about politically correct fiction
Okay after six months of waffling, I’m doing it. I’m going to Substack. The readership of this blog on WordPress has been dwindling for a bit, and with Twitter ending, I’m looking for a new social home. Substack is the only place on the internet where people discuss literature and ideas. Of course some of…
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Criticizing Nietszche for misogyny seems somehow to miss the point
Hello friendly people, I realized a lot of my essays started as blog posts that got too big for me to put on here. In fact, I started a blog post yesterday with this same opening, and it turned into a three thousand word essay about how my career has been defined by the ten-year…
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Tired of Substackers’ exhausting trans takes
Hello friends! Twitter has become even more of a cesspool, so I’ve spent less time there. Threads is obviously going to replace it, but I’m not signing up, because I’m just done with the socials. I am done. No more socials. I signed up for Facebook my freshman year, in 2004-2005. I am coming up…
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Some stings
Hello friendly people: I have a few upcoming publications. I’ve recently looked at galleys for stories in WE MOSTLY COME OUT AT NIGHT: 15 QUEER TALES OF MONSTERS, ANGELS & OTHER CREATURES (ed. Rob Costello) and Out of Our League: Sixteen Stories of Girls In Sports (ed. Dahlia Adler and Jennifer Iacopelli). My story in…
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I suppose that I’ll actually have some books come out next year
If there’s one thing I’d like to be known for, it’s my extreme pessimism about publishing. I never believe a book will actually be published until it’s actually printed and shipped. Until then I always think something could go wrong. But now that the text is locked, and I’ve seen galleys, and we’re sending the…