Margaret Killjoy

2 months ago | bibliosurf.com | Margaret Killjoy

Désormais en cavale, Danielle Cain et son équipe d’apprentis chasseurs de démons atterrissent à Pendleton, dans le Montana, après un accident de voiture. La ville, qui a connu des jours meilleurs, leur réserve bien des surprises : une bibliothèque occulte anarchiste, des habitants qui prétendent être revenus d’entre les morts, ou d’autres ayant carrément disparu sans laisser de traces.

Nov 27, 2024 | margaretkilljoy.substack.com | Margaret Killjoy

“I ask not to be safe from my enemies, but dangerous to them.”–the anarchist’s prayerI stopped watching horror movies maybe twelve years ago, while I was living in a van. See, I spent a lot of nights alone in that van in the middle of nowhere—deep in the woods or in empty parking lots all over the country–and it didn’t do my nervous system much good to watch horror movies.

Nov 6, 2024 | margaretkilljoy.substack.com | Margaret Killjoy

I can’t tell you things are fine. I can’t tell you that hard times aren’t coming. I can’t tell you that hard times aren’t already here. Things can always get worse. That seems like, more or less, a constant in this universe: things can always get worse. The thing is, though, things can always get better too. We can make things get better. Maybe the biggest problem with election years is that we seem to collectively forget that we have agency outside of voting.

Oct 23, 2024 | margaretkilljoy.substack.com | Margaret Killjoy

Someone at a talk last night asked me if there was a specific moment when I realized that writing fiction was a useful way to promote social change. There was. In about 2007, I was in my mid-20s and I was starting to take my writing more seriously. I wanted to know what it might have to do with my anarchism. So I wrote the author Ursula le Guin a letter, saying I wanted to interview anarchist fiction writers about the relation between anarchism and fiction. She wrote me back, and we corresponded.

Sep 11, 2024 | reactormag.com | Margaret Killjoy |Stefan Raets

We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy, a powerful story of trans witchcraft publishing with the Feminist Press at CUNY on September 24th. Lorel has always dreamed of becoming a witch: learning magic, fighting monsters, and exploring the world beyond the small town where she and her mother run the stables. Even though a strange plague is killing the trees in the Kingdom of Cekon and witches are being blamed for it, Lorel wants nothing more than to join them.