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RJ Edwards

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RJ Edwards is a writer, librarian, podcaster and sometimes-cartoonist. Their work has appeared in Taddle Creek Magazine, Capricious Magazine, The Collection Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard, Meanwhile Elsewhere: Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers, and the "Queers Destroy Science Fiction!" special issue of Lightspeed Magazine, June 2015. Their story "Loose Time" was the Gold Winner for Fiction in the 2019 National Magazine Awards. RJ currently lives and writes on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh Nations known as Vancouver, BC with their partner and their ridiculous cats. ...more

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	Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers by Cat Fitzpatrick (Editor), Casey Plett (Goodreads Author) (Editor), RJ Edwards (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.99 avg rating — 462 ratings — published 2017 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 61, June 2015: Queers Destroy Science Fiction! by Seanan McGuire (Goodreads Author) (Editor), John Chu (Contributor), Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.93 avg rating — 405 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard by Tom Léger (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Riley MacLeod (Editor), Ryka Aoki (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.99 avg rating — 392 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Startling Library Stories (Two-Fisted Library Stories #100) by Matthew Murray (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Colleen Frakes (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), RJ Edwards (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jurassic Doodles: A Children's Dinosaur Coloring Book 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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RJ added a status update: FYI! In my attempts to support fewer monopolies (goodreads is owned by amazon), I'm going to try to track my reading on StoryGraph instead of here. Find me there under username "raspberryjam" :-)
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RJ rated a book it was ok Wally Wants to Hug by Barbara M. Joosse	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Two stars for the charming illustration style and some of the set-up. The conclusion kinda felt like the author gave up: Wally finally pouts enough that he gets to give hugs, and he hugs gently at first, but then too hard, so then as some kind of apo ...more
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RJ wants to read A/S/L by Jeanne Thornton (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Is it a mind-blower? No. Does it deliver precisely what it promises? You bet!
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RJ’s Quotes

“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: fact

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“Decide that you like college life. In your dorm you meet many nice people. Some are smarter than you. And some, you notice, are dumber than you. You will continue, unfortunately, to view the world in exactly these terms for the rest of your life.”
― Lorrie Moore, Self-Help

tags: education, hierarchy

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“There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.”
― Audre Lorde

tags: audre-lorde, campaigning, feminism, issue, life, political-activism, struggle

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“My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers that everyone is carrying around with them. Think of your pain like a big bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one.”
― Francesca Lia Block, Witch Baby

tags: frida-kahlo, love, pain

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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

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