This is a @gaileyfrey appreciation thread.
I wanna hear your stories about the glory that is Sarah Gailey.
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: San Jose WorldCon, 2018)pic.twitter.com/buLSiR692L
Author, fanwriter, trash bandit, queer geek feminist, dork. Jack of all pronouns, mxtress of none. Yells about hockey. Aussie in the US.
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This is a @gaileyfrey appreciation thread.
I wanna hear your stories about the glory that is Sarah Gailey.
(
: San Jose WorldCon, 2018)pic.twitter.com/buLSiR692L
2018 was my first WorldCon, and my first *major* SFF event. I had just lost the community I had had my whole life, and was entirely unsure of my welcome here. But Sarah, when they saw me, delightedly called “Alyshondra!!” and brought me in to sit, and entirely included me.
We had chatted online a few times, and had drinks when they were in town, and they made me feel so welcome. This is not the only time that Sarah has been precisely what I needed in a friend. But also, can we talk about their WRITING????
I just. I can’t even with the amount of FEELS IT GIVES ME. Even when I am reading with one eye open because I am a scaredy-cat, I can’t stop reading.
How about this series by @gaileyfrey in 2017, about clothes in SFF:
“The world is burning and everything hurts, but damn it, we still have the red dress, the white robe, the black tank top. Fearlessness, courage, and survival: it’s all in the costumes.”https://www.tor.com/2017/02/07/a-well-worn-story-examining-iconic-sff-costumes/ …
That work, and other magnificent writing, earned Sarah a Hugo for Best Fan Writer in 2018. (I KNOW, I’m dying too.)pic.twitter.com/RZyUrzHPB2
More recently, MAGIC FOR LIARS by @gaileyfrey is the wizarding school you actually want. It’s about privilege and feeling isolated and oh oh, the sibling relationships will break you and put you back together.rpic.twitter.com/KEKpH9lcf4
UPRIGHT WOMEN WANTED by @gaileyfrey is the story that my queer self needed, about how important it is to see yourself in stories. Queer cowperson librarians = YES MORE.
“All those stories you’ve read,” Amity said softly [...] “Who gave ’em to you?pic.twitter.com/OZYKQfZwe4
To be frank, @gaileyfrey is a large part of the reason I have thought “dang, all the genre I’ve been reading is AMAZING...oh, it’s QUEER AF.” Not just their work, but the influence they have had on SFF, both by example and by holding space for others.
I’m proud to know them.
Never having met me before, @gaileyfrey picked me up from the airport and, along with @FondaJLee, let me be their roomie for San Jose Worldcon. Also they continue to put in the efffort to hang out with me despite the fact that I live an hour away and don’t have a car. 
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