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Seanan McGuire
@seananmcguire
New York Times bestselling author of October Daye, InCryptid, Wayward Children, and more. I am also @miragrant. She/her, please.
Seattle, WA
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    Seanan McGuire
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    Jul 3, 2022
    CW: CSA. I got my first period when I was nine years old. All the adults I knew and trusted promptly told me I was a woman now, and could be a mommy. I was NINE. My Little Pony and Friends was my favorite show. I had a crush on Scott Grimes in CRITTERS.
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    Seanan McGuire
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    Jun 24, 2022
    Since I now have fewer rights than a corpse, can I stop paying taxes?
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    Seanan McGuire
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    Jul 3, 2022
    Replying to @seananmcguire
    Any worldview that says a pregnant ten year old is carrying a miracle, and not her own damnation, is not a worldview I can have any empathy for.
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    Seanan McGuire
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    Oct 5, 2020
    I am UNBELIEVABLY fucking tired of "my sincerely held religious belief means that I cannot do my job." Jobs, it turns out, are not generally assigned. CHOICES WERE MADE. You went to pharmacy school. You applied to be a county clerk. You had OPTIONS.
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    Seanan McGuire
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    Aug 12, 2022
    Hey remember when I wrote a trilogy about a world-altering pandemic and some people got mad at me and didn't vote for me in the Hugos because "it wasn't realistic for the CDC to be evil"? Because I remember that. I remember it every night when I try to sleep.
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    Seanan McGuire
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    Jul 3, 2022
    Replying to @seananmcguire
    Hey, folks, I know when I post something on Twitter that it can be re-shared without context, and that's okay, but if you re-tweet anything but the first tweet, please quote tweet and add the content warning? No one should enter this in the middle.
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    Seanan McGuire
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    Jul 3, 2022
    Replying to @seananmcguire
    I was not a woman. I was a CHILD. I was NINE. And suddenly my grandmother, who knew I never wanted to be a mommy (I had been clear on that topic since I was around five) was saying I could have babies of my own. NINE.
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    Seanan McGuire
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    Jul 3, 2022
    Replying to @seananmcguire
    Having a period means "physically capable of pregnancy." It doesn't mean "capable of, or likely to be, consenting to sex." And yet nine and ten and eleven year olds are being assaulted, usually by trusted adults in their homes, every day.
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    Seanan McGuire
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    Apr 20, 2020
    Something I'm finding very useful for convincing people COVID-19 isn't some kind of government overreach or liberal hoax: I look at them calmly and say "Walt Disney World is closed."
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    Seanan McGuire
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    Jul 3, 2022
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    But I told her everything he'd done, and he wound up going to prison; turns out when the pre-internet nine-year-old can accurately describe sex acts and draw male genitalia, the jury listens, even if the kid is currently having a massive mental breakdown.
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    Seanan McGuire
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    Jul 3, 2022
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    I was also, at the time, the plaything of a pedarast who had maintained almost sole possession of me since I was three years old. I was not a virgin. I was, again, NINE.
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    Seanan McGuire
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    Jul 3, 2022
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    I had a whole plan to cease existing if a baby happened, because a baby would be the end. We didn't have room for a baby. I'd have to move out. Which, hey, I'd get away from my stepfather, but again, NINE. I was ready to die if he got me pregnant.
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    Seanan McGuire
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    Jul 3, 2022
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    So here I am, being sexually abused by a man who told me on a regular basis that a) no one would ever believe me, b) if I told anyone, he would kill my baby sisters, c) he would kill my mother, d) and no one would believe me anyway.
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    Seanan McGuire
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    Jul 3, 2022
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    And I do mean "broke." I had what the state of California would later deem a complete psychotic break from the removal of the pressure I'd been under; it was about three/four years before I could be considered "sane" again.