Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன்
@rukmanragas.com
writer and host of rukmanisms
work in apex, lightspeed, khōréō, the baltimore review, deadlands etc
Clarion West '25 alum
Representation: Keir Alekseii of Azantian
rukmanragas.com
work in apex, lightspeed, khōréō, the baltimore review, deadlands etc
Clarion West '25 alum
Representation: Keir Alekseii of Azantian
rukmanragas.com
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Moonwife - Tasavvur
Moonwife is a South Asian Speculative Fiction story written by Rukman Ragas for the Summer 2026 edition of Tasavvur magazine.
tasavvurnama.com
"Moonwife", my story where the moon is a lesbian and you should try to kill her, is out today with @tasavvurnama.bsky.social !
tasavvurnama.com/moonwife/
tasavvurnama.com/moonwife/
Updated my years old pfp, still the same me
October 10, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Updated my years old pfp, still the same me
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Happy Banned Books Week AND Anti-Prime Day! We've spent this week fighting with Amazon, who blocked Issue 3... because a stylized illustration of a statue = porn, at least if you're a queer publication.
The best way to support us is directly. Code ANTIPRIME gets you 15% off subscriptions this week.
The best way to support us is directly. Code ANTIPRIME gets you 15% off subscriptions this week.
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October 6, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Happy Banned Books Week AND Anti-Prime Day! We've spent this week fighting with Amazon, who blocked Issue 3... because a stylized illustration of a statue = porn, at least if you're a queer publication.
The best way to support us is directly. Code ANTIPRIME gets you 15% off subscriptions this week.
The best way to support us is directly. Code ANTIPRIME gets you 15% off subscriptions this week.
at this point, I just have my convictions and little else, but I'm glad I stuck to them
October 6, 2026 at 1:39 PM
at this point, I just have my convictions and little else, but I'm glad I stuck to them
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You'll note that the very same people who insist Zionism means different things to different people will also insist that the USSR was the only possible expression of socialism.
October 5, 2026 at 3:30 PM
You'll note that the very same people who insist Zionism means different things to different people will also insist that the USSR was the only possible expression of socialism.
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I don't accept soft Hindutva is a good thing. So, no, I am not accepting soft Zionism as a good thing.
No gradation of ethnonationalism is a good thing particularly when it has its hands on the levers of state.
No gradation of ethnonationalism is a good thing particularly when it has its hands on the levers of state.
October 6, 2026 at 7:17 AM
I don't accept soft Hindutva is a good thing. So, no, I am not accepting soft Zionism as a good thing.
No gradation of ethnonationalism is a good thing particularly when it has its hands on the levers of state.
No gradation of ethnonationalism is a good thing particularly when it has its hands on the levers of state.
The muse will come again, I know this intellectually. That I have survived droughts far worse than these, both metaphysical and natural, that the garden now so arid will find within itself to bloom again.
October 3, 2026 at 4:52 PM
The muse will come again, I know this intellectually. That I have survived droughts far worse than these, both metaphysical and natural, that the garden now so arid will find within itself to bloom again.
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Catching measles does not make your immune system stronger… it does the exact opposite.
It can wipe out your immunity (both natural and vaccine related) to all kinds of diseases.
It’s a deadly and disabling disease that we know how to prevent.
Get your vaccine. It saves lives.
It can wipe out your immunity (both natural and vaccine related) to all kinds of diseases.
It’s a deadly and disabling disease that we know how to prevent.
Get your vaccine. It saves lives.
Measles doesn't stop harming people when the rash goes away. Measles can damage the immune system, causing "immune amnesia" for up to five years.
Measles outbreaks this year and last could leave thousands vulnerable to other infectious diseases.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles-outb...
Measles outbreaks this year and last could leave thousands vulnerable to other infectious diseases.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles-outb...
Measles outbreaks could leave thousands vulnerable to infectious diseases for years
www.cidrap.umn.edu
October 3, 2026 at 5:54 AM
Catching measles does not make your immune system stronger… it does the exact opposite.
It can wipe out your immunity (both natural and vaccine related) to all kinds of diseases.
It’s a deadly and disabling disease that we know how to prevent.
Get your vaccine. It saves lives.
It can wipe out your immunity (both natural and vaccine related) to all kinds of diseases.
It’s a deadly and disabling disease that we know how to prevent.
Get your vaccine. It saves lives.
I'm very called these days to make stuff around my work; inspirations, where I began and what I do, analysis and what not. perhaps not the best writerly thing to do, to pull back the curtain too much, but I think I will do it
October 3, 2026 at 8:09 AM
I'm very called these days to make stuff around my work; inspirations, where I began and what I do, analysis and what not. perhaps not the best writerly thing to do, to pull back the curtain too much, but I think I will do it
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"They call you the bringer of sorrows, yet the grief is all mine."
translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/08/15/w...
translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/08/15/w...
Wolfmothers, by Rukman Ragas
The calls come from the caves underground and even you could follow it, slithering slowly as the heat scalds your scales. In there, your progenitor hangs, mouth forever forced open, venom falling i…
translunartravelerslounge.com
September 29, 2026 at 2:51 PM
"They call you the bringer of sorrows, yet the grief is all mine."
translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/08/15/w...
translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/08/15/w...
"They call you the bringer of sorrows, yet the grief is all mine."
translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/08/15/w...
translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/08/15/w...
Wolfmothers, by Rukman Ragas
The calls come from the caves underground and even you could follow it, slithering slowly as the heat scalds your scales. In there, your progenitor hangs, mouth forever forced open, venom falling i…
translunartravelerslounge.com
September 29, 2026 at 2:51 PM
"They call you the bringer of sorrows, yet the grief is all mine."
translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/08/15/w...
translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/08/15/w...
OMG LETS GOOO! I was watching and SCREAMED because Diana is the BEST
The 2026 Hugo Award for Best Editor, Long Form goes to Diana M. Pho.
August 31, 2026 at 6:16 AM
OMG LETS GOOO! I was watching and SCREAMED because Diana is the BEST
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just sob fascinated by the politicks of retelling, I recognise I yap about this a lot but there's something so naked about returning to a beloved story with a knife
August 24, 2026 at 3:46 PM
just sob fascinated by the politicks of retelling, I recognise I yap about this a lot but there's something so naked about returning to a beloved story with a knife
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I will let you in on a secret ... not a secret, really, but I wish more people were in on it. The poetry in @thedeadlands.com is the best. Or maybe it just suits me the best. You decide, eh?
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
There are lonely things in the forest / Rukman Ragas / Psychopomp
Read There are lonely things in the forest, by Rukman Ragas, a poem from Issue 43 of The Deadlands, summer, 2026.
psychopomp.com
August 20, 2026 at 11:57 PM
I will let you in on a secret ... not a secret, really, but I wish more people were in on it. The poetry in @thedeadlands.com is the best. Or maybe it just suits me the best. You decide, eh?
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
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"Bruising is terraforming.
Your fingerprints bloom tiger orchids across my calves.
Flesh yields flowers, because flesh is weak and supple,
like all good soil must be, to bear blunt force
and bounce back blue."
—Rukman Ragas
alocasia.org/2026/08/11/r...
Your fingerprints bloom tiger orchids across my calves.
Flesh yields flowers, because flesh is weak and supple,
like all good soil must be, to bear blunt force
and bounce back blue."
—Rukman Ragas
alocasia.org/2026/08/11/r...
Rukman Ragas :: “The body, a planet to terraform” – ALOCASIA
alocasia.org
August 17, 2026 at 11:57 AM
"Bruising is terraforming.
Your fingerprints bloom tiger orchids across my calves.
Flesh yields flowers, because flesh is weak and supple,
like all good soil must be, to bear blunt force
and bounce back blue."
—Rukman Ragas
alocasia.org/2026/08/11/r...
Your fingerprints bloom tiger orchids across my calves.
Flesh yields flowers, because flesh is weak and supple,
like all good soil must be, to bear blunt force
and bounce back blue."
—Rukman Ragas
alocasia.org/2026/08/11/r...
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Do yourself a favor and read this poem by @rukman.bsky.social when you have a moment… #poetry #newpoems
"Emptiness is its own language, but you and I,
we have learned to speak it. "
TODAY beloveds
this poem this poem this poem!!!
There are lonely things in the forest by @rukman.bsky.social
read it here:
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
we have learned to speak it. "
TODAY beloveds
this poem this poem this poem!!!
There are lonely things in the forest by @rukman.bsky.social
read it here:
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
There are lonely things in the forest / Rukman Ragas / Psychopomp
Read There are lonely things in the forest, by Rukman Ragas, a poem from Issue 43 of The Deadlands, summer, 2026.
psychopomp.com
August 20, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Do yourself a favor and read this poem by @rukman.bsky.social when you have a moment… #poetry #newpoems
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A gorgeous piece of work 💚
New poem release for me!
"There are lonely things in the forest", my poem about absence and climate grief is out at @thedeadlands.com today.
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
"There are lonely things in the forest", my poem about absence and climate grief is out at @thedeadlands.com today.
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
There are lonely things in the forest / Rukman Ragas / Psychopomp
Read There are lonely things in the forest, by Rukman Ragas, a poem from Issue 43 of The Deadlands, summer, 2026.
psychopomp.com
August 19, 2026 at 8:36 AM
A gorgeous piece of work 💚
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This is just gorgeous.
New poem release for me!
"There are lonely things in the forest", my poem about absence and climate grief is out at @thedeadlands.com today.
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
"There are lonely things in the forest", my poem about absence and climate grief is out at @thedeadlands.com today.
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
There are lonely things in the forest / Rukman Ragas / Psychopomp
Read There are lonely things in the forest, by Rukman Ragas, a poem from Issue 43 of The Deadlands, summer, 2026.
psychopomp.com
August 19, 2026 at 1:03 PM
This is just gorgeous.
Boosting ICYMI!
New poem release for me!
"There are lonely things in the forest", my poem about absence and climate grief is out at @thedeadlands.com today.
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
"There are lonely things in the forest", my poem about absence and climate grief is out at @thedeadlands.com today.
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
There are lonely things in the forest / Rukman Ragas / Psychopomp
Read There are lonely things in the forest, by Rukman Ragas, a poem from Issue 43 of The Deadlands, summer, 2026.
psychopomp.com
August 20, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Boosting ICYMI!
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New poem release for me!
"There are lonely things in the forest", my poem about absence and climate grief is out at @thedeadlands.com today.
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
"There are lonely things in the forest", my poem about absence and climate grief is out at @thedeadlands.com today.
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
There are lonely things in the forest / Rukman Ragas / Psychopomp
Read There are lonely things in the forest, by Rukman Ragas, a poem from Issue 43 of The Deadlands, summer, 2026.
psychopomp.com
August 19, 2026 at 7:13 AM
New poem release for me!
"There are lonely things in the forest", my poem about absence and climate grief is out at @thedeadlands.com today.
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
"There are lonely things in the forest", my poem about absence and climate grief is out at @thedeadlands.com today.
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
New poem release for me!
"There are lonely things in the forest", my poem about absence and climate grief is out at @thedeadlands.com today.
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
"There are lonely things in the forest", my poem about absence and climate grief is out at @thedeadlands.com today.
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
There are lonely things in the forest / Rukman Ragas / Psychopomp
Read There are lonely things in the forest, by Rukman Ragas, a poem from Issue 43 of The Deadlands, summer, 2026.
psychopomp.com
August 19, 2026 at 7:13 AM
New poem release for me!
"There are lonely things in the forest", my poem about absence and climate grief is out at @thedeadlands.com today.
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
"There are lonely things in the forest", my poem about absence and climate grief is out at @thedeadlands.com today.
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
Incase you missed it, I have a poem out! its about the body and also the land, about violence that shapes both.
I have a poem "the body, a planet to terraform" out today in @alocasiamag.bsky.social 's thorns issue!
CW: || body, violence, abuse, so tread gently if needed ||
alocasia.org/2026/08/11/r...
CW: || body, violence, abuse, so tread gently if needed ||
alocasia.org/2026/08/11/r...
Rukman Ragas :: “The body, a planet to terraform” – ALOCASIA
alocasia.org
August 16, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Incase you missed it, I have a poem out! its about the body and also the land, about violence that shapes both.
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Hi. Everything I want to say it at the following link, which contains why I think Patrick Barb should not be HWA President. I'm going to step away from socials for a few hours now, and will see you all later. 🫀
CW: sexual misconduct.
theodorehill.weebly.com/statement.html
CW: sexual misconduct.
theodorehill.weebly.com/statement.html
August 15, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Hi. Everything I want to say it at the following link, which contains why I think Patrick Barb should not be HWA President. I'm going to step away from socials for a few hours now, and will see you all later. 🫀
CW: sexual misconduct.
theodorehill.weebly.com/statement.html
CW: sexual misconduct.
theodorehill.weebly.com/statement.html
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Rukman Ragas is an absolutely unparalleled voice on sensual violence and the intimate violation of colonialism. The last line made my chest tight. A truly astounding poem.
I have a poem "the body, a planet to terraform" out today in @alocasiamag.bsky.social 's thorns issue!
CW: || body, violence, abuse, so tread gently if needed ||
alocasia.org/2026/08/11/r...
CW: || body, violence, abuse, so tread gently if needed ||
alocasia.org/2026/08/11/r...
Rukman Ragas :: “The body, a planet to terraform” – ALOCASIA
alocasia.org
August 11, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Rukman Ragas is an absolutely unparalleled voice on sensual violence and the intimate violation of colonialism. The last line made my chest tight. A truly astounding poem.