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Download Alice in Queerland Now (Revised and Expanded Edition)

Download Alice in Queerland Now (Revised and Expanded Edition)

Celebrate Pride Month!

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Karlyn Borysenko
Jun 02, 2025
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Red Menace Collective members get first access to my completed books. This is my way of thanking the people who fuel this mission. Scroll to the bottom of the post to download your digital copy.


A few months ago, I released the short story Alice in Queerland to members of the Red Menace Collective.

To celebrate the start of Pride Month, I’ve revised and expanded the story and published it as the latest book release.

It’s now available in paperback and Kindle on Amazon, but members of the Red Menace Collective will be able to download a complimentary PDF below.


A darkly satirical reimagining of Lewis Carroll's classic for the modern era.

When thirteen-year-old Alice asks a forbidden question in her increasingly ideology-driven middle school, she discovers that curiosity has become a crime. One innocent inquiry: "What is a woman?" sends her tumbling down a rabbit hole into a surreal world where language is violence, identity is fluid, and everyone must constantly apologize for existing.
In this twisted Wonderland, Alice encounters:

  • Workshop facilitators who teach students to "unbecome" themselves

  • A Mad Hatter hosting an eternal tea party of deconstructed reality

  • Shape-shifters in a forest where being certain about anything is considered toxic

  • A drag queen ruling over a garden of severed heads that never stop apologizing

  • Tribunals where asking questions is prosecuted as thoughtcrime

Guided by a mysterious Cheshire Cat who speaks in riddles about power and performance, Alice must navigate a world where up is problematic, down is relative, and the only acceptable truth is that there is no truth.

Perfect for readers who enjoyed:

  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

  • The Giver by Lois Lowry

  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Alice in Queerland is a provocative fable about maintaining your identity in a world determined to deconstruct it. Part social commentary, part fantasy adventure, this unflinching satire asks uncomfortable questions about our current cultural moment.

Download your complimentary digital copy, below the paywall.


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