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Redfern Jon Barrett

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Born

in Sheffield, The United Kingdom

August 02, 1984

Website

http://redjon.com

Genre

Fiction, Contemporary, Science Fiction

Influences

Margaret Atwood, Jeanette Winterson, Will Self ...more

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September 2012

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Redfern Jon Barrett is author to the novels Proud Pink Sky (Bywater, 2023), an alternate history set in the world’s first gay state, and The Giddy Death of the Gays & the Strange Demise of Straights, a touching comedy of polyamory and nonbinary life which was also a finalist for the Bisexual Book Awards.

Their short stories have appeared in The Sun Magazine, Passages North, Booth, Flash Fiction Online, ParSec, The Future Fire, Andromeda Spaceways, Orca, and Nature Futures. Their nonfiction has featured in Guernica, Strange Horizons, PinkNews, and Vector, as well as at the National Museum of Denmark.

Born in Sheffield, Redfern moved to Wales and gained a PhD in Literature from Swansea University (Prifysgol Abertawe). They are nonbinary queer a ...more

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	The Giddy Death of the Gays & the Strange Demise of Straights 3.87 avg rating — 154 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
	Proud Pink Sky 3.98 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 2023 — 4 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
	Forget Yourself 3.80 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2012 — 6 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
	Heiresses of Russ 2014: The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction by Melissa Scott (Goodreads Author), Steve Berman, Redfern Jon Barrett (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2014 — 4 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
	Drag Noir by K.A. Laity (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Richard Godwin (Goodreads Author), Tess Makovesky (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2014 — 2 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
	Threesome: Him, Him, and Me by Matthew Bright (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Redfern Jon Barrett (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), N.S. Beranek (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.26 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2016 — 2 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
	TFF-X: Ten years of The Future Fire by Djibril al-Ayad (Goodreads Author) (editor), Cécile Matthey (editor), Valeria Vitale (editor) 4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2015 — 2 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
	Flash Fiction Online November 2018 by Redfern Jon Barrett (Goodreads Author), Mitch Berman, Melissa Goodrich (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 4 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
	The Giddy Death of the Gays & the Strange Demise of Straights by Redfern Jon Barrett by Redfern Jon Barrett (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 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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New stories, new website, new gender...

All right, so maybe my gender itself isn’t entirely ‘new’ – considering I’ve been an enby my whole life and out for six years now – but I am in the process of legally changing my gender to non-binary. It’s exciting, but not easy. And I certainly wasn’t sure. Do I want to be on a state list of gender minorities? Am I prepared for the fact that my passport will become useless for travel to transphob

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Redfern Jon Barrett wrote a new blog post New stories, new website, new gender... All right, so maybe my gender itself isn’t entirely ‘new’ – considering I’ve been an enby my whole life and out for six years now – but I am in the pr Read more of this blog post »
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Redfern Barrett rated a book it was amazing Disbanded Kingdom by Polis Loizou (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
Despite all the media discussion, Brexit is still somehow an underrated factor in Britain's current decline. Years have passed and we now watch helplessly as racist mobs torch houses, trans people are barred from public facilities, and the country gr ...more
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Redfern Barrett liked Rowan's review of The Giddy Death of the Gays & the Strange Demise of Straights: "I read this book shortly after it came out, in perhaps 2017, and it’s stuck with me. I found it engaging and inventive, unafraid to take risks. 4 to 5 stars for sure. Maybe down to 4 because I would have liked more depth to the settings and events. A " Read more of this review »
Jun 12, 2026 08:25AM · see review
Redfern Barrett liked a quote “You remember when jokes about the apocalypse stopped.” Syr Hayati Beker
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Redfern Barrett rated a book it was amazing What a Fish Looks Like by Syr Hayati Beker (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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Redfern Barrett liked Colin's review of The Willows:
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Redfern Barrett rated a book really liked it You Love Me (You, #3) by Caroline Kepnes (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
I just wanted to write a quick response to all the Goodreads reviews on this book because I'm feeling a tad grumpy and the complete lack of media literacy that's sometimes shown on this site is astonishing. So I'll start by saying JOE IS THE EPITOME O ...more
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Redfern Barrett and 50 other people liked Louise's review of Fascism: A Warning: "I was disappointed. The book gives neither a clear description of fascism nor a solid warning. Fascism is presented through discussions with her students and sketches of authoritarian leaders. The warning is couched in words like I’m an optimist but " Read more of this review »
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Redfern Barrett rated a book it was amazing The Demon Equilibrium by Cathy Pegau (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
From the opening pages of The Demon Equilibrium we're presented with a mystery: why have the two protagonists' memories been wiped, leaving them with little knowledge of who and what they are? First we follow Grace, a gruff magic "source" who's looki ...more
Apr 09, 2025 10:53AM · 2 likes · like · see review
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“As the hours passed, she realised that their work wasn't pointless at all: it was vital to keep going in the face of aggression; to put things back together when others wanted you to fall apart.”
― Redfern Jon Barrett, Proud Pink Sky

tags: perseverance

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“Humiliation prickled him while he picked at the fragments of glass, as though an unseen audience had judged his life and found him wanting. Not his circumstances, not his orientation, but him, himself, whole.”
― Redfern Jon Barrett, Proud Pink Sky

tags: humiliation, judgement

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“What someone thinks about you--even someone as close to you as Gareth--is no reflection of who you are. In fact, there is no who you are. We're different with each person, we change with each circumstance.”
― Redfern Jon Barrett, Proud Pink Sky

tags: identity

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Redfern’s Quotes

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: apocryphal, feminism

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“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

tags: hope, human-nature

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tags: identity

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tags: humiliation, judgement

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“...and this smoke is ours too. We savvy better than anyone how hallow it rings when they cackle about love and freedom. We savvy their obsession with dividing everyone into homie and palonie. We savvy how they'll hurt others in the name of family, security, tradition.”
― Redfern Jon Barrett, Proud Pink Sky