Courtney Bates-Hardy
@poetcourtney.bsky.social
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Queer and neurodivergent poet. ANATOMICAL VENUS out now from Radiant Press. she/her
I’m thrilled to have a new poem in the Literary Review of Canada about my girlfriend’s cockatiel singing to my feet. He looooooves my feet 😂
about 1 month ago
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My writing group has released our first collaborative chapbook with Gridlock Lit! It’s all about what it’s like being queer on the Prairies. We each wrote a poem for the collection called “My Queer” and “My Bad Queer,” and then wrote a poem together called “Our Queer.” You can order a copy online!
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Prairie Queers by The Pain Poets
THE PAIN POETS are a quartet of disabled queers. They are based in oskana kâ-asastêki in Treaty 4 territory (Regina, SK). You can find them touching knees on Dayne’s red cuddle couch under a blanket a...
https://gridlocklit.bigcartel.com/product/prairie-queers-by-the-pain-poets
about 1 month ago
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April reads!
about 2 months ago
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Favourites! 1) Romance book: The Time Traveller’s Wife Romance movie: Portrait of a Lady on Fire 2) Thriller book: Into the Drowning Deep by Seanan McGuire Thriller movie: Jaws 3) Comedy book: Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockhart Comedy movie: Jackass 🤷🏻♀️ 4) Animation: She-Ra Graphic novel: Nimona
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about 2 months ago
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The sapphic Bridgerton season is in production now and it makes me want to cry. I hoped, but never, expected that a mainstream period romance would include queer characters and now they’re going to be leading a whole season! 😭
3 months ago
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If people only get their
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news from JustBins, of course they’re going to start thinking Regina is a shithole that’s full of accidents and stabbings, but then they’re missing all of the good things that happen here every day.
3 months ago
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Apparently I whisper-talked in my sleep last night and I’m pretty sure it was the exact moment I was dreaming about yelling at my mom because she won’t accept my trans partner.
4 months ago
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It makes me want to cry thinking about my younger self watching the Pride parade because I didn’t feel like I’d earned the right to march yet, but still wearing bi colours and makeup (before I realized I was a lesbian). And now I organize the Pride float for the library 🥺
4 months ago
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I wrote a First Person story for CBC that came out yesterday about my partner coming out as trans and the ways our lives changed. There’s so much more to our story, and this is just a small part of it.
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FIRST PERSON | When my spouse came out as trans, we had to learn who we were all over again | CBC News
Courtney Bates-Hardy has always been able to talk to her partner about everything. That openness remained a mainstay of their relationship after her partner told her she was trans and as the pair went...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/first-person-spouse-trans-learning-ourselves-9.7081305
4 months ago
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long con magazine + Collusion Books
4 months ago
"I’m back in the therapist’s office with my parents, watching the snow fall." Excerpt from Courtney Bates-Hardy's (
@poetcourtney.bsky.social
) poem "𝐹𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑖𝑛, 2025" + promotional poster for del Toro's 𝐹𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑖𝑛 (2025) Read "𝐹𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑖𝑛, 2025" in ISSUE 2.3:
longconmag.com/issue-2-3/co...
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Watching Love is Blind is like anthropological to me. It’s this whole other culture that I don’t see myself in at all as a queer person and it’s both fascinating and disturbing.
5 months ago
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About a year ago, someone asked me if I was part of the bacon lettuce tomato community and now it’s become a thing that my partners and I say to each other ALL THE TIME 😂
5 months ago
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Finished watching Angel for the second time in my life. I still sob over Illyria asking Wesley if he’d like her to lie to him now 😭
5 months ago
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Me, getting perceived as straight all week with a trans partner and a girlfriend:
5 months ago
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Omg. WTF is Happening?
5 months ago
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks
#ProudBlue
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Went to see Markiplier’s Iron Lung last night at the late showing and I haven’t seen so many teenagers in one space since I was a teenager.
5 months ago
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“Why do things have to happen all the time?” -my gf
5 months ago
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For such a prolific novelist, I’m really finding Margaret Atwood’s memoir to be a slog.
5 months ago
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Definitely not melting down because my new office was too loud today while I was on a deadline. Why would anyone think I’m autistic?
5 months ago
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Caroleeena
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There are few things weirder than sitting at your library job while knowing that someone you went to high school with is a block away at the courthouse because they’ve been charged with accessory to murder.
5 months ago
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5 months ago
After the AI bubble pops, put this hero on some stamps.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Meet the Alaska Student Arrested for Eating an AI Art Exhibit
A conversation with Graham Granger, whose combination of protest and performance art spread beyond campus. “AI chews up and spits out art made by other people.”
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/alaska-student-arrested-eating-ai-art-exhibit/?fbclid=IwdGRjcAPfPXFjbGNrA989NmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHjviZewg8-nM4KOE9ndOceyMHFqVKUoLxZtbf13OhqgMLgczqDbzCPkMLtga_aem_QOCpzN6iV5GVD3ZXzQx0Rg#
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CBC producing all these think pieces and interviews about why booksellers are going to judge the Giller Prize this year like it’s a big mystery. Well, I can solve it for you: it’s because most writers don’t want to be associated with the award anymore after the boycott 🤷🏻♀️
5 months ago
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Are you even lesbians if you don’t get mistaken for sisters? 😅
5 months ago
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I wrote a pantoum about Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein and familial estrangement due to my queerness. I love the film so much that I've watched it 3 times since it came out, and according to GDT, that means I'm married to it. Delighted to have my poem featured in
@longconmagazine.bsky.social
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Courtney Bates-Hardy
Frankenstein, 2025 • POETRY
https://longconmag.com/issue-2-3/courtney-bates-hardy/
5 months ago
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Delighted to be featured in this issue of long con!
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5 months ago
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I keep thinking about how my brother called me a bitch when we were teens, and I slapped him, because that was how I was taught to deal with bullies. When I came out as queer and my partner came out as trans, my brother stopped talking to me. He had a list of grievances…
6 months ago
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6 months ago
“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
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Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
https://lithub.com/renee-nicole-good-murdered-by-ice-was-a-prize-winning-poet-heres-that-poem/
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So uh, is anyone else worried about Star Trek leaving Netflix in a few days??
6 months ago
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King Sorrow by
@joe-hill.bsky.social
is my 150th read of 2025, and what a book to finish out the year on. I hated to see it end but I needed to know how it was going to end. An incredibly moving book about the divisive times we live in and the compassion we need to get through them.
6 months ago
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I feel like Smosh is missing an opportunity with their merch by not having a Reddit Stories tshirt that just says UPDATE
6 months ago
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Love when a poem you think is perfect for a certain lit mag IS perfect for that lit mag because they picked it!
6 months ago
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Reading a poetry book a day this week because I'm trying to make it to 150 books read by the end of the year!!!
6 months ago
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Debating whether or not the transit budget can be decreased immediately after passing the police budget feels deranged. Police has a PLANE, and City Council is asking if buses can reduce routes, hours, or increase their rates???
#yqr
6 months ago
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PD City Hall (Paul Dechene)
6 months ago
Donnelly: Most criminal activity starts w/ young people who have nothing to do, nowhere to go. We need to invest in organizations that help them find ways to express themselves, give them something to do.
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Every Christmas, I like to watch and read a series that feels like a project: LOTR Extended Editions, Star Wars, Anne of Green Gables, The Magicians, Chronicles of Narnia, etc. Anyone else?
7 months ago
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If I include stopping for food and gas, I went to 16 different places in 6.5 hours yesterday while Christmas shopping.
7 months ago
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Saskatchewan Library Association
7 months ago
The RPL Film Theatre in Regina will be screening "The Librarians" this Friday, December 12 at 7pm. Admission is free and everyone is welcome! For more information:
buff.ly/egCR8Wb
Or visit the RPL Film Theatre for more exciting films during the month of December:
buff.ly/8IiGDrm
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denni.
7 months ago
I remember when it wasn't ok to use Wikipedia as a citation but sure, let's all turn to the poopy barfy slop machine for all of our information
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Someone walked by me yesterday and was like, ohhh she is a fairy, and that is the reaction I aspire to inspire always.
7 months ago
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Injured myself at the gym this week in a new and exciting way. It's been a while since I've had to deal with an injury like this and I feel like I've gotten worse at it.
7 months ago
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My favourite Sephora liquid eyeliner has been changed from felt tip to brush tip and I HATE it. Taking recommendations for the best liquid liner that goes on smooth and doesn’t get grayish partway through application.
7 months ago
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Taking psychic damage from the new season of Critical Role
7 months ago
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Got completely wiped out by two fillings today. Had to get two rounds of freezing and I was really shaky and cold afterwards. Now I’m barely staying awake on the couch. My nervous system said absolutely not to that.
8 months ago
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Trying to build new friendships as a neurodivergent adult who came out late and lost a bunch of friends and family is rough, but I think maybe I'm starting to do it? Maybe?
8 months ago
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Another year of no poetry category in the Goodreads Choice Awards. It's a shame, because people still read poetry and it deserves recognition just like any other genre.
8 months ago
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It blows my mind that Jacob Elordi could go from playing the most hateful, dead eyed man in Euphoria to the most precious baby angel Creature who I would die for in Frankenstein. Nominate that man for an Oscar, damn
8 months ago
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Just watched the behind the scenes doc for Frankenstein and I just need Netflix to give all the money for whatever project he wants to do.
8 months ago
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Canadians, who is doing interesting work/talks/books about misinformation?
8 months ago
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