November 20th is Trans Day of Remembrance. Another year, another accounting of our dead. I hope for a future where we celebrate how many of us are alive. Love us and fight for us while we are still here.

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My First full-length manuscript “Trans Archeology“ will be published by Lily Poetry Review in January 2027! I’m ecstatic!

Sealy Challenge Day 20 and 21: Water I Won’t Touch by Kayleb Rae Candrilli. www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/water-...

Sealy Challenge Day 18 and 19: Dead Dad Jokes by Ollie Schminkey. buttonpoetry.com/product/dead...

Poets, consider submitting to this amazing anthology!

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Sealy Challenge Day 16 and 17: I Don’t Want To Be Understood by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza. www.alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/i-...

Sealy Challenge Day 15: Slip by Nicole Callihan. bookshop.org/p/books/slip...

Sealy Challenge Day 13-14 Public Abstract by Jane Huffman. www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/public...

The next Words Like Blades reading is next Wednesday 8/20 at 7PM EST. Please join us for a moment of light in dark times. ticketbud.com/events/47bcd...

Sealy Challenge Day 12: All the Flowers Kneeling by Paul Tran. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676719...

Sealy Challenge Day 11: Transitory by @subhaga.bsky.social — a beautiful and heart shattering honoring of trans lives lost to violence on 2020. www.boaeditions.org/products/tra...

Sealy Challenge Day 10: The Boy in the Labyrinth by Oliver de la Paz. blogs.uakron.edu/uapress/prod...

Sealy Challenge Day 8 and 9: four-legged Girl by Diane Seuss

Thanks to Lit Mag News for reviewing my poems that recently came out in Does It Have Pockets!

Sealy Challenge Day 7: All Things Gone by Patricia Hemminger. If you want nature poetry with heart, this chapbook is for you. www.redbirdchapbooks.com/catalog/p/al...

Sealy Challenge Day 6: Nothing Is Okay by Rachel Wiley. buttonpoetry.com/product/noth...

Sealy Challenge Day 5: Mom in Space by Lisa Ampleman. The body as celestial, the celestial as body. lsupress.org/978080718160...

1. State AGs have sued Trump for intimidating providers from providing trans care. Meanwhile, institutions are dropping trans people left and right out of fear of Trump. Suing Trump isn't enough. State AGs MUST enforce equality laws against cowardly orgs. Subscribe to support my journalism.

Sealy Challenge Day 4: Yellow Rain by Mai Der Vang. A really excellent example of deeply researched poetry. www.graywolfpress.org/books/yellow...

"But if I die because of government violence, I want a fucking grave." Two unflinching, deft, & timely poems from @renwilding.bsky.social | #poetry #augustissue www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/ren-w... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

The Sealy Challenge Day 3: If Some God Shakes Your House by @jfranklinpoet.bsky.social. She uses the persona of Antigone and refrain of memento mori to come to terms with a world unraveling. Also full of love for what is still beautiful and good in the world. fourwaybooks.com/site/if-some...

The Sealy Challenge Day 2: Willow Hammer by @patrickdonnelly.bsky.social fourwaybooks.com/site/willow-...

The Sealy Challenge Day 1: Repeat As Needed by @dustinbrookshire.bsky.social www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/re...

Thanks to the editors of Does It Have Pockets for publishing two of my political poems.

New poem!

Tonight!

Imagine, when a human dies, the soul misses the body, actually grieves the loss of its hands and all they could hold. - Andrea Gibson “Tincture”

The next Words Like Blades online reading is this Thursday, 7/17 at 7PM EST. Registration link: ticketbud.com/events/e832e...

Hurry: there are only a few openings in my popular manuscript revision classes! With all the recent book acceptances and publications by students, I am particularly excited to help new poets on their manuscripts! DM me with any questions and to reserve your spot!

Hours after ICE became the highest federal law enforcement agency in America history (and likely in world history), the Supreme Court lifts the last obstacle to ICE deporting people to any random country around the world, even in conflict zones or where migrants are enslaved.

The Fourth of July— a celebration of the death throes of democracy and the rise of fascism.

📞 It’s more urgent than ever to take action to protect Medicaid! Your Senators and Representative need to be hearing from you nonstop about how important Medicaid is for our community. Call now with our action alert: autisticadvocacy.org/2025/05/tell...

Re people saying we should send Trumpers to the frontlines in Trump’s new war. While I certainly have plenty of hostile morbid wishes for them, would love to see them face consequences, and I’m fucking pissed at them for a whole slew of reasons, there are some issues with this take.

To all my trans siblings today, I love you and be sweet to yourself.

MASSIVE good news for trans people in the United States. A federal judge has just granted class action status to transgender people looking to update their passports. This means that very shorty, the window will open to update your passports with the correct gender marker.

To all the loves protesting today: you are powerful and amazing. What you are doing matters. You are our hope.

In case y'all missed it - Utah Republicans ordered a study on transgender healthcare, expecting it to come back unsupportive. Instead, it found that trans youth care was safe and effective, and that transgender youth need it. Whoops. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

It’s here! Repeat As Needed by Dustin Brookshire is now available! 🩺💊 This powerful poetry collection pulses with wit, heart, and raw truths. Don’t miss your dose—grab your copy today: www.amazon.com/dp/195724851... #PoetryRelease #indiepublishing #newbook #chapbook #indiepublisher

Tune in for the second Words Like Blades reading tonight!

New poem!

Never underestimate the value of "Fuck you, make me" Everyone who cows to Trump is immediately made his bitch forever. Vance, Rubio, Graham. "Fuck you, make me" forced them to either switch to mass violence against the public, or back off. And mass violence only works if enough of us are cowed.

This autism acceptance month, support the self-advocacy movement with a donation to ASAN! autisticadvocacy.org/donate

All autistic people are worthy of love and care and have every fucking right to exist as ourselves. Labor and productivity do not increase or decrease our worthiness to exist in this world. Anyone who says otherwise is buying into and spreading eugenicist rhetoric right out of the Nazi playbook.

1. I am raising the alarm: If you are a transgender adult, your care is under threat by President Trump. You should prepare for severe supply disruptions and policies that amount to potential bans. The latest CMS letter indicates an expansion to target adults. Subscribe to support my reporting.

1. The Department of Health and Human Services has launched a national "snitch form" to report gender affirming care providers. The last few times state Republicans did this, they were overloaded with memes and Bee Movie scripts. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been sitting in a Salvadoran prison for over a month because the Trump Admin made a mistake. Now, the Admin is defying SCOTUS & refusing to bring him back. If we allow Trump to violate Kilmar's rights, none of our rights are safe. Kilmar is all of us.

I’m really excited to announce my first chapbook, “Trans Artifacts: Bones Between My Teeth,” will be published by Porkbelly Press in 2026/7!

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