in case you missed this the first time around, it’s really a banger

In the '60s and '70s, one of the biggest producers of drug paraphernalia and trippy blacklight art was the Houston Blacklight & Poster Company. But its history has been nearly lost. I wrote about its influence and the importance of saving artifacts like these: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

This is a collective action problem: I'd be happy to work with no-simsubs pubs in a world where a critical mass of mags had the 8-10d response time Kaleidotrope does; because that's so rare, any piece I believe in is basically guaranteed to be out somewhere else during a short sub window.

Useful thread. This is similar to the problems I see in bigger-than-hobbyist-size software projects (human architectural errors are way easier to fix because they have a personality) & mathematics & data analysis (LLMs' skill at patching crank style makes crank logic much harder to spot)

There were things about reading I did not understand, like the connection between my eyes and your page. -- Renee Gladman, _TOAF_

I didn’t realize that all these little rituals were only letting the mourning swallow me whole. - Odette Augustine, Traditions @brigibee.bsky.social kithbooks.com/shop/p/forspiteandrosemary

Hello celluloid and silver screen worshippers, join me to celebrate the publication of my poetry pamphlet, The Death of the Cult Classic, published by @kithbooks.bsky.social, with performances from Christy Ku and Rebecca Cooney 7pm, 28/05/26, Seven Dials Playhouse www.outsavvy.com/event/35868/...

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And, we're open! ANMLY seeks new, unpublished poetry, fiction, flash & micros, creative nonfiction, translation, and comics for our autumn issue. We hope you'll check us out!

"hammering out possibility not the future—that was squandered long ago" I think often about this music & the Nazi guard that enabled it, took risks to get Messiaen free, but you know, still 100% Nazi - QftEoT is an extreme example but much of the art I love had to trick/seduce evil to get out there

Today’s book review is a little bit different! In response to @kithbooks.bsky.social & @selizabeth.bsky.social ‘s new chapbook Transmasc Marvel Girl, I have written some review “poems”. Please enjoy! Link to review in the replies! #BRIB #BookSky #poetry

People / are just too attractive! Heather Christle (@heatherchristle.bsky.social)

this book ruined my attention span for fiction with less than ~20 distinct narrative voices each of which I am in love with. also it's just a matter of time before I forget it was not a comic. (complementary) also++ I usually have no patience for Magic Gender Situation but IMO it worked fine here!

Announcing the 2026 Boston Dyke March Lineup! We’ve got amazing bands and speakers this year!

I’d love to read both more theory and experiences from other intersex nonbinary people, but I’ve had trouble finding what I’m looking for (and presently have no academic library access). Any recommendations?

🪻 spring issue's up! 🪻 ft. @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social, @nickb999.bsky.social, @shannonfrostgre.bsky.social, @lamaritiwrites.bsky.social, @ella-b-winters.bsky.social, @birchwiley.bsky.social, & more! voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/s...

one of many beautiful things about the scrappy gay art spaces I tend to find myself in: we don't have time for doing scientific racism on art

Look I don't know Stella. But I do know that the writing in Lily's Garden was ridiculously good; like, it wasn't JUST far and away better than any silly f2p mobile game had any expectation to be, it was just GOOD-good. Like, I'd watch that show.

Sad and long-expected news: Michael Tilson Thomas died last night at 81, nearly five years after first being diagnosed with brain cancer. This will take some time to process. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Book launch for my poetry collection Promises to Keep tomorrow at the Thomas Crane Library in Quincy

IT’S HERE! Picnic 2 is ON SALE NOW at Hive Mind Books in Bushwick 💛🧺🐝 More locations coming soon :) —Alma

ALOCASIA #18 is here w/ queer planty writing as spring sings! w/ Daniel Cartwright-Chaouki, nawa angel alviar horton, Logan Elizabeth Craig, Jodie Whitchurch, Matty Layne Glasgow, Shantell Powell, Shantal Jeewon Kim, KB, Blue Đào Nguyễn, & Gospel Chinedu ALOCASIA.org

- I'd *love* to update the pilot I drafted in middle school for a sci-fi bounty hunter romp featuring the trans girl from Critters 2: The Main Course (1988) - a novelization of Wozzeck - Motherland: Fort Salem - I've technically written Devil Dinosaur*, but would love a crack @ DD + Moon Girl!

love a new issue of @eldiagram.bsky.social, love a new @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social piece or two!

(e)laments is now available from @stonecorpse.com! This collaboration with @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social is available from the publisher in PDF (free!) and print ($7 + shipping). I will send you a signed copy with a bespoke, hand-written short-form poem for $15 (shipping included), DM me

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Yes! Green Lantern is a color, who fights other colors. Spider-Man is half-animal-or-sand-or-pumpkin, who fights other half-animal-or-sand-or-pumpkins. Jughead is a burger, who fights other burgers. Wonder Woman is a kink who fights other kinks. (so why doesn't her rogues' gallery work?)

You will love SOAP once it comes out from lilac peril

Ok what about Dhalgren!! I was told (by andrea Lawlor, one of the main reasons failure to comply exists) that i needed to read it, once they read what was then a very rough draft of FTC. Also Zer000 excess by Jake Reber, also a soft influence on failure to comply.

I have been told I need to read the paper people and Lanark as a result of this thread, so they're on my list

my excitement for PPV has me itching for type stunts (complimentary) book club, including it & - @cavar.bsky.social's Failure to Comply - Tristram Shandy - Saroyan's Minimal Poems - Apollinaire's Calligrams what are your faves in this game, book friends?

#041 – "the allegory of painting" by t.r. san

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We're open for submissions through APRIL 30, and are hungry for your work, the weirder the better. manyworlds.place/what-to-incl...

PROMISES TO KEEP is out in the world from @wayfarerbooks.bsky.social! Order a signed copy. www.mehpoeting.com/promises-to-...

Alright internet, time to work some magic for me. Does anyone know if there are any digitalized scans of the 1980s trans tabloid The Transvestian, published by Tania Volen? I've done my preliminary search and I cannot find a single digital scan, and it ran for years 😔

when a girl says something so lambda nominated you have to hit her with the self-published transgressive fiction stare

The novel It destroyed its cage Yes YES The novel is out Published today: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

I was reading Levertov today, and came across this gem. I think maybe a few people might need these words right now. “Concurrence”

It’s release day for PROMISES TO KEEP by Matthew Henry! This powerful book of poetry explores themes of faith, power, family, and belief. Order your copy now at wayfarerbookstore.com, or wherever books are sold! @mehpoeting.bsky.social

Here's a PDF of A Year Among the Girls. Hope y'all enjoy the scan! drive.google.com/file/d/1k3a3...

Today for #smallpoemsunday as well as #PoetryMonth, some Aracelis Girmay.

Now the reading is done, so it's time to announce it everywhere! Coming in October 2027 from @traumbooks.bsky.social: POWERHORSE and Other Stories, a collection of all my stories about weird guys with bad ideas

Incision Press' third prose anthology, from queer and trans perspectives, will bring out the salacious monster lurking inside. kithbooks.com/shop/p/monster

yo you should read my books, if The Locked Tomb is a goth girl they're her punk friend who reeks of tobacco www.simonandschuster.com/series/The-E...

they put email in space. NOT EVEN SPACE IS FUN ANYMORE

IT’S HERE 🌈💕 the inaugural Monarch Queer Literary Awards Anthology! Working on this last year with the rest of the @monarch.gay team was one of the most fun editorial experiences of my life. Thank you to all the editors who nommed work in our first year. Cheers to more queer art in 2026!

Also, delighted to share an issue w/a fun first-butt-stuff story by @petersontoscano.bsky.social, who I met once several genders & decades ago on a long car ride: the way he made a server's day by flirtily ordering vegan off the menu at Denny's taught me asking for things can be a gift

Check it out - I've got a piece about land, human macrame, and warrior cats in this one!

Readers: I am begging you to leave a mark on your books. Add sticky notes. Write "huh?" and "damn" in the margins. Underlines & asterisks everywhere. DOG-EAR THE THING. It is a gift to open a book & find friends. (Just got a copy of Trish Salah's Lyric Sexology w/some especially delicious traces)