for #bandcampfriday: I've got a bunch of trumpet & an arrangement on this gentle, sweet, singalong-able thing: thesanctuaryboston.bandcamp.com/album/the-sa...

golems with butts!!!!!!!!!!!!

the glorious-unhinged-gay-banger-per-dollar ratio on this one is very high for instance, this Jenna Jaco: fifthwheelpress.com/anth7backend... and this Elizabeth R McClellan: fifthwheelpress.com/anth7backend... (also I have two pieces in it!)

For our second year, I'm proud to present the TFR Reader's Choice Awards, the only literary awards where YOU can vote for your favorite transfeminine books of 2025 🩷 Voting is open right now! The voting period will last until December 26th, 2025 at 11:59 PM, so don't forget to cast your ballot.

this is absolute 🔥

New poem out from the wonderful @ninthletter.bsky.social! It's from my WIP dealing with my time in the scouts. Read the whole thing at ninthletter.com/2025/11/25/j...

a reflection on how to relate to a world that can't be un-broken. we're never getting the moon back, guys. (lesson learned: wear flats when you might encounter a short person lectern) www.youtube.com/live/C6Z5ora... #sermon #uu

🏳️‍🌈 QUEER WRITERS! We’re open for submissions until 31st December. 🍊 We’d love to read your most boundary-bending writing – fiction, non-fiction, poetry, hybrid & visual work all welcome. Check out our guidelines at fruitjournal.co.uk/submit/ 🥝

I can't believe how much it took to disabuse me of the idea that my bosses had some skill or expertise invisible to me that could at least partially justify the difference in pay & power & respect. I was so dumb. Wish I'd had figures like this that make obvious how useless the typical executive is.

Scene Reports is live because I got the zines before I expected to get them. There will be a party next week. If you are in Chicago, they're five bucks, and you'll just have to find me bumming around to grab one. It's not that hard. I'm a creature of habit. I only hang around three or four spots.

when a river runs into a bunch of dumb-ass garbage blocking her way, she gets wider

There is so much good stuff in here!! May I particularly recommend: Redundancies & Potentials The Cosmic Color The Transitive Properties of Cheese All the Hometowns You Can't Stay Away From anthologies Embodied Exegesis, Luminescent Machinations, & the We're Here annuals

because of legal costs etc, written agreements aren't always that effective for protecting against hostile behavior... but they *are* great for preserving friendships & communities! you should want contracts with your friends who you trust the most!

"In Book X of The Republic, Plato excludes poets on the grounds that mimetic language can distort judgment and bring society to a collapse. As contemporary social systems increasingly rely on large language models (LLMs) in operational and decision-making pipelines..." tfw the cites span 2400 years

the captured sparrow whispers & the wind by way of reply reassures her with arrows; sorrowfully she may not fly the dead doves rot as cranes hunt in the marshland the tadpoles forgot sorrowfully she may not cry electric monks chant openly: sorrowfully we may not lie though it means that we may die

Magica Riot: Full Bloom’s now sold over 300 copies in less than a week of sales, if you were ever doubting that trans books can find audiences

so honored to be cooking in your rotisserie, Ann 🪱🔪💜

Running these "Reading / Writing for the Strength to Act" general-audience workshops for the last couple months has brought so much life back into my own writing practice - if you just hang out with professional chefs you can take for granted how much getting some food on the table, period, matters.

Proof that poets are prophets: this poem is now extra poignant with the last Old Farmer's Almanac dropping in 2026 :/

I read poetry like I'm eating it and I write poetry like I'm throwing up. literacy was probably a mistake.

Catch my 🪱🪱🪱 pantoum just a page over from Jamie Hood @veryhotmomm.bsky.social !!!

🏳️‍🌈 QUEER WRITERS OF COLOUR! 🏳️‍🌈 We’re now open for submissions until 30th November. We want to read your boundary-bending writing – fiction, non-fiction, poetry, hybrid & visual work all welcome!🍎 See our guidelines: fruitjournal.co.uk/submit/

The speed at which my timeline took a Steam preview page of one "cozy" airport cop sim that no one has played, from a no-name developer that makes <10k-selling shovelware, and leveraged it against all media that gets labeled "cozy" can't *possibly* have anything to do with anti-femininity, nope.

There was Emily the one from Ur and Emily the one from Uruk and they had nothing in common

Enheduanna was on a first name basis with all twelve Sumerian girls yet even then there was some confusion about which Emily, Willow, or Julia she was talking about

somehow both true: 1) trans women have always existed, in every time and place in history, and will always exist 2) there are only like two dozen of us and we're all at least a tiny bit famous and we probably met at a party once

See also: "transfem life is rich despite transmisogynistic violence" / "wow trans girl tragic" "vicious policing of transfem sexuality is bad" / "wow trans girl depraved" "this sucks" / "wow trans girl brave". I write to resist flattening but sometimes it feels like it backfires :/

Proud of this talk I gave last week! How stories about death warp our politics & what we can do about it. (The game design aside was like 4x as long in the first draft - let me nerd out at you about the death drive in Chutes & Ladders & Pachisi sometime)

I am grateful to have lived long enough to watch electronic mail take its place alongside the letter & the mix tape & the actual answering of the actual phone as yesteryear's romantic transmitter of yearning & delight

hey if you follow me and you like my shit about bleak sci-fi worlds and wounded women and the horrors of existing as trans you should go read this right now palimrya.itch.io/dragonfly

I have busted the ghost that was in your hood and which you were probably scared of and screaming Forgive me busting makes me feel good

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

I'm coming from a more optimistic starting point in that I experience an extremely real trans creative & intellectual scene. I think this is in part because so many artists & intellectuals work to cultivate their own robust critical apparatus, though it looks different from book reviews. 🧵

i'm nothing in between you know you wouldn't want it any other way

dear my entire culture: more captivating invaluable weird many-fonted historical artifacts of fury and organizing with hot girls kissing on the front please.

"THESE ARE THE KIND OF FANTASIES WE CAN AFFORD" Very excited for this one. Some of my favorites of Hikari's here: beestungmag.com/issue18/two-... and here: coupletpoetry.com/nora-hikari/

yesssssss go get the thing, friends!

for the night crowd 🌙

If you're cis, please actually call them. I can't articulate how bad this news is.

This is an abandonment of the most vulnerable trans youth, for whom Fenway Health was often a provider of last resort, and signals Fenway’s willingness to abandon all trans patients. They must be pressured over this capitulation. We need your help - reach out, call, demand answers!

DYK: if healthcare facilities and/or providers in massachusetts discriminate against you in contravention of state law and/or licensing requirements you can file complaints with their licensing boards and you can do this even if you think they're otherwise nice people www.mass.gov/info-details...

<3 I'm hooked on an egg reading of James Wright, too - he's obsessed with being absorbed into a feminized natural world, disgusted with his body, obsessed with Sappho & women buried in the ground. "This time, I have left my body behind me, crying / In its dark thorns..."

It suffocates most poems to collect loosely related 1-3p pieces into a 1-author full-length. The average # of authors of a full-length should = the average # of musicians on an album. If you're not pulling off an intricate book-length sequence you & 4 friends should just smoosh microchaps together.

oh no she also plays the oboe, the hot librarian of instruments

whoa october is around the corner! reminder that we'll be open again for novellas soon. more info here: www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

This is a great thread & reflects my own experience - I will say that it's important to know that a) plenty of trans people (maybe especially those with alexithymia of some sort?) don't ever get an obvious bodily epiphany either way (1/2)

My accidental coming-out was my brain farting on the same question: my answer was Elliot Page. In early 2011, ~6 months after Inception released, before he was outed as queer. (He grew into the role.)

petrichor 28 is here and submissions are now open! petrichormag.com/petrichor-28/

In a backwards way I'm grateful for the emptiness of Lehman's vision - so much of the current poetry I love is a reaction against it and I find its politics more urgent & direct & personal & complex than mid-century & earlier American political poetry. _Bettering American Poetry_ was awesome.

one of my neighborhood shops! this is a great rec list <3