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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 20h

Bebías Into Ohndaa Ke, a new anthology on queer Indigenous land relations that includes my story in Michif about a transmasc Metis lesbian buffalo hunter, is now available for purchase, and I’m dyinggg bc it got blurbed by so many of my favorite scholars!!!

Bebías Into Ohndaa Ke: Queer Indigenous Knowledge for Land and Community, edited by Sydney Rae Krill & Kleo P Skavinski

Lii Deu Faan Kaa-Wiikihtochik | The Two Women Wed by Kai Pyle

Back cover featuring blurbs by Billy Ray Belcourt, Dian Million, Daniel Voth, Joseph M Pierce, Gina Starblanket, and Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark

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Trans+ History Week @transhistoryweek.com · 3d

Help shape Trans+ History Week!

Please complete our annual story survey and have your say on what kinds of stories we tell next year with @wearequeeraf.com

Shape Trans+ History Week - Have Your Say

What kinds of stories, history and communities should we focus on next year?

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en•gendered @en-gendered.bsky.social · Jul 21

Happy Monday!

"focus on quitting this job..."
- nat raum, poem for the woman who says including transmasc people in "women's" issues isn't relatable to her personally
@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social

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this is a focus group. focus on identifying five things
i can see, four i can touch. focus on the cursor as it slides
over the camera button, switches it off. focus on the way
she says i hope you don’t take this as offensive, but after i say
the menopause website we’re all looking at doesn’t feel
trans-friendly. recalibrate; losing focus. don’t focus on
the way i feel, the way she doesn’t realize she swatted
me down like an attack helicopter would fall if struck
by such a blow. don’t focus on all twenty people who said
nothing and kept talking about the hot pink web design.
focus on the talking-to your boss says is coming for her.
focus on the email from your other queer coworker
sending love from her gay little corner of the world.
focus on quitting this job in a few months, anyway.
this is a focus group—focus on collecting my gift card
compensation. focus on a future without cis nonsense.

nat raum,
poem for the cishet woman who says including transmasc people in “women’s” issues isn’t relatable to her personally

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Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 1d

It was so lovely to talk to Griffin Rockwell about LISTEN. This chapbook is so rooted in subverting the SFF canon. 🖤

Interstellar Flight Press @interstellarflight.bsky.social · 3d

Our latest book launch is live on YouTube if you didn't catch it via Zoom. Listen to "Listen" by Griffin Rockwell, a book-length Cento poem drawing from classic science fiction literature: youtu.be/uZjoVoEkA10

Griffin Rockwell Book Launch

listen—a poetic creatureby Griffin RockwellAll this happened,more or lessNow, listen to me- / - / - / - / - / -I have, doubtless,excited your curiosityShall ...

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 1d

"Arthur Rimbaud is splayed across the backseat listening to music on cheap Skullcandys."

Read "Death within Color Revolution" by Jonce Marshall Palmer in beestung 8

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One Hybrid by Jonce Marshall Palmer – beestung

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 1d

"Arthur Rimbaud is splayed across the backseat listening to music on cheap Skullcandys."

Read "Death within Color Revolution" by Jonce Marshall Palmer in beestung 8

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One Hybrid by Jonce Marshall Palmer – beestung

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mosh pit daria @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social · 1d

hi folks, i'm here to plug my workshops again. even if you have no experience doing any of these things, they will be very fun and you should sign up for one or maybe all of them.

mosh pit daria @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social · 4d

icymi, i lost my job and am running some workshops to make money to uh, live?

tickets for the first run of THE RANDOMIZER are up now at natraum.com/links. the rest are coming soon!

2025 workshops

It's Lit: Literary Magazine Submissions. October 29 @ 7PM EST.

THE RANDOMIZER #1. November 6 @ 7pm EST.

No Choice But to Stan: Writing Pop Culture in Poetry. November 15 @ 12pm EST

Writing to Grieve: Poetry as Processing. November 22 @ 12pm EST

THE RANDOMIZER #2. TBD late November.

About your instructor

nat raum is a queer, disabled, and recently unemployed artist and writer based on unceded Piscataway and Susquehannock land in Baltimore. They hold an MFA in Creative Writing with a focus in Poetry, and have served as an adjunct faculty member at the Maryland Institute College of Art and The University of Baltimore. They’re the author of 22 books of poetry, all of which were proudly published independently.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · Dec 22

Happy shortlist day! First up, we’ve got seven fantastic poetry collections by transfeminine authors up for the Best Transfeminine Poetry of 2024 award 💖

The trans poetry community is mostly on Instagram (where I am not), so if folks want to go shout people out over there that would rock.

The Shortlist for Best Transfeminine Poetry of 2024 TFR Reader’s Choice Award

Seven of the best poetry collections by transfeminine poets published this year. Voting is open until Dec. 27th, 2024 at 11:59pm EST!

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you so much to Grist and Dr. Kelsey L. Smoot for this beautiful review of Bess Cooley's Florence! gristjournal.com/2025/10/flor...

Florence by Bess Cooley - Grist

What Remains: Memory and Erasure in Bess Cooley’s Florence Reviewed by Dr. Kelsey L. SmootSundress Publications, October 15th, 2024Paperback, 78 pages, $16 Everything in Bess Cooley’s Florence is borr...

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 2d

"Alternative title: You become a queer elder by accident, not because you are good at living but because you are slow at dying."

—Loren Maria Guay

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One Poem by Loren Maria Guay – beestung

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 2d

In this installment of #SundressReads, Catie Macauley reads and reviews Emilia Phillips’ collection Nonbinary Bird of Paradise, available now from the University of Akron Press! sundressblog.com/2025/09/30/s...

Sundress Reads: Review of Nonbinary Bird of Paradise - The Sundress Blog

In Emilia Phillips’ Nonbinary Bird of Paradise (The University of Akron Press, 2024), God is many things: they are “a knot / that knows how to untie itself,” “the first/war,” a “voyeur, who gave / [t...

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 2d

"Alternative title: You become a queer elder by accident, not because you are good at living but because you are slow at dying."

—Loren Maria Guay

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One Poem by Loren Maria Guay – beestung

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Ally Ang @theoceanisgay.bsky.social · Sep 7

Thanks for sharing this poem from my forthcoming book Let the Moon Wobble (@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social) 🌝

Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · Sep 7

Today's Featured Poem:

"Owed to My Father's Accent" by Ally Ang from Let the Moon Wobble published by @theoceanisgay.bsky.social

Read here:
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Owed to My Father's Accent

The way I train my tongue to imitate his, words clumsy and labored in my imposter mouth.

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 3d

The Best of the Net is looking for volunteer readers for its 2026 issue! Find out more here: bestofthenetanthology.com/work-with-us...

Best of the Net is seeking volunteer readers - 10 to 20 submissions per week - Apply by 11/1/25

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 3d

"i identify as anxiety attack
a high-functioning breakdown
a cat on its last life"

Read "death of the party" by courtney marie in beestung #8

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One Poem by courtney marie – beestung

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 3d

"i identify as anxiety attack
a high-functioning breakdown
a cat on its last life"

Read "death of the party" by courtney marie in beestung #8

beestungmag.com/issue08/one-...

One Poem by courtney marie – beestung

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Scare-a Werewolfthing @never.horse · 4d

Dear chicago, i'll be reading at this on friday, come say hi <3

Dolls dolls demons dolls oct 10 doors 7pm
a genderfucked variety hour
show at 7:30
hosted by the leather archives & museum
hosted by c. russell price & eri lucia kapling
featuring art literature and merch from local trans creators
$10 suggested donation

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 4d

"i don’t wanna go back to a time

where i cared abt u less"

—MICHAEL CHANG

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One Poem by MICHAEL CHANG – beestung

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 4d

"i don’t wanna go back to a time

where i cared abt u less"

—MICHAEL CHANG

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One Poem by MICHAEL CHANG – beestung

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 5d

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Paul Hlava Ceballos @paulhlava.bsky.social · 4d

“I have spent / the currency of my body / clawing
my way out / of the blood-dark dirt /
that birthed me”

Super excited for these poems @theoceanisgay.bsky.social in @seattlemet.com.web.brid.gy

I love this and am excited for the new book, Let the Moon Wobble!

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A drawing of a person holding scissors and the words, “Three Poems by Ally Ang”

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 4d

We're just $36 away from our goal for the year!! Thank you so much!!!

beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 5d

beestung is hoping to raise just $136 more to keep us going for another year 🖤💛

beestung @beestung.bsky.social · Jul 14

Happy non-binary day and week!

We're a small mag publishing non-binary, genderqueer, and two-spirit writers.

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 4d

We're just $36 away from our goal for the year!! Thank you so much!!!

beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 5d

beestung is hoping to raise just $136 more to keep us going for another year 🖤💛

beestung @beestung.bsky.social · Jul 14

Happy non-binary day and week!

We're a small mag publishing non-binary, genderqueer, and two-spirit writers.

If you'd like to help us out, we're currently working towards our goal for paying writers for this and next year.

Shares are very much appreciated, too!

www.gofundme.com/f/beestung-y...

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 5d

beestung is hoping to raise just $136 more to keep us going for another year 🖤💛

beestung @beestung.bsky.social · Jul 14

Happy non-binary day and week!

We're a small mag publishing non-binary, genderqueer, and two-spirit writers.

If you'd like to help us out, we're currently working towards our goal for paying writers for this and next year.

Shares are very much appreciated, too!

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Donate to beestung: Years Six & Seven, organized by Sarah Clark

What is beestung: beestung is a quarterly online micro-magazine for non-binary, genderquee… Sarah Clark needs your support for beestung: Years Six & Seven

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 5d

"Gender reveal party pyrotechnics,
in all their binaric insistence,
scorch the earth, leaving hundreds
homeless. Lifeless."

—Goldie Peacock

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One Flash and One Poem by Goldie Peacock – beestung

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