Dr. Cavar 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️
@cavar.bsky.social
transMad & queercrip writer, editor, phd-haver. cooler on goodreads. edits manywor(l)ds.
wrote FAILURE TO COMPLY (featherproof).
repped by Noah Grey Rosenzweig.
🕸️ www.cavar.club
📖 goodreads.com/cavar
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wrote FAILURE TO COMPLY (featherproof).
repped by Noah Grey Rosenzweig.
🕸️ www.cavar.club
📖 goodreads.com/cavar
🧨 bookshop.org/p/books/failure-to-comply/20969806
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@cavar.bsky.social
· Oct 17
Failure to Comply a book by Cavar
How far would you go to have real freedom? To have true autonomy of both mind and body? The narrator of Failure to Comply wants self-determination at all costs, and they want you to know what it did, ...
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Is it too late to come back to Bluesky? I’m always getting new follower notifs so I figured I’d pop back in and say! My book is out! FAILURE TO COMPLY is avail wherever books are sold, and I’d love for you to check it out.
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This is wild. like those “new devices” are the result of slave labor and genocide hello
![An article with the headline "[US people] are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jye22xkea3jqsabskhfec347/bafkreigunh6t53vvgp2sewo2fsy4xttrwgy3zrdwplje7j2qjop5jdeyxy@jpeg)
November 24, 2025 at 11:31 PM
This is wild. like those “new devices” are the result of slave labor and genocide hello
I’ve said it before and will say it again, trans southerners, especially trans Texans and Floridians, are operating on an entirely different astral plane than those of us based in safer (relatively) locations. Like the level of commitment & courage & radical joy is beyond words.
Featured story: Weeks after a transphobic attack, dozens of trans, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming folks gathered on the “free side” of Austin’s Barton Springs to swim, celebrate, and fearlessly take up space.
@kitoconnell.com was there to witness this moment of queer joy and resilience...
@kitoconnell.com was there to witness this moment of queer joy and resilience...
At Barton Springs, Trans Existence Becomes Resistance
Following a transphobic incident earlier this year, community members gathered to "protect trans joy."
www.texasobserver.org
November 24, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I’ve said it before and will say it again, trans southerners, especially trans Texans and Floridians, are operating on an entirely different astral plane than those of us based in safer (relatively) locations. Like the level of commitment & courage & radical joy is beyond words.
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my bud cavar has a new call out!!
hello all semi/nonhuman entities & accomplices, i'm editing a @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social blog series on multispecies / alterhuman writing, and submissions are open now through Dec 15!!!
You should submit something! Especially if you're unpublished! Don't self-reject!
fifthwheelpress.com/blogsubs
You should submit something! Especially if you're unpublished! Don't self-reject!
fifthwheelpress.com/blogsubs
November 24, 2025 at 12:25 AM
my bud cavar has a new call out!!
hello all semi/nonhuman entities & accomplices, i'm editing a @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social blog series on multispecies / alterhuman writing, and submissions are open now through Dec 15!!!
You should submit something! Especially if you're unpublished! Don't self-reject!
fifthwheelpress.com/blogsubs
You should submit something! Especially if you're unpublished! Don't self-reject!
fifthwheelpress.com/blogsubs
November 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
hello all semi/nonhuman entities & accomplices, i'm editing a @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social blog series on multispecies / alterhuman writing, and submissions are open now through Dec 15!!!
You should submit something! Especially if you're unpublished! Don't self-reject!
fifthwheelpress.com/blogsubs
You should submit something! Especially if you're unpublished! Don't self-reject!
fifthwheelpress.com/blogsubs
Growing up I (autistic, insane) wanted to be a clinical psychiatrist. I was obsessed with the DSM as a document and read editions 3+4 (5 didn't come out until I was a teenager) religiously.
Then I was forcibly institutionalized & got jokerified (many such cases) and went into Mad Studies instead.
Then I was forcibly institutionalized & got jokerified (many such cases) and went into Mad Studies instead.
November 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Growing up I (autistic, insane) wanted to be a clinical psychiatrist. I was obsessed with the DSM as a document and read editions 3+4 (5 didn't come out until I was a teenager) religiously.
Then I was forcibly institutionalized & got jokerified (many such cases) and went into Mad Studies instead.
Then I was forcibly institutionalized & got jokerified (many such cases) and went into Mad Studies instead.
i don't really have anything punchy or smart to post for TDOR, but i said almost everything i wanted to say in this poem i think
(and the rest i want to say would get me banned from bsky/on a list so.)
(and the rest i want to say would get me banned from bsky/on a list so.)
November 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
i don't really have anything punchy or smart to post for TDOR, but i said almost everything i wanted to say in this poem i think
(and the rest i want to say would get me banned from bsky/on a list so.)
(and the rest i want to say would get me banned from bsky/on a list so.)
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this is a very important part of her legacy, her support for Palestine. one of the things i will always remember is that one of Dr. Refaat Alareer’s last liked posts on Twitter before it turned into x and removed like history is a photo of Alice.
The official obits are rolling in. I hear the NYT mentions nothing about Alice Palestine support ofc. When she won her MacArthur, Alice got death threats from Zionists. They ruined her joy on a HUGE accomplishment. She told me the MacArthur ppl took down her personal statement & when she complained
November 16, 2025 at 6:05 AM
this is a very important part of her legacy, her support for Palestine. one of the things i will always remember is that one of Dr. Refaat Alareer’s last liked posts on Twitter before it turned into x and removed like history is a photo of Alice.
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We are so excited to share issue 10 with you, featuring brilliant creatives like @blackcattales.bsky.social, @kathrynreese.bsky.social, @pleomorphic2.bsky.social, @dihyatamaghza.bsky.social, @rjaurand.bsky.social, and more!
(anti-war dinosaur courtesy of Emma Johnson-Rivard)
(anti-war dinosaur courtesy of Emma Johnson-Rivard)
November 15, 2025 at 10:36 PM
We are so excited to share issue 10 with you, featuring brilliant creatives like @blackcattales.bsky.social, @kathrynreese.bsky.social, @pleomorphic2.bsky.social, @dihyatamaghza.bsky.social, @rjaurand.bsky.social, and more!
(anti-war dinosaur courtesy of Emma Johnson-Rivard)
(anti-war dinosaur courtesy of Emma Johnson-Rivard)
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Stop and frisk laid the groundwork for this moment and many many people ignored that stop and frisk was and is a real problem.
November 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Stop and frisk laid the groundwork for this moment and many many people ignored that stop and frisk was and is a real problem.
if you grew up disabled/Mad, you know what it's like to experience multiple forms of infantilization and delegitimization at once - for being a kid, and for being disabled on top of that. alice knew it too. she knew that being seen & trusted as a full person could change our lives. and she did it.
alice wong treated me as an equal from the moment she met me. i was a teenager with very little experience in the way of organizing; she was already a titan in this community. it didn't matter. she believed above all else that everyone, no matter how small, deserved to be treated as a future elder.
November 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
if you grew up disabled/Mad, you know what it's like to experience multiple forms of infantilization and delegitimization at once - for being a kid, and for being disabled on top of that. alice knew it too. she knew that being seen & trusted as a full person could change our lives. and she did it.
alice wong treated me as an equal from the moment she met me. i was a teenager with very little experience in the way of organizing; she was already a titan in this community. it didn't matter. she believed above all else that everyone, no matter how small, deserved to be treated as a future elder.
November 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
alice wong treated me as an equal from the moment she met me. i was a teenager with very little experience in the way of organizing; she was already a titan in this community. it didn't matter. she believed above all else that everyone, no matter how small, deserved to be treated as a future elder.
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‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
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Alice Wong was one of the most effective people challenging the Whiteness of disability communities and its many flaws, but who believed fiercely in us as a community, in disabled people as oracles.
Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.
Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.
November 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Alice Wong was one of the most effective people challenging the Whiteness of disability communities and its many flaws, but who believed fiercely in us as a community, in disabled people as oracles.
Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.
Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.
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i feel like one thing that we should be making abundantly clear from now on is that the majority of anti-trans consent manufacturers are goddamn pedophiles.
are you going to believe what a bunch of pedophiles say about us? what does that say about you?
are you going to believe what a bunch of pedophiles say about us? what does that say about you?
November 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
i feel like one thing that we should be making abundantly clear from now on is that the majority of anti-trans consent manufacturers are goddamn pedophiles.
are you going to believe what a bunch of pedophiles say about us? what does that say about you?
are you going to believe what a bunch of pedophiles say about us? what does that say about you?
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A every chance I’ll repost this brief statement on the recruitment of sadists to enforce violence upon your citizens and per ieved enemies [literally from the first head of the Gestapo]
November 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
A every chance I’ll repost this brief statement on the recruitment of sadists to enforce violence upon your citizens and per ieved enemies [literally from the first head of the Gestapo]
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Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
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heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
November 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
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🚨 WNDB is committed to providing emergency grants to diverse authors & illustrators, publishing professionals, and educators experiencing dire financial need due to loss of SNAP benefits. We are now open for a new round of emergency grants, between $250 and $1,000 each.
💻 bit.ly/WNDB-emergency
💻 bit.ly/WNDB-emergency
November 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🚨 WNDB is committed to providing emergency grants to diverse authors & illustrators, publishing professionals, and educators experiencing dire financial need due to loss of SNAP benefits. We are now open for a new round of emergency grants, between $250 and $1,000 each.
💻 bit.ly/WNDB-emergency
💻 bit.ly/WNDB-emergency
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Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.
November 5, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.
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So uh.
I've spent the last five years working on a book about grief, mourning, who is allowed to grieve and how, and where we go from here, and...
you can now preorder it!
I've spent the last five years working on a book about grief, mourning, who is allowed to grieve and how, and where we go from here, and...
you can now preorder it!
All My Dead Cats and Other Losses: Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning
Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning
bookshop.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
So uh.
I've spent the last five years working on a book about grief, mourning, who is allowed to grieve and how, and where we go from here, and...
you can now preorder it!
I've spent the last five years working on a book about grief, mourning, who is allowed to grieve and how, and where we go from here, and...
you can now preorder it!
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The people yearn for Transgender Islam
November 5, 2025 at 2:49 AM
The people yearn for Transgender Islam
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The lesson here is have good principles and stand on them. Stand for something that isn't power!
Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
November 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
The lesson here is have good principles and stand on them. Stand for something that isn't power!
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roses are red
big laughs are hearty
big laughs are hearty
November 5, 2025 at 2:58 AM
roses are red
big laughs are hearty
big laughs are hearty
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I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.
November 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.