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daryl "shut down, ass up'" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · Sep 17

saw someone typo "trans masc" as "trans mas" and now I'm like,

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laura @bloomurder.bsky.social · 4d

😭💖 Thank you for the kind words, @raewhite.bsky.social !

Rae White @raewhite.bsky.social · 4d

So honoured to be in the very first issue of this mag alongside so many brilliant contributors. Huge congrats to Laura for all the work you’ve put into this beautiful project and into creating space for writers 🥰🥳 @bloomurder.bsky.social

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Rae White @raewhite.bsky.social · 4d

So honoured to be in the very first issue of this mag alongside so many brilliant contributors. Huge congrats to Laura for all the work you’ve put into this beautiful project and into creating space for writers 🥰🥳 @bloomurder.bsky.social

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Rae White @raewhite.bsky.social · 4d

I have a tiny new poem in @strangedazemag.bsky.social !!! 🦉👀

You can read the very first issue at strangedazemag.itch.io/strange-daze-1

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Screen shot of the poem ‘an owl's fitful daytime dreams’ by Rae White. Text reads, ‘I think in fact I'm a vampire - / winged midnight cloaking my still heart - in threadbare embrace. with feathers like these how far can I fly? with beak like this how hard can I bite?’

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Strange Daze ☁️ Issue 1 out now! @strangedazemag.bsky.social · 9d

5 days to go! 🎉

Abigail Big-Wrestle
@bigjosh84.bsky.social
Hex
S.D. Dillon
Riley Fable
@thevgstoryteller
@raewhite.bsky.social
Terri Deno
Stephen Mead
Mikarla Teague
Pravasan Pillay
Sabrina Green
Amanda Hawk
O.P. Jha
Ella B. Winters
@gslakes.bsky.social

#litmag #onlinemag #writers #writer

Strange Daze 1. Introducing the contributors ...

Abigail Big-Wrestle, Joshua Walker, Hex, S.D. Dillon, Riley Fable, Harry Fritsch, Rae White, Terri Deno, Stephen Mead, Mikarla Teague, Pravasan Pillay, Sabrina Green, Amanda Hawk, O.P. Jha, Ella B. Winters, GS Lakes

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Rae White @raewhite.bsky.social · 11d

My new poem ‘Is this devotion?’ has just been published in Island Magazine online! @islandmag.bsky.social

It’s about the blooming obsession of new queer love, the soft touch of petal fingertips, the all-consuming refrain of spring 🌸🌼💖🌈

islandmag.com/read/is-this...

Screenshot of the Island website featuring a photo of four pressed plants and flowers on a white background. Above this, dark text reads, ‘POETRY. Is this devotion? - by Rae White. ISLAND | ONLINE ONLY.’

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#EnbyLife Journal @enbylife.bsky.social · 14d

We’re nominating for awards this year, including the Monarch Queer Literary Awards! (For creative work we published between July 2024 and June 2025.)

Shout out to our amazing creatives and wishing you all the best!

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#EnbyLife Journal @enbylife.bsky.social · 15d

‘Before college, “that” gender crisis lay forgotten as I deliberately mislabelled it and isolated it. Inside my suitcase, I would hide my gender — it shrivelled up and suffocated.’

Read more of Maha’s poem 'My Gender Sat in Your Class' at enbylife.net

Photo of a darkened classroom with chairs and a whiteboard. A window with open blinds creates some light in the room. Black text on a transparent light yellow/beige background reads, ‘Before college, "that" gender crisis lay forgotten / as I deliberately mislabelled it and isolated it. / Inside my suitcase, I would hide my gender — / it shrivelled up and suffocated. 'My Gender Sat in Your Class' by Maha.’

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#EnbyLife Journal @enbylife.bsky.social · 22d

‘We went by the street of my childhood home
where I used to sit in the backyard and my mum
would make me flower crowns —
bracelets and necklaces of white clover blossoms’

Read more of Jack Cariad Leon’s stunning poem 'Why I Was Really Crying' at enbylife.net

A notebook page featuring a collage of various flowers, including a polaroid, stickers, and coloured sketches. Black text on a beige background reads, ‘We went by the street of my childhood home / where I used to sit in the backyard and my mum / would make me flower crowns — / bracelets and necklaces of white clover blossoms. 'Why I Was Really Crying' by Jack Cariad Leon’

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#EnbyLife Journal @enbylife.bsky.social · 27d

We’re nominating for awards this year, including the Genrepunk Awards! (For creative work we published between August 2024 – July 2025.) @genrepunkmag.bsky.social

Shout out to our amazing creatives and wishing you all the best!

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#EnbyLife Journal @enbylife.bsky.social · 28d

We’re nominating for awards this year, including Best of the Net! (For creative works we published between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025). @sundresspub.bsky.social

Shout out to our amazing creatives and wishing you all the best! 🎉🌈

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Rae White @raewhite.bsky.social · Sep 10

It’s also the most zine-like movie I’ve ever seen and I fucken love that! 😍

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haha yeah @freshfleisch.bsky.social · Sep 10

i had a truly magical experience last night showing @raewhite.bsky.social the motion picture “They Live” (1988) for the first time. is it perfect? no. is it perfect for *right now*? fuck yes!

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Queer Games Bundle @queergamesbundle.bsky.social · Sep 9

🚨 10 hours left to get Queer Games Bundle 2025. We've just passed $87,000 for queer artists.

itch.io/b/3062/

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Queer Games Bundle @queergamesbundle.bsky.social · Sep 9

28 hours left to get Queer Games Bundle 2025.

itch.io/b/3062/

Queer Games Bundle 2025 (with $10+ option!) by Queer Games Bundle and 318 others

Queer Games Bundle 2025 (with $10+ option!): 616 items for $60.00

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#EnbyLife Journal @enbylife.bsky.social · Sep 9

This week’s new #EnbyLife post is David Cox’s limitless, gender-messy poem ‘My Gender is a Campsite on an Infinite Plane’.

Read more at enbylife.net

Photo of a blue and orange tent sitting on grass among lots of tall trees, with a lens flare creating yellow spots on a diagonal. Black text on a transparent brown background reads, “’My Gender is a Campsite on an Infinite Plane’ by David Cox.”

Photo of a blue, pink and orange sky with horizontal clouds. Black text on a transparent white background reads, “My gender is every colour of the sky / In that there is blue involved / But also so much more / My gender is like art / In the same way that you can’t define art / 'My Gender is a Campsite on an Infinite Plane’ by David Cox.”

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Rae White @raewhite.bsky.social · Sep 8

Last chance to get this year’s Queer Games Bundle! 👀🌈

Queer Games Bundle @queergamesbundle.bsky.social · Sep 8

4️⃣2️⃣ You have 42 hours left to buy Queer Games Bundle 2025. Get over 600 radical, heartfelt games and projects for $60 (or $10+), less than the price of one AAA game. This morning, we've passed $80,000 for queer artists.

itch.io/b/3062

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Queer Games Bundle @queergamesbundle.bsky.social · Sep 1

We're so close to $69,000 combined ♋

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#EnbyLife Journal @enbylife.bsky.social · Sep 2

Today’s fresh offering of poetry is Taylor Kovach’s brilliant piece ‘Exposure’.

Read more at enbylife.net or head to the link in our bio.

Social media tile, featuring the image of a glitchy television screen with colourful haphazard lines in pink, purple, and green. Black text on a light green transparent background reads, :”DVR phantom limb matinee viewing in HD / Channel-chased with downcast glasses of reality. 'Exposure' by Taylor Kovach.”

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Rae White @raewhite.bsky.social · Sep 1

Head to raewhite.net/events for more info! 🥰🎉

UPCOMING:
• Queer Zest Zine Fest 2025
• Make an Enby Zine at International NonBinary Day - 6 September at Jagera Hall
• Stella Day Out - The Dreaming Body:
Inheritance, Memory and Poetic Voice with Manisha Anjali and Shastra Deo in conversation with Rae White - 13 September 2025, 3.15pm at Avid Reader
• Calanthe Collective poetry reading - 21
November 2025, 6pm at Zamia Theatre, Tamborine Mountain
• Poetry of Flight (Liquid Amber Press) launch -
27 November 2025, 7.30pm AEDT online

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Queer Games Bundle @queergamesbundle.bsky.social · Aug 25

We've passed $62,000 for queer artists. Get over 600 projects from more than 300 creators for just $60 (or $10+):

itch.io/b/3062

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#EnbyLife Journal @enbylife.bsky.social · Aug 26

Today we’re excited to share a new poem with you — 'A Week After I Tell You I’m Questioning My Gender' by Abby Bland. READ MORE: enbylife.net/2025/08/26/a...

Social media post featuring a photo of green and pink fireworks in the dark night sky. Black text on a light green transparent background reads, “For a long time / the thing I wanted most / was to be beautiful / but now I wish / to become myself. 'A Week After I Tell You I’m Questioning My Gender' by Abby Bland.”

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haha yeah @freshfleisch.bsky.social · Aug 22

i am 39 and getting some of the best sleep of my life lately. all it took is a set of sheets i like, a high quality mattress, a CPAP machine, a satin pillowcase, 200mg of l-theanine twice a day, 15 minutes of weighted blanket at the start, and a gender transition. it’s so easy.

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Queer Games Bundle @queergamesbundle.bsky.social · Aug 22

We've passed $60,000 for queer artists. Get the bundle now:

itch.io/b/3062

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Queer Zest Zine Fest @queerzestzinefest.bsky.social · Aug 20

Rae White (they/them) is a queer non-binary transgender writer, and author of poetry collections 'Milk Teeth' and 'Exactly As I Am'. Their debut picture book 'All the Colours of the Rainbow', with illustrations by Sha’an d’Anthes, was published in January 2025.

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