Roz Milner
@rozmilner.bsky.social
Transfemme Guy Davenport// As seen in the Toronto Star, Lambda Literary, Broken Pencil, Full Stop, The Bulwark, the Ex-Puritan, and elsewhere // rozwords on twitch // your dad’s fave books/jazz writer
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Roz Milner
@rozmilner.bsky.social
· Jan 30
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Hi! I’m Roz Milner and I’m a freelance writer and critic that has written for everything from Xtra to Lambda Literary to the Toronto Star to Exclaim Magazine. Would you like me to write for you? Let me know here or drop me a line: milnerwords.wordpress.com/contact/
Trans folx: stay alive. If you can’t believe in yourself than believe in the me that believes in you. We are stronger together
December 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Trans folx: stay alive. If you can’t believe in yourself than believe in the me that believes in you. We are stronger together
Did something happen today
December 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Did something happen today
Glados is kind of high key goals for me
December 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Glados is kind of high key goals for me
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I heard it thanks to @natalieweiner.bsky.social's latest newsletter, which discusses where country fits into poptimism and offers "six songs that were country radio hits in 2025 that you might not hate (really!)." And I hate to admit it - they got me.
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Poptimism and Country Music and You (Plus 6 2025 Country Radio Hits You'll Actually Like)
If you're chronically online (and I'll start by saying I hope you aren't), you probably caught a secondhand whiff of various discourses earlier this year among the tragically music nerdy about poptimi...
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December 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I heard it thanks to @natalieweiner.bsky.social's latest newsletter, which discusses where country fits into poptimism and offers "six songs that were country radio hits in 2025 that you might not hate (really!)." And I hate to admit it - they got me.
www.dontrocktheinbox.com/poptimism-an...
www.dontrocktheinbox.com/poptimism-an...
I won’t lie I don’t know what prob 75% of the lyrics are on the lp but I also don’t think they’re the point
December 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I won’t lie I don’t know what prob 75% of the lyrics are on the lp but I also don’t think they’re the point
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@rozmilner.bsky.social wrote this and it's great! Give it a read while I finish getting my rotors waxed
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December 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
@rozmilner.bsky.social wrote this and it's great! Give it a read while I finish getting my rotors waxed
somewords.boards.net/thread/22/ro...
somewords.boards.net/thread/22/ro...
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Also I want to re-up this part of the essay because I think it's one of the most important points I make. The most popular stat used to argue the "they/them" ad worked? It can't be verified or independently evaluated.
When I was researching this essay I was struck by the fact that a key piece of evidence used to support the idea that the "they/them" ad was decisive is, apparently, unverifiable to the public.
That inconvenience didn't stop a stampede of people waving the 2.7% figure around like a bloody shirt.
That inconvenience didn't stop a stampede of people waving the 2.7% figure around like a bloody shirt.
December 9, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Also I want to re-up this part of the essay because I think it's one of the most important points I make. The most popular stat used to argue the "they/them" ad worked? It can't be verified or independently evaluated.
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As described in glorious detail by Joseph Mitchell in this volume.
December 9, 2025 at 1:12 AM
As described in glorious detail by Joseph Mitchell in this volume.
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Love you, babies. Here’s something beautiful I found. Bill Monroe’s cover of the Mississippi Sheiks masterpiece Sittin on Top of the World.
#MusicSky
#Bluegrass
#acoustic
#MusicSky
#Bluegrass
#acoustic
I'm Sittin' On Top Of The World - Bill Monroe
YouTube video by Martin Hall's Bluegrass & Hillbilly 45s
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December 9, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Love you, babies. Here’s something beautiful I found. Bill Monroe’s cover of the Mississippi Sheiks masterpiece Sittin on Top of the World.
#MusicSky
#Bluegrass
#acoustic
#MusicSky
#Bluegrass
#acoustic
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While birdwatching yesterday for a second I thought I was going to die by bald eagle attack and I was fine, but the first thing I thought was that the headline "Transgender Woman Murdered by Bald Eagle" seemed a bit on the nose as far as metaphors go.
December 9, 2025 at 12:22 AM
While birdwatching yesterday for a second I thought I was going to die by bald eagle attack and I was fine, but the first thing I thought was that the headline "Transgender Woman Murdered by Bald Eagle" seemed a bit on the nose as far as metaphors go.
this is as close to a transition timeline as I wanna post
December 9, 2025 at 12:18 AM
this is as close to a transition timeline as I wanna post
For Zappa heads like me this bootleg is so weird. It’s a bunch of stuff that hasn’t really circulated in other forms and had unique edits of stuff that came out later. It feels like it was a reel he made - but for what? And why? How did it get bootlegged??
youtu.be/KV8mMFQQnTU?...
youtu.be/KV8mMFQQnTU?...
December 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
For Zappa heads like me this bootleg is so weird. It’s a bunch of stuff that hasn’t really circulated in other forms and had unique edits of stuff that came out later. It feels like it was a reel he made - but for what? And why? How did it get bootlegged??
youtu.be/KV8mMFQQnTU?...
youtu.be/KV8mMFQQnTU?...
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Aquarium Drunkard :: Year In Review 2025
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/08/a...
Looking back to look ahead. Our list arrives in the spirit of sharing, and we’re back with our annual Year In Review. As always the following is unranked and unruly. Let it blurb.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/08/a...
Looking back to look ahead. Our list arrives in the spirit of sharing, and we’re back with our annual Year In Review. As always the following is unranked and unruly. Let it blurb.
December 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Aquarium Drunkard :: Year In Review 2025
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/08/a...
Looking back to look ahead. Our list arrives in the spirit of sharing, and we’re back with our annual Year In Review. As always the following is unranked and unruly. Let it blurb.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/08/a...
Looking back to look ahead. Our list arrives in the spirit of sharing, and we’re back with our annual Year In Review. As always the following is unranked and unruly. Let it blurb.
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Nicolas Slonimsky conductingthis in the 30s, then meeting Zappa during those bucket-list Varèse recording sessions in the early 90s, then outliving Zappa by two years, is one of those temporal headfucks that lives in my head rent free
December 9, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Nicolas Slonimsky conductingthis in the 30s, then meeting Zappa during those bucket-list Varèse recording sessions in the early 90s, then outliving Zappa by two years, is one of those temporal headfucks that lives in my head rent free
i want to say something cool like Djuana Barnes or Faulkner. but really it’s james m cain
December 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
i want to say something cool like Djuana Barnes or Faulkner. but really it’s james m cain
My dad went for a pack of smokes when we were staying in st almsworth like 20 years ago but it was cool, my mom started dating the cool woman she met there about three years later
my dad went out for smokes twenty years ago and never came back. we reconnected and he's apparently a space pirate now. he's dating a cat. he doesn't even know i can cut a planet in half with my eyes.
December 8, 2025 at 11:16 PM
My dad went for a pack of smokes when we were staying in st almsworth like 20 years ago but it was cool, my mom started dating the cool woman she met there about three years later
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"Log Off" (2024)
December 8, 2025 at 11:13 PM
"Log Off" (2024)
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Been doing a bit of research into records recorded on Christmas Eve. This piece, about Don Cherry's Complete Communion (recorded 24/12/65), is from a few years back...
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Complete Communion - A Very Cherry Christmas
[A piece about Christmas Eve listening. I'll be making time for Complete Communion this Christmas, along with another couple of classics se...
heathcoatstreet.blogspot.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Been doing a bit of research into records recorded on Christmas Eve. This piece, about Don Cherry's Complete Communion (recorded 24/12/65), is from a few years back...
heathcoatstreet.blogspot.com/2020/12/comp...
heathcoatstreet.blogspot.com/2020/12/comp...
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Go vote for your favorite books by transfem authors!
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.
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Vote for the 2025 TFR Reader’s Choice Awards!
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December 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Go vote for your favorite books by transfem authors!