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they think they're helping by telling me what cis people want to read from trans people when what they're really asking is for me to write about trans people like a cis person. we can't all be sharon olds! 🙄

nel gosh @thunderflower.bsky.social · 2h

that is to say, i think we should make art "about" being trans but we shouldn't be so marginalized that our voices are ignored when we write about love or revolution

nel gosh @thunderflower.bsky.social · 2h

writing for trans publications often feels the same way too. as a trans writer you pretty much have to write about being trans. not every poem can be about my tranny penis or my tranny feelings but at least a trans audience won't treat it as a freakshow to gawk at when i do

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nel gosh @thunderflower.bsky.social · 2h

making trans art for an assumed general (read: cis) audience is a miserable process. cis people simultaneously /only/ want you to write about being trans while also shunting your work off to "trans issues" of publications or else saying their publications aren't the places for your work

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nel gosh @thunderflower.bsky.social · 2h

when i used to have stuff published regularly and was in community with cis writers they would always ask me to write about my genitals or how i pee. this is why i prefer a trans women as my peers and audience. they mostly do not make these odd asks of myself or my work

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Scare-a Werewolfthing @never.horse · 2h

SARA or 'I lived my life as a cloud that followed overhead' is a book (that I wrote) of many small fantastical stories about a lady named Sara & her dog.

Buy it: bookshop.org/p/books/sara...

Read a preview: dreginald.com/index.php/is...

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Sara, or, I lived my life as a cloud that followed overhead

Check out Sara, or, I lived my life as a cloud that followed overhead - <p>A new novel from Inside the Castle by Never Angeline North, cult author of SEA-WITCH, with accompanying drawings and a charac...

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nel gosh @thunderflower.bsky.social · 2h

i suffer constantly

nel gosh @thunderflower.bsky.social · 3h

i want trans women to read my poetry. i am writing for you, trans women

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Grace, Shahbanu Empress of the Known Universe @shahbanu.kawaii.social · Sep 7

when small penis girl speak, big penis girl quiet

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nel gosh @thunderflower.bsky.social · 4h

we've heard enough from white cis poets. the rest of us get a turn now

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CC Kirby @cckirby.bsky.social · 5h

Alex Trebek saying "the creature" on this episode of Jeopardy! from Halloween 1997

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nel gosh @thunderflower.bsky.social · 7h

big things are happening in PenelopeLand

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nel gosh @thunderflower.bsky.social · 5h

working an overnight shift rn. please reply with feet pics (soles preferred)

nel gosh @thunderflower.bsky.social · 5h

you're right tho

nel gosh @thunderflower.bsky.social · 6h

i think some people's BO smells really good and we shouldn't stifle those people

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 7h

I'm going to start calling essays like this "odes to whiteness" because the underlying premise is that they are like this because they don't anticipate any social cost to smelling bad.

This one is v. frustrating because it tries to lump in perfumes with the broader (problematic) beauty industry

I’m turning 50 next year. I rarely wear deodorant anymore. Many women I know have stopped, too. We don’t talk about it, but I catch it in the air — a faint musk of onion, goat, curry, mustard, salt, sage, fennel, ozone, and the muddy wet marrow of the earth itself. I’m kind of obsessed with this collective stink: the animal symphony of skin, of women being women, punk and unfiltered, taking up space with their scent. Raw, unapologetic BO. The more I live among it, the more I see it not as a hygiene failure but as a radical act of self-acceptance. It’s not polite, but it’s honest — and that feels hot. Hotter, even, than anything a Guess ad ever promised.

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nel gosh @thunderflower.bsky.social · 7h

big things are happening in PenelopeLand

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ELLEN RE: GENEROUS @funnyposts.online · 17h

a gangbang is just the universe experiencing itself

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nel gosh @thunderflower.bsky.social · 10h

interesting argument, however, *sounds you with a hollow glass rod and hits your penis with a ball peen hammer*

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nel gosh @thunderflower.bsky.social · Apr 21

it's time to help me fund my bottom surgery! gofund.me/e6cc77c2

Donate to Nel's Bottom Surgery Fund, organized by Penelope Brannen

Hi, I'm Nel! I am currently raising money for bottom surgery, including electrolysis, medic… Penelope Brannen needs your support for Nel's Bottom Surgery Fund

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Phobia is @athazagora.bsky.social · 2d

Thoughts on sculpting

Drawing of a woman carving another woman out of stone, the sculpted woman is holding the carver

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nel gosh @thunderflower.bsky.social · 1d

restaurants are allowed to serve cocaine and cigarettes now???

Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 1d

This 'The Bear'-esque dining experience puts you in the center of the kitchen chaos

At Speakeasy Society's 'Family Meal,' curse words are thrown, recipes are slandered and it all makes for fun, irresistible drama.

www.latimes.com

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 1d

My new zine, Distance Montage, is available through the Other Spaces bandcamp. Seven poems and seven facing images inspired by Artavazd Peleshian.

All proceeds support further work by trans artists, writers, and musicians on space, place, time, and moment.

otherspaces.bandcamp.com/merch/isobel...

Isobel Bess – Distance Montage from Other Spaces

otherspaces.bandcamp.com

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nel gosh @thunderflower.bsky.social · 1d

coming soon

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