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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats are in order! Contributor @cavar.bsky.social’s collection DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS is coming in March 2026 from @nupress.bsky.social 🎉 You can even preorder now! buff.ly/Yhe75j0

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Dr. Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · 7d

a new poem about one of my/our names in @petrichorlit.bsky.social :)

petrichormag.com/28-sarah-cavar

I follow my knowledge to neck
solar plexus waist spoon-hips
pale thighs. And so follows the
sun in hasty afterwards.
A small opacity of lies
between our bodies: mine &
theirs & rayoflight’s. When I
bow service in the shadow of
our name we drapes me in their
clothing. When I kiss their feet
they render us a broken prince.

Pronouns are erotic, though
this is difficult to notice
still harder to admit: I: am:
I: a narrow panic, lightness
tightened to a throaty vowel.
This, I am told, her body
does, spoons favor from my
open mouth. Snaps elastics
of my flesh. I do not want to
know anymore, third penitent
in the booth of our name. But
my sun is just a star, turning
at the horror of our closeness.

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 13d

Looking for a workshop? Contributor @cavar.bsky.social is co-teaching a hybrid writing workshop this November with @fahmidangroup.bsky.social! Get all the details here: buff.ly/g325d1g

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Dr. Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · 18d

Sign up for my hybrid writing workshop this November!!

Fahmidan Group @fahmidangroup.bsky.social · 19d

Session 1 = immersion in hybrid texts + guided generative writing.
Session 2 = group workshop + submission strategies.
Two days with Cavar that could change how you write forever.
Sign up: fahmidanjournal.submittable.com/submit/30888...

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Lilly ⭐️ @mothcub.bsky.social · Sep 4

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

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Dr. Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you, Nick, for this generous & fun interview!!

nhilbourn.bsky.social @nhilbourn.bsky.social · Sep 2

@cavar.bsky.social @featherproof.bsky.social
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

"Trouble what sense making means", an MWP interview with Cavar by Meditative Week of Poetry

Cavar is a trans poet and activist. In this episode, they talk about the space poetry provides for expressing and explaining ways of being contrapuntal to mainstream thinking.

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · Sep 2

When we talk about how "Magneto was right," this is why -- here he is, correctly predicting how this is going to go. It starts with dehumanizing; then that leads to tracking; tracking leads to arrests; arrests lead to camps; camps lead to genocide.

Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · Sep 2

In researching my latest video, I found a clip of dialogue cut from the first X-Men film: Magneto makes it much clearer why the Mutant Registration Act will lead to something worse than the act's "intention." I think it should've been kept in!
(My full video's available now -- youtu.be/ZhtkT0IeavA)

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Aug 24

Because structural thinking offers inoculation against authoritarianism, the Right has vilified terms that nod to structure (privilege, patriarchy, critical theory), and attacked the institutions trying to help people understand systemic problems. Refusing to use the terms emboldens further attacks.

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Dr. Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · Aug 18

This includes people with visible eating disorders and self-injury scars btw!!!!!!!! Including those who can’t or don’t want to “recover.” And always will!!!!

Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · Jul 25

Fighting for disability rights has to include fighting for people whose symptoms of their disability that may make you uncomfortable (i.e. people with schizophrenia).

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · Aug 9

Everyone seemed to be looking for the Magic Shortcut and everyone got mad at me when I said "If there is one, I haven't found it yet."

You have to do the work. You cannot skip the work.

"Nooooo!"

GET BACK TO WORK

"NoooOOOOoooOOOo!"

YES BACK TO WORK

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manywor(l)ds :: place @manyworlds.place · Aug 15

We can't thank you enough for supporting us for 2 years (and counting). This is a labor of love between @cavar.bsky.social and @joyce.fyi, something we do in our spare time but which brings us –– and tons of other creatives –– together. We love you and can't wait to bring you even more issues.

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Dr. Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · Aug 15

read issue 9 of manywor(l)ds - two years in and I'm honored to keep publishing innovative queercrip & transMad work with @joyce.fyi <3

manywor(l)ds :: place @manyworlds.place · Aug 15

We're so excited to announce issue 9, our TWO YEAR (!!!!) anniversary issue!

Featuring @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social, @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social, @mostlymosspoetry.bsky.social, and more.

$Issue 9 Wenyi Xue god bless America endwell neuroscience must reckon with the antipsychiatry movement Chase Anderson C:\Users\gnight\Desktop\who am i\README.txt Ziqr Gödel and Me On A Dark and Stormy Night Benjamin Rodriguez Poem 91 nat raum if bpd could talk Troy Droussiotis GLAMOUR GIRL GLAMIFESTO (or A Manifesto in Non-Being) Glamour Girl Magenta GLAMOUR GIRL 2K Sylvie Althoff Last of the Cigarette Gremlins jp thorn Two Pieces mysticism for beginners fortune cookie aphorisms Zoe Korte O Aslan Valerie Babenkova Comfort in the Endless Forever of Underneath and Not kendall q lamb power fantasy, or sheepgulls$

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Taviana K.L Vylevathorn (Starhound) @taviana.bsky.social · Aug 8

Incredible things happening at airport security in toronto

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Dr. Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · Aug 8

#journorequest I'm writing a story for @rewirenewsgroup.com on disability justice + radical access beyond institutional accommodations on university campuses, and the students and faculty that make this access magic happen.

if this is you, dm me! if you'd prefer to chat on signal, happy to do so.

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Dr. Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · Aug 8

Once more for the day crowd！

Dr. Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · Aug 8

#journorequest I'm writing a story for @rewirenewsgroup.com on disability justice + radical access beyond institutional accommodations on university campuses, and the students and faculty that make this access magic happen.

if this is you, dm me! if you'd prefer to chat on signal, happy to do so.

Dr. Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · Aug 8

@natasharoy.bsky.social @helenrottier.bsky.social @travisclau.bsky.social @sfmontgomery.bsky.social tagging for shares/etc!

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Dr. Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · Aug 8

#journorequest I'm writing a story for @rewirenewsgroup.com on disability justice + radical access beyond institutional accommodations on university campuses, and the students and faculty that make this access magic happen.

if this is you, dm me! if you'd prefer to chat on signal, happy to do so.

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Dr. Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · Aug 2

Happening at Barnes and Noble Smithfield Rhode Island!!!! 2pm today AKA in half an hour!!!!!

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Dr. Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · Jul 31

Actually novel 2 has even more toxic yuri if you keep in mind that they’re not even living in a post apocalyptic authoritarian state they’re literally just being messy insane dykes in the Obama era

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Dr. Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · Jul 31

Internationally overnight mails you an IV of concentrated Failure to Comply

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · Jul 31

Moving off Substack definitely posed some technical challenges — they really don't want you to and they're making it harder every day. But I wouldn't go back. Even ignoring the perpetual edgelord drama over there, it's simply not a good enough platform to run a business. And it's way too expensive.

Schaufel3000 @schaufel3000.bsky.social · Jul 31

@garbageday.email switched to beehive last year and I barely noticed

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Dr. Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · Jul 31

This is an international, anonymized survey taking the pulse of nonbinary ppl worldwide.

This is....I think my 6th year taking it? And now, as a PhDoctor™ engaging with gender noncompliance + identity self-determination, I can say that this work is so helpful for scholarship & personal edification.

Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · Jul 30

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025!

survey.gendercensus.com

It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

Title: Gender Census 2025.

Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part.

Illustration: Two boxes, each with photos of relevant dictionary pages.

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christina 死神 @chhopsky.tv · Jul 28

when attempting to take action on a problem, you may be tempted to treat anyone you speak to at a company like the enemy

but sometimes, the reality is that you have allies everywhere, and you are empowering them to act

raise your troubles; they are ammunition for good people

Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · Jul 28

Called Visa today. The phone operator was a self-described gamer. When I said I had a complaint about ‘policy’ he immediately knew what it was about, told me the call was recorded, said there was an extremely large volume of calls about the issue and he hopes that it will make a difference

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Dr. Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · Jul 28

here's what I had to say:

Download now!
sundresspublications.com/e-anthologies

“Delicate Machinery takes survivorship poetics beyond catharsis––it is a beautifully curated gathering place for poets writing the unwritable, without apology. The poems collected here capture the beauty and intensity of living on after experiences sexual violence within a sociopolitical climate that denies us bodily autonomy.”
– [sarah] Cavar, author of Failure to Comply and Differential Diagnosis

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Dr. Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · Jul 28

@sundresspub.bsky.social's latest anthology is now out! I had the opportunity to read this wonderful anthology early and can't recommend it enough.

www.sundresspublications.com/e-anthologie...

Delicate Machinery: Poems on Survival and HealingEd. Erin Elizabeth Smith - Sundress Publications

“Transmasculine Poetics: Filling the Gap in Literature & the Silences Around Us is packed with wonderful poems. It is an important anthology of trans voices echoing a desire to be and be accepted, but...

www.sundresspublications.com

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