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Key K. Bird 🗝️🦉
@keychanged.bsky.social
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Writer. Syrian, Mvskoke, genderplural, bisexual. I love cartoons.
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2024 NEA Fellow in Creative Writing

http://keykbird.com
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Vile but unsurprising. In Oct 23, she captioned an IG post ”Terror from the skies + Israeli flag.” The post showed children looking at the sky in fear. She only deleted it after people mocked her b/c the kids were in Palestine. In Jan 25, she compared the fires in Palisades to Gaza. She’s a ghoul.
Screenshot of Curtis’s IG post from Oct 2023 Screenshot of article from the New Arab describing Curtis’s comments about the Palisades fire
July 30, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Wajib, which has some of the most beautifully composed shots of Palestine, and The Wanted 18, which combines live action and claymation to tell the story of 18 cows in the West Bank and the policies that Pali families had to fight to keep them
Movie poster for Wajib, which shows the film’s title in Arabic and English Poster for the movie The Wanted 18, which shows a claymation IOF soldier looking at a wanted poster of a cow
May 19, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Just 2 days until janan alexandra, Sarah Cypher, Elina Katrin, and I talk about writing multilingual texts for Mass Poetry! The event is free and virtual, and most important, janan, Sarah, and Elina are brilliant and delightful. Saturday night at 7pm EST on Zoom. Hope to see you there!
Promo image for a panel at Mass Poetry Festival entitled "Tongues Untethered: Cross-Cultural Writing and Identity Beyond Language." Circular headshots of janan alexandra, Key K. Bird, Sarah Cypher, and Elina Katrin are complemented by mandalas. janan, Key, Sarah, and Elina have dark hair, dark eyes, and pale skin. janan carries flowers in her arms and smiles at the viewer. Key wears a keffiyeh and a face mask decorated with traditional Palestinian tatreez embroidery and faces the viewer. Sarah is surrounded by abstract shapes and smiles at the viewer. Elina wears sunglasses and smiles at the viewer.
May 8, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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In less than two weeks, I’ll be at the closing event at UNH’s Nossrat Yassini Poetry Festival! I’m so excited to be among these poets and artists. April 19, 9pm at Freedom Cafe in Durham—see you there!

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Line drawings of people wearing floral headresses decorate the promo flyer for Rewilding, an event featuring Key K. Bird, John Bonnani, Feda Eid, Mckendy Fils-Aimé, Joey Gould, Krysten Hill, Colin O’Day, and Jess Rizkallah.
April 7, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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I still remember my required reading lists for AP English. I can't go look them up (I grew up before everything was digitized), but I can still rattle off the titles because I loved half and hated half.

Guess which was which.

(Also, yes, they were all by dudes... I know...)
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 1984 by George Orwell The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad + Huck Finn, not req. but rec. reading
January 9, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Grateful to the editors at @eldiagram.bsky.social for publishing my essay "Taking the Romance Out of Necromancy," which is about classic movie monsters, the mistreatment of queer and trans Arabs, and cultural appropriation, among other things.

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A screenshot of the cover image of Diagram 24.4 and the title and byline for Key K. Bird's essay "Taking the Romance Out of Necromancy" An excerpt from Key K. Bird's essay "Taking the Romance Out of Necromancy" An excerpt from Key K. Bird's essay "Taking the Romance Out of Necromancy" An excerpt from Key K. Bird's essay "Taking the Romance Out of Necromancy"
January 8, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Let This Radicalize You is definitely on my TBR pile for this year.

The last book I read in 2024 (Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative by Isabella Hammad) alongside the first book I read in 2025 (Birthright by George Abraham).
Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative by Isabella Hammad and Birthright by George Abraham are on a white cloth. Between them is a bookmark with a pomegranate and rose design.
January 6, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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Post a selfie that looks good in black and white.
Key, a genderqueer multiracial Arab with pale skin and dark curly hair, wears a keffiyeh, N95 mask, and sunglasses.
April 6, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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Trans people, reskeet with a nice photo of yourself. ♥️🗝️
A photo of Key K. Bird mimicking the post of a nearby statue of a humanoid figure with a bird head.
December 2, 2023 at 5:22 AM
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My essay "I Can't Tell" came out about a year ago as part of the "We Are More" column at @therumpus.bsky.social, a place for SWANA (Southwest Asian and North African) writers to tell our stories our way. Heaps of thanks to Michelle Zamanian for her keen editing skills.

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The opening two paragraphs of "I Can't Tell," an essay by Key K. Bird, with a black and white illustration by Mina M. Jafari of light and stardust wafting from a goblet past a window to shape the slope of a moonlit hill outside.
December 2, 2023 at 4:45 AM