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Experimental Poet • Sound Artist Philosophy Φ • She/They Trans & Nonbinary • Pan Artist Site: Roseknapp.weebly.com

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Rose Knapp 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @roseknapp.bsky.social · Feb 3

My new poetry collection, Neo—Dadaist Psyche, is out now!

These poems are raw, dark, paranoid, radical, nonsensical, illogical, mythological, syncretic, eclectic, and first and foremost, Dadaist poems.

Lulu:
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Them @them.us · 1d

Bari Weiss, the Anti-Woke, Anti-Trans "Zionist Fanatic," Will Now Lead CBS News

Paramount Skydance also bought The Free Press, a publication founded by Weiss, for $150 million.

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Rose Knapp 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @roseknapp.bsky.social · 19h

Apathy is bliss

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Thanks, Sam.

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Rose Knapp 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @roseknapp.bsky.social · Aug 18

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Rose Knapp 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @roseknapp.bsky.social · 1d

New poetry!

#poetry #experimentalpoetry #futurism #spiritualpoetry

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Rose Knapp 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @roseknapp.bsky.social · 1d

New poem!

#poetry #micropoetry #beatpoetry #ecopoetry #spiritualpoetry

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 2d

Pivotal cases on voting and the rights of LGBTQ people also are on the agenda. On Tuesday, the justices will hear arguments over bans passed by nearly half of U.S. states on therapy aimed at changing sexual orientation or gender identity.
https://to.pbs.org/4nZr4hk

The Supreme Court begins a new term that will examine Trump's expansive claims of presidential power

Pivotal cases on voting and the rights of LGBTQ people also are on the agenda.

www.pbs.org

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 1d

“The Librarians” examines the experiences of school librarians who have found themselves on the front lines of a battle against censorship. https://to.pbs.org/46TqfiW

The fight against book bans by public school librarians shown in new documentary

According to a new report from PEN America, public schools across the U.S. saw more than 6,800 book bans in the 2024-25 school year. A new documentary, “The Librarians,” examines the experiences of sc...

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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 2d

Trans politician Sarah McBride searches for her 'missing' Republican colleagues in viral clip https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/02/trans-politician-sarah-mcbride-tiktok/?utm_content=1759738800&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Sarah McBride searches for her 'missing' Republican colleagues in viral clip

Democratic congresswoman Sarah McBride has posted a lighthearted TikTok video in which she searching for her “missing” Republican colleagues.

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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 2d

Trans adults in the UK waiting a third of their life for an NHS gender-clinic appointment
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/06/gender-clinic-wait-times-scotland-glasgow/?utm_content=1759768803&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Trans adults waiting 224 years for gender clinic appointments

An eye-opening new report has revealed some trans adults are waiting decades, and in some areas, centuries, for an NHS gender clinic appointment

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Them @them.us · 2d

SCOTUS Justice Alito Suggests He's Not Interested in Overturning Same-Sex Marriage. Is That True?

Obergefell v Hodges has been back in the spotlight with fears gay marriage could be removed as a national right.

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Them @them.us · 6d

Margaret Cho Lets Loose on "Proud Transphobe" Nancy Mace: "You Are the Worst Predator of All"

Cho accused the lawmaker of “killing trans people” to progress her political career.

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Them @them.us · 3d

Elon Musk Is Trying to Boycott Netflix Over a Trans-Inclusive Show That Ended Years Ago

The #CancelNetflix campaign comes shortly after Disney briefly suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show over remarks he made about Charlie Kirk.

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U+2500 @u2500.rmfrt.com · 2d

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U+2500 @u2500.rmfrt.com · 1d

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Imogen Reid @imogenreid.bsky.social · 10d

Line Drawing, Sketch Printed on Fabriano Paper

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Rose Knapp 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @roseknapp.bsky.social · 1d

Hello, Stan!

Rose Knapp 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @roseknapp.bsky.social · 1d

Hi! 👋

Rose Knapp 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @roseknapp.bsky.social · 1d

Dao De Jing by Laozi @wwnorton.com ‬⁩

#poetry #daoism

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Rose Knapp 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @roseknapp.bsky.social · 1d

Jalousie by Allyson Paty @tupelopress.bsky.social ‬⁩

#poetry

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Rose Knapp 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @roseknapp.bsky.social · 1d

Pink Dust by Ron Padgett @nybooks.com

#poetry

Rose Knapp 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @roseknapp.bsky.social · 1d

Grit by Silas Denver Melvin

#poetry #transpoetry

Rose Knapp 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @roseknapp.bsky.social · 1d

Hello!

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Michael @mdstamper.bsky.social · 2d

Girl in a Chemise by Pablo Picasso (Spanish) - Oil on canvas / c. 1905 - Tate Modern (London, England) #WomenInArt #Picasso #PabloPicasso #art #artText #artwork #Tate #TateModern #PortraitofaGirl #BlueskyArt #ModernArt #OilPainting #chignon #bskyart #artbsky #ArtOfTheDay #TheTate #SpanishArtist

Made in Paris, France as Spanish artist Pablo Picasso moved from his Blue Period to his Rose Period, the sitter appears in a thin white chemise whose strap slides off the near shoulder. Her build is slight and androgynous with a narrow chest, fine jaw, and long neck tapering to a delicate collarbone. Her dark hair is drawn into a low chignon. Her mouth is small, softly red; the eyelid and nose ridge are tenderly modeled. Cool light from the upper left flattens deep shadow, leaving planes of pale peach and cool blue to meet in quiet transitions. Firmer lines beneath her chin and at the temple hint at another figure under the surface that is stronger, sharper, and more boyish like a memory through skin.

This canvas embodies a pivot from melancholy to warmth while keeping Picasso's Blue Period’s restraint. Technical study shows an earlier image, likely of a young saltimbanque (street performer) boy, over which Picasso re-drew, lengthening the neck, refining the jaw, and adding the chignon to transform gender and mood. The result is a poised, ambiguous presence: tender yet reserved, hovering between boy and girl, blue and rose, poverty and poise.

Some identify the sitter as “Madeleine,” Picasso’s companion before Fernande Olivier; others say the evidence is inconclusive. That uncertainty makes this a portrait of becoming rather than being.

In Montmartre around 1904–1905, Picasso pared his means to contour, thin veils of color, and small inflections of mouth and eye. “I paint forms as I think them,” he later said, a line that suits this metamorphosis: one body revised into another by vision and paint.

The painting also reveals the young Spanish artist’s economy and restlessness with one canvas, two lives. The sitter’s identity may be uncertain, but the life around her is not: Picasso, just 23 years old, balancing hunger and ambition, testing how far a line and a wash of blue can carry feeling and how a portrait can hold the trace of who was there before.

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Rose Knapp 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @roseknapp.bsky.social · 2d

Pondering how far one can go in writing abstract poetry without any trace of the Id or Ego contaminating its ‘pure’ Eliotesque depersonalization.

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