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sterling-elizabeth arcadia @selizabeth.bsky.social · 2d

nothing wrong with a little public sex as a treat. how else will we make the golf course a public sex forest

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sterling-elizabeth arcadia @selizabeth.bsky.social · 2d

hey @monarch.gay i noticed y’all specify no erotica in your guidelines—how are you defining erotica here?

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 3d

This week at an event for THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT, a reader asked in a gracious and cheeky way what I would hope white readers in particular would get out of the book. Or more directly, what I would TELL white readers. And this was basically my answer:

African-Americans are experts on America.

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 3d

America should listen to Black people

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sterling-elizabeth arcadia @selizabeth.bsky.social · 3d

the swapping of taste and sound in the first line really drew me in!

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sterling-elizabeth arcadia @selizabeth.bsky.social · 3d

this poem fucks. you can download the issue thru ko-fi check it out @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social is the best!

deertransition, baby ghost @deerea.rs · 4d

extremely excited and humbled to announce that my poem "Short Message Service Protocol" was published earlier today in issue 4 of GARLAND from @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social !!! This whole collection is truly incredible and I am so honored to be a part of it!

fifthwheelpress.com/garland

GARLAND — fifth wheel press

fifthwheelpress.com

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fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · 4d

why yes, i *do* feel that this issue of GARLAND entering the world at golden hour is apt

fifthwheelpress.com/garland

GARLAND — fifth wheel press

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 3d

super cool, bluesky. very no caesars of you.

Vergil @ ✊🏽🏳️‍⚧️ @vergiliaux.art · 3d

BSky hid @asukafield.xyz's transphobia mod list. 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

Blue Sky's interface for hidden moderation lists, saying the following: "This list, created by @asukafield.xyz , contains possible violations of Bluesky's community guidelines in its name or description." Offered choices are to unsubscribe or go back.

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sterling-elizabeth arcadia @selizabeth.bsky.social · 3d

highly recommend both of these journals. pleasures to be published with

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sterling-elizabeth arcadia @selizabeth.bsky.social · 3d

big things are under development

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sterling-elizabeth arcadia @selizabeth.bsky.social · 3d

another banger of all time

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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 3d

Repeat after me: Your body is not your enemy.

Your body is what helps you get around.

Your body is what helps you enjoy the world around you.

Your body is what you use to draw a cool S

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sterling-elizabeth arcadia @selizabeth.bsky.social · 3d

taylor swift is the drake of pop

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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 4d

If you'd like to see beestung keep buzzing, please consider dropping a few bucks our way 🖤💛🖤💛

beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 5d

We're still trying to raise $246 this year to cover expenses, if you're feeling generous.

We'll never charge a submission fee, and we pay our writers.

Your help will also ensure that we can bring on a guest editor in the new year, to avoid that whole 'monolithic voice' business 💛🖤

Thank you. 🐝

beestung @beestung.bsky.social · Jul 14

Happy non-binary day and week!

We're a small mag publishing non-binary, genderqueer, and two-spirit writers.

If you'd like to help us out, we're currently working towards our goal for paying writers for this and next year.

Shares are very much appreciated, too!

www.gofundme.com/f/beestung-y...

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sterling-elizabeth arcadia @selizabeth.bsky.social · 5d

the real differnce between me and a'ja? only one of us has published two chapbooks

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sterling-elizabeth arcadia @selizabeth.bsky.social · 5d

found this out by looking at a'ja wilson's birthday on wikipedia

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sterling-elizabeth arcadia @selizabeth.bsky.social · 5d

spent the last several months thinking i was 29 and i'm actually 28

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 5d

We're still trying to raise $246 this year to cover expenses, if you're feeling generous.

We'll never charge a submission fee, and we pay our writers.

Your help will also ensure that we can bring on a guest editor in the new year, to avoid that whole 'monolithic voice' business 💛🖤

Thank you. 🐝

beestung @beestung.bsky.social · Jul 14

Happy non-binary day and week!

We're a small mag publishing non-binary, genderqueer, and two-spirit writers.

If you'd like to help us out, we're currently working towards our goal for paying writers for this and next year.

Shares are very much appreciated, too!

www.gofundme.com/f/beestung-y...

Donate to beestung: Years Six & Seven, organized by Sarah Clark

What is beestung: beestung is a quarterly online micro-magazine for non-binary, genderquee… Sarah Clark needs your support for beestung: Years Six & Seven

www.gofundme.com

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sterling-elizabeth arcadia @selizabeth.bsky.social · 10d

“[…] I reognize

One in you through the one in me,

We, who stay in fleeing –

Or who flee in staying.

And from your summary abode, I will tell you,

Out loud, I love you.”

Carrie Chappell @chapp010.bsky.social · 11d

A poem I wrote at Hélène Bessette’s grave. I’ve published it via Substack, but here is the audio I made, something I like to do to work the poem out of the body in another way. (Of course, working it out of my body in my French is a very "another" exercise.)

m.youtube.com/watch?v=fEL9...

Au tombeau d’Hélène Bessette

YouTube video by Carrie Chappell

m.youtube.com

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sterling-elizabeth arcadia @selizabeth.bsky.social · 10d

thanks for sharing!

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tronotized.bsky.social @tronotized.bsky.social · 10d

Good poem!

sterling-elizabeth arcadia @selizabeth.bsky.social · 11d

here’s the first poem i wrote for the collection, and also the first published, up @beestung.bsky.social

SXSW

further out in the desert the saguaros get weirder and weirder. they grow tails, wooden legs, hemorrhoids, eyes like angels. i don’t see a gilded flicker but i do spot a cactus wren and a black throated sparrow. both lifers. on the way back to the airport, a saguaro riddled with buckshot. i want to commit an act of terrorism against the NRA when i drive by their headquarters on my way south from philadelphia. i see a lot of cows in virginia. i think about playing KENO but as soon as i get to tennesse i take a terrible shit. i wonder what makes cow patties so round, and have to stop at every rest stop to wreck a toilet. the hills and hollows are just foggy enough that i can see sunshine made material. i make it to knoxville and watch one waitress manage an entire restaurant, peyton manning staring me down over my cobb salad and cheese bings. if you see a good omen about a bad omen, what does it mean?

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Carrie Chappell @chapp010.bsky.social · 11d

A poem I wrote at Hélène Bessette’s grave. I’ve published it via Substack, but here is the audio I made, something I like to do to work the poem out of the body in another way. (Of course, working it out of my body in my French is a very "another" exercise.)

m.youtube.com/watch?v=fEL9...

Au tombeau d’Hélène Bessette

YouTube video by Carrie Chappell

m.youtube.com