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Em Rumble, LICSW

@literapynyc.bsky.social

forgot to post on Poetry Day! I was busy reading Rickey Laurentiis’s Death of the First Idea (a lush, shape-shifting meditation on what it costs—and gives—to remake a life)!

poems that reinvent the lyric to tell the truth of a trans, Black self—ferocious, vulnerable, and lit with New Orleans light.

October 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM

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Queerazon.com

@queerazon.bsky.social

Perverts by Kay Gabriel

A collective dream of queer desire and resistance, Perverts explores how private longing becomes shared consciousness amid rising anti-trans panic. Desire as politics, poetry as organizing.

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#QueerBooks #KayGabriel #TransBooks #QueerActivism

October 5, 2025 at 5:13 AM

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Chaotic Rambler She/They

@chaoticrambler.bsky.social

Please check out my chapbook ko-fi.com/s/7fe52343a5 #Queer #Trans #Poetry

Past of Future Days - TwinflowerOpossumArt's Ko-fi Shop

A chapbook about the struggles of the past and the hopes for a better tomorrow. Cw for abuse, transphobia, discussion of past suicidal ideation, Th...

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October 5, 2025 at 7:32 PM

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C. J. Magus

@cjmagus.bsky.social

“Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.” — Leslie Feinberg

#queer #gay #lesbian #bi #trans #lgbtq #lgbt #lgbqt #lgbtqia🏳️‍🌈 #lgbtqia🌈 #pride #quotes

August 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM

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adriellee.bsky.social

@adriellee.bsky.social

Finished in July: 📚 Gay Girl Prayers by Emily Austen; poetry. Austen reinterprets bible verses to affirm and uplift queer, feminist, and trans realities. My favorites are the Matthew 25 series. #QueerBooks #Poetry

Book cover. Yellow text reads: Emily Austin, Gay Girl Prayers, Poems. The word Prayers in the title is broken out into four lines, Gay | Girl | Pray | Ers. Which gives it a cool double meaning. The text covers a drawn black and gray image of a young nun gazing upwards. She faces to the right.

July 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM

Kendall Brewer

@candlebrew.bsky.social

reference for a future novel character painted by my husband :)

koby @ocellifera.bsky.social · Jul 13

artists!!! quote w your women art 💫

July 15, 2025 at 12:24 AM

Kendall Brewer

@candlebrew.bsky.social

my zine Queerplatonic is now published! come sit and have a chat with me about queerplatonic relationships in this semi-autobiographical essay all about what love really means for humans and what allyship looks like for this underrepresented community

candlebrewpublishing.itch.io/queerplatonic

Queerplatonic: A Beginner's Guide to QPRs by Candlebrew Publishing

A treatise on queerplatonic relationships and identity

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July 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM

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Putri Prihatini

@putriprihatini.bsky.social

I had fun reading this Indonesian queer poetry book. I caught references of our pop culture, local figures, history, and news to express unique queer experiences. The poems mix Indonesian, little English, and "bahasa binan"; a lingo adopted by Indonesian trans community in the 1960s. 1/3 🧵 #Booksky

A photo of a book titled Stonewall Tak Mampir di Atlantis. The letters are in rainbow colors against a simple white background. The author's name, Hendri Yulius Wijaya, is printed in black letters.

July 3, 2025 at 1:06 PM

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Evan Von Doom

@evanvondoom.bsky.social

Been on a mini-educational kick for my audiobook listening recently, and right now I'm listening through Invisible Women by Caroline Perez. As a feminist and lover of humanity, I was still caught lacking in knowledge on a lot of the minute ways women are excluded from thought in society.

June 30, 2025 at 12:33 PM

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Saturn Girl

@saturngirlprincess.bsky.social

Kalonymus ben Kalonymus was a 13th century Rabbi and philosopher. She was also a poetry prodigy, gaining renown in her 20’s. One of her poems seems to describe her gender dysphoria. In “Even Bohan,” she laments having been born a boy and longed to be a woman. She was likely a trans woman.

June 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM

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ShardsOfBlue

@shardsofblue.com

Regular reminder that I wrote a zine of poetry about my first year of transition. My hope is forever that trans people feel seen by it and perhaps find some comfort in my words, and cis people maybe understand us a little better.

#transmasc #transMan #transArtist #transWriter #trans

ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · Aug 30

I guess #TransBooks365 is as good a day as any to plug my zine of poetry and artwork inspired by and written during the first year of my transition.

Please check it out! Every download means the world to me, whether paid or free. 💙

shardsofblue.gumroad.com/l/becoming-p...

Outdoor selfie of a blonde white man holding up an off-white paper booklet titled “Becoming All of Me”. Below the title is a detailed digital ink bust sketch of a young white man with short hair wearing an accordion-style cloth mask and a leather jacket, looking at the camera with a confident expression.

A photo of a booklet laid open on a rough wooden table. There are three detailed pen and ink drawings and one poem visible. The drawings variously show a young bearded black man seated in a suit and glasses; two older, heavyset, bald white men with full beards, embracing, one with top surgery scars; and a full-page sketch of a slim man laying on a bed holding a book in front of his face, reading. The poem visible is titled “Holy” and is about finding sacred spaces in community with other queer people.

A photo of a booklet laid open on a rough wooden table. Two poems and two ink sketches are visible. One poem, called “Mirror,” is 7 lines and illustrated with a white man in glasses adjusting his shirt collar in an ornate mirror. The other fills a page and is called “Soft,” and is illustrated by a young man in a leather jacket walking toward the viewer and smoking.

June 29, 2025 at 6:14 AM

Kendall Brewer

@candlebrew.bsky.social

a sneak peek at my next project 👀 a half-page zine & personal essay regarding queerplatonic relationships for the uninitiated. both anecdotal and educational, I thought what better way to celebrate pride month than to reflect on the personally most important part of my identity?

A whimsical, magical designed text graphic on top of a pink and purple cloud background. The title says "Queerplatonic: A Beginner's Guide to QPRs"

June 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM

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Drew Huff | Horror Artist and Author 🏳️‍🌈

@drewhuff.bsky.social

Friendly reminder that horror as a genre is queer af

June 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM

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Foglifter Press & Journal

@foglifterpress.bsky.social

We also work with Still Here Francisco on Start a Riot!, a poetry chapbook prize for local emerging queer and trans Black writers, indigenous writers, and writers of color.

This past year's winner was Grayson Thompson for his debut SAND BODIED FLORIDA BOY (see link in bio). 🐊

June 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM

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CraftyLilBunny Zines

@clbzines.bsky.social

Took me all month, but here's the next issue of The T-Slur Times! This one is a lot bigger than the previous one so it'll take me a bit to post it all, so y'all get to savor it lol~

This issue deals with the pains of leaving, avenging our dead, the joy of queer community, and other trans shit~

1/?

A zine page with a jagged black lace border and doodles of stars. A picture of a woman in a low cut silver dress and black boots is in the lower right corner, and a drawing of a fairy is at the bottom of the page.

Text reads: are you in the mood to bitch abt the government

What can I say y'all? Shits fucked lately

It sucks watching friends move away from Austin to escape anti trans violence here in Texas. Like, we spend so much time building these connections with one another, y'know? These past few years have felt like building community, but watching us flee to other parts of the country really stings.

Worse yet, I'm having to grapple with the prospect of my partners splitting up in the same way, each to different cities and states with their respective polycules. Will that happen first, or will one of us fall victim to hate and be the next hashtag?

This is the shit we have to think about every day as we watch the fascism of the US bloom just like we warned folks it would over a decade ago. They abandoned all pretext a long time ago. We're just doing our best to survive it now I guess.

I hope you're able to stay safe with your loved ones.

-Robin

A zine page with a jagged black border and pictures of various anime and game characters. One is a small child with dark hair wearing a bandana and starfish print shirt, another is an anime girl with poofy twintails and a black outfit with devil wings and a heart shaped cutout, and the third is an anime femme with makeup, blonde hair and a turtleneck.

Text: CHARACTERS THAT ARE TOTALLY TRANS (BECAUSE I SAY SO)

Koa (Summer in Mara) - a little trans girl who goes on an adventure beyond the island she was raised on. In the tutorial flashback she's shown looking more masc coded, and the game is full of queer characters like an old gay fishman couple, a he/him catgirl, a bisexual polyamorous blacksmith; hell, even your grandma's old friend talks about her like an old lost lover. Stands to reason that a transfemme main character wouldn't be strange at all in this setting~

Pop Step! (My Hero Academia Vigilantes) - a pink-haired wannabe idol whose secret identity is a pink haired highschooler, Pop is one of the illegal heroes in this spinoff series. She's revealed to be trans in the main character's backstory when he recounts saving a drowning boy on the way to an important test, and she leaves in a huff to sulk at home and say "that kid you saved that day was me... AND I'M NOT A BOY!"

Yuka (Blue Period) - canonically nonbinary transfemme, but I get the impression that she'll probably one day identify as a trans woman. It hits so hard when she says "Things would be so much easier if I was a woman"

A zine page with a jagged black border and pictures of different characters: Dipper Pines from Gravity Falls, Hunter from Owl House, Legoshi from Beastars, and Tadano and Yamai from Komi Can't Communicate

Text: Dipper Pines (Gravity Falls) -
Pure headcanon based on vibes and fan art. Mabel would be so supportive too!

Hunter (Owl House) - Again, pure vibes. I just love seeing awkward tryhard boys learn the world isn't strict and bloom into self confident women, what can I say?

Legoshi (Beastars) - This "boy" is so stuck in his head all the time and is obsessed with the differences between himself and others, there's no way this *wouldn't* happen irl. I can't wait for her egg to crack in the longest inner monologue her friends have ever had the misfortune of witnessing.

Tadano (Komi Can't Communicate) - another hyper observant 'guy' who manages to end up in situations. I had my thoughts about him before the season 1 finale and after that I was convinced. Pink hair really looks good on her~

Yamai (Komi Can't Communicate) - This might have been accidental but this girl is too obsessed with making Komi simulate sucking her dick to not have some gender going on.

June 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM

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FORGE

@forgeforwardtrans.bsky.social

We want to hear from you! How do you express your relationship to scars, transformation, or rebirth through art and writing? Submit visual art, poetry, or fiction/nonfiction to the second issue of the Trans Survivors zine and have it shared with a wide audience! forge.tips/submit

June 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM

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wip 哥哥

@progressing.bsky.social

Hi bsky I'm a trans poc writer who's going to share some updates of a poetry book I've been writing casually over the course of ten years now. Its charm is that it's a time capsule of my mental health, identity, and recovery journey from teenagehood to mid adult <3

June 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM

Kendall Brewer

@candlebrew.bsky.social

My next chapbook has been released: Warm Under A Foreign Sun, an exploration of queerness being a sanctuary, not exile. Epub, PDF, and plain text available now at candlebrewpublishing.itch.io/wuafs Paperback coming soon! #poetry #booksky #queerpoet #hotwetqueersummer

Warm Under A Foreign Sun by Candlebrew Publishing

LGBTQ poetry chapbook

candlebrewpublishing.itch.io

June 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM

Kendall Brewer

@candlebrew.bsky.social

me sharing autistically:

i like learning languages, i like poetry, i like video games (especially Starfield), i like ambient music, i like my queerplatonic marriage, i like my husband's shitty T mustache, i like my abstract gender, i like vibrant and in your face representation

Vaela, polyamory enjoyer — put love first, unionise now! @dragonprose.bsky.social · Jun 11

Let's keep it going!

me sharing autistically:

I like learning, I like languages, I like music, I like poetry, I like lesbians, I like slowly forging my body into a weapon, I like being trans, I like biting people, I like being in live with many, I like striving for a better world

Sage Divinorum 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · Jun 11

me sharing autistically:

i like learning, i like coffee, i like witchcraft, i like dogs, i like chaotic art, i like having huge tits, i like loud music that hijacks my pulse, i like upgrading my body, i like velocity, i like building things, i like nurturing my friends, i like smashing the state

June 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM

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Fen, moss goblin

@fluidfyre.bsky.social

Coming out later this summer, my anti-capitalist/antifa poetry zine 'Big Doom Profit', collectively written as a group of 'prophecies' about the future. Sent it to print today :>

Here's one of my favourites from it, 'The Culling'. #poetry

The cover of the poetry zine, showing the title and author's name in Blue and white chalk on a cracked aged concrete. The title is 'Big Doom Profit' by Fen M. Taylor.

The first page of a poem, as follows:

Title: The Culling, written in January 2022.

Long has it been
the whims of the great white worm
employing exclusions
to control the existence of you.

We exist at the whims of the government
A number in their system
that if deleted becomes
a cyclical trap of disillusionment.
For who can prove you exist
if no one knows you do?

When police are given powers
over every aspect
guarding the whims
of the great white worm.
The public no longer for public
instead a brutalized canvas
for the rich to view
as they pass through
where we live and work.

It is a play well known to human history
a rise of intolerance tolerated
and co-opted language
creating cults of thought and body
Ivermectin hydroquloriqine
the holy falsehoods of their god
the great white worm.

When disagreement with the government

The second page of the poem, The Culling (continued)

becomes a crime to do
to think
convinced that safety
is the number that they have on you.

Be ready for when they
revoke status
Your government will not protect you
only the sick will die
only the ill grow sick
only the enemy is ill
Our enemies are not welcome
too queer too black
too native too brown
too trans too different
Fill the checkbox with all
those they have deemed ill.

When you are the enemy
there is no wrong too great
to deal with our deviance
the gall to question
to wish for something better.

Before there is hope
death will be our gift
the pestilence ushered in
by the attendants of the
great white worm
Yet more will come
when we are revoked
our bodies broken
our homes destroyed
Many more will look away
to keep calm and carry on

The third page of the poem, The Culling (continued)

rather than speak up against the wrongs
or reach out for their
fellow human.

We could escape the fire together
if you’d admit it
we’re burning
we’re all burning together
Status revoked.

June 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM

Kendall Brewer

@candlebrew.bsky.social

fresh off the back of YDSML, keep an eye out for my next poetry collection--Warm Under A Foreign Sun, an exploration of queerness being a sanctuary, not exile. planned release date is June 13th! #poetry #booksky #queerpoet #coverreveal #hotwetqueersummer

June 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM

Kendall Brewer

@candlebrew.bsky.social

You Don't Speak My Language is now officially available by Ingram Spark as paperback! Don't wanna give Amazon any of your money? Support me still by buying from Ingram Spark instead! shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params... #queer #booksky #poetry

You Don't Speak My Language

You Don't Speak My Language explores the otherness of trauma, the isolation that comes with long-term neglect and suffering. When others can't relate to you, every conversation feels foreign, and the ...

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May 31, 2025 at 1:11 AM