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Rae White
@raewhite.bsky.social
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(they/them) Non-binary trans & queer. Books with Lothian/Hachette & UQP. Agent @daniellebinks.bsky.social

Work: Uplift Poetry, @enbylife.bsky.social, @tranzmission.bsky.social, @australianpoetry.bsky.social

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Rae White @raewhite.bsky.social · Oct 3
My new poem ‘Is this devotion?’ has just been published in Island Magazine online! @islandmag.bsky.social

It’s about the blooming obsession of new queer love, the soft touch of petal fingertips, the all-consuming refrain of spring 🌸🌼💖🌈

islandmag.com/read/is-this...
Screenshot of the Island website featuring a photo of four pressed plants and flowers on a white background. Above this, dark text reads, ‘POETRY. Is this devotion? - by Rae White. ISLAND | ONLINE ONLY.’
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Get your tickets to Vocal Spectrum Wed 5 Nov at Brisbane Powerhouse, part of Melt Festival. The Australian Vocal Ensemble will be performing a very special commissioned piece — @joetwistmusic.bsky.social has set the words to my poem ‘Abundantly Blue’ to music!!!

www.melt.org.au/events/vocal...
November 2, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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“On any given day we could be spooning in bed
archival as ammonite”

Our latest #fridaypoem is SPIRALS EXIST IN NATURE AND HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE by Rae White. overland.org.au/2025/10/spir...
Spirals exist in nature and have always been here - Overland literary journal
On any given day they could be trying to legislate / that you’re not a woman. / On any given day we could be spooning in bed / archival as ammonite / the cats mirrored as new fern’s Fibonacci beside us.
overland.org.au
October 17, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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I loved writing this poem about soft trans-queer resistance, the beauty of T4T love, and the everlasting nature of spirals and gender fuckery. I’m thrilled it’s found a home in Overland 🥰🏳️‍⚧️💖 @overlandjournal.bsky.social

overland.org.au/2025/10/spir...
Spirals exist in nature and have always been here - Overland literary journal
On any given day they could be trying to legislate / that you’re not a woman. / On any given day we could be spooning in bed / archival as ammonite / the cats mirrored as new fern’s Fibonacci beside u...
overland.org.au
October 17, 2025 at 3:41 AM
raewhite.bsky.social
So honoured to have work in this exhibition! My piece WE ARE HERE combines fashion, protest, poetry and zines 👀

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Fashioning Queer Identities
2025 Exhibition

Wednesday, 29th October 2025,
5 pm-8 pm

Queensland Multicultural Centre
October 16, 2025 at 7:24 AM
raewhite.bsky.social
I’ll be hosting a zine workshop at the 2025 SEQ Queer Writers Festival this year on Saturday 15 November! 🥳🎉🌈

This workshop will give participants an understanding of zines and zine culture, as well as the tools they need to start working on a small zine on a topic of their choice.
October 16, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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saw someone typo "trans masc" as "trans mas" and now I'm like,
the taco bell "live mas" logo with a trans makeover
September 17, 2023 at 5:24 AM
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😭💖 Thank you for the kind words, @raewhite.bsky.social !
raewhite.bsky.social Rae White @raewhite.bsky.social · Oct 10
So honoured to be in the very first issue of this mag alongside so many brilliant contributors. Huge congrats to Laura for all the work you’ve put into this beautiful project and into creating space for writers 🥰🥳 @bloomurder.bsky.social
Screen shot of the contents page of Strange Daze on a blue background.
October 10, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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I have a tiny new poem in @strangedazemag.bsky.social !!! 🦉👀

You can read the very first issue at strangedazemag.itch.io/strange-daze-1
Screen shot of the front cover of Strange Daze featuring a blurred glittery blue and purple background. Screen shot of the poem ‘an owl's fitful daytime dreams’ by Rae White. Text reads, ‘I think in fact I'm a vampire - / winged midnight cloaking my still heart - in threadbare embrace. with feathers like these how far can I fly? with beak like this how hard can I bite?’
October 10, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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5 days to go! 🎉

Abigail Big-Wrestle
@bigjosh84.bsky.social
Hex
S.D. Dillon
Riley Fable
@thevgstoryteller
@raewhite.bsky.social
Terri Deno
Stephen Mead
Mikarla Teague
Pravasan Pillay
Sabrina Green
Amanda Hawk
O.P. Jha
Ella B. Winters
@gslakes.bsky.social

#litmag #onlinemag #writers #writer
Strange Daze 1. Introducing the contributors ... Abigail Big-Wrestle, Joshua Walker, Hex, S.D. Dillon, Riley Fable, Harry Fritsch, Rae White, Terri Deno, Stephen Mead, Mikarla Teague, Pravasan Pillay, Sabrina Green, Amanda Hawk, O.P. Jha, Ella B. Winters, GS Lakes
October 5, 2025 at 6:16 AM
raewhite.bsky.social
My new poem ‘Is this devotion?’ has just been published in Island Magazine online! @islandmag.bsky.social

It’s about the blooming obsession of new queer love, the soft touch of petal fingertips, the all-consuming refrain of spring 🌸🌼💖🌈

islandmag.com/read/is-this...
Screenshot of the Island website featuring a photo of four pressed plants and flowers on a white background. Above this, dark text reads, ‘POETRY. Is this devotion? - by Rae White. ISLAND | ONLINE ONLY.’
October 3, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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enbylife.bsky.social
We’re nominating for awards this year, including the Monarch Queer Literary Awards! (For creative work we published between July 2024 and June 2025.)

Shout out to our amazing creatives and wishing you all the best!
Social media tile featuring the purple and pink butterfly logo for the Monarch Queer Literary Awards, on a purple background. Black bold text reads, ‘Monarch Queer Literary Awards. #EnbyLife Journal nominations 2025’ followed by names on a torn out piece of paper background. This text reads, ‘Ori Diskett, Finnley Greet, Bramwell Griffiths, Jules Kennedy, Lily Lalios, Lindsay Loughin, Welton B. Marsland, Lane Michael Stanley, Finn Stirling, Julia Sullivan, Quinn Wang.’
September 30, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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enbylife.bsky.social
‘Before college, “that” gender crisis lay forgotten
as I deliberately mislabelled it and isolated it.
Inside my suitcase, I would hide my gender —
it shrivelled up and suffocated.’

Read more of Maha’s poem 'My Gender Sat in Your Class' at enbylife.net
Photo of a darkened classroom with chairs and a whiteboard. A window with open blinds creates some light in the room. Black text on a transparent light yellow/beige background reads, ‘Before college, "that" gender crisis lay forgotten / as I deliberately mislabelled it and isolated it. / Inside my suitcase, I would hide my gender — / it shrivelled up and suffocated. 'My Gender Sat in Your Class' by Maha.’
September 29, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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enbylife.bsky.social
‘We went by the street of my childhood home
where I used to sit in the backyard and my mum
would make me flower crowns —
bracelets and necklaces of white clover blossoms’

Read more of Jack Cariad Leon’s stunning poem 'Why I Was Really Crying' at enbylife.net
A notebook page featuring a collage of various flowers, including a polaroid, stickers, and coloured sketches. Black text on a beige background reads, ‘We went by the street of my childhood home / where I used to sit in the backyard and my mum / would make me flower crowns — / bracelets and necklaces of white clover blossoms. 'Why I Was Really Crying' by Jack Cariad Leon’
September 22, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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enbylife.bsky.social
We’re nominating for awards this year, including the Genrepunk Awards! (For creative work we published between August 2024 – July 2025.) @genrepunkmag.bsky.social

Shout out to our amazing creatives and wishing you all the best!
Social media tile featuring the logo for Genrepunk, on a pink background. Black bold text reads, ‘Genrepunk Awards. #EnbyLife Journal nominations 2025’ followed by names on a torn out piece of paper background. This text reads, ‘Genrepunk Editors’ Choice Award: E, Kaia Ball, Lilly Lu. Genrepunk Award for Disabled Creatives: Ori Diskett. Social media tile featuring the logo for Genrepunk, on a pink background. Black bold text reads, ‘Genrepunk Awards. #EnbyLife Journal nominations 2025’ followed by names on a torn out piece of paper background. This text reads, ‘Genrepunk Wildcard Award: Ori Diskett. Genrepunk Haunting Award: Zoe Korte, Lily Lalios, Matthan Slith.
September 17, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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enbylife.bsky.social
We’re nominating for awards this year, including Best of the Net! (For creative works we published between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025). @sundresspub.bsky.social

Shout out to our amazing creatives and wishing you all the best! 🎉🌈
Social media tile featuring the logo for Best of the Net, on a light yellow-orange background. Black bold text reads, ‘Best of the Net. #EnbyLife Journal nominations 2025’, followed by names on a torn out piece of paper background. The names listed are: Oladosu Michael Emerald, Finnley Greet, Jules Kennedy, Lily Lalios, Anna Riley-Shepard, Elinor Serumgard, Matthan Slith, Lane Michael Stanley, Finn Stirling, Julia Sullivan, Sean West.
September 16, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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i had a truly magical experience last night showing @raewhite.bsky.social the motion picture “They Live” (1988) for the first time. is it perfect? no. is it perfect for *right now*? fuck yes!
September 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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🚨 10 hours left to get Queer Games Bundle 2025. We've just passed $87,000 for queer artists.

itch.io/b/3062/
pixel art shows the numerals 1 through 87 over a background of bisexual pride flag colors. each number is on a section of a ribbon shape creating a woven appearance, with rainbow and transgender pride flag colors and various textures.
September 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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28 hours left to get Queer Games Bundle 2025.

itch.io/b/3062/
Queer Games Bundle 2025 (with $10+ option!) by Queer Games Bundle and 318 others
Queer Games Bundle 2025 (with $10+ option!): 616 items for $60.00
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September 9, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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enbylife.bsky.social
This week’s new #EnbyLife post is David Cox’s limitless, gender-messy poem ‘My Gender is a Campsite on an Infinite Plane’.

Read more at enbylife.net
Photo of a blue and orange tent sitting on grass among lots of tall trees, with a lens flare creating yellow spots on a diagonal. Black text on a transparent brown background reads, “’My Gender is a Campsite on an Infinite Plane’ by David Cox.” Photo of a blue, pink and orange sky with horizontal clouds. Black text on a transparent white background reads, “My gender is every colour of the sky / In that there is blue involved / But also so much more / My gender is like art / In the same way that you can’t define art / 'My Gender is a Campsite on an Infinite Plane’ by David Cox.”
September 9, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Last chance to get this year’s Queer Games Bundle! 👀🌈
queergamesbundle.bsky.social Queer Games Bundle @queergamesbundle.bsky.social · Sep 8
4️⃣2️⃣ You have 42 hours left to buy Queer Games Bundle 2025. Get over 600 radical, heartfelt games and projects for $60 (or $10+), less than the price of one AAA game. This morning, we've passed $80,000 for queer artists.

itch.io/b/3062
pixel art shows the numerals 1 through 80 over a background of genderfluid pride flag colors. each number is on a section of a ribbon shape creating a woven appearance, with rainbow and transgender pride flag colors and various textures.
September 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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queergamesbundle.bsky.social
We're so close to $69,000 combined ♋
September 1, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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enbylife.bsky.social
Today’s fresh offering of poetry is Taylor Kovach’s brilliant piece ‘Exposure’.

Read more at enbylife.net or head to the link in our bio.
Social media tile, featuring the image of a glitchy television screen with colourful haphazard lines in pink, purple, and green. Black text on a light green transparent background reads, :”DVR phantom limb matinee viewing in HD / Channel-chased with downcast glasses of reality. 'Exposure' by Taylor Kovach.”
September 2, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Head to raewhite.net/events for more info! 🥰🎉
UPCOMING: • Queer Zest Zine Fest 2025 • Make an Enby Zine at International NonBinary Day - 6 September at Jagera Hall • Stella Day Out - The Dreaming Body: Inheritance, Memory and Poetic Voice with Manisha Anjali and Shastra Deo in conversation with Rae White - 13 September 2025, 3.15pm at Avid Reader • Calanthe Collective poetry reading - 21 November 2025, 6pm at Zamia Theatre, Tamborine Mountain • Poetry of Flight (Liquid Amber Press) launch - 27 November 2025, 7.30pm AEDT online
September 1, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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We've passed $62,000 for queer artists. Get over 600 projects from more than 300 creators for just $60 (or $10+):

itch.io/b/3062
pixel art shows the numerals 1 through 62 over a background of genderfluid pride flag colors. each number is on a section of a spiraling, rainbow striped snake shape.
August 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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enbylife.bsky.social
Today we’re excited to share a new poem with you — 'A Week After I Tell You I’m Questioning My Gender' by Abby Bland. READ MORE: enbylife.net/2025/08/26/a...
Social media post featuring a photo of green and pink fireworks in the dark night sky. Black text on a light green transparent background reads, “For a long time / the thing I wanted most / was to be beautiful / but now I wish / to become myself. 'A Week After I Tell You I’m Questioning My Gender' by Abby Bland.”
August 26, 2025 at 12:28 AM