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torrin a. greathouse
@tagreathouse.bsky.social
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she/they | CripplePunk butch trans woman | author of Wound from the Mouth of a Wound & DEED | faculty at Rainier Writing Workshop | Bookings:
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In celebration of Transgender Awareness Week, we are celebrating recent trans authors.

✨ DEED by torrin a. greathouse is a lyrically innovative exploration of queer sex and desire.

✨ Transtraterrestrial by Sage Ni'Ja Whitson documents Whitson's groundbreaking pieces.

#transgenderawarenessweek
November 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
tagreathouse.bsky.social
This is such an immeasurable loss
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4d
Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr
Alice Wong, a woman in a wheelchair with dark hair, poses in a pink and orange outfit and berry lipstick. A headline reads: "Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51." Photo via John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
November 15, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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NEW: Firings of LGBTQ staff at NBC and Condé Nast have worsened an already dire picture for legacy news media when it comes to covering the trans community.

From @billiejsweeney.bsky.social, a close look at our increasingly degraded media environment.

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Corporate Media’s Queer Purge — Assigned
It’s no coincidence that historic assaults on trans and queer people’s rights have been accompanied by the mainstream media’s widespread dismissal of LGBTQ+ journalists and the elimination of beats de...
www.assignedmedia.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
tagreathouse.bsky.social
I’m too famous to not have a @wikipedia.org page, somebody should fix that
November 11, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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The "Trans LIteratures" issue of College Literature, features work from torrin a. greathouse, Stephanie Burt, Nat Rivkin, Rocko Foltz, Hannah K. Grabowski, Sarah Snyder, Will Anderson, S. Brook Corfman, and more!

Read at @ProjectMUSE: tinyurl.com/mt6r85u3
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW College Literature Volume 52, Number 4, Fall 2025 
Special Issue: Trans Literatures Guest Editors: Alex Brostoff & rl Goldberg Contributors: Stephanie Burt, Nat Rivkin, Rocko Foltz, Sarah Snyder, Hannah K. Grabowski, Will Anderson, Liz Rose, S, Brook Corfman, Cameron Awkward-Rich, gaita nihil, Jordy Rosenberg, Cole Rizki, Trish Salah, torrin a. greathouse, Andrzej Baginski, Russ Leo and Connor Spencer
October 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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College Literature's new special issue, "Trans Literatures" is now available!

Guest editors Alex Brostoff & rl Goldberg bring together some stellar scholars, including Cameron Awkward-Rich, Jordy Rosenberg, and Trish Salah

Read their editor's blog now: tinyurl.com/eybr8cpt
“[T]o ask ‘Whose Trans Literatures?’...is to question structures of belonging and exclusion, to ask who is portrayed as proper subjects and who is relegated to abjection or worse.” Assigned Reading at Birth Trans Literatures, Reproduction, and Redistribution Alex Brostoff & rl Goldberg introduce a special issue of College Literature at the Hopkins Press Newsroom Blog press.jhu.edu/newsroom
October 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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It's a great issue of College Literature, featuring scholarly articles, roundtable conversations and reviews from Cameron Awkward-Rich, Jordy Rosenberg, Trish Salah, torrin a. greathouse, and more!

tinyurl.com/mt6r85u3
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW College Literature Volume 52, Number 4, Fall 2025 
Special Issue: Trans Literatures Guest Editors: Alex Brostoff & rl Goldberg Contributors: Stephanie Burt, Nat Rivkin, Rocko Foltz, Sarah Snyder, Hannah K. Grabowski, Will Anderson, Liz Rose, S, Brook Corfman, Cameron Awkward-Rich, gaita nihil, Jordy Rosenberg, Cole Rizki, Trish Salah, torrin a. greathouse, Andrzej Baginski, Russ Leo and Connor Spencer
October 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
tagreathouse.bsky.social
Got to sit down with Alex, rl, & THE Trish Salah to talk about the history and development of trans poetics, which is one of the best conversations I’ve had in my career
hopkinspress.bsky.social Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 29d
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
College Literature
Vol. 52, No. 4, Fall 2025
tinyurl.com/mt6r85u3


Special Issue: Trans Literatures
Guest Editors: Alex Brostoff & rl Goldberg

Contributors: Stephanie Burt, Sarah Snyder, Cameron Awkward-Rich, Jordy Rosenberg, Trish Salah, torrin a. greathouse, and more!
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW College Literature Volume 52, Number 4, Fall 2025 
Special Issue: Trans Literatures Guest Editors: Alex Brostoff & rl Goldberg Contributors: Stephanie Burt, Nat Rivkin, Rocko Foltz, Sarah Snyder, Hannah K. Grabowski, Will Anderson, Liz Rose, S, Brook Corfman, Cameron Awkward-Rich, gaita nihil, Jordy Rosenberg, Cole Rizki, Trish Salah, torrin a. greathouse, Andrzej Baginski, Russ Leo and Connor Spencer
October 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Today we recognize the 2025 Stonewall Award winners. The Stonewall Book Awards, sponsored by the American Library Association's Rainbow Round Table, is the first and most enduring award for LGBTQ+ books.
2025 Stonewall Award Winners Some Strange Music Draws Me In, by Griffin Hansbury DEED, by torrin a. greathouse Sex With a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery, by Annie Liontas Lunar Boy, by Jes and Cin Wibowo Canto Contigo, by Jonny Garza Villa
October 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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torrin a. greathouse #smallpoemsunday
Nocturne a cleave tanka I miss the summer, bathroom tile— private winter. This stall, the whole sky— slick with drool & sweat. Panting against a zipper's small teeth. Air simmered to ash with heat. The moon is a glory hole. A brand-new mouth made in the night. Where breath hums soft & the wind moans back.
September 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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If a president wanted to become effectively a dictator, he’d likely:

1. Purge govt of non loyalists
2. Weaponize law against opponents
3. Use military to police opposition strongholds
4. Threaten media, schools, businesses w penalties to get them to heel
5. Change election rules in his favor.
August 24, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Day #3 @sealeychallenge.bsky.social read the new torrin a. greathouse book DEED. Intensely propulsive inquiries into trans self/sex work, language, patriarchy, clients/police, sexuality & oppression; a writer w/chops & labyrinthine music - exquisite visions, sculpted lines & politics/poetic.
Cover of DEED. beautiful edition with amazing 'fly pages' inside collage of textured black flowers. An apostrophe denotes possession. Means to turn toward. Thin hook of ink that joins one body to another by its name. In one pocket I carry a list of all the places I am prohibited -- bathrooms & airplanes, churches & young adult literature. In the other, a list of all the things I'd have to abandon to be called a woman. I fly 3,000 to a place where no one knows my face or name & joke that there is a boy I'm leaving behind
August 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Jami Macarty reviews 'Deed' by torrin a. greathouse, poetry that crafts a new queer lexicon, exploring trans desire, intimacy, and liberation while moving beyond trauma narratives.

#bookreviews #booknews #poetry #readingcommunity
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Book Review :: Deed by torrin a. greathouse
torrin a. greathouse's 'Deed' crafts a vibrant queer lexicon, exploring trans desire, intimacy, and liberation without a focus on trauma.
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August 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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In an Operating Room Outside of the Cis Woman’s Imagination by @tagreathouse.bsky.social

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In an Operating Room Outside of the Cis Woman’s Imagination
In response to Sharon Olds’ poem “Outside the Operating Room of the Sex-Change Doctor”
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August 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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To cap off Pride Month, we are taking a moment to celebrate recent LGBTQIA+ authors. You can check out their amazing books at weslpress.org or your favorite bookstore

DEED by torrin a. greathouse is a formally and lyrically innovative exploration of queer sex and desire, and what it can cost.
June 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Don’t miss torrin a. greathouse and Miller Oberman’s conversation discussing their respective new poetry collections, DEED and IMPOSSIBLE THINGS—read it today in @hopkinsreview.bsky.social! #DisabilityPrideMonth hopkinsreview.com/features/new...
New Books in Conversation: torrin a. greathouse and Miller Oberman — The Hopkins Review
The poets discuss their recent poetry collections, both featuring poetry first published in the pages of The Hopkins Review.
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July 29, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Several poems from The Georgia Review

@tagreathouse.bsky.social & Lynn Lonidier

#poetry
July 28, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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My scholarly article "Imaginary Margins: Disability Poetics & Reinventing the Page" in New Writing.

Analyzes poems by @thellpsx.bsky.social, @tagreathouse.bsky.social, @teagerbeza.bsky.social, @tateoquendo.bsky.social, and Kelly Weber.
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Imaginary margins: disability poetics & reinventing the page
Disability poetics resist marginalisation by centralising disabled words and experiences, both literally and figuratively. In a world that prioritises ability, disabled bodyminds are marked as devi...
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June 29, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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cemhend.bsky.social
then perish
May 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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I love this poem by torrin a greathouse! poets.org/poem/bondage...
Bondage Device: Cross
I swear, this filthy light could pass clean
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May 8, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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What a response poem! If you don’t know the poetry of torrin a. greathouse, chrck her/they out here: www.torringreathouse.com

Response poem here:
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In an Operating Room Outside of the Cis Woman’s Imagination
In response to Sharon Olds’ poem “Outside the Operating Room of the Sex-Change Doctor”
poets.org
May 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Wesleyan University Press award-winning poet @tagreathouse.bsky.social is now being represented by @blueflowerarts.bsky.social!

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May 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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No Ethical Transition Under Late Capitalism by torrin a. greathouse

"Each needle, each pill, a seed planted in my body."

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April 25, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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This fine essay by @tagreathouse.bsky.social has a lot to say about that:

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April 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM