aidan
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being trans is awesome and trans people are amazing and gender is a dumb box and anyone who makes their own crowbar to smash it from inside is a hero actually.
September 16, 2025 at 7:19 AM
being trans is awesome and trans people are amazing and gender is a dumb box and anyone who makes their own crowbar to smash it from inside is a hero actually.
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Put the dead into your poems without garbing them in your grief. Give them cake, put on their favorite music. Listen to their gossip. Let them tell you how they've learned to bake bread. To carve clarinet reeds. Let them comb your hair. Help them remember the color orange. The scratch of wool.
December 26, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Put the dead into your poems without garbing them in your grief. Give them cake, put on their favorite music. Listen to their gossip. Let them tell you how they've learned to bake bread. To carve clarinet reeds. Let them comb your hair. Help them remember the color orange. The scratch of wool.
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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...
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
July 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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...
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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happy pride! i edit an online literary magazine called beestung that's for two-spirit, non-binary, and genderqueer writers and readers.
you can support me by reading us or tipping a bit of scratch if you like what we're doing.
beestungmag.com
you can support me by reading us or tipping a bit of scratch if you like what we're doing.
beestungmag.com
beestung – a quarterly micro-magazine of non-binary writers that’s sweet and stings
beestungmag.com
June 1, 2025 at 10:33 PM
happy pride! i edit an online literary magazine called beestung that's for two-spirit, non-binary, and genderqueer writers and readers.
you can support me by reading us or tipping a bit of scratch if you like what we're doing.
beestungmag.com
you can support me by reading us or tipping a bit of scratch if you like what we're doing.
beestungmag.com
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last day to buy straight books until july
June 1, 2025 at 1:11 AM
last day to buy straight books until july
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mother's day is a challenging, conflicted one for me, as i'm sure it is for so many. but i can't help but think again of this beautiful poem by Ada Limón—
![The Raincoat
by Ada Limón
When the doctor suggested surgery
and a brace for all my youngest years,
my parents scrambled to take me
to massage therapy, deep tissue work,
osteopathy, and soon my crooked spine
unspooled a bit, I could breathe again,
and move more in a body unclouded
by pain. My mom would tell me to sing
songs to her the whole forty-five minute
drive to Middle Two Rock Road and forty-
five minutes back from physical therapy.
She’d say, even my voice sounded unfettered
by my spine afterward. So I sang and sang,
because I thought she liked it. I never
asked her what she gave up to drive me,
or how her day was before this chore. Today,
at her age, I was driving myself home from yet
another spine appointment, singing along
to some maudlin but solid song on the radio,
and I saw a mom take her raincoat off
and give it to her young daughter when
a storm took over the afternoon. My god,
I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her
raincoat thinking it was somehow a marvel
that I never got wet.
[poem also here: https://poets.org/poem/raincoat]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qlmttkf54je7ie22kz7oymca/bafkreifd2ul47nx3kjyk53vgftkcktqmck3a7xzbsbxtclq6wae3kam6nq@jpeg)
May 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
mother's day is a challenging, conflicted one for me, as i'm sure it is for so many. but i can't help but think again of this beautiful poem by Ada Limón—
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ahh that's so gay of me, how homosexual of me
(me, doing anything)
(me, doing anything)
March 21, 2025 at 3:19 AM
ahh that's so gay of me, how homosexual of me
(me, doing anything)
(me, doing anything)
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my new book SIMPLICITY is about a timid trans academic in the near future treks into the wilds of upstate new york to study a cult and winds up with way more than he bargained for. it’s is out 7/29. preorder it from your local! simplicitybook.xyz
February 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
my new book SIMPLICITY is about a timid trans academic in the near future treks into the wilds of upstate new york to study a cult and winds up with way more than he bargained for. it’s is out 7/29. preorder it from your local! simplicitybook.xyz
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Friends with exes & pogi bois. Imprints of teeth & walking McCarthyism. Summer rains & data farms. Thunder thighs & a cool rock. Siri & The Brooklyn Bridge. Feathers & trains.
beestung #22, a rich double issue guest edited by KB Brookins (@earthtokb.bsky.social) is here!
beestungmag.com
beestung #22, a rich double issue guest edited by KB Brookins (@earthtokb.bsky.social) is here!
beestungmag.com
February 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Friends with exes & pogi bois. Imprints of teeth & walking McCarthyism. Summer rains & data farms. Thunder thighs & a cool rock. Siri & The Brooklyn Bridge. Feathers & trains.
beestung #22, a rich double issue guest edited by KB Brookins (@earthtokb.bsky.social) is here!
beestungmag.com
beestung #22, a rich double issue guest edited by KB Brookins (@earthtokb.bsky.social) is here!
beestungmag.com
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A little James Schuyler Valentine this morning.
February 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
A little James Schuyler Valentine this morning.
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I need every cis person that follows me to read this and genuinely think about it for a while, and I need them to understand that this is the explicit goal of this administration.
If you’re trans, you know the stories like it already; spare yourself.
If you’re trans, you know the stories like it already; spare yourself.
In a new lawsuit filed against Trump by state AGs, a family with a trans kid shares she died by suicide last month citing fears Trump would deny her access to gender-affirming care. "Her parents have expressed fear...that what happened to their daughter does not happen to other children."
![The serious concerns over how the Order will detrimentally impact transgender
youth cannot be overstated. One Washingtonian, as her parents describe her, was a bright and
gentle soul who loved playing musical instruments, trying new things, and playing Magic the
Gathering. She was excited to learn Japanese and the impact of gender-affirming care was
immediately clear to her family. Her parents described that “her joy was clear with every new
milestone in her transition. She was so happy to get to the next step, to get closer to presenting
in a way that was true to herself.” But the day before the presidential election, she shared,
“[t]omorrow I get to find out if I’m illegal.” After the election, she asked her parents if they
could move to Canada because she was fearful of new restrictions on transgender youth and
worried about losing access to gender-affirming care. In January 2025, she took her life. After
the Order issued, her parents expressed that the outlook for transgender futures looks scary and
shared fears of what ending gender-affirming care would have meant for their daughter’s access
to therapy, puberty-delaying medication, hormones, and hope of surgery. Her parents have
expressed fear for the many lives who depend on gender-affirming care and that what happened
to their daughter does not happen to any other children.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mlmouohgzbjofidukcp4pxf2/bafkreich7jyv3lnkmd5r234itpdhtvavgblc46ai6d47tb4i7oxgfga2ym@jpeg)
February 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I need every cis person that follows me to read this and genuinely think about it for a while, and I need them to understand that this is the explicit goal of this administration.
If you’re trans, you know the stories like it already; spare yourself.
If you’re trans, you know the stories like it already; spare yourself.
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Starting 2025 posting NEW PUBLISHED POEMS!! Here’s the first one with the Los Angeles Review, a little poem I wrote for my MFA thesis collection.
losangelesreview.org/boy-to-boy-t...
losangelesreview.org/boy-to-boy-t...
January 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Starting 2025 posting NEW PUBLISHED POEMS!! Here’s the first one with the Los Angeles Review, a little poem I wrote for my MFA thesis collection.
losangelesreview.org/boy-to-boy-t...
losangelesreview.org/boy-to-boy-t...
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December 25, 2024 at 3:07 AM
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Today’s Featured Poem:
“Masturbating to Greek Myths” by @tagreathouse.bsky.social, from Deed, published by @weslpress.bsky.social.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/masturb...
“Masturbating to Greek Myths” by @tagreathouse.bsky.social, from Deed, published by @weslpress.bsky.social.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/masturb...
Masturbating to Greek Myths – Poetry Daily
poems.com
December 7, 2024 at 4:07 PM
Today’s Featured Poem:
“Masturbating to Greek Myths” by @tagreathouse.bsky.social, from Deed, published by @weslpress.bsky.social.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/masturb...
“Masturbating to Greek Myths” by @tagreathouse.bsky.social, from Deed, published by @weslpress.bsky.social.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/masturb...
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It Hurts, 1986
https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5297/
https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5297/
September 7, 2024 at 6:37 PM
It Hurts, 1986
https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5297/
https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5297/
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Hi to all our new followers!!🙋
Y'all might be interested to know that we'll be reading chapbook submissions in October and our submissions are always free free.
Glass is entirely funded by chapbook sales, so maybe check out the 30 chapbooks we've published so far.
www.glass-poetry.com/store.html
Y'all might be interested to know that we'll be reading chapbook submissions in October and our submissions are always free free.
Glass is entirely funded by chapbook sales, so maybe check out the 30 chapbooks we've published so far.
www.glass-poetry.com/store.html
September 17, 2024 at 11:51 PM
Hi to all our new followers!!🙋
Y'all might be interested to know that we'll be reading chapbook submissions in October and our submissions are always free free.
Glass is entirely funded by chapbook sales, so maybe check out the 30 chapbooks we've published so far.
www.glass-poetry.com/store.html
Y'all might be interested to know that we'll be reading chapbook submissions in October and our submissions are always free free.
Glass is entirely funded by chapbook sales, so maybe check out the 30 chapbooks we've published so far.
www.glass-poetry.com/store.html
some Tim Dlugos for your sunday
September 15, 2024 at 5:15 PM
some Tim Dlugos for your sunday
why is my friend sending me mark doty lines out of the blue, how am i supposed to continue working with “longing, of course becomes its own object” rattling around my head
July 25, 2024 at 8:06 PM
why is my friend sending me mark doty lines out of the blue, how am i supposed to continue working with “longing, of course becomes its own object” rattling around my head
losing my mind (at the cleveland, oh greyhound station)
March 5, 2024 at 5:53 PM
losing my mind (at the cleveland, oh greyhound station)
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“Look at the sky: are you
willing to be the sky again?
You think this lesson is
too hard for you You want the time-out to end.” — Marie Howe
willing to be the sky again?
You think this lesson is
too hard for you You want the time-out to end.” — Marie Howe
What the Silence Said
Do you still believe in borders now?
poets.org
October 4, 2023 at 3:43 AM
“Look at the sky: are you
willing to be the sky again?
You think this lesson is
too hard for you You want the time-out to end.” — Marie Howe
willing to be the sky again?
You think this lesson is
too hard for you You want the time-out to end.” — Marie Howe
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Hi, folks! We're got a terrific new poem up on the OKD website for y'all this weekend, "The National Park Service Warns Us Not to Lick the Psychedelic Toad" by Carla Sofia Ferreira! Be sure to check it out! You can read it here:
The National Park Service Warns Us Not to Lick the Psychedelic Toad by Carla Sofia Ferreira
Please don’t lick this psychedelic toad, National Park Service warns. I have �...
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August 26, 2023 at 8:19 PM
Hi, folks! We're got a terrific new poem up on the OKD website for y'all this weekend, "The National Park Service Warns Us Not to Lick the Psychedelic Toad" by Carla Sofia Ferreira! Be sure to check it out! You can read it here:
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