Aurora Hatchel
@aurora-hatchel.bsky.social
Trans author and poet who celebrates grief, battles despair, and loves her dresses. https://aurorahatchel.com/
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In Response to 47’s Executive Order: Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness by Aurora Hatchel | citizen trans*
the citizen trans* {project} by new words {press} seeks to publish & archive the voices & experiences of trans* writers in this anti-trans, post-election country.
www.newwordspress.com
The world is certainly awful, but I wrote a poem. I didn't want anger, I wanted scope. I'm not sure if there is hope in it, but there is a stoic wisdom (with a hint of rage).
www.newwordspress.com/in-response-...
#booksky #transwriters #trans #lgbt 📚🌈💙🌎 #transrights #resist
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#booksky #transwriters #trans #lgbt 📚🌈💙🌎 #transrights #resist
I am humbled and flabbergasted that my little self-published book of sad poems is now an award-winning book. Honestly, my brain wants to downplay it, though my heart wants deeply to be celebrated. Either way, it’s happening.
#transwriters #booksky #poetry 📘📚🌈🌎
#transwriters #booksky #poetry 📘📚🌈🌎
March 8, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I am humbled and flabbergasted that my little self-published book of sad poems is now an award-winning book. Honestly, my brain wants to downplay it, though my heart wants deeply to be celebrated. Either way, it’s happening.
#transwriters #booksky #poetry 📘📚🌈🌎
#transwriters #booksky #poetry 📘📚🌈🌎
I am humbled and thrilled with Literary Titan’s review of my collection of poetry.
“Through deeply personal narratives, Hatchel explores identity, trauma, queerness, grief, and resilience with a voice that is equal parts tender and ferocious.”
literarytitan.com/2025/02/27/s...
“Through deeply personal narratives, Hatchel explores identity, trauma, queerness, grief, and resilience with a voice that is equal parts tender and ferocious.”
literarytitan.com/2025/02/27/s...
Sadness & Sadness Accessories
Aurora Hatchel’s Sadness & Sadness Accessories is raw, vulnerable, and unapologetically human. Through deeply personal narratives, Hatchel explores identity, trauma, queerness, grief, and resil…
literarytitan.com
March 1, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I am humbled and thrilled with Literary Titan’s review of my collection of poetry.
“Through deeply personal narratives, Hatchel explores identity, trauma, queerness, grief, and resilience with a voice that is equal parts tender and ferocious.”
literarytitan.com/2025/02/27/s...
“Through deeply personal narratives, Hatchel explores identity, trauma, queerness, grief, and resilience with a voice that is equal parts tender and ferocious.”
literarytitan.com/2025/02/27/s...
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Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.
February 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.
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If you're an English, Philosophy, or Queer Studies professor in Canada, Ireland, Aotearoa, or Australia and you're looking for an overqualified grad student who would make a fantastic TA, now would be a great time to HMU about your program 🙏
February 9, 2025 at 1:42 AM
If you're an English, Philosophy, or Queer Studies professor in Canada, Ireland, Aotearoa, or Australia and you're looking for an overqualified grad student who would make a fantastic TA, now would be a great time to HMU about your program 🙏
I’ll gently rise and softly call, good night and joy be with you all.
February 9, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I’ll gently rise and softly call, good night and joy be with you all.
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Do any other writers feel compelled to apologize whenever they present their writing to potential readers? I have no idea what that is in me or what I’m battling, but while I’m infinitely proud of my work, I can’t fathom other people liking it as well.
#booksky
#booksky
February 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Do any other writers feel compelled to apologize whenever they present their writing to potential readers? I have no idea what that is in me or what I’m battling, but while I’m infinitely proud of my work, I can’t fathom other people liking it as well.
#booksky
#booksky
There was a day during the pandemic when the fear of it all hit too hard. I feared death in a really tangible way for the first time in my life, and the sharp pain of never getting to live as a woman cracked my egg. I didn’t want to die without trying to make my real life a reality.
TRANS WOMEN OF BLUESKY:
What was your egg cracking moment?
When did you know you were trans? What made you realize?
And did you know you were a woman right away, or did you pass through other identities first
What was your egg cracking moment?
When did you know you were trans? What made you realize?
And did you know you were a woman right away, or did you pass through other identities first
February 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
There was a day during the pandemic when the fear of it all hit too hard. I feared death in a really tangible way for the first time in my life, and the sharp pain of never getting to live as a woman cracked my egg. I didn’t want to die without trying to make my real life a reality.
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Good morning
be the change
be the light
eat some chocolate
🔥
be the change
be the light
eat some chocolate
🔥
February 3, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Good morning
be the change
be the light
eat some chocolate
🔥
be the change
be the light
eat some chocolate
🔥
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I'm so excited to be hosting this Trans Writing Workshop with @lilacperil.bsky.social next weekend! If you're in the DC area and are interested in writing some weird shit with me, please consider swinging by!
February 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I'm so excited to be hosting this Trans Writing Workshop with @lilacperil.bsky.social next weekend! If you're in the DC area and are interested in writing some weird shit with me, please consider swinging by!
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For absolutely no reason at all; Costa Rica has a digital nomad visa (2 years!) and those on the visa can access HRT in the country affordably. Costa Rica currently has the best laws in North America for trans rights, marriage equality, and adoption rights.
February 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
For absolutely no reason at all; Costa Rica has a digital nomad visa (2 years!) and those on the visa can access HRT in the country affordably. Costa Rica currently has the best laws in North America for trans rights, marriage equality, and adoption rights.
The world is certainly awful, but I wrote a poem. I didn't want anger, I wanted scope. I'm not sure if there is hope in it, but there is a stoic wisdom (with a hint of rage).
www.newwordspress.com/in-response-...
#booksky #transwriters #trans #lgbt 📚🌈💙🌎 #transrights #resist
www.newwordspress.com/in-response-...
#booksky #transwriters #trans #lgbt 📚🌈💙🌎 #transrights #resist
In Response to 47’s Executive Order: Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness by Aurora Hatchel | citizen trans*
the citizen trans* {project} by new words {press} seeks to publish & archive the voices & experiences of trans* writers in this anti-trans, post-election country.
www.newwordspress.com
February 1, 2025 at 10:57 PM
The world is certainly awful, but I wrote a poem. I didn't want anger, I wanted scope. I'm not sure if there is hope in it, but there is a stoic wisdom (with a hint of rage).
www.newwordspress.com/in-response-...
#booksky #transwriters #trans #lgbt 📚🌈💙🌎 #transrights #resist
www.newwordspress.com/in-response-...
#booksky #transwriters #trans #lgbt 📚🌈💙🌎 #transrights #resist
All my prayers are just apologies. open.spotify.com/track/0sJVCx...
Televangelist
Julien Baker · Turn Out the Lights · Song · 2017
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February 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
All my prayers are just apologies. open.spotify.com/track/0sJVCx...
Help. This is a cry for help.
a man wearing glasses and a hawaiian shirt says `` see , nobody cares ''
ALT: a man wearing glasses and a hawaiian shirt says `` see , nobody cares ''
media.tenor.com
February 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Help. This is a cry for help.
I guess I just don’t have the personality type that makes strangers want to get to know me or friends interested to spend time with me. What an absolutely shit time to feel so devastatingly lonely.
February 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I guess I just don’t have the personality type that makes strangers want to get to know me or friends interested to spend time with me. What an absolutely shit time to feel so devastatingly lonely.
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This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.
I know. I was there in those camps.
I know. I was there in those camps.
January 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.
I know. I was there in those camps.
I know. I was there in those camps.
Ran out of steam. Today is my first depression ball day in a long while
January 31, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Ran out of steam. Today is my first depression ball day in a long while
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Every time you don't buy a book from Amazon, but use a good indie store who actually values the sale & treats you & your purchase with respect, the sun shines brighter, floofy puppies gambol in fresher grass, & Jeff Bezos's piles sting for just a biiiit longer.
Sounds GREAT to me.
Buy independent.
Sounds GREAT to me.
Buy independent.
January 31, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Every time you don't buy a book from Amazon, but use a good indie store who actually values the sale & treats you & your purchase with respect, the sun shines brighter, floofy puppies gambol in fresher grass, & Jeff Bezos's piles sting for just a biiiit longer.
Sounds GREAT to me.
Buy independent.
Sounds GREAT to me.
Buy independent.
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guys!! i got a library card today!!!
did you know they have books for free over there?? 😭😭
(this is a joke)
i immediately downloaded hoopla and libby!! now its time to cancel audible! 🙈
#readers #booksky #booktok #bookstagram
did you know they have books for free over there?? 😭😭
(this is a joke)
i immediately downloaded hoopla and libby!! now its time to cancel audible! 🙈
#readers #booksky #booktok #bookstagram
January 31, 2025 at 12:46 AM
guys!! i got a library card today!!!
did you know they have books for free over there?? 😭😭
(this is a joke)
i immediately downloaded hoopla and libby!! now its time to cancel audible! 🙈
#readers #booksky #booktok #bookstagram
did you know they have books for free over there?? 😭😭
(this is a joke)
i immediately downloaded hoopla and libby!! now its time to cancel audible! 🙈
#readers #booksky #booktok #bookstagram
You know how people tell you to drink hot tea when it’s sweltering outside so you sweat through it? That was my theory with stress/dread as I sat down to watch Emilia Perez. And let me tell you, sweaty tea drinkers, it does not work.
January 31, 2025 at 3:45 AM
You know how people tell you to drink hot tea when it’s sweltering outside so you sweat through it? That was my theory with stress/dread as I sat down to watch Emilia Perez. And let me tell you, sweaty tea drinkers, it does not work.
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Years ago, ACT UP protested at hospitals cutting off LGBTQ+ people from their care.
They didn't stand for it.
They didn't stand for it.
January 30, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Years ago, ACT UP protested at hospitals cutting off LGBTQ+ people from their care.
They didn't stand for it.
They didn't stand for it.
My toddler just told me with much passion and anger that her dance instructor called me a dad when she said to them, “go to your mom and dad” because she meant me but I am not a dad. This is deeply upsetting to my child because I’m not a dad and no one should call me a dad.
January 31, 2025 at 1:27 AM
My toddler just told me with much passion and anger that her dance instructor called me a dad when she said to them, “go to your mom and dad” because she meant me but I am not a dad. This is deeply upsetting to my child because I’m not a dad and no one should call me a dad.