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Dr. Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️
@cavar.bsky.social
transMad & queercrip writer, editor, phd-haver. cooler on goodreads. edits manywor(l)ds.

wrote FAILURE TO COMPLY (featherproof).
repped by Noah Grey Rosenzweig.

🕸️ www.cavar.club
📖 goodreads.com/cavar
🧨 bookshop.org/p/books/failure-to-comply/20969806
find my pieces & audios here.

and check out everyone's incredible work!

anmly.org/ap41/sarah-c...
October 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
thank you @anmlymag.bsky.social / @sarahclark.bsky.social for making space for autistic protest poetry & inviting me to introduce the issue. as i read through these works, i feel i can see the future of our craft.

anmly.org/autistic-pro...
October 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
a new poem about one of my/our names in @petrichorlit.bsky.social :)

petrichormag.com/28-sarah-cavar
October 2, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Happening at Barnes and Noble Smithfield Rhode Island!!!! 2pm today AKA in half an hour!!!!!
August 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
here's what I had to say:
July 28, 2025 at 11:26 PM
and furthermore
July 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
very pleased to announce that my tribute to the dolls, "mushroom girls in love: redux", was nominated for @sundresspub.bsky.social Best of the Net by @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social ! <333
July 23, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Somehow, #phdone!!!! Today I walked at graduation and am officially Dr. Cavar. Thank you everyone for your support!!!!!!!
June 13, 2025 at 1:51 AM
you can also find a rich trove of autistic poetry & poetics in Mel Baggs (z'l)'s archive. Sie wrote as a sibling to the redwoods and oaks of her home, to the water, to the rocks, and to anyone of any species denied rightful access to personhood.
April 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Can I be real for a minute
April 15, 2025 at 12:41 AM
visual aid. don’t miss the free feet pic guys it’s a rare one
April 6, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Trans Horror was so packed last night I'm still wordless with joy. It was beyond my wildest dreams as to what an AWP offsite could be, thanks to so many amazing writers and a truly fantastic audience. Ty everyone who made it possible.

(photo creds to @lunareyhall.com + @cdeskilson.bsky.social !!)
March 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Out like a Lamb is TONIGHT, 7pm @ the Wayfarer!!!!!!! I’ll be wearing my cow print pants and reading about trans dyke cyborg sex YEEHAW come through
March 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
here's my silly little awp graphic. excited to rep @manyworlds.place at Out Like a Lamb + sign with @featherproof.bsky.social + @whaleroadreview.bsky.social.

Plus, check out the offsite I'm co-hosting with the incredible @cdeskilson.bsky.social, A Night of Trans Horror!
March 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
@poemsandcake.bsky.social and I had a magical chat at Firestorm Co-Op last summer just a week after FAILURE TO COMPLY was published. Today, I get to share it with you again on @honeyliterary.bsky.social. Feeling haunted & encouraged by my own words.

www.honeyliterary.com/issue9/the-l...
February 28, 2025 at 7:17 PM
You can support me (+other trans/disabled/Mad authors) by requesting our books at your library/ordering them at your local indie or on Bookshop, as well as just spreading the word.

I'm also excited to announce that FAILURE TO COMPLY is available from the @queerliblib.bsky.social as of this month.
February 11, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I write with & an informed by my experiences with trans, disability justice, and Mad scholar-activism. You can see some of my thinking/genealogy in this interview for Archer Magazine.

"I'm concerned about who's already trapped in the future."

archermagazine.com.au/2025/01/arch...
February 11, 2025 at 3:20 AM
my outfit for the bluesky pajama party
February 9, 2025 at 4:23 AM
made this the other day
February 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Check out this interview I did for Archer on noncompliance, abolition, fucked-up tech, Madness, and more.

archermagazine.com.au/2025/01/arch...
January 24, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?
January 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

Tankie moment?!???
January 12, 2025 at 4:08 AM
hi #sfwa ppl, this is my 1st year ever being ~awards eligible~ so i wanted to share 2 qualifying pieces!

my debut novel, FAILURE TO COMPLY. sf body horror abt trans Mad dykes at the limits of the imaginable, languagable, & possible.

sfwa members can download here:
www.sfwa.org/forum/profil...
January 8, 2025 at 12:28 AM
my holes in electric lit! (lol)

electricliterature.com/two-poems-by...
December 20, 2024 at 2:37 AM
thank you from the bottom of my cold dystopian heart to @stromberg.bsky.social for this smart, generous review of FAILURE TO COMPLY. tbh, it doubles as a "reader's guide," and I am delighted that people are engaging rigorously but also on F2C's own terms.

buy!!: bookshop.org/a/81294/9781...
December 15, 2024 at 4:28 PM