Emanuel Xavier
@emanuelxavier.bsky.social
Poet, author, and LGBTQ+ activist. Exploring identity, resilience, and survival through storytelling and art.
Sharing a quote from my poem “Unpassable” — part of my forthcoming collection Still, We Are Sacred — for Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
We carry what they tried to erase.
Honor the ancestors. Tell the truth.
#IndigenousPeoplesDay #StillWeAreSacred #EmanuelXavier #LatinxVoices
We carry what they tried to erase.
Honor the ancestors. Tell the truth.
#IndigenousPeoplesDay #StillWeAreSacred #EmanuelXavier #LatinxVoices
October 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Sharing a quote from my poem “Unpassable” — part of my forthcoming collection Still, We Are Sacred — for Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
We carry what they tried to erase.
Honor the ancestors. Tell the truth.
#IndigenousPeoplesDay #StillWeAreSacred #EmanuelXavier #LatinxVoices
We carry what they tried to erase.
Honor the ancestors. Tell the truth.
#IndigenousPeoplesDay #StillWeAreSacred #EmanuelXavier #LatinxVoices
📖 Still, We Are Sacred — my new poetry collection — drops six months from today.
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If you’re interested in:
• Writing a review
• Booking me for Spring 2026 events
• Helping spread the word
DM me. Let’s make it happen.
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If you’re interested in:
• Writing a review
• Booking me for Spring 2026 events
• Helping spread the word
DM me. Let’s make it happen.
October 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
📖 Still, We Are Sacred — my new poetry collection — drops six months from today.
rebelsatori.com/product/stil...
If you’re interested in:
• Writing a review
• Booking me for Spring 2026 events
• Helping spread the word
DM me. Let’s make it happen.
rebelsatori.com/product/stil...
If you’re interested in:
• Writing a review
• Booking me for Spring 2026 events
• Helping spread the word
DM me. Let’s make it happen.
📚 This Wednesday, Oct 8 @ 5PM — I’ll be leading a free poetry workshop at Stapleton Library (Staten Island) as part of #BannedBooksWeek.
We’ll write, reflect, and turn lived experience into poetry. Open to all levels. ✍🏽
🗓️ Register: www.nypl.org/events/progr...
#PoetryWorkshop
We’ll write, reflect, and turn lived experience into poetry. Open to all levels. ✍🏽
🗓️ Register: www.nypl.org/events/progr...
#PoetryWorkshop
October 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
📚 This Wednesday, Oct 8 @ 5PM — I’ll be leading a free poetry workshop at Stapleton Library (Staten Island) as part of #BannedBooksWeek.
We’ll write, reflect, and turn lived experience into poetry. Open to all levels. ✍🏽
🗓️ Register: www.nypl.org/events/progr...
#PoetryWorkshop
We’ll write, reflect, and turn lived experience into poetry. Open to all levels. ✍🏽
🗓️ Register: www.nypl.org/events/progr...
#PoetryWorkshop
🎙️ This Sunday, Oct 6 at 11am ET—
I’m joining the Out Loud podcast for a live convo on queer resilience, poetry, survival & speaking truth.
Hosted by Kelliane Parker, Douglas Cala & Marissa Prada.
Join via Zoom:
ID: 886-9946-0037
PW: 554851
Or watch:
🔗 youtube.com/@thewordiswrite3153
I’m joining the Out Loud podcast for a live convo on queer resilience, poetry, survival & speaking truth.
Hosted by Kelliane Parker, Douglas Cala & Marissa Prada.
Join via Zoom:
ID: 886-9946-0037
PW: 554851
Or watch:
🔗 youtube.com/@thewordiswrite3153
October 4, 2025 at 1:49 PM
🎙️ This Sunday, Oct 6 at 11am ET—
I’m joining the Out Loud podcast for a live convo on queer resilience, poetry, survival & speaking truth.
Hosted by Kelliane Parker, Douglas Cala & Marissa Prada.
Join via Zoom:
ID: 886-9946-0037
PW: 554851
Or watch:
🔗 youtube.com/@thewordiswrite3153
I’m joining the Out Loud podcast for a live convo on queer resilience, poetry, survival & speaking truth.
Hosted by Kelliane Parker, Douglas Cala & Marissa Prada.
Join via Zoom:
ID: 886-9946-0037
PW: 554851
Or watch:
🔗 youtube.com/@thewordiswrite3153
📚✊🏽 Celebrating #BannedBooksWeek with free poetry workshops across NYC libraries, courtesy of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.
I’ll be at Stapleton Library, Staten Island – Wed Oct 8, 5PM leading a workshop on turning personal stories into poetry. Open to all.
Register: www.nypl.org/events/progr...
I’ll be at Stapleton Library, Staten Island – Wed Oct 8, 5PM leading a workshop on turning personal stories into poetry. Open to all.
Register: www.nypl.org/events/progr...
October 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
📚✊🏽 Celebrating #BannedBooksWeek with free poetry workshops across NYC libraries, courtesy of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.
I’ll be at Stapleton Library, Staten Island – Wed Oct 8, 5PM leading a workshop on turning personal stories into poetry. Open to all.
Register: www.nypl.org/events/progr...
I’ll be at Stapleton Library, Staten Island – Wed Oct 8, 5PM leading a workshop on turning personal stories into poetry. Open to all.
Register: www.nypl.org/events/progr...
Proud to be part of this year’s Jersey City Poetry Festival 💥 I’ll be speaking on the “Poetry to Move the People” panel this Saturday, Sept 21. Come thru!
🗓️ Sept 19–21
🎟️ Info: jerseycitypoetryfestival.org
Let’s gather, speak truth, and move people through poetry.
#PoetryToMoveThePeople #JCPF2025
🗓️ Sept 19–21
🎟️ Info: jerseycitypoetryfestival.org
Let’s gather, speak truth, and move people through poetry.
#PoetryToMoveThePeople #JCPF2025
September 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Proud to be part of this year’s Jersey City Poetry Festival 💥 I’ll be speaking on the “Poetry to Move the People” panel this Saturday, Sept 21. Come thru!
🗓️ Sept 19–21
🎟️ Info: jerseycitypoetryfestival.org
Let’s gather, speak truth, and move people through poetry.
#PoetryToMoveThePeople #JCPF2025
🗓️ Sept 19–21
🎟️ Info: jerseycitypoetryfestival.org
Let’s gather, speak truth, and move people through poetry.
#PoetryToMoveThePeople #JCPF2025
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✨ Cover Reveal ✨
My new poetry collection “Still, We Are Sacred” drops April 2026 via Rebel Satori Press—33 new poems I believe may be my strongest yet.
Grateful to Tino Rodríguez (art) + Timothy Cummings (intro).
📩 ARC requests: michelekarlsberg@me.com
✨ Cover Reveal ✨
My new poetry collection “Still, We Are Sacred” drops April 2026 via Rebel Satori Press—33 new poems I believe may be my strongest yet.
Grateful to Tino Rodríguez (art) + Timothy Cummings (intro).
📩 ARC requests: michelekarlsberg@me.com
August 20, 2025 at 1:35 PM
⸻
✨ Cover Reveal ✨
My new poetry collection “Still, We Are Sacred” drops April 2026 via Rebel Satori Press—33 new poems I believe may be my strongest yet.
Grateful to Tino Rodríguez (art) + Timothy Cummings (intro).
📩 ARC requests: michelekarlsberg@me.com
✨ Cover Reveal ✨
My new poetry collection “Still, We Are Sacred” drops April 2026 via Rebel Satori Press—33 new poems I believe may be my strongest yet.
Grateful to Tino Rodríguez (art) + Timothy Cummings (intro).
📩 ARC requests: michelekarlsberg@me.com
Shot scenes today for my poem “Here We Will Stay” 🎥 w/ the amazing Shani Mitchell!
📅 Premiere: Sat, Sept 27 | 8 PM
📍 Hub 17, Staten Island (73 Wave St)
Also streaming on Poetry in Motion: NYC YouTube 👉 www.youtube.com/channel/UCU3...
#PoetryInMotionNYC #StatenIslandArts
📅 Premiere: Sat, Sept 27 | 8 PM
📍 Hub 17, Staten Island (73 Wave St)
Also streaming on Poetry in Motion: NYC YouTube 👉 www.youtube.com/channel/UCU3...
#PoetryInMotionNYC #StatenIslandArts
August 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Shot scenes today for my poem “Here We Will Stay” 🎥 w/ the amazing Shani Mitchell!
📅 Premiere: Sat, Sept 27 | 8 PM
📍 Hub 17, Staten Island (73 Wave St)
Also streaming on Poetry in Motion: NYC YouTube 👉 www.youtube.com/channel/UCU3...
#PoetryInMotionNYC #StatenIslandArts
📅 Premiere: Sat, Sept 27 | 8 PM
📍 Hub 17, Staten Island (73 Wave St)
Also streaming on Poetry in Motion: NYC YouTube 👉 www.youtube.com/channel/UCU3...
#PoetryInMotionNYC #StatenIslandArts
Already missing my 12 amazing cohorts + our brilliant mentor Steven Canals. 🌈✍🏽 Thanks to Lambda Literary, every donor, my new LGBTQ+ screenwriting fam, & Steven for keeping it real + welcoming us into the House of Canals. We promise to make you proud. 💜🎬 #HouseOfCanals
August 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Already missing my 12 amazing cohorts + our brilliant mentor Steven Canals. 🌈✍🏽 Thanks to Lambda Literary, every donor, my new LGBTQ+ screenwriting fam, & Steven for keeping it real + welcoming us into the House of Canals. We promise to make you proud. 💜🎬 #HouseOfCanals
Today, I had a virtual moment with Pose creator Steven Canals and I’m floored—my first poetry book, “Pier Queen” was a source of inspiration for the pilot. 🖤
That little chapbook from ’97 still echoes.
#PierQueen #PoseFX #StevenCanals #QueerHistory #LatinxVoices #EmanuelXavier
That little chapbook from ’97 still echoes.
#PierQueen #PoseFX #StevenCanals #QueerHistory #LatinxVoices #EmanuelXavier
August 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Today, I had a virtual moment with Pose creator Steven Canals and I’m floored—my first poetry book, “Pier Queen” was a source of inspiration for the pilot. 🖤
That little chapbook from ’97 still echoes.
#PierQueen #PoseFX #StevenCanals #QueerHistory #LatinxVoices #EmanuelXavier
That little chapbook from ’97 still echoes.
#PierQueen #PoseFX #StevenCanals #QueerHistory #LatinxVoices #EmanuelXavier
Release the Epstein files. If we’re serious about justice, stop protecting the powerful. Survivors deserve truth—not coverups. #NoMoreSecrets #ReleaseTheFiles
July 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Release the Epstein files. If we’re serious about justice, stop protecting the powerful. Survivors deserve truth—not coverups. #NoMoreSecrets #ReleaseTheFiles
Finally saw Hell’s Kitchen at the Shubert—wow. Loved it more than expected. Totally forgot Christopher Jackson was in it—what a surprise! Alicia Keys’ music shines. Proud native New Yorker moment. 🎶🗽 #HellsKitchenBway #Broadway #AliciaKeys
July 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Finally saw Hell’s Kitchen at the Shubert—wow. Loved it more than expected. Totally forgot Christopher Jackson was in it—what a surprise! Alicia Keys’ music shines. Proud native New Yorker moment. 🎶🗽 #HellsKitchenBway #Broadway #AliciaKeys
Throwback with the one & only Rosie O’Donnell. Funny how speaking truth makes you “a threat to democracy” now. Rosie’s not the problem—she’s always stood up for what’s right. Still #TeamRosie. Always. 💯
#TruthTellers #NotBackingDown #EmanuelXavier #RosieODonnell
#TruthTellers #NotBackingDown #EmanuelXavier #RosieODonnell
July 12, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Throwback with the one & only Rosie O’Donnell. Funny how speaking truth makes you “a threat to democracy” now. Rosie’s not the problem—she’s always stood up for what’s right. Still #TeamRosie. Always. 💯
#TruthTellers #NotBackingDown #EmanuelXavier #RosieODonnell
#TruthTellers #NotBackingDown #EmanuelXavier #RosieODonnell
Just saw the new Superman movie—loved it. If “woke” means standing up for good over evil, compassion over cruelty, then yeah, I’ll take woke. Especially when the villain is empathy for immigrants—which, btw, we ALL are. 🦸♂️🇺🇸 #Superman #WokeAndProud #ImmigrantsBelong
July 11, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Just saw the new Superman movie—loved it. If “woke” means standing up for good over evil, compassion over cruelty, then yeah, I’ll take woke. Especially when the villain is empathy for immigrants—which, btw, we ALL are. 🦸♂️🇺🇸 #Superman #WokeAndProud #ImmigrantsBelong
Thrilled to have a new poem featured in the latest issue of Latino Book Review Magazine! Honored to be among so many powerful Latinx voices. 🌺💥 Grab your copy or download now: latinobookreview.com/magazine-202...
#EmanuelXavier #LatinxPoetry #LatinoBookReview #PoetryMatters #QueerLatinxVoices
#EmanuelXavier #LatinxPoetry #LatinoBookReview #PoetryMatters #QueerLatinxVoices
July 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Thrilled to have a new poem featured in the latest issue of Latino Book Review Magazine! Honored to be among so many powerful Latinx voices. 🌺💥 Grab your copy or download now: latinobookreview.com/magazine-202...
#EmanuelXavier #LatinxPoetry #LatinoBookReview #PoetryMatters #QueerLatinxVoices
#EmanuelXavier #LatinxPoetry #LatinoBookReview #PoetryMatters #QueerLatinxVoices
Putting in the work on this new memoir and it’s kicking my ass. Every memory, every revision, every gut-punch I thought I buried—resurfacing. But it’ll be worth it. For the queers, the poets, the survivors. Stay tuned. 🖤 #MemoirInProgress #EmanuelXavier #QueerLit
July 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Putting in the work on this new memoir and it’s kicking my ass. Every memory, every revision, every gut-punch I thought I buried—resurfacing. But it’ll be worth it. For the queers, the poets, the survivors. Stay tuned. 🖤 #MemoirInProgress #EmanuelXavier #QueerLit
Bathed in red light and queer joy—just how I like it. 🔥❤️
Wishing everyone a fierce, fearless, and unapologetically loud Pride.
#PrideMonth #EmanuelXavier #QueerAndProud #PoetLife 🏳️🌈📸
Wishing everyone a fierce, fearless, and unapologetically loud Pride.
#PrideMonth #EmanuelXavier #QueerAndProud #PoetLife 🏳️🌈📸
June 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Bathed in red light and queer joy—just how I like it. 🔥❤️
Wishing everyone a fierce, fearless, and unapologetically loud Pride.
#PrideMonth #EmanuelXavier #QueerAndProud #PoetLife 🏳️🌈📸
Wishing everyone a fierce, fearless, and unapologetically loud Pride.
#PrideMonth #EmanuelXavier #QueerAndProud #PoetLife 🏳️🌈📸
Kicking off Pride weekend in Prospect Park with Paris Is Burning director Jennie Livingston. Legendary vibes, chosen family, sunshine. 💅🏽🏳️🌈
And yes—I’m Your Venus is now on Netflix. Watch it. Her story matters. She was one of ours.
#PrideWeekend #ImYourVenus #BallroomLegends #QueerHistory
And yes—I’m Your Venus is now on Netflix. Watch it. Her story matters. She was one of ours.
#PrideWeekend #ImYourVenus #BallroomLegends #QueerHistory
June 28, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Kicking off Pride weekend in Prospect Park with Paris Is Burning director Jennie Livingston. Legendary vibes, chosen family, sunshine. 💅🏽🏳️🌈
And yes—I’m Your Venus is now on Netflix. Watch it. Her story matters. She was one of ours.
#PrideWeekend #ImYourVenus #BallroomLegends #QueerHistory
And yes—I’m Your Venus is now on Netflix. Watch it. Her story matters. She was one of ours.
#PrideWeekend #ImYourVenus #BallroomLegends #QueerHistory
I’m Your Venus on Netflix is a must for Pride. Venus Xtravaganza was a presence at the piers—we walked the same paths. I’ve referenced her in several of my poems over the years. Her story finally gets the flowers it deserves. Add it to your queue. 🌸 #ImYourVenus #PrideMonth
June 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I’m Your Venus on Netflix is a must for Pride. Venus Xtravaganza was a presence at the piers—we walked the same paths. I’ve referenced her in several of my poems over the years. Her story finally gets the flowers it deserves. Add it to your queue. 🌸 #ImYourVenus #PrideMonth