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willa

@gerridae.bsky.social

dreamt i was making a tart. strawberries incorporated into the dough, and cooked chard with a drop or two of orange oil on top.

May 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM

willa

@gerridae.bsky.social

come out tmrw :)

Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · Apr 15

HEY BAY

TOMORROW is you last chance to see VIVIAN BLAXELL. She's at Adobe Books in SF with Willa Smart and Diana Cage and SEVERAL OTHERS

go be worthy of the event

Worthy of the Events SAN FRANCISCO

Move over Michel de Montaigne, there's a new girl in (your) town. VIVIAN BLAXELL reads in SAN FRANCISCO with a host of local queer writers

www.eventbrite.com

April 15, 2025 at 11:19 PM

willa

@gerridae.bsky.social

dreamt of a new way people were signing off emails: IMYL (I miss your love)

March 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM

willa

@gerridae.bsky.social

dont hate me but ry took a really good photo of me

willa is squatting in some spring grass, wearing a light blue silk slip, two tiny braids falling over her chest, she looks.. no offense.. pretty

https://www.instagram.com/ry__noor/

February 27, 2025 at 6:52 PM

willa

@gerridae.bsky.social

bedside book stack reveal

February 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM

willa

@gerridae.bsky.social

cat girls will outlast u

text from a 1952 paper by Margaret Mahler: "GEORGE was just under seven when admitted to our Children's Service with fulminant symptoms of delusions and hallucinations. He had developed fairly normally to the age of three. when a sister was born. He began to have night terrors. At about the same time he began to have what his mother aptly described as "talking tantrums." He would pace the room. talking angrily to himself about something which seemed entirely irrelevant to his environment. He would mumble: "I'm a pussy cat. I'm a pussy cat. Elaine is big. I'm a pussy cat." Shortly after the baby came, he wanted to wear her clothes. and often wanted to wear his mother's. He insisted that he wanted to be a girl, preferred female animals and asked his mother perseverative questions as to why he should not be a girl. At about the same time he began to be afraid of the holes in a fence which he passed. or wherever he encountered any. His father frequently used this fear as a threat. often telling him he would put him in a hole. He tried to get reassurance from his father by asking frequently: "Do you love me?"
George became a very good but asocial student. He often spoke of his sister. and again and again of his pet kitten in school. "I have a cat at home. It's a girl cat. I like my cat. I'm a girl cat."

January 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM

willa

@gerridae.bsky.social

Dreamt that I was explaining dialectics to my brother with the example of needing to pee but not being able to

January 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM

willa

@gerridae.bsky.social

incredible line from a student's essay

To be loved is to be changed. Covered in saliva, tears, and dry spots,

January 23, 2025 at 2:05 AM

willa

@gerridae.bsky.social

i have two poems in the new issue of Grotto: grottojournal.net/Willa-Smart

December 4, 2024 at 2:39 AM

willa

@gerridae.bsky.social

meme reading 'who here a lesbian but in the dennis cooper way' - text overlaid on image of one man holding another man baby style

November 30, 2024 at 7:22 PM

willa

@gerridae.bsky.social

have been casually assembling a bibliography of 20th century transfeminine life writing / memoirs. certainly not a complete list — if you know of any omissions plz lmk so that i can add them :)