Cat Chong
@marbledmayhem.bsky.social
Poet, publisher, essayist, crip—PhD on gender, genre & disability at NTU, Singapore.
Vising PhD Fellow: IMH, Durham.
Digital Editor at Osmosis Press.
Debut collection: 712 Stanza Homes for the Sun (2023)
(they/them)♿️🏳️⚧️
Vising PhD Fellow: IMH, Durham.
Digital Editor at Osmosis Press.
Debut collection: 712 Stanza Homes for the Sun (2023)
(they/them)♿️🏳️⚧️
TONIGHT!
✨LAUNCH EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT✨
We are delighted to be launching Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain’s ‘Grief is a Thing in Pleather’ at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social as part of the Housman’s Poetry Series on the 26th of November at 7pm!
This collection is a consideration of/ writing through what it (1/4)
We are delighted to be launching Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain’s ‘Grief is a Thing in Pleather’ at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social as part of the Housman’s Poetry Series on the 26th of November at 7pm!
This collection is a consideration of/ writing through what it (1/4)
November 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
TONIGHT!
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This is not a drill! ‘Grief is the Thing in Pleather’ by Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain is RELEASED today! A limited edition of 100 copies 🪰🪰🪰 osmosispress.com/grief-is-the...
Grief is the Thing in Pleather: Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain
Released 26th November 2025Edition of 100 copies.ISBN: 978-1-0369-3369-2 “Grief is the thing in pleather: iterative, reshuffling noir signifiers, re-marking punctuation, always to the same en…
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November 26, 2025 at 12:10 PM
This is not a drill! ‘Grief is the Thing in Pleather’ by Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain is RELEASED today! A limited edition of 100 copies 🪰🪰🪰 osmosispress.com/grief-is-the...
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We have a handful of additional review copies for Him Hymn and Grief is the Thing in Pleather! Drop our editor @brihughespoet.bsky.social a message if you’re interested in reviewing!💙🖤
November 21, 2025 at 9:12 AM
We have a handful of additional review copies for Him Hymn and Grief is the Thing in Pleather! Drop our editor @brihughespoet.bsky.social a message if you’re interested in reviewing!💙🖤
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PREORDER ALERT 🚨🚨🚨
IT FEELS SO GOOD TO BE BACK! This month, Tamsyn Challenger’s ‘Him Hymn’ and Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain’s ‘Grief is the Thing in Pleather’ will be released on 25th and 26th respectively🖤
IT FEELS SO GOOD TO BE BACK! This month, Tamsyn Challenger’s ‘Him Hymn’ and Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain’s ‘Grief is the Thing in Pleather’ will be released on 25th and 26th respectively🖤
November 18, 2025 at 10:37 AM
PREORDER ALERT 🚨🚨🚨
IT FEELS SO GOOD TO BE BACK! This month, Tamsyn Challenger’s ‘Him Hymn’ and Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain’s ‘Grief is the Thing in Pleather’ will be released on 25th and 26th respectively🖤
IT FEELS SO GOOD TO BE BACK! This month, Tamsyn Challenger’s ‘Him Hymn’ and Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain’s ‘Grief is the Thing in Pleather’ will be released on 25th and 26th respectively🖤
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Described by @suchmayer.bsky.social as containing ‘life after life after life […] with all the sardonic seriousness, [and] the deadpan profound, that characterises Bussey-Chamberlain’s work’ - this launch is not to be missed!
housmans.com/event/housma...
housmans.com/event/housma...
Housmans Poetry Series: Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain launches ‘Grief is a Thing in Pleather’
Join us for another poetry evening, this time in collaboration with our great friends Osmosis Press, launching a new collection, ‘Grief is a Thing in Pleather’, from Prudence Bussey-Chamberlai…
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November 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Described by @suchmayer.bsky.social as containing ‘life after life after life […] with all the sardonic seriousness, [and] the deadpan profound, that characterises Bussey-Chamberlain’s work’ - this launch is not to be missed!
housmans.com/event/housma...
housmans.com/event/housma...
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✨LAUNCH EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT✨
We are delighted to be launching Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain’s ‘Grief is a Thing in Pleather’ at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social as part of the Housman’s Poetry Series on the 26th of November at 7pm!
This collection is a consideration of/ writing through what it (1/4)
We are delighted to be launching Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain’s ‘Grief is a Thing in Pleather’ at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social as part of the Housman’s Poetry Series on the 26th of November at 7pm!
This collection is a consideration of/ writing through what it (1/4)
November 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
✨LAUNCH EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT✨
We are delighted to be launching Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain’s ‘Grief is a Thing in Pleather’ at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social as part of the Housman’s Poetry Series on the 26th of November at 7pm!
This collection is a consideration of/ writing through what it (1/4)
We are delighted to be launching Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain’s ‘Grief is a Thing in Pleather’ at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social as part of the Housman’s Poetry Series on the 26th of November at 7pm!
This collection is a consideration of/ writing through what it (1/4)
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Such a great essay by @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social - on the monstrous, disability & the feminine @crimereads.bsky.social
Wonderful Laura has her debut book Awakened out this week with Robot Books!
Wonderful Laura has her debut book Awakened out this week with Robot Books!
i absolutely loved getting to write this piece on abjection and power for @crimereads.bsky.social! the function of monstrosity is something i’ve been obsessed with for a while
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crimereads.com/the-horror-o...
The Horror of a Border: Laura Elliott On Writing the Abject
“Why do you love horror so much?” It’s perhaps the question every horror writer dreads being asked the most, yet it happens with alarming frequency. Recently, this question was asked by my mum, a w…
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June 13, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Such a great essay by @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social - on the monstrous, disability & the feminine @crimereads.bsky.social
Wonderful Laura has her debut book Awakened out this week with Robot Books!
Wonderful Laura has her debut book Awakened out this week with Robot Books!
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sigh. you might want this
DIY HRT: Everything I Can Legally Tell You
My guide to do-it-yourself hormone therapy, months in the making, is out now on YouTube. Tell your friends! xoxo
youtu.be/o2Ggwe2j0Gc
My guide to do-it-yourself hormone therapy, months in the making, is out now on YouTube. Tell your friends! xoxo
youtu.be/o2Ggwe2j0Gc
May 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
sigh. you might want this
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They’ve also published a dark and filthy little self-portrait giving orgasmic angel vibes…
A lot of wonderful work in this issue. Have a look.
Thanks so much to J D Howse and @marbledmayhem.bsky.social for their unflinching support!
A lot of wonderful work in this issue. Have a look.
Thanks so much to J D Howse and @marbledmayhem.bsky.social for their unflinching support!
May 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
They’ve also published a dark and filthy little self-portrait giving orgasmic angel vibes…
A lot of wonderful work in this issue. Have a look.
Thanks so much to J D Howse and @marbledmayhem.bsky.social for their unflinching support!
A lot of wonderful work in this issue. Have a look.
Thanks so much to J D Howse and @marbledmayhem.bsky.social for their unflinching support!
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Deconstructing Moving Mountains - this episode is 'Air' - featuring @jaxxi.bsky.social @marbledmayhem.bsky.social Hannah Hodgson, Louisa Adjoa Parker, and me.
#NatureWriting #BookSky
Moving Mountains is out in US & Canada 6th May
#30DaysWild #365DaysWild
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#NatureWriting #BookSky
Moving Mountains is out in US & Canada 6th May
#30DaysWild #365DaysWild
open.substack.com/pub/louiseke...
Air
deconstructing Moving Mountains
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April 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Deconstructing Moving Mountains - this episode is 'Air' - featuring @jaxxi.bsky.social @marbledmayhem.bsky.social Hannah Hodgson, Louisa Adjoa Parker, and me.
#NatureWriting #BookSky
Moving Mountains is out in US & Canada 6th May
#30DaysWild #365DaysWild
open.substack.com/pub/louiseke...
#NatureWriting #BookSky
Moving Mountains is out in US & Canada 6th May
#30DaysWild #365DaysWild
open.substack.com/pub/louiseke...
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‘The Gaza Strip…is a periphery filled with a people refusing the margins, and defying the colonial delusion that they can be rendered peripheral, disposable collateral.’
Nour Joudah
www.academia.edu/128883092/Gaza_Indigenous_Urbanism_Amid_Elimination
Nour Joudah
www.academia.edu/128883092/Gaza_Indigenous_Urbanism_Amid_Elimination
Gaza: Indigenous Urbanism Amid Elimination
The structure of the ongoing Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza is a model that will be duplicated across Indigenous urban centers in Palestine. In navigating my own grief, I reexamine how Gaza ...
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April 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
‘The Gaza Strip…is a periphery filled with a people refusing the margins, and defying the colonial delusion that they can be rendered peripheral, disposable collateral.’
Nour Joudah
www.academia.edu/128883092/Gaza_Indigenous_Urbanism_Amid_Elimination
Nour Joudah
www.academia.edu/128883092/Gaza_Indigenous_Urbanism_Amid_Elimination
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TODAY. GUMS AND POMATUMS BY SALVATORE DIFALCO.
from @marbledmayhem.bsky.social: This week, ‘Jerry Lee Jones [is] on [the] radio / causing itch to the air’, in Gums and Pomatums by Salvatore Difalco. Gesturing between the American pianist, singer and songwriter, hair (1/5)
from @marbledmayhem.bsky.social: This week, ‘Jerry Lee Jones [is] on [the] radio / causing itch to the air’, in Gums and Pomatums by Salvatore Difalco. Gesturing between the American pianist, singer and songwriter, hair (1/5)
April 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
TODAY. GUMS AND POMATUMS BY SALVATORE DIFALCO.
from @marbledmayhem.bsky.social: This week, ‘Jerry Lee Jones [is] on [the] radio / causing itch to the air’, in Gums and Pomatums by Salvatore Difalco. Gesturing between the American pianist, singer and songwriter, hair (1/5)
from @marbledmayhem.bsky.social: This week, ‘Jerry Lee Jones [is] on [the] radio / causing itch to the air’, in Gums and Pomatums by Salvatore Difalco. Gesturing between the American pianist, singer and songwriter, hair (1/5)
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Ahead of MOVING MOUNTAINS launching in the #US & #Canada (6th May) I'm introducing the anthology here...
After the section titled 'Water' is 'Air' - with new work from #poet Hannah Hodgson & @marbledmayhem.bsky.social, a #poem & prose by Louisa Adjoa Parker, #CNF by me & poetry by @jaxxi.bsky.social
After the section titled 'Water' is 'Air' - with new work from #poet Hannah Hodgson & @marbledmayhem.bsky.social, a #poem & prose by Louisa Adjoa Parker, #CNF by me & poetry by @jaxxi.bsky.social
April 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Ahead of MOVING MOUNTAINS launching in the #US & #Canada (6th May) I'm introducing the anthology here...
After the section titled 'Water' is 'Air' - with new work from #poet Hannah Hodgson & @marbledmayhem.bsky.social, a #poem & prose by Louisa Adjoa Parker, #CNF by me & poetry by @jaxxi.bsky.social
After the section titled 'Water' is 'Air' - with new work from #poet Hannah Hodgson & @marbledmayhem.bsky.social, a #poem & prose by Louisa Adjoa Parker, #CNF by me & poetry by @jaxxi.bsky.social
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Now that MOVING MOUNTAINS: WRITING NATURE THROUGH ILLNESS & DISABILITY is out in paperback in the UK I am beyond thrilled to announce that it will soon also be available across the Atlantic!!
MOVING MOUNTAINS IS OUT FOR PUBLICATION IN THE USA & CANADA ON 6th MAY
AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER NOW!
#BookSky
MOVING MOUNTAINS IS OUT FOR PUBLICATION IN THE USA & CANADA ON 6th MAY
AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER NOW!
#BookSky
April 1, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Now that MOVING MOUNTAINS: WRITING NATURE THROUGH ILLNESS & DISABILITY is out in paperback in the UK I am beyond thrilled to announce that it will soon also be available across the Atlantic!!
MOVING MOUNTAINS IS OUT FOR PUBLICATION IN THE USA & CANADA ON 6th MAY
AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER NOW!
#BookSky
MOVING MOUNTAINS IS OUT FOR PUBLICATION IN THE USA & CANADA ON 6th MAY
AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER NOW!
#BookSky
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Timglaset Editions to cease publishing.
After long deliberation I have decided to put Timglaset to rest. The press has been under a lot of pressure since the recession in 2022-23. 1/5
After long deliberation I have decided to put Timglaset to rest. The press has been under a lot of pressure since the recession in 2022-23. 1/5
March 16, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Timglaset Editions to cease publishing.
After long deliberation I have decided to put Timglaset to rest. The press has been under a lot of pressure since the recession in 2022-23. 1/5
After long deliberation I have decided to put Timglaset to rest. The press has been under a lot of pressure since the recession in 2022-23. 1/5
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from @marbledmayhem.bsky.social : "This week Osmosis reaffirms our commitment to solidarity with the people of Palestine featuring the poem seared by Nadiya Aamer." (1/7)
March 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
from @marbledmayhem.bsky.social : "This week Osmosis reaffirms our commitment to solidarity with the people of Palestine featuring the poem seared by Nadiya Aamer." (1/7)
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TONIGHT. NADIYA AAMER: seared.
March 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
TONIGHT. NADIYA AAMER: seared.
IT’S YOUR LAST DAY TO TRANSMIT US A SIGNAL FOR THIS ISSUE OF PERMEABLE BARRIER!
Send your submissions to permeablebarrier@outlook.com!
Send your submissions to permeablebarrier@outlook.com!
February 27, 2025 at 12:21 PM
IT’S YOUR LAST DAY TO TRANSMIT US A SIGNAL FOR THIS ISSUE OF PERMEABLE BARRIER!
Send your submissions to permeablebarrier@outlook.com!
Send your submissions to permeablebarrier@outlook.com!
THE POETICS OF TRANS-BIO-SABOTAGE
Happening today, online, from 6-8pm GMT!
If you’d like a link to this event, message me!
Happening today, online, from 6-8pm GMT!
If you’d like a link to this event, message me!
February 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
THE POETICS OF TRANS-BIO-SABOTAGE
Happening today, online, from 6-8pm GMT!
If you’d like a link to this event, message me!
Happening today, online, from 6-8pm GMT!
If you’d like a link to this event, message me!
A POETRY ANNOUNCEMENT
Submissions for Permeable Barrier close in just under a week! Send us poems, video art, essays, anything outside or in between.
Connect with us, send us a signal.
www.permeablebarrier.com/submissions
Submissions for Permeable Barrier close in just under a week! Send us poems, video art, essays, anything outside or in between.
Connect with us, send us a signal.
www.permeablebarrier.com/submissions
February 20, 2025 at 10:02 AM
A POETRY ANNOUNCEMENT
Submissions for Permeable Barrier close in just under a week! Send us poems, video art, essays, anything outside or in between.
Connect with us, send us a signal.
www.permeablebarrier.com/submissions
Submissions for Permeable Barrier close in just under a week! Send us poems, video art, essays, anything outside or in between.
Connect with us, send us a signal.
www.permeablebarrier.com/submissions
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Hooray #curae prize!
Thank you to @bookbrunch.bsky.social
for being so supportive and unpaid #carers: we see you 💙📚 #booksky
Hooray #curae prize!
Thank you to @bookbrunch.bsky.social
for being so supportive and unpaid #carers: we see you 💙📚 #booksky
January 26, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Today I learned about the 🇨🇦 artist Sandra Sawatzky and the epic-scaled embroidered tapestry she has created, emulating the Bayeux tapestry, to chronicle the history of fossil fuel extraction. #needlework, #SubversiveStitch www.theblackgoldtapestry.com
January 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Today I learned about the 🇨🇦 artist Sandra Sawatzky and the epic-scaled embroidered tapestry she has created, emulating the Bayeux tapestry, to chronicle the history of fossil fuel extraction. #needlework, #SubversiveStitch www.theblackgoldtapestry.com
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Roses are redde
Noble are the manatees
Yf we wante a bettir future
Teach artes & humanityes
Noble are the manatees
Yf we wante a bettir future
Teach artes & humanityes
January 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Roses are redde
Noble are the manatees
Yf we wante a bettir future
Teach artes & humanityes
Noble are the manatees
Yf we wante a bettir future
Teach artes & humanityes
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Hello Bluesky!
Excited to be co-convening this brilliant event on how contemporary arts practices engage with expert cultures in health and biomedicine.
Durham University, 20th February. Free, booking via Eventbrite
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Excited to be co-convening this brilliant event on how contemporary arts practices engage with expert cultures in health and biomedicine.
Durham University, 20th February. Free, booking via Eventbrite
medhumsplatform.org/event/materi...
Materialising Methods
What can practice-based research tell us about working with disciplinary cultures that are not our own? This one-day symposium explores how contemporary art practices engage with expert cultures in he...
medhumsplatform.org
January 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Hello Bluesky!
Excited to be co-convening this brilliant event on how contemporary arts practices engage with expert cultures in health and biomedicine.
Durham University, 20th February. Free, booking via Eventbrite
medhumsplatform.org/event/materi...
Excited to be co-convening this brilliant event on how contemporary arts practices engage with expert cultures in health and biomedicine.
Durham University, 20th February. Free, booking via Eventbrite
medhumsplatform.org/event/materi...