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@narthews.bsky.social
• black nonbinary lesbian
• part time poet, full time pain in the ass
• author of BETTER HANDS 🌷 out 04/25
• periplus + wild seeds '22, anaphora + grubstreet '23, roots. wounds. words. '24
• nailahwritesnovels.com | they/them
• part time poet, full time pain in the ass
• author of BETTER HANDS 🌷 out 04/25
• periplus + wild seeds '22, anaphora + grubstreet '23, roots. wounds. words. '24
• nailahwritesnovels.com | they/them
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Nailah Mathews • better hands • Print + E-book - Newfound
better hands • Print + E-book Summary Who breaks the cycle, and what does breaking it cost? Winner of the 2023 Anzaldúa Poetry Prize, better hands eulogizes legacies of violence, underscored by a ferv...
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fair warning: these poems bite back 🌷please continue reading if you experience the following: persistent desire, the urge to give birth to a bird of hell or pick your teeth with an orbitoclast. some also experienced pre-grief for perfect strangers, resentment, reverence, and gender euphoria.
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Funny how these detailed investigations never discover that things in Gaza weren’t as bad as we thought and were almost always far worse.
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Bulldozed corpses and unmarked graves, CNN investigates the fate of Gaza’s missing aid seekers | CNN
Ammar Wadi knew he was risking his life when he set out to get a bag of flour for his family from an aid truck near the Zikim crossing into Gaza in June.
www.cnn.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Funny how these detailed investigations never discover that things in Gaza weren’t as bad as we thought and were almost always far worse.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/m...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/m...
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Not trying to burst any bubbles; but Spotify is over.
They are airing ICE recruitment ads, the CEO has been investing in military/AI tech, they barely pay their artists; sometimes a percentage of a cent per stream, they promote “fake/AI artist” playlists, and there’s major concerns about data use.
They are airing ICE recruitment ads, the CEO has been investing in military/AI tech, they barely pay their artists; sometimes a percentage of a cent per stream, they promote “fake/AI artist” playlists, and there’s major concerns about data use.
December 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Not trying to burst any bubbles; but Spotify is over.
They are airing ICE recruitment ads, the CEO has been investing in military/AI tech, they barely pay their artists; sometimes a percentage of a cent per stream, they promote “fake/AI artist” playlists, and there’s major concerns about data use.
They are airing ICE recruitment ads, the CEO has been investing in military/AI tech, they barely pay their artists; sometimes a percentage of a cent per stream, they promote “fake/AI artist” playlists, and there’s major concerns about data use.
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i love this point bc it really is so absurd that so much of transmisogyny is predicated on protecting girls from the violence of boys so one would think that actively encouraging boys to view girls as their peers and confidants would be good. and yet
very funny to me that both liberal and radical feminist legal policy are complete and utter failures of projects because in response to a situation where "boys" want to play with girls and associate with girls the response by the state is to ban this to ensure it's either become a patriarch or die
Trans girls banned from joining Girlguiding
December 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
i love this point bc it really is so absurd that so much of transmisogyny is predicated on protecting girls from the violence of boys so one would think that actively encouraging boys to view girls as their peers and confidants would be good. and yet
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As worthy as many organizations are, if you want your money to have a real bang for its buck on this Giving Tuesday, there are poor people struggling just to stay housed and fed all around you. Help them first.
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
As worthy as many organizations are, if you want your money to have a real bang for its buck on this Giving Tuesday, there are poor people struggling just to stay housed and fed all around you. Help them first.
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"I cannibalized pleasure. Mylar desire painted my
Dark roots red and waited. I persisted
In the angle between her lashes’ shadows
And the fading bruise underneath."
—Dylan McNulty-Holmes
beestungmag.com/issue25/one-...
Dark roots red and waited. I persisted
In the angle between her lashes’ shadows
And the fading bruise underneath."
—Dylan McNulty-Holmes
beestungmag.com/issue25/one-...
One Poem by Dylan McNulty-Holmes – beestung
beestungmag.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:55 PM
"I cannibalized pleasure. Mylar desire painted my
Dark roots red and waited. I persisted
In the angle between her lashes’ shadows
And the fading bruise underneath."
—Dylan McNulty-Holmes
beestungmag.com/issue25/one-...
Dark roots red and waited. I persisted
In the angle between her lashes’ shadows
And the fading bruise underneath."
—Dylan McNulty-Holmes
beestungmag.com/issue25/one-...
force femme'ing the holy spirit
December 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
force femme'ing the holy spirit
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📢This #GivingTuesday, take a stand for LGBTQ+ storytellers with Lambda Literary!📢
❤️Join us by making a donation today here: bit.ly/givein2025 ❤️
❤️Join us by making a donation today here: bit.ly/givein2025 ❤️
December 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
📢This #GivingTuesday, take a stand for LGBTQ+ storytellers with Lambda Literary!📢
❤️Join us by making a donation today here: bit.ly/givein2025 ❤️
❤️Join us by making a donation today here: bit.ly/givein2025 ❤️
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PJP is a nonprofit. That means every story we publish and every writer we train is made possible because people like you choose to support this work. We rely on our community to keep this platform free and accessible to anyone behind the walls who wants to learn, write and be heard.
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December 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
PJP is a nonprofit. That means every story we publish and every writer we train is made possible because people like you choose to support this work. We rely on our community to keep this platform free and accessible to anyone behind the walls who wants to learn, write and be heard.
i am a witch. (i know things.)
December 2, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i am a witch. (i know things.)
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if you'd like to help me get to that second print run and/or support a nonbinary black lesbian poet who writes for the world to come, please consider 'better hands' as an addition to your personal or community library this june. 🌷 it would mean the whole world to me!
Nailah Mathews • better hands • Print Only - Newfound
better hands • Print Only Summary Who breaks the cycle, and what does breaking it cost? Winner of the 2023 Anzaldúa Poetry Prize, better hands eulogizes legacies of violence, underscored by a fervent ...
newfound.org
June 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
if you'd like to help me get to that second print run and/or support a nonbinary black lesbian poet who writes for the world to come, please consider 'better hands' as an addition to your personal or community library this june. 🌷 it would mean the whole world to me!
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who breaks the cycle? what does breaking it cost?
these are questions i wrestle with among other things: angels with buzzcuts and dermal scars, corrective lobotomies, grandmothers in silt lagoons, and persistent, incurable desires in 'better hands'.
#blacksky #blackbooksky #booksky
these are questions i wrestle with among other things: angels with buzzcuts and dermal scars, corrective lobotomies, grandmothers in silt lagoons, and persistent, incurable desires in 'better hands'.
#blacksky #blackbooksky #booksky
Nailah Mathews • better hands • Print Only - Newfound
better hands • Print Only Summary Who breaks the cycle, and what does breaking it cost? Winner of the 2023 Anzaldúa Poetry Prize, better hands eulogizes legacies of violence, underscored by a fervent ...
newfound.org
February 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
who breaks the cycle? what does breaking it cost?
these are questions i wrestle with among other things: angels with buzzcuts and dermal scars, corrective lobotomies, grandmothers in silt lagoons, and persistent, incurable desires in 'better hands'.
#blacksky #blackbooksky #booksky
these are questions i wrestle with among other things: angels with buzzcuts and dermal scars, corrective lobotomies, grandmothers in silt lagoons, and persistent, incurable desires in 'better hands'.
#blacksky #blackbooksky #booksky
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"Images tremble and transform, become both familiar and surprising [...] and I was lucky to find myself wandering the blur between memory, moment, and the impossibility of what might happen next."
— Praise for 'better hands', now available for digital and print preorder 🌷🌿
— Praise for 'better hands', now available for digital and print preorder 🌷🌿
Nailah Mathews • better hands • Print + E-book - Newfound
better hands • Print + E-book Summary Who breaks the cycle, and what does breaking it cost? Winner of the 2023 Anzaldúa Poetry Prize, better hands eulogizes legacies of violence, underscored by a ferv...
newfound.org
February 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
"Images tremble and transform, become both familiar and surprising [...] and I was lucky to find myself wandering the blur between memory, moment, and the impossibility of what might happen next."
— Praise for 'better hands', now available for digital and print preorder 🌷🌿
— Praise for 'better hands', now available for digital and print preorder 🌷🌿
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Victoria could become first Australian state to ban unnecessary surgery on intersex children
Victoria could become first Australian state to ban unnecessary surgery on intersex children
Exclusive: Legislation would prohibit deferrable, irreversible procedures until child can give informed consent, bringing state in line with ACT
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Victoria will become the first Australian state to ban unnecessary surgeries on intersex children, with legislation to be introduced to parliament to ensure procedures are deferred until patients are old enough to consent to them.
The health minister, Mary-Anne Thomas, will on Tuesday introduce the health safeguards for people born with variations in sex characteristics bill, which if passed would prohibit deferrable, irreversible procedures and treatments on intersex infants and children until they can provide informed consent. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Victoria could become first Australian state to ban unnecessary surgery on intersex children
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"Intersex and transgender advocates see it as a cruel irony that so many states allow these procedures on infants who are unable to consent, while banning them for adolescents who want them and have parental permission."
The scars have been there as long as Emory Hufbauer can remember. When Hufbauer was a baby, doctors performed an operation that took away their fertility and ability to produce their own hormones; they also describe it emphatically as intersex genital mutilation.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/14/i...
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Advocates decry intersex exceptions in trans health bans
Restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors consistently allow exceptions for minors with intersex traits, a new study finds.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"Intersex and transgender advocates see it as a cruel irony that so many states allow these procedures on infants who are unable to consent, while banning them for adolescents who want them and have parental permission."
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The connection between Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the USA’s murder of Venezuelans is the desire on the part of both states and their fascist leaders to exercise unchecked power, including the power to kill at will without justification or consequence. We should all be frightened.
November 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The connection between Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the USA’s murder of Venezuelans is the desire on the part of both states and their fascist leaders to exercise unchecked power, including the power to kill at will without justification or consequence. We should all be frightened.
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The new UN report...draws attention to the “high proportion of children who are currently detained without charge or on remand”, noting the age of criminal responsibility imposed by Israel is 12, and that children younger than 12 have also been detained." 🤢🤬
November 30, 2025 at 3:37 AM
The new UN report...draws attention to the “high proportion of children who are currently detained without charge or on remand”, noting the age of criminal responsibility imposed by Israel is 12, and that children younger than 12 have also been detained." 🤢🤬
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It drives Israelis crazy that Palestinians are the most resilient indigenous People in the world. Look at this
November 30, 2025 at 3:01 AM
It drives Israelis crazy that Palestinians are the most resilient indigenous People in the world. Look at this
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New Yorkers BLOCK ICE from leaving their parking garage ahead of a flopped mass raid attempt on Canal Street
November 29, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Not to sound too selfish here but... I'd go from writing my books, to writing my books without worrying about survival
Honest question: If everyone got Universal Basic Income, no strings attached, what would YOU do with it?
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
November 29, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Not to sound too selfish here but... I'd go from writing my books, to writing my books without worrying about survival
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Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
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If you’re looking to support on the ground Jamaican orgs, We Change Jamaica focuses on gender equality and LBGTQ+ inclusion & they are putting together aid packages for queer & trans Jamaicans who don’t feel safe going to shelters.
gofund.me/09619a41e
gofund.me/09619a41e
Donate to Emergency Relief for LBTQ Jamaicans After Hurricane Melissa, organized by Sudean Peters
My name is Sudean Peters, and I am the Executive Director of … Sudean Peters needs your support for Emergency Relief for LBTQ Jamaicans After Hurricane Melissa
gofund.me
October 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
If you’re looking to support on the ground Jamaican orgs, We Change Jamaica focuses on gender equality and LBGTQ+ inclusion & they are putting together aid packages for queer & trans Jamaicans who don’t feel safe going to shelters.
gofund.me/09619a41e
gofund.me/09619a41e
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In a special project on extreme cold in prison, 27 PJP contributors in 17 states describe winter behind bars — and the small dignities that could make it more bearable.
What Extreme Cold Feels Like in Prison
Prison writers from across the U.S. describe how cold their prisons get in the winter — and what small dignities could make it more bearable.
prisonjournalismproject.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In a special project on extreme cold in prison, 27 PJP contributors in 17 states describe winter behind bars — and the small dignities that could make it more bearable.