My partner wrote a story as well. We wanted them to be kind of connected but also to share different things:
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My partner wrote a story as well. We wanted them to be kind of connected but also to share different things:
I wrote a First Person story for CBC that came out yesterday about my partner coming out as trans and the ways our lives changed. Thereβs so much more to our story, and this is just a small part of it.
"Iβm back in the therapistβs office with my parents, watching the snow fall."
Excerpt from Courtney Bates-Hardy's (@poetcourtney.bsky.social) poem "πΉπππππππ π‘πππ, 2025" + promotional poster for del Toro's πΉπππππππ π‘πππ (2025)
Read "πΉπππππππ π‘πππ, 2025" in ISSUE 2.3: longconmag.com/issue-2-3/co...
This is so funny to me because I was such a baby bi when we met π Even then!
Watching Love is Blind is like anthropological to me. Itβs this whole other culture that I donβt see myself in at all as a queer person and itβs both fascinating and disturbing.
About a year ago, someone asked me if I was part of the bacon lettuce tomato community and now itβs become a thing that my partners and I say to each other ALL THE TIME π
Finished watching Angel for the second time in my life. I still sob over Illyria asking Wesley if heβd like her to lie to him now π
Me, getting perceived as straight all week with a trans partner and a girlfriend:
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeareβs Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
Went to see Markiplierβs Iron Lung last night at the late showing and I havenβt seen so many teenagers in one space since I was a teenager.
βWhy do things have to happen all the time?β -my gf
Itβs written like a historical document with multiple editorial queries and interjections.
For such a prolific novelist, Iβm really finding Margaret Atwoodβs memoir to be a slog.
Definitely not melting down because my new office was too loud today while I was on a deadline. Why would anyone think Iβm autistic?
There are few things weirder than sitting at your library job while knowing that someone you went to high school with is a block away at the courthouse because theyβve been charged with accessory to murder.
After the AI bubble pops, put this hero on some stamps.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
He literally said, if you do this to my brother, I will attack your girlfriend. Tit for tat! π
CBC producing all these think pieces and interviews about why booksellers are going to judge the Giller Prize this year like itβs a big mystery. Well, I can solve it for you: itβs because most writers donβt want to be associated with the award anymore after the boycott π€·π»ββοΈ
Are you even lesbians if you donβt get mistaken for sisters? π
I wrote a pantoum about Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein and familial estrangement due to my queerness. I love the film so much that I've watched it 3 times since it came out, and according to GDT, that means I'm married to it. Delighted to have my poem featured in @longconmagazine.bsky.social
Delighted to be featured in this issue of long con!
Side note: I have three brothers, two of whom have been wonderful and welcoming and Iβm so grateful for their support.
We havenβt spoken for over two years. Iβve never met his daughter, and I hope he treats her better than he treated me. He called me a bitch once, but heβll never call me a bitch again.
all because I told him to clean up or do something our mom had asked for. My coming out as queer was inherently threatening to the way he thinks women should be and act, so he rejected me completely under the guise that I had done something wrong in our past and deserved to be punished for it.
that included this incident when we were young. What he didnβt say is that he stopped talking to me b/c Iβm queer & my partner is trans, but he didnβt have to. At some point in our teen years, he stopped respecting women & stopped seeing me as human, & it was obvious from him calling me a bitch
I keep thinking about how my brother called me a bitch when we were teens, and I slapped him, because that was how I was taught to deal with bullies. When I came out as queer and my partner came out as trans, my brother stopped talking to me. He had a list of grievancesβ¦
βi want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...β
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
So uh, is anyone else worried about Star Trek leaving Netflix in a few days??
King Sorrow by @joe-hill.bsky.social is my 150th read of 2025, and what a book to finish out the year on. I hated to see it end but I needed to know how it was going to end. An incredibly moving book about the divisive times we live in and the compassion we need to get through them.
