Mer

86 fucking years old.

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

Very captivated once more by the incredible work of Roxanna Bennet. She precisely names the shame that becomes inseparable from sense of self when moving through the world in a neurodiverse mindbody. She plays with the way that micro (self) reflects macro as one grapples with Who Gets to be Human

From Gabrielle Calvocoressi's book, The First Time I Saw Amelia Earhart.

#poem #books #writing

They are marinating in my subconscious (I haven’t written 🙊)

In large green letters text reads: Poetry Reading. Subtitle: Ayokunle Falomo and Viola Lee. Date of Event: 6-7 pm 16 April 2025. Event's Location: Haymarket House 800 West Buena Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60613. Chicago Poetry Center's Blue Hour Generative Workshop: The Blue Hour Reading includes a breif open mic followed by two featured poets from Chicago and beyond. The open mic includes five readers drawn lottery-style from a hat that goes out at 7:15. The reading starts promptly at 7:30. Each open mic poet reads one poem or for three minutes, whichever comes first.

Blue Hour Reading (With Ayokunle Falomo and Viola Lee) and Open Mic- Tomorrow, April 16, 6-7pm at 800 West Buena Avenue. #Chicago4Poets #PoetryEventsChicago #Poetry #Poet #PoetsChicago #PoetsofChicago #HaymarketHouse #ChicagoPoetryCenter #PoetryMonth

I’ve Been Thinking about Love Again Vievee Francis Those who live to have it and those who live to give it. Of course there are those for whom both are true, but never in the same measure. Those who have it to give are like cardinals in the snow. So easy and beautifully lit. Some are rabbits. Hard to see except for those who would prey upon them: all that softness and quaking and blood. Those who want it cannot be satisfied. Eagle-eyed and such talons, any furred thing will do. So easy to rip out a heart when it is throbbing so hard. I wander out into the winter. I know what I am.

The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open there no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will.

- Czesław Miłosz

Selfie with Mer dressed as Frodo Baggins in his Fellowship cloak and Eliza is dressed as Bea with a white motorcycle helmet and a pink visor, complete with a Puppycat stuffed animal.

Selfie with Mer dressed as Frodo Baggins in his Fellowship cloak with The One Ring and Eliza is dressed as Bea with a white motorcycle helmet and a pink visor and a pink and white striped shirt

Didn’t match our costumes but the vibes are still unmatched #c2e2

The red lip! The cheeky smile! I fear you ate and left no crumbs as the kids say

Baby boy from his worst (no, best!) angles

Never smashed the repost button so fast before

Hey look at me I've been here for years and I still have zero books out. You can just be a writer! No qualifications! No clue what you're doing! Just making things and telling other people about it all day who barely care! That's all I do!

Look! A planet! Can you go there with me? Can you go there with me?

Absolutely agree. Disabled communities are The Model for collective liberation and community care networks/mutual aid networks. We all need to be learning from what the disabled community has successfully done for decades

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My immediate gut feeling is that THERE IS a longer version of the novel but the publisher wanted it within a certain page count. everything from where she meets that one-night-stand (the super spiritual guy) on felt like it was moving at an unnaturally quickened pace

Friday night with the lads, they get a bit wild

More of this content please

I LOVED this book but felt like it wrapped up way too quickly. Wish I could’ve lived with the speaker longer

The image is a screenshot of a tweet from Comrade Sisko (@Pinko69420 ), accompanied by two fist bump emojis. The tweet includes a photo of a person sitting in a car, wearing a gray Bass Pro Shops cap and glasses. Overlaid on the image is white text that reads: "Let's start with a 200% tariff on podcast equipment for straight men." The background outside the car window shows a clear sky, power lines, and some buildings.

Guys really do love to hear themselves talk, huh.

Friends, if you're going to the protests this weekend, PLEASE:
1. DO NOT SIGN UP IN ADVANCE. It's a great way for bad-faith actors to find you.
2. DO NOT TAKE SELFIES. And blur faces in any photo you take!
3. BE SAFE. Stay with a group, be ready for potential violence. #protest #resist #takeaction 🧵

Just write words. They don't have to be good. In fact, the less you feel about them the better off you will be. Preserve yourself. You're going to be doing this for the rest of your life.

A pink cover with black crayon-looking swirly marbley scribbles with large white text that reads “We Want it All An Anthology of Trans Poetics Edited by Andrea Abi-Karam & Kay Gabriel”

For a vast sampler platter of a 60+ contemporary trans poets like CAConrad, Ching-in Chen, Nora Treatbaby, and elders like Lou Sullivan, Leslie Feinberg, and Sylvia Rivera, get We Want it All edited by Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel. If you don’t know where to start w/ trans poetry, get this!

On a bright yellow background, the text “Meet me There” appears in maroon followed by a semi colon and the text “Normal Sex & Home in three days. Don’t wash.” In blue. At the bottom, both the authors’ names appear: Samuel Ace in maroon on the left and Linda Smukler in blue on the right

Meet me there: Normal Sex and Home in three days. Don’t wash. By Samuel Ace is two collections in one: one written on either side of transitioning. Sam Ace does this neat thing using the epistolary form to correspond with the pre-transition self. Really cool use of in-line white space rests/pauses.

The letters R E D cascade vertically down the cover, within their borders images of a woman, a castle, an orchid, a red bird, and a naked figure from behind grow out and onto the beige background of the page

R.E.D. By Chase Beggrun is an erasure poem of Bram Stocker’s classic, Dracula. The erasure takes the very misogynistic text, catalyzes on its themes of transformation, and carved its own kind of womanhood out of it as the speaker decides what kind of woman she will be

In large font the book cover reads: Oliver Baez Bendorf Consider the Rooster. A blue rooster foot with pink claws reached out across a square of pink and yellow sunrise sky

Starting off strong w Consider the Rooster by Oliver Baez Bendorf. Meditations on the protective and fiercely loving nature of transmasc identity, on ecological control and surveillance, on what is and isn’t “allowed.” Felt like a hug and a call to arms at the same time