Kendall Brewer (@candlebrew) — Bluesky Profile

5 months ago

forgot to post on Poetry Day! I was busy reading Rickey Laurentiis’s Death of the First Idea (a lush, shape-shifting meditation on what it costs—and gives—to remake a life)!

poems that reinvent the lyric to tell the truth of a trans, Black self—ferocious, vulnerable, and lit with New Orleans light.

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5 months ago

Perverts by Kay Gabriel

A collective dream of queer desire and resistance, Perverts explores how private longing becomes shared consciousness amid rising anti-trans panic. Desire as politics, poetry as organizing.

queerazon.com/shop/ols/pro...

#QueerBooks #KayGabriel #TransBooks #QueerActivism

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5 months ago

Past of Future Days - TwinflowerOpossumArt's Ko-fi Shop A chapbook about the struggles of the past and the hopes for a better tomorrow. Cw for abuse, transphobia, discussion of past suicidal ideation, Th...

Please check out my chapbook ko-fi.com/s/7fe52343a5 #Queer #Trans #Poetry

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7 months ago

“Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.” — Leslie Feinberg

#queer #gay #lesbian #bi #trans #lgbtq #lgbt #lgbqt #lgbtqia🏳️‍🌈 #lgbtqia🌈 #pride #quotes

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7 months ago

IMO what matters is that it's yours. as a demographic we are still incredibly invisible, so more creative content = we are still here and we WILL be seen. but ofc it's always a personal experience and just being trans doesn't mean you owe the world your story either <3 just my two cents

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7 months ago

Book cover. Yellow text reads: Emily Austin, Gay Girl Prayers, Poems. The word Prayers in the title is broken out into four lines, Gay | Girl | Pray | Ers. Which gives it a cool double meaning. The text covers a drawn black and gray image of a young nun gazing upwards. She faces to the right.

Finished in July: 📚 Gay Girl Prayers by Emily Austen; poetry. Austen reinterprets bible verses to affirm and uplift queer, feminist, and trans realities. My favorites are the Matthew 25 series. #QueerBooks #Poetry

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7 months ago

reference for a future novel character painted by my husband :)

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8 months ago

available as half-page pdf booklet, epub, and plain text. PWYW with no minimum ❤️ audio coming soon!

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8 months ago

Queerplatonic: A Beginner's Guide to QPRs by Candlebrew Publishing A treatise on queerplatonic relationships and identity

my zine Queerplatonic is now published! come sit and have a chat with me about queerplatonic relationships in this semi-autobiographical essay all about what love really means for humans and what allyship looks like for this underrepresented community

candlebrewpublishing.itch.io/queerplatonic

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8 months ago

A photo of a book titled Stonewall Tak Mampir di Atlantis. The letters are in rainbow colors against a simple white background. The author's name, Hendri Yulius Wijaya, is printed in black letters.

I had fun reading this Indonesian queer poetry book. I caught references of our pop culture, local figures, history, and news to express unique queer experiences. The poems mix Indonesian, little English, and "bahasa binan"; a lingo adopted by Indonesian trans community in the 1960s. 1/3 🧵 #Booksky

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8 months ago

instantly transported me back to having to put on makeup and do my hair femme for my retail job at a clothing store. great writing, i especially like your use of repetition to build on the sense of laborious monotony that permeates the whole piece. can't wait to see what else you write 😊

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8 months ago

bsky.app/profile/toon... here it is on her bsky

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8 months ago

Been on a mini-educational kick for my audiobook listening recently, and right now I'm listening through Invisible Women by Caroline Perez. As a feminist and lover of humanity, I was still caught lacking in knowledge on a lot of the minute ways women are excluded from thought in society.

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8 months ago

Kalonymus ben Kalonymus was a 13th century Rabbi and philosopher. She was also a poetry prodigy, gaining renown in her 20’s. One of her poems seems to describe her gender dysphoria. In “Even Bohan,” she laments having been born a boy and longed to be a woman. She was likely a trans woman.

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8 months ago

Regular reminder that I wrote a zine of poetry about my first year of transition. My hope is forever that trans people feel seen by it and perhaps find some comfort in my words, and cis people maybe understand us a little better.

#transmasc #transMan #transArtist #transWriter #trans

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8 months ago

toonyballoony on Tumblr looks like!

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8 months ago

A whimsical, magical designed text graphic on top of a pink and purple cloud background. The title says "Queerplatonic: A Beginner's Guide to QPRs"

a sneak peek at my next project 👀 a half-page zine & personal essay regarding queerplatonic relationships for the uninitiated. both anecdotal and educational, I thought what better way to celebrate pride month than to reflect on the personally most important part of my identity?

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8 months ago

Friendly reminder that horror as a genre is queer af

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8 months ago

We also work with Still Here Francisco on Start a Riot!, a poetry chapbook prize for local emerging queer and trans Black writers, indigenous writers, and writers of color.

This past year's winner was Grayson Thompson for his debut SAND BODIED FLORIDA BOY (see link in bio). 🐊

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8 months ago

A zine page with a jagged black lace border and doodles of stars. A picture of a woman in a low cut silver dress and black boots is in the lower right corner, and a drawing of a fairy is at the bottom of the page.

Text reads: are you in the mood to bitch abt the government

What can I say y'all? Shits fucked lately

It sucks watching friends move away from Austin to escape anti trans violence here in Texas. Like, we spend so much time building these connections with one another, y'know? These past few years have felt like building community, but watching us flee to other parts of the country really stings.

Worse yet, I'm having to grapple with the prospect of my partners splitting up in the same way, each to different cities and states with their respective polycules. Will that happen first, or will one of us fall victim to hate and be the next hashtag?

This is the shit we have to think about every day as we watch the fascism of the US bloom just like we warned folks it would over a decade ago. They abandoned all pretext a long time ago. We're just doing our best to survive it now I guess.

I hope you're able to stay safe with your loved ones.

-Robin

A zine page with a jagged black border and pictures of various anime and game characters. One is a small child with dark hair wearing a bandana and starfish print shirt, another is an anime girl with poofy twintails and a black outfit with devil wings and a heart shaped cutout, and the third is an anime femme with makeup, blonde hair and a turtleneck.

Text: CHARACTERS THAT ARE TOTALLY TRANS (BECAUSE I SAY SO)

Koa (Summer in Mara) - a little trans girl who goes on an adventure beyond the island she was raised on. In the tutorial flashback she's shown looking more masc coded, and the game is full of queer characters like an old gay fishman couple, a he/him catgirl, a bisexual polyamorous blacksmith; hell, even your grandma's old friend talks about her like an old lost lover. Stands to reason that a transfemme main character wouldn't be strange at all in this setting~

Pop Step! (My Hero Academia Vigilantes) - a pink-haired wannabe idol whose secret identity is a pink haired highschooler, Pop is one of the illegal heroes in this spinoff series. She's revealed to be trans in the main character's backstory when he recounts saving a drowning boy on the way to an important test, and she leaves in a huff to sulk at home and say "that kid you saved that day was me... AND I'M NOT A BOY!"

Yuka (Blue Period) - canonically nonbinary transfemme, but I get the impression that she'll probably one day identify as a trans woman. It hits so hard when she says "Things would be so much easier if I was a woman"

A zine page with a jagged black border and pictures of different characters: Dipper Pines from Gravity Falls, Hunter from Owl House, Legoshi from Beastars, and Tadano and Yamai from Komi Can't Communicate

Text: Dipper Pines (Gravity Falls) -
Pure headcanon based on vibes and fan art. Mabel would be so supportive too!

Hunter (Owl House) - Again, pure vibes. I just love seeing awkward tryhard boys learn the world isn't strict and bloom into self confident women, what can I say?

Legoshi (Beastars) - This "boy" is so stuck in his head all the time and is obsessed with the differences between himself and others, there's no way this *wouldn't* happen irl. I can't wait for her egg to crack in the longest inner monologue her friends have ever had the misfortune of witnessing.

Tadano (Komi Can't Communicate) - another hyper observant 'guy' who manages to end up in situations. I had my thoughts about him before the season 1 finale and after that I was convinced. Pink hair really looks good on her~

Yamai (Komi Can't Communicate) - This might have been accidental but this girl is too obsessed with making Komi simulate sucking her dick to not have some gender going on.

Took me all month, but here's the next issue of The T-Slur Times! This one is a lot bigger than the previous one so it'll take me a bit to post it all, so y'all get to savor it lol~

This issue deals with the pains of leaving, avenging our dead, the joy of queer community, and other trans shit~

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8 months ago

We want to hear from you! How do you express your relationship to scars, transformation, or rebirth through art and writing? Submit visual art, poetry, or fiction/nonfiction to the second issue of the Trans Survivors zine and have it shared with a wide audience! forge.tips/submit

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8 months ago

Hi bsky I'm a trans poc writer who's going to share some updates of a poetry book I've been writing casually over the course of ten years now. Its charm is that it's a time capsule of my mental health, identity, and recovery journey from teenagehood to mid adult <3

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8 months ago

A freebie poem peek inside 👀

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8 months ago

Warm Under A Foreign Sun by Candlebrew Publishing LGBTQ poetry chapbook

My next chapbook has been released: Warm Under A Foreign Sun, an exploration of queerness being a sanctuary, not exile. Epub, PDF, and plain text available now at candlebrewpublishing.itch.io/wuafs Paperback coming soon! #poetry #booksky #queerpoet #hotwetqueersummer

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8 months ago

me sharing autistically:

i like learning languages, i like poetry, i like video games (especially Starfield), i like ambient music, i like my queerplatonic marriage, i like my husband's shitty T mustache, i like my abstract gender, i like vibrant and in your face representation

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9 months ago

The cover of the poetry zine, showing the title and author's name in Blue and white chalk on a cracked aged concrete. The title is 'Big Doom Profit' by Fen M. Taylor.

The first page of a poem, as follows:

Title: The Culling, written in January 2022.

Long has it been
the whims of the great white worm
employing exclusions
to control the existence of you.

We exist at the whims of the government
A number in their system
that if deleted becomes
a cyclical trap of disillusionment.
For who can prove you exist
if no one knows you do?

When police are given powers
over every aspect
guarding the whims
of the great white worm.
The public no longer for public
instead a brutalized canvas
for the rich to view
as they pass through
where we live and work.

It is a play well known to human history
a rise of intolerance tolerated
and co-opted language
creating cults of thought and body
Ivermectin hydroquloriqine
the holy falsehoods of their god
the great white worm.

When disagreement with the government

The second page of the poem, The Culling (continued)

becomes a crime to do
to think
convinced that safety
is the number that they have on you.

Be ready for when they
revoke status
Your government will not protect you
only the sick will die
only the ill grow sick
only the enemy is ill
Our enemies are not welcome
too queer too black
too native too brown
too trans too different
Fill the checkbox with all
those they have deemed ill.

When you are the enemy
there is no wrong too great
to deal with our deviance
the gall to question
to wish for something better.

Before there is hope
death will be our gift
the pestilence ushered in
by the attendants of the
great white worm
Yet more will come
when we are revoked
our bodies broken
our homes destroyed
Many more will look away
to keep calm and carry on

The third page of the poem, The Culling (continued)

rather than speak up against the wrongs
or reach out for their
fellow human.

We could escape the fire together
if you’d admit it
we’re burning
we’re all burning together
Status revoked.

Coming out later this summer, my anti-capitalist/antifa poetry zine 'Big Doom Profit', collectively written as a group of 'prophecies' about the future. Sent it to print today :>

Here's one of my favourites from it, 'The Culling'. #poetry

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9 months ago

Candlebrew Publishing

planned to be released in paperback, ebook (epub, pdf, plain text), and eventually audio! You can keep track of the book on my website brewer.neocities.org or at candlebrewpublishing.itch.io

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9 months ago

fresh off the back of YDSML, keep an eye out for my next poetry collection--Warm Under A Foreign Sun, an exploration of queerness being a sanctuary, not exile. planned release date is June 13th! #poetry #booksky #queerpoet #coverreveal #hotwetqueersummer

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