I’m going through an *intense* chronic issue with my stomach, and I completely sympathize. GI symptoms are unlike anything I’ve experienced with other chronic illness issues I have =\ blah! Get well please!
06.11.2025 11:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0@jiecohen.bsky.social
Writer. International Teacher. Intersex horror. Work in DIAGRAM, The Offing, The Minnesota Review, EX-Puritan, Strange Horizons, Singapore Unbound, http://POETS.org and others. Reader for Electric Literature. 2025 LAMBDA Poetry Fellow.
I’m going through an *intense* chronic issue with my stomach, and I completely sympathize. GI symptoms are unlike anything I’ve experienced with other chronic illness issues I have =\ blah! Get well please!
06.11.2025 11:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0My weirdest piece of writing ever is featured in this issue. Thank you Diagram :)
03.11.2025 08:25 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Say wallahi
14.09.2025 12:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Breeders
24.08.2025 03:47 — 👍 1218 🔁 254 💬 21 📌 9Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Gackt, L'arc-en-ciel, Dir en Grey, TM Revolution, The Pillows, Flow, Malice Mizer, Sambomaster, X Japan, Asian Kung Fu Generation, and High and Mighty Color
19.08.2025 02:07 — 👍 218 🔁 69 💬 17 📌 5This is such a good book. I am so excited!!!
15.08.2025 19:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My wife @ashgabrielle.bsky.social is pitching sapphic fantasy--conan the barbarian but lesbians in central asia!
15.08.2025 17:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0AMAZING.
15.08.2025 14:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The title is a reference to Lady of Shalott, yes? :) So great!
15.08.2025 14:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0My wife just started her querying journey and I am helping her out with it! Her novel is rather long at 115k, sapphic fantasy set in Central Asia. Would the word count be something you’d worry about? Or is that within a range that agents of fantasy find acceptable if they like the query/pages?
11.08.2025 15:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Do it! My friend did this and is happily living and working in Italy now c:
22.07.2025 15:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I hate my viewers
22.07.2025 12:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The problem with this, though, is that ultimately they are teenagers and want the easiest way out. Plus, that essay needs to be written eventually—so even though it is a good activity, those kids are still going to go back to generative AI to do the heavy lifting for their writing anyway…
18.07.2025 04:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Young refuseniks burn their IOF draft papers in the middle of Tel Aviv
They refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces, and are willing to go to military jail for their position. The new generation of refuseniks is supported by the older, many of them spent months in jail already
WAIT I JUST STARTED REWATCHING THIS TOO!!!
17.07.2025 10:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I only have $150 more dollars to raise! Then I will be able to achieve my dream of attending #lambda !
I have one day to do it!
Please consider throwing this cool #intersex teacher a bone <3
@lambdaliterary.org
I'm a high school teacher and I refuse to assign homework. It's one of my best qualities.
26.05.2025 13:23 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0A career
18.05.2025 07:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0when you receive a request for a full with a dream agent and you suddenly start to panic about every sentence in your damn manuscript lmao.
15.05.2025 08:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0secure.givelively.org/donate/lambd...
I am once again asking for your financial support. Please consider donating whatever you can to help me achieve my dream of attending the @lambdaliterary.org 2025 retreat as a poetry fellow. Give this intersex femme some sugar & I'll pay it forward when I can.
A cute cat name Grey with Venus Limbs by Jie Cohen
Venus Limbs by Jie Cohen
VENUS LIMBS IS BLOOMING
thirtywestph.com/shop/venuslimbs
Was selected as a 2025 Lambda Literary Poetry Fellow. I am beyond excited :) I also just finished the first draft of my novel. Things are interesting.
23.04.2025 06:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The cover for Venus Limbs by Jie Cohen uses the Death of Lucretia painting as the jacket design. Ordering information can be found at thirtywestph.com and the chapbook is due out on 5/9/25.
A small write up about The Blooming Series and growth and newness. More can be found on the Thirty West website.
🌹 VENUS LIMBS the debut chapbook by @jiecohen.bsky.social
is open for preorders.
A surreal exploration of how the medical industry treats fatness, chronic illness, & intersex conditions. The narrative is told through the POV of the Venus of Willendorf statue. 🌹
thirtywestph.com/shop/venuslimbs
April is for new growth. The Blooming is occurring all around us. 🌺
08.04.2025 13:36 — 👍 19 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1I love being a coastal elite. Do not follow me if you have heartland values
06.04.2025 03:55 — 👍 4031 🔁 252 💬 65 📌 26Wowza a Napkin Poem double feature! @jiecohen.bsky.social & Ashley Cline. Take a peek and read them on your coffee break. Only on Afterimages.
“Genetic Disturbance”:
open.substack.com/pub/thirtywe...
“Breakfast Hymnal”:
open.substack.com/pub/thirtywe...
I mean, I'm no daddy, but I can be a paperwork mommy. I got you. I'm obsessed with paperwork.
12.02.2025 05:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I wrote about the right to bathrooms, trans rights, executive orders, personhood, the history of politicizing peeing, Susan Stryker, Sarah McBride, and public space for @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
ughhhhhhhh. i remember these days.
04.02.2025 04:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0