Cassandra Whitaker

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im american, where jack & jill only has the one verse, so i was lost when reading this & didnt get the joke. so i had to do a little digging (apparently the ditty has up to 15 verses, but just getting to the 2nd one addressed my ignorance)

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We do this at low tide on sandbars....

Under director Jay Bhattacharya, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) appears to be repurposing a project that Congress shot down last year, the note says. That project, which NIH abandoned amid pressure from Congress, would have amassed huge amounts of personal data from Americans with little oversight. NIH had planned, through contractors, to vacuum up information from phone providers, wearable device companies, health insurers, medical records keepers, and government agencies in order to create a “real-world data platform” for monitoring Alzheimer’s disease. Though ambitious, the project was poorly managed, according to a 2024 report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a legislative branch watchdog agency. It was at risk of failing to manage appropriately hundreds of millions of dollars in spending, per the report, and it raised a host of privacy concerns around the protection of government-collected data. In part because of the findings of that GAO report, Congress expressed “serious reservations” about the NIH effort, according to the Appropriations Committee document released last week. NIH would eventually shut down the project. In last week’s little-noticed note, which was buried 150 pages into a document laying out the health agencies’ funding for the coming fiscal year, Senate Appropriations Committee staffers expressed a fresh concern: NIH is reviving the same program under a different name, despite Congress’ earlier objections. This time, it’s to study autism, the report said.

Once you're accessing "information from phone providers, wearable device companies, health insurers, medical records keepers, and government agencies in order to create a 'real-world data platform'" you aren't tracking anonymized diagnostic data. You're tracking people.

Congratulations!

NBCC member Cassandra Whitaker released a collection of poetry from Jackleg Press, "Wolf Devouring A Wolf Devouring A Wolf": buff.ly/Fbk2235

Alt text: A section from a government memorandum titled "Segregation Based on Protected Characteristics" under the header "What Constitutes Unlawful Segregation?" It explains that segregation by federally funded entities based on characteristics like race or sex is generally unlawful, even if intended to promote inclusion. Highlighted text focuses on concerns regarding allowing males, including those who identify as women, access to female-only spaces such as bathrooms, locker rooms, and athletic events. The memo claims this compromises women's safety, privacy, and equal opportunity, potentially violating Title IX, and advocates for sex-based boundaries based on biological differences.

DOJ put out a memo stating that all recipients of federal funding must ban trans people from bathrooms.

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I wanted the poems to look filleted, cut up and divided, and to look like the mesmerizing eyes of a predator

Thank you! It was fun to play with!

Thank you!

Giant yellow sunflower courtesy of Baker's seeds. 7 and 8 feet flowers.

Titan sunflower from Baker's seeds. 9 feet tall, head still developing. Mostly a beanpole this summer

Tithonia! Mexican sunflower! 6 feet tall.

I started gardening late this year and my sunflowers are still opening/emerging.

TRANSGENDER FICTION • All Things Seen and Unseen: A Novel // RJ McDaniel. ECW Press • Firebugs // Nino Bulling. Drawn & Quarterly • Love the World or Get Killed Trying // Alvina Chamberland. Noemi Press • Love/Aggression // June Martin. tRaum Books • Yellow Barks Spider // Harman Burns. Radiant Press TRANSGENDER NONFICTION • American Teenager: How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era // Nico Lang. Harry N. Abrams • How to Fuck Like a Girl // Vera Blossom. DOPAMINE Books • Make it Count // CeCé Telfer. Grand Central Publishing · Pretty // KB Brookins. Alfred A. Knopf • Trans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds // Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift. Pluto Press TRANSGENDER POETRY • Arasahas: Poems from the Tropics // Jaya Jacobo, Translated from Filipino by Christian Jil Benitez. PAWA Press* • Consider the Rooster // Oliver Baez Bendorf. Nightboat Books • Girl Work // Zefyr Lisowski. Noemi Press • I Don't Want to Be Understood // Joshua Jennifer Espinoza. Alice James Books • TRANZ // Spencer Williams. Four Way Books

The Lambda nominations are out! Congrats to @theworldsgreatestwriter.com @cuteflesh.bsky.social and everyone else who received a nod.

Also I dont know how I've never heard of Jaya Jacobo but I need to read that poetry collection immediately 👀👀👀

holy shit. this is zero percent surprising but holy shit ...

The FTC is seeking public comment about gender affirming care in order to go after providers and restrict access. Share your stories instead of how this care has helped you and how it is life saving.

We need to counteract their false narratives. Please share!

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Join us for a night of poetry to launch Cassandra Whitaker's wolf devouring a wolf devouring a wolf free register here https://tinyurl.com/2vtnunku, featuring John Nieves, Katie Kemple, Tara Elliott, 7/29/25, 7-8 EST, from Jackleg Press

Come join us tonight for poetry! I'll be reading 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 wolf poems, my friends will be reading from their new books/ manuscripts etc!

7/29/25 7-8 pm est...register below

Virtual Book Launch: Wolf Devouring A Wolf Devouring A Wolf, Jackleg Press

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Next week! Cherry Tree opens for submissions for Issue 12! Please send us your poetry, fiction, and essays -- particularly if they fit our literary shade section!

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ANMLY is open for new work for 6 more days!

We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation!

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*Fee waivers available*

Check out our latest issue to see what we're into!

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We're open for another month! We'll start reading your subs soon. Keep sending your weirdo hybrids, your doubled sonnets, your nonce forms, your visual poems...Work in our pages has gone on to win Best of the Net, been included in anthologies, and been broadcast on NPR stations.

Yellow text on midnight-hued background. Oil painting on canvas shows a full yellow moon in a misty shadowed forest at night. Text reads: Shō Poetry Journal · An Arizona-based print journal · Open for Submissions · Send us 3-5 poems · We respond within 30 days · Shō No. 8 (Winter 2025/26) · shopoetryjournal.submittable.com

We are reading submissions for our winter issue. If you love holding a volume of poetry in your hands and like the work we've published, check us out! Submit 3-5 unpublished poems, no theme.

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Cover art: Close-up from "Interim" by Tanya Rastogi.

We grow up in an ableist culture. Disabled experiences are wildly diverse, and nobody understands it all. Yes, we can be ableist. It's one of the things I work on in myself all the time.

Baltimore's own @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social 1st subbed to Stanchion on June 1, 2022. On August 1, 2025, they'll finally make their Stanchion Magazine debut with "self-portriat as baltimore" on pages 13 & 14! Please enjoy the opening salvo of this nat raum poem!

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Thank you!

Wolf Devouring a Wolf Devouring a Wolf, Cassandra Whitaker

Wolves, queered and luminous. Desire, hunger, joy, and transformation.

Cassandra Whitaker’s stunning collection howls through silenced spaces, weaving fur, fang, and femme into a wild, poetic song.

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Thank you!

I'll be reading from Wolf Devouring A Wolf Devouring A Wolf Tuesday 7/29, 7-8 EST ...Free! Please join us for a night of poems tinyurl.com/2vtnunku Meet thr line up in this 🧵

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