Courtney Bates-Hardy

FIRST PERSON | My spouse asked what kind of woman I was. A life and death moment gave me the answer | CBC News After coming out as trans to her partner, Carrie Biner grappled with knowing who she was as a woman. But when she and other bystanders saw an overdose crisis unfolding and had to respond with urgency,...

My partner wrote a story as well. We wanted them to be kind of connected but also to share different things:

FIRST PERSON | When my spouse came out as trans, we had to learn who we were all over again | CBC News Courtney Bates-Hardy has always been able to talk to her partner about everything. That openness remained a mainstay of their relationship after her partner told her she was trans and as the pair went...

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. There’s so much more to our story, and this is just a small part of it.

"I’m back in the therapist’s office with my parents, watching the snow fall."

Excerpt from Courtney Bates-Hardy's (@poetcourtney.bsky.social) poem "𝐹𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑖𝑛, 2025" + promotional poster for del Toro's 𝐹𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑖𝑛 (2025)

Read "𝐹𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑖𝑛, 2025" in ISSUE 2.3: longconmag.com/issue-2-3/co...

two drag queens are sitting next to each other on a couch in front of a pink wall Alt: two drag queens are sitting next to each other on a couch in front of a pink wall and laughing

This is so funny to me because I was such a baby bi when we met 😂 Even then!

Watching Love is Blind is like anthropological to me. It’s this whole other culture that I don’t see myself in at all as a queer person and it’s both fascinating and disturbing.

About a year ago, someone asked me if I was part of the bacon lettuce tomato community and now it’s become a thing that my partners and I say to each other ALL THE TIME 😂

Finished watching Angel for the second time in my life. I still sob over Illyria asking Wesley if he’d like her to lie to him now 😭

a girl in a hoodie is asking if she is a ghost Alt: a girl in a hoodie is asking if she is a ghost

Me, getting perceived as straight all week with a trans partner and a girlfriend:

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s 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 Markiplier’s Iron Lung last night at the late showing and I haven’t seen so many teenagers in one space since I was a teenager.

“Why do things have to happen all the time?” -my gf

It’s written like a historical document with multiple editorial queries and interjections.

For such a prolific novelist, I’m really finding Margaret Atwood’s 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 I’m 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 they’ve been charged with accessory to murder.

Meet the Alaska Student Arrested for Eating an AI Art Exhibit A conversation with Graham Granger, whose combination of protest and performance art spread beyond campus. “AI chews up and spits out art made by other people.”

After the AI bubble pops, put this hero on some stamps.

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He literally said, if you do this to my brother, I will attack your girlfriend. Tit for tat! 😂

CBC producing all these think pieces and interviews about why booksellers are going to judge the Giller Prize this year like it’s a big mystery. Well, I can solve it for you: it’s because most writers don’t want to be associated with the award anymore after the boycott 🤷🏻‍♀️

Are you even lesbians if you don’t get mistaken for sisters? 😅

Courtney Bates-Hardy Frankenstein, 2025 • POETRY

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 I’m so grateful for their support.

We haven’t spoken for over two years. I’ve never met his daughter, and I hope he treats her better than he treated me. He called me a bitch once, but he’ll 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 didn’t say is that he stopped talking to me b/c I’m queer & my partner is trans, but he didn’t 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 grievances…

Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem. Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”

A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.

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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.