Callie Jennings

oh no she also plays the oboe, the hot librarian of instruments

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whoa october is around the corner!

reminder that we'll be open again for novellas soon.

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Very weird choice to lead with her sexual orientation (esp. since she hasn't labeled hers & has dated both men & women). Maybe don't do that?

b) it can take time to adjust & it's not uncommon for people to feel some fatigue, etc during the adjustment (I both got bad fatigue & fogginess & a profound sense of actually finally being alive; deciding whether to continue would have been a painful choice if the fogginess was forever) (2/2)

This is a great thread & reflects my own experience - I will say that it's important to know that

a) plenty of trans people (maybe especially those with alexithymia of some sort?) don't ever get an obvious bodily epiphany either way

(1/2)

My accidental coming-out was my brain farting on the same question: my answer was Elliot Page. In early 2011, ~6 months after Inception released, before he was outed as queer. (He grew into the role.)

Closeup from the cover art of petrichor number 28, with art my Miles Stimac.

petrichor 28 is here and submissions are now open!

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(This piece is really good!)

In a backwards way I'm grateful for the emptiness of Lehman's vision - so much of the current poetry I love is a reaction against it and I find its politics more urgent & direct & personal & complex than mid-century & earlier American political poetry. _Bettering American Poetry_ was awesome.

Moved to Refuse - National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee The National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee is a network of organizations that supports individuals who refuse to pay for war.

Do you wish the government had less funding for disappearing your neighbors? War tax resisters have been using tactics for decades that more people should know about - tell your friends that make enough money to pay federal taxes. nwtrcc.org

one of my neighborhood shops! this is a great rec list <3

YouTube video by Sanctuary Boston 9 17 25 Reflection - "What we talk about when we talk about death" with Callie Jennings

Proud of this talk I gave last week! How stories about death warp our politics & what we can do about it.

(The game design aside was like 4x as long in the first draft - let me nerd out at you about the death drive in Chutes & Ladders & Pachisi sometime)

trans art is a question
the answer is always

- "ode to panic" by Spencer Williams, from _Tranz_

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just home from a date with someone who guesstimated I was a starcraft baby, but no, actually,

NOVUS Renewal: Undivided The world premiere of ”Trans Requiem“ anchors a program focused on music as a vessel for visibility, pride, and belonging.

oh wow it's all here, ty internet!!! trinitychurchnyc.org/events/novus...

the requiem is my favorite musical form, it draws out the most honest, searing passion from so many of the composers that engage with it, and the clips I've found of Andrew Yee's are gutting, I need to hear this thing, omg.

"drain the ground beneath me. and cradle me when it's done."

Paul Ryan's favorite band was Rage Against The Machine. A generation of finance bros worshiped Gordon Gekko. You have no control over the real-world effects your art might have, and (most likely) it will have very little at all. You might as well make the stuff that speaks to you. Do it. Don't quit.

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this is utterly incredible, you are so much better than the post-Jim Henson official Kermit voices. voice training is a miracle

part of how I got hooked on reading living poets was that I had a shtick of having a different poem for every version of my AIM away message and I couldn't distinguish which dining hall I was at and in what mood with e.e. cummings alone

DM if you're interested in the prompts & discussion questions either for yourself or to run with your friends! I'm aiming at a general (adult) audience, and emphasize writing-for-survival over writing-for-publication, but my hope is they're usefully generative for writers writing for others, too.

... @gwenekirby.bsky.social's "Boudicca, Mighty Queen of the Britains, Contact Hitter and Utility Outfilder, AD 61" from _Shit Cassandra Saw_, Louise Glück's "First Memory" as an example of a non-fantastic self-mythology edit, and Lucille Clifton's "the making of poems" as the intro.

Tonight was "Two Lies & a Lie" on the uses of mythical biography & alternate personal history. Models included @dustinkpearson.bsky.social's "Autobiography," @sadqueer4life.bsky.social's "Personal Statement," a couple excerpts from @never.horse's _Sara_ (which I've been eagerly devouring)...

Just wrapped meeting #1 of the fall round of my "reading & writing to figure your stuff out" workshops - if you're interested in learning more (drop-in, pwyw, in-person, in Boston, six steps up to the space :/ ), drop me a line! There's space for Oct 7, 21, 28, Nov 11, 25 and Dec 9, 6:30-8:30pm.

We kind of do have a switch that we can flip - not between despair & optimism, but between despair & "let's give a little thing a try and see what changes." Flipping it isn't always easy but it's the whole entire project of living a meaningful & engaged life.

Mapmaking I occupy my time with memory games. State capitals, alphabetically; five hundred blots of population on a map. Tree names, rivers, Native landscapes and coloniser saints, conquered fortresses, cities Pilgrims quit. I study this land like I don’t already know what matters: where I am safe or forbidden, which arbitrary borders proscribe my body, which saints speak up for me, which trees bend creaking back, repulsed, at my approach. I frame the failing nation in my mind and think each blameless piece of language like a wish: Muskegon, Hialeah, Chattanooga, Tulsa, San Antonio, Cedar Rapids, Baton Rouge.

small poem. i've been playing a lot of "name the 500 biggest urban areas in the US" type games lately to keep my mind busy when i'm fretful

This doesn't quite fit the brief as I've seen it occasionally mentioned in the very specific context of experimental solo TTRPG game design, but I've never heard it mentioned in a trans lit / trans poetics context & I think it belongs there: "Variations on Your Body" by Avery Alder.