“The “ick” is recognition. The body remembering what it was asked to be.”
One hell of a read.
abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built...
“The “ick” is recognition. The body remembering what it was asked to be.”
One hell of a read.
abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built...
i have this very vivid memory of being 6 and looking at myself in the mirror and trying to imagine what i would look like as an adult and i could *only* picture myself as an adult man. i literally could not see myself as a woman.
23.02.2026 02:31 — 👍 21 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0when ppl whip out the "most girls wish they were boys that doesn't mean they're TRANS" argument i'm just like. i don't think i ever wished i was a boy, it was more that i genuinely struggled to comprehend myself as a girl, lol
23.02.2026 02:30 — 👍 36 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
the inbox is open 👀
engenderedlit@gmail.com
there's a whole pre-bluesky world of en*gendered just waiting for you to find it. start with this beauty here:
engenderedlitmag.com/summer2025
the covers of the last two issues of engendered lit mag are surrounded by suggestions of what might be inside poetry, fiction, gender joy, gender grief, essays & cnf, dysphoria below is the following text en*gendered’s inbox is ope for your thoughts on gender, on being engendered; on living engendered in this, or another world. engenderedlit@gmail.com engenderedlitmag.com
en*gendered’s inbox is open for your thoughts on gender, on being engendered; on living engendered in this, or another, world.
engenderedlit@gmail.com
we're going to keep this call open for one more week
15.02.2026 19:43 — 👍 2 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0Every trans person who comes out in this climate is a living rebuttal to every headline that tries to erase them.
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today's gender over here is men's Olympic hockey. tell us about yours?
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Reminded me of this evergreen post
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Start hormones, write a book, get nacho fries
16.02.2026 00:14 — 👍 170 🔁 24 💬 2 📌 3
a completely filled out version of the A-Z booktitle challenge. List of books in the thread.
Ooops All Trans A-Z Booktitle Challenge that I did in 2025. Wohoo! I'm really happy that I managed to finish this challenge this year especially since I decided to only count trans books for it. Also this looks gorgeous. #samreads.
01.01.2026 19:42 — 👍 51 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 1They're remaking you for a modern audience. Yeah, sorry man. They're giving you a hyper realistic art style with no reverence for how your original color grading or art design looked. Your boss fights have new shitty mechanics and they redid all of your iconic voice acting. Your studio got laid off
19.02.2026 19:30 — 👍 2321 🔁 896 💬 2 📌 2
"Discord" from Gwen Aube's upcoming MISSED CONNECTIONS WITH TALL GIRLS
Preorder NOW and read this collection of hilarious and uncompromising poems for more chronicles of precarious and debaucherous Discord autistics and trailer-trash divas 💅
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"Every morning at breakfast, the same routine played out. But today there wasn’t even an ashtray on the table. Just two slices of charred toast under the grill. And a jet-black feather on the table, at the place where Sarah normally sits."
—Jess Bauldry
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Green background with sparkles and a chain of daisies. Text reads: ALOCASIA seeks creative writing workshop leaders! Deadline: March 10th
ALOCASIA seeks applications for instructors to lead our upcoming Summer Creative Writing Series. Instructors will each lead a one-time Zoom workshop with dates between May and August. Compensation is $500.
18.02.2026 18:09 — 👍 16 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 2
☀️ The ebook for Foglifter 10.1 is now available for free on our website! ☀️
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Thank you to all our contributors and a special thank you to our cover artist Jeffery Sun Young Park!
"if I were to paint a flowering abyss
you could fall into like a video game
leap, by mistake—a mistake that
could be happy if it’s years ago
and the game rewarded you for the error..."
—Christopher Phelps :: “I Really Wish You’d Stop Dying”
alocasia.org/2026/02/15/c...
Physical forms were a mistake.
19.02.2026 15:10 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
New call for work: THE PLEASURE ISSUE
+ Opens May 15
+ Deadline: June 13 for everyone, for BIPOC writers: June 20
The Pleasure Issue will be an issue interrogating the varying politics of pleasure via the difference between the erotic and the pornographic
More: beestungmag.com/special-call...
📣SPECIAL UNEXPECTED SUBMISSION CALL ANNOUNCEMENT📣
If you hate ICE and love horror and Weird fiction, please take a look at our current, very specific and necessary sub call.
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every single person in my phone rn
18.02.2026 01:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I walk slowly with 2 canes, like an old skier, sans snow, sans mountain.
Nolo Segundo
A Morning's Walk
www.corporeallitmag.com/volume-xxii/...
does it touch on gender because, if yes, we do
18.02.2026 01:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I remember the first time I read an author describe a woman as fat and beautiful and happy, and she was a side character who was a maid, who got married and became a baker and lived happily ever after with pastries and chocolate and I wish the story had been about her.
17.02.2026 15:25 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
💖 Trans Pessimism 1: When Your Body is Not Your Own 💖
is back in stock with an updated cover! creative nonfiction about the constraints of gender and perception, from 2019.
All issues of Transfix Magazine are available for free digital download on our ko-fi (ko-fi.com/transfixmaga...)
16.02.2026 18:32 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Baby, Meg Mellor first of two images I was born sprinting. I bled through every mile of this gender. Call me deviant. Call me boy-dyke, fag, she-he, they/it, “transtrender” —Wrong. I’ll bedazzle every name on my leather. I don’t run for anyone— but me. Not for the crowd, not for the finish line— I run for that anger inside, That beast, The hunger that never quits. For the teenage-self that craved locker-room smirks, and girl-forsaken grit. I run because the fire in me won’t go out. I’m full of want, & rage & something feral You couldn’t name if I bent you over, and spelled it across your back in bite marks. Something that only post-nut clarity could bring
second of two images a queer out-of-the-closet. I run because every “sir” or “ma’am” is a muzzle. I learned to bite back in syllables that split lips— mine and theirs. I broke through the stained-glass cage and left the comfort of conformity—heteronormativity. I fought my way out with bloodied hands and beamed at the splinters gripped by my fists like trophies. I run because I am the animal You tried to leash.
The cover of engendered autumn 2025 on a background of dark grey. On the cover is a heavily textured painting by Jude FireSong consisting of layers of colour, first daubed or smeared, and then speckled. Dominant are red, orange, yellow, light blue, and medium blue though purple, green, and pink also make an appearance. Beside and below the cover is the following text: 20 writers, poets, & artists “as I move through the world, people project images of bodies and faces they assign onto me that evoke in themselves desire, lust, joy, disgust, emotions I have no say over. Perceptions against my will. And those images stain my skin and reek. I'm forced every day to carry those stains” Thokozani Mbwana engenderedlitmag.com
"Call me boy-dyke, fag, she-he, they/it, “transtrender”
—Wrong.
I’ll bedazzle every name on my leather.
I don’t run
for anyone—
but me."
- Meg Mellor, Baby
engenderedlitmag.com/autumn2025
micro-transgenderisms Steven C. Wright mom gender-bent her mother’s name to give me my middle name. it’s not the only thing of grandma’s that i am. i wear her crooked smile. i look just like her daughter. mom says “god gifted me with three beautiful boys” and i say “something like that.” i don’t know if it’s sacrilege or a coming out. i think it’s neither. maybe it’s nothing. she still thinks i’ll raise a child. she says “you never know, maybe when you find the right guy,” then gets puzzled when i tell her i’d adopt. maybe she forgot that i don’t have a uterus. sometimes i forget, too. i used to daydream as a woman. i wonder why i stopped.
The cover of engendered autumn 2025 on a background of dark grey. On the cover is a heavily textured painting by Jude FireSong consisting of layers of colour, first daubed or smeared, and then speckled. Dominant are red, orange, yellow, light blue, and medium blue though purple, green, and pink also make an appearance. Beside and below the cover is the following text: 20 writers, poets, & artists “as I move through the world, people project images of bodies and faces they assign onto me that evoke in themselves desire, lust, joy, disgust, emotions I have no say over. Perceptions against my will. And those images stain my skin and reek. I'm forced every day to carry those stains” Thokozani Mbwana engenderedlitmag.com
"i used to daydream as a woman. i wonder why i stopped."
- Steven C. Wright, micro-transgenderisms
@stevencw.bsky.social
engenderedlitmag.com/autumn2024
Of gardens and violence, of Marie Antoinette and blueberries, of mothering and gendered labors, of climate crisis and poetic form and holding onto words you love and more.
Join @esylviapoet.bsky.social on Episode 84 and she reads from her new collection SCYTHE (@riverriverbooks.bsky.social!) 📚💙🎙️
