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Tea Gerbeza

@teagerbeza.bsky.social

She/her. Disabled neuroqueer writer and artist. Author of How I Bend Into More (Palimpsest Press, 2025). teagerbeza.com

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“This collection is not one that shies away from harsh realities of Madness; instead LaPierre reclaims and makes real the Mad self with tender honesty.”

— A REVIEW OF MARGO LAPIERRE’S AJAR: POEMS BY TEA GERBEZA

Read the review:

www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/review-...

#poetry

03.01.2026 18:03 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1
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📖 Forest Euphoria by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian
📖 How I Bend Into More by Tea Gerbeza @teagerbeza.bsky.social
📖 Forest of Noise by Mosab Abu Toha @mosababutoha.bsky.social
📖 Psych Murders by Stephanie Heit @stephanieheit.bsky.social

24.12.2025 00:36 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Aw Adam, thank you for including me on this list! 🥺💕

06.12.2025 12:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Deaf and Disabled authors y’all need to check out:

Raymond Antrobus

@amandaleduc.bsky.social

@imanibarbarin.bsky.social

@nicolaz.bsky.social

@teagerbeza.bsky.social

Please check out their work now. Hustle. Pronto. Go on, then.

05.12.2025 18:01 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0
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It was lovely to speak with the thoughtful and endlessly talented Tea Gerbeza about her excellent book of poetry, How I Bend Into More (Palimpsest Press, 2025) on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social!

Listen in. ✨

newbooksnetwork.com/how-i-bend-i...

@palimpsestpress.bsky.social @teagerbeza.bsky.social

20.10.2025 20:57 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you rob for this chance to have a tiny essay about how poems begin for me! 💕

02.07.2025 14:10 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Tea Gerbeza : How a poem begins How does a poem begin?       When I first started learning paper quilling, I twirled the foundational shapes over and over again—coils...

newly posted: Tea Gerbeza @teagerbeza.bsky.social : How a poem begins / @palimpsestpress.bsky.social ;
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/07/tea-...

01.07.2025 14:14 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Congrats on this pub! I can’t wait to read. Thank you for including me in your analysis 😭 and alongside so many amazing poets!! ❤️

29.06.2025 14:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Imaginary margins: disability poetics & reinventing the page Disability poetics resist marginalisation by centralising disabled words and experiences, both literally and figuratively. In a world that prioritises ability, disabled bodyminds are marked as devi...

My scholarly article "Imaginary Margins: Disability Poetics & Reinventing the Page" in New Writing.

Analyzes poems by @thellpsx.bsky.social, @tagreathouse.bsky.social, @teagerbeza.bsky.social, @tateoquendo.bsky.social, and Kelly Weber.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

29.06.2025 11:38 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

Thank you for reading!!

10.06.2025 12:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

😭😭 thank you!! 💕

10.06.2025 12:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🥹🥹🥹😭

04.06.2025 12:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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June 11 at Little Ghosts! Swing by and bring a friend!

31.05.2025 18:02 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

I should be focused on "yay, my book is there!" but I'm distractedly dazzled by how well the cover colors flow 🤩 it's beautiful

Make horror gay AF! 🖤🌈

01.06.2025 16:59 — 👍 64    🔁 16    💬 3    📌 0

It’s June 1, so if you haven’t reserved your homosexual yet be advised that we’re into surge pricing now.

01.06.2025 18:53 — 👍 417    🔁 100    💬 7    📌 4
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This Pride month, don’t forget about the trans and gnc activists who made this happen. People like Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson, whose leadership at Stonewall has now been stricken from all government websites by a Trump administration that wants us erased from history.

01.06.2025 19:56 — 👍 3745    🔁 1490    💬 12    📌 15
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For Pride, I’m remembering Lucy Hicks Anderson, trans woman who transitioned as a kid in the late 1800s. She was an incredible socialite and cook, so much so that when she was arrested and a banker got her out of jail because they had a party and she was the cook!

We have always been here.

01.06.2025 22:52 — 👍 3124    🔁 677    💬 23    📌 12
A sign in the background says New Hope church, God says homosexuality is in. In the foreground there are two men smiling holding the letter s that they've taken from the sign

A sign in the background says New Hope church, God says homosexuality is in. In the foreground there are two men smiling holding the letter s that they've taken from the sign

Happy pride month ❤️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

02.06.2025 05:47 — 👍 49836    🔁 7832    💬 530    📌 302

Johnathan Joss died a hero. He was murdered for being gay, he went out protecting his trans husband from being executed. They burned down their home and killed their pets and then they murdered Joss while trying to murder his husband. The New York times can barely muster "fatally shot." I hate this.

03.06.2025 18:24 — 👍 5790    🔁 1886    💬 34    📌 47
Graphic that details edmontons best selling books for the week of June 1. My book How I Bend Into more is listed.

Graphic that details edmontons best selling books for the week of June 1. My book How I Bend Into more is listed.

🤯 Wow, wow, wow, thank you Edmonton readers! I’m absolutely floored. 😭

Thank you abbookpub for sharing this and for the lovely graphic! Congrats to all amazing writers on the list this week. 💛 support writers (and your local bookstores!) friends, it’s the best way to make our days bright.

04.06.2025 04:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
An open magazine featuring a photo of me, my partner and our animals in our laps on the left spread. On the right is a column of the article and a photo of our dog Tonks and of me in front of the witch house in Salem.

An open magazine featuring a photo of me, my partner and our animals in our laps on the left spread. On the right is a column of the article and a photo of our dog Tonks and of me in front of the witch house in Salem.

I’m so late in posting about this, but thank you to Neighbours of South Albert St. South Magazine for featuring me and my little family in their May issue. Huge thanks to Shawna for interviewing me and writing such a lovely article. And to @goodhabitsmedia for the photos! 🫶🏻

24.05.2025 00:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Canadian Collections: May 2025 | Washington Independent Review of Books The Independent is an important voice in the community of readers and writers dedicated to book reviews and writing about the world of books.

Floored by this review of How I Bend Into More by Shane Neilson 😭 what a feeling it is for someone to read my book with such attention & care!

www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/can...

11.05.2025 02:40 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I am really bad at updating my Bluesky with things lol

09.05.2025 22:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A photo of the book Everything Is Fine Here on a wooden shelf beside the vines of a hanging plant.

A photo of the book Everything Is Fine Here on a wooden shelf beside the vines of a hanging plant.

💚 Happy pub day to EVERYTHING IS FINE HERE by Iryn Tushabe! 💚

⚡ "Tushabe’s transformative novel pierces the heart and stirs the soul.” —David Demchuk, author of The Bone Mother and RED X

🔗 Learn more about this book: houseofanansi.com/products/eve...

#booksky #blackbooksky #bookrec #newbook

22.04.2025 14:31 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 2
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Thanks to @canadianpoets.bsky.social for long-listing I Hate Parties! Thrilled to be in such good company.

30.04.2025 16:26 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Brain Ghazal – Plenitude Magazine

Oh hey I’ve got a poem out in Plentitude!

plenitudemagazine.ca/brain-ghazal/

02.05.2025 00:41 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Tea Gerbeza Book Launch
YouTube video by McNally Robinson Saskatoon Events Tea Gerbeza Book Launch

The livestream of my Saskatoon launch at McNally Robinson was recorded and is on YouTube if you'd like to watch/listen to it it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVUr...

09.05.2025 01:06 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Will do 😭❤️

29.04.2025 02:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I found two typos in my book and am having trouble not feeling devastated by them 😭

25.04.2025 14:26 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Tomorrow!

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