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Nora Hikari / Sizhen System @systemwires.bsky.social · 13h

COMING TO YOU THIS MISCHIEF NIGHT (OCT 30)

THE MOST HOLY DAY OF THE TRANSSEXUAL CALENDAR

<WE WILL NEVER EVER DIE>
<WE WILL NEVER EVER FORGIVE THEM>

Cover for Nora Hikari's second poetry collection, The Most Holy Day Of The Transsexual Calendar. It features a young trans woman tied up and blindfolded, standing ominously in front of a mausoleum, which is overgrown with plantlife.

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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 22h

"This shows that if Israel, with the whole world watching, can treat a well-known, white person with a Swedish passport this way, just imagine what they do to Palestinians behind closed doors."

Edvin Alpros Ⓜ️ antisocial dominans minister @edvinalpros.bsky.social · 1d

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Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

I think what's bothering me about all these statements I'm seeing from politicians that are variations of "Israeli hostages and Palestinians are returning to their homes, yay" is that Israelis are returning to their homes and Palestinians are returning to uninhabitable post apocalyptic rubble.

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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 18h

ANMLY #41 is here! We’re thrilled to share new translations, fiction, a double issue of poetry, CNF, with a folio on autistic protest poetry!

>>> anmly.org/ap41 And we're open for new work until February 1
>>> anmly.submittable.com

Grayscale geometric design with glyphs that almost look like words. The "words" "kinship" and "adjoining" can be made out, but not many others.

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Dr. Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · 17h

find my pieces & audios here.

and check out everyone's incredible work!

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I am learning how to be weakness leaving the body.
I am licking citric atlas critic acid off my fingers.

Every day is keep doing my tasks keep reminding and head down.
Nobody minds the back kept slant until straight again.

My name are looking for rooms among all the names the
all the other names.

My Sarah looking for its girl among its mother.
A name is looking for more cells to burn.

I am learning to learn appropriating the hurts of others
Is the wrong kind of sorrow.

Doesn’t suit this age of me.
Doesn’t suit this plane of me, too flat, too full,
Too echoes.

I have viewed suffering as a sign of power. Why
Am I suffering at the edge of submission?

I just encountered a sharp ugly comfort
But it was not the product of my mind.

It is hard to want to die when everything is wanting to die
and hard to live.

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Dr. Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · 17h

thank you @anmlymag.bsky.social / @sarahclark.bsky.social for making space for autistic protest poetry & inviting me to introduce the issue. as i read through these works, i feel i can see the future of our craft.

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The small something could be a creature, perhaps a technology. Maybe, in more abstract terms, a political orientation or set of social norms. Looking back, I now understand “A small something” as part of a larger body of autistic poetic work, which, in my view, are always and already “protesting” neuronormative creative and political frameworks. Thinking back to the misleading figure of the savant and this demand for autistic exceptionality, it seems to me that to impute autistic life into our creative practices, to document it as it exists and not as our neurotypical counterparts with it were, then we must turn to a form prepared to resist normative grammars and restrictive relationships to language, activity, and achievement. After all, these very restrictions—this sociocultural “common sense”—are what got us into this mess in the first place: demands for tact over honesty, ambiguity over courage.

Instead, I want live in a poetics which refuses common sense, a poetics of autism.

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 8d

Congrats are in order! Contributor @cavar.bsky.social’s collection DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS is coming in March 2026 from @nupress.bsky.social 🎉 You can even preorder now! buff.ly/Yhe75j0

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Dr. Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · 14d

a new poem about one of my/our names in @petrichorlit.bsky.social :)

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I follow my knowledge to neck
solar plexus waist spoon-hips
pale thighs. And so follows the
sun in hasty afterwards.
A small opacity of lies
between our bodies: mine &
theirs & rayoflight’s. When I
bow service in the shadow of
our name we drapes me in their
clothing. When I kiss their feet
they render us a broken prince.

Pronouns are erotic, though
this is difficult to notice
still harder to admit: I: am:
I: a narrow panic, lightness
tightened to a throaty vowel.
This, I am told, her body
does, spoons favor from my
open mouth. Snaps elastics
of my flesh. I do not want to
know anymore, third penitent
in the booth of our name. But
my sun is just a star, turning
at the horror of our closeness.

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 20d

Looking for a workshop? Contributor @cavar.bsky.social is co-teaching a hybrid writing workshop this November with @fahmidangroup.bsky.social! Get all the details here: buff.ly/g325d1g

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Dr. Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · 25d

Sign up for my hybrid writing workshop this November!!

Fahmidan Group @fahmidangroup.bsky.social · 26d

Session 1 = immersion in hybrid texts + guided generative writing.
Session 2 = group workshop + submission strategies.
Two days with Cavar that could change how you write forever.
Sign up: fahmidanjournal.submittable.com/submit/30888...

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Lilly ⭐️ @mothcub.bsky.social · Sep 4

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

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Dr. Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you, Nick, for this generous & fun interview!!

nhilbourn.bsky.social @nhilbourn.bsky.social · Sep 2

@cavar.bsky.social @featherproof.bsky.social
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"Trouble what sense making means", an MWP interview with Cavar by Meditative Week of Poetry

Cavar is a trans poet and activist. In this episode, they talk about the space poetry provides for expressing and explaining ways of being contrapuntal to mainstream thinking.

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · Sep 2

When we talk about how "Magneto was right," this is why -- here he is, correctly predicting how this is going to go. It starts with dehumanizing; then that leads to tracking; tracking leads to arrests; arrests lead to camps; camps lead to genocide.

Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · Sep 2

In researching my latest video, I found a clip of dialogue cut from the first X-Men film: Magneto makes it much clearer why the Mutant Registration Act will lead to something worse than the act's "intention." I think it should've been kept in!
(My full video's available now -- youtu.be/ZhtkT0IeavA)

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Aug 24

Because structural thinking offers inoculation against authoritarianism, the Right has vilified terms that nod to structure (privilege, patriarchy, critical theory), and attacked the institutions trying to help people understand systemic problems. Refusing to use the terms emboldens further attacks.

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Dr. Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · Aug 18

This includes people with visible eating disorders and self-injury scars btw!!!!!!!! Including those who can’t or don’t want to “recover.” And always will!!!!

Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · Jul 25

Fighting for disability rights has to include fighting for people whose symptoms of their disability that may make you uncomfortable (i.e. people with schizophrenia).

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · Aug 9

Everyone seemed to be looking for the Magic Shortcut and everyone got mad at me when I said "If there is one, I haven't found it yet."

You have to do the work. You cannot skip the work.

"Nooooo!"

GET BACK TO WORK

"NoooOOOOoooOOOo!"

YES BACK TO WORK

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manywor(l)ds :: place @manyworlds.place · Aug 15

We can't thank you enough for supporting us for 2 years (and counting). This is a labor of love between @cavar.bsky.social and @joyce.fyi, something we do in our spare time but which brings us –– and tons of other creatives –– together. We love you and can't wait to bring you even more issues.

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Dr. Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · Aug 15

read issue 9 of manywor(l)ds - two years in and I'm honored to keep publishing innovative queercrip & transMad work with @joyce.fyi <3

manywor(l)ds :: place @manyworlds.place · Aug 15

We're so excited to announce issue 9, our TWO YEAR (!!!!) anniversary issue!

Featuring @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social, @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social, @mostlymosspoetry.bsky.social, and more.

$Issue 9 Wenyi Xue god bless America endwell neuroscience must reckon with the antipsychiatry movement Chase Anderson C:\Users\gnight\Desktop\who am i\README.txt Ziqr Gödel and Me On A Dark and Stormy Night Benjamin Rodriguez Poem 91 nat raum if bpd could talk Troy Droussiotis GLAMOUR GIRL GLAMIFESTO (or A Manifesto in Non-Being) Glamour Girl Magenta GLAMOUR GIRL 2K Sylvie Althoff Last of the Cigarette Gremlins jp thorn Two Pieces mysticism for beginners fortune cookie aphorisms Zoe Korte O Aslan Valerie Babenkova Comfort in the Endless Forever of Underneath and Not kendall q lamb power fantasy, or sheepgulls$

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Taviana K.L Vylevathorn (Starhound) @taviana.bsky.social · Aug 8

Incredible things happening at airport security in toronto

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Dr. Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · Aug 8

#journorequest I'm writing a story for @rewirenewsgroup.com on disability justice + radical access beyond institutional accommodations on university campuses, and the students and faculty that make this access magic happen.

if this is you, dm me! if you'd prefer to chat on signal, happy to do so.

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Dr. Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · Aug 8

Once more for the day crowd！

Dr. Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · Aug 8

#journorequest I'm writing a story for @rewirenewsgroup.com on disability justice + radical access beyond institutional accommodations on university campuses, and the students and faculty that make this access magic happen.

if this is you, dm me! if you'd prefer to chat on signal, happy to do so.

Dr. Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · Aug 8

@natasharoy.bsky.social @helenrottier.bsky.social @travisclau.bsky.social @sfmontgomery.bsky.social tagging for shares/etc!

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Dr. Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · Aug 8

#journorequest I'm writing a story for @rewirenewsgroup.com on disability justice + radical access beyond institutional accommodations on university campuses, and the students and faculty that make this access magic happen.

if this is you, dm me! if you'd prefer to chat on signal, happy to do so.

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Dr. Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · Aug 2

Happening at Barnes and Noble Smithfield Rhode Island!!!! 2pm today AKA in half an hour!!!!!

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Dr. Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · Jul 31

Actually novel 2 has even more toxic yuri if you keep in mind that they’re not even living in a post apocalyptic authoritarian state they’re literally just being messy insane dykes in the Obama era

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