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FAIRY (Spring 2027) POETRY IS QUEER @palimpsestpress.bsky.social SHE #KFB THIS IS WHERE I GET OFF #PermanentSleep Publisher @knifeforkbook.bsky.social

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KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social · 4d

She is (finally) at #TPL #takemeout #KirbyShe
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Daniel MacIvor @danielmacivor.ca · 17h

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 19h

Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day

A four-panel image of Anita Bryant being pied in her sanctimonious face by gay rights activist Thom Higgins, 1977.

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KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social · 16h

"like the deserts miss the rain" #tuesdaynight
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Adapt or Die: Ten Years of Remixes by Everything But the Girl on Apple Music

Album · 2005 · 14 Songs

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KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social · 17h

Thank you Kevin. 🙌

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K. Arrrgh! Wilson 🧟‍♂️ 🇨🇦 @krwbooks.bsky.social · 20h

@itsakirby.bsky.social’s new chapbook Softie merges the concision of poetry with the rage of a political pamphlet, taking on the current autocratic anti-queer politico-religious climate with archness and elder-wisdom and hope.

Cover image of Kirby’s chapbook Softie, featuring the author in repose.

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KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social · 1d

Of course, she cooked (mashed w/gravy, her kryptonite). #thankful

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KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social · 2d

"Heaven is here
Where I once feared to be
And I fall to my knees
At your beauty"

#marcalmond #retrosundays

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My Hand over My Heart by Marc Almond on Apple Music

Song · 1991 · Duration 5:15

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KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social · 2d

JUST IN. #MONTREAL

Jessica HIEMSTRA @jessicajoyhiemstra.bsky.social @gooselane.bsky.social
KIRBY @knifeforkbook.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social
Cory LAVENDER @gaspereaupress.bsky.social

05 NOV 7PM
ARGO BOOKSHOP
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KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social · 3d

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 3d

Everything that we've known, and come to count on,
has fled the world.

Charles Wright, from Sestets 🍂

Our Days Are Political, but Birds Are Something Else

Tenth month of the year.
Fallen leaves taste bitter. And grass.
Everything that we've known, and come to count on,
has fled the world.
Their bones crack in the west wind.
Where are the deeds we're taught to cling to?
How I regret having missed them,
and their mirrored pieces of heaven.
Like egrets, they rise in the clear sky,
their shadows like distance on the firred hills.

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Richard Mirabella 🎃 @rpmirabella.bsky.social · 3d

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Her interesting visual style can be seen in her video for Belinda Carlisle's Heaven is a Place on Earth.

Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by BelindaCarlisleVEVO

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you, Diane Keaton, for showing us a way.

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 3d

Diane Keaton as Renata in Woody Allen's Interiors. RIP, queen.

I mean, just what am I striving to create, anyway? I mean, to what end? For what purpose? What goal? (Sighing) I mean . . . do I really care if a handful of my poems are read after I'm gone forever? Is that supposed to be some sort of compensation? Uh, I used to think it was. But now, for some reason... I-I can't, I can't seem to . . . I can't . . . seem to shake this... the real implication of dying. It's terrifying. (Sighing, crossing her arms in front of her) The intimacy of it embarrasses me.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 3d

So all the don't-tread-on-me, machine-gun-toting folks seem to not mind government tyranny so much, whereas the brave weirdos, queers, dinosaurs, and frogs are out on the streets.

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 3d

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 3d

I thought about Diane Keaton a lot this year, sorry to see her go.
For the podcast I had a great conversation recently with @jmritchey.bsky.social on the prickly LOOKING FOR MR GOODBAR, recently rescued from decades of music licensing hell by Vinegar Syndrome

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Diane Keaton as Theresa Dunn, smoking in bed in LOOKING FOR MR GOODBAR (Richard Brooks, 1977)

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Koss (she/they/Aquarian) @kossworks.bsky.social · 3d

Two Kinds of Unrequited Pink Friendship
#paint, #unrequited, #friendship, #art

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naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 3d

Fuck you auto correct that was the QUEER ZINE FAIR!!

naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 3d

Went to the Quiet Zone Fair at The Center here in New York, and yup I second all of what you just said.

Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social · 3d

I went to a zine event today here in Austin - lots of young weirdos (very complimentary) making cool stuff - it was great, made me feel a bit more optimistic about the future, but also, GOD I'M SO FRIGGIN OLD

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KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social · 3d

"Mad about the boy
It's pretty funny
But I'm mad about the boy;
He has a gay appeal that makes me feel
There's maybe something sad about the boy"

Lena Horne.
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Mad About the Boy by Lena Horne on Apple Music

Song · 1956 · Duration 3:05

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Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social · 3d

Inger Christensen, from alphabet (trans. Susanna Nied)

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Nikki Wallschlaeger @nikkimwalls.bsky.social · 3d

best hat game ever

RIP Diane Keaton 💜

Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 3d

Goodnight screen goddess and style icon. 🙌
Diane Keaton - R.I.P.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 3d

“Again space is full of voices, the entire body has become heart.”

—Hélène Cixous

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KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social · 3d

"Everyone is trying
To get into the bar
The name of the bar
Called heaven" #jimmyscott #heaven #saturdaynight
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Heaven by Jimmy Scott on Apple Music

Album · 1996 · 9 Songs

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KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social · 3d

"Doo-doo-doo-doo (doo-doo-doo-doo)
Doo-doo-doo-doo, doo, doo, doo, doo (where is the love?)
Doo-doo-doo-doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo" #saturdaynight

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Where Is the Love by Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway on Apple Music

Song · 1972 · Duration 2:43

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KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social · 3d

"Come out, come out wherever you are
And meet the young lady who fell from a star."
#NationalComingOutDay2025

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KIRBY on Instagram: "Giving thanks on National Coming Out Day reading from Poetry is Queer @palimpsestpressbooks"

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