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Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social · 8h

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I'm hooked on an egg reading of James Wright, too - he's obsessed with being absorbed into a feminized natural world, disgusted with his body, obsessed with Sappho & women buried in the ground. "This time, I have left my body behind me, crying / In its dark thorns..."

Stephanie Burt @notquitehydepark.bsky.social · 12h

Philip Larkin was trans (sort of). Let me explain: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... (thanks to @rlgoldberg.bsky.social for the opportunity)

Project MUSE - Philip Larkin, Egg

muse.jhu.edu

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Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social · 14h

Yikes - let's please not hold Cuba, the land of electroshock conversion therapy camps, up as an example! Extreme surveillance & censorship in Cuba means that we have no idea about the on-the-ground reality for trans folks in Cuba. This paper was based on government reports & no on-the-ground work!

Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social · 23h

Heck, most novels would be improved by being serialized & interleaved; this is why so many people gravitate toward reading a bunch of books at once.

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Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social · 23h

The same goes for non-shared-universe short story collections & most essay collections.

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Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social · 23h

Take the finalists from just about any poetry prize & Frankenstein a totally random selection from each and you'll get a stronger book than any of the originals.

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Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social · 23h

It suffocates most poems to collect loosely related 1-3p pieces into a 1-author full-length. The average # of authors of a full-length should = the average # of musicians on an album. If you're not pulling off an intricate book-length sequence you & 4 friends should just smoosh microchaps together.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social · 4d

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

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phoebe journal @phoebejournal.bsky.social · 7d

phoebe is still fee-free for marginalized writers through tomorrow, and our submissions are also open through tomorrow! October 8 is the last day to submit, so get your submissions in! ✨ #CallForSubmissions #phoebejournal

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 20d

whoa october is around the corner!

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

more info here: www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

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Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social · 10d

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?

Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social · 10d

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)

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Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social · 10d

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

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Tess "The Egg Prime Directive" Tanenbaum @drtanenbaum.bsky.social · 11d

This is such an important point about HRT that gets lost in the noise: you will feel whether or not it is right for you long before any "permanent changes" set in.

This is one of those areas of medicine where letting people experiment freely and without judgement is the single best path forward.
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Tamsin the Reanimated Girl™ @tamsin.reimaginedgirl.com · 11d

That said, if you're considering HRT, my advice is simple: DO IT.

HRT is one of the safest medical treatments there is, and you'll likely know if it's working for you pretty quickly. Within a few weeks, my quality of life had improved to the point where my wife noticed and commented on it.

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Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social · 12d

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.)

emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 12d

also: years ago, before i came out at work, i wasn’t thinking and answered the question “who would play young you in a biopic?” for a company newsletter thing with what i still think was a solid choice of “mckenna grace” and they just mysteriously didn’t print that one answer for another 3.5 years.

a dark haired young white girl in a sweater. she looks nervous and sad. check!

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ｐｅｔｒｉｃｈｏｒ @petrichorlit.bsky.social · 14d

petrichor 28 is here and submissions are now open!

petrichormag.com/petrichor-28/

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

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Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social · 14d

(This piece is really good!)

Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social · 14d

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.

Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 14d

It's the end of The Best American Poetry.

I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse.

defector.com/good-riddanc...

Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’ | Defector

When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project...

defector.com

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Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social · 15d

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

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.

nwtrcc.org

Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social · 16d

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

Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 18d

Listen, on the one hand, we're not going to Reading List our way out of this mess, but on the other hand, it is vital that we keep circulating the stories from the communities under attack and the easiest way to do that is read & talk about their books. So let's talk about some trans books!...

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Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social · 16d

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)

9 17 25 Reflection - "What we talk about when we talk about death" with Callie Jennings

YouTube video by Sanctuary Boston

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Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social · 16d

trans art is a question
the answer is always

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

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fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · 16d

*ride of the valkyries starts playing*

we have extended effervescent subs through 10/7!

duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...

effervescent Digital Anthology Submission Manager

Submit to effervescent Digital Anthology (a project of fifth wheel press). Powered by Duosuma: Duotrope's Submission Manager.

duotrope.com

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Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social · 18d

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

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Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social · 18d

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

NOVUS Renewal: Undivided

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

trinitychurchnyc.org

Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social · 18d

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.

The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 18d

this is fucking epic, and i do not use that word lightly. holy shit. @sadqueer4life.bsky.social

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Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social · 18d

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

Esther Alter @esther-alter.bsky.social · 19d

Yesss! Rose Books uploaded the recording of Frack Me.

I’m really proud of this one. Not sure how to give a cw without giving it away, but you’ll know after hearing the first line whether you want to hear more.

on.soundcloud.com/3vHbB8uzAEl3...

Esther Alter -

Reading series by Rose Books. Call 1-844-300-ROSE.

soundcloud.com

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