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"I bled the color from my mouth and kept running I looked back up at her and her mouth was the color of every war we could not win" - lipstick, R. Janakiraman Release Day Is HERE! kithbooks.com/shop/p/phototaxis

Bodies in Phototaxis launches tomorrow and I'm so ready to share it. If you like trans people and tenderness and laying it all out for the person who holds you the safest, this one is for you. kithbooks.com/shop/p/phototaxis

Seeking recommendations for Book Riot, my lovelies: What are some Native and Indigenous SFF that you're excited about releasing this year? SFF that leans horror is totally fine as well. Links appreciated!

Happy #IntersexAwarenessDay! Today I'm reposting my old Intersex 101 thread from Twitter - with new improvements, resources, and more! It's starting right here, read on!

Stars, cards, and systems: we could all use help Pulp Prophet McCaela Prentice Sobriety Through the Major Arcana Christy Tending (@christytending.bsky.social) Prospectus of Ambient Wonders Matthew Burnside kithbooks.com

poem (poet?) as ant under magnifying glass Mall Water Jenna Jaco (@jennajaco.bsky.social) Beast Country K. Christopherson Olympic Speedwalker Savannah Wolden kithbooks.com

Thank you to Memoir Land for including Jack Helton's CNF in this week's lineup! "How is it that I’d find myself now longing for more visible sutures, proof of the surgery required to procure this chest I love for the first time since I was eight years old?" memoirland.substack.com/p/memoir-mon...

This is as simply as I can explain it. First: people like to communicate. They enjoy talking.

Let's double down. 1 like = 1 TRANS book I LOVE with buy links, so GO BUY SOME OF THESE and/or request your local library buy them.

15. Black Hole Science is Filled with Apologies by @never.horse, from my darling @traumbooks.bsky.social I ABSOLUTELY loved this collection of poetry & other short works with heresy & the absurd & spiky humor & dreams of hairlessness traumbooks.com/black-hole-s...

I’m excited to share that Unbound—the dance film I'm in featuring people with #MECFS—will be presented at the inaugural World Deaf & Disabled Dance Film Festival, November 6-7, in San Francisco. Come see Unbound on the big screen if you're there! ybca.org/event/2026-w...

book merch for the ages No Pasarán! Mac-Paps! @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social www.bonfire.com/mac-pap-batt...

poem (poet?) as ant under magnifying glass Mall Water Jenna Jaco (@jennajaco.bsky.social) Beast Country K. Christopherson Olympic Speedwalker Savannah Wolden kithbooks.com

I'm a nonbinary writer, my poetry pamphlet, The Death of the Cult Classic, is an exploration of gender through the lens of horror and queer indie cinema and published by @kithbooks.com 🎃📽️🎬 www.kithbooks.com/shop/p/cultc...

(9/?) “Eyes Don’t Melt” in Under a Malevolent Eye, @cursedmorsels.bsky.social (3900 words, horror). Popsicles, Signal chats, biblically accurate helicopters. My attempt to transmit the somatic experience of living in mpls during the surge. www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/unde...

4. Gospels for the Tongue-Tied by Qetsi'ah Joachim-Baggott from the very queer very trans press @kithbooks.com A poetry collection of trans autistic heresy. By which I mean waltzing into the Bible, church, Christianity itself with a crowbar to claim space for a trans-inclusive vision.

We always lose money on this but every order helps us lose less money. Thank you to all the heroes who have ordered a copy of this fifth annual issue (how is this possible) of Hellarkey!

A very happy belated birthday to the spectacular MAEJ and its author--the Dale-est of Dales and crafter of the hemi-colon, @stromberg.bsky.social. This book is one of our press-prides and required reading for anyone who loves a challenging fantasy! 🌟✨🌠 traumbooks.com/maej/

Read 'Stone Butch Blues' for free on the author's website: www.lesliefeinberg.net Also check out the Trans Literature Database (www.translibrarian.com) and the 'T4T: Trans Reading Trans' Goodreads group (www.goodreads.com/group/show/7...)

I wrote about the end of Catapult defector.com/catapult-eli...

FRIENDS: recommend some trans-authored books (including yours!) in the comments! And if you've never read a book by a trans person, browse the comments and you may find your next great read. No time like the present to stick it to the pieces of shit who think we ought neither to be seen or heard

@paigemaylott.bsky.social’s memoir My Body Is Distant. @razorfemme.bsky.social’s Falling Back In Love With Being Human. Anything and everything by @helendestroy.bsky.social.

The parent, still child Is it Chaos Or Not Mac Crane (@mcrane12.bsky.social) Green Latitudes Rick Magee Holds Up When Shattered Merri Andrew (@merriandrew.bsky.social) kithbooks.com

bay area friends, a reminder that Lit Crawl is on Saturday and you absolutely have to come see this incredible lineup of writers

Fun fact about me: I will be asking you if you have used AI in your zine or creative project

📣 #TheMagazine is now accepting ongoing submissions from Indigenous storytellers, writers, artists, and creatives. We pay for accepted work in USD! 📩 Pitch our Editor-In-Chief, Isabel Riofrío, at iriofrio@crushingcolonialism.org We #HireIndigenous!

It's LIVING COPY time!! Very very soon! This is a short, experimental novel set in Pennsylvania coal country, about the havoc tech can wreck on our grieving process. We hope you'll check it out! (And you can find the author on IG @ alexdif123) 💜 traumbooks.com/the-living-c...

living in the present in light of the past Jump Cut Helen Gu How to Migrate Ghosts Jaiden Geolingo Fatherland, Motherland Leo Rose Rodriguez kithbooks.com

My prose poem "The Boy" is live in Hood of Bone. Read it here: www.hoodofbonereview.org/issue-five-o...

🫡 Word is coming in from Tran Central Command 🫡 🫵 Christine Jorgensen wants YOU to become a FRIEND OF THE PUSS 🫵 You heard the lady! Right now, your support for independent publishers of fine transsexual literature is a great service to our people, and even comes with certain benefits 😻

What amazing poetry presses don't have reading fees for MSs? Or have one that's under $10? Asking for a tired broke poet.

ANMLY #43 is here! We’re over the moon to share our translations, fiction, poetry, CNF, graphic narratives, micros, and new folios of Caribbean Yard Poetics and The Fetish Folio! >>> anmly.org/ap43 >>> Send us new work until February 1! >>> anmly.submittable.com

living in the present in light of the past Jump Cut Helen Gu How to Migrate Ghosts Jaiden Geolingo Fatherland, Motherland Leo Rose Rodriguez kithbooks.com

I have three more poems live in @corporeallitmag.bsky.social, so check out "To the Architect of Soap," "Personification," and "Untitled 1975-86: Lonely Bear" here: www.corporeallitmag.com/volume-xxv/a...

Michael Ondaatje The Cinnamon Peeler

trans bodies as tender, deserving of care Bodies in Phototaxis R. Janakiraman Direct Address Robin Arble space neon neon space luna rey hall (@lunareyhall.com) kithbooks.com

Listen I'm very loudly anti-AI but I think part of being anti-AI is also that you have to be AGGRESSIVELY pro-artist. Please support your artists, especially ones with marginalized identities.

It's genuinely not enough just to hate AI, you have to love art as well.

trans bodies as tender, deserving of care Bodies in Phototaxis R. Janakiraman Direct Address Robin Arble space neon neon space luna rey hall (@lunareyhall.com) kithbooks.com