august 2023

august 2023

celebrating my trans birthday on august 22nd and the release of MIASMAMIST on august 22. why not get one (or two) of my books to celebrate?

july, august, & september books

So, Who’s Courage? (Bullshit Lit, July 2023) is a story-in-verse abstractly inspired by Courage the Cowardly Dog. the speaker copes with trauma by "auditioning as Courage." the speaker's pets—real or imagined—do as well, as an additional means of desperately seeking safety.

TASEREDGED (watch out!) (Querencia Press, August 2023) is an intimate examination of coming into queerness while navigating the struggles of a transmasc identity and trauma-induced CPTSD. The author approaches the illimitable subject of social grief and deprecation with a fresh perspective and contemporary voice.​

MIASMAMIST (Naked Cat Lit, August 2023) is an excavation of a toxic relationship that hinges upon inflicting specks of anti-transmasculinity toward the speaker in 20 short, body horror-adjacent poems.

yes, it’s 2023 and i still burn CDs for you (self-published, forthcoming September 2023) is a collage of centos from modern queerpop and iconic Disney songs from the early-to-mid 2000s that depicts a fraught and sexually charged toxic relationship that fizzles the way it starts: with a mixtape.

there are still more books by me/us forthcoming this year, so stay tuned!

poems

• “inside you there are two wolves” - JAKE

• “hey, have you ever considered the word “rewind” may drop from the next generation’s lexicon?” - MAYDAY

• “the future as an omen”; “happy valentines? love, schadenfreude”; “NOT A CYOA MEMORY, SORRY KID”; “how to cope (note: in an unhealthy way only) / how to identify who said “let’s run out of consciousness for once” / how to become a ghost”; "& “chatting on omegle with a conversation partner or a firewall” - Querencia Press Summer Issue

• “how playing legend of zelda and identifying with the zoras is a slippery slope to how drowning in traumaland is really easy, actually / how to stop looking in the depths with a makeshift submarine” - Graphic Violence Lit

• “bloodbath” & “howl (2)” - my substack

• “when every birthday costumes itself a clown, a spirit halloween opens” & “do you wish to know what you are looking for?” - manywor(l)ds

recommendations! or what i’m hyperfixating on lately

music: “Erotic Electronic” by Slayyyter, “Bug Like an Angel” by Mitski, “shines” by Purity Ring and Black Dresses, “Planet of the Bass” by DJ Crazy Times and Ms. Biljana Electronica, “2 Stars” by Meghan Martin/Camp Rock, “ARE WE HAVING FUN YET?” by Negative 25, “AMERICAN HORROR SHOW” by SNOW WIFE, “Worms” by Ashnikko, “Nothing On (But The Radio) by Addison Rae

activities: surviving

watchable media: Charmed (original show) as a case study and nostalgic wormhole

books: i regret to report i haven’t read anything this month

projects i’m launching

WORK OR DIE! is a quasi-collaborative project that is ​by and for disabled, queer, Mad, and/or trans creators who are exhausted from performing labor under capitalism. submissions will on september 4th. fill out this form if you’re interested in learning more.

PLURALFLUX (no website yet, but there is a discord server!) is a work-in-progress project that i plan to launch next year, but it is by and for poets who identify as plural and/or has a dissociative disorder.

cat picture:

(pictured is Peanut, a gray tabby cat, laying on a lilac-colored bean bag.)