october 2023

october news

book release~ NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL HORROR! is set to release on Halloween. It is a poetry collection that discusses the relationship between sexuality and sexual abuse, and how it informs identity.

podcasts~ I discussed Pan’s Labyrinth with Ghoulfriends Podcast, and I talked about the first horror movie I chose to watch (2005’s House of Wax) with Sledgehammer Horror Podcast.

submit~ 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 are open indefinitely/once a cap has been reached.

poems

• VOL. 1, *self-guide to understanding dissociative identity disorder once you reached crisis mode: who are you this time? tommy, kyle, or josha?* in fifth wheel press: dreamland

• While that’s the only new poem out since the last newsletter, several are forthcoming around Halloween! This includes poems in Naked Cat Lit. Mag, Querencia Press, and warning lines.

recommendations! or what i’m hyperfixating on lately

music: “One of Your Girls” by Troye Sivan, Turn Off the Light by Kim Petras, every “Halloweenie” song by Ashnikko, “Haunted” by Laura Les, The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We by Mitski, and Mercurial World by Magdalena Bay

activities: playing Ooblets, cross-stitching bookmarks, designing plushies

watchable media: The Good Place, Gen V, Faking It

books: Freedom House by KB Brookins, I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times by Taylor Byas, and Random Access Memory by nat raum

cat picture:

(pictured is Peanut, a gray tabby cat, laying on a Halloween themed cat blanket. She has one eye open.)