Honored to be selected for publication for @radixcoop.bsky.social's Futures Vol. 2. Congratulations to the fellow finalists: Cavar (@cavar.bsky.social), Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes, Andrew Hudson (@solarshades.club), Amina Washington, and Mariah Gese.
Cavar 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️
@cavar.bsky.social
transMad & queercrip writer, editor, phd-haver. cooler on goodreads. edits manywor(l)ds. wrote FAILURE TO COMPLY (featherproof) + DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS (Northwestern UP) rep: Noah Grey Rosenzweig. 🕸️ www.cavar.club 📖 goodreads.com/cavar
Corey is the man shot and killed today by a Madison, WI cop. People are creating a memorial on asphalt where lit candles surround a pile of flower bouquets. Large black letters painted on the ground: RIP COREY a red swinged heart in chalk "He should be alive." A person kneels to set down an item.
You can and should point out that police killing people daily is the "norm" in America. But that doesn't mean you *accept* the normalization of this violence and the way some people rush to smugly point these things out contributes to collective fatigue. Your horror has been stolen from you.
I gotta sleep but everyone please take this moment as a prompt to check in with friends and make sure everyone is on the same page with your wishes: Do you want to be woken up when it happens or not?
setting aside all of our dead mitch jokes to shit on graham is the america I love
Believe Women is an epistemological stance. It doesn't mean you assume that every single woman is telling the truth and women never lie. It means you understand that in the system that we exist in, there's much more risk and pain for women coming forward about abuse than there is anything to gain.
I say it often but once again: By granting them borrowing privileges and protecting their privacy, public libraries afford children a form of civic standing and respect that has few parallels in our “free” society, which mostly treats children as chattel. Vociferously defend public libraries. 📚
I am so fucking tired of woman having to stand on a national stage and tear their hearts open and pour their trauma out in front of the entire country. And still not be believed. Or be told it doesn’t matter because we need her assaulter. I’m so tired of it.
Many thanks to @cavar.bsky.social for interviewing me for @anmlymag.bsky.social about founding @nervetowrite.bsky.social, sustaining disabled literary community, and the importance of disabled rage. medium.com/anomalyblog/...
dis/connect: Sustaining Disabled Creativity: An Interview with Sarah Fawn Montgomery, Nerve to…
I feel like it’s common to begin these types of interviews with a question on origin. I’d prefer to begin with one of genealogy. When…
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Thanks to @cavar.bsky.social and @anmlymag.bsky.social for interviewing @sfmontgomery.bsky.social about founding N2W, as well as speaking with editor Mialise Carney and grad intern Emily Lapomardo about the kind of work we're looking for in our submissions! medium.com/anomalyblog/...
dis/connect: Sustaining Disabled Creativity: An Interview with Sarah Fawn Montgomery, Nerve to…
I feel like it’s common to begin these types of interviews with a question on origin. I’d prefer to begin with one of genealogy. When…
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The reason racism is solvable is that it in no way biological destiny. White people aren't genetically constructed to do wrong, they can always choose not to, & we always have the choice at every moment to deconstruct whiteness & get rid if of it collectively.
you: Please, dr moreau. your unholy creations are an affront to god. creatures of land should not combine with creatures of the sea. a baby belongs with its mother sheep, not imprisoned within a pearlescent shell until you see fit to pry open its hinges dr moreau: clamb
The place I donate blood gives points that you can exchange for gas cards which means I actually know the current exchange rate of blood for oil. Blood is going for 20.618 times an equivalent amount of oil.
the crowd: "You're doing great! wooooo! we love you guys!"
Follow some intersex people on here todayyyy go.bsky.app/PNBDETu
Failure to Comply @featherproof.bsky.social and Differential Diagnosis @nupress.bsky.social are part of the same practice of generative refusal. Really glad I got to bring in both.
new interview!!! @cavar.bsky.social talks Differential Diagnosis with M. K. Thekkumkattil fifthwheelpress.com/blog/intervi...
the FOCUS from this perfect baby; the locked stare and fixed shoulders, even as she toddles through the grass
Cameron Park Zoo in Waco TX has a new black-footed cat kitten (Felis nigripes). It's exploring grass for the 1st time here. This species is the smallest wild cat in Africa, but with the highest hunting success (~60%). They eat 1/6th their body weight in rodents & birds every night.
wow lots of people following me from (i think) the trans speculative author list...hi! i wrote a poetry collection about disorderly eating + psychiatric abuse + when one's lived realities become sites of unlimited body horror...maybe you'll "like" it?
so strange to bookpost in times like these™. but my debut poetry collection, Differential Diagnosis, coming out with @nupress.bsky.social in two months! it's about embodied and enminded noncompliance w/ institutional medicine, disorderly eating, being trans, all the usual Cavar fare. Buy it here:
It means that in their hearts of hearts, these men just want to find a woman it's acceptable to rape, and maybe we should all consider that this is bad.
“you’re defending a fascist woman?!” no, i simply reject the notion that rape is ever an acceptable tool of corrective violence. the fact that so many so called leftists deem it acceptable when it’s the “right kind of woman” pisses me the fuck off
I'm fine with men calling for him to be tarred and feathered, basically anything else and you go on my mental list of men who are not safe
if you are a man considering weighing in on the latest graham platner story i urge you to take a beat. women who are your peers are watching.
HAPPENING TONIGHT!!! www.hivemindbooks.com/events/51719...
AUTHOR EVENT – Cavar on Madness and DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS | Hive Mind Books
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Reminder! This event with @cavar.bsky.social and me and Topaz Winters is coming up in New York's one and only Bushwick at Hivemind Books! Come on throooooooooough RSVP here: hivemindbooks.com/events/51719...
CAVARS WHEN IT'S TIME TO EXAMINE CLASS, FEMALE FRIENDSHIP, AND DISORDERED EATING www.astrolabe.ooo/cavar-skim
Today on Backlist Lit, I share some backlist poetry and fiction gems from @aniking.bsky.social @cavar.bsky.social @dorseycraft.bsky.social and more, all circling themes of motherhood, girlhood, and the weird spaces in between. backlistlit.wordpress.com/2026/05/30/m...
Originally, I was going to quote tweet this and flippantly describe @cavar.bsky.social as Mad Baddie and Bad Maddie, but I was so moved by this interview that I just want to strip away defensive irony and earnestly rally to the flag of Madness held by my comrade and friend and hero.
new interview!!! @cavar.bsky.social talks Differential Diagnosis with M. K. Thekkumkattil fifthwheelpress.com/blog/intervi...
Failure to Comply @featherproof.bsky.social and Differential Diagnosis @nupress.bsky.social are part of the same practice of generative refusal. Really glad I got to bring in both.
new interview!!! @cavar.bsky.social talks Differential Diagnosis with M. K. Thekkumkattil fifthwheelpress.com/blog/intervi...
IT’S ME!!!!!!!! I loved this convo with MK, whose book, The Sexuality of Care, will be out in the summer with @feministpress.bsky.social. I urge you to read our respective books in dialogue when you can!
new interview!!! @cavar.bsky.social talks Differential Diagnosis with M. K. Thekkumkattil fifthwheelpress.com/blog/intervi...
ok my spouse just explained to me that some people's dicks will fall off if they don't post their opinions on bluesky i'm really sorry for being insensitive about this before. carry on
I know you want to come to this. Me and @topazwinters.bsky.social are gonna fete @cavar.bsky.social . Just celebrate the hell out of them. Really do it up. Come on through to discuss Madness and poetry! Bushwick! 1 week!
AUTHOR EVENT – Cavar on Madness and DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS | Hive Mind Books
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2 years ago I wrote a poem called "Every Trans Suicide Is State-Sanctioned Murder." It always has been. proteanmag.com/2024/06/27/e...
Every Trans Suicide Is State Sanctioned Murder • Protean Magazine
Poet [sarah] Cavar's "Every Trans Suicide Is State Sanctioned Murder" is a stunning reflection on transition and the ongoing structural and interpersonal violence against queer people. [Content warnin...
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"The move came after a transgender student who was part of Boise High School’s Sexuality and Gender Alliance died by suicide, and another stopped attending the school, the group’s lawyers wrote in a legal agreement reached Wednesday requesting the case be dismissed."