This weekend, one of my brothers gets married, and I’ll have to share space with my other brother and his wife who haven’t spoken to me since I came out as gay and poly and my partner came out as trans. So that’s fun, and I’m not stressed at all.

Got blocked by a misogynist and a community association that won’t stop using AI for their posters today, so I’m batting 💯 over here

I’ve written a review of Roxanna Bennett’s latest poetry collection, We Gladly Feast on Those Who Would Subdue Us. The title is a little nod to the Addams Family motto.

Rough Beast vs. The Divine Feminine: A Review of We Gladly Feast on Those Who Would Subdue Us by Roxanna Bennett

reviewed by Courtney Bates-Hardy We Gladly Feast on Those Who Would Subdue Us is Roxanna Bennett’s fourth poetry collection with Gordon Hill Press. As a longtime Addams Family fan, I was intrigued …

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Story time. So one of my early jobs while I was in university was at Booster Juice. And I was forewarned by one of the girls I worked with that this lesbian couple around our age would come by and order, and then make out in front of you to see if you’d react. If you didn’t react, they’d tip you.

I’m thrilled to have a new poem in the Literary Review of Canada about my girlfriend’s cockatiel singing to my feet. He looooooves my feet 😂

My writing group has released our first collaborative chapbook with Gridlock Lit! It’s all about what it’s like being queer on the Prairies. We each wrote a poem for the collection called “My Queer” and “My Bad Queer,” and then wrote a poem together called “Our Queer.” You can order a copy online!

Prairie Queers by The Pain Poets

THE PAIN POETS are a quartet of disabled queers. They are based in oskana kâ-asastêki in Treaty 4 territory (Regina, SK). You can find them touching knees on Dayne’s red cuddle couch under a blanket a...

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April reads!

Favourites! 1) Romance book: The Time Traveller’s Wife Romance movie: Portrait of a Lady on Fire 2) Thriller book: Into the Drowning Deep by Seanan McGuire Thriller movie: Jaws 3) Comedy book: Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockhart Comedy movie: Jackass 🤷🏻‍♀️ 4) Animation: She-Ra Graphic novel: Nimona

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TELL ME!!!! “What’s your favorite” because I need a feed cleanse and so do you! 1) Romance book or movie 2)Thriller book or movie 3) COMEDY book or movie 4) Animation or Graphic Novel

The sapphic Bridgerton season is in production now and it makes me want to cry. I hoped, but never, expected that a mainstream period romance would include queer characters and now they’re going to be leading a whole season! 😭

If people only get their #yqr news from JustBins, of course they’re going to start thinking Regina is a shithole that’s full of accidents and stabbings, but then they’re missing all of the good things that happen here every day.

Apparently I whisper-talked in my sleep last night and I’m pretty sure it was the exact moment I was dreaming about yelling at my mom because she won’t accept my trans partner.

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It makes me want to cry thinking about my younger self watching the Pride parade because I didn’t feel like I’d earned the right to march yet, but still wearing bi colours and makeup (before I realized I was a lesbian). And now I organize the Pride float for the library 🥺

I wrote a First Person story for CBC that came out yesterday about my partner coming out as trans and the ways our lives changed. There’s so much more to our story, and this is just a small part of it.

FIRST PERSON | When my spouse came out as trans, we had to learn who we were all over again | CBC News

Courtney Bates-Hardy has always been able to talk to her partner about everything. That openness remained a mainstay of their relationship after her partner told her she was trans and as the pair went...

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"I’m back in the therapist’s office with my parents, watching the snow fall." Excerpt from Courtney Bates-Hardy's (@poetcourtney.bsky.social) poem "𝐹𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑖𝑛, 2025" + promotional poster for del Toro's 𝐹𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑖𝑛 (2025) Read "𝐹𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑖𝑛, 2025" in ISSUE 2.3: longconmag.com/issue-2-3/co...

Watching Love is Blind is like anthropological to me. It’s this whole other culture that I don’t see myself in at all as a queer person and it’s both fascinating and disturbing.

About a year ago, someone asked me if I was part of the bacon lettuce tomato community and now it’s become a thing that my partners and I say to each other ALL THE TIME 😂

Finished watching Angel for the second time in my life. I still sob over Illyria asking Wesley if he’d like her to lie to him now 😭

Me, getting perceived as straight all week with a trans partner and a girlfriend:

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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Went to see Markiplier’s Iron Lung last night at the late showing and I haven’t seen so many teenagers in one space since I was a teenager.

“Why do things have to happen all the time?” -my gf

For such a prolific novelist, I’m really finding Margaret Atwood’s memoir to be a slog.

Definitely not melting down because my new office was too loud today while I was on a deadline. Why would anyone think I’m autistic?

There are few things weirder than sitting at your library job while knowing that someone you went to high school with is a block away at the courthouse because they’ve been charged with accessory to murder.

After the AI bubble pops, put this hero on some stamps. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Meet the Alaska Student Arrested for Eating an AI Art Exhibit

A conversation with Graham Granger, whose combination of protest and performance art spread beyond campus. “AI chews up and spits out art made by other people.”

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CBC producing all these think pieces and interviews about why booksellers are going to judge the Giller Prize this year like it’s a big mystery. Well, I can solve it for you: it’s because most writers don’t want to be associated with the award anymore after the boycott 🤷🏻‍♀️

Are you even lesbians if you don’t get mistaken for sisters? 😅

I wrote a pantoum about Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein and familial estrangement due to my queerness. I love the film so much that I've watched it 3 times since it came out, and according to GDT, that means I'm married to it. Delighted to have my poem featured in @longconmagazine.bsky.social

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Frankenstein, 2025 • POETRY

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