Hi y'all! Popping back onto this site for the first time in a year (!) to say I'm running a class on the Queer Grotesque for the second summer in a row. Wednesdays, July 1st through 29th, 8 PM EST, sliding scale. More information below and at tinyurl.com/queergrotesque. I'd love to see you there ❤️‍🔥

Hopping back onto this site for the first time in months to say that my forthcoming essay collection about horror movies, intimacy, and love, Uncanny Valley Girls, has an official cover :) She's so beautiful! Forthcoming from Harper Perennial this October!

#AWP25 people! if you are free that Friday night, check out this stacked line-up — @nicanstett.bsky.social @cdeskilson.bsky.social @eveharms.com @cavar.bsky.social @mariahdarling6.bsky.social @brigonzalez.bsky.social @zefrrr.bsky.social @olivasthewriter.bsky.social

Such a sweet and astute review 💗

Ailey 🩷💜💙@bisexualbookshelf.bsky.social · last yr.

Girl Work by Zefyr Lisowski is a poetry collection meditating on the violences that shape gender—how femininity is sculpted by expectation, how desire is tangled with harm, how to live inside a body constantly objectified. Read my review! StoryGraph 🔗 shorturl.at/Fd0Wb Goodreads 🔗 shorturl.at/cjdBi

Sharing this essay I published in 2019 on caring for trans youth as an ethical practice since there is a global crackdown on trans care. I wrote this essay to also reflect on my experience transitioning as a teen, since I truly think it made my life better. philpapers.org/archive/MARG...

boy did i pick a year to become a Public Trans Writer

Annoyed once again at the pablum of writing as self-care, but honestly this transsexual lesbian werewolf novel I'm working on is unclenching some things that 10+ years of therapy haven't shaken out

I wrote about new books from @jeannethornton.bsky.social @torreypeters.bsky.social @harronwawker.bsky.social @veryhotmomm.bsky.social @xbennyboo.bsky.social @thedennemichele.bsky.social @cuteflesh.bsky.social @vivianblaxell.bsky.social and more!

Trans Fem Literary Springtime - Notes - e-flux

McKenzie Wark provides a roundup of forthcoming fiction and literary nonfiction by and about trans women.

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For my first newsletter post, I wrote about running, pain, naming, and blood 🖤 I’d love if you read—more to come soon 🩸

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Discover and discuss great writing with the world’s smartest readers on Substack.

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i’m starting a newsletter! focusing on film/book crit and personal essay, thinking thru intersections of violence + desire, things that are done to us and things we do in turn, + revolutionary desire vs the representation of that desire in the media we consume. more information to come!

Not doing a year-end best-of list but just watched The Devil’s Bath and hands down it’s my favorite film that came out this whole year

Not that you asked, but here's a big roundup of upcoming books by trans authors that you can preorder now! :) Links to individual books below. (Asterisks indicate that this author has been interviewed on the cool podcast Gender Reveal.)

Hi new followers :) I don’t love social media :) So will only be posting around my upcoming book really :) But will be posting around that soon regardless :)

For Electric Literature, I wrote about my favorite movie, learning to love the South, and doing things that hurt as self-care: electricliterature.com/i-loved-texa...

I Loved “Texas Chain Saw Massacre” Before I Loved Myself - Electric Literature

With each rewatch, I got further from the me I was in high school and closer to my truest self

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For @clereviewbooks.bsky.social I wrote about the recent How The Clinic Made Gender, a book that’s not just insidious, but poorly written to boot: www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/cis-...

Cis Gender Studies — Cleveland Review of Books

Why shouldn’t we ask for more?

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with every year that passes, the popularity jack nicholson experienced gets more befuddling

I have an agent now :)

oh my god the barbie movie is gonna yield soooo many terrible final papers for intro gender studies classes this fall

women are meant to receive secrets bc it satisfies our primitive desire to gather nuts (gossip) + berries (forbidden truths)

just got some cute news that I can’t wait to share :) send good vibes :)

many things I miss about the artist retreat I went on last month, but foremost among them is one of the best selfie mirrors/lighting combos I’ve ever seen

Hi new (+ old) followers! Most of my writing I post on instagram, but for those of you who haven’t read it yet, I wanted to share my most recent essay, on exes, changing through relationships, and Black Swan, a movie I did not like that someone I loved did. Pls read + share! 💕

Black Swan (2010): Uncanny Valley Girls

Black Swan is a movie about someone whose art is so pure it annihilates her. Or maybe it's a movie about someone who is persuaded to believe in an art so pure it can annihilate, and in doing so makes ...

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keeping all my discoursey posts on the other app where they belong

All Pisces know how to do is scheme, eat hot chip, and yearn

just sharing this piece by Demian DinéYazhi´ that I think about every day of my life for no reason :) :) :)

All trans women look like they’re 27, which is why we’re colloquially referred to as being in the “27 club”

get in babe, we’re treating every past identity formation we went thru with the love and respect it deserves