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trans • Crip • queer // eds. wim & cora hermes // submissions welcome // home to @corporeallitmag & @engenderedlitmag
Gu draws on the body, the landscape, & the four walls domestic in her circumvolution of matrilineal spoor. Daughters: be softer, be smaller; be grateful. Mothers are memory, are forged without kind. Jump Cut is a leap with a tow line, the grasp of a talon on ankle mid fledge.




these tabs have been open on three successive phones Charlotte Simmonds - No one doesn't love you like I do bestnewzealandpoems.org.nz/past-issues/20… Hera Lindsay Bird - I want to get high my whole life with you thespinoff.co.nz/books/01-06-20…
Which poem do you return to again and again?
"acquiescence is for pizza toppings and petty fights, not the way I am treated or, I don't know, my fucking freedoms" - nat raum, poem for agreeing to disagree @gr8earlofhell
nat raum pushes back against the sanitized polite, pliable, & otherwise "perfect" trans ideal deemed acceptable by society—if, & when, they are accepted at all—with poems that highlight the righteous, the cruel, & the ugly of existing in a cis het patriarchal world @gr8earlofhell
Billie Sainwood's What was eaten was given cradles the past and prays into the future in celebration of trans life loved and lived fiercely in this impossible now. @DriedMarigolds
Of big tech and binaries, Siobhan Dunlop's Syntax Error is one step in the history of how we've been failed. @fiendfull
Super excited to announce that Circulaire, my new pamphlet, is now available to pre-order from Written Off Publishing! writtenoffpublishing.com/shop/p/circula… Blurbed by the phenomenal @JaneBurn14, Circulaire is a love letter to my northern roots, my many mothers, and myself 💛 ☕️
Stay Golden: A Golden Girls-inspired Zine edited by @natallman is now live☀️ FT @ElizabethKBates @adrianf @lkardos @ImLaurenTheresa @Read_Instead dailydrunkmag.com/2022/04/06/sta…
"How did we survive being raised in girlhood— that delicious and dangerous religion?" Leo Rose Rodriguez, How Did We Survive @prodri008
"We forget ourselves and forget ourselves like ghosts torn from skin." - Leo Rose Rodriguez, All my homes are made of bones @prodri008 Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/rodrigu… eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/rodr…
WAKE UP WE'VE GOT NEW @clem_flowers FOR YOU! fifthwheelpress.myshopify.com/products/make-…
every day we wake disappointed no outlet can be trusted & gratefully choose self distribution again. I'm seeing authors say they're looking at self hosting & that's great & dispiriting. what we gain in security, we lose back in reach. please get in touch if you think we can help.
whispers (cause I'm one guy and I'm sleepy): if you are watching the itch situation and want an echo for your books going forward, we have the infrastructure to host non-kith eBooks for sale. get in touch. wim AT kithbooks DOT com
MAYBE JUST THIS is a reflection, a refraction, a dissection of selfhood and memory and generational unhealth, that mines the past with eyes on the future, the present, for a way to move forward that honours the grief. @bonesandpoetry
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nat raum pushes back against the sanitized polite, pliable, & otherwise "perfect" trans ideal deemed acceptable by society—if, & when, they are accepted at all—with poems that highlight the righteous, the cruel, & the ugly of existing in a cis het patriarchal world @gr8earlofhell
whispers (cause I'm one guy and I'm sleepy): if you are watching the itch situation and want an echo for your books going forward, we have the infrastructure to host non-kith eBooks for sale. get in touch. wim AT kithbooks DOT com
a personal delight to be able to say we are now the publishers of two (2) trans books featuring Molotov cocktails. we have got to get meaner. the print on the left ships with NDR's MUTABLE FORESTS @gr8earlofhell kithbooks.com/shop
a while ago, an (older, white, cishet) man i've known for most of my life outed himself as a transphobe to me and i had the idea to write an angry trans chapbook. this is that chapbook. fuck that guy
nat raum pushes back against the sanitized polite, pliable, & otherwise "perfect" trans ideal deemed acceptable by society—if, & when, they are accepted at all—with poems that highlight the righteous, the cruel, & the ugly of existing in a cis het patriarchal world @gr8earlofhell