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REBELLION Won't you celebrate me: left my country at 12, lost my identity at 13, discovered I couldn't return at 14, contemplated suicide at 16 and 17 and on certain occasions, like last Tuesday. I found myself at the knees of poetry and every word that has tried to kill me grows as a new layer of black skin. --A.A. The incomparable Sibling Rivalry Press has continued their streak of awesomeness with IF YOU CAN HEAR THIS: POEMS IN PROTEST OF AN AMERICAN INAUGURATION, an eclectic mix featuring over 70 poets from around the world. Much needed! 😍✨ #siblingrivalrypress #unabridgedbookoftheweek (at Unabridged Bookstore)

Hi new followers! Figuring it’s overdue to re-introduce myself. I’m Jesse! She/her/hers nonbinary femme, Leo sun/Cancer rising/Aries moon. I’m a doctoral candidate at the CUNY GC in composition and rhetoric, and I write about femme access pedagogy, embodiment and trauma, digital writing, and critical disability studies. I’m also a poet and essayist and have books with #SiblingRivalryPress and #DamagedGoodsPress and #DancingGirlPress and pieces in Entropy, @nat.brut , and @blanketseamag among many others. I’m sick and disabled and rest a LOT to cope with my hypermobility, chronic fatigue and pain, cPTSD, and neuroqueerness. I’m a fat white bisexual originally from NC based in Brooklyn and use a cane and rollator to get around. What else? I have two cats and two beautiful partners. I like indie video games and audiobooks about anti-Blackness and science fiction. Because I can lay down, I watch a lot of TV and work on a few web projects for my academic fellowships. On this account, I share a lot of fundraisers for sick and disabled, Black and Indigenous, and working-class folks, along with lots of resources intended for white folks who want to do more and better to address our racism, ableism, and white supremacist ethics. Image descriptions in comments!! https://www.instagram.com/p/CEesvZTjqb2/?igshid=1sr3s4osvmr46

Right now we need to tune into the wisdom of sick and disabled writers, artists, activists, and advocates more than ever. If your only source of news is from a corporate conglomerate, TURN IT OFF. Buy MORE THAN ORGANS by @brownroundboi (pub date TODAY from #SiblingRivalryPress ) and listen to sick and disabled, queer and trans BIPOC like Kay, whose inexhaustible advocacy for their communities is a beacon of hope in dark times. | #SickAndDisabledQueers #SmallPressPoetry #MoreThanOrgans https://www.instagram.com/p/B9ox2WRlI-i/?igshid=ojtsfbn2umo4

So this is her: my first full-length poetry collection The Uninhabitable with brilliant blurbs from @carrielorig @venusofnatalie and @murmurshewrote is available for preorder! I’m organizing readings and a party or two over the next few months in NYC, the northeast, and at AWP?!?! Please preorder and get copies for friends! Ask your local and school libraries to buy copies! Support living writers! Support queer small presses like #SiblingRivalryPress and underemployed graduate students. I love you! | #queerpoetry #preorder #linkinbio https://www.instagram.com/p/BsvyQyblxzn/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=17z0cxijtkosd

This was such an unusual cuddle moment with Milton. He generally camps nearby, usually in arm’s reach, but other than our bedtime ritual where he stands on my chest as I pet him, he never beds down right up against me, against his other daddy,sure, but I apparently move around too much. So I didn’t want to disturb him but with my @rattlemagazine subscription yesterday I got my copy of @nickole.brown’s new chapbook, To Those Who Were Our First Gods. I had read a few of the poems this year, and heard early versions beautifully read by Nickole on the Poetry Spoken Here podcast. It is dedicated to the Gulliver, the ram 🐏 whose story I followed and toward whose prosthetic leg I donated a few bucks. I was saving time this morning to drink it all in. But sitting up would have sent this timid old sweetheart of a cat running. So, slowly, quietly, I reached with my foot toward the end table and grasped the book with my toes. I recently finished reading, savoring really, the poems in Nickole’s new edition of Sister from #siblingrivalrypress. These poems, while a very different conversation are no less gorgeous and no less human. . . . #amreading #poetry #chapbook #cat #animals #animalsanctuary #love https://www.instagram.com/p/BqnS8f9nhbs/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=etawbbzcuv2g

The latest arrival from #siblingrivalrypress, #midnightinaperfectworld #poems from @collinkelley ! (at Mack Street Bohemian Cafe) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp53IEcHGPJ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=13mmaqbsxz4kk

Tonight @bgsqd we celebrate the launch of 2 #siblingrivalrypress poetry books: We Go Seasonal, by Robert Siek, & Not Everything Thrown Starts a Revolution, by Stephen S. Mills @robertsiekpoet @stephenscott22 See you at 7! #queerpoetry #queerlit (at Bureau of General Services-Queer Division) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnbwTvnhnfj/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1xpkf88vymfit

Twelve days overdue, but it's finally arrived #entrepoetas #robjacques #warpoet #siblingrivalrypress #northamericanpoetry #gaypoetry #veryveryhappy (en Cartagena, Murcia)