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manywor(l)ds :: place @manyworlds.place · 16/05/2025

We're so excited to welcome issue 8 of manywor(l)ds into this particular world, featuring work by @bogiperson.bsky.social, @1159cowboy.bsky.social, @torpor-chamber.bsky.social, @sadeebee.bsky.social, + more! (pictured below is Aylli Cortez's "in this viral struggling") manyworlds.place/issue-8/

A blue wall is overlaid with pink and white strips at its center, alluding to the transgender flag. The words ONE THING YOU CAN NEVER LEAVE THE HOUSE WITHOUT are pasted on top of it. On the top-left corner, a person looks out their window. The words MARCH 2020 are attached. On the left side, several pink drops fall onto the found-collage poem. On the bottom-right corner, a person’s face is obscured by the cut-out of a phone screen, from which a plant bearing pink and blue leaves blooms.

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aylli 🦭 @1159cowboy.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

trans voice update: my voice cracked and my brother said he wasn't gonna say anything but that was my third time tonight

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel

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francis @dilfkink.kindboys.online · 09/04/2025

every day i see several men i will never look like and it's ruining my life

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gryme (commissions open) @gryme.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

If you love me, then keep it to yourself.

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aylli 🦭 @1159cowboy.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

my chapbook is me pre-transition going "you get what i'm saying?" to an imagined audience that clearly does not get what i'm saying

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james o @jamesolearypoet.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I should post a poem a day for National Poetry Month April 6 — Eduardo C. Corral

Our Completion, Oil on Wood: Tino Rodriguez, 1999

Before nourishment there must be obedience.
In his hands I was a cup overflowing with thirst.
Eight ruler of my days, ninth lord of my nights:
he thrashed above me, like branches. Once,
after weeks of rain, he sliced a potato in half
to remind me of the moon. The dark slept in the small
of his back. The back of his knees: pale music.
We’d crumble the Eucharist and feed it to the pigeons.
Sin vergüenza. Escuintle. He Who Makes Things Sprout.
In the margins in a book of poems by Emily Dickinson
he scribbled: /she had a pocketful of horses//Trojan/
& some of them used/. Often I mistook him for a storyteller
when he stood in the rain. A su izquierda, heusos.
A su derecha, napa’s de cuero. When I’d yawn,
he’d pluck black petals out of my mouth.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Gerald Brockhurst's portrait of his first wife Anaïs Folin was made around 1914 soon after a trip to Italy. It was this journey that gave him his first experience of the Italian masters, particularly those of the Quattrocento; it completely changed his style and ambition.

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

We're open for our 14th annual e-chapbook contest. Manuscripts must be between 12-26 pages in length. We welcome submissions in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid work, as well as visual poetry, poetry comics, and visual hybrid works. www.sundresspublications.com/news/2025/03...

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en•gendered @en-gendered.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

i put a pause on en*gendered because i got scared, got angry, as all trans people have. it's not passing so I'm coming back angry. let's get so fucking insufferably loud. if you're angry & frightened; if you're holding yourself, & our people, so defiantly gently; i want it here

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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

"...we will live beyond you. we grip our city with arms and hands made fast by all your evil tools. we are posting this to TikTok so the Chinese government knows that we are hot and young and slutty in our artificial cages, in our handcuffs" —G.H. Plaag

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G.H. Plaag – ANMLY

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aylli 🦭 @1159cowboy.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

sometimes i just think these sharon olds lines to myself: "i am sane as a level" "i am sane as a friend"

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aylli 🦭 @1159cowboy.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

thank you to my past self for putting in the work for my present self and looking out for my future self :^)

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Nadhir @nadhirnor.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

how do I remind my brain that I have too much work to be sad!!

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aylli 🦭 @1159cowboy.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

there's this 54 year old man that i have a celebrity crush on & i'm frustrated cause i've seen him in 3 tv shows and 2 movies and he dies in all of them!!!

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

'Ditchling Beacon, East Sussex.' (1936) For many years Charles Knight lived in Ditching, a picturesque village at the foot of the South Downs - many of his landscapes are of a similar quality to this work, yet they are often stored away and so Knight is another obscure artist.

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Helvetica Blanc @helveticablanc.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I made this as a goof a few weeks ago, and thought I may as well release it into the world. Fare thee well, Lowly Yaldabaoth!

Lowly Worm from Richard Scarry's Busytown made to look like an old engraving of the Gnostic demiurge, Yaldabaoth.

The aforementioned engraving of the Gnostic demiurge, Yaldabaoth.

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Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

the dragon/eel, resting his wings

dragon or eel type creature sitting on a tree

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aylli 🦭 @1159cowboy.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

happy trans day of visibility 🩵 i'm one month on t, and it's been one month since i started hitting the gym! i try to appreciate where i am, even though every selfie i take feels like a before picture. maybe that isn't so bad. i'm glad that i got here!

My reflection in a multi-colored window.

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Veda Scott @vedascott.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

It’s #TransDayOfVisibility No matter how much hate fills the world, somehow trans joy always always always rises above. You have never lived in a world without trans people and you never will 🏳️‍⚧️

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Chelsea Dingman @chelsdingman.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Douglas Kearney

I can’t reckon so i shake my head to a woolie of ears and shut eye continuum. But i come to what i must want to be: a well. By I I mean we, by we mean what’s at the bottom of what i want to be—but that’s not just so. Well, i could feel myself a mountaintop to get to, to there on. Would i then rung down myself to that stood water, to what’s drowned down in it—by which i mean us us us

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aylli 🦭 @1159cowboy.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

can't make sense of my mood shifts lately. but what even is a normal response to everything that's going down currently

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aylli 🦭 @1159cowboy.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

nico carney is a dreamboat... and my transition goals

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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Urgent Mutual Aid Ask! An ANMLY team member became unhoused last December. He's finally secured a safe place to live, but needs help with his security deposit GFM is too slow & we don't want him to lose this opportunity. His shelter shuts down at the end of the month! Goal: $700 Venmo: JLMoultrie

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Sajan @planetsmudge.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

tuna iron

illustration of a steamboat kinda thing traversing mucky waters. It lets out tuna coloured trails. The sky is a gross olive green

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aylli 🦭 @1159cowboy.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

today was my first poetry reading since feb 2024 and i had so much fun!!! really felt the fire and talent from the other readers ❤️‍🔥

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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

"special permission is requested intimacy is requested flesh download and soft interface is requested cut flowers are requested definite heat of the morning sun is requested all of experiential life is insistently requested..." —Karla Khine

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Karla Khine – ANMLY

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Charles Wright

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gsmhorseart.bsky.social @gsmhorseart.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

‪“Cyclone” 70 x 72 inch ink and acrylic on canvas. Available on my website. #horses #equestrian #painting #paintings #art #horse #animals #horseart #equineart www.equineartiststevemessenger.com

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Kári Tulinius @kattullus.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Ursula K. Le Guin on the true pain of being a writer

Screenshot of a single question and answer from interview in the Times Literary Supplement with Ursula K. Le Guin. Here is the quote:

If you could make a change to anything you’ve written over the years, what would it be?

In The Dispossessed, I would mention the communal pickle barrels at street corners in the big towns, restocked by whoever in the community has made or kept more pickles than they need. I knew about the free pickles all along, but never could fit them into the book.

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Today's Feature: An excerpt from Like The Night Inside The Eyes by Daniel Lipara, trans. by Robin Myers, from Poetry Nation Review (@pnreview.bsky.social). Read here: poems.com/poem/like-th...

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Like The Night Inside The Eyes (excerpt)

The space where I feel pleasure, wonder, where I suffer, or joy lingers for a while.

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 25/03/2025

I know you've tried everything, but have you tried just actually writing it?

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aylli 🦭 @1159cowboy.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

i miss having fun on the internet. there was a certain kind of joy that came from being in fandoms and playing mmorpgs in the 2010s, & having multiple accs dedicated to certain media, but these platforms became either defunct or hostile and now i just have a few main accs that i over-curate :^(

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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

"this chain to the throat which tightens not unlike lichen. encroaching encircle. collared from heaven." —Temperance Aghamohammadi

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Temperance Aghamohammadi – ANMLY

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 25/03/2025

When we say that we hope this post is ‘awesome,’ we don’t mean we want it to be expressive of awe or terror. We mean that we hope you like it. This reduction of a word's intensity is called ‘semantic bleaching.’

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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Join us for ANMLY: Friends & Enemies! A virtual reading on Thurs. March 27, starting at 6:30pm EST. Featuring a stellar lineup of ANMLY editors and ANMLY contributors! Email editor@anomalouspress.org for the Zoom link. RSVP: www.facebook.com/events/39634...

ANMLY Friends & Enemies. An online reading. March 27th at 6:30pm EST. With sterling-elizabeth arcadia, Rita Mookerjee, J.L. Moultrie, Allison Thung, Levi Cain, jonah wu, Aylli Cortez, and Temperance Aghamohammadi.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

This sunset is among the most dramatic of pastel compositions created by Monet during the late 1860s and forms part of a series of studies that focus on the skies near Le Havre under different atmospheric conditions.

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CRITTER 🍀🏝️ @fourleafisland.art · 23/03/2025

been playign creature walking sim

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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 23/03/2025

the thrill of knowing my work is being studied in schools truly never fades ⚡️⚡️⚡️ I can't wait to discuss "The Daddy Thing" and dark fairytales with @nicanstett.bsky.social's fiction class tomorrow!

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The Girl is Always Eaten At the End - Electric Literature

"The Daddy Thing" by K.C. Mead Brewer, original fiction about a young girl who befriends a vampire bat, recommended by Electric Literature

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aylli 🦭 @1159cowboy.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

my friend: i LOVE song of achilles me: i haven't read it.. my friend: YOU HAVEN'T READ IT?? me: BUT I'VE READ THE ILIAD?

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aylli 🦭 @1159cowboy.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

super happy to share that my debut poetry chapbook will be published by gacha press! coming this june 🌱

Happy World Poetry Day!

Gacha Press Chapbook Contest

And the winners are...

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Ariel Slamet Ries @arielries.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Today is the beginning of a cause dear to my heart! @trreadathon.bsky.social is an initiative encouraging people to read books about trans characters and/or by trans authors, and donating to trans causes in the lead up to #TODV. For more info: transrightsreadathon.carrd.co #transrightsreadathon

A poster showing the cover for Strange Bedfellows with the text "Read Strange Bedfellows for the Trans Rights Readathon"

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about the trans rights readathon:
The Trans Rights Readathon is an annual call to action to readers and book lovers in support of Trans Day of Visibility (TDOV) on March 31st. This year's Trans Rights Readathon will take place from Friday, March 21 to Monday, March 31, 2025.
During the 11 days of the readathon (March 21-31), read trans* books and donate to trans* organizations.
This is a decentralized fundraiser, so how you participate is up to you. You can read 1 book or 20 books. You can donate to a large organization or a personal GoFundMe. This year, we will also be sharing calls to action on over social media during the 11-day event.

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trans rights are being threatened everywhere.
With sweeping legislation anti-trans being introduced all over the world, it's more important than ever to not only vocally support trans people, but to monetarily support us and our organisations as well.
Our right to bodily autonomy and self determination are being stripped from us everyday, when all we want to do is live our lives. Our existence in your vicinity is not a threat.

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australian trans orgs
While the Trans Rights Readathon page links to US based organisations to support, I wanted to highlight a few places you can donate to in Australia:
-Transgender Victoria
-Zoe Belle Gender Collective
-Transcend Australia
They are all easily searchable and have donation links on their websites.

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Celine @celineloup.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Hestia is a blind spinster who dares the gods to smite her in her quest to feel the touch of a lover. A sensual, gentle exploration of eroticism with a dash of melodrama; canon to the larger Hestia story. Ignatz nominated; 44 pages drawn in 20 days. Celineloup.com

A nude figure with their back turned to the viewer rests the back of his hand on his hip. Wind blows through a line of trees in the distance. "SACRED GROVE" is spelled vertically in large gothic script.

A man wearing a chiton and sandals presses a nude woman's hand to his elbow; their faces are in shadow. Overhead dark clouds hang in the air.

A pair of hands reach out to touch a marble statue of a masculine deity.

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 19/03/2025

"My arrest was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a free Palestine and an end to the genocide in Gaza, which resumed in full force Monday night." a letter from Mahmoud Khalil in ICE detention mondoweiss.net/2025/03/lett...

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Letter from Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian political prisoner in Louisiana

Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian student activist being faced with deportation, writes from an ICE detention facility: “The Trump administration is targeting me as part of a broader strategy to suppres...

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Marcus Jernberger @marcus-jernberger.bsky.social · 06/04/2024

Leafhoppers and friends

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