Abigail Lilith Ravenheart @abigailravenheart.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I really miss the Wishbone plushie I had as a child. That book-reading dog is what got me into classical literature, reading in general, and even introduced me to poetry besides Dr Seuss for the first time. I slept with him every single night for years. 😔 000
Reposted by Abigail Lilith RavenheartMichael Staniforth @staniforthmick.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Day 53! I read Conversation with my Ghost by @abigailravenheart.bsky.social published by @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social. A heartful conversation, and an important one. Read my review here: mickstaniforth.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/s...mickstaniforth.wordpress.comS/D/Y Feb 22 – Conversation with my Ghost by Abigail Lilith Ravenheart – Fifth Wheel PressI’ll be honest, I chose to read Conversation with my Ghost out of all the other pieces in this publication, partly because of the title, but mostly because it was the only one with a content … 232
Abigail Lilith Ravenheart @abigailravenheart.bsky.social · 19/02/2026I just found out a film festival exists with the same name as me! Already having Norway on my short list of places I want to visit, I want to attend this in the future so much. Wish I could find some merch from it. The mug on their site is so sick. 🖤 www.ravenheartfilmfestival.comravenheartfilmfestival.comRavenheart International Film FestivalRavenheart International Film Festival (RIFF) is a fast-growing genre film festival in Oslo, Norway. We are Norway's only film festival focusing solely on the fantastic genres within cinema. 000
Reposted by Abigail Lilith RavenheartMs . Penny Oaken @skywitchy.bsky.social · 17/02/2026There is no debate on dignity, personhood, autonomy, rights. 0253
Abigail Lilith Ravenheart @abigailravenheart.bsky.social · 13/02/2026City folk looking at a house in the middle of nowhere: why does this cost so much there's nothing here?! Country folk looking at a loft in the middle of town: why does this cost so much it's in the middle of all this mess?! Ngl I'm the first one. Too social to endure true rural life. 000
Abigail Lilith Ravenheart @abigailravenheart.bsky.social · 12/02/2026"I love you so damn much, I’ll even start to pray. I’ll put my faith in all your bullshit, if it means you’ll stay." Tried it. Don't recommend it. Not a poem, but lyrics to Every Day is a Struggle by Senses Fail. I never stopped vibing to them, but they are certainly the mood for me lately. 000
Abigail Lilith Ravenheart @abigailravenheart.bsky.social · 11/02/2026"LISTEN TO ME: THE MOST HOLY DAY OF THE TRANSSEXUAL CALENDAR IS A MASS FUNERAL." This is the urgency I devour in writing. This is trans rage exemplified. This is the tone the world forced on us. These are the words our people scream into the wind. This is beautifully urgent work. 095
Abigail Lilith Ravenheart @abigailravenheart.bsky.social · 04/02/2026"The truth is that I do not think I am ready, at all, to die. Not that it matters." Beautiful existentialism. Is it always so delicious when you taste your own philosophy so tastefully, succinctly written? The presentation of this is something I aspire to in my own work. Not that it matters. 🖤 020
Reposted by Abigail Lilith RavenheartThe Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 25/11/2025Anyway, reading transfeminine poetry is hot 😳 I don't make the rules. 3739
Abigail Lilith Ravenheart @abigailravenheart.bsky.social · 04/02/2026You ever struggle to discern if a line you wrote is actually cooking or just baffling? Is it a failing on my part that I can't tell the difference? 000
Reposted by Abigail Lilith RavenheartKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 04/02/2026you don't say? at some point we're going to acknowledge what every study ever on this subject has said, right? right? www.independent.co.uk/news/science...independent.co.ukTrans athletes may not have fitness advantage in women’s sport, landmark study findsFindings suggest physical performance in trans women converges toward that of cis women over time 2142931267
Reposted by Abigail Lilith RavenheartRust & Moth @rustandmoth.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Our spring pages are live, y'all! Birds, birds, everywhere - join us online as the issue unfolds. rustandmoth.com/issue/spring...rustandmoth.comSpring 2026 | Rust & Moth 0186
Abigail Lilith Ravenheart @abigailravenheart.bsky.social · 30/01/2026You cannot reform a disease. Either you kill it, or it will kill you. You either carve it out completely and incinerate it, or any part of it left behind will spread again. Allowing it to stay endangers everybody. There is no possibility of reform. Abolition and prosecution is the bare minimum. 010
Reposted by Abigail Lilith RavenheartChise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/01/2026When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. 253439983
Abigail Lilith Ravenheart @abigailravenheart.bsky.social · 29/01/2026New poem is live today. 🖤 The poem is a burning haibun, a form created by @tagreathouse.bsky.social , and I anxiously hope I've done it justice. "Purgatory Ablaze" is deeply personal, exploring queer religious trauma. So incredibly proud to be part of this publication. trans-rag.com#ravenhearttrans-rag.comtransitive rag Issue #2Issue 2 out now — transitive rag is a quarterly magazine of trans writing and art. 251
Abigail Lilith Ravenheart @abigailravenheart.bsky.social · 28/01/2026"A room of poets; a packet of seeds." Reading "A Pack of Seeds" by Ori Diskett. The ideas presented feel like putting words to the unnamed. I imagine most poets worry about what we take from other poets, but this piece finds a beautiful view of that process. eyetothetelescope.com/archives/056...eyetothetelescope.comEye to the TelescopeEye to the Telescope, the quarterly online journal of SFPA, the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, an international organization of speculative poets. 000
Reposted by Abigail Lilith RavenheartTV's Adam, who died 25 years ago THIS VERY SAME NIGHT, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 03/01/2026the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches 191128884030
Abigail Lilith Ravenheart @abigailravenheart.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Sharing this work as one of my own lines haunts my brain today. "Flinching as arms spread wide, the offer no longer relevant." A honor and a pleasure to have my work featured in @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social with so many talented poets. fifthwheelpress.com/anth8-backen...fifthwheelpress.comConversation with my Ghost — Abigail Lilith Ravenheart — fifth wheel pressAbigail Lilith Ravenheart (she/her) is a queer, transfemme poet residing in Carbondale, IL. She is a winner of the Jon Tribble Memorial Award for Poetry, and her work has been published in Grassroot... 144
Abigail Lilith Ravenheart @abigailravenheart.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Two gorgeous works. "Deeply Infiltrative" and it's succinct exploration of the discrimination trans people face in the pursuit of healthcare is so loud. We fight and die seeking treatment. This line resonates, radiates: "you know, you are not supposed to be here" beestungmag.com/issue25/two-...beestungmag.comTwo Poems by Michal ‘MJ’ Jones – beestung 153
Abigail Lilith Ravenheart @abigailravenheart.bsky.social · 22/01/2026I feel like "canine" is an unmistakable part of my gender. The feelings of being at my most feminine are often overlapping with pup play. The first photo I ever took of myself and didn't hate involved a pup hood. I look at myself and I see "dog, but girl." Not sure if that's relatable. 😅 000
Abigail Lilith Ravenheart @abigailravenheart.bsky.social · 09/01/2026I barely slept last night and I'm full of adrenaline this morning. I hope it's enough to make it through the work day. 😩 000
Reposted by Abigail Lilith RavenheartThe Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 31/12/2025Over 275 authors, editors, critics and diehard readers came together over the last month to vote on their favorite transfeminine books of the year. It's my honor to present the 2025 TFR Reader's Choice Awards! Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to everyone who voted 🩷thetransfemininereview.comThe 2025 TFR Reader’s Choice AwardsOver 275 authors, critics, editors, and readers came together to vote on their favorite transfeminine literature of 2025. 11452238
Abigail Lilith Ravenheart @abigailravenheart.bsky.social · 29/12/2025It's hard for me to put a score on this year. On one hand, completely awful year as a trans person living in the US. Economically and socially toxic. One the other, met my two partners, came out at work, got 8 poems published, won an award for poetry, and finally feel like I'm finding community. 010
Abigail Lilith Ravenheart @abigailravenheart.bsky.social · 11/12/2025I still remember the first dress I ever wore. I would give anything to see it again, to hold it, to just remember how much it meant to me then. I've never seen another one exactly like it. The style is probably a little dated now (it was 30 years ago). But I remember the dress clear as day, forever. 000
Abigail Lilith Ravenheart @abigailravenheart.bsky.social · 08/12/2025I'm disgusted that hatred against polyamory has hit the point of being trendy. Similar to how trans identity has been weaponized, visibility without protection is dangerous. I would think, unfortunately, that legal protections are unlikely under existing laws due to a historical hated of polygamy. 100
Reposted by Abigail Lilith RavenheartChiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 05/12/2025🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈I dream of the day when the world can become a place where transgender people can live proudly and freely as themselves, and where they can love freely As a mascot, I see human love as beautiful and wonderful. I love you all today as well♡ 136156614762
Abigail Lilith Ravenheart @abigailravenheart.bsky.social · 05/12/2025"We spend ourselves nightly & wake still gleaming" This piece by @jonikt.bsky.social hits all the right notes. Possibly the most effervescent work in this anthology, I've been rereading this one frequently for a shot of motivation. It makes me wanna dance! fifthwheelpress.com/anth8-backen...fifthwheelpress.comLOW FUNDS, BUT WE RICH — Joni K. Thomas — fifth wheel pressJoni Thomas is a poet and photographer based in Richmond, Virginia. Her work has appeared in Transfixmagazine and Anarkiss , exploring themes of transness, roots, and reclamation. Through both poe... 010
Abigail Lilith Ravenheart @abigailravenheart.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Poems like this really scratch a particular itch for me. Something about this intimately detailed recounting of a particular moment, whether real or imagined, is almost like slice of life anime; the daily mundane becomes wistfully beautiful when spoken aloud. fifthwheelpress.com/anth8-backen...fifthwheelpress.compsalm 78:25 — Sawyer Katz — fifth wheel pressSawyer Katz (he/him) is a queer writer, poet, and egg and cheese bagel enthusiast based in Northern Virginia. He has been a featured speaker at his university's Trans and Nonbinary Author Series twic... 010
Reposted by Abigail Lilith RavenheartThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 03/12/2025We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions. It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country. 122588810
Abigail Lilith Ravenheart @abigailravenheart.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Supporting poetry in print is so crucial, and I cannot recommend fifth wheel press enough for their support of the queer writing community. There are short reviews of several of the works in this on my page for the curious. tl;dr - absolutely worth it. Bonus: I'm featured in it too. :3 062
Abigail Lilith Ravenheart @abigailravenheart.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Imagine being so wealthy you can do anything you want, having literally no obligations to a second of your time, and deciding what you truly value the most with absolute financial and temporal freedom is ruining the lives of an already struggling group, punching down so far you pull your back. 010
Abigail Lilith Ravenheart @abigailravenheart.bsky.social · 03/12/2025"What is more human than being baffled and enraged By your own kind?" Absolutely delighted to read this today. An incredibly raw and sincere recounting of a life fought just to be lived. A blistering look at dysphoria and stigma, and the politics of just wanting to exist by @hotpoet.bsky.social 141
Abigail Lilith Ravenheart @abigailravenheart.bsky.social · 02/12/2025"Still, he’d have loved me at my most disgusting." This work reads like a deeply personal recounting, ripe with details demanding to be taken as history. Fascinatingly sincere imagery. As somebody who has struggled with suicidal thoughts, this tender presentation of that vulnerability hits deep. 021
Reposted by Abigail Lilith RavenheartChiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 02/12/2025Chiitan Knight will continue to spread his message until there are no more transgender people who are subjected to unjustified criticism and slander♡ Let's create a world where we can all love freely🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 170159774840
Abigail Lilith Ravenheart @abigailravenheart.bsky.social · 01/12/2025One of my very favorite publications to read. Absolutely worth your time to read some back issues and consider submitting. 041
Abigail Lilith Ravenheart @abigailravenheart.bsky.social · 25/11/2025"meet me in that green space by the river of forever chemicals and bottle caps because i cannot get over your face in the sunlight." This is a beautifully tender work capturing intimacy in every day moments. Put a smile on my face as I read and reread it. fifthwheelpress.com/anth8-backen...fifthwheelpress.compoem found under my windshield wiper — Anya Quesnel — fifth wheel pressAnya Quesnel is a poet from Trinidad and Tobago. 000
Abigail Lilith Ravenheart @abigailravenheart.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. While there are far too many of us lost, there are two people I most remember on this day. The first is Sam Nordquist, a trans man killed almost three months after his mother requested a wellness check which the police refused. glaad.org/grief-and-fo...glaad.orgGrief and Fond Remembrances for Slain Transgender Man Sam Nordquist | GLAADOn February 13, 2025, the body of Sam Nordquist, a Black transgender man, was found in Yates County, New York. Investigators said stated that Sam was killed after suffering months of prolonged physica... 110
Abigail Lilith Ravenheart @abigailravenheart.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Gods, I'm tired of her hypocrisy. The turncoat pick-me thinks people on Bluesky aren't real, as if her lack of backbone hasn't allowed the abuse to trickle right down to me and you. Ignoring the abuse made it less frequent? Fuck all the way off. www.advocate.com/politics/sar...advocate.comDemocrat Sarah McBride on her approach to expanding trans acceptance in Congress — and America“I recognize that it’s not viscerally comforting for some people in my own community who feel the indignities that I am facing vicariously,” Delaware U.S. Rep. Sarah McBride told The Advocate. 100
Abigail Lilith Ravenheart @abigailravenheart.bsky.social · 19/11/2025I am so very honored to be a contributor in this collection. fwp puts out some of the best in queer writing and it's an incredible feeling to have my work included in this. Expect some commentary on my favorite pieces from my co-contributors soon. 🖤 172
Reposted by Abigail Lilith Ravenheart🔞 Callipygous Licorne @miorjah.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Puritanism 856711980
Abigail Lilith Ravenheart @abigailravenheart.bsky.social · 18/11/2025“It feels like every day I look at the news and then the headline just reads, ‘Sorry, more things you've lost,’” Hilborn said. A succinct summary of the transgender experience in the US, through the lens of our most vulnerable: the youth. This article hurts. www.advocate.com/politics/tex...advocate.comTexas teachers are being forced to deadname transgender students under a new state lawA Texas law requires school employees to use names and pronouns that conform to students’ sex at birth. 010
Reposted by Abigail Lilith RavenheartThe Offing @theoffingmag.bsky.social · 18/11/2025“I am expected to answer in every season—yes I am, no, I don’t want what it makes me, yes maybe my fear has followed.” From “Another Nameless Sea” and “Dear, Dirty Dublin,” two Micro poems, by Jo Bear. theoffingmag.com/micro/anothe...theoffingmag.com“Another Nameless Sea” and “Dear, Dirty Dublin,” - The OffingMicro - The Offing Magazine 021
Reposted by Abigail Lilith RavenheartChiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 18/11/2025You can love someone you love even if you don't love yourself🏳️⚧️ But if you love yourself, you can love both yourself and the person you love. Your love becomes twofold. So take care of yourself. Your soul is beautiful. 176236907605
Abigail Lilith Ravenheart @abigailravenheart.bsky.social · 12/11/2025“If everyone who loves trans people cuts off everyone who says the wrong thing, there’s no one left in those people’s lives to help them evolve.” I am so sick of queer media platforming her like she's a champion for us. No politician has ever disappointed me more. www.advocate.com/politics/sar...advocate.comSarah McBride explains how Democrats’ ‘big tent is bisexual’The Democratic congresswoman from Delaware told an audience at Crooked Con, "You can’t build a diverse working class coalition if people don’t feel like you like them." 120
Reposted by Abigail Lilith RavenheartAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/11/2025Every single Dem that caved and agreed to this deal needs to be primaried and voted out. They are cowards who wasted the last month for a half baked promise vote a month from now. 14749521005
Abigail Lilith Ravenheart @abigailravenheart.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Today feels like the first positive day in the news cycle for almost a year. Bonkers to wake up and read news and not be further depressed for once. 000
Reposted by Abigail Lilith RavenheartKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 05/11/2025If you’re wondering what the future of the Democratic Party looks like, watch the young, brown democratic socialist on the TV right now. 380239812656
Abigail Lilith Ravenheart @abigailravenheart.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Succinct. Powerful. Heart-wrenching. Amazing piece. 010
Abigail Lilith Ravenheart @abigailravenheart.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Went to an amazing leather party on Saturday. Felt very cute and adored. It's so wonderful just to be in a space full of fellow queers and kinksters. It's a beautiful experience I cannot recommend enough. 000
Abigail Lilith Ravenheart @abigailravenheart.bsky.social · 01/11/2025The world needs more transfemme puppygirl poets. 010