iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Kiss Kiss Die @stromberg.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

“The “ick” is recognition. The body remembering what it was asked to be.” One hell of a read. abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built...

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They Built Stepford AI and Called It “Agentic”

Women’s “ick” for AI isn’t technophobia or a gap to close. It’s wisdom to act on.

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isaac 🫃🏻 @androgynyfiend.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

i have this very vivid memory of being 6 and looking at myself in the mirror and trying to imagine what i would look like as an adult and i could *only* picture myself as an adult man. i literally could not see myself as a woman.

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isaac 🫃🏻 @androgynyfiend.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

when ppl whip out the "most girls wish they were boys that doesn't mean they're TRANS" argument i'm just like. i don't think i ever wished i was a boy, it was more that i genuinely struggled to comprehend myself as a girl, lol

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en•gendered @en-gendered.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

the inbox is open 👀 engenderedlit@gmail.com

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en•gendered @en-gendered.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

there's a whole pre-bluesky world of en*gendered just waiting for you to find it. start with this beauty here: engenderedlitmag.com/summer2025

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summer 2025 — en*gendered

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en•gendered @en-gendered.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

en*gendered’s inbox is open for your thoughts on gender, on being engendered; on living engendered in this, or another, world. engenderedlit@gmail.com

the covers of the last two issues of engendered lit mag are surrounded by suggestions of what might be inside
poetry, fiction, gender joy, gender grief, essays & cnf, dysphoria

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en*gendered’s inbox is ope for your thoughts on gender, on being engendered; on living engendered in this, or another world.

engenderedlit@gmail.com
engenderedlitmag.com

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en•gendered @en-gendered.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

we're going to keep this call open for one more week

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Hannah Who @notablyuncool.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Every trans person who comes out in this climate is a living rebuttal to every headline that tries to erase them.

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en•gendered @en-gendered.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

today's gender over here is men's Olympic hockey. tell us about yours? engenderedlitmag.com

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Jill | followedmystar @followedmystar.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Reminded me of this evergreen post 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

A bsky post from:
ForKitSake @forkitsake.bsky.social
she/her, they/them
Post reads:
Just reminded myself how hard the ending of Coffin Text Spell 714 goes
A picture of hieroglyphics with translation below:
I made my body evolve through my own effectiveness.
I am the one who made me. I built myself as I wished, according to my heart.

March 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 16/02/2026

Start hormones, write a book, get nacho fries

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Sam @horrorbutch.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Ooops All Trans A-Z Booktitle Challenge that I did in 2025. Wohoo! I'm really happy that I managed to finish this challenge this year especially since I decided to only count trans books for it. Also this looks gorgeous. #samreads.

a completely filled out version of the A-Z booktitle challenge. List of books in the thread.

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LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 18/02/2026

"Discord" from Gwen Aube's upcoming MISSED CONNECTIONS WITH TALL GIRLS Preorder NOW and read this collection of hilarious and uncompromising poems for more chronicles of precarious and debaucherous Discord autistics and trailer-trash divas 💅 LINK: www.littlepuss.net/shop/p/mc-pr...

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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

"Every morning at breakfast, the same routine played out. But today there wasn’t even an ashtray on the table. Just two slices of charred toast under the grill. And a jet-black feather on the table, at the place where Sarah normally sits." —Jess Bauldry anmly.org/ap41/jess-ba...

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Jess Bauldry – ANMLY

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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

ALOCASIA seeks applications for instructors to lead our upcoming Summer Creative Writing Series. Instructors will each lead a one-time Zoom workshop with dates between May and August. Compensation is $500.

Green background with sparkles and a chain of daisies. Text reads: ALOCASIA seeks creative writing workshop leaders! Deadline: March 10th

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Foglifter Press & Journal @foglifterpress.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

☀️ The ebook for Foglifter 10.1 is now available for free on our website! ☀️ 🔗 www.foglifterjournal.com/shop-10-1 Thank you to all our contributors and a special thank you to our cover artist Jeffery Sun Young Park!

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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

"if I were to paint a flowering abyss you could fall into like a video game leap, by mistake—a mistake that could be happy if it’s years ago and the game rewarded you for the error..." —Christopher Phelps :: “I Really Wish You’d Stop Dying” alocasia.org/2026/02/15/c...

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Christopher Phelps :: “I Really Wish You’d Stop Dying” and “Why Am I Pulling So Many Dead Leaves Off This Hanging Inchplant” – ALOCASIA

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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Physical forms were a mistake.

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

New call for work: THE PLEASURE ISSUE + Opens May 15 + Deadline: June 13 for everyone, for BIPOC writers: June 20 The Pleasure Issue will be an issue interrogating the varying politics of pleasure via the difference between the erotic and the pornographic More: beestungmag.com/special-call...

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

📣SPECIAL UNEXPECTED SUBMISSION CALL ANNOUNCEMENT📣 If you hate ICE and love horror and Weird fiction, please take a look at our current, very specific and necessary sub call. cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

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Submission Calls

Special sub call (open now through march 31st) Later this year, we’re putting out a surveillance horror/Weird fiction anthology. I’ve loved the stories I’ve solicited and their di…

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en•gendered @en-gendered.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

every single person in my phone rn

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Corporeal lit mag @corporeallitmag.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I walk slowly with 2 canes, like an old skier, sans snow, sans mountain. Nolo Segundo A Morning's Walk www.corporeallitmag.com/volume-xxii/...

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Nolo Segundo — Corporeal

I walk slowly with 2 canes, like an old skier, sans snow, sans mountain.

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Kit but Ox if yer derby @kitikins.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I remember the first time I read an author describe a woman as fat and beautiful and happy, and she was a side character who was a maid, who got married and became a baker and lived happily ever after with pastries and chocolate and I wish the story had been about her.

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quinn @quinnhpm.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

💖 Trans Pessimism 1: When Your Body is Not Your Own 💖 is back in stock with an updated cover! creative nonfiction about the constraints of gender and perception, from 2019.

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Transfix Magazine 🏳️‍⚧️ @transfixmagazine.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

All issues of Transfix Magazine are available for free digital download on our ko-fi (ko-fi.com/transfixmaga...)

ko-fi.com

Support Transfix Magazine

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en•gendered @en-gendered.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

"Call me boy-dyke, fag, she-he, they/it, “transtrender” —Wrong. I’ll bedazzle every name on my leather. I don’t run for anyone— but me." - Meg Mellor, Baby engenderedlitmag.com/autumn2025

Baby,
Meg Mellor
first of two images

I was born
sprinting.
I bled through every mile of this gender.
Call me deviant.
Call me boy-dyke, fag, she-he, they/it, “transtrender”
—Wrong.
I’ll bedazzle every name on my leather.
I don’t run
for anyone—
but me.
Not for the crowd, not for the finish line—
I run for that anger inside,
That beast,
The hunger that never quits.
For the teenage-self that craved locker-room smirks,
and girl-forsaken grit.
I run because the fire in me won’t go out.
I’m full
of want,
& rage
& something feral
You couldn’t name if I bent you over,
and spelled it across your back in bite marks.
Something that only post-nut clarity could bring

second of two images
a queer
out-of-the-closet.
I run because every “sir” or “ma’am” is a muzzle.
I learned to bite back in syllables
that split lips—
mine and theirs.
I broke through the stained-glass cage
and left the comfort
of conformity—heteronormativity.
I fought my way out with bloodied hands and beamed at the splinters
gripped by my fists like trophies.
I run because I am the animal
You tried to leash.

The cover of engendered autumn 2025 on a background of dark grey.
On the cover is a heavily textured painting by Jude FireSong consisting of layers of colour, first daubed or smeared, and then speckled. Dominant are red, orange, yellow, light blue, and medium blue though purple, green, and pink also make an appearance.

Beside and below the cover is the following text:
20 writers, poets, & artists
“as I move through the world, people project images of bodies and faces they assign onto me that evoke in themselves desire, lust, joy, disgust, emotions I have no say over. Perceptions against my will. And those images stain my skin and reek. I'm forced every day to carry those stains”
Thokozani Mbwana
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en•gendered @en-gendered.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

"i used to daydream as a woman. i wonder why i stopped." - Steven C. Wright, micro-transgenderisms @stevencw.bsky.social engenderedlitmag.com/autumn2024

micro-transgenderisms
Steven C. Wright

mom gender-bent her mother’s name to give me my middle name. it’s not the only thing of grandma’s that i am. i wear her crooked smile. i look just like her daughter. mom says “god gifted me with three beautiful boys” and i say “something like that.” i don’t know if it’s sacrilege or a coming out. i think it’s neither. maybe it’s nothing. she still thinks i’ll raise a child. she says “you never know, maybe when you find the right guy,” then gets puzzled when i tell her i’d adopt. maybe she forgot that i don’t have a uterus. sometimes i forget, too.

i used to daydream as a woman. i wonder why i stopped.

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Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Of gardens and violence, of Marie Antoinette and blueberries, of mothering and gendered labors, of climate crisis and poetic form and holding onto words you love and more. Join @esylviapoet.bsky.social on Episode 84 and she reads from her new collection SCYTHE (@riverriverbooks.bsky.social!) 📚💙🎙️

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Episode 84: Elizabeth Sylvia (Of Gardens, Marie Antoinette, and Loving What is Flawed)

Elizabeth Sylvia, author of Scythe (River River Books, 2026) Listen: On Spotify, Apple, Google, and elsewhere Read: “On Learning that Kim Kardashian Exceeded her Water Allowance by 232,000 Ga…

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 15/02/2026

Change your gender, become a poet, catapult yourself into the sun. There are no rules. You can do anything you want.

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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

ALOCASIA seeks work for an upcoming themed issue, THORNS, which will examine and reflect on lived experiences of queer domestic violence and intimate partner violence through the lens of horticulture and plant life. Published writers to receive $50. Deadline: April 10. Find out more: ALOCASIA.org

Black and white roses and thorns. Text reads: THORNS. Presented by ALOCASIA. Deadline: April 10th, 2026.

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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

ALOCASIA #17 is here w/ queer planty writing as winter writhes into spring! w/ Christopher Phelps, Shui-yin Sharon Yam, Adrian Dallas Frandle, Erin Mizrahi, Nikki Wallschlaeger, wallamide, Zoe Adrien Lapa, Tara Labovich, oleg olizev, & Aaron El Sabrout alocasia.org

green alocasia leaf background, white text reads issue 17

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en•gendered @en-gendered.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

we're going to keep this call open for one more week

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en•gendered @en-gendered.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

subs are down as the hate cycle spins ever higher and I'm sad for the inbox but angry in general. i hope you're all safe.

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The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Oh, no! We didn't get enough submissions for a full issue. So, we're leaving submissions open until Feb 25. Send us your work on the theme of "repair." Open to racially and ethnically marginalized, gender variant, and disabled creatives only. Guidelines: www.globalmajoritypress.org/guidelines/

A paper heart is cut jaggedly into two pieces and has a bandaid spanning across the two. Text says All My Relations, Volume 10, repair. Submissions open.

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en•gendered @en-gendered.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

"I lift my stomach, swipe above my pubic hair fold back the flesh on the top of my thigh." - Sudocrem, Charlotte Cosgrove @charlottecosgrove.bsky.social engenderedlitmag.com/autumn2025

Sudocrem
Charlotte Cosgrove

I sweep the white paste under my breast
Heave the old things up
Wipe with my index finger
Crescent shapes
Like a ghost’s smile or a strange tribe
I lift my stomach, swipe above my pubic hair
Fold back the flesh on the top of my thigh
Like choux pastry, cream my groin.

Does this disgust or concern you?
Did I mention the mirror in the bathroom?
The one I must stand in front of
Facing myself.

His and Hers
Charlotte Cosgrove

They slide their trays in for the same amount of time.
Twelve cupcake cases lined up -
Neat, ready. They leave them in a bit longer
Now they know what they are doing.
His come out fluffy, plump.
Hers sag in the middle
The mixture has cooked crispy over the edges.

She wore blue check with red shoes
Charlotte Cosgrove

Dorothy Gale’s clothes don’t match.
Nobody told Dorothy:
Your shoes don’t match your dress.

Was your mother like mine?
Did she ever tell you –

If your underwear is losing thread
And you get ran over
You’ll feel like you want to die.

Did you know they were going to cast
A blonde girl?
But it didn’t quite fit
The look they were going for.

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en•gendered @en-gendered.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

HIT LIKE A GIRL. MAKE A FIST AND PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER. PULL EVERY BONE IN YOUR HAND—ALL THE TENDER PART, THE DELICATE INSTRUMENT, THE HARD STRUCTURE [....] THE WEIGHT OF YOUR HEART IS IN YOUR HAND. - Ireisha Anindya, HIT LIKE A GIRL engenderedlitmag.com/autumn2025

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en•gendered @en-gendered.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

"it’s what I want, it’s what I can’t, it’s what I know, it’s what I don’t, it’s killing me, it’s eating her(?), it’s hair loss, it’s a hairline fracture, it’s gimme more," - Steven C. Wright, Diet Pep-cis, or my relationship to gender is @stevencw.bsky.social engenderedlitmag.com

$Diet Pep-cis, or my relationship to gender is Steven C. Wright a stupid pun, it’s an uncocked gun, it’s an aspartame rush, it’s a passive shrug, it’s a lazy judge, it’s a weak gavel bang, it’s a litany of sludge, it’s a wet rag wrung, it’s a benign tumor, it’s a false rumor, it’s a wildfire, it’s work (but I’m too tired), it’s fear (but I’ve forgotten), it’s broken rhymes in double time, it’s what I want, it’s what I can’t, it’s what I know, it’s what I don’t, it’s killing me, it’s eating her(?), it’s hair loss, it’s a hairline fracture, it’s gimme more, it’s Britney Spears, it’s give me less, it’s a credible threat, it’s poison seeping, it’s disease spreading, it’s one two three four five six seven panes of glass, it’s eight pains in the ass, it’s nine separate cardiac events, it’s counting to ten, it’s in bed by eleven, it’s a midnight drunk, it’s a midsummer dream, it’s Shakespeare, it’s caveman, it’s cave art, it’s the writing on the wall, it’s religious text, it’s blasphemy, it’s Jesus Christ, it’s sacrilege, it’s losing weight, it’s gaining it, it’s coughing up daisies, it’s chewing on foxgloves, it’s fantasy, it’s fantasia, it’s Zero Sugar Fanta-cis, it’s affect fucking, it’s straight up exhausting. It’s unclear to me; it’s aphantasia.$

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en•gendered @en-gendered.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

this quote goes so hard

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en•gendered @en-gendered.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

"there are tears of joy and smiles that scream sadness. there is no contradiction quite like the two of us." - kathryn dooley, mother engenderedlitmag.com/autumn2025

mother
kathryn dooley

there are tears of joy and
smiles that scream sadness.
there is no contradiction
quite like the two of us.

boughs are beginning to break
off wavering willows outside.
a tire swing is bending its branch,
the whole tree collapsing under
the great weight of nothing.

first, a can of soup rolls off the sidewalk
then cereal boxes spill, produce wilts
at the touch of the blazing concrete.

knelt between the fallen groceries,
a salty cascade of emotions spilling, too
and reflected in the pool is you.

tears have been waiting her whole life.
you have no idea, i wanted you
to mean so much to me.

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en•gendered @en-gendered.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

"my ribs cannot fashion what is made of me. She’s all I could have done, all I could have been." - Jaeden Lyttle, pen name engenderedlitmag.com/autumn2025

pen name
Jaeden Lyttle

She billows beneath me, and I know she can see
where it is that I ache.

I carve out the gentle slopes to her body,
how soft her skin does feel.
Pry open the maw, feel the heat.
What makes a man out of her, out of me?
I upturn heaps of dead earth, finger the worth
until I find it there, that family name.
What binds her to me?

My memory is but a gun, and so it goes
that I am none but ravaged when the barrel aims
for her, at the cusps. Take me for what I am,
and find something of hers to love.
There is no harm in trying.
She is only love, sorely loved.
It is sprouting from our hips
as a fungus, I am parasitic.
The world is a revolver
to which I yield to, demean myself to,
and when the trigger finds the buds of me
I respond only in lethargy.
The love of me, I spend
and I spend.
She is everything to me.
I reach for her, and she reaches right back
Is this where we meet?
Where is it that we can lead?
Make me into more than just your host.
I’ll follow your ghost, the breadth of your life
but my ribs cannot fashion
what is made of me.
She’s all I could have done,
all I could have been.
I wish I had known her differently.

Enunciate my name slowly.

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Caio Major @caiomajor.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

New blog post! I reviewed "Plastic, Prism, Void" by @blipstress.bsky.social, out later this spring from @littlepuss.net. I had a blast with this book, which delivers a sweeping T4T romance among magical girls, multiple universes, and literary references galore. open.substack.com/pub/caiomajo...

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T4T vs. Two Universes in "Plastic, Prism, Void"

Reviewing "Plastic, Prism, Void" by Violet Allen, a stylish T4T romantasy with postmodern literary flare.

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isaac 🫃🏻 @androgynyfiend.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

it's so crazy that humans evolved to be bipedal and big brained which caused childbirth to be a lot more dangerous and then yahwism c. 500 BCE was like hmmmmm this is proof of the inherent wickedness of women and ppl to this day are like so true bestie

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en•gendered @en-gendered.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

subs are down as the hate cycle spins ever higher and I'm sad for the inbox but angry in general. i hope you're all safe.

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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

"I would spare you the details of how I’m quad-lingual, speaking the Taiwanese dialect with my grandmother—a giveaway daughter whose only education was labour..." —yating anmly.org/ap41/yating/

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yating – ANMLY

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

“They made me and dissected me and sold me for ¥68 a ticket to college girls who all come with best friends and cups of boba tea.” —Yufan Lu beestungmag.com/issue25/two-...

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Two Poems by Yufan Lu – beestung

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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

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