Reposted by jake
sometimes (often?) someone's feedback in workshop is more about wanting a poem to be easier to read (for them) than about trying to help the poem open into greater (stranger) possibilities
jake
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irish. phd at KCL. queer/trans stuff and the contemporary medieval. attempts at poet-ing. genderqueer. they/them 🏳️⚧️
![An image of a proof page on a laptop that reads TSQ Transgender Studies Quarterly Volume 12, Number 2, May 2025
"Toward a Trans[]Crip Theory"
Edited by J. Logan Smilges and Slava Greenberg
147 General Editor's Introduction: Bracketed Sites Dylan McCarthy Blackston
152 Toward a Trans[]crip Theory: Introduction J. Logan Smilges and Slava Greenberg](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cbdino63edzwqnfnjku2s4lp/bafkreidd4dahx4morgrdx4mss62tyn4lppmfdlilkflzqtwxurzw6hcaca)
![Social Skills Training
by Solmaz Sharif
Studies suggest How may I help you officer? is the single most disarming thing to say and not What's the problem? Studies suggest it’s best the help reply My pleasure and not No problem. Studies suggest it’s best not to mention problem in front of power even to say there is none. Gloria Steinem says women lose power as they age and yet the loudest voice in my head is my mother. Studies show the mother we have in mind isn’t the mother that exists. Mine says: What the fuck are you crying for? Studies show the baby monkey will pick the fake monkey with fake fur over the furless wire monkey with milk, without contest. Studies show to negate something is to think it anyway. I’m not sad. I’m not sad. Studies recommend regular expressions of gratitude and internal check-ins. Enough, the wire mother says. [ran out of space. poem also here: https://tinyurl.com/sharifpoem]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qlmttkf54je7ie22kz7oymca/bafkreigd6yv4wvtxd2uwuzf27xbt62mpxep67ljta2edqmjeywqi7zfmhu)
