iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

This #GivingTuesday, please keep beestung in mind! We're an independent and volunteer-run small magazine highlighting two-spirit, non-binary, and genderqueer writers and writing. Our issues are free, we don't charge submission fees, and we pay our writers. www.gofundme.com/f/beestung-y...

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Donate to beestung: Years Six & Seven, organized by Sarah Clark

What is beestung: beestung is a quarterly online micro-magazine for non-binary, genderquee… Sarah Clark needs your support for beestung: Years Six & Seven

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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Historically and still today, most great literature is self-published (“vanity”) or published by someone’s friend or a small press. You shouldn’t limit your reading to large presses b/c that’s not where stuff really “happens.”

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16/07/2025

Incredible news out of New Hampshire tonight: we pushed the Republican governor (who faces re-election every 2 years) to veto a book ban AND an anti-trans bathroom ban 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 I needed this good news today.

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Gov. Ayotte vetoes book removal bill, bathroom ban bill, more Republican legislation

Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte vetoed seven New Hampshire bills, many intended to strengthen parental rights, bucking conservative wing of her party.

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jj rowan (they/them) @jayjayrowan.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

ok but is there a better feeling than asking your public library to order a book and then getting to be the first person to borrow it?

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

feeling more and more like it’s not that i’m done working on a poem, but the poem is done working on me. and then it can leave me, and live

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Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Alice Notley got it. She GOT it.

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Chelsea Dingman @chelsdingman.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

A favourite poem by Alice Notley.

Alice Notley
"I've meant to tell you many things about my life"
I've meant to tell you many things about my life, & every time the moment has conquered me.
I'm strangely unhappy
because the pattern of my life
is complicated,
because my nature is hopelessly complicated;
& out of this, to my sorrow, pain to you must grow.
The centre of me
is always & eternally
a terrible pain—
a curious wild pain—a searching beyond what the world contains, something transfigured & infinite-I don't find it, I don't think it is to be found.
It's like passionate love for a ghost.
At times it fills me with rage,
at times with wild despair,
It's the source of gentleness & cruelty & work.

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Alice Notley passed away yesterday evening in Paris. She said a few years ago, “What can we learn from the fact that we don’t die?” I’m heartbroken, & heartbroken for everyone who knew & loved her, her work.

Black and white photograph of Alice Notley in Bolinas, California, early 1972.

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jj rowan (they/them) @jayjayrowan.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

oh Alice 💔 the first poet to take me deep into words. rest easy & boundless thank you.

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jj rowan (they/them) @jayjayrowan.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

favorite poems/books/essays/etc about mothers/being mothered/mothering? especially the complex ones. (sunday is a rough day for me so i’m gonna do a big reading & writing day to just be in it, in case you wanna join me)

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jj rowan (they/them) @jayjayrowan.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

broke the 100 sonnet barrier w/ @airbudhockey.bsky.social during NaPo this year - this one’s up at Bloof for a bit!

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jj rowan (they/them) @jayjayrowan.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

hey NH, i’ll be here tomorrow w/ some poemzines and other little weirds

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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Call for Work: Autistic Protest Poetry This call for work seeks poetry by autistic writers that is socially-engaged, politically-charged, and geared toward raising our voices together against oppression and erasure. Deadline: July 1st More details: medium.com/anomalyblog/...

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Call for Work: Autistic Protest Poetry

Autistic people’s rights are being threatened. Our worth is being questioned. And suddenly, we’re facing a bizarre accusation that an…

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Luna Moth Zine Fest @lunamothzinefest.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Luna Moth Zine Fest is this Saturday at 11 in Salem NH! Tell your friends!! See you there!

Luna moth zine fest 2025
April 19th 11am to 4pm
Derry-salem elks
39 shadow lake rd
Salem nh
All ages
Free

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jj rowan (they/them) @jayjayrowan.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

i’ll be drafting & flailing all month at the @bloofbooks.bsky.social blog, always in good company. poemjoy incoming!

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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Not going to AWP? Going to AWP, but feeling burned out? Avoiding an ex, shitty classmate, or rival??? We've got you with four virtual events, starting TONIGHT! All events start at 6:30pm EST. Email or DM me for the Zoom links!

Flyer for Attack of the Killer Queer Ecosphere. Red hibiscus on tan background. A virtual reading with Alocasia. Featuring Yasmine Bolden, Emdash, Aerik Francis, Jacob J. Billingsly, Isaac Pickell, and Allya Yourish. March 24th, 2025. 6:30pm until 7:45pm EST. Email alocasiamagazine@gmail.com for the Zoom link.

GAY-SCAPE FROM LA! A virtual reading between beestung and just femme & dandy.

Tuesday March 25th from 6:30pm to 7:45pm EST.

Featuring n.l. rivera, iris nguyen, Erika Gill, Young Fenimore Lee, Jennifer Wang, Tylyn Johnson, Alex Carrigan, j.j. rowan, felix salmoran, and emcee Kirin Khan.

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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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Email us at beestung@sundresspublications.com for the Zoom link!

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jj rowan (they/them) @jayjayrowan.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

one little way of keeping on / the lake is still frozen but the air isn’t

a sunny view of the frozen lake and the blue sky above it through some sparse trees

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jj rowan (they/them) @jayjayrowan.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

i just made a spreadsheet to track a new project i am lowkey obsessed with writing because of @thedaybooks.bsky.social & it is bringing me so much unexpected joy 🐐

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jj rowan (they/them) @jayjayrowan.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

i’ve kept a candle lit for Sam Nordquist today. trans people deserve peace and joy and life. believing this is not enough. if i thought begging would work i would beg you. if you’re not taking action to protect trans people at this point i just don’t know how to reach you.

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jj rowan (they/them) @jayjayrowan.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

just a guy with hormonal acne wearing two l.l. bean sweatshirts doing the plow-is-coming-car-thing

a transmasc nonbinary person wearing winter layers in a waiting pose in their car

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jj rowan (they/them) @jayjayrowan.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

sometimes in trans writing group the prompt becomes watching a bowl of snow melt

a ceramic bowl of melting snow by a notebook with handwriting and a pile of bedding on the floor

a ceramic bowl of mostly melted snow with a lit candle in the center by a mostly obscured page of handwriting

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jj rowan (they/them) @jayjayrowan.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

if you’re somewhere that drips & freezes i cannot recommend enough, this week especially, studying your icicles often & with slow care

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jj rowan (they/them) @jayjayrowan.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

sitting in that bubble of late sunday afternoon where the soup is just unchopped vegetables and the tears are just a void pre-headache feeling and hoping i can conjure both into being

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jj rowan (they/them) @jayjayrowan.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

my silly little newsletter is back at jayjayrowan.substack.com - it’s free & sometimes there’s dancing (not this time)

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Bloof Books @bloofbooks.bsky.social · 03/04/2024

how often do you study your own lines: how much time do you take to do this: do you apply your lines to yourself and with what frequency: do you take yourself line by line: — @jayjayrowan.bsky.social day 2 bloofbooks.com/2024/04/02/d...

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diary 2

[ w/ bright green large format dot grid & blue ink ] i stamp my fingers onto the glass over and over: a circularseries of lines layered upon the same identifying markssweating on themselves swe…

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jj rowan (they/them) @jayjayrowan.bsky.social · 24/02/2024

one of my gawdkids (age 2.5) is in love with the moon and took me outside many times tonight so we could lay on the porch to behold it

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jj rowan (they/them) @jayjayrowan.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

just some questions answering themselves during this morning’s huge outage

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jj rowan (they/them) @jayjayrowan.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

kicking off 🐐 season by going on a tirade about dunkin donuts to my platonaspouse as gawd intended

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jj rowan (they/them) @jayjayrowan.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

maybe we shouldn’t have built a world where the most exquisite morning sky can be seen over the Market Basket

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jj rowan (they/them) @jayjayrowan.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

oh to be out at dusk to witness the evening illumination of the Dunkin’

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jj rowan (they/them) @jayjayrowan.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

mental health care is starting to feel like that thing where we’re all just venmo-ing back and forth the same meager funds to get by & while i deeply appreciate showing up/being shown up for, i also want better for all of us so much it rips me open

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jj rowan (they/them) @jayjayrowan.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

in a pmdd hole, battling the beast (aka crying in the bath)

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just femme & dandy @justfemmeanddandy.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

We’re open, please come hang with us and submit!

Graphic for call for submissions. We’re looking for: pieces on climate change and sustainability, pieces on up and coming drag performers and indie fashion designers, anything you imagine for our queer future. Submissions close Dec. 1. Please only submit one piece. Details at www.justfemmeanddandy.com.

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jj rowan (they/them) @jayjayrowan.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

happy potatoes & molasses to all who celebrate

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Krista Cox @nerdpoet.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

I'd have an easier time with radical acceptance if there were more ninja turtles involved

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