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K. Blair

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They/She | Writer | The Death of the Cult Classic, out now from kith books | www.kblair.co.uk | pfp: Ray Roberts

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frank n furter @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social · 19h
okay I've set up a clearance area of my shop because I really need to make some room in my little studio for new Xmas prints - have a look & see if anything catches your eye 👀 shop.frankduffy.co.uk/clearance-pi... very grateful for all shares as ever!
a red linoprint of a skeleton dancing with a hare surrounded by strange symbols
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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
We urgently need to speak back to the anti-trans EHRC guidance and stand firm for the rights of trans people in the arts. I'm running two in person sessions at Barbican on Oct 22nd, and two online - Nov 10th & 16th - listening, gathering data, creating a joint Call to Action - will you come?
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Sometimes I’ll read something about HarperCollins and wonder: do folks not know it’s been a Rupert Murdoch property for 40 years? Why would you expect him to uphold the dignity of the literary?
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Hannah Fox @hannah-sakura.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I co-wrote this piece with Aryan from Henar Press on some of the challenges of defining and classifying Kurdish literature in English. I feel it’s particularly appropriate that it has been published this #bannedbooksweek as so many Kurdish writers continue to face censorship.
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Nancy 10/10/26
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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It is okay to let people dislike things. It is also okay to let them vent their dislike in public and on social media. It is okay to dislike things without having a moral and political reason for doing so. I need you all to please stop tying your entire identities up in the things you consume.
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Tiffany Baxter - MCM London F-19 @tiffbaxter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
❤️‍🔥The Pandemonium Polka❤️‍🔥 This year's Halloween lesbian print!
Two devilish lesbians do the polka in a burning, stormy, hellscape. They are both wearing 19th century fancy dress costumes featuring devilish motifs. The figure on the left has grey skin, black curled hair and gold-ram like horns. A tiny imp is sat among flames on her head. The devil on the right has pinkish red skin and white hair swept up; her gold horns are thin and curl back from her forehead. Their pointed tails are crossed over each other. The border is inspired by medieval doom paintings & features people burning in a Hellmouth, demons, angels & demonic sigils.
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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
new from kith! Bodies in Phototaxis R. Janakiraman October 27, 2026 Is It Chaos Or Not Mac Crane December 17, 2006 preorders are OPEN kithbooks.com
new from kith

Bodies in Phototaxis
R. Janakiraman
October 27, 2026
cover: a sketch of a face emerging from a chaos of sharp, short, black lines on a background of white

Is It Chaos Or Not
Mac Crane
December 17, 2006
cover: a parent's eye view looking down at the feet of the parent and child side by side on a skateboard

 preorders are open
kithbooks.com
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K. Blair @kblair.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It was such a privilege to perform @everythingpoetry.bsky.social last night ❣️ such a warm, receptive audience, which included three teenagers who were enraptured the whole time. It was only their second open mic night, here's hoping they start scribbling poems soon!
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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Perfect reconstruction is sickening They are as weird science made them Imperfect wounds," - The Bride of Re-Animator and Frankenhooker Share a Cigarette Outside a Body Built Anonymous Group Meeting, K. Blair (@kblair.bsky.social) The Death of the Cult Classic kithbooks.com/shop/p/cultclassic
The Bride of Re-Animator and Frankenhooker Share a Cigarette
Outside a Body Built Anonymous Group Meeting

The light spills across mismatched skin
like a shattered wine bottle
Chests rising but their breath
doesn’tcan't fog
Elizabeth keeps giving off sparks
GloriaMeg doesn’t mind
What is a girl anyway but
a series of misfiring synapses?
A passerby slurs that they’re not
dressed for the weather
They laugh, both victim to
someone else's
malfunctioning circulatory system
The meeting will start soon
Others with similar stitches
have taken seats in the semi-circle
Put packet sugar in tar black coffee
if they can stomach it
They'll talk about adjustment
They'll talk about personhood
They'll talk about the dealing with decay
Perfect reconstruction is sickening
They are as weird science made them
Imperfect wounds, defunct tissue
Susceptible to muscle memory
twitch glitching
different parts recall those last sensations
the imprint of lipstick on gauze
GloriaMeg wishes
Elizabeth would touch her sutures
excite new pleasures in old flesh
expand the definition
of coming apart at the seams

K. Blair from The Death of the Cult Classic
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K. Blair @kblair.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In a different direction, on Saturday night in bed with my partner, I wept at the concept of abandonment in Charlotte's Web, which on some level I knew about myself but we had literally just watched Saw so it was a strange pivot
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beck @bitingteeth.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Lesbians
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 04/10/2026
'There is a troubling lack of transparency about what happens to the information gathered through this social media monitoring: how long it is retained, who it is shared with, and ultimately what the government is using it for.’
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K. Blair @kblair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'll be performing @everythingpoetry.bsky.social on Tuesday 6th October at The Oystercatcher, which has truly some of the most stunning views of the river! Not to be missed, ticket link below! www.outsavvy.com/event/39858/...
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Everything Poetry Night: Tuesday 6th October 2026 Tickets - London - OutSavvy
Come and join us on the first floor at the Oystercatcher in Greenwich for an evening of poetry.Doors open at 7pm for a 7.30pm start - come anytime from 7pm. Open mic names are picked at random from a ...
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K. Blair @kblair.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's #nationalpoetryday 📚 celebrate by buying poetry! Perhaps horror cinema and gender exploration poetry 👀🔪📺📽️ www.kithbooks.com/shop/p/cultc...
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kith in print
In the sticky floored sanctum of the movie theatre, Blair finds solace and selfhood where some seek escape. Steeped in reverence for horror and analogue cinema, The Death of The Cult Classic celebrate...
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K. Blair @kblair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'll be performing @everythingpoetry.bsky.social on Tuesday 6th October at The Oystercatcher, which has truly some of the most stunning views of the river! Not to be missed, ticket link below! www.outsavvy.com/event/39858/...
outsavvy.com
Everything Poetry Night: Tuesday 6th October 2026 Tickets - London - OutSavvy
Come and join us on the first floor at the Oystercatcher in Greenwich for an evening of poetry.Doors open at 7pm for a 7.30pm start - come anytime from 7pm. Open mic names are picked at random from a ...
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K. Blair @kblair.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The dress I'm wearing is actually my prom dress, which was already 'vintage' when I bought it. I love fashion and storytelling through clothes, but I don't want to contribute to landfill, so try to restyle and rewear as much as possible.
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K. Blair @kblair.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A wonderful way to spend a Saturday night, performing poems from my pamphlet The Death of the Cult Classic at Extra Second London 💜 such a warm receptive audience and the acoustics in the chapel were excellent! www.kithbooks.com/shop/p/cultc...
A photograph of a white femme person with short brown hair wearing a purple dress and black leather jacket. They have glasses and are holding their poetry pamphlet, the death of the cult classic. They are looking down at the book while speaking.A photograph of a white femme person gesturing while performing.
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K. Blair @kblair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Tonight! Performing poems from my pamphlet The Death of the Cult Classic, available from @kithbooks.bsky.social and some new poems! Fresh, piping hot poems!
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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
want the best in trans poetry? kithbooks.com/shop Direct Address Robin Arble The Death of the Cult Classic @kblair.bsky.social 36 Views of My Breasts: A trans body memoir @billiewrites.bsky.social Like Blood on a Dog's Teeth @nivikthejackal.bsky.social Another double text K Angel
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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
congrats to kith's 2026 Lammy Award nominees! kithbooks.com/shop
Congratulations 2026 Lammy Award Nominees


Direct Address
Robin Arble

The Death of the Cult Classic
K. Blair

36 Views of My Breasts: A trans body memoir
Billie Sainwood

Like Blood on a Dog's Teeth
Nivik

Another double text
K Angel

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 24/09/2026
Donate to Category Is' fix-it fund: gofund.me/8591b840c
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For the past eight years, Category Is Books has been able to comfortably oper… Category Is Books needs your support for Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!
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K. Blair @kblair.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
To all the queer people who have hit on me before, I'm so sorry 😞
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K. Blair @kblair.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If my partner hadn't explicitly told me that they wanted to date me I would be wandering around continually oblivious, I simply cannot parse flirting, I either shut down or continue conversationally past it.
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K. Blair @kblair.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My partner later explained to me that this person was hitting on me, which I disbelieved, instead constructing the narrative that my inability to have a response to the fairytale comment was because I hadn't warmed up conversationally yet at this party and thus fumbled basic interaction.
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K. Blair @kblair.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sometimes you are starkly shown who you are, like last week where someone said to me 'and what fairytale did you fall out of', which caused my brain to make the dial up noise then decide I was truly fucking up this social interaction as my partner arrived to actually continue the conversation
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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Happy Bi Visibility Day!
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Submissions open. Send us your best short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Before submitting, please review our submission guidelines at the link below: buff.ly/EuZE5Hw #WritingCommunity
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K. Blair @kblair.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
On Saturday 26th September, I'll be featuring at Extra Second London. This month's theme is unfurling, come ponder with us! www.stmargaretshouse.org.uk/events/extra...
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Extra Second London | St. Margaret's House | A home for Creative Health in Bethnal Green, East London
Last Saturday of the month, from 6.30pm A cosy poetry, spoken word, music and discussion night on the last Saturday of every month. Open mic followed by discussion. In the Chapel
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Evangeline Gallagher @egallagher.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Psychopomp
An illustration of a huge spectral black wolf looming over a cemetery, collecting tiny ghosts that float up from the bones beneath the gravestones
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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere."
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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
i saved thousands on my car insurance by returning to the sea
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K. Blair @kblair.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
On Saturday 26th September, I'll be featuring at Extra Second London. This month's theme is unfurling, come ponder with us! www.stmargaretshouse.org.uk/events/extra...
stmargaretshouse.org.uk
Extra Second London | St. Margaret's House | A home for Creative Health in Bethnal Green, East London
Last Saturday of the month, from 6.30pm A cosy poetry, spoken word, music and discussion night on the last Saturday of every month. Open mic followed by discussion. In the Chapel
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K. Blair @kblair.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Who are you wearing I say to the huge moth with the gold body in my bathroom as I'm trying to catch her in a cup
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K. Blair @kblair.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Tonight's excitement, wrangling a lost dog. He did not want to be caught, he was wild, he was free, he was not impressed with biscuits! Once caught, off to our local vet and we called the owner, he will be returned to his home, but I got the impression he's a known escape artist
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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
read trans, Crip, queer, & sick kithbooks.com/shop
read trans, Crip, queer, & sick

Like Blood on a Dog's Teeth
Nivik

Direct Address
Robin Arble

Grief Is Not Shelf Stable
Jamez Terry

The Death of the Cult Classic
K. Blair

Multimorbid
Rebecca Wood

The Holy Ghost Lives In Her Laugh
Darius Phelps

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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
thank you to everyone who makes kith crit possible. if you've bought a book this year, I'm talking to you. want to see what we'll do next?* buy a book, make it happen kithbooks.com/shop * an asynchronous variant for those of us with bodies and bosses that get in the way
kith books
the literary home of the trans, Crip, queer, and sicck

the words "kith books" appear and a rainbow coloured jumble on a background of dark tealthank you to everyone
who applied for, hyped,
and helped fund
kith crit: cohort two!!!

 if you’ve bought a book from us
this year, that includes you!

press revenue is what allows us to offer free, accessible programmes, and make sure our partners are all fairly paid.

want to see what we’ll do next?
buy a book, make it happen.

kithbooks.com/shop
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K. Blair @kblair.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Housing websites will show you properties that are in London by the skin of their teeth
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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
Map showing Lower Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
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K. Blair @kblair.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Frustrating that Uber gets to decide that London has driverless cars now and not the people who actually live here. A way to not have to employ drivers and famously these cars crash a lot, so a new hazard for us all to dodge.
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Amid Amidi @amidamidi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Choose your fighter: Ward Kimball dogs
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Kategod 🐉🧿🦑𓅛🪬 @kategodart.northsky.social · 26/08/2026
we have thousands of potential dolly partons and tim curries already walking amongst us. most of them are begging for rent money or getting crushed at a shitty job
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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Things you could do this week to honor the impact Dolly has had: *Donate to the Imagination Library or a local kids reading initiative *Read with a kid you care about *Support and protect LGBTQIA kids *Support a Black owned business *Schedule your vaccine appointments *Show up authentically as you
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 25/08/2026
There are so many donations happening right now that the site has crashed.
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Nancy 8/23/26
Aunt Fritzi goes shoe shopping… she tries on heel after heel, until finally deciding on a pair of docs.
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K. Blair @kblair.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
As is often the way with my father, in a conversation about something else entirely he said unprompted 'it's three days till sunset on Svalbard'
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K. Blair @kblair.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Saw Bouchra for the third time last night at the Prince Charles cinema, this time struck by how beautiful the lighting choices were. A gorgeous film, I'm glad it has a UK wide release so more people have experienced it, just wish I could have a DVD so I could watch it whenever I wanted.
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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
not enough of you are asking. these are my favourite emails. i want to be getting at least one a day.
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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
And 32% of people receiving Universal Credit were in work as of December 2025. Companies profiting from poverty pay need to be challenged to justify that.
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Kym Deyn @kymdeyn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
hello its me dashing and chronically ill and running this magazine which is overflowing with poems and im doing my best. tl;dr: if you want to be in next month's carmen et error you have 48hrs left to submit!
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