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Courtney Bates-Hardy @poetcourtney.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This weekend, one of my brothers gets married, and I’ll have to share space with my other brother and his wife who haven’t spoken to me since I came out as gay and poly and my partner came out as trans. So that’s fun, and I’m not stressed at all.

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Courtney Bates-Hardy @poetcourtney.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Got blocked by a misogynist and a community association that won’t stop using AI for their posters today, so I’m batting 💯 over here

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Courtney Bates-Hardy @poetcourtney.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Story time. So one of my early jobs while I was in university was at Booster Juice. And I was forewarned by one of the girls I worked with that this lesbian couple around our age would come by and order, and then make out in front of you to see if you’d react. If you didn’t react, they’d tip you.

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Courtney Bates-Hardy @poetcourtney.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I’m thrilled to have a new poem in the Literary Review of Canada about my girlfriend’s cockatiel singing to my feet. He looooooves my feet 😂

My Girlfriend’s Cockatiel Sings to My Feet
By Courtney Bates-Hardy

He adores my feet and their many-coloured socks,
bright stripes like strange birds, he’s hopeless
in love, follows them around the house,
composes gifts of music he’s stolen from
radio waves and tunes my girlfriend whistles.
He’d make a nest for them if he could, show them
he can provide, Desperate for an answer,
he’ll nip a toe, willing the weird birds to move, to respond, forcing us to tuck our feet
under blankets, protected from his onslaughts. We are careful
not to move our feet too seductively, we favour
black socks, we make our own nest in bed and sing
our own love songs, we show our bare feet
to no one but each other.

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Courtney Bates-Hardy @poetcourtney.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

My writing group has released our first collaborative chapbook with Gridlock Lit! It’s all about what it’s like being queer on the Prairies. We each wrote a poem for the collection called “My Queer” and “My Bad Queer,” and then wrote a poem together called “Our Queer.” You can order a copy online!

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Prairie Queers by The Pain Poets

THE PAIN POETS are a quartet of disabled queers. They are based in oskana kâ-asastêki in Treaty 4 territory (Regina, SK). You can find them touching knees on Dayne’s red cuddle couch under a blanket a...

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Courtney Bates-Hardy @poetcourtney.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Favourites! 1) Romance book: The Time Traveller’s Wife Romance movie: Portrait of a Lady on Fire 2) Thriller book: Into the Drowning Deep by Seanan McGuire Thriller movie: Jaws 3) Comedy book: Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockhart Comedy movie: Jackass 🤷🏻‍♀️ 4) Animation: She-Ra Graphic novel: Nimona

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Courtney Bates-Hardy @poetcourtney.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

The sapphic Bridgerton season is in production now and it makes me want to cry. I hoped, but never, expected that a mainstream period romance would include queer characters and now they’re going to be leading a whole season! 😭

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Courtney Bates-Hardy @poetcourtney.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

If people only get their #yqr news from JustBins, of course they’re going to start thinking Regina is a shithole that’s full of accidents and stabbings, but then they’re missing all of the good things that happen here every day.

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Courtney Bates-Hardy @poetcourtney.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Apparently I whisper-talked in my sleep last night and I’m pretty sure it was the exact moment I was dreaming about yelling at my mom because she won’t accept my trans partner.

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a close up of a cat making a funny face .

Alt: a close up of a cat making a funny face

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Courtney Bates-Hardy @poetcourtney.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

It makes me want to cry thinking about my younger self watching the Pride parade because I didn’t feel like I’d earned the right to march yet, but still wearing bi colours and makeup (before I realized I was a lesbian). And now I organize the Pride float for the library 🥺

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long con magazine + Collusion Books @longconmagazine.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

"I’m back in the therapist’s office with my parents, watching the snow fall." Excerpt from Courtney Bates-Hardy's (@poetcourtney.bsky.social) poem "𝐹𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑖𝑛, 2025" + promotional poster for del Toro's 𝐹𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑖𝑛 (2025) Read "𝐹𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑖𝑛, 2025" in ISSUE 2.3: longconmag.com/issue-2-3/co...

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Courtney Bates-Hardy @poetcourtney.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Watching Love is Blind is like anthropological to me. It’s this whole other culture that I don’t see myself in at all as a queer person and it’s both fascinating and disturbing.

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Courtney Bates-Hardy @poetcourtney.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

About a year ago, someone asked me if I was part of the bacon lettuce tomato community and now it’s become a thing that my partners and I say to each other ALL THE TIME 😂

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Courtney Bates-Hardy @poetcourtney.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Finished watching Angel for the second time in my life. I still sob over Illyria asking Wesley if he’d like her to lie to him now 😭

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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

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Courtney Bates-Hardy @poetcourtney.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Went to see Markiplier’s Iron Lung last night at the late showing and I haven’t seen so many teenagers in one space since I was a teenager.

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Courtney Bates-Hardy @poetcourtney.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

“Why do things have to happen all the time?” -my gf

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Courtney Bates-Hardy @poetcourtney.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

For such a prolific novelist, I’m really finding Margaret Atwood’s memoir to be a slog.

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Courtney Bates-Hardy @poetcourtney.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Definitely not melting down because my new office was too loud today while I was on a deadline. Why would anyone think I’m autistic?

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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

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Courtney Bates-Hardy @poetcourtney.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

There are few things weirder than sitting at your library job while knowing that someone you went to high school with is a block away at the courthouse because they’ve been charged with accessory to murder.

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Courtney Bates-Hardy @poetcourtney.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

CBC producing all these think pieces and interviews about why booksellers are going to judge the Giller Prize this year like it’s a big mystery. Well, I can solve it for you: it’s because most writers don’t want to be associated with the award anymore after the boycott 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Courtney Bates-Hardy @poetcourtney.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Are you even lesbians if you don’t get mistaken for sisters? 😅

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Courtney Bates-Hardy @poetcourtney.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I wrote a pantoum about Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein and familial estrangement due to my queerness. I love the film so much that I've watched it 3 times since it came out, and according to GDT, that means I'm married to it. Delighted to have my poem featured in @longconmagazine.bsky.social

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Frankenstein, 2025 • POETRY

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Courtney Bates-Hardy @poetcourtney.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Delighted to be featured in this issue of long con!

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Courtney Bates-Hardy @poetcourtney.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

I keep thinking about how my brother called me a bitch when we were teens, and I slapped him, because that was how I was taught to deal with bullies. When I came out as queer and my partner came out as trans, my brother stopped talking to me. He had a list of grievances…

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Courtney Bates-Hardy @poetcourtney.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

So uh, is anyone else worried about Star Trek leaving Netflix in a few days??

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Courtney Bates-Hardy @poetcourtney.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

King Sorrow by @joe-hill.bsky.social is my 150th read of 2025, and what a book to finish out the year on. I hated to see it end but I needed to know how it was going to end. An incredibly moving book about the divisive times we live in and the compassion we need to get through them.

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Courtney Bates-Hardy @poetcourtney.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

I feel like Smosh is missing an opportunity with their merch by not having a Reddit Stories tshirt that just says UPDATE

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I'm here again to say this in regard to gen AI in the arts. My issue with LLMs is multi-pronged. It is built off of stolen work. Everytime one uses it, it supports billionaires who want to gain control of the arts and take it from the hands of writers and artists. Also it is killing the planet.

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Courtney Bates-Hardy @poetcourtney.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Reading a poetry book a day this week because I'm trying to make it to 150 books read by the end of the year!!!

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Courtney Bates-Hardy @poetcourtney.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Debating whether or not the transit budget can be decreased immediately after passing the police budget feels deranged. Police has a PLANE, and City Council is asking if buses can reduce routes, hours, or increase their rates??? #yqr

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PD City Hall (Paul Dechene) @pdcityhall.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Donnelly: Most criminal activity starts w/ young people who have nothing to do, nowhere to go. We need to invest in organizations that help them find ways to express themselves, give them something to do. #yqrcc

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Courtney Bates-Hardy @poetcourtney.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Every Christmas, I like to watch and read a series that feels like a project: LOTR Extended Editions, Star Wars, Anne of Green Gables, The Magicians, Chronicles of Narnia, etc. Anyone else?

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Saskatchewan Library Association @sasklibrary.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

The RPL Film Theatre in Regina will be screening "The Librarians" this Friday, December 12 at 7pm. Admission is free and everyone is welcome! For more information: buff.ly/egCR8Wb Or visit the RPL Film Theatre for more exciting films during the month of December: buff.ly/8IiGDrm

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denni. @clumsyknees.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

I remember when it wasn't ok to use Wikipedia as a citation but sure, let's all turn to the poopy barfy slop machine for all of our information

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Courtney Bates-Hardy @poetcourtney.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Someone walked by me yesterday and was like, ohhh she is a fairy, and that is the reaction I aspire to inspire always.

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Courtney Bates-Hardy @poetcourtney.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Injured myself at the gym this week in a new and exciting way. It's been a while since I've had to deal with an injury like this and I feel like I've gotten worse at it.

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a cartoon character says " i just wanna go home " in front of a stone wall

Alt: a cartoon character says " i just wanna go home " with a sad expression in front of a stone wall

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Courtney Bates-Hardy @poetcourtney.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

My favourite Sephora liquid eyeliner has been changed from felt tip to brush tip and I HATE it. Taking recommendations for the best liquid liner that goes on smooth and doesn’t get grayish partway through application.

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Courtney Bates-Hardy @poetcourtney.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Taking psychic damage from the new season of Critical Role

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Courtney Bates-Hardy @poetcourtney.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Got completely wiped out by two fillings today. Had to get two rounds of freezing and I was really shaky and cold afterwards. Now I’m barely staying awake on the couch. My nervous system said absolutely not to that.

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