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@tagreathouse.bsky.social
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she/they | CripplePunk butch trans woman | author of Wound from the Mouth of a Wound & DEED | faculty at Rainier Writing Workshop | Bookings: Blue Flower Arts

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naviyuk @naviyuk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
bit.ly/torringreatg... TOMORROW @tagreathouse.bsky.social September 17 630-745pm Eliot Hall chapel free and open to the public please share and please attend and send your people such a gift to listen to such a poet and scholar and writer
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Thursday, September 17, 2026, 6:30pm to 7:30pm with image of writer.

Torrin A. Greathouse (she/they) is an award-winning transgender cripple-punk poet and essayist. They are the author of DEED (Wesleyan University Press, 2024), winner of a 2025 Stonewall Book Awards Barbara Gittings Prize in Poetry, and Wound from the Mouth of a Wound (Milkweed Editions, 2020), a Minnesota Book Award and CLMP Firecracker Award finalist, and winner of the 2022 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Their work has been featured in Poetry Magazine, The Rumpus, the New York Times Magazine, Copper Nickel, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. Greathouse has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Effing Foundation for Sex-Positivity, Zoeglossia, The Ragdale Foundation, and the University of Arizona Poetry Center. She received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota and teaches at the Rainier Writing Workshop, the low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University.
Location of event is Eliot Hall chapel.
Organized by Visiting Writers Series.
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Indieheads Podcast @indieheadspod.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Out now wherever you find podcasts, we're joined by @tagreathouse.bsky.social to talk about how G4 taught us that being a nerd can be cool. Find us your platform of choice: linktr.ee/indieheadspodcast
SONGS DISCUSSED:
Marque Phahee & The Bling Dongs - On the X-Play Boards (ft. The X-Play After School Choir)
MC Chris - Nrrrd Grrrl
DJ Steve Porter - Attack Of The Show Rap (Remix)
Sam Hart - Mario Kart Love Song
Jonathan Coulton - Code Monkey
The Guild - Do You Wanna Date My Avatar
Jonathan Mann - X-Play All the Way
Parry Gripp - The Girl At The Video Game Store
LeetStreet Boys - She's So Kawaii
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dirt squirrel @dirtsquirrel.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"I'd kill for my child" okay but would you put aside your preconceived notions of gender or sexuality for your child? would you apologize to your child when you're wrong? would you tell your child they can be whoever they want to be, and mean it? your child doesn't need more killing in their name
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 10/07/2026
After a months-long occupation, Minnesota is still recovering from a retribution campaign waged by the federal government. Now, Minnesota stands with Houston in demanding accountability for the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. This bloodshed cannot be normalized.
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Terran @terranstorm.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
My top 5 for June: 1. Deed by torrin a. greathouse 2. Disco Witches of Fire Island by Blair Fell 3. Weavingshaw by Heba Al-Wasity 4. Spoiled Milk by Avery Curran 5. If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light by Kim Choyeop Still reading LET THE RECORD SHOW, history of Act Up NY, but def recommend it!
June reading summary: 29 books, 9.3k pages. Most read genres: LGBTQ+ books, Romance, Fantasy, Historical, Contemporary Reading calendar for June
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MS NOW @ms.now · 30/06/2026
In a 194-page ruling, the Supreme Court ruled AGAINST President Trump's bid to end birthright citizenship. This is a developing story. READ NOW: www.ms.now/liveblog/sup...
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Workers’ Lit Podcast @workerslit.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Despite it all, books still matter. They always will.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
In bad news, with disability education oversight being moved to the Department of Health and Human Services from the Department of Education, that means Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will have power over disability policy positions. New from me at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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RFK Jr. will oversee disability education policy
The dismantling of the Department of Education continues apace.
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
happy (& angry & sexy & f★ggy & mighty & silly & kinky & campy & lovey & dovey) pride month
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
play is always at the heart of poetry. i believe this deeply. even when the subject matter is not fun, not joyful, even when it is very difficult (which is often the case), there's still play happening in the language, in the form, in the leaps & associations, in the ampersands, even in the silences
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
FUCK ICE NOW AND FOREVER
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torrin a. greathouse @tagreathouse.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
There’s something so romantic about being a writer dating a writer, being out on a coffee & work date, and realizing you’re both counting syllables on your fingers to check the scansion of your sonnet
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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
This issue also includes must-read interviews with Jordy Rosenberg, Trish Salah, torrin a. greathouse, gaita nihil, Cole Rizki — and there’s so much more This whole issue is free to read on Project MUSE through May 15! Read here: tiny.one/3h8j64z8
Alex Brostoff and rl Goldberg on Trans Literatures
Guest editors introduce a new special issue of College Literature
Hopkins Press Journals
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National Disability Rights Network @ndrnadvocates.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
To celebrate #NationalPoetryMonth, with a spotlight on some of our favorite poets with disabilities! These poets craft thoughtful, personal work that represents the rich variety of identities and experience that they hold. Who are your favorite poets? Let us know in the comments!
Background of purple crumpled paper. Images of Hafizah Augustus Geter, torrin a greathouse, and Kay Ulanday Barrett. Text on image reads:
Our favorite disabled poets for National Poetry Month.1. Kay Ulanday Barrett, @brownroundboi (IG) @kulandaybarrett (FB)
2. KB Brookins, @earthtokb (IG, TT)
3. torrin a. greathouse, @tagreathouse (IG) @TAGreathouseParty (FB)
4. Hafizah Augustus Geter, @hafizahaugustusgeter (IG) @RhetoricAndThis (X)
5. Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, @cyreejarelle (IG & TT)
6. Camisha L. Jones, @1camisha (IG) @poetcamishajones (FB)
7. Naomi Ortiz, @naomiortizwriterartist (IG) @thinkfreestyle (FB)
8. Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha , @thellpsx (IG), @leahlps (FB)
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Alex @alxlndomountain.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
they tortured someone to death
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Marcelo Rinesi @marcelorinesi.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The whole poem is great, but "drew breath like a blade from a sheath" and " I swear: // If idolatry was my only sin, then // it’s because god wasn’t watching." are, if you'll excuse the vernacular, bangers. by @tagreathouse.bsky.social
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Ekphrasis on Nude Selfie as Portrait of Saint Sebastian
Suppose they made martyrs out of bodies like ours. You woke this morning, drew breath like a blade from a sheath. Lack of sleep bruising deep hollows…
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Garrett Young ✸ doctop @doctop.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
PSA reading “Hey there neighbor! We all want to feel safe, but your Ring camera is sharing everything with ICE, including every person that walks by.” Cartoon smiley faces saying “Ack!”, “Oh no!”, “That’s terrible!” A cartoon shouting “What to do?!” Text: “Turn it off! Or, cover the camera and use audio only.” A drawing showing “You” cutting the stream of information from Ring to Amazon to ICE. Text: “We keep each other safe” surrounded by drawings of hearts.
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Chiara Di Lello @chiaradilello.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Pretty proud of this dual review of poetry by torrin greathouse & Emilia Phillips psalteryandlyre.org/2025/04/11/s...
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Self-Mythology, Desire, and Power: A Review of “DEED” by torrin a. greathouse and “Nonbinary Bird of Paradise” by Emilia Phillips
Review by Chiara Di Lello
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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 25/11/2025
Anyway, reading transfeminine poetry is hot 😳 I don't make the rules.
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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 21/11/2025
Good evening all. For this year's Trans Day of Remembrance (TDOR), TFR remembers three transfeminine authors who passed away this year: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy (78), Valerie Amelia Thompson (38), and Michelle Duff (85) 🖤 We also remember 367+ victims of anti-trans violence and suicide 🕯️ #tdor
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Observing Trans Day of Remembrance 2025
Remembering those we’ve lost over the past year.
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Wesleyan University Press @weslpress.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
In celebration of Transgender Awareness Week, we are celebrating recent trans authors. ✨ DEED by torrin a. greathouse is a lyrically innovative exploration of queer sex and desire. ✨ Transtraterrestrial by Sage Ni'Ja Whitson documents Whitson's groundbreaking pieces. #transgenderawarenessweek
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torrin a. greathouse @tagreathouse.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
This is such an immeasurable loss
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 13/11/2025
As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 11/11/2025
NEW: Firings of LGBTQ staff at NBC and Condé Nast have worsened an already dire picture for legacy news media when it comes to covering the trans community. From @billiejsweeney.bsky.social, a close look at our increasingly degraded media environment. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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Corporate Media’s Queer Purge — Assigned
It’s no coincidence that historic assaults on trans and queer people’s rights have been accompanied by the mainstream media’s widespread dismissal of LGBTQ+ journalists and the elimination of beats de...
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torrin a. greathouse @tagreathouse.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
I’m too famous to not have a @wikipedia.org page, somebody should fix that
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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
The "Trans LIteratures" issue of College Literature, features work from torrin a. greathouse, Stephanie Burt, Nat Rivkin, Rocko Foltz, Hannah K. Grabowski, Sarah Snyder, Will Anderson, S. Brook Corfman, and more! Read at @ProjectMUSE: tinyurl.com/mt6r85u3
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
College Literature
Volume 52, Number 4, Fall 2025 


Special Issue: Trans Literatures
Guest Editors: Alex Brostoff & rl Goldberg

Contributors: Stephanie Burt, Nat Rivkin, Rocko Foltz, Sarah 
Snyder, Hannah K. Grabowski, Will Anderson, Liz Rose, 
S, Brook Corfman, Cameron Awkward-Rich, gaita nihil, 
Jordy Rosenberg, Cole Rizki, Trish Salah, torrin a. greathouse, Andrzej Baginski, Russ Leo and Connor Spencer
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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
College Literature's new special issue, "Trans Literatures" is now available! Guest editors Alex Brostoff & rl Goldberg bring together some stellar scholars, including Cameron Awkward-Rich, Jordy Rosenberg, and Trish Salah Read their editor's blog now: tinyurl.com/eybr8cpt
“[T]o ask ‘Whose Trans Literatures?’...is to question 
structures of belonging and exclusion, to ask who is 
portrayed as proper subjects and who is relegated to 
abjection or worse.” 

Assigned Reading at Birth
Trans Literatures, Reproduction, and Redistribution


Alex Brostoff & rl Goldberg 
introduce a special issue of 
College Literature
at the Hopkins Press Newsroom Blog
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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
It's a great issue of College Literature, featuring scholarly articles, roundtable conversations and reviews from Cameron Awkward-Rich, Jordy Rosenberg, Trish Salah, torrin a. greathouse, and more! tinyurl.com/mt6r85u3
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
College Literature
Volume 52, Number 4, Fall 2025 


Special Issue: Trans Literatures
Guest Editors: Alex Brostoff & rl Goldberg

Contributors: Stephanie Burt, Nat Rivkin, Rocko Foltz, Sarah 
Snyder, Hannah K. Grabowski, Will Anderson, Liz Rose, 
S, Brook Corfman, Cameron Awkward-Rich, gaita nihil, 
Jordy Rosenberg, Cole Rizki, Trish Salah, torrin a. greathouse, Andrzej Baginski, Russ Leo and Connor Spencer
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torrin a. greathouse @tagreathouse.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Got to sit down with Alex, rl, & THE Trish Salah to talk about the history and development of trans poetics, which is one of the best conversations I’ve had in my career
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HumanKIND Initiative @humankindpride.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Today we recognize the 2025 Stonewall Award winners. The Stonewall Book Awards, sponsored by the American Library Association's Rainbow Round Table, is the first and most enduring award for LGBTQ+ books.
2025 Stonewall Award Winners

Some Strange Music Draws Me In, by Griffin Hansbury

DEED, by torrin a. greathouse

Sex With a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery, by Annie Liontas

Lunar Boy, by Jes and Cin Wibowo 

Canto Contigo, by Jonny Garza Villa
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The Vampire Bridget 👩‍🎤 @bridgetgordon.gay · 14/09/2025
torrin a. greathouse #smallpoemsunday
Nocturne
a cleave tanka

I miss the summer,

bathroom tile— private winter.

This stall, the whole sky—

slick with drool & sweat. Panting

against a zipper's small teeth.

Air simmered to ash with heat.

The moon is a glory hole.

A brand-new mouth made

in the night. Where breath hums soft

& the wind moans back.
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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
If a president wanted to become effectively a dictator, he’d likely: 1. Purge govt of non loyalists 2. Weaponize law against opponents 3. Use military to police opposition strongholds 4. Threaten media, schools, businesses w penalties to get them to heel 5. Change election rules in his favor.
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RobertFredeKenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Day #3 @sealeychallenge.bsky.social read the new torrin a. greathouse book DEED. Intensely propulsive inquiries into trans self/sex work, language, patriarchy, clients/police, sexuality & oppression; a writer w/chops & labyrinthine music - exquisite visions, sculpted lines & politics/poetic.
Cover of DEED.
beautiful edition with amazing 'fly pages' inside collage of textured black flowers.An apostrophe denotes possession.   
Means to turn toward.                                                              Thin hook

of ink that joins one body                         to another
by its name. 
In one pocket I carry a list of all the places I am prohibited --
bathrooms & airplanes, churches & young adult literature.
In the other, a list of all the things I'd have to abandon
to be called a woman. I fly 3,000 to a place where no one

knows my face or name & joke that there is a boy I'm leaving
behind
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NewPages @newpages.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Jami Macarty reviews 'Deed' by torrin a. greathouse, poetry that crafts a new queer lexicon, exploring trans desire, intimacy, and liberation while moving beyond trauma narratives. #bookreviews #booknews #poetry #readingcommunity @tagreathouse @weslpress
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Book Review :: Deed by torrin a. greathouse
torrin a. greathouse's 'Deed' crafts a vibrant queer lexicon, exploring trans desire, intimacy, and liberation without a focus on trauma.
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Rose Knapp 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @roseknapp.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
In an Operating Room Outside of the Cis Woman’s Imagination by @tagreathouse.bsky.social poets.org/poem/operati... #poetry
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In an Operating Room Outside of the Cis Woman’s Imagination
In response to Sharon Olds’ poem “Outside the Operating Room of the Sex-Change Doctor”
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Wesleyan University Press @weslpress.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
To cap off Pride Month, we are taking a moment to celebrate recent LGBTQIA+ authors. You can check out their amazing books at weslpress.org or your favorite bookstore DEED by torrin a. greathouse is a formally and lyrically innovative exploration of queer sex and desire, and what it can cost.
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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Don’t miss torrin a. greathouse and Miller Oberman’s conversation discussing their respective new poetry collections, DEED and IMPOSSIBLE THINGS—read it today in @hopkinsreview.bsky.social! #DisabilityPrideMonth hopkinsreview.com/features/new...
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New Books in Conversation: torrin a. greathouse and Miller Oberman — The Hopkins Review
The poets discuss their recent poetry collections, both featuring poetry first published in the pages of The Hopkins Review.
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Rose Knapp 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @roseknapp.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Several poems from The Georgia Review @tagreathouse.bsky.social & Lynn Lonidier #poetry
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Audrey T. Carroll @audreytcarroll.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
My scholarly article "Imaginary Margins: Disability Poetics & Reinventing the Page" in New Writing. Analyzes poems by @thellpsx.bsky.social, @tagreathouse.bsky.social, @teagerbeza.bsky.social, @tateoquendo.bsky.social, and Kelly Weber. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Imaginary margins: disability poetics & reinventing the page
Disability poetics resist marginalisation by centralising disabled words and experiences, both literally and figuratively. In a world that prioritises ability, disabled bodyminds are marked as devi...
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C. E. M. Henderson @cemhend.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
then perish
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lynnet22.bsky.social @lynnet22.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I love this poem by torrin a greathouse! poets.org/poem/bondage...
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Bondage Device: Cross
I swear, this filthy light could pass clean
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Lisa Geiszler @melovewarrior.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
What a response poem! If you don’t know the poetry of torrin a. greathouse, chrck her/they out here: www.torringreathouse.com Response poem here: poets.org/poem/operati...
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In an Operating Room Outside of the Cis Woman’s Imagination
In response to Sharon Olds’ poem “Outside the Operating Room of the Sex-Change Doctor”
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Wesleyan University Press @weslpress.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Wesleyan University Press award-winning poet @tagreathouse.bsky.social is now being represented by @blueflowerarts.bsky.social! #torrinagreathouse #Poetry
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lles, fixed in place 🇵🇭 @silangan.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
No Ethical Transition Under Late Capitalism by torrin a. greathouse "Each needle, each pill, a seed planted in my body." 🧵🔖 99
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Tom Marcinko @tommarcinko.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
This fine essay by @tagreathouse.bsky.social has a lot to say about that: copper-nickel.org/the-crooked-...
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Copper Nickel | The Crooked Child
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Chris @ary.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Unsurprisingly this now means they are also defining for lesbians who they're allowed to be attracted to while still "qualifying" as a lesbian, and bars trans people from their own gender specific places while also admitting they're likely to be kicked out of their assigned ones based on appearance.
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