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soupmetal666 · 7 months

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TRANSGENDER, NONBINARY, GENDERQUEER and TWO-SPIRIT POETS YOU SHOULD READ!

Here's a non-exhaustive list in alphabetical order by author last name. The majority listed here have published full-length poetry collections and/or chapbooks, but some have not, and have published poems in publications you can find online. Some also write in other genres, as well, and/or make art in other mediums. Consider reblogging it and adding to it if you so desire. My background is primarily in "academic" poetry, for better or worse, and I'm less knowledgeable about slam poetry/poets who don't publish in avenues approved by the academy or are not in academic circles. I've only listed poets here whose work I have read. So there are certainly people worth reading that I'm missing.

Andrea Abi-Karam

Samuel Ace

Jada Renée Allen

Justice Ameer

Ryka Aoki

Cameron Awkward-Rich

Noah Baldino

Ari Banias

Kay Ulanday Barrett

Oliver Baez Bendorf

Julian Talamantez Brolaski

Stephanie Burt

Kayleb Rae Candrilli

Jos Charles

Ching-In Chen

Travis Hedge Coke

CAConrad

jayy dodd

J Jennifer Espinoza

T. Fleischmann

Kay Gabriel

Aeon Ginsberg

torrin a. greathouse

Kamden Hilliard

Stephen Ira

Cyrée Jarelle Johnson

Rickey Laurentiis

Dawn Lundy Martin

Noor Ibn Najam

Trace Peterson

Raquel Salas Rivera

Trish Salah

Danez Smith

TC Tolbert

Chrysanthemum Tran

Joshua Whitehead

Kit Yan

In addition, two wonderfully edited trans poetry anthologies published by Nightboat Books that include many of these writers' work:

Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, edited by TC Tolbert and Trace Peterson

We Want it All: A Radical Anthology of Trans Poetics, edited by Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel

Also, some online literary journals regularly publishing trans and nonbinary poetry:

https://foglifterjournal.com/

https://www.peachmgzn.com/

https://beestungmag.com/

The current moment is a very exciting time for trans poetics. These are brilliant poets and thinkers publishing work that's worth your time. Poetry is not everyone's cup of tea, certainly, but I wish more people knew about how many awesome trans poets are out there right now making amazing and important art.

#poetry #trans writers #trans literature #trans poetry #transgender poets #nonbinary poets #genderqueer poets #two-spirit poets #trans poetics #resource #books #reading #transgender poetry

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tommy2020 · 4 months

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I’m a boy and I kiss other boys.

I’m a boy and I was not born a boy.

I’m a boy and I use unconventional pronouns.

I’m a boy and I want to live as a boy.

I’m a boy and I want to be free to say that out loud.

I’m a boy and I want to live without fear of being hurt.

Just like the other boys.

My friend is a girl and she likes boys.

My friend is a girl and she was not born a girl.

My friend is a girl and uses she/her.

My friend is a girl and she wants to be called a girl, not a slur.

My friend is a girl and she should be allowed to live as a girl.

My friend is a girl and she shouldn’t be assaulted because she is a girl.

Just like the other girls.

My sibling is nonbinary and they like every gender.

My sibling is nonbinary and they were not born that way.

My sibling is nonbinary and uses whatever pronouns they feel like.

My sibling is nonbinary and wants to be perceived as a person too.

My sibling is nonbinary and should be allowed to choose what they call themselves.

My sibling is nonbinary and shouldn’t be shoved under the rug because their gender identity “doesn’t make sense”.

Just like other people.

WE ARE PEOPLE.

TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS.

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cheekios · 16 days

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Glasses Machine Broke.

I am legally blind and my prescription is extremely expensive. I have to use glasses to drive and work. My lenses are thick and it costs extra to thin them out. Diabetes took my eyesight. Even if I was to raise this money today it would take a week to get them. So please be mindful this is an urgent request.

Goal: $400

CA: $HushEmu

PP: [email protected]

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thetableintheback · 2 years

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notes on lazy transexuality - jude francis

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(in italics) notes on lazy transexuality

the sweat collects under my tits whether i bind or not.

when i wear my hair long it is not in a feminine-wiles-hair-flip-tried-and-true way - it is more

half-sure-all-tired-curls-on-your-neck-glam-rock-pansy way.

hips too wide for mens jeans mean

my waist is drowned in fabric, hiding the curve of ass and stomach, where

soft flesh waits to be gripped by hands like mine, which reach out to

a reflection that must be explained away.

round face and patchy beard, the bikini top i flaunt because shit, i may not want it

but this chest is bangin' and

if you can see the transexuality glinting in my eyes, don't look away.

i have grown comfortable, and too lazy to try and pass

the nonstop examination of the eyes of the world, this interrogation where

there is no alibi, no getaway car or accomplice to bust me out this time.

there is only sweat and flesh and a body to be lived in, and by god

i will live. /end description]

#poetry #words #spilled ink #poets on tumblr #writers on tumblr #original poem #gender #transgender #transexual #silas denver melvin #this was inspired by his writing especially grit #described #from the table #offerings #jude francis

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queerdisagreeable · 1 year

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{ID - three magnet poems, many words & phrases created by stacking multiple magnets

1 - "sorry to my unblood kin / you died / & I just wasted this given time / writing my weary poems / living under shadow / morning (mourning) like I know you"

2 - "you can't / bring them home / love them now"

3 - "transgender / day of / honour"

END ID}

i don't want flowers on my grave. i want them in a vase on my windowsill as i look out on another day where i'm safe and happy.

#magnet poetry #poetry #transgender day of remembrance #trans #trans poetry #queer poetry #poets on tumblr #writeblr #my art #queer stuff #hof #1k

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yourdailyqueer · 3 days

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Ovida Delect (deceased)

Gender: Transgender woman

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: 24 April 1926

RIP: 9 October 1996

Ethnicity: White - French

Occupation: Poet, writer, politician, activist, spy

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orpheuslament · 2 years

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On the Day We Went to the Beach After My Top Surgery, Dante Émile

#words #poetry #trans poetry #transgender #trans poets on tumblr #dante émile

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pinkobsessedfreak · 9 months

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just got top surgery call me neil perry bc i did the most exciting thing in the world and didn't tell my parents

#top surgery #transgender #transmasc #transmasculine #queer #queer pride #trans rights #trans pride #dead poets society #dps #neil perry #him and i are literally twins its crazy

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mysidaesm · 6 months

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I am a fawn. I am a fae. I am the leaves in a thriving forest, the angry waters of the sea. I am the clouds, the burning stars above. I am warmth on cold nights. The moon to guide your way. I am ever changing, but always the same. I am rage and comfort, hatred and kindness. I am a warrior, a peacemaker. An anarchist, a pacifist. I am me, unashamedly me.

But for simplicities sake, I am nonbinary.

#lgbt #queer #trans #transgender #lgbtqia #lgbtq #transmasc #nb #nonbinary #non binary #poetry #poets on tumblr #poetic #queer rage #queer pride

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latexcowb0y · 7 months

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gayfandomnerd225 · 2 months

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All I wish is to live in the 1950s and be friends with boys who are in a secret society where they read poetry in a cave. But alas, I am a trans autistic person in the 21st century

#dead poets society #dead poets fandom #neil perry #dps fandom #dps #todd anderson #transgender #dps boys

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grocerystoretrip · 4 months

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on (language around) transfeminine bodies as sites of social-reproductive labor

#coming back with this #i would appreciate some help with the ID/alt text since i'm unsure how to get the color-coding across #but yeah this came about during my re-read of blue period #an attempt at articulating my feelings on gendered language around/ employed by trans ppl in sex(-adjacent) work #wherein gender(ed) embodiment is policed & validated through performance of heteronormative desire as/for labor #re: yuka. ough #writers on tumblr #poets on tumblr #transgender poetry #trans poetry #lgbt #words

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cm2tfemotd · 3 months

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Todays Canon Male to Transfem Headcanon Is Todd Anderson from Dead Poets society! they are a nonbinary lesbian transfem that uses they/them! also dating todd anderson!