Your hold is ready! (4.02.21)

Happy April / belated TDoV / Autism Acceptance Month! These recs have been accumulating for the last few weeks (basically since I sent out the last newsletter) so they’re not explicitly trans/autistic-centered; if you want to see lots more trans autistic work, try Stone of Madness, where we just released issue 9 –– all nine issues are full of amazing queer, trans, and/or Mad/disabled/ND work, and many contributors sit at that well-populated intersection of trans and autistic.

Also, SoM is taking submissions between now and April 15th, so if any of this work inspires you…get on it!

Okay, now to the recommendations.

Today’s Recs:

Books:

• Alicia Elliott, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground.

• Becky Chambers, A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet.

• Tommy Pico, Junk.

Podcasts and Videos:

• Black (Femme) Genders Panel by Black Feminist Futures.

• Unlearning Fat Phobia: Moving Toward Fat Liberation in Public Health.

• Fuse Beads from StoryCenter (I know and collaborate with Program Director Amy Hill, and am grateful to have had a sneak peek at this!)

Albums:

• Free Cake for Every Creature, The Bluest Star (2018).

• Editrix, Tell Me I’m Bad (2021)

• Mapache, Mapache (2007).

• Louise Gaul, this one single gorgeous song, “These Palms” (2021), as it’s her only song out on Spotify at the moment, but I am already desperate for more.

Poetry & Prose & In-Between:

• Adeline Lovell, Burning (2021).

• Saeed Jones, I’ll Meet You Anywhere (2021)

• Dev Murphy, The Hoard (2021)

• Melissa Febos, One Word: Loose (2021)

• Jari Bradley, Dysphoria (2019)

• Fargo Tbakhi, PALESTINE IS A FUTURISM: THE DREAM (2021)

• Wadih Haddad | وديع الحداد, Wills (2021).

Essays and Articles:

• Olly Nze, Haphephobia (2021).

• Kate and Shenwei, White Authors Writing PoC: Everything You Ever Wanted to Not Know

• Nicole Chung, giving advice for Slate’s “Care and Feeding”: My Son Is Bullying His Asian Classmate About the Pandemic (2021).

• Sara Ahmed, Feminist Shelters (2015).

• Alexandra Oliva, Being a Writer When You Literally Cannot Visualize Scenes (2021).

• Brian McNely, Instagram, Geocaching, and the When of Rhetorical Literacies (2015).

• Meher Varma, Labels (2020).

• Megan Marz, Head in the Cloud (2021).

My Recent Work:

• Chapbooks! Buy The Dream Journals and A Hole Walked In and add them on Goodreads! [x] [x]

• “Downtown: Night falls,” in Kissing Dynamite.

• Four Poems in Heavy Feather Review.

• Two Poems in Electric Literature’s “The Commuter.”

• Two Poems in Luna Luna Magazine.

• “Mise en scène” in GASHER Journal.

• Read WRITING OURSELVES / MAD folio, part 1, at ANMLY Lit.

That’s all for now –– let me know what you think, what you’d like to see more of, and if you have any recommendations of your own!