Todays the day! Welcome to your first queer picnic 🌈💖
Play my new Bitsy game called ‘queer picnic’, created for the Rainbow Game Jam 2023.
‘queer picnic’ was inspired by my beautiful wonderful friends at Queer Literature Book Club, and Trivia Kings, Queens and iNBetweens. 💖💖
I have two new poems in The Minison Project x Moss Puppy Magazine Pop-Up Pride Issue!
So proud to have my poems ‘Eating out’ and ‘She wears a trans flag’ (an Animal Crossing inspired visual poem) published alongside the works of many amazing LGBTQIA+ creatives.
This month is Exactly As I Am’s first birthday! 🎉
Thank you to everyone who bought, borrowed and read this book over the past year. And thank you to all the excellent folk who interviewed me about it and asked me to read poems from it.
I hope Exactly As I Am continues to reach wonderful readers, especially those who need it most.
This past year has been a particularly dark, transphobic time for my community. I hope to combat that as much as I can, by continuing to write and publish books that uplift, embrace and nurture my trans, non-binary and gender diverse siblings 💖🏳️⚧️
(Awesome image tiles thanks to my publisher UQP.)
I recently had the pleasure of chatting with the wonderful folks at Queerious Minds about gender, queerness, poetry and #EnbyLife journal.
Have a read of the full interview on the Queerious Minds website.
I have a new piece in WellBeing WILD about the LGBTQIA+ acronym, the changing nature of language over time, and the importance of identity and community. Grab a copy at a local stockist or online.
So proud to have a short story in the Gender Diverse Pronouns issue of Capricious in this Story Bundle, which supports Rainbow Railroad for #PrideMonth 🌈🏳️🌈
An aside: the short story in Capricious, ‘Glitter and Leaf Litter’, is the piece I’m developing into a full length YA verse novel, thanks to my Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship. I love these wonderful non-binary characters so so much 🌈
Have a read of my new poem about a cursed suburban rental in the latest Vulture Bones, a speculative fiction magazine for trans and enby voices.
You can also read the full Issue 4 of Vulture Bones on their website.
My poem ‘Dirty talk’ (from my book Milk Teeth) is published in the latest Australian Poetry Journal Volume 8.2 – ‘spoken’, which features new works by more than 60 Australian poets, with poetry guest-edited by spoken-word poets Andrew Galan and David Stavanger. Following the ‘spoken’ selection is a separate section of 19 poems edited by Toby Fitch. This Big Bent series is an exploration of gender and language queering.
Grab yourself a copy of the latest APJ.
Both sections are also accompanied by sound-recordings, which is very cool! You can find the recordings at australianpoetry.org.
In August this year I had the pleasure of chatting with Blair Martin on Queer Radio on 4ZZZ. Have a listen back to our chat about non-binary gender, writing Milk Teeth, and my previous work on community radio.
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If you enjoyed my chat with Blair, don’t forget you can buy Milk Teeth online, at your nearest bookshop, or borrow it from your local library.
The wonderful Cordite Publishing Inc. commissioned Keira Edwards-Huolohan and I for an art-poetry-essay project! The process of working on this commission was collaborative, cathartic and invigorating.
‘Do more, do better’ is a poem in four parts that explores transgender discrimination through a hypothetical augmented reality (AR) mobile app. There are accompanying inked and embroidered art pieces, which reiterate key themes within the poem, and a critical statement, which analyses the poem and artwork while asking ‘the reader as well as the wider community if they are doing enough for trans people and others in marginalised communities’.
TRIGGER WARNINGS for the pieces: transphobia, including mentions of misgendering, slurs, violence, death, self-harm.
Read the poem ‘Do more, do better’.
A big thank you to Kent MacCarter and Rosalind McFarlane at Cordite for their encouragement and commission of this project. It was an absolute joy to work with you both!
Rae White 