Off to the New Orleans Poetry Festival! — Jadine (JD) Pluecker I’m ready to return to New Orleans, sister city on this Gulf of Mexico, for the PNew Orleans Poetry Festival ! Catch me at these events or on the street: Friday, April 17 - 1pm Lagniappe Reading w A...

I’m ready to return to New Orleans,
sister city on this Gulf of Mexico,
for the New Orleans Poetry Festival!
Catch me at these events
jadinepluecker.com/blog/2026/4/...

bring back mailed checks. i cant with all your institutional portals and platforms and apps and processes and and and

praise song for the last cool front in houston til mid october

a broadside at u arizona poetry center
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Tell the regulator to deny the expansion permit for Rio Grande LNG by April 8! Urgent: the LNG project, Rio Grande LNG, which is already under construction on Highway 48, is seeking a permit to expand the facility to export more methane. The community should submit a public c…

From South Texas Environmental Justice Network: Tell the regulator to deny the expansion permit for Rio Grande LNG by April 8! sotxejn.org/2026/04/03/t...

if they can fight the wall in laredo and big bend, we can fight it going through the rgv right? we need to stop the wall from being built in the butterfly center in mission, in the santa ana national wildlife refuge, at anzalduas park, at la lomita in mission. we can't give up

i will not use faceid or passkeys or passcodes. im good with a damn password
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Everywhere Isn't Texas (Reprise) - Official Music Video YouTube video by August Ponthier

i like the reprise better cuz im staying as long as i can and even when i leave tx im still take her everywhere i go www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2G6...

Why translated literature matters “That is exactly what the novel is: an ongoing exchange of reciprocal dialects, an interlingual and nonlinear demonstration of these women and their stories,” writes Johnson.

Fun to see this article on reader responses to Trash! Love this comment: “This is an activist translation. It’s not pretending not to be. The translator is present & what they have done is make the book more accessible and rich and beautiful.”
dailycollegian.com/2026/03/why-...

"In the 20+ years trans women were eligible [for the Olympics], only one ever competed and none ever medaled. This is solving for a problem that doesn't exist."

"My love for you is a monolith of try." - TC Tolbert
(Who will be in Houston this weekend doing a workshop and a reading event with musician Peachy Fingernail. Come out for these events of trans artistry!)
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TC Tolbert Comes to Houston! To Lead Workshops and Read with Peachy Fingernail! — Jadine (JD) Pluecker Hi everyone, I'm really excited that my friend Reese at the Montrose Center was able to get funding to bring my friend TC Tolbert to Houston to work with queer & trans youth at the center. TC wil...

TC Tolbert is coming to Houston! TC is an amazing poet and the co-editor of Troubling the Line, the first-ever anthology of trans & genderqueer poetry from Nightboat Books (2013). Come out to his free writing workshop & brunch reading w/ Peachy Fingernail! jdpluecker.com/blog/2026/3/...

Sticking It Out — Parapraxis Trauma Bonding for the Revolution Lily Scherlis

so good. i love the writing of Lily Scherlis. her new piece at Parapraxis -- Sticking It Out: Trauma Bonding for the Revolution
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/sti...

aw i miss you! happy to see someone i know here. the blue sky seems so empty most of the time

TC Tolbert TC Tolbert is the author of Gephyromania (Ahsahta Press, 2014).

more info on tc and links to a bunch of his poems:
poets.org/poet/tc-tolb...

tc tolbert will also offer a free poetry workshop on saturday, march 28 that is free and open to the community. to be held at montrose center 11am-1pm

failure to identify presents
tc tolbert
&
peachy fingernail
a brunch event with poetry and song at basket books + art
115 hyde park blvd, houston, tx 77006
on sunday march 29, 2026 - 10am - 11:30am
i'll bring coffee and some tacos!
come out come out

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I have a contact (a trans woman) in Portland, Maine, who is willing to host trans and non-binary people seeking refuge from unsafe states.

1 to 3 months, with support to engage with organisations in the area to enable a fresh start.

Email: contact@essehouse.co.uk for more details.

2026 — Trot for Trans Visibility — Trot for Trans Visibility 1719 Ruiz Street, Houston, TX - Third Annual Trot for Trans VisibilityJoin us for a joyous… - March 21, 2026

ima try and do this trot for trans visibility 5k fun run on saturday march 21. i already registered. to register its a $50 donation to a good cause, the trans name change clinic in texas. come out!
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look, it's a pic of me with dear friends! im in tijuana, trying to trick the algorithm because

i really want you to give what you can to this mutual aid campaign for a trans migrant woman jocelyn who friends & i are working to support!
www.gofundme.com/f/community-...

isa and wingston and i, we read from this book!
jdpluecker.com/grin-go-home...

Meet Me There: Roque Raquel Salas Rivera,Jadine (JD) Pluecker w/ Wingston González & Isadoro Saturno YouTube video by Charis Circle

happy to have been able to do this with my friends sam and roque and isadoro and wingston!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-FY...

Federal Prisons Bar Gender-Affirming Care for Trans People ‘People will die,’ an advocate warns, as standard treatments for gender dysphoria are replaced with therapy and antidepressants after Trump’s order.

horrifying
www.themarshallproject.org/2026/02/19/t...

The Marquis de Sade of the Upper East Side Like the infernal French nobleman, Jeffrey Epstein’s story represents cruel and oppressive politics that were seeded in aristocracy, tended in capitalism, and are now harvested in fascism.

damning of de sade and epstein
hyperallergic.com/the-marquis-...

really hate how every doctor's office wants to send robotexts & email now & have you check in before yr appointment and sign up for their damn portal

if yr gonna say "joy is resistance" or "my life is resistance" then read june jordan again and remember

"I can tell you that from now on my resistance
my simple and daily and nightly self-determination
may very well cost you your life"
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48762/...

Texas A&M eliminates women’s and gender studies program University leaders also said six courses were canceled and 48 exceptions were granted under new rules on race and gender.

some of us are still here being queer & trans & women & fighting the good fight in texas, despite all the attacks. dont support the attacks, but remember to support us. some of cant leave and some of us dont want to leave bc queer&trans people belong here.
www.texastribune.org/2026/01/30/t...

some website parasited onto yr post lol

Author Talk: Michelle Tea reading with Tennessee Hill and JD Pluecker | Basket Books & Art Houston, Texas based independent bookstore, art gallery & gathering place, specializing in art books from near and far, small press fiction, poetry, theory and philosophy; host to art exhibitions, fil...

Reading with Michelle Tea and Tennessee Hill tonight at Basket Books at 7pm! Come out come out! I'm probably going to read raunchy weird story in the voice of a chaser dude full of phobias and violence so it should be... an experience.
www.basket-books.com/events/42723...

i had to google who eric andre was and still dont really know but the idea of a fried urethra is a m a z i n g