Todd is a good follow
It’s a good question, let’s clear the air:
1) Disco is awesome, like 25 all-time classic tracks in a 4 year span,
2) Disco was hated because it was queer, brown, and black,
3) Disco was hated because it paired women and men in a different power dynamic.
4) “Disco Sucks” was a “ MAGA” test run.
RFD Magazine can be read online at: www.rfdmag.org/back-issues....
"Losing Superboy" appears on page 60. Check it out!
In print since the mid-1970s, RFD Magazine is an institution among queer publications. I'm honored that they've included my poem in this issue.
The cover illustration is by Jan Ziegler: "maybe everything was different."
Photograph of RFD Magazine's magazine cover for Spring 2026. In Jan Ziegler's illustration "maybe everything was different," in somber tones of blue and ping, a dark-haired man facing the viewer wipes tears from his left eye. In the upper left corner appear the letters "RFD" in large, white type, with "Number 205/Spring 2026/$11.95" immediately underneath. The word "Heartbreak" is printed in white across the man's right shoulder in the bottom left corner of the painting.
Last evening, Issue 205 of RFD Magazine arrived. This issue's theme is "Heartbreak." It includes my poem "Losing Superboy," about what institutionalized homophobia can do to a child's gifts.
#poetry #poem #writing #rfdmagazine #heartbreak #homophobia #florida #lgbtq
On a cold, sunny day in Philadephia, a white-bearded man wearing sunglasses and a tan baseball cap holds a flagpole from which an American flag and a Progress Pride flag drape around him.
No Kings, Philadelphia!
Front cover of Berkeley Poetry Review issue 55, featuring art by Sophie Yi, composed of abstracted natural images in shades of brown and beige.
Today's mail brought my contributor's copy of Issue 55 of Berkeley Poetry Review. This issue includes my poem, "The Good Neighbor." This magazine can be found at www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bpr/
#poetry #poem #writing #berkeleypoetryreview #neighbors #neighborhood #aging #lgbtq
Also, the bound volume is mighty impressive! Behind the beautiful painting "Two Women" by Ruth Leavitt Fallon that graces the cover are nearly 300 pages of literature. It will make for several well-spent evenings of reading. It's available at Amazon.
Currently, The Loch Raven Review site also hosts another of my poems, "Vertigo," which can be found at thelochravenreview.net/david-milley/
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Partial image of a book cover for the literary magazine Loch Raven Review, which features a painting by Ruth Leavitt Fallon of two women standing near each other on a beach on a clear day. The woman on the right holds an infant against her chest in a gray cloth sling. The woman on the left holds another child within a sling fashioned from a long, wide, white shawl with its head turned away from the observer, in the direction of the shoreline. The words "Loch Raven Review" appear above the painting.
My copy of The Loch Raven Review—Twenty-One arrived today, containing my poem, "To the Thrift," which they published on their web site last year. It can be read at: thelochravenreview.net/david-milleys
The video of a United States Senator joining the violent removal of U.S. marine from a hearing and hideously breaking his arm in a door is an example of what has been unleashed in this country. They’re tapping in to get in on the violence.
And then he bragged about it on X later.
Medical experiments on prisoners?
Where have we seen this before?
Congratulations to them both! youtu.be/jPCJIB1f7jk?...
A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.
We mustn’t let this war do so.
The day before starting a war with Iran, the Secretary of Defense was focused on removing trans scouters from the Boy Scouts.
Lee Evans raises a fist while standing on the podium as the gold medal winner in the 400-meter in the 1968 Olympics. Photo source: New Amsterdam News.
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Lee Evans was born on this day in 1947 in Madera, Calif. A legendary sprinter who became the first person to break the 44-second barrier in the 400-meter dash, Evans was also a founding member of the Olympic Project for Human Rights. /1
They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.
Black History Month: Margaret Bailey, first African American to attain the rank of colonel in the US Army Nurse Corps, the highest rank possible in the USANC.
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Community leader and civil rights activist Estelle Witherspoon (1916-2001) served as the first manager of the Freedom Quilting Bee, and her home served as the initial base for the group. Photo credit: Nancy Callahan.
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In 1966, 60 African American quilters in Wilcox County, Ala., established the Freedom Quilting Bee. The collective grew out of the Civil Rights Movement and offered economic independence to women facing financial retaliation for their political activism. /1
Yes he was handsome. But give some credit to the meticulous attention his wife Anna Murray Douglass paid to his care, his home, & the presentation of his garments. It was Anna, a free woman who he met in Baltimore, who out of her meager savings gave FD the money for his train ride to escape.
Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.
Leona Ford Washington. Photo credit: The El Paso Museum of History,
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Leona Ford Washington was born on this day* in 1928 in El Paso, Texas. She was an educator, historian and community activist who dedicated her life to preserving and celebrating the history of El Paso’s Black community. /1
*Estimated. Exact birthdate is unknown.
A necessary read.
Happy Black History Month…
Langston Hughes.
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Langston Hughes was born on this day in 1901 in Joplin, Mo. Hughes served as the premier poet and ambassador of the Harlem Renaissance, using his work to authentically portray the everyday lives, struggles and joys of working-class Black Americans. /1
Excerpt from featured work by Filiz Fish. Title: Before Me. First stanza: My mother lost three children before me. I imagine them as shadows pressed into her ribs, small ghosts whispering against the inside of her skin. She never says their names. Just "before you," like a door half-closed.
Issue #104 out now! Featured Poet Filiz Fish, supported by Michael J. Kolb, Stephen Ruffus, P.H. Coleman,
@mjmitchellwriter.bsky.social , Arielle Arbushites, @davidmilley.com, @mattstefonpoems.bsky.social, and M.B. McLatchey.
www.neologismpoetry.com/January-2026/
This year marks 100 years of celebrating Black history.
Now more than ever, it is critical that we teach our history, preserve our history, and continue to make history.
Black history is American history.
Happy Black History Month.
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🧵 It was the first all-Black protest in America that most people never heard of. It was the loudest protest ever—all without saying a word.🤫 Let me tell you about The Silent Parade of 1917. (cont)
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I'm honored to see my poem, "Tiller and Shears," appear in Issue #104 of Neologism Poetry Journal: www.neologismpoetry.com/January-2026/. I'm crazy proud of this piece!
#poetry #poem #sestina #writing #neologismpoetry #icarus #garden #lgbtq @neologismpoetry.bsky.social
Week 1 - Black History Month 2026
1. You may have seen this image of Black men voting during Reconstruction, and assumed it is a depiction of voting after the passage of the 15th Amendment (which outlaws denying the right to vote based on race).
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🧵 Let us begin #BlackHistoryMonth by acknowledging a medical milestone. What happened when Black physicians and nurses were excluded from all-White hospitals?
They built their own.
Pull up a 🪑.(cont)
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