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Queer Heaven Is a Dance Floor but I Can't Relax, 2019

a zine collaboration with Shaina Yang



Saw Palmettos, 2018

an art book on hormones, community, and the brain-time continuum


published by Container in a limited run of 25..


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some poems online



The Brooklyn Rail





Mouth Weather (Renee Gladman)


Open Hours (Paco Salas Pérez)


Truth Game (Joe Brainard)


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Black Warrior Review: Boyfriend Village





Excerpt from The Sound Was of the World Already


recording sound-designed by Jonah Rosenberg


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Tagvverk





The Washing Away of Wrongs ("What Is Glitter?")


Lily Pad (Diana Hamilton)


​Earthly Reasons


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Poetry Project HOUSE PARTY





Recording of 3 poems

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Guts Magazine





The Color of Joy Is Pink (Diana Ross)


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Social Text





Are You Hearing It Now (Pauline Oliveros)


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FEELINGS





Ocean Hallway (Bernadette Mayer)


Self-Timer / You Peek Out (Arthur Russell)


I Get Along without You Very Well (Of Course I do)


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Women & Performance





Clear Weather


2003 (Public Nuisance)


1989 (Are You Wondering How Long It Will Be)


with photographs by Elle Pérez​


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Triangle House





(Light Study in One Breath)


The People's Beach


Big Heat (Martin Wong)


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and in print



Oversound





issue 7 (2021)​


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We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics





Nightboat Books (2020)​


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Brooklyn Poets Anthology





Brooklyn Arts Press (2017)


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