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This Bank Holiday Monday, join @troycabida, Safa Khatib, @someimpropernoun, and @plastic.language at @referencepoint180 for an evening of multisensory poetry on the politics of erotic experience. Link in bios for tix.

Ease into your bodies with us at the end of the long weekend. Scribbling, quiet reading, and chill conversation with old or new friends encouraged throughout the space after the performances.
--
Troy Cabida is the author of Neon Manila (2025), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. His pamphlets include War Dove (2020) and Symmetric of Bone: poems after Elsa Peretti (2024), a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. He currently works as co-editor for fourteen poems and library assistant for the National Poetry Library. (www.troycabida.com/)

Safa Khatib is a poet and translator. She is the author of A Dress of Locusts (2025). Her work recently appears in Mizna, Wasafiri and the 2026 Forward Book of Poetry.

K Angel is founding editor of None Too Soon, an ephemeral press designed on neurodivergent rituals of urgency, necessity, and doing the thing together. Their first collection, Another double text (2026), is forthcoming from kith books. (www.someimpropernoun.com)

Endpapers, presented by Will René, is a monthly genre-hopping show on Noods Radio playing (mostly) wordless music to have on while reading or writing. Will also produces Plastic Language, a poetry and music show on NTS Radio.

In astronomy, precession refers to any of several gravity-induced, slow and continuous changes in an astronomical body's rotational axis or orbital path. [Wikipedia]

Some samples from recent leanings into both wobbles and callings. Turns out I'm a sound artist now (and a performance artist again).

1 - still from a recent performance with @safesoundres (📸: @colourcarver )
2 - chalkboard at @newriverstudios for safe+sound: MOVEMENT, the showcase event for @jesseloulawson 's Creative Short Form Audio Course
3 - screenshot of a track I made for Devin Kenny's Poetics and Protocols of Sampling course with @sfpc.study
4 - test bath for a ritual in development during @whynottammy 's Answering the Call workshop with @futureritual
5, 6 - screenshot of a RTE article about The Water Library, an anthology audio project from @zoecomyns and @safarikent
7 - postcard, collar, and beer for my piece 'Hey', which debuted as part of the @safesoundres pub takeover at @hearsayfestival
8 - 'Hey' in progress (transcript cut-ups and highlights spread on the kitchen table, shot from above)
9 - chalkboard at @newriverstudios advertising safe+sound: MOVEMENT as part of this week's schedule
10 - program for safe+sound: MOVEMENT, plus a candle
11 - video of me, at a mic, slowly putting a cover on a duvet as part of my act 'for nights when you can't sleep and i am not yet with you' (🙏: @colourcarver )
12 - my forever surprise, delight, and awe when an audience collectively accepts an invitation

Still making serious play with intimacy and queer longing. Still using words and bodies to do it. So happy to be in conversation with everyone above, and everyone else I've shared a studio, zoom room, or WhatsApp group with in the last many months.

In astronomy, precession refers to any of several gravity-induced, slow and continuous changes in an astronomical body's rotational axis or orbital path. [Wikipedia]

Some samples from recent leanings into both wobbles and callings. Turns out I'm a sound artist now (and a performance artist again).

1 - still from a recent performance with @safesoundres (📸: @colourcarver )
2 - chalkboard at @newriverstudios for safe+sound: MOVEMENT, the showcase event for @jesseloulawson 's Creative Short Form Audio Course
3 - screenshot of a track I made for Devin Kenny's Poetics and Protocols of Sampling course with @sfpc.study
4 - test bath for a ritual in development during @whynottammy 's Answering the Call workshop with @futureritual
5, 6 - screenshot of a RTE article about The Water Library, an anthology audio project from @zoecomyns and @safarikent
7 - postcard, collar, and beer for my piece 'Hey', which debuted as part of the @safesoundres pub takeover at @hearsayfestival
8 - 'Hey' in progress (transcript cut-ups and highlights spread on the kitchen table, shot from above)
9 - chalkboard at @newriverstudios advertising safe+sound: MOVEMENT as part of this week's schedule
10 - program for safe+sound: MOVEMENT, plus a candle
11 - video of me, at a mic, slowly putting a cover on a duvet as part of my act 'for nights when you can't sleep and i am not yet with you' (🙏: @colourcarver )
12 - my forever surprise, delight, and awe when an audience collectively accepts an invitation

Still making serious play with intimacy and queer longing. Still using words and bodies to do it. So happy to be in conversation with everyone above, and everyone else I've shared a studio, zoom room, or WhatsApp group with in the last many months.

In astronomy, precession refers to any of several gravity-induced, slow and continuous changes in an astronomical body's rotational axis or orbital path. [Wikipedia]

Some samples from recent leanings into both wobbles and callings. Turns out I'm a sound artist now (and a performance artist again).

1 - still from a recent performance with @safesoundres (📸: @colourcarver )
2 - chalkboard at @newriverstudios for safe+sound: MOVEMENT, the showcase event for @jesseloulawson 's Creative Short Form Audio Course
3 - screenshot of a track I made for Devin Kenny's Poetics and Protocols of Sampling course with @sfpc.study
4 - test bath for a ritual in development during @whynottammy 's Answering the Call workshop with @futureritual
5, 6 - screenshot of a RTE article about The Water Library, an anthology audio project from @zoecomyns and @safarikent
7 - postcard, collar, and beer for my piece 'Hey', which debuted as part of the @safesoundres pub takeover at @hearsayfestival
8 - 'Hey' in progress (transcript cut-ups and highlights spread on the kitchen table, shot from above)
9 - chalkboard at @newriverstudios advertising safe+sound: MOVEMENT as part of this week's schedule
10 - program for safe+sound: MOVEMENT, plus a candle
11 - video of me, at a mic, slowly putting a cover on a duvet as part of my act 'for nights when you can't sleep and i am not yet with you' (🙏: @colourcarver )
12 - my forever surprise, delight, and awe when an audience collectively accepts an invitation

Still making serious play with intimacy and queer longing. Still using words and bodies to do it. So happy to be in conversation with everyone above, and everyone else I've shared a studio, zoom room, or WhatsApp group with in the last many months.

In astronomy, precession refers to any of several gravity-induced, slow and continuous changes in an astronomical body's rotational axis or orbital path. [Wikipedia]

Some samples from recent leanings into both wobbles and callings. Turns out I'm a sound artist now (and a performance artist again).

1 - still from a recent performance with @safesoundres (📸: @colourcarver )
2 - chalkboard at @newriverstudios for safe+sound: MOVEMENT, the showcase event for @jesseloulawson 's Creative Short Form Audio Course
3 - screenshot of a track I made for Devin Kenny's Poetics and Protocols of Sampling course with @sfpc.study
4 - test bath for a ritual in development during @whynottammy 's Answering the Call workshop with @futureritual
5, 6 - screenshot of a RTE article about The Water Library, an anthology audio project from @zoecomyns and @safarikent
7 - postcard, collar, and beer for my piece 'Hey', which debuted as part of the @safesoundres pub takeover at @hearsayfestival
8 - 'Hey' in progress (transcript cut-ups and highlights spread on the kitchen table, shot from above)
9 - chalkboard at @newriverstudios advertising safe+sound: MOVEMENT as part of this week's schedule
10 - program for safe+sound: MOVEMENT, plus a candle
11 - video of me, at a mic, slowly putting a cover on a duvet as part of my act 'for nights when you can't sleep and i am not yet with you' (🙏: @colourcarver )
12 - my forever surprise, delight, and awe when an audience collectively accepts an invitation

Still making serious play with intimacy and queer longing. Still using words and bodies to do it. So happy to be in conversation with everyone above, and everyone else I've shared a studio, zoom room, or WhatsApp group with in the last many months.

In astronomy, precession refers to any of several gravity-induced, slow and continuous changes in an astronomical body's rotational axis or orbital path. [Wikipedia]

Some samples from recent leanings into both wobbles and callings. Turns out I'm a sound artist now (and a performance artist again).

1 - still from a recent performance with @safesoundres (📸: @colourcarver )
2 - chalkboard at @newriverstudios for safe+sound: MOVEMENT, the showcase event for @jesseloulawson 's Creative Short Form Audio Course
3 - screenshot of a track I made for Devin Kenny's Poetics and Protocols of Sampling course with @sfpc.study
4 - test bath for a ritual in development during @whynottammy 's Answering the Call workshop with @futureritual
5, 6 - screenshot of a RTE article about The Water Library, an anthology audio project from @zoecomyns and @safarikent
7 - postcard, collar, and beer for my piece 'Hey', which debuted as part of the @safesoundres pub takeover at @hearsayfestival
8 - 'Hey' in progress (transcript cut-ups and highlights spread on the kitchen table, shot from above)
9 - chalkboard at @newriverstudios advertising safe+sound: MOVEMENT as part of this week's schedule
10 - program for safe+sound: MOVEMENT, plus a candle
11 - video of me, at a mic, slowly putting a cover on a duvet as part of my act 'for nights when you can't sleep and i am not yet with you' (🙏: @colourcarver )
12 - my forever surprise, delight, and awe when an audience collectively accepts an invitation

Still making serious play with intimacy and queer longing. Still using words and bodies to do it. So happy to be in conversation with everyone above, and everyone else I've shared a studio, zoom room, or WhatsApp group with in the last many months.

In astronomy, precession refers to any of several gravity-induced, slow and continuous changes in an astronomical body's rotational axis or orbital path. [Wikipedia]

Some samples from recent leanings into both wobbles and callings. Turns out I'm a sound artist now (and a performance artist again).

1 - still from a recent performance with @safesoundres (📸: @colourcarver )
2 - chalkboard at @newriverstudios for safe+sound: MOVEMENT, the showcase event for @jesseloulawson 's Creative Short Form Audio Course
3 - screenshot of a track I made for Devin Kenny's Poetics and Protocols of Sampling course with @sfpc.study
4 - test bath for a ritual in development during @whynottammy 's Answering the Call workshop with @futureritual
5, 6 - screenshot of a RTE article about The Water Library, an anthology audio project from @zoecomyns and @safarikent
7 - postcard, collar, and beer for my piece 'Hey', which debuted as part of the @safesoundres pub takeover at @hearsayfestival
8 - 'Hey' in progress (transcript cut-ups and highlights spread on the kitchen table, shot from above)
9 - chalkboard at @newriverstudios advertising safe+sound: MOVEMENT as part of this week's schedule
10 - program for safe+sound: MOVEMENT, plus a candle
11 - video of me, at a mic, slowly putting a cover on a duvet as part of my act 'for nights when you can't sleep and i am not yet with you' (🙏: @colourcarver )
12 - my forever surprise, delight, and awe when an audience collectively accepts an invitation

Still making serious play with intimacy and queer longing. Still using words and bodies to do it. So happy to be in conversation with everyone above, and everyone else I've shared a studio, zoom room, or WhatsApp group with in the last many months.

In astronomy, precession refers to any of several gravity-induced, slow and continuous changes in an astronomical body's rotational axis or orbital path. [Wikipedia]

Some samples from recent leanings into both wobbles and callings. Turns out I'm a sound artist now (and a performance artist again).

1 - still from a recent performance with @safesoundres (📸: @colourcarver )
2 - chalkboard at @newriverstudios for safe+sound: MOVEMENT, the showcase event for @jesseloulawson 's Creative Short Form Audio Course
3 - screenshot of a track I made for Devin Kenny's Poetics and Protocols of Sampling course with @sfpc.study
4 - test bath for a ritual in development during @whynottammy 's Answering the Call workshop with @futureritual
5, 6 - screenshot of a RTE article about The Water Library, an anthology audio project from @zoecomyns and @safarikent
7 - postcard, collar, and beer for my piece 'Hey', which debuted as part of the @safesoundres pub takeover at @hearsayfestival
8 - 'Hey' in progress (transcript cut-ups and highlights spread on the kitchen table, shot from above)
9 - chalkboard at @newriverstudios advertising safe+sound: MOVEMENT as part of this week's schedule
10 - program for safe+sound: MOVEMENT, plus a candle
11 - video of me, at a mic, slowly putting a cover on a duvet as part of my act 'for nights when you can't sleep and i am not yet with you' (🙏: @colourcarver )
12 - my forever surprise, delight, and awe when an audience collectively accepts an invitation

Still making serious play with intimacy and queer longing. Still using words and bodies to do it. So happy to be in conversation with everyone above, and everyone else I've shared a studio, zoom room, or WhatsApp group with in the last many months.

In astronomy, precession refers to any of several gravity-induced, slow and continuous changes in an astronomical body's rotational axis or orbital path. [Wikipedia]

Some samples from recent leanings into both wobbles and callings. Turns out I'm a sound artist now (and a performance artist again).

1 - still from a recent performance with @safesoundres (📸: @colourcarver )
2 - chalkboard at @newriverstudios for safe+sound: MOVEMENT, the showcase event for @jesseloulawson 's Creative Short Form Audio Course
3 - screenshot of a track I made for Devin Kenny's Poetics and Protocols of Sampling course with @sfpc.study
4 - test bath for a ritual in development during @whynottammy 's Answering the Call workshop with @futureritual
5, 6 - screenshot of a RTE article about The Water Library, an anthology audio project from @zoecomyns and @safarikent
7 - postcard, collar, and beer for my piece 'Hey', which debuted as part of the @safesoundres pub takeover at @hearsayfestival
8 - 'Hey' in progress (transcript cut-ups and highlights spread on the kitchen table, shot from above)
9 - chalkboard at @newriverstudios advertising safe+sound: MOVEMENT as part of this week's schedule
10 - program for safe+sound: MOVEMENT, plus a candle
11 - video of me, at a mic, slowly putting a cover on a duvet as part of my act 'for nights when you can't sleep and i am not yet with you' (🙏: @colourcarver )
12 - my forever surprise, delight, and awe when an audience collectively accepts an invitation

Still making serious play with intimacy and queer longing. Still using words and bodies to do it. So happy to be in conversation with everyone above, and everyone else I've shared a studio, zoom room, or WhatsApp group with in the last many months.

In astronomy, precession refers to any of several gravity-induced, slow and continuous changes in an astronomical body's rotational axis or orbital path. [Wikipedia]

Some samples from recent leanings into both wobbles and callings. Turns out I'm a sound artist now (and a performance artist again).

1 - still from a recent performance with @safesoundres (📸: @colourcarver )
2 - chalkboard at @newriverstudios for safe+sound: MOVEMENT, the showcase event for @jesseloulawson 's Creative Short Form Audio Course
3 - screenshot of a track I made for Devin Kenny's Poetics and Protocols of Sampling course with @sfpc.study
4 - test bath for a ritual in development during @whynottammy 's Answering the Call workshop with @futureritual
5, 6 - screenshot of a RTE article about The Water Library, an anthology audio project from @zoecomyns and @safarikent
7 - postcard, collar, and beer for my piece 'Hey', which debuted as part of the @safesoundres pub takeover at @hearsayfestival
8 - 'Hey' in progress (transcript cut-ups and highlights spread on the kitchen table, shot from above)
9 - chalkboard at @newriverstudios advertising safe+sound: MOVEMENT as part of this week's schedule
10 - program for safe+sound: MOVEMENT, plus a candle
11 - video of me, at a mic, slowly putting a cover on a duvet as part of my act 'for nights when you can't sleep and i am not yet with you' (🙏: @colourcarver )
12 - my forever surprise, delight, and awe when an audience collectively accepts an invitation

Still making serious play with intimacy and queer longing. Still using words and bodies to do it. So happy to be in conversation with everyone above, and everyone else I've shared a studio, zoom room, or WhatsApp group with in the last many months.

In astronomy, precession refers to any of several gravity-induced, slow and continuous changes in an astronomical body's rotational axis or orbital path. [Wikipedia]

Some samples from recent leanings into both wobbles and callings. Turns out I'm a sound artist now (and a performance artist again).

1 - still from a recent performance with @safesoundres (📸: @colourcarver )
2 - chalkboard at @newriverstudios for safe+sound: MOVEMENT, the showcase event for @jesseloulawson 's Creative Short Form Audio Course
3 - screenshot of a track I made for Devin Kenny's Poetics and Protocols of Sampling course with @sfpc.study
4 - test bath for a ritual in development during @whynottammy 's Answering the Call workshop with @futureritual
5, 6 - screenshot of a RTE article about The Water Library, an anthology audio project from @zoecomyns and @safarikent
7 - postcard, collar, and beer for my piece 'Hey', which debuted as part of the @safesoundres pub takeover at @hearsayfestival
8 - 'Hey' in progress (transcript cut-ups and highlights spread on the kitchen table, shot from above)
9 - chalkboard at @newriverstudios advertising safe+sound: MOVEMENT as part of this week's schedule
10 - program for safe+sound: MOVEMENT, plus a candle
11 - video of me, at a mic, slowly putting a cover on a duvet as part of my act 'for nights when you can't sleep and i am not yet with you' (🙏: @colourcarver )
12 - my forever surprise, delight, and awe when an audience collectively accepts an invitation

Still making serious play with intimacy and queer longing. Still using words and bodies to do it. So happy to be in conversation with everyone above, and everyone else I've shared a studio, zoom room, or WhatsApp group with in the last many months.

In astronomy, precession refers to any of several gravity-induced, slow and continuous changes in an astronomical body's rotational axis or orbital path. [Wikipedia]

Some samples from recent leanings into both wobbles and callings. Turns out I'm a sound artist now (and a performance artist again).

1 - still from a recent performance with @safesoundres (📸: @colourcarver )
2 - chalkboard at @newriverstudios for safe+sound: MOVEMENT, the showcase event for @jesseloulawson 's Creative Short Form Audio Course
3 - screenshot of a track I made for Devin Kenny's Poetics and Protocols of Sampling course with @sfpc.study
4 - test bath for a ritual in development during @whynottammy 's Answering the Call workshop with @futureritual
5, 6 - screenshot of a RTE article about The Water Library, an anthology audio project from @zoecomyns and @safarikent
7 - postcard, collar, and beer for my piece 'Hey', which debuted as part of the @safesoundres pub takeover at @hearsayfestival
8 - 'Hey' in progress (transcript cut-ups and highlights spread on the kitchen table, shot from above)
9 - chalkboard at @newriverstudios advertising safe+sound: MOVEMENT as part of this week's schedule
10 - program for safe+sound: MOVEMENT, plus a candle
11 - video of me, at a mic, slowly putting a cover on a duvet as part of my act 'for nights when you can't sleep and i am not yet with you' (🙏: @colourcarver )
12 - my forever surprise, delight, and awe when an audience collectively accepts an invitation

Still making serious play with intimacy and queer longing. Still using words and bodies to do it. So happy to be in conversation with everyone above, and everyone else I've shared a studio, zoom room, or WhatsApp group with in the last many months.

In astronomy, precession refers to any of several gravity-induced, slow and continuous changes in an astronomical body's rotational axis or orbital path. [Wikipedia]

Some samples from recent leanings into both wobbles and callings. Turns out I'm a sound artist now (and a performance artist again).

1 - still from a recent performance with @safesoundres (📸: @colourcarver )
2 - chalkboard at @newriverstudios for safe+sound: MOVEMENT, the showcase event for @jesseloulawson 's Creative Short Form Audio Course
3 - screenshot of a track I made for Devin Kenny's Poetics and Protocols of Sampling course with @sfpc.study
4 - test bath for a ritual in development during @whynottammy 's Answering the Call workshop with @futureritual
5, 6 - screenshot of a RTE article about The Water Library, an anthology audio project from @zoecomyns and @safarikent
7 - postcard, collar, and beer for my piece 'Hey', which debuted as part of the @safesoundres pub takeover at @hearsayfestival
8 - 'Hey' in progress (transcript cut-ups and highlights spread on the kitchen table, shot from above)
9 - chalkboard at @newriverstudios advertising safe+sound: MOVEMENT as part of this week's schedule
10 - program for safe+sound: MOVEMENT, plus a candle
11 - video of me, at a mic, slowly putting a cover on a duvet as part of my act 'for nights when you can't sleep and i am not yet with you' (🙏: @colourcarver )
12 - my forever surprise, delight, and awe when an audience collectively accepts an invitation

Still making serious play with intimacy and queer longing. Still using words and bodies to do it. So happy to be in conversation with everyone above, and everyone else I've shared a studio, zoom room, or WhatsApp group with in the last many months.

it is within us all to leave each spring (trans)formed

Multimorbid
by Rebecca Wood

The Holy Ghost Lives In Her Laugh
by Darius Phelps

Grief Is Not Shelf Stable
by Jamez Terry

The Death of the Cult Classic
by K. Blair

Another Double Text
by K Angel

36 Views of My Breasts
by Billie Sainwood

kithbooks.com

"I’m not positive at all
about the science                     but I know that we’re still testing
bombs                   on people we’re supposed to love"
- K Angel, After Ithaka

There exists no linear transition, no clear path to becoming, amidst the feedback of familiar carnival mirrors. Instead we stumble after sparks and flashes that beckon hotly from beyond our worn reflections. Transposing page for body, Another double text serves as schematic for this seduction of exits and thresholds: how to try on, then shed, strange shapes and old forms? how to yearn toward an impossible omniscience until a new self falls (with some small grief) into place?

kithbooks.com/shop/p/doubletext
preorders are OPEN

Advance praise for Another double text:

“Another double text leaves no doubt we are our bodies of text / shivers / and caught breath. Angel tells a tender story of a you & I searching for selves through formal play in sex and language. A sharp examination and a homecoming, Another double text longs to reconcile with an ache that might be love, maybe god.”
         —Crystal Odelle, author of Trans Studies

Release Date: June 21th, 2026
ISBN:  978-1-964932-32-6
100 pages

"I’m not positive at all
about the science                     but I know that we’re still testing
bombs                   on people we’re supposed to love"
- K Angel, After Ithaka

There exists no linear transition, no clear path to becoming, amidst the feedback of familiar carnival mirrors. Instead we stumble after sparks and flashes that beckon hotly from beyond our worn reflections. Transposing page for body, Another double text serves as schematic for this seduction of exits and thresholds: how to try on, then shed, strange shapes and old forms? how to yearn toward an impossible omniscience until a new self falls (with some small grief) into place?

kithbooks.com/shop/p/doubletext
preorders are OPEN

Advance praise for Another double text:

“Another double text leaves no doubt we are our bodies of text / shivers / and caught breath. Angel tells a tender story of a you & I searching for selves through formal play in sex and language. A sharp examination and a homecoming, Another double text longs to reconcile with an ache that might be love, maybe god.”
         —Crystal Odelle, author of Trans Studies

Release Date: June 21th, 2026
ISBN:  978-1-964932-32-6
100 pages

"I’m not positive at all
about the science                     but I know that we’re still testing
bombs                   on people we’re supposed to love"
- K Angel, After Ithaka

There exists no linear transition, no clear path to becoming, amidst the feedback of familiar carnival mirrors. Instead we stumble after sparks and flashes that beckon hotly from beyond our worn reflections. Transposing page for body, Another double text serves as schematic for this seduction of exits and thresholds: how to try on, then shed, strange shapes and old forms? how to yearn toward an impossible omniscience until a new self falls (with some small grief) into place?

kithbooks.com/shop/p/doubletext
preorders are OPEN

Advance praise for Another double text:

“Another double text leaves no doubt we are our bodies of text / shivers / and caught breath. Angel tells a tender story of a you & I searching for selves through formal play in sex and language. A sharp examination and a homecoming, Another double text longs to reconcile with an ache that might be love, maybe god.”
         —Crystal Odelle, author of Trans Studies

Release Date: June 21th, 2026
ISBN:  978-1-964932-32-6
100 pages

In Speaking Of The Gaze, poets K Angel, Troy Cabida and Safa Khatib present a multisensory reading on the politics of erotic experience, featuring poetry, music, and performance followed by an ambient set courtesy of Endpapers. Books will be available for sale on the night.

Ease into your bodies with us at the end of the long weekend. Scribbling, quiet reading, and chill conversation with old or new friends encouraged throughout the space after the performances.

--

Troy Cabida is the author of Neon Manila (2025), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. His pamphlets include War Dove (2020) and Symmetric of Bone: poems after Elsa Peretti (2024), a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. He currently works as co-editor for fourteen poems and library assistant for the National Poetry Library. (www.troycabida.com/)

Safa Khatib is a poet and translator. She is the author of A Dress of Locusts (2025). Her work recently appears in Mizna, Wasafiri and the 2026 Forward Book of Poetry.

K Angel is founding editor of None Too Soon, an ephemeral press designed on neurodivergent rituals of urgency, necessity, and doing the thing together. Their first collection, Another double text (2026), is forthcoming from kith books. (www.someimpropernoun.com)

Endpapers, presented by Will René, is a monthly genre-hopping show on Noods Radio playing (mostly) wordless music to have on while reading or writing. Will also produces Plastic Language, a poetry and music show on NTS Radio.

In Speaking Of The Gaze, poets K Angel, Troy Cabida and Safa Khatib present a multisensory reading on the politics of erotic experience, featuring poetry, music, and performance followed by an ambient set courtesy of Endpapers. Books will be available for sale on the night.

Ease into your bodies with us at the end of the long weekend. Scribbling, quiet reading, and chill conversation with old or new friends encouraged throughout the space after the performances.

--

Troy Cabida is the author of Neon Manila (2025), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. His pamphlets include War Dove (2020) and Symmetric of Bone: poems after Elsa Peretti (2024), a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. He currently works as co-editor for fourteen poems and library assistant for the National Poetry Library. (www.troycabida.com/)

Safa Khatib is a poet and translator. She is the author of A Dress of Locusts (2025). Her work recently appears in Mizna, Wasafiri and the 2026 Forward Book of Poetry.

K Angel is founding editor of None Too Soon, an ephemeral press designed on neurodivergent rituals of urgency, necessity, and doing the thing together. Their first collection, Another double text (2026), is forthcoming from kith books. (www.someimpropernoun.com)

Endpapers, presented by Will René, is a monthly genre-hopping show on Noods Radio playing (mostly) wordless music to have on while reading or writing. Will also produces Plastic Language, a poetry and music show on NTS Radio.

In Speaking Of The Gaze, poets K Angel, Troy Cabida and Safa Khatib present a multisensory reading on the politics of erotic experience, featuring poetry, music, and performance followed by an ambient set courtesy of Endpapers. Books will be available for sale on the night.

Ease into your bodies with us at the end of the long weekend. Scribbling, quiet reading, and chill conversation with old or new friends encouraged throughout the space after the performances.

--

Troy Cabida is the author of Neon Manila (2025), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. His pamphlets include War Dove (2020) and Symmetric of Bone: poems after Elsa Peretti (2024), a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. He currently works as co-editor for fourteen poems and library assistant for the National Poetry Library. (www.troycabida.com/)

Safa Khatib is a poet and translator. She is the author of A Dress of Locusts (2025). Her work recently appears in Mizna, Wasafiri and the 2026 Forward Book of Poetry.

K Angel is founding editor of None Too Soon, an ephemeral press designed on neurodivergent rituals of urgency, necessity, and doing the thing together. Their first collection, Another double text (2026), is forthcoming from kith books. (www.someimpropernoun.com)

Endpapers, presented by Will René, is a monthly genre-hopping show on Noods Radio playing (mostly) wordless music to have on while reading or writing. Will also produces Plastic Language, a poetry and music show on NTS Radio.

In Speaking Of The Gaze, poets K Angel, Troy Cabida and Safa Khatib present a multisensory reading on the politics of erotic experience, featuring poetry, music, and performance followed by an ambient set courtesy of Endpapers. Books will be available for sale on the night.

Ease into your bodies with us at the end of the long weekend. Scribbling, quiet reading, and chill conversation with old or new friends encouraged throughout the space after the performances.

--

Troy Cabida is the author of Neon Manila (2025), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. His pamphlets include War Dove (2020) and Symmetric of Bone: poems after Elsa Peretti (2024), a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. He currently works as co-editor for fourteen poems and library assistant for the National Poetry Library. (www.troycabida.com/)

Safa Khatib is a poet and translator. She is the author of A Dress of Locusts (2025). Her work recently appears in Mizna, Wasafiri and the 2026 Forward Book of Poetry.

K Angel is founding editor of None Too Soon, an ephemeral press designed on neurodivergent rituals of urgency, necessity, and doing the thing together. Their first collection, Another double text (2026), is forthcoming from kith books. (www.someimpropernoun.com)

Endpapers, presented by Will René, is a monthly genre-hopping show on Noods Radio playing (mostly) wordless music to have on while reading or writing. Will also produces Plastic Language, a poetry and music show on NTS Radio.

In Speaking Of The Gaze, poets K Angel, Troy Cabida and Safa Khatib present a multisensory reading on the politics of erotic experience, featuring poetry, music, and performance followed by an ambient set courtesy of Endpapers. Books will be available for sale on the night.

Ease into your bodies with us at the end of the long weekend. Scribbling, quiet reading, and chill conversation with old or new friends encouraged throughout the space after the performances.

--

Troy Cabida is the author of Neon Manila (2025), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. His pamphlets include War Dove (2020) and Symmetric of Bone: poems after Elsa Peretti (2024), a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. He currently works as co-editor for fourteen poems and library assistant for the National Poetry Library. (www.troycabida.com/)

Safa Khatib is a poet and translator. She is the author of A Dress of Locusts (2025). Her work recently appears in Mizna, Wasafiri and the 2026 Forward Book of Poetry.

K Angel is founding editor of None Too Soon, an ephemeral press designed on neurodivergent rituals of urgency, necessity, and doing the thing together. Their first collection, Another double text (2026), is forthcoming from kith books. (www.someimpropernoun.com)

Endpapers, presented by Will René, is a monthly genre-hopping show on Noods Radio playing (mostly) wordless music to have on while reading or writing. Will also produces Plastic Language, a poetry and music show on NTS Radio.

How to start a press, I guess☝️

I spent a lot of time this past winter touching paper and awing at the people I'm so lucky to have with me in this messy beautiful life. None Too Soon was born from a love of laboring for and with the people I love, and the stimmy puzzle-cracking joy of trying to craft a commons where we all get to imagine ourselves a little bit closer to who we might become if we had everything we need.

Link in bio for current stockists of 'Going Going', including online, and to sign up to our email list for updates on future events and calls to conspire.

Swipe for process shots and the biggest lie I've ever told to @donna__kwon

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@pagesofhackney
@thecommonpress
@burleyfisher
@magculture
@thingypeople

How to start a press, I guess☝️

I spent a lot of time this past winter touching paper and awing at the people I'm so lucky to have with me in this messy beautiful life. None Too Soon was born from a love of laboring for and with the people I love, and the stimmy puzzle-cracking joy of trying to craft a commons where we all get to imagine ourselves a little bit closer to who we might become if we had everything we need.

Link in bio for current stockists of 'Going Going', including online, and to sign up to our email list for updates on future events and calls to conspire.

Swipe for process shots and the biggest lie I've ever told to @donna__kwon

@pagemasters.co
@pagesofhackney
@thecommonpress
@burleyfisher
@magculture
@thingypeople

How to start a press, I guess☝️

I spent a lot of time this past winter touching paper and awing at the people I'm so lucky to have with me in this messy beautiful life. None Too Soon was born from a love of laboring for and with the people I love, and the stimmy puzzle-cracking joy of trying to craft a commons where we all get to imagine ourselves a little bit closer to who we might become if we had everything we need.

Link in bio for current stockists of 'Going Going', including online, and to sign up to our email list for updates on future events and calls to conspire.

Swipe for process shots and the biggest lie I've ever told to @donna__kwon

@pagemasters.co
@pagesofhackney
@thecommonpress
@burleyfisher
@magculture
@thingypeople

How to start a press, I guess☝️

I spent a lot of time this past winter touching paper and awing at the people I'm so lucky to have with me in this messy beautiful life. None Too Soon was born from a love of laboring for and with the people I love, and the stimmy puzzle-cracking joy of trying to craft a commons where we all get to imagine ourselves a little bit closer to who we might become if we had everything we need.

Link in bio for current stockists of 'Going Going', including online, and to sign up to our email list for updates on future events and calls to conspire.

Swipe for process shots and the biggest lie I've ever told to @donna__kwon

@pagemasters.co
@pagesofhackney
@thecommonpress
@burleyfisher
@magculture
@thingypeople

How to start a press, I guess☝️

I spent a lot of time this past winter touching paper and awing at the people I'm so lucky to have with me in this messy beautiful life. None Too Soon was born from a love of laboring for and with the people I love, and the stimmy puzzle-cracking joy of trying to craft a commons where we all get to imagine ourselves a little bit closer to who we might become if we had everything we need.

Link in bio for current stockists of 'Going Going', including online, and to sign up to our email list for updates on future events and calls to conspire.

Swipe for process shots and the biggest lie I've ever told to @donna__kwon

@pagemasters.co
@pagesofhackney
@thecommonpress
@burleyfisher
@magculture
@thingypeople

How to start a press, I guess☝️

I spent a lot of time this past winter touching paper and awing at the people I'm so lucky to have with me in this messy beautiful life. None Too Soon was born from a love of laboring for and with the people I love, and the stimmy puzzle-cracking joy of trying to craft a commons where we all get to imagine ourselves a little bit closer to who we might become if we had everything we need.

Link in bio for current stockists of 'Going Going', including online, and to sign up to our email list for updates on future events and calls to conspire.

Swipe for process shots and the biggest lie I've ever told to @donna__kwon

@pagemasters.co
@pagesofhackney
@thecommonpress
@burleyfisher
@magculture
@thingypeople

How to start a press, I guess☝️

I spent a lot of time this past winter touching paper and awing at the people I'm so lucky to have with me in this messy beautiful life. None Too Soon was born from a love of laboring for and with the people I love, and the stimmy puzzle-cracking joy of trying to craft a commons where we all get to imagine ourselves a little bit closer to who we might become if we had everything we need.

Link in bio for current stockists of 'Going Going', including online, and to sign up to our email list for updates on future events and calls to conspire.

Swipe for process shots and the biggest lie I've ever told to @donna__kwon

@pagemasters.co
@pagesofhackney
@thecommonpress
@burleyfisher
@magculture
@thingypeople

How to start a press, I guess☝️

I spent a lot of time this past winter touching paper and awing at the people I'm so lucky to have with me in this messy beautiful life. None Too Soon was born from a love of laboring for and with the people I love, and the stimmy puzzle-cracking joy of trying to craft a commons where we all get to imagine ourselves a little bit closer to who we might become if we had everything we need.

Link in bio for current stockists of 'Going Going', including online, and to sign up to our email list for updates on future events and calls to conspire.

Swipe for process shots and the biggest lie I've ever told to @donna__kwon

@pagemasters.co
@pagesofhackney
@thecommonpress
@burleyfisher
@magculture
@thingypeople

How to start a press, I guess☝️

I spent a lot of time this past winter touching paper and awing at the people I'm so lucky to have with me in this messy beautiful life. None Too Soon was born from a love of laboring for and with the people I love, and the stimmy puzzle-cracking joy of trying to craft a commons where we all get to imagine ourselves a little bit closer to who we might become if we had everything we need.

Link in bio for current stockists of 'Going Going', including online, and to sign up to our email list for updates on future events and calls to conspire.

Swipe for process shots and the biggest lie I've ever told to @donna__kwon

@pagemasters.co
@pagesofhackney
@thecommonpress
@burleyfisher
@magculture
@thingypeople

How to start a press, I guess☝️

I spent a lot of time this past winter touching paper and awing at the people I'm so lucky to have with me in this messy beautiful life. None Too Soon was born from a love of laboring for and with the people I love, and the stimmy puzzle-cracking joy of trying to craft a commons where we all get to imagine ourselves a little bit closer to who we might become if we had everything we need.

Link in bio for current stockists of 'Going Going', including online, and to sign up to our email list for updates on future events and calls to conspire.

Swipe for process shots and the biggest lie I've ever told to @donna__kwon

@pagemasters.co
@pagesofhackney
@thecommonpress
@burleyfisher
@magculture
@thingypeople

How to start a press, I guess☝️

I spent a lot of time this past winter touching paper and awing at the people I'm so lucky to have with me in this messy beautiful life. None Too Soon was born from a love of laboring for and with the people I love, and the stimmy puzzle-cracking joy of trying to craft a commons where we all get to imagine ourselves a little bit closer to who we might become if we had everything we need.

Link in bio for current stockists of 'Going Going', including online, and to sign up to our email list for updates on future events and calls to conspire.

Swipe for process shots and the biggest lie I've ever told to @donna__kwon

@pagemasters.co
@pagesofhackney
@thecommonpress
@burleyfisher
@magculture
@thingypeople

How to start a press, I guess☝️

I spent a lot of time this past winter touching paper and awing at the people I'm so lucky to have with me in this messy beautiful life. None Too Soon was born from a love of laboring for and with the people I love, and the stimmy puzzle-cracking joy of trying to craft a commons where we all get to imagine ourselves a little bit closer to who we might become if we had everything we need.

Link in bio for current stockists of 'Going Going', including online, and to sign up to our email list for updates on future events and calls to conspire.

Swipe for process shots and the biggest lie I've ever told to @donna__kwon

@pagemasters.co
@pagesofhackney
@thecommonpress
@burleyfisher
@magculture
@thingypeople

How to start a press, I guess☝️

I spent a lot of time this past winter touching paper and awing at the people I'm so lucky to have with me in this messy beautiful life. None Too Soon was born from a love of laboring for and with the people I love, and the stimmy puzzle-cracking joy of trying to craft a commons where we all get to imagine ourselves a little bit closer to who we might become if we had everything we need.

Link in bio for current stockists of 'Going Going', including online, and to sign up to our email list for updates on future events and calls to conspire.

Swipe for process shots and the biggest lie I've ever told to @donna__kwon

@pagemasters.co
@pagesofhackney
@thecommonpress
@burleyfisher
@magculture
@thingypeople

How to start a press, I guess☝️

I spent a lot of time this past winter touching paper and awing at the people I'm so lucky to have with me in this messy beautiful life. None Too Soon was born from a love of laboring for and with the people I love, and the stimmy puzzle-cracking joy of trying to craft a commons where we all get to imagine ourselves a little bit closer to who we might become if we had everything we need.

Link in bio for current stockists of 'Going Going', including online, and to sign up to our email list for updates on future events and calls to conspire.

Swipe for process shots and the biggest lie I've ever told to @donna__kwon

@pagemasters.co
@pagesofhackney
@thecommonpress
@burleyfisher
@magculture
@thingypeople

How to start a press, I guess☝️

I spent a lot of time this past winter touching paper and awing at the people I'm so lucky to have with me in this messy beautiful life. None Too Soon was born from a love of laboring for and with the people I love, and the stimmy puzzle-cracking joy of trying to craft a commons where we all get to imagine ourselves a little bit closer to who we might become if we had everything we need.

Link in bio for current stockists of 'Going Going', including online, and to sign up to our email list for updates on future events and calls to conspire.

Swipe for process shots and the biggest lie I've ever told to @donna__kwon

@pagemasters.co
@pagesofhackney
@thecommonpress
@burleyfisher
@magculture
@thingypeople

How to start a press, I guess☝️

I spent a lot of time this past winter touching paper and awing at the people I'm so lucky to have with me in this messy beautiful life. None Too Soon was born from a love of laboring for and with the people I love, and the stimmy puzzle-cracking joy of trying to craft a commons where we all get to imagine ourselves a little bit closer to who we might become if we had everything we need.

Link in bio for current stockists of 'Going Going', including online, and to sign up to our email list for updates on future events and calls to conspire.

Swipe for process shots and the biggest lie I've ever told to @donna__kwon

@pagemasters.co
@pagesofhackney
@thecommonpress
@burleyfisher
@magculture
@thingypeople

How to start a press, I guess☝️

I spent a lot of time this past winter touching paper and awing at the people I'm so lucky to have with me in this messy beautiful life. None Too Soon was born from a love of laboring for and with the people I love, and the stimmy puzzle-cracking joy of trying to craft a commons where we all get to imagine ourselves a little bit closer to who we might become if we had everything we need.

Link in bio for current stockists of 'Going Going', including online, and to sign up to our email list for updates on future events and calls to conspire.

Swipe for process shots and the biggest lie I've ever told to @donna__kwon

@pagemasters.co
@pagesofhackney
@thecommonpress
@burleyfisher
@magculture
@thingypeople

How to start a press, I guess☝️

I spent a lot of time this past winter touching paper and awing at the people I'm so lucky to have with me in this messy beautiful life. None Too Soon was born from a love of laboring for and with the people I love, and the stimmy puzzle-cracking joy of trying to craft a commons where we all get to imagine ourselves a little bit closer to who we might become if we had everything we need.

Link in bio for current stockists of 'Going Going', including online, and to sign up to our email list for updates on future events and calls to conspire.

Swipe for process shots and the biggest lie I've ever told to @donna__kwon

@pagemasters.co
@pagesofhackney
@thecommonpress
@burleyfisher
@magculture
@thingypeople

Get outta town!

My brain stopped working so I (was very lucky to have) disappeared into the woods for three weeks. Lungs fuller of fresh air now and digital documents bulging.

I'm still in hermit mode but preparing for reentry. (Tweezing nipple hairs, clipping toenails, practicing human conversation...)

Thank you to everyone who's been understanding with slow replies, who's fielded my non sequiturs and hyperfixated enthusiasms, and, in Ashley's case, who's done my dirty laundry.

Get outta town!

My brain stopped working so I (was very lucky to have) disappeared into the woods for three weeks. Lungs fuller of fresh air now and digital documents bulging.

I'm still in hermit mode but preparing for reentry. (Tweezing nipple hairs, clipping toenails, practicing human conversation...)

Thank you to everyone who's been understanding with slow replies, who's fielded my non sequiturs and hyperfixated enthusiasms, and, in Ashley's case, who's done my dirty laundry.

Get outta town!

My brain stopped working so I (was very lucky to have) disappeared into the woods for three weeks. Lungs fuller of fresh air now and digital documents bulging.

I'm still in hermit mode but preparing for reentry. (Tweezing nipple hairs, clipping toenails, practicing human conversation...)

Thank you to everyone who's been understanding with slow replies, who's fielded my non sequiturs and hyperfixated enthusiasms, and, in Ashley's case, who's done my dirty laundry.

Get outta town!

My brain stopped working so I (was very lucky to have) disappeared into the woods for three weeks. Lungs fuller of fresh air now and digital documents bulging.

I'm still in hermit mode but preparing for reentry. (Tweezing nipple hairs, clipping toenails, practicing human conversation...)

Thank you to everyone who's been understanding with slow replies, who's fielded my non sequiturs and hyperfixated enthusiasms, and, in Ashley's case, who's done my dirty laundry.

Get outta town!

My brain stopped working so I (was very lucky to have) disappeared into the woods for three weeks. Lungs fuller of fresh air now and digital documents bulging.

I'm still in hermit mode but preparing for reentry. (Tweezing nipple hairs, clipping toenails, practicing human conversation...)

Thank you to everyone who's been understanding with slow replies, who's fielded my non sequiturs and hyperfixated enthusiasms, and, in Ashley's case, who's done my dirty laundry.

Get outta town!

My brain stopped working so I (was very lucky to have) disappeared into the woods for three weeks. Lungs fuller of fresh air now and digital documents bulging.

I'm still in hermit mode but preparing for reentry. (Tweezing nipple hairs, clipping toenails, practicing human conversation...)

Thank you to everyone who's been understanding with slow replies, who's fielded my non sequiturs and hyperfixated enthusiasms, and, in Ashley's case, who's done my dirty laundry.

Get outta town!

My brain stopped working so I (was very lucky to have) disappeared into the woods for three weeks. Lungs fuller of fresh air now and digital documents bulging.

I'm still in hermit mode but preparing for reentry. (Tweezing nipple hairs, clipping toenails, practicing human conversation...)

Thank you to everyone who's been understanding with slow replies, who's fielded my non sequiturs and hyperfixated enthusiasms, and, in Ashley's case, who's done my dirty laundry.

Get outta town!

My brain stopped working so I (was very lucky to have) disappeared into the woods for three weeks. Lungs fuller of fresh air now and digital documents bulging.

I'm still in hermit mode but preparing for reentry. (Tweezing nipple hairs, clipping toenails, practicing human conversation...)

Thank you to everyone who's been understanding with slow replies, who's fielded my non sequiturs and hyperfixated enthusiasms, and, in Ashley's case, who's done my dirty laundry.

Get outta town!

My brain stopped working so I (was very lucky to have) disappeared into the woods for three weeks. Lungs fuller of fresh air now and digital documents bulging.

I'm still in hermit mode but preparing for reentry. (Tweezing nipple hairs, clipping toenails, practicing human conversation...)

Thank you to everyone who's been understanding with slow replies, who's fielded my non sequiturs and hyperfixated enthusiasms, and, in Ashley's case, who's done my dirty laundry.

Get outta town!

My brain stopped working so I (was very lucky to have) disappeared into the woods for three weeks. Lungs fuller of fresh air now and digital documents bulging.

I'm still in hermit mode but preparing for reentry. (Tweezing nipple hairs, clipping toenails, practicing human conversation...)

Thank you to everyone who's been understanding with slow replies, who's fielded my non sequiturs and hyperfixated enthusiasms, and, in Ashley's case, who's done my dirty laundry.

Get outta town!

My brain stopped working so I (was very lucky to have) disappeared into the woods for three weeks. Lungs fuller of fresh air now and digital documents bulging.

I'm still in hermit mode but preparing for reentry. (Tweezing nipple hairs, clipping toenails, practicing human conversation...)

Thank you to everyone who's been understanding with slow replies, who's fielded my non sequiturs and hyperfixated enthusiasms, and, in Ashley's case, who's done my dirty laundry.

Get outta town!

My brain stopped working so I (was very lucky to have) disappeared into the woods for three weeks. Lungs fuller of fresh air now and digital documents bulging.

I'm still in hermit mode but preparing for reentry. (Tweezing nipple hairs, clipping toenails, practicing human conversation...)

Thank you to everyone who's been understanding with slow replies, who's fielded my non sequiturs and hyperfixated enthusiasms, and, in Ashley's case, who's done my dirty laundry.

Get outta town!

My brain stopped working so I (was very lucky to have) disappeared into the woods for three weeks. Lungs fuller of fresh air now and digital documents bulging.

I'm still in hermit mode but preparing for reentry. (Tweezing nipple hairs, clipping toenails, practicing human conversation...)

Thank you to everyone who's been understanding with slow replies, who's fielded my non sequiturs and hyperfixated enthusiasms, and, in Ashley's case, who's done my dirty laundry.

Get outta town!

My brain stopped working so I (was very lucky to have) disappeared into the woods for three weeks. Lungs fuller of fresh air now and digital documents bulging.

I'm still in hermit mode but preparing for reentry. (Tweezing nipple hairs, clipping toenails, practicing human conversation...)

Thank you to everyone who's been understanding with slow replies, who's fielded my non sequiturs and hyperfixated enthusiasms, and, in Ashley's case, who's done my dirty laundry.

Get outta town!

My brain stopped working so I (was very lucky to have) disappeared into the woods for three weeks. Lungs fuller of fresh air now and digital documents bulging.

I'm still in hermit mode but preparing for reentry. (Tweezing nipple hairs, clipping toenails, practicing human conversation...)

Thank you to everyone who's been understanding with slow replies, who's fielded my non sequiturs and hyperfixated enthusiasms, and, in Ashley's case, who's done my dirty laundry.

Get outta town!

My brain stopped working so I (was very lucky to have) disappeared into the woods for three weeks. Lungs fuller of fresh air now and digital documents bulging.

I'm still in hermit mode but preparing for reentry. (Tweezing nipple hairs, clipping toenails, practicing human conversation...)

Thank you to everyone who's been understanding with slow replies, who's fielded my non sequiturs and hyperfixated enthusiasms, and, in Ashley's case, who's done my dirty laundry.

Get outta town!

My brain stopped working so I (was very lucky to have) disappeared into the woods for three weeks. Lungs fuller of fresh air now and digital documents bulging.

I'm still in hermit mode but preparing for reentry. (Tweezing nipple hairs, clipping toenails, practicing human conversation...)

Thank you to everyone who's been understanding with slow replies, who's fielded my non sequiturs and hyperfixated enthusiasms, and, in Ashley's case, who's done my dirty laundry.

Get outta town!

My brain stopped working so I (was very lucky to have) disappeared into the woods for three weeks. Lungs fuller of fresh air now and digital documents bulging.

I'm still in hermit mode but preparing for reentry. (Tweezing nipple hairs, clipping toenails, practicing human conversation...)

Thank you to everyone who's been understanding with slow replies, who's fielded my non sequiturs and hyperfixated enthusiasms, and, in Ashley's case, who's done my dirty laundry.

took these with my 70-300mm zoom lens, which meant i counterintuitively had to move away from a twig or a bud to pull it into focus. the zoom lens is a funny one. it stalks, romanticizes, transforms one branch of many into a sudden soloist amongst blurred geometries, and mutes backgrounds into a wash of color without context. take too long lining up a single shot -- especially at golden hour when the sun starts plunging -- and the light balance will invert without warning, foreground becomes silhouette, something out of frame blooms. i love them for their dramatic defamiliarization, their strange ego. but after two hours in the woods i realize haven't touched a single tree.

#toocomfortforclose #nikond90 #photojournal

took these with my 70-300mm zoom lens, which meant i counterintuitively had to move away from a twig or a bud to pull it into focus. the zoom lens is a funny one. it stalks, romanticizes, transforms one branch of many into a sudden soloist amongst blurred geometries, and mutes backgrounds into a wash of color without context. take too long lining up a single shot -- especially at golden hour when the sun starts plunging -- and the light balance will invert without warning, foreground becomes silhouette, something out of frame blooms. i love them for their dramatic defamiliarization, their strange ego. but after two hours in the woods i realize haven't touched a single tree.

#toocomfortforclose #nikond90 #photojournal

took these with my 70-300mm zoom lens, which meant i counterintuitively had to move away from a twig or a bud to pull it into focus. the zoom lens is a funny one. it stalks, romanticizes, transforms one branch of many into a sudden soloist amongst blurred geometries, and mutes backgrounds into a wash of color without context. take too long lining up a single shot -- especially at golden hour when the sun starts plunging -- and the light balance will invert without warning, foreground becomes silhouette, something out of frame blooms. i love them for their dramatic defamiliarization, their strange ego. but after two hours in the woods i realize haven't touched a single tree.

#toocomfortforclose #nikond90 #photojournal

took these with my 70-300mm zoom lens, which meant i counterintuitively had to move away from a twig or a bud to pull it into focus. the zoom lens is a funny one. it stalks, romanticizes, transforms one branch of many into a sudden soloist amongst blurred geometries, and mutes backgrounds into a wash of color without context. take too long lining up a single shot -- especially at golden hour when the sun starts plunging -- and the light balance will invert without warning, foreground becomes silhouette, something out of frame blooms. i love them for their dramatic defamiliarization, their strange ego. but after two hours in the woods i realize haven't touched a single tree.

#toocomfortforclose #nikond90 #photojournal

took these with my 70-300mm zoom lens, which meant i counterintuitively had to move away from a twig or a bud to pull it into focus. the zoom lens is a funny one. it stalks, romanticizes, transforms one branch of many into a sudden soloist amongst blurred geometries, and mutes backgrounds into a wash of color without context. take too long lining up a single shot -- especially at golden hour when the sun starts plunging -- and the light balance will invert without warning, foreground becomes silhouette, something out of frame blooms. i love them for their dramatic defamiliarization, their strange ego. but after two hours in the woods i realize haven't touched a single tree.

#toocomfortforclose #nikond90 #photojournal

took these with my 70-300mm zoom lens, which meant i counterintuitively had to move away from a twig or a bud to pull it into focus. the zoom lens is a funny one. it stalks, romanticizes, transforms one branch of many into a sudden soloist amongst blurred geometries, and mutes backgrounds into a wash of color without context. take too long lining up a single shot -- especially at golden hour when the sun starts plunging -- and the light balance will invert without warning, foreground becomes silhouette, something out of frame blooms. i love them for their dramatic defamiliarization, their strange ego. but after two hours in the woods i realize haven't touched a single tree.

#toocomfortforclose #nikond90 #photojournal

took these with my 70-300mm zoom lens, which meant i counterintuitively had to move away from a twig or a bud to pull it into focus. the zoom lens is a funny one. it stalks, romanticizes, transforms one branch of many into a sudden soloist amongst blurred geometries, and mutes backgrounds into a wash of color without context. take too long lining up a single shot -- especially at golden hour when the sun starts plunging -- and the light balance will invert without warning, foreground becomes silhouette, something out of frame blooms. i love them for their dramatic defamiliarization, their strange ego. but after two hours in the woods i realize haven't touched a single tree.

#toocomfortforclose #nikond90 #photojournal

took these with my 70-300mm zoom lens, which meant i counterintuitively had to move away from a twig or a bud to pull it into focus. the zoom lens is a funny one. it stalks, romanticizes, transforms one branch of many into a sudden soloist amongst blurred geometries, and mutes backgrounds into a wash of color without context. take too long lining up a single shot -- especially at golden hour when the sun starts plunging -- and the light balance will invert without warning, foreground becomes silhouette, something out of frame blooms. i love them for their dramatic defamiliarization, their strange ego. but after two hours in the woods i realize haven't touched a single tree.

#toocomfortforclose #nikond90 #photojournal

took these with my 70-300mm zoom lens, which meant i counterintuitively had to move away from a twig or a bud to pull it into focus. the zoom lens is a funny one. it stalks, romanticizes, transforms one branch of many into a sudden soloist amongst blurred geometries, and mutes backgrounds into a wash of color without context. take too long lining up a single shot -- especially at golden hour when the sun starts plunging -- and the light balance will invert without warning, foreground becomes silhouette, something out of frame blooms. i love them for their dramatic defamiliarization, their strange ego. but after two hours in the woods i realize haven't touched a single tree.

#toocomfortforclose #nikond90 #photojournal

took these with my 70-300mm zoom lens, which meant i counterintuitively had to move away from a twig or a bud to pull it into focus. the zoom lens is a funny one. it stalks, romanticizes, transforms one branch of many into a sudden soloist amongst blurred geometries, and mutes backgrounds into a wash of color without context. take too long lining up a single shot -- especially at golden hour when the sun starts plunging -- and the light balance will invert without warning, foreground becomes silhouette, something out of frame blooms. i love them for their dramatic defamiliarization, their strange ego. but after two hours in the woods i realize haven't touched a single tree.

#toocomfortforclose #nikond90 #photojournal

took these with my 70-300mm zoom lens, which meant i counterintuitively had to move away from a twig or a bud to pull it into focus. the zoom lens is a funny one. it stalks, romanticizes, transforms one branch of many into a sudden soloist amongst blurred geometries, and mutes backgrounds into a wash of color without context. take too long lining up a single shot -- especially at golden hour when the sun starts plunging -- and the light balance will invert without warning, foreground becomes silhouette, something out of frame blooms. i love them for their dramatic defamiliarization, their strange ego. but after two hours in the woods i realize haven't touched a single tree.

#toocomfortforclose #nikond90 #photojournal

took these with my 70-300mm zoom lens, which meant i counterintuitively had to move away from a twig or a bud to pull it into focus. the zoom lens is a funny one. it stalks, romanticizes, transforms one branch of many into a sudden soloist amongst blurred geometries, and mutes backgrounds into a wash of color without context. take too long lining up a single shot -- especially at golden hour when the sun starts plunging -- and the light balance will invert without warning, foreground becomes silhouette, something out of frame blooms. i love them for their dramatic defamiliarization, their strange ego. but after two hours in the woods i realize haven't touched a single tree.

#toocomfortforclose #nikond90 #photojournal

Went back to Thanet with a loved one after the year turned and remembered that this one (from JOY//US with @arachnepress) never made it to the grid.

No Ins or Outs this year, just trying to live well with the same sediment. Let's go.

Went back to Thanet with a loved one after the year turned and remembered that this one (from JOY//US with @arachnepress) never made it to the grid.

No Ins or Outs this year, just trying to live well with the same sediment. Let's go.

Went back to Thanet with a loved one after the year turned and remembered that this one (from JOY//US with @arachnepress) never made it to the grid.

No Ins or Outs this year, just trying to live well with the same sediment. Let's go.

Went back to Thanet with a loved one after the year turned and remembered that this one (from JOY//US with @arachnepress) never made it to the grid.

No Ins or Outs this year, just trying to live well with the same sediment. Let's go.

Went back to Thanet with a loved one after the year turned and remembered that this one (from JOY//US with @arachnepress) never made it to the grid.

No Ins or Outs this year, just trying to live well with the same sediment. Let's go.

Went back to Thanet with a loved one after the year turned and remembered that this one (from JOY//US with @arachnepress) never made it to the grid.

No Ins or Outs this year, just trying to live well with the same sediment. Let's go.

The Coast Is Queer, the UK's "biggest and brightest" LGBTQ+ literature festival, has returned to Brighton!

You can dive into the full story and read more stories that matter, amplifying LGBTQ+ voices and sharing them with honesty and heart on our website▶️www.scenemag.co.uk and while you're there, why not give us a follow on Bluesky, Instagram, Facebook and also, our new YouTube channel, to stay in the loop? #linkinbio

Scene is dedicated to telling the stories that matter through powerful journalism, community connection and cultural celebration, whether we’re covering local news or lifting up queer artists or allies, we remain committed to being a trusted voice at the centre of LGBTQ+ life.

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Relatively Queer: Writing Toward Concealed Queerness in the Family Archive

with @someimpropernoun , @lejhouston and Erica Rivera
14th June
2-6pm (GMT, Zoom)

A recorded asynchronous version of the workshop will be provided for anyone who cannot join on the day or who would like to revisit the content in their own time.

Link to register in our bio!

Relatively Queer: Writing Toward Concealed Queerness in the Family Archive

with @someimpropernoun , @lejhouston and Erica Rivera
14th June
2-6pm (GMT, Zoom)

A recorded asynchronous version of the workshop will be provided for anyone who cannot join on the day or who would like to revisit the content in their own time.

Link to register in our bio!

Relatively Queer: Writing Toward Concealed Queerness in the Family Archive

with @someimpropernoun , @lejhouston and Erica Rivera
14th June
2-6pm (GMT, Zoom)

A recorded asynchronous version of the workshop will be provided for anyone who cannot join on the day or who would like to revisit the content in their own time.

Link to register in our bio!

Relatively Queer: Writing Toward Concealed Queerness in the Family Archive

with @someimpropernoun , @lejhouston and Erica Rivera
14th June
2-6pm (GMT, Zoom)

A recorded asynchronous version of the workshop will be provided for anyone who cannot join on the day or who would like to revisit the content in their own time.

Link to register in our bio!

Relatively Queer: Writing Toward Concealed Queerness in the Family Archive

with @someimpropernoun , @lejhouston and Erica Rivera
14th June
2-6pm (GMT, Zoom)

A recorded asynchronous version of the workshop will be provided for anyone who cannot join on the day or who would like to revisit the content in their own time.

Link to register in our bio!

Relatively Queer: Writing Toward Concealed Queerness in the Family Archive

with @someimpropernoun , @lejhouston and Erica Rivera
14th June
2-6pm (GMT, Zoom)

A recorded asynchronous version of the workshop will be provided for anyone who cannot join on the day or who would like to revisit the content in their own time.

Link to register in our bio!

Relatively Queer: Writing Toward Concealed Queerness in the Family Archive

with @someimpropernoun , @lejhouston and Erica Rivera
14th June
2-6pm (GMT, Zoom)

A recorded asynchronous version of the workshop will be provided for anyone who cannot join on the day or who would like to revisit the content in their own time.

Link to register in our bio!

Relatively Queer: Writing Toward Concealed Queerness in the Family Archive

with @someimpropernoun , @lejhouston and Erica Rivera
14th June
2-6pm (GMT, Zoom)

A recorded asynchronous version of the workshop will be provided for anyone who cannot join on the day or who would like to revisit the content in their own time.

Link to register in our bio!

Join Mass Poetry for the next installment of the Bridging the Gap virtual series, “Relatively Queer: Archival Approaches to Recovering Concealed Queerness” on May 24th from 7 to 8:15 p.m. EDT. This interactive workshop will feature K Angel, Jack Giaour, Dr. Lloyd Meadhbh Houston, Erica “ERN” Rivera, and Morgan J. Sammut. RSVP via the link in our bio!

The Relatively Queer workshop series offers an interactive overview of strategies for recovering and narrativizing concealed traces of trans* and queer history in families of origin. Cohering around themes of (Re)Situating, Archiving, and Imagining, these consciously non-hierarchical techniques scaffold our cumulative engagement with occluded elements of our family histories and seed an evolving virtual community to nourish and sustain this reparative work. This reading will feature five readers who have participated in past iterations of the workshop (including project founders K Angel, Lloyd Meadhbh Houston, and Erica Rivera), allowing them to showcase work that they have generated through the workshop, as well as answer questions about upcoming projects, publications, and events. This event will also include a short open mic (10-15mins) to give participants doing similar work a chance to showcase their voices as well.