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Vegetable biryani and garlic naan, from SWADI restaurant, an Afghani-Chinese fusion restaurant (which also served pizzas and stromboli) a couple blocks from @redemmas.org. The food was hot, fresh, and good; I was the only person in the dining room, possibly because the front door was locked. I had to go into the delivery-only side, next door, and ask about it, and the guy let me through a door into the dining area. He was pretty cute 😊; he seemed disappointed when he found out I was going back to Minneapolis in a couple days 🥲 (not pictured: the bottle of Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Shiny Top Coat I was soon to accidentally leave behind; it's my favorite top coat, and I got it at a steep discount 😭)

Photo of blank-paper notebook on legs wrapped in colorfully splotched leggings; on the left-hand page, marked '6', nothing. On the right-hand page, a date (3/6/26) and line ('Some Titles (as exemplars)') in blue ink; on the right-hand side of that page, a narrow column of notes written in red ink, topped by 'Welcome to Black Weirdo School' in an incomplete box. Because the left-hand page was reserved for the second page of the poem I'd started on page 5, and I wanted to take notes but was also working on some poem titles at the same time...

Photo of Day One books, including "America, A Love Story" (Camille Dungy), "Dear Dear" (Reuben Gelley Newman), "White Door" (Burgi Zenhaeusern), "wordtomydead" (sadé powell), "Missed Connections with Tall Girls" (Gwen Aube), "Sick Sad Queer" (Ly Faulk), and "Still Alive" (LJ Pemberton)

Photo of a flyer for an offsite party I wanted to go to. I didn't end up going to many, as I was worn out by 5pm; I probably have a hundred screenshots and photos and saved posts and other ephemera for offsites, somehow thinking any of that would be useful, and it wasn't. Or only a couple times, but ofc those two times will inspire me to do all that again next time, probably 🫠

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Last for now; realizing I forgot my (now cold) coffee and my meds 🫠. So I, uh, ought to do that stuff 😅 and also some work
Day One:
@uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social
@weslpress.bsky.social
@burgi.bsky.social
@joustingsnail.bsky.social
@littlepuss.net
@lyfaulk.bsky.social
@ljabouttown.bsky.social

👇 TONIGHT IN BROOKLYN 👇

Gwen Aube launches MISSED CONNECTIONS WITH TALL GIRLS at Good Judy w/ Stephen Ira & Aurora Mattia

🐝 B THERE 🐝

Gwen just read in Baltimore, and I am a cheerleader 4 her ofc, but it was one of the best literary readings I've ever seen, real star is born shit: if you want to see a show that is a legitimate incredible time, real entertainment like the movies, and for free, make room in yr schedule for this

Persona by Aoife Josie Clements painting of a woman's face with the top of her head disappearing.

My copy of Persona from @littlepuss.net delivered while I was in Baltimore. I've been looking forward to this one for actual months.

💥👀⬇️👍

‼️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ‼️

‼️BIG NEWS ‼️

Aurora Mattia (Author of The Fifth Wound and Unsex Me Here) will be joining the lineup of readers for the NYC launch of Gwen Aube's Missed Connections With Tall Girls!

Join us this Tuesday at Good Judy at 8:00 PM for a beautiful night of tall girls and taller words

👁️See you there👁️

At the @littlepuss.net reading tonight I simply asked @catfitzpatrick.net which books I should have and then bought those, 100000/10 could not recommend more highly as a trans lit sommelier

Last night's all-trans/NB offsite #AWP reading was amaaaazing! No doubt in my mind it was THE place to be - the pieces read were horny and weird, tender and freaky, violent and funny and emotional - seriously, nobody does it like trans women, much respect!! ❤️‍🔥🏳️‍⚧️❤️‍🔥🏳️‍⚧️❤️‍🔥

Gwen Aube, missed connections with tall girls at digby house, before steve sold the place to hop trains in mexico   at digby house you were playing the drums while screaming.  yo...

Gwen Aube, missed connections with tall girls [catch her read later this month at VERSeFest! / @littlepuss.net @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social ;
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/03/gwen...

I just finished this and folks, it’s extremely good.

TOMORROW NIGHT

Mark your AWP calendars for the “Baltimore Trans and ‘Hon’-Binary Reading” at Club Car on March 5 - hosted by @rahnealexander and vended by LittlePuss Press and Feminist Press! Featuring: @tmaemoll @cuteflesh Tyler Vile @ttmaddenwrites @nicanstett @thekkumkattilmk @sklimnagem KM Sparza @gwendolyssa @alice_stoehr @koticcouture @abject.relations @littlepusspress @feministpress @dopaminebooksla

Mark your AWP calendars for the “Baltimore’s Big Trans and ‘Hon’-Binary Reading” at Club Car TOMORROW NIGHT (March 5) - hosted by @rahnealexander.com and vended by @littlepuss.net and @feministpress.bsky.social

I’ll see you there!

TIS THE SEASON BABES MARK UR CALENDARS

NYC Launch Event missed connections with tall girls Readings from: Gwen Aube Stephen Ira / Good Judy 563 5th Ave Brooklyn 11215 March 10 8:00 PM

❗BROOKLYN ❗

👯‍♀️ Mar 10 book party at Good Judy 👯‍♀️
🥵 for Missed Connections With Tall Girls 🥵

GWEN AUBE
w/ Stephen Ira and some TBA friends...

🫵 B THERE 🫵

🎉 Doors 7 🎉
🎉 Readings 8 🎉

We will have raucousness and books and maybe some beer

RSVP here www.eventbrite.com/e/missed-con... or just come 😊

TIS THE SEASON BABES MARK UR CALENDARS

NYC Launch Event missed connections with tall girls Readings from: Gwen Aube Stephen Ira / Good Judy 563 5th Ave Brooklyn 11215 March 10 8:00 PM

❗BROOKLYN ❗

👯‍♀️ Mar 10 book party at Good Judy 👯‍♀️
🥵 for Missed Connections With Tall Girls 🥵

GWEN AUBE
w/ Stephen Ira and some TBA friends...

🫵 B THERE 🫵

🎉 Doors 7 🎉
🎉 Readings 8 🎉

We will have raucousness and books and maybe some beer

RSVP here www.eventbrite.com/e/missed-con... or just come 😊

Our editrix gives you the low-down on MISSED CONNECTIONS WITH TALL GIRLS 🧵🧵🧵

the Norman Rockwell guy standing up to talk painting but he has the trans shark for a head text: Baltimore's Big Trans and 'Hon'-Binary Reading 7 pm Reading 9 pm Dancing Vera Blossom Tyler Vile TT Madden Tonee Mae Moll Nic Anstett M.K. Thekkumkattil Megan Milks KM Szpara Gwen Aube Alice Stoehr DJ Abject Relations DJ Kotic Couture Hosted by Rahne Alexander Vendors Feminist Press LittlePuss Press An AWP Off-site Event at the Club Car 12 W North Ave Thurs 5 March / 7 pm Reading / 9 pm Dancing / Free

🫵 YO 🫵

💫 BALTIMORE 💫

💃 AWP-GOERS 💃

We're throwing a rager on the Thurs! March 5! Free! There will be DJs! Tons of readers!

including 💪 GWEN AUBE 💪

📗 with her new book 📗

🏀 MISSED CONNECTIONS WITH TALL GIRLS 🏀

DID WE MENTION IT'S FUCKING FREE

March 5, 7 PM readers, 9 pm dancing

☠️ BE THERE ☠️

Devouring it now. It’s potent stuff, a little spike in the brain that just keeps growing until it dislodges yr eye and reflects yr smile back at you.

oh YES

We've sold out 2 or 3 times.
It's going the way of Olga Ravn's The Employees at this point!
A surprise hit!

Purchased an epub copy and read it. Unputdownable is such an overused word but it srsly applies to this book. It's a book for all, not just the girls!

PERSONA: ALL THE GIRLS ARE READING IT

Two great books from @littlepuss.net 🤓 Writing so exciting it’s hard to put these down. I haven’t read anything this good since Malina.

Our editrix gives you the low-down on MISSED CONNECTIONS WITH TALL GIRLS 🧵🧵🧵

Just to be perfectly clear: THAT'S WHAT I'M FUCKING TALKING ABOUT!!!

Alysa Liu "That's what I'm F*k*G* taking about" after Winning Gold in Figure Skating at Olympics YouTube video by Euro Media News

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnvk...

A Fucked Concept Emily Zhou's debut short story collection demystifies life among the overeducated, underpaid NYC trans women you envy online.

"A life affirming book, because its characters all take the risk of trying to be someone, trying to get to know others, and trying to do something, even the most minimal thing, to go a bit deeper. Most of them aren’t exactly happy, but they are living." Ty @gingermophobia.bsky.social!