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Get to know the organizations creating this amazing collaboration for our communities! SuciaREAD is one of @sucianyc thriving babies… A catered space for liberated expansive minds to gather and center their love for literature… We gather monthly to discuss a wide range of books that center our identities as QTBIPOC community members and share our diverse life experiences! Bad Poly by @lilygetslost is a Brooklyn-based reading series, open mic & fundraiser that asks the questions we need answered… How does one do polyamory right?! What does “right” even mean? What happens when we move this pressure to be the “perfect poly person” when we all have fears, jealousy, and compulsory monogamy and heteronormativity to unlearn? How do Queer and Trans people construct joy under systems designed to limit us? Join us and find out! & Lastly but certainly not least we are collaborating with @hivemindbookstore to give you a 10% off discount for our book club meet up discussing… Book: Monogamous Mind, Polyamorous Terror by Brigette Vasallo… Date: Friday May 29th Time: 3:00PM-5:00PM Location: Brooklyn (Precise location will be given via email once you purchase a ticket) Tickets: Linktree in BIO

As the spring slowly creeps its way back into the soil, GPO finds fresh energy in this new era to root itself in your community once again. Yes, we’re here and bringing you another much needed intentional event! The world is turning faster than any of us could’ve imagined in 2026, and with that comes its challenges. We can’t help but notice that all of our friends and family are experiencing hardship right now. Personally, and some of which has been brought on by the oppressive administration in the U.S. The ethos of @goodpeoplematcha is community, connection, and play. When we don’t have access to basic rights, survival becomes the priority. Being able to live full and complete lives without the fear of persecution is something we all deserve. So, this event has been crafted around giving back to a couple of communities who need as much love as we can give– @undocumentedwomensfund + @transyouthequality . Through these donations, we’ll be able to support mutual aid for undocumented groups in NYC and families with trans kids finding necessary educational and medical support in states where that’s effectively been banned. While creating space for these important causes, we also want to give a little something back to you. We welcome you to share your voices during an open mic session where the themes are oneness and finding something that you thought was lost. Accepting all forms of writing, songs, and improvisational pieces! Friends, family, and lovers, pull up! Link for rsvp and address is in the bio 💗🍵 April 19th Cafe Hours: 12 - 4:30pm Open Mic: 1:30pm - 2:30pm Our fearless host: @lilygetslost Poster design: @0nlyfw0gz

Sport has always been a source of unity and belonging, but that freedom to participate is now at risk for all. Today, we highlight the visibility and solidarity for trans and gender diverse people around the world. This is more significant than ever, given the recent announcement from the International Olympic Committee, which puts a blanket ban on trans women from competing in their correct category (the women’s category), and introduces mandatory genetic sex testing (which impacts ALL women, especially intersex and racialised women). Let us be clear: this new policy is a result of widespread anti-rights, fascist and fundamentalist narratives, and political decisions that we have seen on the rise in recent years across the world.  Now, it's time for our collective resistance, advocacy, and allyship. We must stand strong and say together this Trans Day of Visibility, and on all days, that trans and gender diverse folk are deserving of dignity, participation, and the right to participate in sport.  🏳️‍⚧️ #TDoV #TDoV2026 #TransDayOfVisibility 🏳️‍⚧️ El deporte siempre ha sido una fuente de unidad y pertenencia, pero ahora la libertad de participar está en peligro para todos. Hoy, queremos destacar la visibilidad y la solidaridad con las personas trans y de género diverso en todo el mundo. Esto es más importante que nunca, dado el reciente anuncio del Comité Olímpico Internacional que prohíbe de manera generalizada que las mujeres trans compitan en su categoría correcta (la categoría femenina) e introduce pruebas genéticas obligatorias para determinar el sexo (lo cual afecta a TODAS las mujeres, especialmente a las mujeres intersex y racializadas). Hablemos con claridad: esta nueva política es el resultado de narrativas generalizadas contrarias a los derechos, fascistas y fundamentalistas, y de decisiones políticas que hemos visto en aumento en los últimos años. Ahora es el momento de nuestra resistencia, incidencia y solidaridad colectivas. Debemos mantenernos firmes y decir juntes, en este Día de la Visibilidad Trans y todos los días, que las personas trans y de género diverso merecen dignidad, participación y el derecho a practicar deporte.

✨ Bad Poly: An Open Mic & Fundraiser for Messy Queer, Trans & Poly Stories ✨ Friday, April 3 7pm Hive Mind Books 219 Irving Avenue, Bushwick 😈 ❤️‍🔥 😈 ❤️‍🔥 😈 ❤️‍🔥 😈 ❤️‍🔥 😈 ❤️‍🔥 😈 ❤️‍🔥 😈 ❤️‍🔥 😈 Welcoming all queer, trans, poly, slutty, smutty, erotic, wholesome, romantic, messy stories, poems, tea and more for the inaugural BAD POLY open mic! Hosted by Ly, queer enby poly writer & community member, this open mic fundraiser welcomes us to be real about the hot and chaotic joy, confusion, contradiction, and freedom of living lives outside of the binary norm. 100% of proceeds from this event will go to @glits_inc and @immdefense ! 😈 ❤️‍🔥 😈 ❤️‍🔥 😈 ❤️‍🔥 😈 ❤️‍🔥 😈 ❤️‍🔥 😈 ❤️‍🔥 😈 ❤️‍🔥 😈 How does one do polyamory right?! What does “right” even mean? What happens when we remove this pressure to be the “perfect poly person?” How do queer and trans people construct joy under systems designed to limit us? What about the mess, the joy, the fears, the compersion, the laughs, the group chats, the expansive love?! Whether it’s your first time speaking into a mic, or your tenth - all are welcome. Read from your journal, notes app, manuscript, published book, favourite poem etc. All forms of literature are welcome, as well as performance or other creative arts. (If you’re unsure if your piece is a fit, DM @lilygetslost with your idea and we will do our best to accommodate!) 😈 Let’s be BAD together 😈 RSVP at the link in bio. If you want to sign up to read, please use the sign up link in the Eventbrite.

Hot & Wholesome Documentary: Queer History is Now – Early Screening and Q & A Join us for a special early screening of Hot & Wholesome Documentary: Queer History is Now, created by Lily Dong Li Rosengard @lilygetslost , and hosted by the Global Alliance for Queer Leaders (GAQL). 📅 March 13 ⏰ 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM 📍 The People’s Forum - registration link in bio @hot_and_wholesome_documentary This documentary captures queer and trans spaces of joy, pleasure, and community in New York City,reminding us that even when it doesn’t feel like it, we are witnessing history as it unfolds. In a time of rising fascism, these spaces of connection and visibility become powerful acts of resistance. Come be part of this intimate early screening and conversation celebrating queer history in the making. ✨🏳️‍🌈 Lily Dong Li Rosengard GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR QUEER LEADERS (GAQL) INC @globalallianceforqueerleaders1 Please register here : https://lnkd.in/exyDbFTJ

today, my weird erotic sapphic speculative fiction story “Our House” is out in the world! link in bio 👾 👽🛸✨ this comes out on the heels of returning from @awpwriter conference… the next step (?!) in taking myself seriously as a writer! scary/exciting/scary ahhhh so grateful for all the incredible humans i had the privilege to meet & re-meet—radical publishers, activist agents, trans & queer writers/readers, writers ending shame & stigma on mental health & mental illness… all truly doing gods work -thank you thank you for all you do and more - both what’s seen and what’s not! coming away from AWP feeling refreshed, renewed, inspired to keep on chip chip chipping away at my manuscript(s), with the knowledge and reassurance from so many incredible published writers to just keep on going and believing in yourself. that even on the hardest of days where you feel like there is truly no point/hope, to remember that your art matters, that your story matters, your radical politics matter, and that your work will reach the folks it’s meant to reach one day. I look forward to that day, but also accepting that these things take time, so for now, am putting it all out into the universe. that telling stories, as our ancestors have been doing since day, is what we’re meant to be doing. it feels so special to be able to put all that i’ve learnt through activism and community organising into joyful, weird, and ridiculous narratives, which press at the topics i care most about, through the pure pleasure of writing and reading stories! if anyone is interested in work on sapphic friendship breakups & mental illness narratives (think You Exist Too Much x Girl, Interrupted) and/or messy complicated erotic queer poly stories (think Bad Feminist x Ethical Slut x Detransition, Baby) - lmk! i am so so more than wide open to readings, collabs, pods, agent convos, pub chats and more! dm me/get in touch :) p.s. also looking for readers for workshopping my work - dm me friend if you're interested!

my valentine @lilygetslost and i hosted our first reading this past valentine’s day to celebrate romance & eros in her many forms 🌹 thank you to everyone who came and read something, be it an old love letter or a poem or some secret smut you wrote for a lover 🤭 also big thanks to @desertislandcomics @_purplepassion_ @therippedbodice @taillorgroup for donating goodies to our raffle; we raised $500 for @immdefense with your help!!! last slide is from nothing personal by james baldwin, a joyous celebration of love love love film photos by the incomparable @alexandra.clear 📸 see yall at the next one? ᵕ̈

CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER: Romance vs. Eros ❤️‍🔥 Fuck ICE - come defrost your heart February 14th, 4-6pm, Barzakh Cafe RSVP via link in bio join ly & @junnotjune (aka The Flat Men) as they battle it out ~ literary style ~ romance vs. eros! - we will start by setting the scene with some smutty-sexy-romantic readings - followed by a chance to write your own romantic/erotic pieces - ending with an open mic (sign up via the google form in the luma invite) plus, a raffle to win items including from @therippedbodice & @taillorgroup ! 🌹 (if you'd like to donate to the raffle, please get in touch!) let's take the bullshit capitalism out of vday and get hot & literary together bc there ain't nothing sexier than community <3 so bring your friends, lovers, crushes and we'll see you there! Sliding scale tickets on the door, with $20 suggested donation. 100% of donations and sales will go to @immdefense , which has been assisting against deportation for 30+ years. ₊˚⊹♡₊୨ৎ˚⊹♡₊୨ৎ˚⊹♡₊୨ৎ⊹˚♡₊୨ৎ⊹˚♡₊୨ৎ⊹˚₊ “Recognizing the power of the erotic within our lives can give us the energy to pursue genuine change within our world, rather than merely settling for a shift of characters in the same weary drama [...] For not only do we touch our most profoundly creative source, but we do that which is female and self-affirming in the face of a racist, patriarchal, and anti-erotic society.” ― Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power “what makes erotica radical is not the sex, it’s the honesty. it allows women to name what they want without having to redeem it. romance tells women that love will save them. erotica suggests they might save themselves through desire and curiosity. and that’s what makes it ethical, even when it’s transgressive. it’s the literature that lets women be whole.” — caitlyn on substack

hi future me: here are some pretty cool things you did in 2025 as an activist, speaker & writer that baby you would be very proud of, promise! here’s to never being confined or defined by one thing 🫶 featuring: - delivering a speech at the UN Human Rights Council on freedom of expression and freedom of association with reference to trans, gender diverse, intersex folk and sex workers. - delivering a speech at Play The Game in Finland on trans, gender diverse and intersex participation in sport. - reading my fiction prose at 3 NYC Reading Series, and creating community around writing! feat. Root & Bloom and Coriander Cottage. - filming the N.Y. Fashion Week LGBTQ fashion show for @hot_and_wholesome_documentary - finding joy & whimsy throughout it all, where possible! grateful and always in honor of the activists on the ground who are making doing the hard work in their communities and across the world, and who i learn from each and every day.

hi future me: here are some happy times to never forget from 2025 🥹

hi future me: here are some of the silly little side quests you went on in 2025 simply bc you felt like it 💞 tldr; do the thing & do it in collaboration with those you love and respect - told myself that each week I would go to at least one creative event that inspires me - opened my living room weekly for ancestral tea parties (as your grandmothers before you had done) - with zero prior film experience, began embarking on @hot_and_wholesome_documentary and filming lesbian oil wrestling, tboy wrestling and the @dapperq N.Y. Fashion Week Show - took beginner sewing lessons with @plantxzaddy bc fun - co-hosted Let’s Talk about Sex Baby workshop with @sophduj0ur - wrote a short erotic film overnight with @sayidatic then filmed it the next day because why the hell not, - started @the_mental_zine Substack interviewing friends about their experiences of mental illness - campaigned for Mamdani - acting debut as extras in @ahmbakrin ’s film with pals - hosted Root & Resist Fundraiser for @gazamutualaid & @glits_inc for my 30th with music, readings, pottings and more - co-hosted life drawing at home with @ayannameansflower for Gaza & trans rights and modelled with my cats - co-hosted Root & Bloom - a retreat for tender writers just 'cos the idea popped up in my head and @junnotjune was down to make it come to life with me!! - transformed into 2 flat men - again with my co-conspirator @junnotjune (no, will not explain) - writing & performing! went to weekly writing group with Hivemind, did 3 readings of my fiction in NYC for the first time at @thecusp_series @aaww_nyc @herbalsupplementsnyc , and 2 publications (one nomination!) in @rejoindermagazine and @thirdplacezine :)) Conclusion: IT'S BEEN REALLY FUN! more of this chaotic creativity in 2026 and thank you to everyone who indulged me, jumped on board, or attended one of my events or fundraisers, I so very appreciate you humouring me :)) let's do it again?

hi future me: here are some things you did with people you love in 2025 ❣️ - escaped winter in Thailand, Malaysia & the Philippines - enjoyed sunny time on the roof with @lucyvlatkinson - learnt how to reciprocally carry another person on anothers' thighs feat. @junnotjune - went upstate with my editor @lucyvatkinson - hosted so many tea parties with red sesame buns and tiny english cucumber finger sandwiches in my steaming sweaty NY apartment - cancelled a family dinner to go to collage night with my mum - had lovely friends visit me from all corners of the world - cycled at sunrise - gained so many gorgeous plants including the stunning Curly Sue from the plant whisperer @jihaebyun - a new mahjong teacher rises through the ranks (Mal) - Avril Lavigne and Simple Plan with @sylvie_craig in ties, who was later mistaken for the avril herself - suprise park bday for @katherinegan88 - tree hugging and ecstatic dance in central park for "mothers days"...