Kay Gabriel

What was before FAW? The Cuntinental Drift did indeedy shatter our primordial oozenis. And yet, we did for certainly found the goop in each other—someone must needs have Carried you here, Before Carry Era. Long before we gurned out the first Sermon on the Munt, there were clockable foresigns of this rough Beast of an egg of a world squelching towards Butchleham to be cracked. Durst we find the Missing Sneaky Link who made our bed rock? Dig we out our evolutionary kinship lines and ask, verily, “whose dink is this”? Mayst we affear not to screech: “Stop the dialectic—I wanna get off!” The Four-and-a-Half Sages: @willautomagic @_bezier @madre_guia @ttbrittttbritt @rykralln Oracular thrashings by @itsvisqueen Poster by @eric.k.w . With scribal cuntributions from @a1exajo

PERVERTS is out 9/30 from @nightboat_books and you can pervert yourself (preorder) at /book/perverts/ cover by the obscenely talented @kit_sch_ + a new headshot thanks to the surgically precise eye & tompkins square park flair of @chris.berntsen And you H-slurs will have to wait another week till I get my film developed but the book has a treat for you too diva

❤️‍🔥 CHICAGO see you soon ❤️‍🔥 i’ll be giving a lecture-performance on the Event thurs 5/14 @kaplanhum . the whole lineup is chockablock with stars. thanks to @_syarberry_ for organizing ! then sunday 5/17 6pm reading with the incomparable @ganjacum_ and local hottie @jo.barchi at @mouseartsandletters cannnottttt wait xoxo

the brilliant @jo.barchi is in town next week and we’re reading together Weds May 6 at @toposbookstore (Topos Too) rsvp at bit.ly/dearpervert pic of us by @patrickisphotographer from my pre-bob era

Join us for our first edition of Passwords on Thursday, March 12 7-9pm. RSVP link in bio! Writer and organizer Kay Gabriel @unit01barbie focuses on the cult-favorite downtown poet Bernadette Mayer’s maximalism, frequently expressed in her compulsion to write “everything.” Mayer’s orientation towards “everything” begins in her early projects, Memory and Studying Hunger, and crests in her epic poem, Midwinter Day. Gabriel will zero in on a couple key passages from Midwinter Day to explore what’s at stake for Mayer in recording everything, and argue that this drive offers an interpretive key to her prolific, intimate, and philosophical body of work.

The movement enters its (!) terrible 2s. Let us please immediately let’s redouble our vows to the other other most Sacred Bond between “man” and woman.* The F B2B W Communion will be administered this 03/21 (B2B 03/22) 1AM–1PM to the duofied faithful. Come dressed in pairs. For what are honey the girls without honey the Girls? For who is la Diva without los Stanleys? With whomb else could you bump your emotional bottomless pit of a purse across the void? Doubling, Down: @jellyfishpgh (@formosa.exe B2B @rickymawzlin ) @saia.sound B2B @lilmissmutualism @bhawkpoitier B2B @1432r__ “Sister” “Act”: @untitledqueen B2B @jesssamess Poster by @eric.k.w . Repent. And believe in the FAWspel. Both of you.

about a year ago @bombmag published my essay FISHING AND TRAPPING where i talk mostly about chasing & being chased and now it’s a pamphlet available from @topospress and on 12/18 you can hear me read from it at Topos Too

married the love of my life @seva_granik on Sunday. thank you to everyone who made it happen, and everyone who makes us possible. i’m still struck by the feeling of looking out into a sea of our beloveds, and seeing how moved you were to see us choose each other. some special thank yous: Producer: @ericshethar Officiant, entrance music: @djnita Trash chuppah, velvet toilet seat, stage design: @breakfastgarbowski This MIRACLE of a dress: @tallmetalwoman photos: @guarionex_jr Flowers: @saia.sound Readings: @zorajadekhiry @kyle_decoy Toasts: @breakfastgarbowski @a1exajo @chriscruse @jo.barchi @nikkiecharte @deedauw Ringbearer: @rykralln Drag: @charleneincarnate Something blue/boy bouquet: @yannikatthedisco Hair: @stylebysergio Makeup: @matiddiez Seva’s suit: @unico_nirco Music: @michaelmagnan @herrenscheide @djnita Rings: @edgarmosa @joe.mmcshea Door: @akamrdickerson

Dear father’s & father figure’s and daughter’s & daughter figure’s, You are invited, cordially, and your other other half to a mandatory most-ages PLURity Ball, the FAWther Daughter Dance this coming cordial November Sweet 15 (ahem, 16, 1AM–1PM). Sheltering her under your pledge, this night of joy and faith may flicker back when she finally honorably transitions—from your babygirl to some guy’s babygirl. When the culture leaves her self-worth stranded in murky tradewaters trying to fill primarily spiritual voids, how firm will your example cordially have been? Dad Jokes By: @bashkka @jdmeehan @kilopatrahjones @willjackthedj Puritea Pastourelle: @mariyeaaaa Poster by @eric.k.w .

Announcing FISHING AND TRAPPING, an essay by Kay Gabriel (@unit01barbie ). Available for pre-order on our website now & out in late November. “Make a graph with four quadrants. In one, the abashed, embarrassing chaser; in another, his hapless shadow. Reserve the third for a lover who, however casually trans-affirming, genuinely doesn’t care. Finally, the ambivalent position from which, probably, most people clutch at conflicting drives and confused information—the child who does not know how to ask. There, a schema! What does it solve?” 10 pp, riso printed at Topos Studio “Fishing and Trapping” first appeared in @bombmag

💛 PURE DELIGHT to talk with @harinef about Perverts for @interviewmag 💛

Just announced! On Thursday, October 2 at 7pm, our friend Kay Gabriel perverts her friends. (This might sell out quickly.) “Perverts collages my dreams with others’ dreams. It’s an exercise in collective capacity—in people producing together a shared, sometimes outrageous language that no one person could assemble on their own. It’s a choral, book-length poem with a hard-on for (1) excessive conviviality and (2) people doing things together. So we’re going to read it together, too. Twenty people or so, without whom the poem wouldn’t exist in the way that it does, read from Perverts, to an audience of perverts, that’s you, dear.” —Kay Gabriel Over the last few years, Kay Gabriel sent a wide range of people a simple prompt—“send me your dreams.” Kay took what she received and used it to write a book—it’s called Perverts (@nightboat_books , 2025). Conceived as a piece of collaborative writing, the book combines Kay’s own words and dreams with those of others, turning private experience into shared consciousness and illicit desire into common cause. For this event, Kay has invited a cast to bring Perverts to life, some of whom contributed dreams to the book. She’s assigned each person their parts to read—making this almost like a play, not quite a reading. The readers are: Aaina Amin (@prismmirrorlens ) Morgan Bassichis (@morgankindof ) Alexa Jo Berry (@a1exajo ) Kyle Dacuyan (@kyle_decoy ) Patrick DeDauw (@deedauw ) Heather Glynis (@feraldreampopgirl ) Rainer Diana Hamilton (@rdh_monster ) Nile Harris (@nileharris ) Stephen Ira (@supermattachine ) Sunny Iyer (@sun__pix ) Zora Jade Khiry (@zorajadekhiry ) Shiv Kotecha (@swervekotecha ) Kyle Carrero Lopez (@kylecarrerolopez ) Ty Mitchell (@firstopenlygay ) Liam O’Brien (@smokybarnable ) Lena Pervez Afridi (@babywhiskers ) Tracy Rosenthal (@tracyrosenthal_ ) Jasmine Sanders (@sandersjasmine1 ) David Velasco (@davidmvelasco ) and Kay Gabriel (@unit01barbie ) Tickets: $10 at the link in bio! Half price for Individual members / Free with a friend for Friend-level members Limited capacity UPDATE: SOLD OUT. Limited tickets at the door. We always announce events on our email newsletter before instagram. #222bowery