davidcronenbergscrash

@selizabeth

trans poet, lover of birds, cats, and my friends, interviews editor for @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social

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davidcronenbergscrash@selizabeth· Jul 8

platner proponents: "everyone must endorse sexual violence if we are to have human rights next month"

the "i just need to lock in" meme but every "i" is replaced with "you" and every "lock in" is replaced with "forgive graham platner"

davidcronenbergscrash@selizabeth· Jul 4

if you wanna read my new tr*ns gen*cide poem draft "non-binary elimination diet" dm me. anyway here's part of a sex poem

a screenshot of black text on a white background: "poem about talking" // every time i open my mouth / i miss sucking strap. murder / is never a sin if you do it / in the name of america. i remember / the feeling of the body / safe non-toxic syntehtic cum (DO / NOT SWALLOW) slimy on / my tonsils, which did not come out / with my adenoids.

davidcronenbergscrash@selizabeth· Jul 1

davidcronenbergscrash@selizabeth· Jun 29

i’m in this!

text reading “t4t by sterling-elizabeth arcadia in Flight 5” over a photo of sterling-elizabeth, a fat, tattooed, white woman with short hair, glasses, and a mustache in a black dress and grey blazer. Sterling-Elizabeth is smiling and standing in front of a mirror and coat stand. From the left edge of the photo a white hand in a black sleeve extends and rests on the mantle in front of the mirror.

in a photo of Sterling-Elizabeth, dressed the same as a above and sitting at a large wood table with papers and a pen, in front of a pale wall and television, a block of justified black text on a white background obscures a figure except for their black shirt and white hand writing with a pen. the text reads: “o-rings my only mouth. plastic. the only words i could make. purpose-formed and irrecyclable after. lingering too long. in your blood and brain. the rest of your life. my temporary solution. quickly and problematically. useless and lasting. your discomfort. no longer the problem. the trace of bpa. hypodermic me. injection molded for years. little estrogen bottles.”

on the right side of a photo, Sterling-Elizabeth is standing in front of a mirror on a mantle, holding pages of printed text and grinning at a figure in a black shirt whose face and reflection are both obscured by a block of justified black text with a white background. The text reads: “melted. my body unbuilt. extruding only sharp points. i wanted sweeter. for you. without waste. but my unknown long term effects. logical you. already almost. flexible and. on the edge of malleable. but unconductive. dispose of me. now shape yourself.”

davidcronenbergscrash@selizabeth· Jun 26

this passes for journalism in anchorage apparently

Screenshot from an Anchorage Daily News article: Should Walmart have frisked Robertson or otherwise secured him before officers arrived? Should store employees be put in harms way to stop shoplifters?

davidcronenbergscrash@selizabeth· Jun 11

i’m scheduled for gender affirming surgery in july! i need to leave the country ASAP to be safe as a trans woman and this is my only chance to get surgery without paying the full cost out of pocket

davidcronenbergscrash@selizabeth· Jun 4

hmm i wonder what socialism is

davidcronenbergscrash@selizabeth· Apr 6

the mem where a woman gets a breast reduction and garfield took her breasts, except it's ally getting a mustache enhancement and sterling-elizabeth gave them her mustache

davidcronenbergscrash@selizabeth· Mar 22

from my first chapbook, Heaven, Ekphrasis, from @kithbooks.bsky.social

what happens in vegas stays in vegas (2021)

like the last time i came – in a plush queen
on the twenty-third floor of the bellagio –
the last time i squirted before i died.

& now everything is rotten, from the duvet
to my derriere. little lumps of flesh
sliding off me under the sun,

my tongue fully evaporated
in the heat. my mouth once
so full of cum a graveyard

of teeth. & i amble around,
now a moth-ridden woman
looking for a proper mate,

someone who can help me fill my role
in this new, deader world, swell
my swolen body within these new walls.

look. i can be a lesbian &
a zombie. if he is
dead it doesnt count.

& if i lose my fucking head
to some cunt with blond hair & a spiked metal bat
ill still know what could have been:

me & my baby, back in the bellagio. crying together.

davidcronenbergscrash@selizabeth· Mar 15

girls against god
after “annihilation” (2018)

remember how you cheated on heaven
stared that alligator-angel in its eye & shot it dead?

how your vertebrae surged with joy
shimmered against the skin of your spine.

he left you between dark walls
& corrupting light – heaven-sent heaven

gone to be in the south. with the silent water
among those crystal trees.

& when your jaw sunk into my throat
i swallowed, saw the antler-angels watching.

allowed, a hungry breath will take the world,
if not for wanting, for copper.

allowed, a table-angel will elect the third way.
when you find gods wound, burn it

between your legs – my desiccated heaven

davidcronenbergscrash@selizabeth· Mar 13

it's coming! soon! order your copy! Title poem below, first published by The Missouri Review

a cutout of sterling-elizabeth’s head, with little devils horns in her short platinum hair, layered on top of the face of a picture of deadpool making a heart sign with his hands. in bold blue text over the heart sign is “TRANSMASC MARVEL GIRL (SONNET)”

transmasc marvel girl (sonnet)

deadpool 2 (2018) came out /
only a few months after i did: /
i enjoyed it, but didn’t tell anyone /
because i wasn’t feminine enough to get away with being a marvel girlie. things that might be read as boy-coded had to be consumed secretly. //

in a dark movie theatre, a body is almost /
anonymous. more so if it’s one of the auditoriums /
with recliners, where a body is less likely /
to touch another body. since i came out, i have grown beyond my own body. i have grown beyond the narrow standard seating theaters used to have. the biggest changes that came with estrogen were a new belly, new breasts that i was never sure i wanted. i get very little physical pleasure from other people touching them. //

before transitioning, i found a lot of pleasure in bad /
big budget action movies. transformers, tom /
cruise. i wasn’t immediately obsessed with passing /
but i did become sharply aware of gender politics in a way that led me to stop watching most movies like that, start exclusively consuming films made by women. i didn’t know i was a woman right away, but i wanted to prove, to someone, that i was no longer a man. i was ashamed of having been one. //

it’s okay now that i’m transmasc though. you can be a boy again, once /
you’re enough of a girl

davidcronenbergscrash@selizabeth· Feb 20

Your last saved photo of a celebrity is your therapist bisexual chris evans

davidcronenbergscrash@selizabeth· Feb 5

two paths meme. a person stands at a junction in the road. to the right a cursed castle under clouds with text reading "ass" and to the left a shining castle in front of the sun with text reading "tits"

davidcronenbergscrash@selizabeth· Feb 1

Transmasc Marvel Girl, the follow-up to my chapbook, Heaven, Ekphrasis, is coming out with @kithbooks.bsky.social this spring!! It's like a sequel that's even more more mad, horny, embodied, speculative, poltical, heartbreaking, and transgender! 🎞️🩸👩‍🍼🏳️‍⚧️🧟👽⛈️👬👭👅🍑💦 #poetry #queer #sci-fi #literature

book announcement graphic for "Transmasc Marvel Girl: Poems" by sterling-elizabeth arcadia, out Spring 2026 with Kith Books. On a Black background in the top right quadrant of the image, a portion of a white linework sketch shows some feathers and the claws of a hawk carrying some red and white entrails. In the middle of the page, in all caps, in red, "Announcing:" and below it, also centered horizontally, in white text, the name of the collection and author, then in gray text "Spring 2026 with Kith Books"

davidcronenbergscrash@selizabeth· Dec 25

would

a particularly bloody model of a white jesus on the cross

davidcronenbergscrash@selizabeth· Dec 21

interaction of all time

a screenshot of a bsky post and reply. in the post sterling-elizabeth arcadia writes "googling 'carl phillips gay?' in the back row of the carl phillips reading" and carl phillips replies "I mean, was this even in question?"

davidcronenbergscrash@selizabeth· Nov 23

davidcronenbergscrash@selizabeth· Nov 15

someone get me the fuck out of here

davidcronenbergscrash@selizabeth· Nov 1

We love being women! #women #poetry

davidcronenbergscrash@selizabeth· Sep 28

here’s the first poem i wrote for the collection, and also the first published, up @beestung.bsky.social

SXSW

further out in the desert the saguaros get weirder and weirder. they grow tails, wooden legs, hemorrhoids, eyes like angels. i don’t see a gilded flicker but i do spot a cactus wren and a black throated sparrow. both lifers. on the way back to the airport, a saguaro riddled with buckshot. i want to commit an act of terrorism against the NRA when i drive by their headquarters on my way south from philadelphia. i see a lot of cows in virginia. i think about playing KENO but as soon as i get to tennesse i take a terrible shit. i wonder what makes cow patties so round, and have to stop at every rest stop to wreck a toilet. the hills and hollows are just foggy enough that i can see sunshine made material. i make it to knoxville and watch one waitress manage an entire restaurant, peyton manning staring me down over my cobb salad and cheese bings. if you see a good omen about a bad omen, what does it mean?

davidcronenbergscrash@selizabeth· Aug 23

new poem, flag poem, up the other week @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social

a burning thin blue line flag with red outlined white text over it reading “flag poem”

new year, now i am from boston, now i am from dc. now, i am checking my ex's twitter. now i am publishing poems where i mention that i am checking my ex's twitter. i am no longer convinced i have to choose between being a cunt and being a dyke. no longer believe in things like government, or money.
am almost as scared of pain as i am of its absence.

i have spent years gaining a deeper understanding
of the sweet potato. the sugar in my iced coffee is
sand in my mouth. not melting. yet again the hyperpop i used to love
is making me sick to my stomach. when i moved
to connecticut i took an edible that made me feel
weird for a week. struggled to adjust my car's rheostat
without swerving. sometimes, i consider myself to be one of my exes.

davidcronenbergscrash@selizabeth· Jul 25

btw i’m selling this chapbook as fundraiser for palestine mutual aid $11 shipped in US dm me!

front cover of “a note that will shatter the way things are” by sterling-elizabeth arcadia, black text on tan background above a john james audubon print of three blue jays eating bird eggs

davidcronenbergscrash@selizabeth· Jul 15

if new york war crimes doesn’t stop their bullshit we’re gonna forcefemme will shortz don’t say you weren’t warned. “frotting” and “autogynephilia” WILL be found in future puzzles (graphic from glaad and fair media watch on instagram)

a graphic in pink blue and white from glaad and fair media watch shows that in 2022-2023 out of 116 sources in front page stories on trans issues, only 22, or 19% were actually trans. For the 2024-2025 study period it was 14 out of 132 sources, 11%

davidcronenbergscrash@selizabeth· Jul 15

indie press who?

"Manuscripts that engage algorithmic writing tactics (cut-ups, collage, erasure, large language models, AI chatbots, autotranslation softwares, etc) are fine as long as you're up front about their use."

davidcronenbergscrash@selizabeth· Jun 25

still a poet. still a bisexual trans d¥ke. you still can’t stop me.

davidcronenbergscrash@selizabeth· Jun 23

Today my poem “transmasc marvel girl (sonnet)” is poem of the week at The Missouri Review!!! missourireview.com/arcadia/

sterling-elizabeth, a fat white trans woman with a mustache and a very short haircut and glasses, smiles at the camera. she’s wearing a grey patterned jacket, has glasses and lots of facial piercings

Author’s Note

This sonnet is perhaps the unlikeliest of poems for me. When I walked in to see Deadpool & Wolverine, I told my friend there was no way I would be able to make a poem out of it. In reflection, though, I realized that at every step of my transition, Marvel movies have been an exception to the gendered rules I gave myself about which films I could watch. My understanding of them has still changed alongside my understanding of myself, and that made the Deadpool movies ripe material with which to trace my own journey in an earlier draft of this poem. In revision, I shifted away from touching the Deadpool movies so explicitly and leaned into my own emotional landscape in my relationship with film; the sonnet seemed an appropriate form to strain against in a poem about breaking my own rigid, gendered ideas about something I love.

davidcronenbergscrash@selizabeth· Jun 2

when i don’t want art to make me think at all

a black lineart comic against white background. the comic is a dog holding a frisbee in three frames 1) pls scare? 2) no think! 3) only scare

davidcronenbergscrash@selizabeth· May 27

from Figuring by Maria Popova, the reason I hate when people use “female” to mean woman

In a testament to the power and ever shifting provisions of language, “controversy erupted over the word nestled between the institution’s namesake and its function. Since Darwin had ignited the dawn of evolutionary theory several years earlier, the term “female” had taken on animalistic undertones associated with sexual reproduction—connotations some women saw as dehumanizing and some men used deliberately to dehumanize, particularly in referring to slave women as “females.” One woman, who had previously lauded Matthew Vassar’s plans for the college, charged at him in a spirited letter condemning the name:
Female! What female do you mean? Not a female donkey? Must not your reply be “I mean a female male woman”? Then…why degrade the feminine sex to the level of animals?”

Excerpt From
Figuring
Maria

davidcronenbergscrash@selizabeth· Mar 26

doing a reading tomorrow night @ 6:30 EST! email editor@anomalouspress.org for the zoom link!

davidcronenbergscrash@selizabeth· Feb 25

always grateful to @beestung.bsky.social for publishing this one!