Month / March 2025

by Lexine

These Cool Poems – #TDoV 2025 Edition

Because now more than ever, we must stand ten toes down for the Trans Community! 🏳️‍⚧️🩵🩷🤍

“A Message For Trans Kids” by Keath Silva: 

******

“Batter My Heart, Transgender’d God” by Meg Day

Batter my heart, transgender’d god, for yours

is the only ear that hears: place fear in my heart

where faith has grown my senses dull & reassures

my blood that it will never spill. Show every part

to every stranger’s anger, surprise them with my drawers

full up of maps that lead to vacancies & chart

the distance from my pride, my core. Terror, do not depart

but nest in the hollows of my loins & keep me on all fours.

My knees, bring me to them; force my head to bow again.

Replay the murders of my kin until my mind’s made new;

let Adam’s bite obstruct my breath ’til I respire men

& press his rib against my throat until my lips turn blue.

You, O duo, O twin, whose likeness is kind: unwind my confidence

& noose it round your fist so I might know you in vivid impermanence.

by Lexine

Wink For March

 

drew i-d 3-95

Drew Barrymore on i-D Magazine, March 1995. 

The Wink–the signature mark found on every (?) cover of the gone but not forgotten i-D Magazine, a UK-based fashion/lifestyle publication. Seeing models like Christy, Naomi, and Gisele on their covers back in the late 90s got my attention, and it would be there that I would notice a common theme among i-D’s covers. Thanks to that mag, now when I wink for fun, I like to think I’m winking for my own i-D cover. 

Also, mid/late 90s Drew remains iconic! Here, she was in her Wild Child Era, fresh off posing nude for Playboy, and was a month away from flashing David Letterman.