Mark Bessen
@markbessen.bsky.social
“Writer,” gardener, middle child (gay)
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Shipped the last of the TBQ sampler issues into the world! We are sold out of our first ever print run! Gained lots of new information and leveled up in lit mag making experience! Onward to TBQ8!
March 28, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Shipped the last of the TBQ sampler issues into the world! We are sold out of our first ever print run! Gained lots of new information and leveled up in lit mag making experience! Onward to TBQ8!
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AWP repost, find us @ T704 hanging out w/ Bullshit Lit! $5 copies of a special print issue while they last, I'm on a panel Friday if you're into that kind of freaky shit, AND if you're around early tomorrow, I'm going to tell you exactly what's wrong with me at Metro Baltimore.
March 5, 2026 at 3:55 AM
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"For six years, Leeanner was a fixture of the neighborhood. Only when she was dying did she become real."
From "Neighborly," a new original essay by @markbessen.bsky.social.
Read the full piece now at buff.ly/AsNudwv
From "Neighborly," a new original essay by @markbessen.bsky.social.
Read the full piece now at buff.ly/AsNudwv
February 20, 2026 at 3:01 PM
"For six years, Leeanner was a fixture of the neighborhood. Only when she was dying did she become real."
From "Neighborly," a new original essay by @markbessen.bsky.social.
Read the full piece now at buff.ly/AsNudwv
From "Neighborly," a new original essay by @markbessen.bsky.social.
Read the full piece now at buff.ly/AsNudwv
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"For six years, Leeanner was a fixture of the neighborhood. Only when she was dying did she become real."
From "Neighborly," a new original essay by @markbessen.bsky.social.
Read the full piece now at buff.ly/AsNudwv
From "Neighborly," a new original essay by @markbessen.bsky.social.
Read the full piece now at buff.ly/AsNudwv
February 20, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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Stood up by my therapist, call that a psych out
October 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Stood up by my therapist, call that a psych out
Perfect trailer. Might even forgive her for Saltburn if this goes right
"Wuthering Heights" | Official Teaser
YouTube video by Warner Bros.
youtu.be
September 29, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Perfect trailer. Might even forgive her for Saltburn if this goes right
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My latest:”Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & his racist throwback views abt Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated —like a position on tax rates or health care policy.”
What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed
www.nytimes.com
September 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
My latest:”Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & his racist throwback views abt Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated —like a position on tax rates or health care policy.”
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It's genuinely insane that this isn't a bigger news story.
Where the fuck are they
Where the FUCK are they
Where the fuck are they
Where the FUCK are they
Hundreds of people who were once detained at “Alligator Alcatraz,” the troubled immigration jail in the Florida Everglades, have disappeared from government records.
We speak to a reporter and an advocate about what we know.
We speak to a reporter and an advocate about what we know.
September 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
It's genuinely insane that this isn't a bigger news story.
Where the fuck are they
Where the FUCK are they
Where the fuck are they
Where the FUCK are they
I found it. The billboard I hate most in the world.
September 23, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I found it. The billboard I hate most in the world.
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Amid the mourning for Redford, a friend found this essay by Andrew Holleran on the gay origin story to The Way We Were. glreview.org/article/the-...
The Way Things Were - The Gay & Lesbian Review
glreview.org
September 17, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Amid the mourning for Redford, a friend found this essay by Andrew Holleran on the gay origin story to The Way We Were. glreview.org/article/the-...
Porqué no los dos?
September 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Porqué no los dos?
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I miss writer gossip social media.
September 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I miss writer gossip social media.
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Arguing about out who has to bottom tonight but we're referring to split screen Mario Kart
September 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Arguing about out who has to bottom tonight but we're referring to split screen Mario Kart
Doing some night writing and these three guys showed up 🥹
September 5, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Doing some night writing and these three guys showed up 🥹
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I like to read "must read" as a command. you MUST read these books.
Or else.
Or else.
Our brand new #MustRead #Pirate #Books list is live and features books by
@colettemoody.bsky.social
@boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social
@writingroslyn.bsky.social
@ylva-publishing.bsky.social
@maggietokudahall.bsky.social
@colettemoody.bsky.social
@boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social
@writingroslyn.bsky.social
@ylva-publishing.bsky.social
@maggietokudahall.bsky.social
thelesbianreview.com
September 5, 2025 at 2:57 AM
I like to read "must read" as a command. you MUST read these books.
Or else.
Or else.
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Read “Toni Morrison,” a prose poem by Nikki Giovanni from the collection The New Book.
“Toni Morrison,” a Prose Poem by Nikki Giovanni
“Toni Morrison” I wish I owned a restaurant then I could run Specials: Today Toni Morrison stew. An exotic mix of tears and sympathy. Nothing grows except The Bluest eyes and a special shot of Peco…
buff.ly
September 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Read “Toni Morrison,” a prose poem by Nikki Giovanni from the collection The New Book.
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you guys are being a real bummer about the collapse of a society
September 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
you guys are being a real bummer about the collapse of a society
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- ¿Si eres comunista por qué tienes un iPhone?
- Y tú ¿Si eres capitalista por qué tienes derechos laborales?
- Y tú ¿Si eres capitalista por qué tienes derechos laborales?
August 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
- ¿Si eres comunista por qué tienes un iPhone?
- Y tú ¿Si eres capitalista por qué tienes derechos laborales?
- Y tú ¿Si eres capitalista por qué tienes derechos laborales?
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Happy birthday to gay pioneer Edward Carpenter, born today in 1844.
Edward dedicated his life to homosexual liberation, worker's rights, women's emancipation, anti-colonialism, nudism, sodomy, and sandals, and argued gay comrades would form the vanguard of a sexually liberated socialist society.
Edward dedicated his life to homosexual liberation, worker's rights, women's emancipation, anti-colonialism, nudism, sodomy, and sandals, and argued gay comrades would form the vanguard of a sexually liberated socialist society.
August 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
would
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"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
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Spending some time today with Deborah Eisenberg's short story "Recalculating," about a young man who goes from Iowa to London to attend his late gay uncle's funeral, where he learns he greatly resembles the uncle he never knew. www.nybooks.com/articles/201...
www.nybooks.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Spending some time today with Deborah Eisenberg's short story "Recalculating," about a young man who goes from Iowa to London to attend his late gay uncle's funeral, where he learns he greatly resembles the uncle he never knew. www.nybooks.com/articles/201...
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It's Mel Roberts's birthday, so may as well share some of the twink thirst traps he took so many of that they made him an enemy of the state.
(Photo of Gordon O'Brien, 1968)
(Photo of Gordon O'Brien, 1968)
August 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
It's Mel Roberts's birthday, so may as well share some of the twink thirst traps he took so many of that they made him an enemy of the state.
(Photo of Gordon O'Brien, 1968)
(Photo of Gordon O'Brien, 1968)