Sossity Writes

Sossity is constantly working on new projects, including: chapbooks of poetry and prose, creative non-fiction essays, articles, and song spells as half of the duo Sparkle & truth. 

Books 

• Honey & Vinegar: Recipe for an Outlaw, 2019 
• Stir the Juice - erotic poetry chapbook, 2013 

CD 

• Hand to Mouth - poetry CD, 2012 (sample) 

Anthologies and Journals 

•  “An Ethical Imperative”: Expanding Accessibility in Libraries at NC State - Library Journal, February 2023
• Disability in Publishing Launches with Virtual Town Hall - Library Journal, September 2022
• Lessons I’m learning From My Garden - Poetry Moves (a program of Artstra in collaboration with C-Tran,) September 2022 
• Disorderly in Conduct - Untitled Voices, April 2022
• Public Libraries Tackle Telehealth Challenges - Library Journal, February 2022
• Disabled Characters: Avoiding the Tragedy or Inspiration Binary - Writing Diversely, January 2022
• Rock out, stuck in - Rogue Agent, October 2021
• Tangled - All My Relations, August 2021
• Making a home of knowing - Pulp Magazine, May 2021
• Erato: Flash Fiction, published by New Smut Project,  October 2020
• The Impossible Beast: Poems of Queer Eroticism, published by Damaged Goods Press,  September 2020
• Describing is almost like understanding - Vox Viola, May 2020
•  Salt sharpened - The Rumpus (Enough series), May 2020
• Leaving the House: On Chronic Pain and Mourning the Body - Pulp, March 2020
• "The Privilege and Power of Firing Your Doctor" - Salty, February 2020 
• "Luxury Bones" - Rooted In Rights, November 2019 
• "Never so simple" - Stirring: A Literary Collection, Summer 2019 Vol. 21 Ed. 3 
• "Named" - Petrichor Audio Magazine, June 2019 
• "Wanting so closely" - Shades of Pride: LGBTQAI2+ Anthology - published by TL;DR Press, June 2019 
• "Lessons I learned from my garden" - Unchaste Readers Series: Volume 3 - edited by Jenny Forrester, published by Scout Books, April 2019
• "Your name crunches in my mouth like gravel" and "Disorderly in conduct" - Gertrude Press, Issue 28 (excerpt from Gut Instincts,  2018 Creative Non-Fiction Chapbook Runner Up), January 2019
• " My gender in 3 parts", "Until I cry", "Magic formulas scrawled under cover of night", and "On staying in, again" - Flannel Magazine, January 2019
• "Conditionial Love" - Argot Magazine, December 2018
• "Outlaw linguistics" and "Of Moonlight and roses and mammals" - Crab Fat, October 2018
• " When I try to describe my beau and can only paint ideograms of love" - Impossible Archetype, Issue 4
• "Gut Instincts" - Argot Magazine, August 2018
• "Where light and space are equal to mass and gravity" - Subprimal, Issue 11
• "Family Knots" - Eunoia Review, April 2018
• "Cinderfella" - Leather Ever After - edited by Sassafras Lowery, published by Circlet Press
• "Commerce" - Unchaste Readers Series: Volume 2 - edited by Jenny Forrester, published by Scout Books
• "In the red" - F(r)iction, Volume 9
• "Survival skills"-  Plumplandia, Issues 1 & 3
• "Balance" - great weather for MEDIA anthology-The Other Side of Violet
• "Mapping Coordinates of of Poor, Queer, and Feminine in the High Desert Air" - Lunch Ticket, Summer/Fall 2017 Edition (excerpt from the memoir Honey & Vinegar: Recipe for an Outlaw)
• "Intent" - Rogue Agent, Issue 27
• "When Politics are Thicker Than Blood" Not My President anthology, from Thoughtcrime Press
• "Love Note to Femmes, Including Myself" - TQ Review: A journal of Trans/Queer Voices, Issue 2
• "Change The Station" - Zine Trio Anthology, from Ladybox Books
• "Broke Bodies" - Love Me, Love My Belly - Body Positive Zine, Issue 3, from Porkbelly Press
•  DIY Pervertables: Where Is The Rope And Chain Aisle Please? - Harlot Magazine, July 2016
• "Beauty" - Vitality. April, 2016
• "Numbers have teeth" - Unchaste Readers Series: Volume 1 - edited by Jenny Forrester, published by Scout Books
• "The Bone Dance" - Procyon Science Fiction Anthology 2016 - edited by Jeanne Thorton
• "Road Trip" - Emerge: 2015 Lambda Fellows Anthology - edited by Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela, published by Lambda Literary, (excerpt from the memoir Honey & Vinegar: Recipe for an Outlaw)
• "Listen" - The Remedy: Queer And Trans Voices On Health And Health Care (Lambda Literary Award Winner 2017) - edited by Zena Sharman, published by Arsenal Pulp Press
• "Make Them Shine" - Best Lesbian Erotica 20th Anniversary Edition - edited by Sacchi Green, published by Cleis Press
• "Survival Skills" and "Spelling of My Name" - Glitter & Grit: Queer Performance from the Heels on Wheels Femme Galaxy (Lambda Literary Award Winner 2016) - edited by Damien Luxe, Heather María Ács & Sabina Ibarrola, published by Publication Studio
• "Wanting so Closely" - NANO fiction, Volume 9, Number 2
• "Grannie" - Transcendence Magazine, Issue 2
• "Named" - Mash Stories (taking 2nd place in the 4th competition)
• "Research" and "Summer of 16" - Vine Leaves Literary Journal, Issue 12, (excerpt from the memoir Honey & Vinegar: Recipe for an Outlaw)
• " Daydreaming", "Ozone" - Literary Sexts, Volume 2
• "Chamber in my heart" - Atlas and Alice, Issue 3
• " Road Map", "Hiding From The Moon", and "Flesh Poetry" - The Outrider Review, Volume 1, Issue 3
• " Salted Caramel", "Learning Curve", "Drunk on Desire", "Bodies Don't Play Fair", and "Outlaw" - Adrienne Journal, Issue 2
• "Divinity" - Wilde Magazine, Fall 2013 Issue, and Summer 2014 Erotica Issue
• "Learning Curve" - nin, Volume I: Issue I
• Salacious Magazine, Volume 2
• "Magnetic fields" and "Whore" - Body Heat: The Queer Femme Porn Tour Zine
• "Gentleman Caller" - Say Please - edited by Sinclair Sexsmith, published by Cleis Press
• "Worshipping" - Bitch Goddess - edited by Pat Califia
• "And I called her boy" - The Second Coming, edited by Pat Califia

Embody - column at PQ Monthly (2015-2017)

• Sacred sexual deviance (November, 2017)
• What are you proud of? (June, 2017)
• It takes a queer village (May, 2017)
• How are you doing? (April, 2017)
• Your existence is part of the resistance (February, 2017)
• The truth of many parts (January, 2017)
• Where my hope is rooted (December, 2016)
• When politics are thicker than blood (November, 2016)
• In the small hours of the morning (October, 2016)
• We need to learn (September, 2016)
• Self care community share (August, 2016)
• In case of emergency (June, 2016)
• Digital divide (May, 2016)
• The gift of service (April, 2016)
• Love note to femmes, including myself (February, 2016)
• Who are the queer elders at your table (January, 2016)
• Re/Creating traditions (November, 2015)
• Broke bodies (October, 2015)
• The cost of geography (September, 2015)
• The danger of being nice (August, 2015)
• The right to bare arms (July, 2015)
• Family knots (June, 2015)
• Radical relationships (April, 2015)
• Other people’s sex (March, 2015)
• Get what you need (February, 2015)
• Good positions for bad backs (January, 2015)

Feature articles and blog posts at PQ Monthly (2015-2017)

• Put your politics where your kink is (November, 2017)
• Coming Together To Prepare: What It Means To Create A Legal ID Paperwork Clinic (December, 2016)
• Flamingo Rampant LGBT2Q Children’s Books: The Gift You Can Give The World! (December blog, 2016)
• Post Election: Getting Organized And Moving Forward With The Q Center (November, 2016)
• Sankofa Collective NW: On Splitting From PFLAG, QTPOC Centered Organizing, And The Patterns Of Privilege (September, 2016)
• SAGE: Advocacy, Community and Resources for LGBT Elders (September, 2016)
• Rosehip Medic Collective: Taking Health Care To The Streets (August, 2016)
• Dirty River: A Queer Femme Of Color Dreaming Her Way Home, Part Two (June, 2016)
• Dirty River: A Queer Femme Of Color Dreaming Her Way Home, Part One (May, 2016)
• Local Writer, Kate Carroll De Gutes Wins Oregon Book Award, Is Nominated For A Lammy (May blog, 2016)
• Candye Kane: The Toughest Tenderest Superhero (May blog, 2016)
• Queer Masculinity Embracing It’s Feminist Side: An Interview With The Turnback Boyz Part Two (March, 2016)
• Queer Masculinity Embracing It’s Feminist Side: An Interview With The Turnback Boyz (February, 2016)
• When A Dirty Queer Deviates - Long Time Open Mic Changes Format (December, 2015)
• Getting Mental Health Support Shouldn’t Have To Be Edge Play; Find A Therapist Who Gets You In The SMPD (November, 2015)
• The Equi Institute Partners With The Q Center! (September, 2015)
• Tender Places: Inside Story (sex advice column, trial run, May 2015)