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@forgeforwardtrans.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 12:30 PM

It was hard to choose only a section of Diem Okoye's "Names for Moths" to highlight here. We loved this poem, and encourage you to read the full version in Issue 7 of the Trans Survivors Zine! Find it at forge.tips/zine. #TransSurvivors #TransPoets #DisabilityAndHealth

Text on a blue background with yellow flowers. Title text: "Trans Survivors Issue 7; Rage and Soft Desire: Disability & Health. forge.tips/zine." FORGE logo. Slide 1 text: "Names for Moths by Diem Okoye. 'and of course I cried for each long night she endured, / to the long hours a day broken with pain, / and for the red chair we sit upon a late autumn evening when the moths / return with their beautiful wings folded, / the ones I catch her watching in the way we all do, / that no amount of staring at their bodies can wholly convince us / that this is normal, that a living thing flying carries this kind of grief, / like the darkened sky had dropped shadows to eye level and given them motion'"Text on a blue background with yellow flowers. Title text: "Trans Survivors Issue 7; Rage and Soft Desire: Disability & Health. forge.tips/zine." FORGE logo. Slide 2 text: "About the Writer: Diem Okoye. Diem Okoye is a writer and teacher who was highly commended for the erbacce-prize 2026. Her work has appeared in The Gay and Lesbian Review, Reckoning, Friends Journal and other literary journals. She was awarded second place in the Blue Mesa Review Spring 2025 Contest Issue and was nominated for the 2024 Dwarf Stars Award for speculative poetry. In addition to her writing, she works as a copy editor and is a reader at The Good Life Review. She lives with two German Shepherds and two neurotic cats."
@spicyfey888.bsky.socialSep 24, 2026, 9:15 PM

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