Kyle Lukoff

@kylelukoff.bsky.social

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"Kyle Lukoff? Isn't he, like, the trans Maurice Sendak?" "No, Maurice Sendak is the cis Kyle Lukoff."

Chipmunk tattoo
Multicolored pins that say "We Love Kyle Lukoff"
My hand holding a hand-sized egg
Shelf of my books with a shelf shelftalker praising "Too Bright To See"
Cover of the novel, two white teens crossing paths in the entrance to a subway station
Cover of INK WITCH by Steph Cherrywell
A coffee cup in the classic NYC Greek design but it says "we are happy to inspire you" instead of "serve you"
Tweet screenshot: "As a community elder I'm canceling tdov and replacing it with trans day of find me a boyfriend"
Sign advertising a new business, a dog groomer/cheese shop. Includes the pun "you feta believe it"
Cover of "The House Next Door" by Anne River Siddons
Sticker saying TRANSSEXUALS HAVE GOT TO GET MEANER
Struggling to open my front door because of snow
The cover of "Sebastian Metzger Solves A Sticky Situation"
Then there is Ash Wednesday, the sadly ignored step-child of holidays, or maybe it’s better described as the ultimate unholiday. This is arguably, as they say, the most significant day on any calendar, whose startling purpose is to remind us, "remember man that thou art dust, and unto dust thou shalt return," just in case we had forgotten. The day arrives without cheers of joy and virtually no custom, except for one simple ceremony found among the Roman Christians, n which a cross of palm ash is smeared upon one’s forehead, assuming one has the self-confidence to appear in public so clearly marked. What a wonderfully paleogothic way to acknowledge our own deaths, and what could have more pertinence to life than an awareness of mortality? Unfortunately not everyone's response to that question is a resounding "nothing."
Spread from a picture book. Text reads "And when the unicycle remembered the stuck days and the scared days and the sad days, it couldn't get going at all," with watercolor images of an emotional unicycle stuck in a rut.
Video of me brushing a foot of snow off my car
Me smiling in front of a bookstore with a rainbow flag.
Screenshot from a copy edited manuscript with a comment reading "stet Applebeeses"
Copies of "Gay Men Don't Get Fat" by Simon Doonan and "No Man Of Woman Born" by Ana Mardoll
Screenshot of a transphobic article about book banning referring to me as a "female living as a man".
Latkes and kugel
Screenshot of news alerts related to a library board dissolved over voting to keep Call Me Max on the shelves
A first night menorah
My husband smiling with a plate of scallion pancakes
Very large blue egg
Screenshot of a text message: Friend: "Daring [redacted] to have his restaurant serve 'wimminestrone' next time it hosts Queer Soup Night" Me: "Women and femmistrone"
Screenshot of an ai book promotion scam where the title it names is "Call Me Max" but they're describing "A World Worth Saving"
Brochure advertising a children's book series called STEAMWORKS
A banner advertising free classroom sets of Ayn Rand novels
Kyle and his husband in tuxedos
Cover of Murderland by Caroline Fraser
A flier advertising the launch of Chrysalis, a magazine of trans youth writing, Friday 10/17 at High Five Books in Florence MA
A beaver-gnawed tree trunk
A book called "Letters to my Israeli Sons" by Lynne Reid Banks
Me, chest deep in a pond surrounded by mountains, arms raised in victory