tethered figures

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jem zero (ze/zir) is an autistic & disabled transmasc whose writing is weird, vulnerable, and strives to communicate the frustration of being limited by one’s meatsack & brainjuice. ze has nonfiction personal essays, short fiction, award-winning erotica, and poetry published in the Thinx Blog, Between the Lines newspaper, The New Smut Project, and Gertrude Press, among others. jem also does digital portraiture, mostly of intimate anatomy and people’s beloved pets.