Katie Gifford-Baskerville

Katie Gifford-Baskerville

@cosmic-katie.bsky.social

Theatre Director & Dramaturg | Wife | Queer Intersectional Feminist | Witch | Leftist | Book & Board/Video Game Enthusiast | Mother of Cats and Chickens | She/They

263 Followers 1,113 Following 79 Posts Joined Jan 2025
11 months ago
An illustration…Surreal monochrome with bands and textures resembling flowing fabric. Stars pepper the background. A false color image of the actual Orion nebula, where you can see many of the features from the illustration, but without the foldy fabric bands.

Absolutely obsessed with this late 19th century illustration of the Orion Nebula by Otto Boeddicker.

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1 year ago
"A screenshot of an NBC News article headline. The headline reads: 'Texas bill would make identifying as transgender a felony punishable by jail.' Below the headline, a subtext states: 'The bill, while unlikely to pass, highlights the increasing extremism of legislation targeting trans people, especially in Texas, in recent years.' The NBC News logo is visible at the top, along with a navigation bar that includes a 'WATCH' button and a user profile icon."

I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence.

This is a campaign of eradication.

www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...

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1 year ago

Fuck Gavin Newsom. I’m so sick of people jettisoning trans people from their platforms to court bigots to their side. #transequalitynow #transrightsarehumanrights #transwomenarewomen

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1 year ago

The amount Musk and Trump are boasting about regarding federally funded research aimed at studying health outcomes in transgender people (the $8 million)? Just out of the research grant budget for the U.S., it would be the equivalent of if you had a $10,000 budget and spent 86 cents on something.

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1 year ago

I just spoke to a rep from Bernie Moreno’s office who told me, “Medicaid is not getting cut, anyone who needs Medicaid will get it” but when I asked where the $880 billion tax cut was coming from he just repeated the quote to me like a parrot over and over again Call your senators Demand a town hall

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I mean, are we just numb to the insanity ? The president of the United States yesterday called for arresting American students protesting at campuses (they pay to attend) 😂

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1 year ago

What is Congress doing to protect trans and non-binary people and support them during this time?

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A screenshot of a tweet from The White House (@WhiteHouse), posted 33 minutes ago, quoting Donald J. Trump:
"CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!" –President Donald J. Trump

Below the tweet is an illustrated or AI-generated image of Donald Trump wearing a suit with a red tie and a gold crown on his head. He is smiling confidently against a background featuring the New York City skyline, including the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building. The image is framed in red, with the word "TRUMP" in large white letters at the top. In the bottom left corner, white text reads "LONG LIVE THE KING."

Engagement metrics show 722 replies, 1.9K retweets, 8.2K likes, and 314K views. The interface includes icons for replying, retweeting, liking, and sharing the post.

The official White House account posted this.

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1 year ago

Watched Sugarcane tonight. The atrocities committed against indigenous children by the Catholic Church is entirely revolting, and the lack of accountability and justice too. Required watching. The struggle is intersectional, no one is free until we are all free from white supremacy.

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DNF: The Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel

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#Booksky #currentlyreading 🌈📚

Currently reading: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Just finished: The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman (2.75 ⭐️)

Looking forward to: The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy & The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

See thread for my finished books & DNFs! (5/24)

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1 year ago
Screenshot of the Libby app of the final audiobook screen of Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman.

Just finished The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman.

I love these characters and the world and their stories, the pacing is just a bit slow for my taste.

2.75 ⭐️

#booksky 🌈📚 #witchsky

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1 year ago

Me too! I am so eager to see what happens next!

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1 year ago

This book is so good!

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1 year ago

We are here and we’re not going anywhere. Our queer forbearers were beat and arrested and harassed and murdered by cops and citizens alike, we won’t go back.

#transnews #trans #lgbtq #marshapjohnson

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1 year ago

This book is so good!

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1 year ago

That is a hazard of the practice unfortunately

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1 year ago

This is the beauty of audiobooks, I can close my eyes and rest while listening to my books!

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1 year ago

I think y’all were in the same seats that me and Verdi were! What did you think?

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1 year ago
StoryGraph image of the covers of three books and their star ratings from @cosmic_katie’s January Reads: The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn and Jamie Chang (3.25 stars), Lightlark by Alex Aster (4.25 stars) and Onyx Storm (5 stars).

DNF: Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel

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1 year ago

#Booksky #currentlyreading 🌈📚

Currently reading: The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman

Just finished: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (3.5⭐️)

Looking forward to: The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy & The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

See thread for other books finished this year! (4/24)

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A screenshot of a finished ebook of Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver.

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver - 3.5 ⭐️

An interesting dive in to one variety of Appalachian life.

#booksky 🌈📚

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1 year ago

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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“Trans people are not invisible. Trans people deserve love. The queer community deserves to be lifted up. Music is love, thank you.”

— Lady Gaga while accepting Best Pop Duo Performance at the #GRAMMYs

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🚨 Lady Gaga premieres the ‘Abracadabra’ music video during a #GRAMMYs  commercial break.

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