Lydia Esper

a close up of a girl 's face with blue hair ALT: a close up of a girl 's face with blue hair

Hopefully soon I’ll know what all this is—

I’m actually really allergic to them. That was fun to figure out.

That movie is great! I can’t believe I didn’t even know it existed 40 years or so into my life.

I caught this movie on IFC at 2am a few years back. The co-worker I was sitting with was SO confused and really hated it. I remind him of it every now and again much to his annoyance. It’s great fun.

Anti-trans group admits bathroom predator myth is made up Dec 07 2018 • Written by Sofia Lotto Persio

Swimmer Riley Gaines Admits She's Just Using Sports to Make Trans Rights "Crumble"

Helen Joyce reveals plans to use fears around trans kids as stepping stone to eliminate "trans" in public life by Mallory Moore & transsafety.network

right wing bigots have admitted

- the “trans women in bathrooms” issue

- the “trans women in sports” issue and

- the “trans kids getting surgery” issue

were all MADE UP TO TAKE OUR RIGHTS AWAY

are you paying attention?

Early dawn from my window.

a close up of a woman with blue hair Alt: Jinx portraying my feelings.

Tomorrow is another day.

Not the least bit straight.

I don’t like feeling like a number or a plant that needs watering every now and again made to feel placated.

Replacing "transgender is like ferrari" with "transgender is like microwave" from now on after this great bit

I've seen trans ppl promoting this piece several times today, but I haven't seen a single cis person linking or praising it.

It's the same old thing, an article is written FOR cis ppl but ABOUT trans ppl and yet for some reason the cis folks to whom it's addressed seem to not notice the piece.

GALAXY: THE PRETTIEST STAR by Jadzia Axelrod, Vash Taylor and Ariana Maher

According to this court order (drive.google.com/file/d/1iKxU...) GALAXY: THE PRETTIEST STAR has been banned from Department of Defense schools. Its one of 596: pen.org/books-banned...

Given the number of transgender people buried under their deadnames by their family, there’s a pretty good reason why we see increased ideation and suicidality but lack data on suicide completions.

Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride.

However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

screenshot of a Facebook post by Corey Robin, which says: "By the way, did you all notice how Zohran made affordability a central issue of his campaign without selling out trans kids or shitting on immigrants? Might be some lessons there. Just a thought."

he's right and he's right to say it

call me back when you’re afraid for your life just to run to the store or put gas in your car unless you hide your titties

I am getting multiple reports that the Trump admin is NOT complying with the court order requiring passport updates for transgender people.

Some passport agencies are being told not to give trans people passports with their correct gender marker, for now.

To everyone carrying the weight of this week:

You may not have told anyone how heavy it felt. You might’ve smiled through it, said you were fine when you weren’t and kept showing up when you just wanted to stop.

That takes a kind of strength most people don’t recognize.

That matters. You matter.

Opinion | Parsing ICE’s mixed-up, hard-to-believe assault claims ICE officials keep touting a 413 percent increase in assaults on officers to justify officers masking their identities.

I asked ICE where the “413% increase in assaults” justification for its officers using masks came from. They didn’t answer. So I dug into it, and what I found … did not boost their argument.
Gift link: wapo.st/4l7a1ch

The Supreme Court Just Threw Trans Kids Under The Bus—Here's What Their Ruling Means SCOTUS lands devastating blow against trans youth and their families

The Supreme Court has sided with cruelty. Again. This time, it’s trans kids who pay the price. In this powerful piece, lawyer and democracy expert @importantmeagan.bsky.social pulls back the curtain on the new ruling upholding the TN ban on gender-affirming care, and sounds the alarm on what's next.

The reasoning in Skrmetti is just repackaged “every race is punished equally, so nothing to see here” logic that Loving v. Virginia emphatically rejected.

I will live in spite of this Administration. I will live in spite of this court.

The work goes on, and I will not stop fighting for us.

Hot take: Feeling your feelings is actually healthy.

The alternative is repressed pain, quiet resentment, chronic stress that can take years off your life. Write it out. Scream it out. Spiral (mindfully) if you must. Then release it, and watch how you grow 🌱

Worker to ICE agent at a workplace raid: “And here’s my bag of f*cks.”

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening

historians: that thing is definitely happening

star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it

news outlets: these protesters are out of control

the funniest thing about the “ice agents are human beings with families” line is that there is no evidence to support the claim. oh they’re real people? what are their names? as far as I’m concerned they’re the T-1000 until proven otherwise

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”