JD Pluecker

im really wondering if there are any lgbtq-friendly re-entry programs or resources in houston for folx coming outta prison, if any of yall know. im helping support a new friend recently released and she is trans. all the re-entry programs i have found seem very religious-oriented

Where Did Anti-Trans Laws Start? How a Forgotten Houston Ordinance Turned Into a Massive, Nationwide Culture War In fighting for bathroom bills in Houston, Texas conservatives provided a blueprint for the rest of the country.

It's now illegal for me to use the bathroom of my gender in my home state. Here is how we got here in Texas: thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/04/a...

Bela's Pilgrim The story of my salvation

"It’s not my fault that Azerbaijan sounds like an Orientalist hallucination and Soviet Russia, the oldest joke in the book." - Bela Shayevich jewishcurrents.org/belas-pilgrim

i love trans people

x is so dead. bsky is dead. fb skews too old & highschooly at the same time. ig is too millenial lol. social media is dead! long death to it! onwards with the bot march!

or perhaps i just need to be consistenly posting on any platform to have engagement. i dont wanna put in that work tho lol

i miss engagement

Noemi reading TONIGHT at 7PM at Wave Archive in Tucson!

Featuring Poetry Editor @dianaarterian.bsky.social,
Executive Director @sargzem.bsky.social, and authors @utopiaminus.bsky.social, @raquefella.bsky.social, @jdpluecker.bsky.social, Claire Hong, and @faridmatuk.bsky.social

more anglo white ladies who take on latino last names (sometimes from their husbands, sometimes out of thin air) who slip into cosplaying latinidad ugh please stop

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.

Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

One man’s ICE watchdog work in Elgin As ICE activity and immigrant arrests in Elgin have surged since Operation Midway Blitz, an activist fights back.

I deeply appreciate stories like these: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/21/e... [gift link]. People are in motion everywhere.

Tejiendo la unidad, acuerpando el paro en Ecuador — Ojalá Entrevista a Nancy Bedón, vicepresidenta de la Unión de Organizaciones Campesinas de Esmeraldas.

Let's look and analyze what is happening in Ecuador. All too similar to what is happening here in the US, actually. Worldwide solidarity in a dark time. (Article available here at Ojala in English & Spanish.)
www.ojala.mx/es/ojala-es/...

register for wednesday's virtual reading with roque raquel salas rivera through charis books, curated by sam ace!
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YouTube video by EL PAÍS CARLA ANTONELLI sobre las personas TRANS: "No vamos a volver a los márgenes" | EL PAÍS

"No vamos a volver a los márgenes"

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seems we had the same thought about the potentially nefarious origin of this appropriation!

ugh! thats not right. i wonder if AI might have generated that language. AI uses all of our work and language without every citing us. in fact, id love to read an essay about AI as an anti-citation appropriation industrial complex. probably already exists. if someone has a link send it over!

Grin Go Home by JD Pluecker | Basket Books & Art

My Grin Go Home / Las provincias internas from @ultramarinaedit is now for sale in Houston and online through Basket Books! Please support this wonderful independent bookstore.
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midwest mini-tour! a t4t reading in champaign-urbana, illinois wednesday sept 3 and normie creep in the sacred grove reading in iowa city saturday sept 6! come out come out!

this so-called "texas" and this so-called "nation" keep throwing their trash at us, but we --dead & alive-- keep making treasures & beauty

1) bday queen pic (for algorithm)
2) WLT
3) 1st review of The Every Wild in WLT, by scholar Julie Tolliver
4) translation: NO TIRES TU BASURA AQUÍ (DEAD PEOPLE)

when i was little, i learned two songs by heart that i still remember all the words to: tracy chapman's "behind the wall" and janis joplin's "mercedes benz"

* still on brand lol *

the way this new bathroom bill in tx is written, it would force institutions to harass and police people as they use the bathroom. if the institution is found to have allowed a trans person to use the bathroom of their gender, the institution would be fined $25K and then $125K.

“Bathroom bill” aimed at trans people approved by Texas House after decade of failed attempts Senate Bill 8 will restrict restrooms in government buildings, public schools and universities based on sex assigned at birth and apply $25,000 fines for violations.

it is about to be illegal in texas for me to use the public bathroom of my gender in state government buildings, public schools and universities.

the tx senate and house have now passed the bill, and it is going back to the senate now for confirmation.
www.texastribune.org/2025/08/28/t...

Thanks for sharing!

Happy to have been able to translate this small book by the Ayuujk/Mixe writer, linguist, and organizer Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil for @rupturepress. Download for free at www.rupturepress.org/ungovernabil...

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Sign the Petition We Demand a Safe Telephone Road!

Please sign. This is my neighborhood in the East End in Houston.
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more t4t, yes, and also more tea4tea plz

hugs to all the writers who do the work and pay the fees to submit their books for awards and dont get nominations or longlisted or even a rejection note

* sigh *

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WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

thinking about deleting this account. most of my non-US friends never came here; they jus stayed on X/tw1tter and i still get more interaction there than here. and i dont need more sosh meedz accounts. trying to simplify