jaycee 🍀🎶🏍️

An illustration of Miss Major surrounded by candles with blue background and a famous quote of hers written in gold. The quote reads“I don’t need their permission to exist; I exist in spite of them. I want you to train and teach and love on and create families within my community and gender non-conforming people, so that we can understand that we have a culture, we have a history, we have a reason to be here. We have a purpose. We’re entitled to be loved, and seek happiness, and share that with the people that we care about.” -Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

We honor the legacy of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a fierce protector of our collective freedom. Our hearts are with her loved ones and all who carry her vision forward.

"We will honor Miss Major forever." - @imarajones.bsky.social

That defence 🔥🔥

Keep connecting with your people. Yes, its exhausting / demoralizing to exist as an empathetic human with a sense of justice or morals at the current juncture, and, love & energy to keep going exists in connection. If theres only one thing you can do today, connect with someone 💖 don’t let them win.

The Supreme Court right now:

❌ Using race conscious admissions in colleges to account for systemic and societal racial discrimination.

✅ Using race explicitly to determine who masked federal agents will snatch off the street to throw into concentration camps.

Mon the hoops! 🍀

Spending as much time sitting with and congregating with friends as moving with the anxiety and turmoil in the world, feels about right. Not that you’re looking for advice but go help or listen to someone tomorrow 💖

It’s important to remember cisgender women getting hurt by this is a feature not a bug as it both makes trans women fearful of existing in public and signals to cis women how they must act to be protected by the state.

Tomorrow I get to see one of my favorite music acts of the last decade in person - then more music and motorcycle community for the rest of the weekend. Reprieve. 💖

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I met my doppelgänger tonight, she played the ocarina as she walked away from the pub.

Did you hop on the venga bus? 🤣

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Can’t believe first matchday is this weekend. 🍀 where has the time gone

Something worth protecting. 💖

One more post of gratitude/reflection. After a weekend sharing some of the most meaningful connection and community grounded in shared ideals, love, and mutual accountability. It’s a reminder of the stakes, of what patience and resisting reactivity means, of what mutual safety and trust means.

Back to work and back to day-dreaming of days filled with tunes, safety, smiles, and an open road. Hope you’re finding some comfort in a thought or two.

I dunno about yall but I have a really difficult time trusting folks who amplify repackaged right wing prop for use on the left/their own communities. I know its often unintentional/internalized bias, but it feels like holding up a mirror and self-reflecting is THE daily practice. Im no exception. 💖

We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.

humming and whistling trad tunes and dance music while riding motorcycles with chosen family OR playing trad tunes and dance music while thinking about motorcycles/fam OR learning trad tunes and dance music and motorcycle things to pass along. Sharing it all and it’s all good. 💖

So stoked for DVD!!! Let’s gooooo!

Sure, this is late, but what an absolutely bonkers All-Ireland final for Tipperary. McCarthy 🤯

I don't know who needs to hear this, but now more than ever is the time to make geographical moves to be close to that child/loved one/friend/school district/support network.

You have GOT to BE WITH your people & actively spend your time together.

You know that meme/post that’s like “you never know what people are going through?” Yeah… check in on your friends and loved ones. The flow is turbulent out there.

Generation Bb, amirite? #tradmusic #mysocialmediapresenceiscringe

There are currently more kids in Texas with measles than there are transgender collegiate athletes in all of America.

Guess which one they want you to focus on.

Minneapolis, last summer, Liara was taken from our community far too soon.

Please help amplify 2 needs:

1️⃣support for her loved ones during her murder trial
2️⃣ uplifting the music she left for us

(each has a link in the posts below)

One of the best feelings is when new music comes out that HITS you like a bag of sun-filled, sparkly, rainbow bricks.

Toooooo much coffee. 😬