Emilia Phillips

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A book titled Green of All Heads with title on a white band at the top with a green tinted photo of what appears to be rocks with the authors’ name Aracelis Girmay overlayed in white

Up early, with my coffee, & starting to read GREEN OF ALL HEADS by Aracelis Girmay, truly one of my favorite poets

Misogyny is Dysphoric for This Enby Misogyny is horrific, defeating, dehumanizing, and traumatizing when you are a cisgender woman.

My new post on Substack: "Misogyny is Dysphoric for This Enby" open.substack.com/pub/themossb...

“but it also sets a dangerous precedent for firing based on the homophobic beliefs and bigotry of so-called ‘journalists’ recording professionals undercover.”

I wrote: “I’m a UNC System faculty member who identifies as queer and I know how important Jae Edwards’s work to protect and uplift the lives of LGBTQIA2S+ students at NC State was! This removal not only impacts Edwards and the tremendously important and absolutely essential work he does,…”

Reinstate Jae Edwards Now! Mr. Jae Edwards was separated from his position as the assistant director at NC State’s LGBTQ Pride Center less than 24 hours after the right-wing group, Accuracy in Media (AiM), posted a heavily edit...

I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Reinstate Jae Edwards Now!.

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you’re in her dms. i’m in the bottom of her purse. i’m seventeen half-used chapsticks. we are not the same

Protect Academic Freedom, Vote No to Revising The Code The UNC System Board of Governors will vote to amend the UNC System Code with new restrictions on academic freedom at its February 26 meeting. The Board of Governors plans to rewrite the very definiti...

I just signed the @ncaaup.bsky.social petition calling on the UNC Board of Governors to Protect Academic Freedom, Vote No to Revising the UNC System Code.

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P.S. Testosterone also just so happens to be a treatment for my chronic condition Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. Win win!

But if there are any other nonbinary or agender people out there who think HRT is only for transitioning into the binary & therefore they can’t do it or won’t qualify, please talk to your (gender-affirming) endocrinologist or other specialist!

I also told her that it is so affirming to be outside of the woman/man dichotomy & that this LEGITIMATE MEDICAL CARE helps me achieve that peace with my body, which therefore improves my mental health. I’m also writing about it, so I’ll have smarter things to say on down the line.

We don’t talk enough about nonbinary transition. It’s been about a month since I’ve been on low-dose T, & I feel SO good on it. I told my partner that I feel better than I have since before puberty.

I seek and desire Sappho translated from the ancient Greek by Bliss Carman I seek and desire, Even as the wind That travels the plain And stirs in the bloom Of the apple-tree. I wander through life, With the searching mind That is never at rest, Till I reach the shade Of my lover’s door.

I’ve been working SO much. Trying to find moments to just rest & so, this morning in bed with my coffee, I am starting KIN: THE FUTURE OF FAMILY by Sophie Lucido Johnson.

#fungifriends #mushrooms #mycology #nature #fungi #biology #photography
I’d given up hope of finding any this winter. Pleurotus ostreatus (Oyster mushrooms) yesterday.

Another shot from yesterday's Misty morning hike on the Arbutus Ridge trail in Goldstream Park.

#yyj #nature #lush #forest #flowing #photography #vancouverisland #WestCoastBestCoast

An iconic species is declining in Glacier National Park Researchers found Glacier National Park's mountain goats have declined by 45%.

Mountain Goats? Noooo!

An iconic species is declining in Glacier National Park www.sfgate.com/national-par...

Some mushrooms I encountered today in Kingston ,Jamaica.
Check out #Roostersworldja to see more cool stuff from the island d of Jamaica

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Ancient Greek for “thousand years”?

The word we are missing: millennialphobic

I want an AIM message sound for text messages. I’d turn my phone sound back on for that dopamine drip.

Also: real beards? Cosmetics?

The hanging scene? MM is SO good at being unsettling.

Death by Lightning was terrific! The acting, goodness. Oof. Michael Shannon & Matthew Macfayden, with a Nick Offerman bonus? Stunning.

Big head.

African-American children line up outside of Albemarle Region bookmobile

Bring back mobile libraries!

book titled Birthstones in the Province of Mercy by Bo Hee Moon

My wild Saturday night, with Bo He Moon’s Birthstones in the Province of Mercy (@milkweededitions.bsky.social, 2026)!

The answer WAS to restart my computer…SIGH

Oooo, I need to read this! Long COVID has been one of the hardest things I have experienced in my life. Thought I was going crazy & I’m pretty sure others did too.