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I will continue to do my little word work.
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There is only one possible ending to this story, and sports aren't the last chapter. I guarantee that if you haven't lost five decades of rights in two weeks, you have no idea what this feels like, so I'm begging you: protect trans kids right now with everything you've got.
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TFRโs 2025 Mutual Aid Pride Drive
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Pride Month may be over, but transfem authors still need your support!!!
Our community raised 64% of our $5000 goal by the end of June ๐ฅณ๐ฉท
Your reward was to set my reading goal for the rest of the year, which is now 26 books. Wayyy too easy ๐
If we hit 4k? I'll double that.
If we hit 5k? TRIPLE
02.07.2025 00:16 โ ๐ 158 ๐ 116 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 6
ughhhh I refer to this particular torture as playing chicken with my Dr/pharmacy/insurance and I am determined to ALWAYS WIN. Solidarity ๐ช๐ป
02.07.2025 01:14 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
๐ฅฐ thank you!!!
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maybe the transmascs need a little joy in our feed? maybe an agent once suggested your top surgery be the central conflict of your memoir & you were like ummmm, no?
anyway whatever youโre here for I wrote this for us & I hope you like it & I hope you get to live it too, if you want.
30.06.2025 16:01 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
thank you!!!!
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Chase Strangio is a phenomenal advocate and put his whole chest out there in oral argument. This wasnโt some fun gamble for him, this was his life and the lives of the trans kids who come after him. Shame on the NYT and everyone else who plays like this. This shit isnโt funny, itโs dire.
19.06.2025 13:54 โ ๐ 310 ๐ 65 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0
NYT headline: How the Transgender Rights Movement Bet on the Supreme Court and Lost
Here's the inside story of the case that could set the movement back a generation.
This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesnโt actually exist.
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In light of SCOTUS's ruling in Skrmetti, @brittneymac15.bsky.social asked doctors what trans youth and their families need to know about navigating this. @teenvogue.com
experts advise continuing to talk to affirming healthcare providers if you have them and exploring options for care out-of-state.
18.06.2025 14:24 โ ๐ 143 ๐ 111 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 3
Today is a real bad day for trans folks. Lots of us are already struggling under the constant mental and emotional strain of being the target of international hate campaigns for years now, and it ain't getting easier
Support us, now more than ever. Emotionally, financially, politically. We need it
18.06.2025 14:57 โ ๐ 1913 ๐ 728 ๐ฌ 12 ๐ 6
Trans World Express
If today's Supreme Court ruling has you looking for the exit doors, we've created a guide to help you weigh your immigration options. Work visas, digital nomad visas, student visas, citizenship by descent, and more for 35+ countries. All with a focus on the trans community.
18.06.2025 15:17 โ ๐ 72 ๐ 33 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 2
Good for Tim Walz. Especially powerful because he's probably the only governor in the country who has spent a substantial part of his career actually coaching high school sports. He knows how disgusting it is to separate and punish kids because of an adult moral panic
04.06.2025 17:12 โ ๐ 2499 ๐ 467 ๐ฌ 23 ๐ 10
Johnathan Joss died a hero. He was murdered for being gay, he went out protecting his trans husband from being executed. They burned down their home and killed their pets and then they murdered Joss while trying to murder his husband. The New York times can barely muster "fatally shot." I hate this.
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you donโt want to miss this!!!!
28.05.2025 16:37 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
the GOP budget bill strips trans healthcare from hundreds of thousands of trans people (& allows that care for cis people). contact your senator; tell them to kill that part of the bill!
did you know utahโs GOP produced a great case for *preserving* that care? clear & quick summary in the link!๐งต
28.05.2025 01:40 โ ๐ 559 ๐ 243 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 4
Disobedience
There were no babies in poetry then,
says the poet in her essay on disobedience.
I have not always been been calm and assertive as the MMA coach instructs me to be, but I have resisted.
What, after all, is devotion.
What is it to honor.
Is it still scripture and holy
if you pour it down a child's open throat?
What is it we are disappearing from poetry today?
All the bread in Gaza.
A tithe of aid trucks.
Two hospitals.
A dove's wing of calm.
Once again, the babies.
written by Han VanderHart
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thanks, friends! ๐๐๏ธ
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92 years ago today, the Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld Institute for Sexuality, where the first study of trans people was conducted, and burned all of its contents.
Fitting that today is also the day SCOTUS greenlights the project of the eradication of trans people from society in the US.
06.05.2025 19:08 โ ๐ 3128 ๐ 1408 ๐ฌ 28 ๐ 51
writing a query letter for the first time and itโs becoming an exercise of leaning into my delusions of what my work could be! Ambitious-but-hopefully-not-unbelievably-so comps here we comeโฆ?
03.05.2025 19:59 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
this whooooole thread
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Providence City Councilor Justin Roias: โYesterday, ICE tased & detained a Providence resident with a pregnant U.S. citizen wife & a green card interview that same day.โ
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This is exactly right. She is in no meaningful sense an artist anymore. She is an extremely wealthy, publicly hateful, full time anti-trans campaigner and a horrifically successful one. Sheโs a cult leader with political pull.
19.04.2025 16:00 โ ๐ 406 ๐ 108 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 1
MOIST POETRY JOURNAL
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And Moist Poetry Journal is open to submissions! ๐ฆ
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if no one has reminded you today, one thing you can absolutely do in this moment is write. if you are a writer, you need to write. keep writing.
15.04.2025 00:56 โ ๐ 83 ๐ 12 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 1
Following up on this. They just banned a Canadian trans musician from getting a visa to tour the US.
They're straight up banning trans people from entering the US.
www.stereogum.com/2303977/bell...
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this is how you do it.
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