Lesa Sorge

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hope you get the best care!

get checked out bb! 💜

despite all the fear mongering about trans people and the attempts to abandon and actively harm us from both political parties in the US, transitioning is still the greatest decision i’ve ever made, only regret i have is not doing it younger, and that it has only made my life infinitely better

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If you or someone you know is affected by the government shutdown and needs assistance with getting food, medicine or other essentials, here's a resource. Just put in your zip code and you will get a list of nearby food pantries and orgs that can help. Please share widely! 🥰
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

YouTube video by SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE ‘Worthy of the Stone’ by Secret Rivers (KTM aka Guante and SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE)

"Grindin’, first in the breadline/
The greatest emcee of all end times/
No warning, no warrant, just a headliner/
dragged offstage with no headlines..."

Me and @seemore.bsky.social wrote a song over that beat that plays in Andor when Mon Mothma is spinning around:

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

they don’t want you to know how they treat prisoners because it will grieve you to know it, which is natural and human, and because of your normal human reaction you will want the system changed. It’s important to them that your natural aversion to how the system works not be engaged.

Dropped mine in the box this afternoon!

...on a lyric-nerd level, this song is written without any end-rhyme until the very end: Build tension for 23 bars, and then release it on the 24th with that last rhyme. A fun creative writing challenge, but also mirrors movement work: it is possible to lose and lose and lose and then win.

Hilton Americas Houston hotel workers started their second month on strike today, a historic milestone for the first ever hotel strike in Texas history! #OneMonthStronger

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Re: today's march in Chicago at 1 pm at 50 W Washington: I have seen some people posting complaints about this march that don't make sense, and I want to respond. First, some people complain that folks should take action in affected communities. They are. It's called rapid response. (Thread.)

will the wallpaper bring you more joy over the next few years than another thing you might spend that $500 on?

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Procedure for Having to Behold PROCEDURE FOR HAVING TO BEHOLD By: Kate Schapira and Anne Kosseff-Jones This is a procedure to try when you witness fresh evidence of an atrocity or injustice—not a call to action, but a piece of inf...

Here's another practice that @annekosseffjones.bsky.social & I made together. It's made to help you process fresh escalations of horror, & also to help you decide whether you want to continue or switch your method of countering them. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

thank goodness! 🧡

so many hugs

Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/

Despite the times we live in, we must eat & take care of ourselves & each other. In our capitalist society, that means we must work. But having to work & do chores doesn't mean we must put our heads in the sand & act like everything's okay. Instead, we can build a praxis of resistance into our days.

(below emojis of X and a crown) 10.18.25

We’re back. Join our next nationwide day of defiance on October 18. Trump’s regime is abducting immigrants, deploying troops in our streets, rigging maps to silence voters, and defying the courts, but standing up to wannabe kings is part of our DNA. Let’s get to work: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Someone asked me what victory against the forces seeking to occupy Chicago looks like. Obviously, those forces being repelled is the goal, but there are layers to what success looks like in these deteriorating conditions. The first is to successfully resist the normalization of military occupation.

Oh no! Hope you can make a thorough recovery!

San Jose Barracuda are doing a "Wizarding World" theme night, I guess because the overarching theme of '25-'26 hockey season is about being stupid and transphobic in every clown way possible. They call it "inspired by the Harry Potter series", I assume because they don't have money to do an actual partnership. Clownshow from top to bottom If you are disappointed, as I am, and would like to join me in complaining fluently, here's some phone numbers and emails. ** = people with particular influence on this issue. Sharks Sports & Entertainment phone number: 408-287-7070 **San Jose Barracuda: 408-999-5757 (main line) || info@sjbarracuda.com || twitter Jon Gustafson (SJB President/SVP Governor): jgustafson@sharksice.com || twitter (only email I could find for him but I assume his email follows the same naming scheme below) **James Collins (President of Business Operations): jcollins@sjbarracuda.com **Kayleigh Schmidt (Director of Marketing & Communications): kschmidt@sjbarracuda.com || twitter **Nick Nollenberger (Senior Manager of Broadcasting and Public Relations): nnollenberger@sjbarracuda.com || twitter Ryan Ellis (Digital Marketing Specialist): rellis@sjbarracuda.com

I also encourage the season ticket holders following me to complain to your ticket reps as much as possible. Don't bother with coaching staff, players, hockey ops staff etc, they aren't calling the shots. I'm sure you all can come up with your own talking points, but my personal talking points are: as trans Barracuda fan with several queer and trans friends who are fans this is disappointing behavior from an org I love and have poured a lot of money into; Harry Potter is a franchise whose creator is using all proceeds to further dangerous transphobic legislation, what message do you think this sends to fans; you guys march in and table at Silicon Valley Pride literally every year, what happened; you guys are EMBARRASSING ME, THIS IS EMBARRASSINGGGGGG To be clear, I don't actually expect this to do anything or get them to cancel the theme night this year or whatever, but I am hoping that if enough of us complain, they're forced to pause and consider for future theme nights, because the emails and phone calls were so annoying. Like when you have a bunch house flies and you can't catch them all and so you have to resign yourself to throwing out food before it rots. Love you all!!

San Jose Barracuda are incapable of not embarrassing me in front of my friends, anyway here's what I put on tumblr

they think they can just erase trans joy and trans freedom. they can't. they can make things a lot harder and more painful. but that joy and that freedom is not theirs to take and it is incumbent on all good people to say so.

Go be in community with others.

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