West Coast Bride

When calling my reps, I think it's just as important to push for "parental responsibility" alongside saying no to KOSA/SCREEN/IODA

If these legislators care so much about family values, then remind them how much they matter to you too! #SaveSpeech

It's like a virus. If they put out a statement at 2 weeks and we stop, then the next time they censor even more, we'll have to call 4 weeks to get them to even make a statement.

The fight won't be easier to win a year from now. We just have to be relentless, we can't give them a recovery period.

Oh look more authoritarian bullshit trying to weasel itself into our lives.

Be loud and make them know we don't want any of this.

I made a quick and dirty anti-censorship cheat sheet to help onboard people and direct their energy in a productive direction. This isnt as comprehensive as various websites being shared around, but it should be easy to share and save.

Save the png and repost as widely as you can

Call call call. Visa is literally begging us to stop calling and send emails. Calls cost them way more money and they can't use key words to filter them out

and this petition is quick to sign if you are in the US. More number go up is good bsky.app/profile/acva...

I've seen more people scolding others for who you're allowed to be mad at than people circulating payment processors phone numbers so here they are again.

i am vibrating loudly

can we just do karaoke in someone's basement, that's basically a gay wedding

y'all should have a party instead so i can come to a party

it's been a good season for it so i'm sure yours is on the way

Demand an affidavit ballot and submit it. Your vote will count.

It's easy to forget now but we had decades of steady advancement on trans rights. The 2016 bathroom bills invited huge backlash! It was only after the media constructed sports and youth medications as 'debates' that opposition moved from the far right to the polite center.

my venmo is max-cohen-39 god knows i could use it!

i went through the wrong puberty and got denied hrt when i was OVER 18 and like yes i survived but i don’t want anyone to suffer the way i had to suffer. protect trans kids with full-throated support or shut the fuck up

i know a lot else is going on, but US folks PLEASE call your senators - they are actively set on trying to ban trans healthcare on Medicaid entirely which trans people like me who are on Medicaid actively depend on for life-saving healthcare

wow he's just like me fr

COLE

please tell me you didn't eat street donuts

Better or worse than slow century

It also continues to be, somehow, the worst thing ween has ever been involved in

When were u 8 maybe the wrens owe u money

Mitch this is just the cover of the meadowlands

If you want transit in Chicago to be saved, sign a “Proponent” witness slip immediately!

Firm: “Self”
Representing: “Self”
Subject matter: “HB 3438 - SFA 3”
Position: Proponent
Testimony: “Appearance Only”

my.ilga.gov/WitnessSlip/...

yeah at least with grindr they start with the fetish

even just casual conversation starters, how many things am I going to have to explain to make sense? it's like when an uncle would ask what level i was on while playing ff3 — i can either walk you through a bunch of stuff to get to a meaningful answer or say "lvl 12" & move on.

The few times ive tried this (usually as a result of dating apps) i always end up talking the way i talked to my grandparents when they asked what i was up to. Like “i dont know how to discuss my life with you in a way you’d understand”

The wildest thing to me is this fear that you’ll be cancelled and pilloried for misgendering a trans person, when myself and everyone i know usually just corrects them and moves on. We only get mad if you do it on purpose, to fuck with us.

Im deeply upset to find out that it is

I misread this as “all you can do is drift” and was excited for a surprisingly avant garde approach to kart racing