Leigh Hendrix (they/he)

I got they’d by a stranger after being misgendered by someone who knows it’s he or they and it was for sure because I seem like a they to anyone cool. In spaces where trans and queer people are a norm, I am always gendered correctly.

So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers

I had pointed my politics obsessed 14 year old here as inspiration, not to mention what I have learned from Lex’s work and others. This is such a huge loss.

This is a bid to create division that does not exist and I know a lot of non-trans queer folk who just will not have it. The cis queer people in my life are showing up and throwing down for trans people. These losers are the outliers. Don't listen to straight people about queer life.

I do love to sing and am also now in a baritone range that I do not know how to use at all. I want to take some voice lessons again, just to get some more understanding so singing feels more fun again. It’s funny to no longer be an actor so I have not had as much opportunity to learn this voice.

I have always had a very tiny range so this kind of song is not one I could ever swing but I keep making new little dance phrases to it!

It really is.

Yesss

Literally thought, Sandy will get it, when I wrote this post. 😂

A tale as old as time, I know.

Just saw a video on fedbook of straight people having a pink pony club themed 40th birthday party. If this was not also a coming out event, I hate it so much. It’s truly wild how culture makers from marginalized communities can be celebrated while those communities are under threat!

It’s like taking a stack of hateful flyers you find in a neighborhood and then walking around and handing them out and adding, “Wow, did you see this? This is awful.” …But then they are still left holding the flyers YOU gave them.

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I'm an unemployed, disabled trans woman surviving off donations and now without SNAP like so many people.

Needing $300 for a grocery order as priority atm.
Amz: shorturl.at/FaojU
Kofi: shorturl.at/Z3mfJ
CA: $LuciNevins
Vnmo: @ Harland-Nevins
PP: shorturl.at/S694j

Ideally money, to an existing food bank. I've seen tons of pop-up mutual aid efforts in my small city in the last week. While I applaud the desire to support neighbors in need, imagine navigating dozens of random Facebook posts and email accounts to find food when you need it. Let's make it easy.

If judges can refuse to officiate gay weddings, gay defendants should be able to refuse to be heard by those judges. If they can’t be compelled to perform the most heteronormative of functions, why would anyone believe they are capable of putting their biases aside for something with higher stakes?

Thank you for this tonight!

The whole Charles is on T storyline on Only Murders is just… it is wild the ways the experiences of trans life are being picked up everywhere by cis culture as we are losing.

Ugh! It’s a little easier with my step kids being older to help them think about this because it showed up later for them but their college professor father uses it all the time now so. I hate it so much!

Glad you also got to see some pushback to temper it some. What a brutal time. I appreciate you talking about it in a place I got to see! 💜

I know my own versions of this - it is just everywhere and endless and when it is right in a thing you love, how much more painful!

I have been using fedbook related to some local stuff more and now I am seeing the horrible way local news is reported and a lot more transphobic stories and comments. I can see how it shapes people’s view of the world.

We Have to Move "There are living, breathing people all around you who need your sense of decency to be made material. Don’t give up on them, or on you."

My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."

To Honor Miss Major, We Fight for the Trans and Queer Spaces She Built Miss Major Griffin-Gracy embraced the messiness of revolt with magnetic optimism.

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Today in, "we tried to tell you, but you were too busy hating on the trans..."

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.

Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

Congratulations!!! This is such a joy to stumble on today.

Hand holding a black and white illustrated zine of two people holding signs that say “we marched! Now what?”

No Kings logo: a drawing of a crown with a red x over it

I was commissioned to make a zine for the No Kings 2 protest on Saturday Oct 18th!

If you wonder “what can I do?” this zine is for you. It’s packed with things that you can do from wearing a “no ICE” pin to organizing a visibility brigade with your friends.

drive.google.com/file/d/1TJnH...

Desert island logic on your acts of creation

Folks should read this if you are trans and/or an artist

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