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going from "transgender ideology" to "look at the poor misguided white kid" without even taking a breath, unconscionable

This whole rhetoric of it’s too complicated for people outside the community is so often a deflection that keeps us from talking to each other and building actual community!

One of my favorite parts of this journey has been to explain this exact gender constellation to multiple elderly working class relatives who were completely unimpressed by this and simply happy for us!

If there is one lesson to draw from the history of fascism in the interwar period in Europe, it is this:

Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.

After practice today, I asked Natasha Cloud about Trump’s callous rhetoric directed towards Zohran Mamdani in the days since Zohran’s Democratic mayoral primary win here in NYC. As always, Tash spoke with compassion, with urgency, with morality.
(🎥: @busyxb.bsky.social)

An unexpected landslide win of the candidate that not only runs on an actual platform to make this city truly affordable to all but also to protect queer people all around. Still can’t believe this just happened tonight🥹

1. Alert, and please share widely. A lawyer at the ACLU has asked me to inform my transgender readers that they should NOT be applying for passports right now - the state department has not issued guidance to comply with the court order and they are urgently trying to get them to do so.
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Holy shit, New York!

Here’s the full view.

#NoKings #50501Movement

Protest sign NO KINGS HANDS OFF My tans child My $, civil liberty, healthcare The Rule of Law Environmental Protection National Parks The Arts Our Truthful History And too much chaos to list on one poster #Trump’s America Global Embarrassment

The revolution is full of 60-year-old women who love their trans kids.

My local coffee shop is not playing around.

The Business Interests Bankrolling Andrew Cuomo’s Run for Mayor

Quid pro Cuomo.

"Many of the donations came after Mr. Cuomo made a rare appearance at the Real Estate Board of New York, where Politico reported that he expressed regret for signing rent reforms as governor that landlords bitterly opposed."

Trans Americans, Citing Hostile Politics, Seek Safer Homes, Survey Finds — Assigned Leading Off: A poll highlights “extreme pressure.” A quilt pleads for safety. The rabid right revels in harassment. The top story lines as the week begins.

45 percent of transgender Americans are considering moving or have already moved to escape political persecution in the US.

That and two other curated, can't miss stories courtesy of @billiejsweeney.bsky.social start our week off here:

Screenshot of XML information open in notepad, showing “Alex Byrne” under the creator tag..

If you open the anti-trans HHS report’s appendix in NotePad, you’ll see that it was compiled by Alex Byrne.

The appendix is a rigorous, scientific overview of systematic reviews.

Alex Byrne is an MIT philosophy professor with no apparent background in science, let alone expertise in it.

Lol, Media covering this exactly how we said they would.

I have really good news to announce to everyone.

Because of our reporting and many readers contacting Planned Parenthood of Arizona, the organization will NOT over comply with Trump, and is restarting its trans adult care.

Good work everyone.

feminist elsewheres — maysles documentary center feminist elsewheres  April 19-20, 2025 Two-day film and conversation program, Maysles Documentary Center  Queer-feminist film work is collective, transnational, and complicated. The netwo...

Brilliant program for the 2025 *feminist elsewheres* festival in NYC at the Maysles Doc Center (April 19-20)!! 🎞️♥️🧨

www.maysles.org/calendar/fem...

"Queer-feminist film work is collective, transnational, & complicated. The networks that emerge from it are expansive, ephemeral, and in need of care."

Shame on Planned Parenthood of Arizona for dropping their trans patients because of threats from Trump.

What happens when they make you stop providing abortions? Birth control? PReP? Gonna roll over then too?

These orgs complying are cowardly.

When the day is already going badly there is always something worse coming.

trans flags, next to Palestine flags, next to unions, next to healthcare workers, next to schoolteachers, next to a lot of people who were just genuinely angry!

A huge thank you to @mediaburn.bsky.social @danerdman.bsky.social for hosting three different group archive tours this week. It was a pleasure to learn about Media Burn’s collections and preservation challenges unique to video tape formats #SCMS25

Powerful Die-in at Tesla showroom. Moment of silence.

A hand holding a sign that says #thewrong1% on the left and Trans People Exist. Billionaires Shouldn’t on the right in front of a crowd at the AIDS memorial in NYC.

#Actup joined forces with @teslatakedown.com in Manhattan today and we brought a sign.

#teslatakedown

I've been thinking about safety, leaving, staying, exile, asylum, displacement, for academics, journalists, activists, etc etc.

One thing the heat of this moment is doing-- is revealing the inequities and exploitative nature of academia.

This thread nails it.

AOC: If you are an LGBTQ kid or family, we cannot throw you under the bus in order to win an election. In this house, we stand together

This is the stupidest I think it has ever felt to just be going to work every day

BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Says Advocates Agents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too.

NEWS: Last night, the Department of Homeland Security detained a Palestinian who helped lead the Columbia encampment.

Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too.

His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.

if you're a PhD applicant with acceptances to programs in the US, you should ask your potential advisor what is happening at the university, in the department, or at least in their own heads in response to Mahmoud Khalil's abduction and deportation.

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I really can’t imagine what it must be like to do the kind of reporting you are doing right now. Your writing and research and voice has been a lifeline for us. I hope you find ways to be in community, take care of yourself and be taken care of.