Julia Friedman

Yup! We were Santa Clara night 1, Floor section M, row 4, seats 3/4. 1 and 2 were staggered out from row 3 so seat 3 had direct aisle access too. Elizabeth was maybe 8-10 feet from the rail. It was insane. We got a point and a nod+wink+smile during Lover, which was insane.

Taylor Swift’s initial reveal at the eras tour in Santa Clara. She is wearing a blue, pink and white crystal bedazzled bodysuit and silver sparkly knee high high-heeled Lou bouton boots. Dancers all around her wave 15 foot tall banners attached to their backs with a sunset motif on them. In the foreground a security guard looks off to the side, presumably at the screen at the other end of the stadium

Taylor Swift standing atop a stage riser with a microphone in front of her face and her other arm raised. She is wearing the same bodysuit and boots as the first picture and she’s silhouetted against a sunset sky

A set of hands making a heart below Taylor swift’s face on a Jumbotron screen.

Taylor Swift (in a mustard yellow flowy dress) raises a microphone over her head and smiles while Este Haim plays her bass to her right. Haim is wearing a green and gold fairytale gown inspired by her look from Taylor’s Bejeweled music video.

This isn’t my typical brand in the slightest but I have to share some of these pictures from the Santa Clara stop of the Eras Tour because it was incredible and because the seats we had will never be beaten. I do not know how we won the face value lottery on these seats.

San Francisco #trans folks, we have a meetup today at Taqueria San Jose in the Mission at 7pm. Please RSVP if interested: https://www.meetup.com/tgsf-transgender-san-francisco/events/294785214/?utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=share-btn_savedevents_share_modal&utm_source=link

This list doesn't even include our siblings who have gone missing, while our 'Justice System' does nothing about it.

I hope they are found and/or laid to rest in a dignified manner.

Not that most have been show enough dignity throughout their lives.

Remembering our Black Trans siblings who have gone before us this year:

Rest in Power 🖤

April:
Banko Brown 🕊️
Koko Da Doll 🕊️
Ashley Burton 🕊️
Moe Moore 🕊
Tommy Playboy 🕊
Lynn Shaw 🕊

June:
Ashia Davis 🕊️
Chantell Ortiz 🕊️

DON'T YOU DARE FORGET THEM 🏳️‍⚧️

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Remembering our Black Trans siblings who have gone before us this year:

Rest in Power 🖤

January:
Jasmine Mack 🕊️
Ivory Nicole Smith 🕊

February:
Cashay Henderson 🕊️
Zachee Imanitwitaho 🕊️
Paris Aminah Diary Unspoken Truth 🕊

March:
Tasiyah Woodland 🕊️

DON'T YOU DARE FORGET THEM 🏳️‍⚧️

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Every once in a while I think about all the pro-trans op-eds I've submitted to NYT only to have them repeatedly rejected... and then see them publish guys like Chris Rufo...

These folks have become refugees as a direct result of actions taken by American evangelicals in East African countries to get local governments to impose brutal penalties for being gay. It’s right wing American intolerance exported abroad. Donate and help them: https://gofund.me/f4bdc98a

LGBT Refugees in Kakuma, organized by Esme Shields The Kakuma Refugee camp in Kenya is the home to 60,000 forcibly displaced LGBTQ people and their… Esme Shields needs your support for LGBT Refugees in Kakuma

Help Ugandan LGBTQ+ Refugees in Kenya get resettled: https://gofund.me/f4bdc98a

This is a case where a small donation makes a huge difference. A hundred bucks can buy food for days for many many people. If you care about LGBTQ rights in the US, you should care about them everywhere.

Woman with curly hair and sunglasses wearing a bright yellow, blue and black Arsenal jersey

A large number of arsenal fans holding aloft a huge banner over their heads (a tifo)

The same woman in the bright yellow Arsenal jersey minus the sunglasses this time

Pointless friendly, ugly play, ugly kit? Fuck it, we ball.

Any gunners headed to the match in NYC on Saturday?

As I said, it was more of a “well shit, rude of you to clock me but whatever, lady” kind of vibe.

Also, more importantly, if I’m going to hell and you’re going to heaven I sure as shit don’t want to be in heaven. You disowned your child for being who they are. Straight to the bad place for you, bitch.

Anyways, long story short, she and I get off at the same stop, and while I’d usually be falling all over myself to help the little old lady get through the exit gate, I got to watch instant karma as the hateful bitch got stuck. Plus we won trivia by like half a round so who’s really anoint by God?

She also quoted KJV Leviticus 18:22 at me and it’s like “girl that was talking about pederasty, get over yourself.” Don’t quote badly translated Torah at a pissed off queer Jew, we’ll stuff you in a locker because we learned how to argue.

Not gonna lie, kinda aggressive to clock me so hard, I was looking cute but I was literally there with my wife. Who I married when I was a man. So if I’m never gonna be a woman even though the federal government and State of CA think I am, it’s all above board.

She then whirled around, pointed at me and said “I see you baby, it’s for the good of your soul, my son is gay but when he told me I threw him out of my house” and told me I’d never see the kingdom of heaven if I kept sleeping with men. She then kept screaming at the rest of the car.

Had a weird fucking experience today on the 1 train…some old lady with a walker got on the train, I offered her my seat and then when I got out of the way for her to sit down she launched into a fiery condemnation of being gay and trans and how god was gonna punish us for sinning to the whole train.

I half expect Tapper to be on here doing it, like shit

I love bluesky because it’s all the same people who you loved on Twitter but just being aggressively horny on main with little snippets of their other interests in there too.

Show up to school board meetings, and bring a bunch of friends who aren’t shy about speaking out against fascism. The playbook is clear - this shit only works if we allow it to work.

Wow I jumped on bsky for the first time in a few days at an interesting time. This shit is babytown frolics easy: apologize, make some basic changes to block words from usernames and, like, start working on hiring some trust/safety people.

Just really sad…I spent 15 years cultivating a feed, building a following and making friendships over there and it’s finally at the point where no amount of blocking can fix the toxicity in the timeline. What a fucking shame.

I’d basically removed it from my main screen on my phone but I just deleted the Twitter app outright. I went on there looking for soccer news and like 180 seconds was enough to spike my heart rate.

Between that and the fact that they’re going after Jerry Nadler with anti-Semitic tropes for investigating Trump and it’s a banner day over there.

Ugh, Twitter continues its slide into the toxic morass…today’s trending topic du jour is dogpiling Dylan Mulvaney because she went on vacation.

Just donated to this! Solidarity forever.

Saturday morning cartoon villains had more empathy than these ghouls. https://deadline.com/2023/07/writers-strike-hollywood-studios-deal-fight-wga-actors-1235434335/

As others have noted, this article may be studio propaganda to dishearten WGA folks, but a) it's just gonna piss them off more, b) it prompted me to donate to the Entertainment Community Fund. Fuck the studios, I'm paying for a WGA member's groceries today, gotta keep strength up on the picket line